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The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God
Sam Richard
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Released 12/15/2024 - WP0027
Cover painting by Fernando JFL
Cover design by Sam Richard
A drunk widower wanders through an endless, abandoned mall while the war machine marches.
90s queer metalheads repeatedly try to burn down a regenerating church.
Denizens of a punk house are confronted with the reality of what happened to their missing peer.
An artist with acidic bodily fluids finds another like him.
Award-Winning author Sam Richard returns with eleven weird horror stories ranging from body to cosmic to existential and beyond. The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God explores the raw honesty of grief, isolation, brokenness, and desperation.
Love Skull
Emma Alice Johnson
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Released 8/30/2024 - WP0026
Cover painting by William Morris
Cover design by Sam Richard
Pizza cults! Barn ghouls! Carpet zombies! Skulls and kisses!
A background skull from a popular 80s horror novel comes to life and becomes obsessed with the book’s reader. Two women fall in love as a giant monster destroys the town around them. Friends band together to haul their BFF’s corpse to the ocean for the ultimate funeral-by-shark.
This collection includes the New York Times-mentioned “5 Ways to Kill Your Rapist on a Farm” and 11 other stories that blend horror, sci-fi, weird, and romance into a unique mix from award-winning author Emma Alice Johnson.
Profane Altars: Weird Sword & Sorcery
edited by Sam Richard
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Released 6/15/2024 - WP0025
Cover painting by Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Cover design by Sam Richard
In the spirit of Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, and films like Conquest and Fire & Ice comes Profane Altars: Weird Sword and Sorcery. Underground horror authors Emma Alice Johnson, Matthew Mitchell, Adam Smith, Sara Century, Charles Austin Muir, Edwin Callihan, and editor Sam Richard conjure forth visions of the unknowable and ancient past. One of spider gods, aging warriors, crystal antlers, cultist soldiers, and whispered legends of strange creatures and woeful knights. A bridge between weird horror and Sword & Sorcery, Profane Altars presents new realms fantasy within cloistered worlds of doom and wonder.
Featuring cover art by the legendary Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions
M. Lopes da Silva
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Released 3/15/2024 - WP0024
Cover art by Cristy Road
Text by Sam Richard
A non-binary model discovers that an artist is attempting to paint their soul. Glitter-vomiting deer take over the streets of Los Angeles. A trans man drives out to the desert to investigate rumors of a cult using crude oil as a drug. Heartbreaking, sexy, and grotesque, these stories are timely and insistent reminders that even though we might all be buried in capitalist garbage, we are not garbage, and never were.
Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions is a strange and gnarly entry into the canon of 21st-century queer horror.
Come, transform with us.
With cover art by the legendary Cristy Road.
“Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions is the best kind of collection. It cuts you open, crawls inside your chest, and lives with you long after the book is finished.” - Caitlin Marceau, award-winning author of This Is Where We Talk Things Out
“Every new da Silva is a dopamine hit. I was excited going in, but this collection really surpassed my excitement. Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions is such a carefully constructed mosaic of stories where unique, seemingly individual pieces come together in this emotional amalgam of growth, transformation, and longing, in their loveliest and most terrible definitions. "Grotesque and splendid", the quotes say, and that is precisely what the collection delivers. Satisfying, thrilling, and a read you won't regret.” - Alex Woodroe, author of Whisperwood and EiC of Tenebrous Press
Feral Architecture: Ballardian Horrors
edited by Sam Richard
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Released 12/30/2023 - WP0022
Cover art by Sam Richard
J.G. Ballard has held a tremendous influence on culture since he first started writing, much of which turned out to be prophetic. In Feral Architecture Joe Koch, Donyae Coles, Sara Century, Brendan Vidito, and editor Sam Richard plume the depth of that influence through the lens of horror fiction.
The results are surreal, ominous, unexpected, unnerving, and a fitting tribute to the legacy of one of the 20th century’s most impactful and important writers.
Featuring a foreword by Scott Dwyer of The Plutonian.
Elogona
Samantha Kolesnik
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Released 12/15/2023 - WP0023
Cover art by Evangeline Gallagher
An evocative tale of sapphic love in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by religious zealots and supernatural monsters.
Kolesnik’s Elogona transports readers to a time after the world’s end, when a long-dormant sea creature has awoken to stake its claim against one of the last human settlements.
Verna must battle both man and monster to protect her family and her newfound love for Audrey, a refugee from the mainland.
Meanwhile, the Elogona calls…
"A sapphic coming-of-age wonder that's dangerous on all sides but heartfelt to the core. Further evidence that everything Samantha Kolesnik touches turns to gold." - Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth
“At once a dystopian fairytale and a glimpse of our too-possible future, Elogona is a story of love, defiance, and determination in the face of monsters—both human and inhuman. Kolesnik tears through these themes with teeth and heart, never failing to unnerve and surprise.” - J.A.W. McCarthy, Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, author of Sleep Alone
“Elogona enraptures immediately with darkly fantastical elements that draw you into one of the sweetest and yet devastating sapphic romances I’ve read. A tale of survival, from the individual to the whole of humanity as they wallow in their own messy, war-torn aftermath, it grabbed me by the throat and didn’t let go until the shocking end. Layers of depth, reflecting on the state of our world, are expertly woven together by characters you can’t help but fall for, all set in a future sublimely heartbreaking. Kolesnik melded genres and subverted expectations so skillfully, I know I’ll be revisiting this story many times as soon as my shredded heart can bear it.” - Emma E. Murray, author of Exquisite Hunger
“Otherworldly and grounded, immersive and gut-wrenching, Elogona feels all too real.” - Rae Knowles, Author of Merciless Waters
"Apocalyptic folklore, religious fascism, and sapphic romance collide in Kolesnik's darkly magical maelstrom of a novella Elogona." - Eric Raglin, author of Extinction Hymns
Chaindevils
Matthew Mitchell
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Released 11/15/2023 - WP0021
Cover art by Buster Moody
Cover design by Ira Rat
Take heed, and smoke what you got…
In the far-distant post-apocalypse of rural America, an embattled company of chainsaw-wielding hillbillies are set forth by Her Majesty of the Ozarks on a quest for precious methamphetamine.
Beset by religious zealots, militarized sex workers, and their own addictions, the CHAINDEVILS slash their way across the drug-addled border between Missouri and Arkansas.
Embrace the chaos with Matthew Mitchell's debut novella, which tears off pieces of horror, grimdark fantasy, dying earth fiction, and drug literature, and smashes them together in hazy, mud-coated ways unlike anything you've ever seen.
"Mitchell pens a wild extrapolation of a post-apocalyptic North American Landscapeby way of The Road, Warhammer 40k, and pulp westerns. Chaindevils is hard, grisly fare." - Laird Barron, author of The Wind Began to Howl
“Beneath the chainsaws, drugs, and miscreants - Mitchell has created a story about Seachers. Folk that reflect the worst and the best in us, trying to find answers to questions we’re too afraid to ask.” - Adam Smith (Eisner Award-Nominee, Long Walk to Valhalla)
“Gory and raucous weird fiction, Chaindevils is one of the most outrageous stories I've ever read. If you'd like a taste of A Clockwork Orange with a Southern accent, Mad Max on meth, and Blood Meridian with chainsaws, then you'll want to dive into this vivid and original desolation envisioned by Matthew Mitchell.” - Ivy Grimes, author of Grime Time
“Mitchell gathers the haunted cultural imagination of the Ozarks together with the bloody history of the US’s internal border wars and the cultlike stature of their figureheads and squeezes until it all reaches critical mass and burns through the fabric of history into a desolate future. Meth-fueled chainsaw warriors and gilded femdom valkyries and giggling hooded cultists pursue truly shocking violence according to a logic we can only grasp the edge of. Chaindevils festers in the brain like an eldritch hangnail.” - Mark Jaskowski, author of Mutant Circuit, The Heartbeat Harvest
"It would be a mistake to call this tale a descent into Hell. We’re already in Hell from the first page, the first line…No depravity is left unplumbed. No despair left unearned. No doom left unmanifested. You want an army of chainsaw-wielding meth-addicted cannibals? Bizarre masked and horned cultists? Jewel-encrusted monarchist warrior women? It’s all here, and more besides. It takes a pure vision and a lot of guts to write something this balls-to-the-wall, and Matthew Mitchell has both. Who knows what new filth-encrusted hells he’ll drag us to next, but I’m damn sure going to let him." - Matt Neil Hill, author of short fiction
Mutant Circuit
Mark Jaskowski
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Released 8/31/2023 - WP0020
Cover art by Don Noble
Cover design by Ira Rat
What is happening to Katherine?
