Mavis Dwyer's church teaches that a marriage must be protected at any cost. Bethany C. Morrow's horror novel shows what that promise looks like when the congregation decides to keep it.
Readical Key Points
An adult horror novel about marriage, faith and a church community
Reviewed in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal
Content note: addresses religious abuse and trauma, infidelity and violence
Hardcover, 288 pages, Tor Nightfire (2026)
Mavis grew up the daughter of two respected members of a conservative congregation, where members vow to uphold one another's marriages. When her own marriage starts to fail, a run of strange attacks begins against Mavis and her husband, and each one is worse than the last. Morrow uses supernatural horror to look at how religious control passes from one generation to the next, and at what it costs Black women in particular.
It suits readers of social and religious horror, and readers who know Morrow from Cherish Farrah or Mem. The threat in The Body comes from the people who promised to help a marriage survive.
About the Author
Bethany C. Morrow is a national bestselling author whose books include the adult novels Mem and Cherish Farrah and the young adult novels So Many Beginnings and A Song Below Water, a finalist for the Locus, Ignyte and Audie Awards. She was the 2021 Mansfield Lecturer at Roosevelt University.
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