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Andrew Joseph White

You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White (Evernight October 2025 Exclusive)

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About the product

For protection, we make the greatest sacrifices.

Our October 2025 Evernight book is You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White! Appalachia is festering, overrun with masses of worms and flies. In exchange for loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few humans salvation. One human is grateful, for his new life allows him to transition and exist in a way previously inaccessible to him. But when he gets pregnant--and the hive demands the child be born--his desperation to prevent the birth will drive the community that once offered him solace straight into bloody devastation.

Our Evernight Exclusive edition is a Royal hardback and features:

  • An exclusive redesigned cover (art by @esgalor; design by @chattynora)
  • Full colour art and foil on the hardback (by @anwitacitriya)
  • Digitally printed edges (by @esgalor)
  • Illustrated endpapers (by @spookgeist); different front and back
  • Bonus content
  • Digitally signed by the author

If you like books featuring cults, alien invasions and examinations of identity, we think you’ll enjoy this one!

The book at a glance:

  • Standalone horror
  • Featuring: exclusive redesigned cover; full colour art and foil on the hardback; digitally printed edges; illustrated endpapers; bonus content; digitally signed by the author
  • Autistic trans man MC

Photos by @bookwormgram

About the Author

Andrew Joseph White is a trans, autistic, best-selling author from Virginia, where he grew up falling in love with monsters and wishing he could be one too. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in 2022. His debut novel, Hell Followed With Us, was a William C. Morris Award Finalist, and his second, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, received a 2024 Stonewall Honor.

Content warnings for You Weren't Meant to Be Human

  • Content Warning

    • Infanticide involving cannibalism
    • Graphic depictions of pregnancy and childbirth as violence and body horror; on-page early stillbirth with subsequent desecration of corpse; on-page botched DIY abortion
    • Narrative focus on suicidality and planning suicide, with no attempt made; similar focus on self-harm, shown on-page (disfigurement via scalding)
    • Consistently unclear sexual boundaries and consent, up to and including rape, often involving confusion on behalf of the survivor
    • Sexual fantasies/intrusive thoughts involving abuse and bestiality
    • Domestic abuse
    • Graphic violence
    • Emetophobia warning
    • Weird parasitic bug shit, needles, general transphobia and ableism, etc.

    In addition to a graphic focus on pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and childbirth, You Weren’t Meant to Be Human contains depictions of suicidal ideation, self-harm, violence, sex, and abuse—sometimes alone, sometimes combined, sometimes indistinguishable one from another.

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