Incarnate

Name: Incarnate
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Alma Katsu
ISBN: 9798217355815

Author: Alma Katsu

Narrator: Alma Katsu

Unabridged: TBD

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/22/2026

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Psychological, Supernatural

Synopsis

From beloved horror maven Alma Katsu comes a terrifying reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray for the internet age.

Beauty doesn’t fade. It feeds.

Dorothy Wagner has spent her whole life wanting nothing more than to be seen. But after failing to make her mark as an influencer, she takes a job working for a brilliant coder whose company is focused on cutting-edge deepfake technology. And there, in secret, is where she creates her salvation.

Isabella. An impossibly gorgeous girl who takes social media by storm. Dorothy's artistry is brilliant, and Isabella seems so real that she garners millions of followers. But everybody knows overnight success doesn’t just happen. And when someone gets a little too close to the truth, a violent confrontation sends Dorothy on the run, forcing her to confront what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep her secrets.

A modern reimagining of a classic tale, Alma Katsu’s Incarnate is an illuminating, haunting tale of algorithmic worship and beauty that can kill.

About The Author

Alma Katsu is the author of Fiend, The Hunger, The Deep, The Fervor, and five other novels. Her work has won or been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Locus, Western Heritage, and International Thriller Writers awards, among others. Prior to the publication of her first novel, she had a thirty-five-year-long career as a senior intelligence analyst for several U.S. agencies, including the CIA and NSA, as well as RAND. Katsu is a graduate of the master’s writing program at the Johns Hopkins University and received her bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University. She lives in West Virginia with her husband.

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“Incarnate shines a terrifying light on how scary modern technology is. It’s a shocking thriller that will dial your paranoia to eleven!” —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Red Empire and NecroTek

"Alma Katsu's got her finger on the zeitgeist with Incarnate, where body horror meets AI, in a novel whose pages fly. What elevates her work is her research—even the most far-fetched genre plot points are utterly believable in Katsu's masterful hands." —Sarah Langan, author of Trad Wife

“Uncomfortable at every turn (including gnarly body horror), the real terror here comes when readers inevitably interrogate their own social media choices. Think the 2024 film The Substance, but with more substance. For readers who enjoy Faustian bargains like Grady Hendrix's We Sold Our Souls or Mona Awad's All's Well as well as the AI implications explored by Chuck Tingle in Bury Your Gays.” —Booklist

“Incarnate is a cautionary tale perfectly told by Alma Katsu. It’s a fast-paced read that quickly becomes addictive—not unlike the social media environment readers are being warned about.” —Bolo Books