Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror From the Asian Diaspora

A New York Public Library Best Horror Book of 2025
One of The Lineup's Best Horror Books of 2025

Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora will tease forth folk horror rooted in the experience of the Asian Diaspora. From lengths of muscle and vein, ground bones, endless ropes of sinew it is with our bodies folk horror is woven.

With Stories and Poetry by Ai Jiang, Nadia Bulkin, Christina Sng, Rena Mason, Lee Murray, J.A.W. McCarthy, Geneve Flynn, Bryan Thao Worra, Ayida Shonibar, Yi Izzy Yu, Angela Yuriko Smith, Kanishk Tantia, Robert Nazar Arjoyan, Christopher Hann, Audrey Zhou, Seoung Kim, Rowan Cardosa, Gabriela Lee, Shawna Yang Ryan, Priya Sridhar, Jess Cho, and Saheli Khastagir And a Foreword by Monika Kim.

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Published May 6, 2025

370 pages

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juli1357

Jan 07, 2026

4/10 stars

I love themed anthologies. Given my love of horror and that I spent part of my childhood in Asia, I was especially looking forward to this anthology, named by the New York Public Library as one of the best horror books of 2025. I’ve read 13 horror anthology in the past year, and this is by far my least favorite. If not for the high accolades, I wouldn’t have finished it. There are a few good stories, but most of them just aren’t very interesting. One of the stories I enjoyed borrowed too heavily from Scott Spencer’s novel, “The Ruins.” Notably missing from this anthology are stories by prominent Asian authors such as Alma Katsu and Cassandra Khaw, Monica Kim, and Ling Ling Huang, just to name a few. I’m curious as to the reason why…

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