Hell Followed with Us

Ages 14 And Up, Grades 9 And Up

Gideon the Ninth meets Annihilation when an LGBTQ+ Youth Center battles a fundamentalist Doomsday cult in a post-apocalyptic world.

Seventeen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult who raised him—the fundamentalist group that unleashed Armageddon and destroyed half of the world’s population. Cornered by the monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from a local LGBTQ+ Youth Center who’ve banded together to make their way in this dangerous new world. But the group’s leader, Nick, knows Benji’s darkest secret: before Benji fled, the cult injected him with bioweapon, designed to mutate him into a monster deadly enough to will eliminate the remaining survivors. 

Debut author Andrew Joseph White delivers with an action-packed, thought-provoking story about not just embracing the monster within, but unleashing the monster against your oppressors.

About the Author

Andrew Joseph White is a queer, trans author from Virginia, where he grew up falling in love with monsters and wishing he could be one too. He is a graduate student in George Mason University’s Creative Writing program and has a habit of cuddling random street cats. Andrew writes about trans kids with claws and fangs, and what happens when they bite back. Visit him at www.andrewjosephwhite.com or on Twitter at @AJWhiteAuthor. 

Author Residence: Fairfax, VA

Author Hometown: Winchester, VA

For readers who loved Gideon the Ninth and are looking for more queer genre-blending horror/ sci-fi 

Fans of near-future dystopian fiction and LGBTQ+ teens seeking more representation in genre fiction 

Readers who loved the body horror in Wilder Girls will gravitate towards the themes of monstrosity. 

Librarians and booksellers seeking more stories featuring trans protagonists will find a hero to root for in Benji.