Conner Habib's debut novel is a bleak, dark adrenaline rush.--Clive Barker A deeply disturbing yet, somehow, soaring novel I won't soon forget. It plumbs the depths of traumatized characters trapped within our damaging culture. I couldn't look away, even when I was looking from between my fingers.--Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club The opening lines of Hawk Mountain plummet you into an atmosphere of creeping dread and precarious restraint that won't let up until the final, shocking moments.--Caitlin Doughty, bestselling author of Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Hawk Mountain is deft horror, made of precise strikes into our most vulnerable psychic terrain. Finally, a horror story that knows cisheteropatriarchy is the villain!--Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl Dripping with menace from the first page, this story of childhood enemies meeting up fifteen years later is utterly enthralling. [T]his savage tale is uncompromising in its reflection of teen friendships and isolation, and unflinching in its examination of the delicacy of the human body.

There is gold among the gore. [C]ompelling, shocking, and beautiful.--Liz Nugent, author of Lying in Wait Conner Habib writes with [a] hallucinatory precision, and a kind of merciless humanity, about the poisonous work of repression. His forebears--Poe, Highsmith, even classical tragedy--are clear, but his originality is clearer still. Hawk Mountain is a work of strange, glittering darkness.--Mark O'Connell, author of Notes from an Apocalypse.