Titan swoops for Amy Stewart's 'beautiful and absolutely terrifying' début

Titan Books has swooped for Amy Stewart’s début novel Hex House, a gothic fairy tale inspired by Scottish folk tale. 

Daniel Carpenter, fiction editor, acquired world English rights, including audio, in a two-book deal from Marilia Savvides at the Plot Agency. Hex House is scheduled for publication in spring 2026. 

"Hex House is a contemporary, gothic, feminist, witchy obsession of a book that only Amy could have written," said Savvides. "She’s a singular talent, who I’m honoured to work with." 

A "beautifully told, dark and unsettling modern fairy tale", Hex House is set in a safe haven for women which turns them into "vessels of revenge". The story follows Elly, who finds the house after escaping her abusive marriage, and Siobhan, a documentary filmmaker, haunted by her memories of the house. 

Stewart commented: "Hex House is a place that has existed in my mind for a very long time, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the team at Titan to bring it to life. I wrote Hex House to explore the idea of a sanctuary for lost and broken people, and what happens when that safe refuge isn’t all that it seems."

Carpenter added: "Beguiling, beautiful and absolutely terrifying, Amy Stewart’s Hex House reads like Eliza Clark and Paul Tremblay deconstructing Hill House and rebuilding it brick by brick. Part fairy-tale, part devilishly Cronenbergian horror, it marks the arrival of a major, major new talent in UK horror and I cannot wait to see what she writes next."