Kristy Park Kulski
author & editor of dark fiction
New Release
Silk & Sinew (2025)
Listed on NYPL's 2025 Best New Horror
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"Silk & Sinew screams with unquiet diasporic voices. The landscape itself is haunted by personal and collective history, unflinchingly examining intergenerational relations, colonialism, displacement and what makes us monstrous. A triumph of an anthology and an essential addition to the folk horror genre."
Eliza Chan, author of Fathomfolk and Tideborn
"Visceral, poignant, unforgettable. The stories in this haunting collection made me weep. This book is eternal; a classic addition to every self-respecting library."
Nuzo Onoh, "Queen of African Horror" & Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
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Deftly mashing together notorious historical figures, feminism, and the grimmest of fairy tales, Fairest Flesh is as brutally horrifying as it is mesmeric.
"Consider me a K.P. Kulski fan for life" Paul Tremblay author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Survivor Song
Praise & Reviews
The best folk horror doesn't just scare you; it makes you reconsider your relationship to place, to heritage, to where you're standing, or trying to.
Silk & Sinew gets that. And Kristy Park Kulski, one of my favorite writers herself (and my students'), has assembled stories that explore what it means to be haunted not just by ghosts, but by history, displacement, and the impossibility of ever truly belonging anywhere.
"Essential reading"
John Yu Branscum, author, translator, and professor
Editor Kristy Park Kulski is a historian turned horror conjurer, which explains why so many stories hum with context instead of leaning on exoticism. She’s got novels under her belt and a puckish public persona that promises righteous mischief. She delivers.
"Silk & Sinew is the rare anthology that feels like a statement, not a sampler" The Blog Without A Face
About the Author
KRISTY PARK KULSKI is a Bram Stoker award nominated, Korean-American author, historian, and vampire of patriarchal tears. Channeling a lifelong obsession with history and the morose she’s the author of gothic horrors, Fairest Flesh, and House of Pungsu, as well as the editor of the anthology Silk & Sinew, listed on NYPL's Best New Horror 2025. She bartered nine years of her life to the U.S. Navy and Air Force and later taught college history. Born in Hawaii, she now resides in the woods of Northeast Ohio where she (probably) brews potions and talks to ghosts.