Category: News
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Let us ALL eat cake! MOTHER-EATING is out today! Hooray!
I first met Jess Hagemann back in 2018 or 2019. We both had novels come out through the same (now defunct) small press. Her novel, Headcheese, absolutely blew me away. It gave me the same excited, dangerous feeling I used to get as a kid while reading early Chuck Palahniuk. Sometime around then I thought, Man, it would…
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GHOULGAB w/ Jess Hagemann, author of MOTHER-EATING
Jess Hagemann’s recent work has appeared in Last Girls Club, Ghoulish Tales, and Sky Island Journal. Her debut novel Headcheese (2018) won an IPPY Award in Horror. She holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School, and is the proud recipient of writing residencies at McNeese State and Dear Butte. Austin, Texas is home. Her new novel, Mother-Eating, is out…
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THE SMALL HOURS is Upon Us!
Ghouls! Ghouls! Ghouls! Who’s ready to read some gnarly, bloodthirsty vampire fiction? Bob Pastorella’s debut solo novel, The Small Hours, is officially OUT RIGHT NOW through Ghoulish Books. “The Small Hours is what would happen if Bad Taste era Peter Jackson had written a wild, over-the-top, vampire romp, and brought in Adrian Lyne to sex things up!”—Michael David Wilson, author…
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Ghoulish Tales Reopens for Submissions (9/17-10/17 2025)
Last week we published the fourth issue of Ghoulish Tales, so what better time to re-open submissions for issue five? From September 17 to October 17, we will be considering new short fiction for our horror magazine Ghoulish Tales. What we are after: short stories that fit our personal definition of the word GHOULISH, which is “fun…
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Nadia Bulkin’s ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY—Available Now!
Ghouls, we are so, so thrilled that the release day has arrived for Nadia Bulkin’s Issues with Authority, a collection featuring one novelette (“Your Next Best American Girl”) and two novellas (“Red Skies in the Morning,” which has already been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award—plus “Cop Car,” which is original to this collection). The team at…
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NIGHT FRIGHTS Returns with Long-Awaited Third Issue
Ghouls! Please, your attention. Longtime fans will recollect we once had an annual magazine for children called Night Frights, edited by Lori Michelle Booth. We published two volumes and then kinda…fell quiet with it, for many years. Way too many years tbh. Longtime fans of the press will also recall we sometimes, uh, suck with…
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Ghoulish Books to Relocate to Downtown San Antonio
Ghouls, We are thrilled to announce that we have signed a lease to relocate our physical bookstore from the outskirts of San Antonio (Selma) to the vibrant Southtown/King William District of downtown San Antonio. We already have the keys and we will be slowly moving everything throughout the month of July, with intentions of re-opening…
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Ghoulish Books is Ready for You to SAY UNCLE!
Ghouls! It is with immense pleasure that I get to finally announce the release of Ryan C. Bradley’s Say Uncle, a coming-of-age horror comedy that we’ve been pitching as Uncle Buck meets Hellraiser. Here’s Luke Spooner’s cover art: HE’S CRUDE. HE’S CRASS. HE’S FAMILY. AND HE’LL TEAR YOUR SOUL APART. It’s 2005 and 15-year-old Braden O’Riley is hoping for…
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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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- GHOULGAB w/ Jess Hagemann, author of MOTHER-EATING
