Horror Fiction

A haunting exploration of obsession, preservation, and visceral gothic romance. Delve into a narrative where boundaries blur between life and art, desire and decay.

2020 Bram Stoker Awards® Finalist
2021 Independent Publishers Book Awards GOLD MEDAL winner
2021 Nominated for Killer Nashville Reader's Choice Award
2021 Finalist for DragonCon Awards

Reviews:

"A festering account of the horrors women hold within their wombs, and the ones their daughters inherit."

Lindy Ryan

“Hall's writing is lush, filled with startling conclusions about the nature of art and love and death... [A] shudder-inducing debut.”

New York Times

"Rich, decadent prose... allusions to the Bride of Frankenstein nicely ground the ending in the gothic tradition."

Publishers Weekly

"Creepy and sensual . . . the tension between Scarlett and Henry is riveting . . . making The Taxidermist’s Lover a luxurious, macabre romance."

Foreword Reviews Esteemed Book of the Day

"As strange as it is disturbing . . . It’s [Scarlett’s] highly personal confessional tone, exposed internal conflicts, grotesque dreams, and desires that draw the reader in."

Kirkus Reviews

"The menace increases slowly but relentlessly, permeating every corner, and the twists, plentiful but also well-earned, pile up, resolving in a near-perfect horror ending... [A] lyrical debut told with the confidence of a veteran."

Booklist Starred Review

Myrrh

Unravel dark psychological suspense through poetic sensory prose. A tale of inherited trauma and the echoes of family secrets in this dark kaleidoscopic novel.

Reviews:

“Nothing can quite prepare you for the gift that is Myrrh, which mischievously reads like an unhinged Rumplestiltskin, a Daphne du Maurier suckerpunch, a Catriona Ward whirlpool of vertiginous proportions. Remember the name Polly Hall. Her novel breathes life in the gathering gloom.”

Clay McLeod Chapman

"A festering account of the horrors women hold within their wombs, and the ones their daughters inherit."

Lindy Ryan

“Clever, insightful, and insidiously vicious, Polly Hall’s Myrrh is a terrifying and profoundly visceral exploration of social appearances, identity, and family. One of the most remarkable novels I’ve read in quite some time.”

Eric La Rocca

"For every woman with a goblin inside her. This dark, lonely, yearning, twisty book is not for the faint of heart, and boy did I love it."

C J Leede

"Myrrh swirls with dark prose and personality. A dynamite stick of a book, pregnant with pathos and nitroglycerine."

Hailey Piper