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Do you believe in Mister Bones?
COVER REVEAL!
We are excited to unveil the cover for I BELIEVE IN MISTER BONES by
@fuckmaxbooth
, a harrowing exploration of indie horror publishing, internet curses, and the universal terror of the human skeleton.
Illustration & design by
@slimyswampghost
.
Coming this October!
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walked out of the theater feeling the same way I did after watching IT FOLLOWS for the first time. TALK TO ME will go down as one of the best horror movies of the decade. holy shit.
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hi
@StephenKing
quick question what the fuck are you doing
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excitement for late night with the devil deflating like a gutted football after finding out about this ai bullshit
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hey pals! quick life update it turns out I am nonbinary and going forward will be using they/them pronouns okay thanks have a great spooky day
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write the weird thing you don't think is going to work because you've never seen someone else write it. obsess over the ideas that scare you because you're convinced nobody will understand or relate to what the fuck you're talking about. disregard genre rules & embrace the ocean.
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Hello this novel is incredible and I am going to now read every single book by this author I can find.
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buy some books from Little Ghosts today and support trans rights and give a middle finger to the disgusting piece of shit who threw a tantrum in their store earlier
Just figuring out how many books we lost when a woman decided to whip her coffee at the shelves and verbally assault a bookseller because we think that gender affirming care is health care.
If you don’t think trans rights are human right don’t come in, don’t follow us. Just Don’t
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so, i guess the option is what. delete the fucking platform i've spent 12 years building or let the dumbest motherfucker on the planet leech on my posts to further grow a weapon designed to kill my career? cool shit, love it.
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four of the greatest horror movies ever made were remakes btw
Dear film makers. There has NEVER in the history of humankind been a remake that was better than the original. Sit down and read some indie author books from people who have great, unique ideas and no money to get them recognised.
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really excited to announce that nearly 13 years into my writing career, I finally have a literary agent. becky is cool as hell and I am looking forward to working together.
And now I get to announce that
@fuckmaxbooth
has signed on as a client as well!!! Y’all I am thrilled to be working with him even if his book kept me up ALL NIGHT LONG! (That’s the BEST thing in this genre!)
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I have a new book out today. It’s called THE LAST HAUNT and it’s written as a fictionalized oral history centered around a massacre that occurred at an extreme haunted house attraction. I think it’s pretty fun. Give it a shot sometime.
—Max
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i don't know how to sell people on this book other than it's going to make you feel bad for a while
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will always love running a weirdo horror bookshop in the middle of nowhere because sometimes random old men will stumble in and go, "I MADE A ZINE I WANT YOU TO HAVE," and it's a 50-page booklet about roswell. fuck yeah i want this, are you kidding me
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turning 30 next week. I launched our publishing company when I was 19, meaning I've operated a small press for the entirety of my 20s. feels weird.
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Legitimately get teared up sometimes thinking about how SGJ has blown up like he has since MONGRELS. One of the hardest working writers out there. It’s been inspirational to witness.
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now's your opportunity to read two incredible anthologies for the low price of $0.00
To celebrate this year's
#TransRightsReadathon
, we have made our anthologies BURY YOUR GAYS (ed.
@SofiaAjram
) and BOUND IN FLESH (ed.
@lormaggot
) completely free to the public for the next week. More here:
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I SAW THE TV GLOW — a deeply upsetting experience that I’ll be thinking about forever.
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GHOULISH TALES is once again re-open for submissions. If you write horror stories, we want to see your spookiest stuff. We're paying 10c per word. Deadline's end of March. Come be a ghoul with us.
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bookstore customer asked to take my photo before they left. later that afternoon, I received a notification that we'd received a new google business review. I clicked on it and found the photo.
5 stars.
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wait a second what is all of this wet stuff coming out of my eyes right now
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My kid thought this said DONUTS KILLED MY WIFE and I have been laughing for almost 20 minutes now
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Oh no not the unit next to our bookshop suddenly becoming available and my threats of one day opening a Ghoulish Cafe feeling actually realistic now
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Updated some author bio stuff to reflect pronouns change. Felt pretty dang cool imho. Also - cover reveal for my next novel tomorrow 😘
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Lori & I spend every waking moment working on Ghoulish. We hardly profit from it. But we love horror & providing homes for writers & helping books find hungry readers. It is exhilarating & so, so exhausting. So, if you buy our books—thank you, sincerely. We remain forever honored
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we haven't opened for public book submissions in several years, and probably won't again for a very long time after this! if you ever wanted to send us a novella or novel, this August will be the time to do it, ghouls!
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Barnes & Noble (Libbie Place)
Richmond, Virginia
FEELS GOOD TO SEE
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attention, spooky writers...
JUNE - reopening for
@GhoulishTales
Issue 4, but *only* to authors who have never been published before. (500-5k word limit)
AUGUST - reopening for
@GhoulishBooks
manuscript submissions (25k-90k word limit). no author restrictions here.
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It’s our one-year anniversary today which means I have an excuse to show off our spooky wedding cake again
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Truly the real reason our press and book festival and everything else runs so smoothly, the other half of Ghoulish Books: Lori Michelle Booth!!!
