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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,…
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Countdown to MOTHER-EATING! #1
The following post is written by Jess Hagemann, author of Mother-Eating, forthcoming from Ghoulish Books. Twelve months from now, my sophomore novel Mother-Eating—a contemporary reimagining of the true story of French queen Marie Antoinette, set in Austin, Texas and featuring plenty of body horror—will come out from Ghoulish Books. To celebrate, I’m counting down twelve…
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Just in time for Halloween—Lucas Mangum’s HAUNTED HEARTS is out now!
Lucas Mangum, author of many wonderful horror books, has finally become a ghoul with today’s release of his latest novella: Haunted Hearts. This is a cozy coming-of-age Halloween novella with emo vibes. Over on Goodreads, people have been losing their minds about it all month, and for good reason. Here is what Lucas Mangum had…
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GHOULGAB w/ Max Booth III
My new novel, I Believe in Mister Bones, is out now through Apocalypse Party. Earlier this week, my friend (and employee??) Mindy Rose interrogated me through Facebook Messenger for the latest edition of her GHOULGAB interview series. For better or worse, here is our entire conversation… mindy: does mr bones drop tomorrow or next tuesday…
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