“The New Testament à la Cormac McCarthy.”

– Kirkus Reviews

“Reliably blood soaked with razor sharp prose featuring a fanatical anti-hero.”

– Kirkus Reviews

"The Butcher of Nazareth is a phenomenal novel. It’s a thought-provoking, profound story told with succinct but vivid prose. Hay’s retelling of the Gospel is dark, violent, and brings a fascinating new prospective. This is easily one of the best novels that I’ve read recently and I highly recommend it."

– Ben Arzate

“Unique and unforgettable. A visceral and immersive work of historical horror - masterfully done.”

– A.C. Wise (Bestselling author of Out of the Drowning Deep & Wendy, Darling)

“An incredible read. The Butcher himself is a complex and fundamentally human character, and it is easy to feel his pain as we watch him walk the line between the hope and dignity of man, and the cruel, heartbroken destruction of the beast he fears he may become.”

– Michael Allen Rose, President of the Bizarro Writers Association (Author of Jurassichrist)

“Thrilling and genuinely shocking. Hay always takes us to new places and the timeliness of this book, his insight and reinterpretation, are beyond question.”

– Samuel Kaye (Author of Cinema)

"What a moving, troubling, frustrating and yet uplifting novel. Hay has retold the story of Jesus Christ, but from the viewpoint of an assassin who has seen a vision of the end of the world brought about by Christ’s follows in the far future. This is NOT a Bible story, or a religious story. This is the retelling of a fable or a myth. Gosh. I loved it."

– Christine — Horror Writers' Weekend

"What made this book so compulsively readable is how deeply Hay roots the story in this man’s torment. He’s not a villain. He’s a father trying to claw his way toward redemption through an impossible, soul‑splitting mission. The tension between duty, prophecy, grief, and the faintest flicker of hope is just... uuuugh... chef’s kiss."

– Lori Hettler

“DSH’s writing is witty, smart, and precise.”

– Chicago Sun-Times

"Brutal, thrilling, and deeply thoughtful."

– Max Restaino

"What DSH has been able to accomplish over the course of his last three books places him into the rare class of writer who defies genre fatigue, and who embraces the any fiction toolbox to its maximum potential. Subtle notes of Roth, Palahniuk, and now, Wolfe’s Severian, coat the reader’s palate with complex and difficult worlds, begging the question of what’s next?

The beautiful buildup to the Butcher’s story had me hooked. And then the terror was so dark, had to finish the rest in one sitting. Loved it."

– Adam Axler

“DSH has a taut, bristling writing style stacked with compelling ideas.”

– New City Journal

"Sometimes a novel comes along that sits almost too comfortably within its decade’s zeitgeist. Divine intervention, maybe, but for now, I’ll have to accept that Hay is simply that good. The Butcher of Nazareth took me on a cruel but compelling journey, drawing me in so deeply that the story’s central obsession quickly became my own."

– Peter Rosch