'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN
'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE
'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women's asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.
Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state - women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.
Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.
'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner' STEPHEN KING, via X
'A triumph of style and brio'FINANCIAL TIMES
'Terrifying' FLAUNT
'Vividly and compellingly-drawn' iNEWS
| ISBN: | 9780008694913 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2025 |
| Author: | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 331 pages |
| Genres: |
Medical thriller Psychological thriller Modern and Contemporary Fiction Historical crime and mysteries Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction Horror and Supernatural Fiction Historical Fiction |
'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN
'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE
'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women's asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.
Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state - women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.
Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.
'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner' STEPHEN KING, via X
'A triumph of style and brio'FINANCIAL TIMES
'Terrifying' FLAUNT
'Vividly and compellingly-drawn' iNEWS
Butcher features in the following genres: Medical thriller, Psychological thriller, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Horror and Supernatural Fiction, Historical Fiction
Butcher is available in Paperback, Hardback
Butcher was written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Butcher has 331 pages
£8.99