Crafting for Sinners

Jenny Kiefer is a Kentucky native and an avid crafter. Together with her mother, she is the owner and manager of Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky. She is also the author of This Wretched Valley.

A LibraryReads Pick for October 2025A CrimeReads New and Upcoming Horror Novel to Look Out for This Summer (and Beyond)“Shot through with elements of dark humor and ripped-from-the-headlines references to a certain real-life crafting retailer, Kiefer’s compelling and incisive latest will appeal to fans of Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix and Hide by Kiersten White.”—Kaitlin Conner, Booklist“Mixing religious-cult and liminal-space tropes, Kiefer presents a visceral, grimly comedic, but deadly serious novel that will whip readers into a frenzy of fear as well as anger.”—Library Journal“Crafting for Sinners is a relentless, grueling survival story, one that displays the horrors that too many of our hateful and ignorant neighbors are capable of perpetrating. You will compulsively turn these pages well into the dead of night.”—Paul Tremblay, New York Times best-selling author of Horror Movie and The Cabin at the End of the World“Crafting for Sinners is like a deranged, hellish variant of Die Hard except instead it’s a gay woman trapped inside a craft store run by an evangelical nightmare cult. It’s surreal, terrifying, thrilling, and looks right down the barrel at the cultural horrors at the center of our current era.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents and The Staircase in the Woods“Suspenseful, of the moment, and bloodthirsty as all hell, Jenny Kiefer’s Crafting for Sinners is the kind of book we need these days.”—Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and The Deep“A crafty cat-and-mouse thriller.”—Johnny Compton, author of Devils Kills Devils and The Spite House“Devilishly clever. Every page of Crafting for Sinners is packed with scathing satire, unique horrors, and stunning honesty.”—Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal and One of You“Crafting for Sinners is a crafty yarn crocheted from the same skein as Grady Hendrix’s Horrorstör and Rachel Harrison’s Cackle. Jenny Kiefer sure has spun herself a gloriously gory, bisexual MacGyver of the Damned, and it absolutely fits this particular sinner like the comfiest blood-soaked sweater.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes