Crafting for Sinners

"You will compulsively turn these pages well into the dead of night."--Paul Tremblay, New York Times best-selling author of Horror Movie and The Cabin at the End of the World

A queer woman must fight her way out of a craft store run by a megachurch in this gripping survival horror novel by Jenny Kiefer, author of This Wretched Valley.

The ratcheting tension and gut-churning terror will appeal to fans of Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix.

Ruth is trapped. She's stuck in her small, religious hometown of Kill Devil, Kentucky, stuck in the closet, and stuck living paycheck to paycheck. After her manager finds out that she lives with her girlfriend, Ruth is fired from her job at New Creations--a craft store owned by the church that dominates life in Kill Devil.

In an act of revenge, Ruth attempts to shoplift some yarn but is caught red-handed. Instead of calling the police, the employees lock her in the store--and attack her. As Ruth fights for her life using only the crafting supplies at hand, she plunges deeper into the tangled web of the New Creationists, who are hiding a terrible secret that threatens not only her but the entire town.

Urgent, scathing, and utterly original, Crafting for Sinners cements Kiefer's status as a dazzling new star in horror.

Author: Jenny Kiefer
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
ISBN13: 9781683694700
ISBN10: 1683694708
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror | General
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
- Fiction | Occult & Supernatural

About the Author
Jenny Kiefer is a Kentucky native and an avid crafter and rock climber. Together with her mother, she is the owner and manager of Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky. She is also the author of This Wretched Valley.