The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. The title “Hell Followed With Us” is written in black capitals across a curling white banner at the bottom of the cover. The author’s name “Andrew Joseph White” is written at the top of the cover in smaller white capitals. The background art shows a grey blue sky with dark black clouds above a destroyed red city. Down the length of the centre, a large black oval shape. In the centre of the oval, art of a young man with pale skin and six white wings. There is a red eye on each wing. He is wearing a red cropped shirt and blue jeans with a black belt and bandages around each hand and forearm. Wounds on both of his hands, his left cheek and the centre of his chest appear to be bleeding. The banner with the title wraps loosely around his legs and the bottom of the oval. There is a large red circle behind his head and wings. A chain coming out of the circle acts as a border around the black oval shape. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Body Horror
• Violence
• Transphobia
• Gore
• Deadnaming
• Religious Abuse
• Religious Extremity
• Domestic Abuse
• Death of A Parent
• Sexual Content
• Alcohol
• Self Harm
• Attempted Suicide
• Cults
• References to Cults

From the author’s website:

• Violence (explicit gore, arson, murder and mass murder, warfare, terrorism)
• Body horror
• Transphobia (misgendering, dead-naming with name written out repeatedly, threats of transphobic violence, forced detransition)
• Religious abuse/Christian terrorism, combined with elements of eco-fascism
• Abusive parents and domestic partner violence (including returning to an abusive partner and victim self-blame)
• Self-injury (including attempted suicide of a side character)
• Emetophobia (vomiting) warning throughout

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Summary:

Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.

But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.

Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.

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Notes:

There is a “general list” of content warnings at the beginning of the book, in the author’s note.

There is an audiobook.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

Click here to find out more about international editions.

This book was illustrated by Evangeline Gallagher.

This book was a finalist for William C. Morris Debut Book Award.

Here is another link to the author’s website.

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Archivist Comments:

Sometimes I get really excited to add a book and then remember I have to write an ID for the cover….this was one of those times. Not that that cover isn’t gorgeous (it is), but I think I’ve spent the last twenty minutes building up the nerve to do it.

This book and author have been submitted to the archive on about 5 separate occasions, with varying degrees of praise and enthusiasm, so I’m pleased to finally be able to add it. This is part of what the first person who submitted it had to say:

“I really enjoyed this book and found it’s look into transgender identity to be really well done. The author is a disabled, autistic, mspec, trans man. This book is a horror that features a lot of body horror and gore throughout the book. The book features heavy religious themes with eugenics aspects as the main villain is an evangelical religious group that is trying to wipe out the world to reach salvation. There is fade-to-black sex. There are many allusions to and talk about an abusive relationship. There is misgendering and transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and references to racism. The author has a list of more content warnings on his sight by his name. This is a big recommendation for me.”

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