Someone put something into her at the plasma center and took it back out again. By the time her friends catch up to her, she’s not exactly the person they remember. She has begun to change into something new, and if they’re going to help her escape the people who did this to her, they may need to transform, too.
Squarely in both the crime and body horror traditions, Mutant Circuit reads like Elmore Leonard and David Cronenberg meeting at 3 AM in a run-down strip mall parking lot, and Mark Jaskowski is the conspirator who brought them there.
"Jaskowski wields words like weapons, his prose quick and sharp as a butterfly knife. The result: a truly original work in the corpus of body horror." – Brendan Vidito (Pornography for the End of the World, Nightmares in Ecstasy)
A Small Light & Other Stories
Sara Century
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Released 12/15/2022 - WP0019
Cover art by Don Noble
Cover design by Ira Rat
Back cover art by Tana Thornock
A mysterious woman stalks a seaside town. An isolated couple inhabit a house full of tropical birds. A rowboat floats down a river toward a witch's cave. Death wanders an unnamed city during the plague. Sara Century's debut short story collection carries with it surreal visions inspired by pulp paperbacks, art house films, comic books of all flavors, and classic queer villains. A Small Light & Other Stories gathers tales that hinge on troubled characters with nothing left to lose encountering existential horrors, where everyday problems escalate into insurmountable monsters, and we find ourselves unable to escape dreams long since transformed into nightmares.
"Century's fiction packs the potency of a nightmare that haunts the mind long after one has woken. She weaves dark poetry out of her character's relationships and crafts imagery designed to unsettle and inspire awe in equal measure. These stories whisper in your ear in the dark of night, and you will find yourself welcoming their insidious omens with outstretched arms." - Brendan Vidito (Pornography for the End of the World)
"Sara Century writes with subtle intensity and care. In a genre often extreme, alien, and operatic, her horror stories drop us into the small center of our familiar, vulnerable human core and send ripples spreading outward, enlarging gradually to create a total emotional effect. A Small Light is a book full of dark awakenings." - Joe Koch (The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive)
Grief Rituals
Sam Richard
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Released 10/25/2022 - WP0018
Cover art by Fernando JFL
Cover design by Ira Rat
From Wonderland Award-Winning author Sam Richard comes 12 more uncomfortable tales of sorrow, ruination, and transformation.
A young widow joins a spousal loss institute with bizarre methods of healing, an aging punk is stalked by something ancient and familiar in the labyrinthian halls of an art complex, and a couple renting out a small movie theater are interrupted by a corrosive force of nature. Through these tales of weird horror and visceral sorrow, Richard introduces us to the ways grief can be transcendent—but only if we know which rituals to practice.
Stories of the Eye
edited by Sam Richard & Joe Koch
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Released 10/25/2022 - WP0017
Cover design by Ira Rat
Beauty is a knife.
Between the desire to create and the thing created, the model is a key, a stepping stone, a participant othered through the process of creation. These thirteen visions of modern horror dissect the relationship between artist and model, exposing the spaces the eye is tricked into missing where we witness the beautiful and monstrous intricacies of making and being made.
Featuring stories by Andrew Wilmot, M. Lopes da Silva, Gwendolyn Kiste, Hailey Piper, Roland Blackburn, Ira Rat, Donyae Coles, Matt Neil Hill, Brendan Vidito, LC von Hessen, Gary J. Shipley, and editors Joe Koch and Sam Richard.
Pornography for the End of the World
Brendan Vidito
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Released 7/31/2022 - WP0016
Cover art by Wieslaw Walkuski
Cover design by Ira Rat
The end of the world demands a new form of pornography…
From Brendan Vidito, the Wonderland-Award-winning author of Nightmares in Ecstasy, comes nine tales of apocalyptic body horror.
A young man is initiated into a cult that worships sickness and disease.
Survivors of a nuclear holocaust make a pilgrimage to the last movie theater in existence.
