At OwlCrate, we work with fantastic authors whose books we feature as special or limited editions. The books featured in our monthly boxes are always new releases from a range of diverse authors.
This article is a spotlight on Cassandra Khaw, the author behind the book in our August 2025 Horror box. Read on to find out more about them!
ABOUT CASSANDRA KHAW
Cassandra Khaw (they/them) is a Malaysian USA Today bestselling author who currently resides in Canada. They enjoy writing horror and dark fantasy novels as much as they enjoy game writing.
Their debut novel, The All-Consuming World, was published in 2021, and since then, they have written a few other things, including their fiction collection Breakable Things, published in 2022 which won them a Bram Stoker Award.
BOOKS BY CASSANDRA KHAW
To date, Cassandra Khaw has written a range of poems, short fiction pieces and series, novellas, collections of stories, fiction series, and standalone novels. Their writing has also been published in many anthologies and anthology series alongside other authors.
They’re best known for their novellas, Nothing But Blackened Teeth and The Salt Grows Heavy. Their standalone novels span The All-Consuming World and The Library at Hellebore, and the three fiction series they’ve written to date include Carrion City, Critical Role, and Gods & Monsters.
The All-Consuming World
“Through it all, she holds eye contact like it's a lifeline, although only the devil dead on his throne knows which one of them needs saving more.”
Page count: 288
Published: September 2021
The Salt Grows Heavy
“There is nothing wrong with being a monster.”
Page count: 106
Published: May 2023
Critical Role: Bells Hells - What Doesn't Break
Series: Critical Role: Bells Hells
“She might have felt more guilt about this distance if her parents weren’t bracketing the Lady Briarwood, all three of them in energetic conversation.”
Page count: 272
Published: October 2024
The Dead Take the A Train
Series: Carrion City
“The world is always a wreck and life is an amusement park you only get to visit once.”
Page count: 391
Published: October 2023
Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef
Series: Gods and Monsters: Rupert Wong
Page count: 95
Published: October 2015
OwlCrate Editions Of Books By Cassandra Khaw
THE LIBRARY AT HELLEBORE
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw was our August 2025 ‘Lessons In Gore’ Horror book choice.
Spice level: 🌶️🌶️ (Mild)
This murderous tale of betrayal and broken hearts follows Alessa Li after she is kidnapped and forced to enroll at the Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted, an elite academy for the most powerful and dangerous individuals. When graduation day turns into a massacre and the faculty begin hunting their own students, Alessa and a handful of survivors take refuge in the library. Their only hope is to trust each other long enough to escape before Hellebore devours them whole.
Features for this OwlCrate Edition:
- Signed by Cassandra Khaw
- Exclusive redesigned dust jacket by @alexeckmanlawn
- Reversible dust jacket by @bearded_artist_studios
- Printed hardcover case design by @dolce_paganne
- End pages designed by @marcpotts
- Stenciled edges @alexeckmanlawn
- Author signature page designed by @marinabettart
- Author letter bound into the book
- Bonus content bound into the book
- Ribbon bookmark
- Book size: 5.5” x 8.5”
“I could think of a hundred things holier than being sacrificed to something that doesn't even love you back.”
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