Little Kin, Katya de Becerra
Little Kin, Katya de Becerra
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Little Kin

Author: Katya de Becerra

Narrator: Soneela Nankani

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/22/2026

Synopsis

Little Kin is the debut adult novel from critically-acclaimed author Katya de Becerra.When Cass inherits a crumbling house on Rothagisht—a remote island near the Arctic Circle—she’s desperate for a new start. The land is stunning, the people are strangely healthy, and for the first time, Cass feels like she might finally belong.But Rothagisht comes with rules: Never go out after dark, and never open the door to a knock. As Cass is drawn into the island’s mysteries—and into the secrets of her own bloodline—she discovers Rothagisht is stalked by ancient creatures that rise from the heated depths when the old covenant stirs.With the Festival of Giving and Receiving looming, and the island’s ancient covenant unraveling in blood, Cass must choose: Embrace the community she’s longed for or confront the nightmare that could consume them all.Perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher and Ari Aster’s Midsommar, Little Kin is a chilling, folkloric tale of survival and belonging.

About Katya de Becerra

Katya de Becerra writes atmospheric horror and mystery featuring determined characters, complicated families and enigmatic places. Critics called her debut What the Woods Keep “a thoughtful and compelling horror fantasy” (The Bulletin) and “a narrative that will keep readers enthralled” (Booklist), while her second novel Oasis earned a starred review from Booklist and was selected as a Book-of-the-Month Club January 2020 pick. Katya regularly publishes short fiction in anthologies and literary magazines. Her third novel, When Ghosts Call Us Home, received two starred reviews, Kirkus Reviews calling it “haunting, intense, and eerily spooky”. When Ghosts Call Us Home was a Best of 2023 Book as named by Kirkus Reviews, a Top 10 Horror for Youth Book from Booklist, as well as the 2023 Aurealis Awards winner for Best Young Adult Novel and a Finalist for Best Horror Novel. When Ghosts Call Us Home also won the Shadows Awards in the Novel category in 2023 and has been shortlisted for a Trinity Schools Book Award (TSBA) 2026. Katya’s novel They Watch from Below was an Aurealis Finalist for Best Young Adult Novel in 2024. She is also co-editor of This Fresh Hell, an anthology which reimagines and subverts horror tropes in new and unexpected ways. This Fresh Hell was an Australian Science Fiction (“Ditmar”) Awards 2024 finalist in the “Best Collected Work” category. As a child, Katya wanted to be an Egyptologist, but instead she earned a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and now is a tenured university academic. Katya is a short version of her real name, which is very long and gets mispronounced a lot.

About Soneela Nankani

Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.

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“Full of rising tension and palpable dread, Little Kin grabs you by the hand and dares you to stare into the dark without flinching. Folk horror at its finest!”

“At turns gorgeous and gritty, Little Kin is folk horror at its finest: haunting enough to bring the chills, yet deeply emotional as it explores what it means to belong. You’ll never forget your visit to the forbidding, mist-swathed island of Rothagisht.”

“Katya de Becerra’s prose transports you to a strange island where you can feel her passion for anthropology on every page. An engrossing blend of mystery, romance, and folklore, Little Kin is peak atmospheric horror.”

“A mesmerizing blend of folk horror and dark fantasy, Katya de Becerra’s Little Kin is a knock on the door in the dead of night. Dread and longing simmer beneath the surface, and sinister legacies crawl back from the past in this propulsive, get-under-your-skin read.”

“Haunting, intense, and eerily spooky.”

“Haunting and unsettling…De Becerra’s narrative is both dreamy and tight, creating a disorienting, nightmarish atmosphere.”

“As if The Secret History waded into the dark swells of the supernatural, de Becerra’s They Watch from Below keeps you on your toes while tickling you with the feather of curiosity. You won’t know what’s waiting for you in those dark depths, and this is one of the best of the year.”

“Part horror novel, part mystery, all wrapped up in the lush and treacherous trappings of dark academia, They Watch from Below is every bit as tense, eerie, and genuinely frightening as I had hoped. I loved this.”

“Clever and complex, gripping and ghoulish; this is the kind of book you’ll want to sink your teeth into.”

“In Katya de Becerra’s eerie fantasy novel Little Kin, shadowy monsters plague a desolate island…Little Kin is an atmospheric novel about the consequences of allowing greed, ignorance, and adherence to harmful traditions to disrupt the balance between humans and nature.”

Awards

  • Los Angeles Book Review Pick
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