Premonitions of disaster haunt a loving couple doomed to watch each other die.
Each story pulsates with Vidito's characteristic dark humor, atmospheric tension, and visceral prose. This is pornography for the devotee of horror, the morbidly curious—pornography for the end of the world.
“With apocalyptic urgency, Vidito strip-mines our psychosexual fears and frailties as humans to elicit an ecstatic response. I couldn't stop reading. As a grand manipulator, he molds speculative horror and body horror into one dark hybrid, a sleek and cum-soaked vessel of transcendence.” - Joe Koch (The Wingspan of Severed Hands, Convulsive)
“Audacious and devastatingly unique, Pornography for the End of the World is the literary equivalent of a Molotov cocktail with author Brendan Vidito’s fiery and explosive writing that feels utterly dangerous to read. I’m still recovering from the brutality of some of these tales.” - Eric LaRocca (Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke)
To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows
Sam Richard
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Released 12/30/2021 - WP0015
Cover by Don Noble
Winner of the 2019 Wonderland Award for Best Collection, To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows is a bleak and unflinching look at widowhood through the lens of horror fiction. Written in the early days of widowhood and in the spirit of J.G. Ballard, Kathe Koja, and Georges Bataille, these stories are a cross-section of literary splatterpunk, transgressive fiction, and weird horror, which explore loss, grief, and the alluring comforts found within the heart of oblivion.
This Revised & Expanded version includes the never-before-seen novelette There is Power in the Blood.
“A punch to the soul. I mean you can really feel how difficult this was to write. ‘To Wallow in Ash’ is a bleakly profound - and on occasion uplifting - expedition through grief-induced mania (and without ever succumbing to mal du siècle). Richard offers us an authentic, raw document of depression and loss; and to have moulded the stages into artful monographs while staring the abyss right in the eye every step of the way is truly commendable.” - Chris Kelso, author of The Black Dog Eats the City
"With To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows, Sam Richard has crafted a book of stories that will rip your heart right out of your chest... and it's absolutely worth every moment. At turns brutally raw, incredibly beautiful, and always unexpected, this is an unforgettable ode to a love lost far too soon, and a collection that is absolutely worth seeking out." - Gwendolyn Kiste, author of The Rust Maidens and The Invention of Ghosts
“This book is grief weaponized.” - Emma Alice Johnson, Wonderland Award-winner
"Witches and rituals and weird gods but most terrifying of all is a sense of deep grief that stalks the pages like a predatory beast. Sam Richard has gifted readers his private terrors but also his heart and soul. Violent, weird, and compelling work." - Nicholas Day, author of At the End of the Day I Burst into Flames and Grind Your Bones to Dust
Cinema Viscera: An Anthology of Movie Theater Horror
Edited by Sam Richard
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Released 10/31/2021 - WP0014
Cover by Don Noble
In five unique and bizarre tales Katy Michelle Quinn (Girl in the Walls), Charles Austin Muir (Slippery When Metastasized), Jo Quenell (The Mud Ballad), Brendan Vidito (Nightmares in Ecstasy), and Sam Richard (Sabbath of the Fox-Devils) each bring you their own disturbing vision of what lurks in the darkness of your local movie theater.
Not gonna lie, this shit is a lot darker than we thought it would be.
Make sure to grab some popcorn…
To Offer Her Pleasure
Ali Seay
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Released 8/31/2021 - WP0013
Cover by Don Noble
After the death of his father and his mother taking off, it becomes clear to Ben that the only thing he can count on, is no one to count on.
Until he finds the book. One that calls forth a shadowy horned figure. She comes with unexpected gifts and the comfort of a dependable presence. And she asks for very little in return, really. The more Ben offers her, the easier it gets.
Sometimes, family requires more than a little sacrifice…
“A gruesome take on the coming of age story, TO OFFER HER PLEASURE gives us well-drawn and empathetic characters and a compelling evil. Tightly written and fast-paced, Seay wastes no time in snaring her readers with sacrifice and dark promises, kept in the bloodiest way." - Laurel Hightower (Crossroads, Whispers in the Dark)
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
Eric LaRocca
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Released 6/1/2021 - WP0012
Cover by Kim Jakobsson & Ira Rat
Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death.
