Charlene Elsby

// POOR DAMNED SOULS

Poor Damned Souls - Charlene Elsby Cover

Love, suspicion, necrosis… 

The ticking of The Money Store's 15-minute safe, the hum of fluorescents over gray carpet, the afterimage of a browser window, the weight of someone else's breath in your throat. What is a betrayal and how far can it go? 

Does it count if you cheat with a dead girl?

Poor Damned Souls is a drowning that never ends, a bleak and violent look into the psychological spiral of a woman convinced her partner is cheating when he's actually killing, and her subsequent deep dive into murder and the circumstances that lead there.

Available March 19th 2026 // Paperback 190pp

// ISBN: 9798349675621

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“You know that special breed of sickness that rots you from within? That wakes you in the night, fever wrapping your brain around a stove coil, the heat searing your hysterical thoughts, scorching what mind you have left? Poor Damned Souls is the aftermath of a scorched consciousness. As prolific as she is psychotic, Charlene Elsby continues to push the saw blade in places where the body begs it not to go. The tension in this nightmare mounts ruthlessly, and the payoff is as excruciating as it is orgasmic, reminding us in shocking ways why Elsby is our poet laureate of bloodlust. I will not recover from reading this book.” - Derek Fisher

“This novel is more than just gannet gore. To read Poor Damned Souls is to be brought to your knees in front of the sublime and ripped divinely to pieces. Few writers alive can take you through the preternatural mind of the violent actor with rapturous depth and fiendish precision like Charlene Elsby." - Elle Nash