Welcome to the Chaoskampf
Published on 14. May 2026
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-1-5299-5506-4 (ISBN)
Description
'Imagine an apocalypse so queer, sultry, and heat-soaked that you wrap your arms around it and give it a lush kiss' Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger
'Sizzling with juicy irreverence, Welcome to the Chaoskampf chooses life at its messiest, and fullest' Gerardo Samano Cordova, author of Monstrilio
'As stunningly outrageous as it is eerily real . . . this book is tremendous' Michelle Tea, author of Valencia
The year that Florida fell into the sea, I killed a man and joined a cult and ran away to Mexico. I ate human flesh for the first time.
It's another sticky summer in New Orleans, and the world is ending. Tourists are descending on the city, natural disasters abound, and Marcy's old boxing scar has reopened. It's enough to make any girl want to take her seemingly perfect life and set it all on fire.
So when Marcy meets a crew of degenerate filmmakers hell-bent on summoning the apocalypse, she lets herself be swept into their world of filth, arson and debauchery.
They think her scar might mark her as their Chosen one, and she's never been able to resist a bit of flattery. Who wouldn't want to bring about a revolution? But the more entangled she becomes in their world, the harder it is to resist the very power she swore to burn . . .
'A battle hymn to the chaos goblin that lurks within us all' Leon Craig, author of The Decadence
'A dizzy and exhilarating freefall into apocalyptic chaos' Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, authors of Feast While You Can
'It feels like anything can happen in Flett's audacious and mesmerizing second novel, and in many ways, everything does' Marcy Dermansky, author of The Red Car
Praise for Freakslaw
'A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy' Guardian
'Cracking with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex' Heat
'A celebration of the marginalised' Observer
'As frightening as it is seductive' Herald
'Sizzling with juicy irreverence, Welcome to the Chaoskampf chooses life at its messiest, and fullest' Gerardo Samano Cordova, author of Monstrilio
'As stunningly outrageous as it is eerily real . . . this book is tremendous' Michelle Tea, author of Valencia
The year that Florida fell into the sea, I killed a man and joined a cult and ran away to Mexico. I ate human flesh for the first time.
It's another sticky summer in New Orleans, and the world is ending. Tourists are descending on the city, natural disasters abound, and Marcy's old boxing scar has reopened. It's enough to make any girl want to take her seemingly perfect life and set it all on fire.
So when Marcy meets a crew of degenerate filmmakers hell-bent on summoning the apocalypse, she lets herself be swept into their world of filth, arson and debauchery.
They think her scar might mark her as their Chosen one, and she's never been able to resist a bit of flattery. Who wouldn't want to bring about a revolution? But the more entangled she becomes in their world, the harder it is to resist the very power she swore to burn . . .
'A battle hymn to the chaos goblin that lurks within us all' Leon Craig, author of The Decadence
'A dizzy and exhilarating freefall into apocalyptic chaos' Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, authors of Feast While You Can
'It feels like anything can happen in Flett's audacious and mesmerizing second novel, and in many ways, everything does' Marcy Dermansky, author of The Red Car
Praise for Freakslaw
'A transgressive, inventive dark fantasy' Guardian
'Cracking with desire, hedonism, angst, violence and sex' Heat
'A celebration of the marginalised' Observer
'As frightening as it is seductive' Herald
Reviews / Votes
A shocking, sexy novel about climate and chosen community that lives up to Flett's sparkling debut * Dazed, 'Most Anticipated Novels of 2026' * Imagine an apocalypse so queer, sultry, and heat-soaked that you wrap your arms around it and give it a lush kiss. This is Jane Flett's Welcome to the Chaoskampf, a beautifully crafted, breakneck paced, terrifically weird novel. Somehow Flett always gives me the book I want to read, something so outrageous and fleshy that I stamp my feet with rage that I didn't imagine it myself. I fiercely loved the Chaoskampf -- Chelsea G. Summers * author of A Certain Hunger * Sizzling with juicy irreverence, Welcome to the Chaoskampf chooses life at its messiest, and fullest. Jane Flett once again rallies the beautiful weirdos: a rambunctious cult, sex and the end of the world, what else could one want? An unmissable book, ferocious and brilliantly bonkers! * Gerardo Samano Cordova, author of Monstrilio * With Welcome to the Chaoskampf Jane Flett brings us an apocalypse that is as stunnngly outrageous as it is eerily real, populated with characters we'd all be lucky to spend the end times with. Full of incomparable energy, sharpness of eye and wit, and a delightfully dark absurdity, this book is tremendous -- Michelle Tea * author of Valencia * Seductive, challenging and insightful, Flett's latest is a deliciously violent careen into wild, cultic madness. A battle hymn to the chaos goblin that lurks within us all -- Leon Craig * author of The Decadence * Our collective future is freaking scary. On page one of Jane Flett's Welcome to the Chaoskampf, the state of Florida falls into the sea. Only Marcy, the main character, is intrepid and wide open -- a woman, literally, with an open wound directly below her beating heart. It feels like anything can happen in Flett's audacious and mesmerizing second novel, and in many ways, everything does -- Marcy Dermansky * author of The Red Car * Jane Flett's trademark gang of queer weirdos against the world climbs to new heights in Welcome to the Chaoskampf, a dizzy and exhilarating freefall into apocalyptic chaos. A charming cult, crackling atmosphere, and sentences so lush you'll want to eat them -- Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta * authors of Feast While You Can *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5299-5506-4 (9781529955064)
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Jane Flett
Welcome to the Chaoskampf
The outrageous queer apocalypse novel that will have you gripped
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05/2026
Transworld Digital
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Jane Flett is a Scottish writer based in Berlin. She is the author of Freakslaw (2024). Her fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, featured in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading and performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.