Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian Canadian author and Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalist. She has a love for stories with dark themes, complicated families, and edges of hope. In her free time, she shares helpful tips for upcoming writers and details of her publishing journey through a YouTube channel dedicated to demystifying the sometimes complicated business of being an author.
"One part breathtaking ghost horror, one part gripping thriller,
and an all-round absorbing read. Delicious Monsters turns
an unflinching light onto the cycles of trauma and the ghosts that
follow."
*Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author
of the These Violent Delights Duet*
“A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark
humor, and bone-chilling twists. Sambury approaches the grim
recesses of intergenerational trauma with diligence and
bravery. The odd ghosts, fearless prose, and raw character
dynamics make this an absolute page-turner and a win for psychic
fiction.”
*Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author
of The Taking of Jake Livingston*
"Full of eerie ghosts and secrets most sinister, Delicious
Monsters is the perfect read for a dark and stormy night.
I read most of it from behind the safety of my fingers and was
left thoroughly haunted."
*Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author
of House of Salt and Sorrows and Small
Favors*
"On one page, this book sings a lullaby, and on the next, it throws
you into a whirlwind you never could’ve seen coming. At its core,
Delicious Monsters is a screaming declaration to the world that
Black girls are complex and flawed, capable of everything, and that
we matter. I'll be putting Delicious Monsters into the hands of
everyone I know with a pulse."
*Brittney Morris, author of Slay and The
Cost of Knowing*
“Scary, complex, emotional, lived-in, ambitious, Liselle
Sambury’s Delicious Monsters is a can’t miss. A Canadian
gothic epic (northern gothic?) that has a lot to say about the
stories and lies we tell ourselves about our own families. Oh, and
did I mention it’s scary?”
*Adam Cesare, author of Clown in a
Cornfield and Video Night*
"Delicious Monsters grabs you by the throat in the first
chapter and refuses to let go until the very end. I was on the edge
of my seat for this whole book. Sambury’s chillingly beautiful
prose will stay with you for ages."
*Victoria Lee, author of A Lesson in Vengeance*
*"A haunted mansion is the site of unmistakable horrors and
horrific mistakes...The paranormal logistics are complex, and while
Daisy is at the center of it all, Brittney’s investigation cuts
through to discover layers upon layers of trauma that imbue the
house with its supposed supernatural, if not psychological, power.
As the saying goes, haunted people haunt people.
A story that is careful to make its ghosts and monsters painfully
real."
*12/15/22*
*"Even with the large cast of characters and dual narratives,
Sambury carefully and clearly builds an intricate story that uses
metaphors of gardening to spotlight the cyclical nature of sexual
violence while providing a genuinely terrifying haunted house ghost
story...An excellent choice for fans of sophisticated horror that
includes both paranormal and real-life terrors, such as Elana K.
Arnold’s Red Hood."
*3/1/23*
"The deeply creepy mansion delicately ties together two main
characters who, despite being separated by 10 years and having very
different backgrounds, are both fierce and compellingly imperfect,
though one is perhaps less reliable than the other. A
must-read."
*1/1/23*
"Using speculative elements to cultivate genuinely terrifying
scares whose perpetrators straddle the line between imagined and
real-life monsters, Sambury empathetically highlights cycles of
abuse, depression, and generational trauma."
*1/30/23*
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