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Exact quote from a kid (age 10 probably) trying to talk his mom out of shopping at our table: “I don’t like messing around with paranormal stuff. What if I get possessed? We would have to use all the Jesus candles in the house. The entire town would have to pray for my safety.”
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I made a joke negative review of my movie on Letterboxd when it first came out, which has backfired as it’s now one of the most popular reviews upvoted and commented on by people who agree with my criticisms and genuinely hate the movie lol
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I spent almost 8 years going crazy while working the night shift at a hotel. While on the clock, I wrote a novel called THE NIGHTLY DISEASE.
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fyi horror publishing is going to murder me in the streets when this drops 👀
COVER REVEAL!
We are excited to unveil the cover for I BELIEVE IN MISTER BONES by
@fuckmaxbooth
, a harrowing exploration of indie horror publishing, internet curses, and the universal terror of the human skeleton.
Illustration & design by
@slimyswampghost
.
Coming this October!
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why does this feel like the opening meet-cute of a deeply problematic romantic comedy
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I can't be always selling. I'm not a Baldwin bro. This is not Glengarry Glen Ross. I'm not in your replies congratulating you then suggesting ways to promote my brand. I'm not reshaping horror. I'm not a walking profile piece. I'm just a depressed dude who really likes books. Hi.
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Essentially I had a conversation with like dozens of ppl over the last couple years that boiled down to me saying, “If I’d known what being non-binary meant as a kid I might have been a bit less nuts and sad all the time” until finally having the obvious “oh shit, hold up” moment
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just realized now that we're getting an IT FOLLOWS sequel there's an opportunity we'll witness characters utilizing more gadgets from the company behind the clamshell e-reader
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FYI: going forward all Ghoulish contracts will contain AI clauses in them, and we will be strongly insisting all contracts for my own writing incorporate them as well. You have to take a stand against this shit.
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this is the first real short story I managed to write after my mom was killed by a drunk driver in 2022. it may or may not be inspired by my time spent temporarily living in my dad's trailer following the incident. honored for it to have a home in this anthology.
We currently have a tornado warning in my city, which means it's a great time to remind you that Max Booth III--author of We Need to Do Something--has their story "AITA for setting my dad's trailer on fire?" in Why Didn't You Just Leave.
Make sure to pre-order!
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this is my latest book, published last october through
@CemeteryGatesM
. recommended for fans of oral histories, true crime, and haunted house attractions. cover art by the great
@slimyswampghost
. if that all sounds like your thing, give THE LAST HAUNT a shot.
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If I was doing this writing thing again I would choose a pen name, and I’d encourage everybody to do the same. Too many weirdos out there and none of them need to know your real name. Privacy!! It is important. That’s my only writing advice. Also long paragraphs rule.
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Scott Wampler was cool as shit. Super funny and smart and so, so kind with his time. We started talking after he reviewed LOST SIGNALS for BMD and we would trade occasional DMs about our mutual love for King and Danny McBride.
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fuck neil gaiman goddamn what a piece of shit
Neil Gaiman forced a single mother of 3 to have sex with him under threat of evicting her and her 3 young children--a threat he eventually made good on, which concluded with him forcing her to sign a NDA.
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Trying to prevent the church group from stealing our donuts this time
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I don’t really know what else to do anymore besides link this & hope in some small way it helps someone who needs it & even this feels pretty useless & foolishly optimistic considering the miserably depressing, haunting reality of such a vile situation
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went to a drag show earlier, spotted two decrepit old men protesting in the parking lot. easily in their 80s, I assumed, then ran into a friend at the show who told me she went to high school with them. they’re only 54. hate cooks your body like radiation poisoning, man.
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just realized we've been running our small press for 12 fucking years. how is that real
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NEW JEREMY SAULNIER
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I've been reading a lot of submissions this weekend for our BURY YOUR GAYS open call and all I can say is good fucking luck to any other anthology coming out next year because holy shit
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Just bit the bullet. Lori and I will be attending StokerCon next year in San Diego. We will not have a vendor table, though. I think this might be the first convention of any kind we've attended without being stuck behind a table the whole weekend? EXCITING.
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Ghoulish Mindy appreciation post—a cool ghoul who champions indie horror more than most people I know. A passionate reader, internet doxxer, and invaluable friend. Very glad that we added
@garbagesauce
to the Ghoulish staff. She’s only improved things. (art by Betty Rocksteady)
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Really really sorry to hear about Scott Wampler. Fuck this fucking sucks.
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still feels immensely cool whenever I come upon the horror movie I wrote while scrolling hulu
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I'll reject anybody for any reason. It doesn't matter if you didn't actually submit something. I've evolved past that.
got a rejection for ghoulish tales and i didn't even submit anything smh
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are you single-handedly reshaping horror publishing or are you just a narcissist
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*double-checks I live in the US where I'm under no threat of legal action*
so actually it turns out that denying certain proven holocaust crimes does, indeed, make you a holocaust denier. which J.K. Rowling undoubtedly is, in addition to being a transphobe & a terrible writer
On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.