A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s--a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.
What have you done today to deserve your eyes?
“A startling affair...I’ll be cleaning up particles of darkness in my office for weeks.” - Josh Malerman (Bird Box, Inspection)
"When broken people do broken things - especially in the name of love - we all get broken, too. What starts as sweetly genteel swiftly descends into everything that's brutalizingly ugly about the abusive master/slave dynamic. A hauntingly elegant, masterfully written, and ultimately devastating indictment of cruel manipulation and even crueler submission. This is one deeply fucked-up heartbreaker. You have been warned." - John Skipp (The Light at the End)
"Part Dennis Cooper's The Sluts, part David Cronenberg's The Brood...Eric LaRocca's Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a masterpiece of epistolary body horror." - Max Booth III (We Need to Do Something)
"Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a tight, merciless epistolary, each piece of correspondence coiling the reader around its finger and never letting go. LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity." - Hailey Piper (The Worm and His Kings)
"With darkly poetic prose and chilling stories that peel back layers of skin to reveal a beating, bloody heart, Eric LaRocca is the clear literary heir of Clive Barker." - Tyler Jones (Criterium, The Dark Side of the Room)
“Eric LaRocca is a fierce talent that knows no limit, masterful and utterly unmissable!” - Ross Jeffery (Juniper, Tome)
She Who Rules the Dead
Maria Abrams
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Released 4/15/2021 - WP0011
Cover by Maria Abrams
Henry has received a message: he needs to sacrifice five people to the demon that’s been talking to him in his nightmares. He already has four, and number five, Claire, is currently bound in the back of his van.
Too bad Claire isn’t exactly human.
She Who Rules the Dead reads like a Tales From the Crypt collaboration between Kathe Koja and Joe R. Lansdale but retains Abrams' powerful and unique voice. Don't miss it!
“I fucking loved this book! Just when I thought I knew where it was headed--I was wrong. And I love to be wrong. A thrilling ride. I want more!” - Ali Seay (Go Down Hard)
Beautiful/Grotesque
Edited by Sam Richard
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Released 2/15/2021 - WP0010
Cover by CVSPE & Ira Rat
Five authors of strange fiction, Roland Blackburn (Seventeen Names For Skin), Jo Quenell (The Mud Ballad), Katy Michelle Quinn (Girl in the Walls), Joe Koch (The Wingspan of Severed Hands), and Sam Richard (Sabbath of the Fox-Devils) each bring you their own unique vision of the macabre and the glorious violently colliding. From full-on hardcore horror, to decadently surreal nightmares, and noir-fueled psychosis, to an eerie meditation on grief, and familial quiet horror, Beautiful/Grotesque guides us through the murky waters where the monstrous and the breathtaking meet.
They are all beautiful. They are all grotesque.
The Wingspan of Severed Hands
Joe Koch
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Released 12/15/2020 - WP0009
Cover by Don Noble
Three Women, One Battle
A world gone mad. Cities abandoned. Dreams invade waking minds. An invisible threat lures those who oppose its otherworldly violence to become acolytes of a nameless cult. As a teenage girl struggles for autonomy, a female weapons director in a secret research facility develops a living neuro-cognitive device that explodes into self-awareness. Discovering their hidden emotional bonds, all three unveil a common enemy through dissonant realities that intertwine in a cosmic battle across hallucinatory dreamscapes.
Time is the winning predator, and every moment spirals deeper into the heart of the beast.
"I’m awestruck by Joe Koch’s nonstop spellbinding, almost paralyzingly inventive and yet propulsive, ultra-focused prose. The Wingspan of Severed Hands is a truly amazing find." - Dennis Cooper (The Sluts, The Marbled Swarm)
"Koch's latest novella is what might have happened if Robert W. Chambers had been a surrealist with a penchant for body horror. A strange trip to Carcosa offered in thickly evocative language, The Wingspan of Severed Hands is a highly original hallucination." - Brian Evenson (Song For the Unraveling of the World, A Collapse of Horses)
"The Wingspan of Severed Hands is a brilliant and uniquely voiced blend of body horror and Chambers-esque cosmic horror that never loses sight of its humanity. Joe Koch is a brave new voice in weird literature and horror." - Jack Zipes (Literature and Literary Theory: Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion)
Seventeen Names For Skin
Roland Blackburn
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Released 8/31/2020 - WP0008
Cover by Don Noble
After a cancer diagnosis gives her six months to live, Snow Turner does what any introverted body-piercer might: hire a dark-web assassin and take out a massive life insurance policy to benefit her ailing father. But when a vicious attack leaves her all too alive and with a polymorphic curse, the bodies begin stacking up. As the insatiable hunger and violent changes threaten to consume her, she learns that someone may still be trying to end her life. Can Snow keep her humanity intact, or will she tear everything she loves apart?
