Wen-yi Lee (李温仪) is the author of The Dark We Know (Gillian Flynn Books, 2024), a YA horror inspired by Spring Awakening, and When They Burned the Butterfly (Tor, 2025), an adult historical fantasy set in postcolonial Singapore.

Aug 13, 2024 · From Gillian Flynn Books, a lyrical YA horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that’s perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King’s IT, and The Haunting of Hill House. Art student Isadora Chang swore never to return to Slater.

Wen-yi Lee is the author of YA horror The Dark We Know and forthcoming adult historical fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly. Her writing has appeared in venues like Lightspeed, Uncanny, Reactor, and Strange Horizons, as well as various anthologies.

When They Burned The Butterfly is a sapphic historical fantasy set in 1970s postcolonial Singapore's immigrant Chinese gangs.

In this fierce, glamorous adult fantasy debut, Silvia Moreno-Garcia meets Fonda Lee, with the feverish intensity of R.F. Kuang's Poppy War trilogy. Singapore, 1972: Newly independent, a city of immigrants grappling for power in a fast-modernizing world.

Jun 23, 2024 · Ms Lee Wen-yi with her novel The Dark We Know, which she wrote during the Covid-19 pandemic. The book has been picked up by famous American mystery writer Gillian Flynn.

Wen-yi Lee likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts. She is the author of historical fantasy When They Burned the Butterfly and YA horror The Dark We Know, and has also published speculative fiction and essays in venues like Lightspeed, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Reactor, and various anthologies. A University College London ...

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