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Sincerely you cannot claim to not be transphobic
@StephenKing
while still supporting JK Rowling’s work. You see her fucking feed. You see what she posts. Are you stupid or cowardly? Which one is it?
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going to keep posting about our new magazine because i think it's the coolest thing in the world and i want to keep doing them for years and years. subscribe to GHOULISH TALES
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if you spot me at stokercon this weekend, please attack upon sight. that is not me. i am not there. i don't know what that is or where it came from but i know it must be destroyed immediately.
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personally i would love to just keep writing and publishing spooky books and doing podcasts with my friends without having to constantly pivot from terrible companies introducing evil policies every goddamn week. bleak and exhausting!
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Rewatched THE EMPTY MAN for the first time since it quietly dropped on VOD and my feelings back then are only confirmed now: this will go down as one of my favorite movies of the decade. I love everything about it so much.
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coming october 2024
You hear about those cult musicians that never achieved mainstream popularity, but everyone who listened to them started a band. I don’t know how popular we’ll become, but I know people who decided to write a book because they read one we published, and that’s pretty beautiful.
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Publishing spooky books is cool. Writing spooky books is cool. I love doing cool shit and I don’t care about anything else. Leave my corpse on the highway for the vultures when it’s time because getting pecked clean by carrion birds? Nothing cooler than that.
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Am I a fucking idiot or is everybody posting “um blockbuster was bad, actually” takes intentionally misunderstanding that the yearning is not for one specific chain but for the concept of video stores as a whole??
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hey we're under tornado watch which means here's an obligatory plug for WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING, a book & movie I wrote that unexpectedly completely changed my life and I'll be forever grateful to everybody who helped spread the word and supported it. 💚💚💚
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about 2 weeks ago randomly decided to start doing yoga and haven't missed a day since?? i've become a yoga ghoul and i do not hate it.
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reviewers with large collections of old ARCs collecting dust…sick of them being in your house? send them to me. I wrap them up and give them out to our bookstore customers for free.
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REQUEST: horror podcasts that interview authors. who is still active these days??? i'm out of the loop! already know about Talking Scared, This is Horror, Staring into the Abyss, and Books in the Freezer. feels like I'm blanking on other obvious ones.
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just finished a new draft of the INDIANA DEATH SONG screenplay I've been tinkering with off and on for a year or so now. extremely happy with where it currently stands and I think we're about ready to start shopping it around. 🦷🦷🦷
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this is way better craft advice than anything you'll read in ON WRITING
When I am concerned about being unoriginal I just think about porn. Yes, someone has definitely done that before. But not that girl. Not on that couch. And people want to see that exact same thing but different every time.
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the thing with publishing is you have no idea what sells books and you find yourself just trying anything, like paying a niche horror wrestler to record a cameo talking about a new book you've just published because... why not????
Here is professional wrestler
@DanhausenAD
wishing
@loseyourghost
good luck on today's publication of GIVE UNTO US, cursing Justin's enemies, and refusing to sing "There's a Hole in my Bucket" while being terrorized by Texas grackles.
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Our bookstore
@GhoulishBooks
is now bursting with a huge chunk of Michael McDowell’s bibliography, thanks to the awesome folks at
@Valancourt_B
!
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up late writing one of the gnarliest horror scenes of my career and I'm fucking bouncing off the walls with excitement about it.
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Our deadline for issue 3 of
@GhoulishTales
is March 29, in just another work or so. We will reopen for issue 4 later this summer. Important note about our issue 4 submissions: we will only be considering submissions from never-before published authors. New ghouls, you could say.
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As of today,
@GhoulishBooks
has raised $850 for Palestinian children. Consider donating, if you have the funds to spare.
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It’s both my birthday and Lori’s birthday today which means the shop is obviously closed, but you can always support the
@GhoulishBooks
webstore or buy us a lil coffee
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Admittedly, running a publishing company, book festival, indie bookstore, various podcasts, and attempting to also maintain a personal writing career has made me a bit nuts
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Surely I'm not the only one thinking, by golly, there sure are a lot of horror industry folks with birthdays in July. This morning I did the mental math and realized they would've most likely been conceived in October, and now everything makes sense.
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shooting finger guns into the void and whispering, "not a man," before blowing the imaginary smoke from my fingertips and reholstering them at my sides
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Ah fuck it. Gonna reopen submissions tomorrow morning for
@GhoulishTales
Issue 3. Won’t stop, can’t stop.
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Director hit us up about a screenplay I wrote a few years ago. Wasn’t sure about the ethics of selling something already written, but after talking to some trusted friends we told the director I’m not negotiating or selling anything until after the strike. Solidarity, folks.
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Commissioned a companion monster bust for my wife and now we are a gross spooky couple. (Art by
@bluehatted
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Big shoutout to the extremely cool horror readers who flew out from Indiana to San Antonio today solely to visit our bookstore. I remain speechless.
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thinking enough time has passed for me to say once again "hey i wrote a book and here it is, i think you should read it if you like bleak and dark short stories"
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developing a ritual of letting these two beautiful knuckleheads lull me to sleep every night
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