Sabbath of the Fox-Devils
Sam Richard
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Released 5/15/2020 - WP0007
Cover by Michael Bukowski
After learning about the existence of a powerful grimoire through a cartoon, 12-year-old Joe is determined to find it and change his lot in life. But in doing so, he'll also uncover a local priest's dark secret and how it may be connected to Joe's brother abruptly leaving town five years ago.Part homage to the small-creature horror films of the 80s (Ghoulies, Gremlins, The Gate) and part Splatterpunk take on a Goosebumps book, Sabbath of the Fox-Devils is a weird, diabolical coming-of-age horror story of self-liberation in an oppressive religious environment set during the Satanic Panic.
Prepare your soul to revel in the darkness.
“Sabbath of the Fox-Devils is coming-of-age gone wrong, a celebration of the Satan-soaked stories that hooked us all on horror and a satire of the people who hate them. I bet my soul you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.” - Katy Michelle Quinn (Winnie)
"It's been said good writing comes from opening a vein and bleeding on the page. Anyone who’s read Sam Richard knows his writing epitomizes this visceral process. Sabbath of the Fox Devils, both a wistful love letter to schlocky horror and a sentimental character study, is no different. It's a confidently-written, refined novella without sacrificing the rawness which made Sam's previous works so memorable. Fans of 80s horror, Scooby Doo, and punk rock will find lots to love here." - Lucas Mangum (Saint Sadist, Gods of the Dark Web)
"Light the black candles and invert the cross as Sam Richard conjures a coming-of-age story of Satanic panic, creature carnage, and blasphemous terror!" - Ryan Harding (Genital Grinder, Header 3)
The Mud Ballad
Jo Quenell
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Released 4/30/2020 - WP0006
Cover by Neal Auch & Don Noble
NEVER BE ALONE AGAIN
In a dying railroad town, a conjoined twin wallows in purgatory for the murder of his brother. A disgraced surgeon goes to desperate ends to reconnect with his lost love. When redemption comes with a dash of black magic, the two enter a world of talking corpses, flesh-eating hogs, rude mimes, and ritualistic violence.
"Jo Quenell's debut novella explores both regret and connection in the weirdest and wildest ways possible. Good times!" - Danger Slater (Impossible James, Puppet Skin)
"A whiskey-burn tale of loneliness and regret, Quenell's debut will shove your face in the slop and leave you lucky to see another awful day." - Katy Michelle Quinn (Winnie)
"A Southern Gothic folk tale steeped in black humour and the occult. If you enjoyed Geek Love, Nightmare Alley, or the works of Joe R Lansdale, you'll love the unique brand of literary madness Jo Quenell has conjured with The Mud Ballad." - Brendan Vidito (Nightmares in Ecstasy)
The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg
Edited by Sam Richard & Brendan Vidito
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Released 11/15/2019 - WP0005
Cover by Michael Bukowski
Videodrome. Scanners. The Brood. Crash. The Fly. The films of David Cronenberg have haunted and inspired generations. His name has become synonymous with the body horror subgenre and the term "Cronenbergian" has been used to describe the stark, grotesque, and elusive quality of his work. These eighteen stories bring his themes and ideas into the present, throbbing with unnatural life.
A yoga group brings transcendence and bodily transformation. A woman undergoing Gender Confirmation Surgery is subjected to outlandish techniques. A young man discovers the reality-warping potential of a bootleg horror VHS. A mother comes to terms with the monstrous appetites of her newborn child.
Being terrified is just the beginning.
Become one with us and take a deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool...
This is THE NEW FLESH.
