Kristi DeMeester Books

The narrative intertwines the lives of thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer and her mother, Caroline, exploring themes of female empowerment and repression. Lila grapples with secrets and a haunting evil that urges her to find her voice, while Caroline confronts disturbing auditory hallucinations linked to her troubled past and artistic expression. As both women face an oppressive force represented by The Cur, the story becomes a fierce allegory for women's struggles against societal expectations and silencing. The novel is a gripping exploration of resilience and defiance.

Everything That’s Underneath, Kristi DeMeester’s debut powerful horror collection, is full of weird, unsettling tales that recalls the styles of such accomplished storytellers as Laird Barron and Tom Piccirilli.Crawl across the earth and dig in the dirt. Feel it. Tearing at your nails, gritty between your teeth, filling your nostrils. Consume it until it has consumed you. For there you will find the voices that have called from the shadows, the ones that promise to cherish you only to rip your body to shreds.In Everything That’s Underneath, Kristi DeMeester explores the dark places most people avoid. A hole in an abandoned lot, an illness twisting your loved one into someone you don’t recognize, lust that pushes you farther and farther until no one can hear yours cry for help. In these 18 stories the characters cannot escape the evil that is haunting them. They must make a choice: accept it and become part of what terrifies them the most or allow it to consume them and live in fear forever.