Author: Max Booth
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Ghoulish Podcast Ep. #203 – Vacation Horror with Lesly Julien!
On this week’s GHOULISH, Lesly Julien stops by to discuss vacation horror tropes, define what “woods” are, help me speculate what FROM DUSK TILL DAWN would have been like if the Wet Bandits from HOME ALONE had instead been battling vampires at the Titty Twister, and give a general run-down of what it’s like publishing…
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The GHOULISH podcast returns with… A FEAST OF PUTRID PODCASTS!
THE GHOULISH PODCAST RETURNS!!! On this week’s episode of GHOULISH, Valentina Rojas joins me to celebrate the release of her debut novella, A FEAST OF PUTRID DELIGHTS. We talk about insomnia, drugs, time travel, chefs, video games, curses, and many other ghoulish topics. Also, despite there being a 6-month gap between episodes, this is somehow…
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Ghoulish Cordially Invites You to A FEAST OF PUTRID DELIGHTS
Hello, ghouls! Our first title of 2025, Valentina Rojas’s A Feast of Putrid Delights, has officially been unleashed upon the world, and goddamn are y’all in for a true sickos buffet. First, here’s Matthew Revert’s cover art, along with some fun reader review excerpts: Feast also recently received this pretty awesome write-up from Publishers Weekly, ICYMI: What else…
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Announcing the Programming for Ghoulish Book Festival 2025
Ghouls, the 2025 Ghoulish Book Festival in San Antonio, TX is just over two weeks away, and we are exhausted & excited to finally reveal our programming for Friday March 14th & Saturday March 15th. If you haven’t already purchased a badge, you can do so HERE. Reminder: badges are only required for attending the…
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This Week’s Decayed Tape: UFO ABDUCTION (THE MCPHERSON TAPE)
On this week’s episode of Decayed Tapes, we finally embraced SOV royalty and watched UFO Abduction (aka The McPherson Tape). Is this the worst birthday party of all time, or the coolest? Tune in and find out! VIDEO VERSION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=408nqmRJd08 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/decayedtapes
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Jeremy C. Shipp’s FAMILIAR asks “What if Junji Ito had made LITTLE WOMEN?”
Our final book of 2024 is finally here, ghouls. Jeremy C. Shipp’s brand-new novelette, Familiar, is officially available to read as of today. The eBook can be purchased and downloaded right this very second. Paperbacks, however, might not ship until early January, depending when copies finally arrive (remind us to be better prepared if we ever want…
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This Week’s Decayed Tape: WINTERBEAST
On the latest episode of DECAYED TAPES, we cracked open Vinegar Syndrome’s Homegrown Horrors Vol. 1 boxset and watched 1992’s WINTERBEAST, a movie that has nothing to do with winter. Come for the insane stop motion monsters, stay for the gratuitous porno mags. Or maybe come for those, too. It’s your decision. VIDEO VERSION:…
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GHOULISH TALES ISSUE #3 – OUT NOW
Well, ghouls, it’s been a long time waiting, but issue three of Ghoulish Tales is finally out. The eBook edition is available to read right this very second, and the paperbacks are on the way from the printer and will be shipped out in early December. But, considering the cover says AUTUMN ISSUE, we wanted to go…
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Out Now & Ready to Cave Your Skull In: DECREPIT RITUAL
Valkyrie Loughcrewe’s new novella, Decrepit Ritual, is undoubtedly unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Trevor Henderson, creator of Siren Head and author of Scarewaves, described the book as “a gore-soaked howl captured on decaying VHS, the cursed tape from The Ring by way of a psychedelic gut-stomping SOV horror flick.” Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin, author of Wax &…
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Now Considering Reprints for Inaugural BEST TRANS HORROR OF THE YEAR Anthology
Last week, just a few days after the election, I had a bit of a manic episode that ended with me dying my fading lavender hair black and posting the following on Bluesky: the incredible urge to launch an annual “best trans horror of the year” anthology series as a direct fuck-you to this state,…
