Ghoulish Books

Book Club Discussion
2024-05-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Knock Knock, Open Wide
Join on Discord for ongoing discussion all month long!

Ghoulish Book Club
2023-11-24 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
The October & November pick for our Ghoulish Book Club is BLACK HOUSE by Peter Straub and Stephen King! Come snag a copy directly at our bookstore while supplies last, then stop by Ghoulish Books on November Friday the 24th @ 8pm for an in-person book discussion. Also, feel free to discuss the novel throughout the month in our Discord: https://discord.gg/cbtk7EdhSt

The Ghoulish Show
2023-10-31 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Radio Coffee & Beer, 4204 Menchaca Rd, Austin, TX, 78704, United States
On the last Tuesday of every month, we host a spooky comedy variety show at Radio Coffee & Beer in Austin, TX. Live performances! Interviews! Book fairs! This month we’ll also have a Halloween COSTUME CONTEST!!!

Saturday Night Spookies (FREE Horror Movie Screening)
2023-10-28 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Chicago) | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Saturday Night Spookies is our monthly movie screening event! On the last Saturday every month, we host a FREE secret movie screening in our bookstore. The movie title is always a secret until showtime at 8pm CST. Sometimes we offer a fun pre-show at 7:30pm. Saturday Night Spookies is typically hosted by Miguel Myers of the My Horror Confessional podcast. Although these screenings are free, we do have limited seating, so show up earlier rather than later to reserve your spot. We also sell snacks & drinks in the lobby.

Ghoul-r-Treat
2023-10-21 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Let’s trick r’ treat early this year at Ghoulish Books! Bring your children in their spooky Halloween costumes and let us give them a handful of delicious, teeth-destroying candy. Get their picture taken with THE GHOUL! Stick around for fun craft events, such as pumpkin decorating and drawing time.

Halloween Book Donation Drive for Texas Prisons
2023-10-14 | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Ghoulish Books is partnering with the Inside Books Project for a fun, important horror book drive.
On Saturday, October 14th, from 10am-8pm, we will be accepting horror book donations for those incarcerated in Texas. Simply drop them off at our bookstore in Selma and we’ll take care of the rest. We will also give out a gnarly BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKE US SCARIER sticker to anybody who chooses to donate.
Our address:
Ghoulish Books
9330 Corporate Drive
Suite #702
Selma, TX 78154
For this donation drive, we are only really interested in literature that can be labeled horror, as this genre is often requested by prisoners and we would love to help satisfy that demand.
For those who are not local and wish to contribute, please send your donations to Max Booth III, PO Box 1104, Cibolo, TX 78108.

Books we CANNOT accept as donations:

Books in poor condition (water damaged, ripped or missing cover, old/falling apart)

Hardcover fiction – these books are too heavy to mail

Encyclopedias – these are too heavy to mail

Blank journals / composition books – these have sadly been banned

Books with nudity or partial nudity (i.e. string bikinis) – these are banned

Spiral bound books – these are banned

Martial Arts books – these are banned

Books that contain detailed maps of Texas – these are banned

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About Ghoulish Books:
Ghoulish Books is a horror publisher and bookstore based in the Greater San Antonio Area. It is operated by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle Booth.
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About the Inside Books Project:
Inside Books Project is an Austin-based community service volunteer organization that sends free reading materials to people incarcerated in Texas, as well as publishes a series of resource guides and short-form instructional guides. Inside Books is the only books-to-prisoners program in Texas, where over 120,000 people are behind bars. Inside Books Project works to promote reading, literacy, and education among incarcerated individuals and to educate the general public on issues of incarceration.

Writing Club
2023-10-13 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Come join our writing club at Ghoulish Books (the only horror-themed bookstore in the Greater San Antonio Area). This is a free event and anybody is welcome to attend.
The current plan is for everybody to spend the first hour of the night quietly working on their own creative writing projects, then the second hour everybody will get a turn to read something they’ve recently finished or are still working on and receive critiques from the rest of the attendees.
Bring something to write with (notebook, laptop, up to you) and something to read. You do not have to read anything if you do not feel comfortable, but if you do choose to read, please ensure you do not take more than 15 minutes.
Snacks & drinks will be available to purchase in the lobby.

Friday the 13th Horror Book Sale
2023-10-13 | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
This October we are blessed with a rare Friday the 13th! What better way to celebrate than by offering 13% discounts on all purchases in our bookstore? Come on down to Ghoulish Books on the 13th for a fun, generous discount all day long!

Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies - Book Launch @ Longfellow Books
2023-10-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Detroit) | Longfellow Books, 1 Monument Way, Portland, ME, 04101, United States
Please join us at Longfellow Books on Tuesday, October 10 at 6pm EST for a very special launch of E. M. Roy’s debut novel, Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies (published by Ghoulish Books)!

Leo Bates knows what’s behind every corner in her hometown of Eston, Maine, where she’s lived her whole life. Some bad memories and grief for her late parents, sure, but nothing dangerous. Nothing unexplainable. All of that changes when her girlfriend Tate goes missing, and the lead detective on the case blames Leo for the disappearance. Haunted by self-doubt, Leo can only watch as the town she thought she knew deteriorates around her. She is forced to confront the painful truth about her parents, this town, and her relationship if she is to survive the following onslaught of conspiracies, cryptic monstrosities, and whatever is hiding in the woods where Tate was last seen.

The familiar becomes strange the longer you look at it. Leo navigates a broken sense of reality, shattered memories, and a distrust of herself in order to find Tate and restore balance to Eston—if such a thing ever existed to begin with.

E. M. Roy (she/they) is a writer and lover of all things weird, horrific, and dark, especially when those things have a social justice bend and are rooted in a queer perspective. After obtaining a B.A. in English from Boston University, their work has appeared in a handful of small publications. She currently resides near Portland, Maine with her parents, sibling, and dog, Boo. Let the Woods Keep Our Bodies is their debut novel.

Ghouls Night Out: A Celebration of Spookiness
2023-10-07 18:00 - 23:00 (America/Chicago) | Ghoulish Books, 628 S. Saint Marys, Suite 102, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Come celebrate everything spooky with us at our bookstore Ghoulish Books in the Greater San Antonio Area. GHOULS NIGHT OUT will include 10+ local horror authors doing live readings & signing books, followed by a FREE MOVIE SCREENING of an infamous 1990s haunted house documentary.

The story readings will not all be kid-friendly, but you’re welcome to bring your kid if you think they can handle it.
Authors lined up to perform:

Max Booth III
RJ Joseph
Celso Hurtado
Grace R. Reynolds
Michael Louis Dixon
Johnny Compton
Sanford Allen
LP Hernandez
R.C. Hausen
Ryan C. Bradley
Shane McKenzie
Andrew Hilbert
Lucas Mangum
Susan Snyder

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