Red X

Red X - Paperback

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Red X - Paperback

Red X - Paperback

by David Demchuk
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Book Overview

by David Demchuk (Author), Gretchen Felker-Martin (Foreword by)

A terrifying supernatural entity haunts Toronto's gay village in the '80s in this gruesome, metatextual modern horror classic that spans decades of queer community and history. RED X is a masterful experimental work already heralded as one of the great horror novels of the twenty-first century, now reissued with deluxe materials, including a new introduction by Gretchen Felker-Martin and an essay by Anthony Oliveira.

"[A] seminal work of queer literature . . . So arresting, so brutal and yet so delicate that its labyrinthine complexity should be studied and praised." --Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

In 1984, a young gay man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a community of friends and lovers desperate for answers. Instead, they face everything from casual indifference to outright prejudice. As decades pass, more men vanish, revealing a terrifying, centuries-old demonic presence at the heart of the disappearances.

Interspersed throughout, the author shares autobiographical vignettes: his earliest brushes with death and fear, his observations on queer culture and the horror genre, on representation and erasure, culminating in an elegiac and brilliantly woven narrative that blends fact and fiction, and has already been heralded as one of the great horror novels of the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

David Demchuk is the award-winning author of The Bone Mother, RED X and, with co-author Corinne Leigh Clark, The Butcher's Daughter. After many years in Toronto, he now lives with his husband in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.86 x 8.25 x 5.58 IN
Publication Date: June 30, 2026
ISBN9781641298476
Author David Demchuk
PublisherHell's Hundred
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages304
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Fiction Horror LGBTQ+ Literary Occult & Supernatural

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About David Demchuk

David Demchuk's debut, The Bone Mother, was nominated for the Giller Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Toronto Book Award, the Kobzar Book Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and won the 2018 Sunburst Award for Best Novel. RED X was listed as a CBC Books pick for Best Canadian Fiction of the Year, and a New York Public Library Best Book of 2021. He now lives with his husband in St. John's, Newfoundland.

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