With an Introduction by Kathe Koja and featuring stories by Brian Evenson, Sara Century, C.M. Muller, Leo X. Robertson, Max D. Stanton, Emma Alice Johnson, Cody Goodfellow, Bruno Lombardi, Katy Michelle Quinn, Jack Lothian, Mona Swan LeSueur & Fiona Maeve Geist, Madeleine Swann, Charles Austin Muir, Ryan Harding, Alex Smith, Gwendolyn Kiste, Brendan Vidito, and Sam Richard.
"Fetish technology. Pleasure technology. Sinister technology. Incomprehensible technology. Inhuman technology. Technology plus velocity, velocity plus death, death plus technology." - From the Introduction by the legendary Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher, Skin, and Under the Poppy.
Zombie Punks Fuck Off
Edited by Sam Richard
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Released 10/9/2018 - WP0004
(Co-released with CLASH Books)
Cover by Michael Bukowski
We've been hearing forever that Punk is Dead. And zombie stories are even deader. Zombie Punks Fuck Off is here to show that is bullshit. This antho is loaded with 14 stories of gnawing teeth, shredded entrails, rotting masses, punk as fuck fury, post-punk weirdness, and beautiful decay. Within these pages a touring Christian Punk band run afoul of a horde of living dead, a group of zombie-infected anarcho-punks stage a revolution in London, Hank William's far-distant great-grandson struggles against the restraints of universal fame, and guitars gently eat.
"This is my dream book, I can't believe it exists!" - Jeff Burk (Shatnerquake, The Very Ineffective Haunted House)
Neon Trash
Emma Alice Johnson
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Released 10/5/2016 - WP0003
Cover by Justin T Coons
Author and B-movie extra Emma Alice Johnson leads a raucous tour through some of the lesser-known gems of the ‘80s low budget movie boom. Get the skinny on flicks like: Neon Meltoids! Abominatrix! Rollerblade Zombies! Werewolf Beach Party! Evil Blood Night! And many more that you might have missed the first time around! Also featuring interviews with some of the wildest actors, producers and directors of all time. Roll up your sleeves, because it’s time to take out the Neon Trash!
Hybrid Moments: A Literary Tribute to the Misfits
Edited by Sam Richard & Emma Alice Johnson
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Released 9/14/2016 - WP0002
Cover by Justin T Coons
You know the songs. They’re etched into every punk’s brain. Not just because they’re catchy, but because there’s something else there. Glenn Danzig’s lyrics evoke intense imagery. Beautiful, dark, monstery imagery. There’s poetry between the whoa-oh-ohs. There are stories in those songs. They just need to be told. Now, underground fiction’s most talented fiends have created a series of tales inspired by the Misfits. In these pages, an astro zombie contemplates the life she left behind as she goes into flesh-ripping battle. A team of organ harvesters shows just how violent the world can be. A wannabe true crime reporter goes on a grisly road trip that takes him a little too close to his subject matter. A mysterious set of skulls pushes a young woman to create a collection of her very own. A teenager from mars excavates the fetid product of his earthly lust. These new twists on the songs you love are sure to surprise, startle, sicken and force you to see this timeless horror punk in a completely different light.
Blood For You: A Literary Tribute to GG Allin
Edited by Emma Alice Johnson & Sam Richard
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Released 10/9/2015 - WP0001
Cover by Justin T Coons
Think GG Allin was extreme? You don’t know the half of it.
GG Allin's exploits are legendary. The music, the shows, the violence, the bodily fluids. But GG Allin was confined to a world where he couldn't fulfill his potential. He punched and kicked at the boundaries, eager for something bigger, something crazier, something much more fucked up. But the real world refused to give him the adventures he needed.
Now, thanks to underground fiction’s most talented scumfucs, GG is cast in a series of adventures that truly befit his outlaw spirit. In these pages, GG Allin is a secret agent, engaging in cult-smashing missions in exchange for dirty sex with George and Barbara Bush. He’s a shit-eating, spaceship-piloting and time-traveling savior of humanity. He’s an orisha, called upon to save prisoners from ‘roid rage mutant guards. He’s one half of a deepfried onion ring ouroboros with his soulmate John Wayne Gacy. He’s thousands of clones living inside your giant robot body.
Get ready to see GG Allin like you’ve never seen him before!