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Free Horror eBooks Written By Trans Authors Published By Ghoulish Books (Trans Rights Readathon 2026)
I know I’m a bit late with getting this organized and posted, but in my defense, I forgot. Anyway! Better late than never, right? So, starting right now and ending at 11:59PM CST on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, we have made a bunch of our titles (published by Ghoulish Books and, in one instance, published…
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Who Ya Gonna Call? COSMIC DYKE PATROL!
Well, ghouls! The time is finally here! Lor Gislason’s COSMIC DYKE PATROL is out now through Ghoulish Books. If you’ve pre-ordered through the webstore, paperbacks are going out THIS WEEK. eBooks are available to purchase and download RIGHT NOW. Here is the incredible front cover art from Val Hal: When Stevie starts seeing floating orbs,…
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We asked you to decapitate some eggs and you did not fail us
Last month we announced an unhinged contest on social media: acquire an egg, draw a decapitated head on the egg, and either quote, share & tag us, or reply to the post with a pic of your egg-capitation. Our five favorite entries would win a signed copy of Jess Hagemann’s Mother-Eating, which is a modern…
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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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Read the first chapter of MOTHER-EATING, the new novel from Jess Hagemann
Jess Hagemann (Headcheese) has a new novel coming out next week called Mother-Eating. We’re publishing it through Ghoulish Books and we are extremely excited about it. This novel is perhaps unlike anything else we’ve released before, but at the same time it lines up perfectly with the kind of work we’ve spent over a decade publishing.…
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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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Confessions of a Horror Poser – GHOULISH TALES Returns with “New Demons Edition” Fourth Issue
Good news, ghouls. The long-awaited fourth issue of our magazine, Ghoulish Tales, is finally out. This thing has seen one delay after another but that’s all in the past, baby. It’s out! You can read it! Fiction from (at time of acceptance) never-before published writers. Stories from Madelyn Lunnen, Melissa Nowark, Harrison Stypula, Miguel Villa, M.E.…
Recent Posts
- Free Horror eBooks Written By Trans Authors Published By Ghoulish Books (Trans Rights Readathon 2026)
- Who Ya Gonna Call? COSMIC DYKE PATROL!
- We asked you to decapitate some eggs and you did not fail us
- Let us ALL eat cake! MOTHER-EATING is out today! Hooray!
- GHOULGAB w/ Jess Hagemann, author of MOTHER-EATING
