Reliquary

"Hannah Whitten was born to write horror! Visceral and grotesque and utterly fascinating, Reliquary explores grief’s haunting hollowness…and the horrifying things that try to fill it. Utterly brilliant."—Rachel Gillig, New York Times bestselling author of One Dark Window

"Atmospheric and absolutely devastating, Hannah Whitten knocks it out of the park with this one! I couldn't put it down!"—Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author

“Propulsive and completely impossible to put down, Reliquary seized me with uneasy dread and will make me think twice before tiptoeing into any ocean. Hannah Whitten is my new favorite voice in horror.”—Erin A. Craig, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Thirteenth Child

"Evocative, haunting, and deeply unsettling. Hannah’s salt-soaked horror debut cements her as one of the most brilliant and incisive voices in speculative fiction."

"Creepy, atmospheric, and perfectly weird— it was a horrifying delight to submerge myself in the sea-drenched, eldritch world of Reliquary."
 —Lyndall Clipstone, author of Tenderly, I am Devoured

"Reliquary is a wild ride from start to finish. If you're a fan of the type of horror that is viscerally creepy but also makes you whisper "hell yeah" under your breath, look no further! I loved every salt-drenched second."—Tori Bovalino, author of My Throat an Open Grave

“Fresh, original, and absurdly propulsive, Reliquary is a feat of taut plotting, eerie world-building, and incisive commentary on the dark underbelly of power and privilege. The spectral slice of flawed and complex romance had me gnawing at the bars of my enclosure. Whitten is surely one of the most exciting new voices in horror.”—Laura “L.K.” Steven, #1 NYT bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates and Silvercloak

"Brimming with terror that’ll slither over your bones, Hannah Whitten’s Reliquary is a wicked communion of opulence, twisted kinship, and briny dread. Reliquary marks Whitten’s trailblazing entry into the horror scene—a haunting, unrepentant tale about grief, desire, and the sacrifices we’ll make to slake the hunger consuming us all."—A. J. Vrana, author of The Hollow Gods

"Whitten has assembled all the essentials for a gothic novel. There’s an isolated and endangered heroine. There are family secrets that won’t stay hidden. And the setting is the perfect blend of the sublime and the uncanny."

"A novel for not just fans of sea-soaked dark fantasy and horror but also for readers of gothics with immersive settings and intense dread, like Mexican Gothic (2020), by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and tales of the monsters behind the business success of the uber rich, like Fiend (2025), by Alma Katsu."