Named by the New York Public Library as one of the best new horror books of 2025 A triumph of an anthology and an essential addition to the folk horror genre."--Eliza Chan, author of Fathomfolk and Tideborn "...one of those rare books that are destined to become future literary classics."--Nuzo Onoh, "Queen of African Horror" & Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award recipient EXPERIENCE A TAPESTRY OF TERROR 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. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-nominee Kristy Park Kulski this stunning anthology features contributions from some of the most acclaimed authors of the Asian Diaspora. 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, Saba Syed Razvi, 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. "Silk & Sinew screams with unquiet diasporic voices. The landscape itself is haunted by personal and collective history, unflinchingly examining intergenerational relations, colonialism, displacement and what makes us monstrous. A triumph of an anthology and an essential addition to the folk horror genre."-- Eliza Chan, author of Fathomfolk and Tideborn "Silk & Sinew is one of those rare books that are destined to become future literary classics. Almost all the stories and poems in this priceless collection leave an indelible mark in your heart."-- Nuzo Onoh, "Queen of African Horror" & Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award recipient "Soil, Estuary, Bedrock, Roots, and Air: five named sectionsthat ground this ambitious anthology of stories, poems, and drawings that dig into the anger, complications of assimilation, and racist stereotypes from which their Asian American Folk Horror is unearthed." --Becky Spratford, Library Journal "a collection that is weird, ambitious, and memorable in all the right ways. It's folk horror with receipts. It's also a blast, albeit the kind that laughs like a knife." -- The Blog Without A Face "really interesting stories, poems, and reflections, many of which transmit lovely feelings, and/or deep unease, and/or gut punches. Sometimes all at once!"-- Trish Matson, The Skiffy and Fanty Show " This anthology is a boundary breaking work that uses horror to take a close look at the experience of the Asian diaspora in the concept of home and the past. It features short stories and poetry from prominent Asian diaspora authors in horror as well as emerging voices to the genre." -- My Dark Library "...a transcendent collection of horror and identity that engages all the primal emotions rooted in our shared humanity."-- Jamal Hodge, Bram Stoker Award Nominee, The Dark Between The Twilight "...an ambitious anthology that delivers what it promises...Silk & Sinew shows us how Art is indelibly informed and enriched by our beliefs, culture, and folklore."-- Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, author and founder of award winning Qilin Press (editor) KRISTY PARK KULSKI is a Hawaii-born Korean-American author, historian, and career vampire of patriarchal tears. Channeling a lifelong obsession with history and the morose she's managed to birth the gothic horror novel, Fairest Flesh , and novella, House of Pungsu . She bartered nine years of her life to the U.S. Navy and Air Force for food and later taught college history for a captive audience. Trapped by a force field, she currently resides in the woods of Northeast Ohio where she (probably) brews potions and talks to ghosts.