I'm Your Cult Leader, Baby
A dark psychological thriller about two codependent rivals who start a cult in Los Angeles—and discover how much they are willing to sacrifice on the altar of ambition.
Novelist. Essayist. Cheesemaker.
Autumn
Christian
The latest novel: I'm Your Cult Leader, Baby. A dark psychological thriller about two codependent rivals who start a cult in Los Angeles—and discover how much they’re willing to sacrifice on the altar of ambition.
Coming March 23, 2027CLASH BooksPsychological thriller
DEVOTION · POWER · ASCENDANCE
GIRL LIKE A BOMB ✦ THE CROOKED GOD MACHINE ✦ WE ARE WORMWOOD ✦ ECSTATIC INFERNO ✦ GIRL LIKE A BOMB ✦ THE CROOKED GOD MACHINE ✦ WE ARE WORMWOOD ✦ ECSTATIC INFERNO ✦
01 / PRAISE
“Sartre's No Exit meets Camus' Caligula in a city with half a million cameras where no one has ever been seen. And when the door opens, nobody leaves. Vicious and very funny, Autumn Christian's writing runs hot but stays in total control, right down to the comma in the title. A comma is where the reader breathes, and this is a novel about who gets to decide when you do. By the time the humor curdles into horror, “I'll take care of everything” becomes the most frightening sentence in the book.”Alexander Boldizar, Locus Award–winning author of The Man Who Saw Seconds
02 / BOOKS
Enter the
strange world.
Novels and story collections that fuse psychological horror, science fiction, Southern gothic, and literary surrealism.
Girl Like a Bomb
A dark femme reclamation of the superhero story: horny, violent, funny, and obsessed with the price of transformation.
The Crooked God Machine
A dystopian horror novel about a broken family, a broken planet, and the masked god who keeps both beneath his thumb.
We Are Wormwood
A drug-coated, darkly surreal love story about monsters, memory, and a girl who may not be human.
Ecstatic Inferno
Ten hallucinatory stories of demons, demiurges, alien planets, terrible beauty, and cosmic transformation.
03 / MORE PRAISE
“Fun, fast, and fascinating. Girl Like a Bomb hooked me and held me.”
Peter Clines
New York Times bestselling author
“A book of blood and guts, of humanity and brokenness, woven by passages of beauty and smart storytelling.”
Lisa Marie Basile
author of City Witchery
“The gene-splice baby of Philip K. Dick and Poppy Z. Brite.”
John Skipp
bestselling author and editor
04 / SHORT FICTION
Read the stories.
05 / ESSAYS & APPEARANCES
The living archive.
Essays, profiles, interviews, and audio conversations from 2012 to the present. Entries link to the surviving original source.
The newsletter contains the complete continuing essay archive, with 69+ posts on art, marriage, faith, beauty, madness, love, and becoming human.
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06 / CHEESEMAKING
The other craft
Christian
Cheese.
When Autumn isn’t writing or hanging out with her daughter, she co-owns and runs Christian Cheese, her family’s small-batch artisan cheese company in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
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Kingfisher, Oklahoma07 / ABOUT
Novelist. Essayist. Cheesemaker.
Autumn Christian is an American novelist and essayist whose work crosses psychological thrillers, horror, science fiction, and literary surrealism.
She is the author of Girl Like a Bomb, The Crooked God Machine, We Are Wormwood, and Ecstatic Inferno. Her psychological thriller I'm Your Cult Leader, Baby will be published by CLASH Books in March 2027.
Her fiction has appeared in Eternal Frankenstein, You, Human, A Breath from the Sky, Broad Knowledge, Out of the Ruins, and X-R-A-Y. She has also written for video games including Battle Nations and State of Decay 2. She lives in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, where she co-owns and runs Christian Cheese.