Make Me a Monster

by Kalynn Bayron

First published 2025

Meka has grown comfortable with death working as a mortician's assistant at her parents' funeral home. She handles corpses daily and plans to tell her boyfriend Noah she loves him. Then disaster destroys her world. Ravens gather around her house. Unknown people track her movements. Someone deposits strange objects on her doorstep. The dead begin rising from their graves. Meka believed she knew death better than anyone, but her family business hides darker secrets. Other people want to expose these truths, and they will risk everything to uncover them. Meka must discover what her parents never told her about their work with the dead before the mystery consumes her life.

Genres: mystery, horror, supernatural, thriller

Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: mystery, supernatural-elements, unreliable-narrator

Setting: Funeral Home

352 pages · Paperback · BLOOMSBURY

Content warnings: death, gore, violence

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