A terrifying supernatural entity haunts Toronto’s gay community in this modern horror masterpiece spanning decades of struggle and resistance.

“RED X by David Demchuk is THE great horror novel of the 2020s so far . . . No tricks, no gimmicks, pure greatness.” —Daniel Kraus

In 1984, in Toronto’s queer neighborhood, a young gay man vanishes without a trace. In the wake of his disappearance exists a community of friends and lovers desperate for answers but facing the casual indifference, or outright prejudice, of the world around it. As decades pass, more men, all gay, vanish in the same way.

As the novel reveals a terrifying, centuries-old demonic presence at the heart of the disappearances, the author David Demchuk intersperses autobiographical vignettes from his own life: his earliest brushes with death and fear, his observations on queer culture and the horror genre, on representation and erasure, culminating in an elegiac and brilliantly woven narrative that blends fact and fiction.

A masterful, experimental work, RED X has already been heralded as one of the great horror novels of the twenty-first century. Reissued now with deluxe materials and a new introduction, David Demchuk’s modern cult classic is a not to be missed, “an important work for the horror community” (Sadie Hartmann).