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 by Apocalypse Party) free for folks who wish to add them to their 2026 TransRightsReadathon. Also feel free to download and read some other time if you wish. Whatever is cool with us.
All that we ask is that if you do read them, consider leaving a review somewhere when you're finished? Tell people about what you read? Every review helps spread the word. Also we have a bunch of patreon and kofi and charity links below that we'd love for you to consider supporting, too. But first! The books...
Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror edited by Sofia Ajram
A manifestation of ecstasy, heartache, horror and suffering rendered in feverish lyrical prose. Inside are sixteen new stories by some of the genre’s most visionary queer writers. Young lovers find themselves deliriously lost in an expanding garden labyrinth. The porter of a sentient hotel is haunted within a liminal time loop. A soldier and his abusive commanding officer escape a war in the trenches but discover themselves in an even greater nightmare. Parasites chase each other across time-space in hungry desperation to never be apart. A graduate student with violent tendencies falls into step with a seemingly walking corpse. Featuring stories from Cassandra Khaw, Joe Koch, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Robbie Banfitch, August Clarke, Son M., Jonathan Louis Duckworth, M.V. Pine, Ed Kurtz, LC Von Hessen, Matteo L. Cerilli, November Rush, Meredith Rose, Charlene Adhiambo, Violet, and Thomas Kearnes.
Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror edited by Lor Gislason
Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror brings together 13 trans and non-binary writers, using horror to both explore the darkest depths of the genre and the boundaries of flesh. A disgusting good time for all! Featuring stories by Hailey Piper, Joe Koch, Bitter Karella, and others. Edited by Lor Gislason.
Cosmic Dyke Patrol by Lor Gislason
When Stevie starts seeing floating orbs, they call a spiritual pest control company for guidance. Harriett and Marcy—two queer, punk lesbians—welcome Stevie into a world of otherworldly creatures, tree people, and something called the bone spider. Equal parts slice-of-life, queer romance and body horror, Cosmic Dyke Patrol is a story about how everyone is worthy of love, no matter how weird.
Decrepit Ritual by Valkyrie Loughcrewe
Decrepit Ritual is a second-person narrative about a suicidal protagonist who has gone up into the wilds of Norway to take their own life. While there, they happen across a mysterious VHS tape that contains a bizarre film like nothing they’ve ever seen before.
The Flesh Inherent by Perry Meester
On a hot summer night, something enormous screams down from the sky and pierces into the desert not far from the small town of Farchapel. The stories that trickle back from the crater are strange indeed—those who find it and return claim to be forever changed, transformed into the better, ideal versions of themselves they’ve always wished to achieve.
Jamie, a recent mysterious visitor in town, is a man on the run, all too eager to escape his current form no matter the cost. Sidney, local drunk, would rather face a hole in the ground than the things he’s done. As the two men venture into the desert canyons in search of their better selves, they soon discover that what hides there is much more terrible—and eager to lure them in.
Familiar by Jeremy C. Shipp
Two sisters hunt down killers and collect body parts, all the while complicating their lives with volatile magics, bizarre visions, and a mysterious mouth in the wall that may or may not be altogether trustworthy.
I Believe in Mister Bones by Max Booth III
The email’s subject line reads: DO YOU BELIEVE IN MISTER BONES?
The recipient: Daniel Addams, one half of the Texas small press known as Fiendish Books, co-run with his wife Eileen.
Despite being closed for submissions, curiosity gets the best of him, and he takes a look at the anonymous author’s bizarre manuscript—only to find himself obsessed with the titular Mister Bones, a mysterious entity rumored to steal your bones as you sleep, one by one, until he’s replaced your entire skeleton with an unknown substance.
But is Mister Bones real, and has Daniel unintentionally summoned him?
Or, as Eileen suspects, has he finally cracked from stress and lost his mind?
From the writer of WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING and ABNORMAL STATISTICS comes Max Booth III’s I BELIEVE IN MISTER BONES, a harrowing exploration of indie horror publishing, internet curses, and the universal terror of the human skeleton.
Maggots Screaming! by Max Booth III
THE FAMILY THAT DECAYS TOGETHER, STAYS TOGETHER
On a hot summer weekend in San Antonio, Texas, a father and son bond after discovering three impossible corpses buried in their back yard.
We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
A family on the verge of self-destruction finds themselves isolated in their bathroom during a tornado warning.
Ghoulish Tales (issues 1-4)
A magazine of short fiction and essays. Not every contribution is written by a trans person, but a good majority of them are; additionally, the main editor is a trans woman.
You can find FREE eBooks of all of the above titles in the following Google Drive Folder (free access will be revoked on April 1st). Additionally, you can purchase physical copies of the books via our webstore or wherever else books are sold.
If you'd like to further support these authors, and also trans organizations, please continue reading:
- Trans Rights Organizations in the United States (and Beyond)
- Sofia Ajram's Author Website
- Lor Gislason's Ko-Fi
- Val Loughcrew's Patreon
- Jeremy C. Shipp's Patreon
- Max Booth's Patreon
Originally published at The Ghoulish Times.
