REVIEW: Executrix by Brittany Perham Unveils Dark Secrets That Will Keep You Guessing Until the Last Page
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I almost abandoned this review because working on it caused me to have a very public panic attack in my local coffee shop. Why did this happen during the writing, not the reading? I’ll chalk that up to the mysteries of the brain. I considered stopping, telling the editor I couldn’t do it. If you’re reading this, it means that I, like Perham, kept going.
Meet the Contributor
August Owens Grimm is an acclaimed horror writer, editor, and essayist. They co-edited Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. Fat and Queer won the 2022 AASECT Book Award for a general audience from the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. Their work appears in, among others, The Rumpus and in the Los Angeles Times bestseller, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror. They coined the term Haunted Memoir. They are a 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow in nonfiction.
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