New Zine Bundle, Lupus in Fabula, and Best-of-the-Year Accolades
Hey, y’all—it’s been a hot minute since I last posted here, but between then and now, I’ve relocated to the frozen northern wastes of Minnesota. (In reality, I love it here. Highly recommend moving out of Nebraska.)
I’ve got a few fun Cursed Morsels updates, the first being…
…a new zine bundle!
I’m so happy with how these zines turned out, and the themes are a wonderful little grab bag: All Cops Are B____ (in which the authors filled in the blank with a word of their choice), My Morbid Childhood (some truly fabulous nonfiction), Tech Bro Terrors (the most anti-capitalist thing we’ve published in a long time), Reviews of Reality TV Shows That Don’t Exist (get your popcorn ready), and The Nebraska to Minnesota Issue (featuring Nadia Bulkin with Nebraska ties and Joe Koch with Minnesota ties).
In addition to the 16 excellent pieces in this bundle, I’ve also included some linocuts I did to go with the stories. Take a peek at one I did below, which depicts a VR isolation chamber senior living facility and the tormented old man inside it.
If you’re interested in this rad-as-fuck zine bundle, snag yourself a physical copy here or a digital one here.
And now that you’ve ordered it, how about just one more…
Lupus in Fabula, coming this January!
Briar Ripley Page’s debut horror and Weird fiction collection is coming out soon, and reviewers are loving it. Check it out:
![“My thoughts on [Lupus in Fabula] as a whole, in short, are: it fucked [...] I preferred some stories more than others, of course, but the entire collection felt beautifully honest, it was messy both physically and emotionally, it was gritty and unabashedly raw. I absolutely recommend this, 4/5. -Mindy Rose on Goodreads](https://assets.buttondown.email/7ec87b01-eb7d-4084-ac6c-8213a04a1fe9_1600x900.png?utm_source=cursedmorsels&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new-zine-bundle-lupus-in-fabula-and "“My thoughts on [Lupus in Fabula] as a whole, in short, are: it fucked [...] I preferred some stories more than others, of course, but the entire collection felt beautifully honest, it was messy both physically and emotionally, it was gritty and unabashedly raw. I absolutely recommend this, 4/5. -Mindy Rose on Goodreads")
These stories are full of lust, violence, yearning, and grief—and clearly have provoked some intense reader reactions already. Do yourself a favor and pick one up!
If you buy from us directly, you’ll also get a free copy of the “Creature in the Bathroom” zine that Briar and I edited together, which features some brilliantly horny, sad, grotesque fiction. You can grab the paperback here and the ebook here.
Now, peeking back into The Nightmare Box…
We recently got some incredibly good news. Cynthia Gómez’s horror and dark speculative fiction collection The Nightmare Box and Other Stories wound up on two best-of-the-year lists: NPR’s and Reactor’s. This is a huge and unexpected honor. I knew Cynthia’s book was fabulous, but small press books don’t often get recognized on lists from bigger media outlets. It’s been great for helping us find more readers who love quiet dread, dark magic, and stories of working class resistance in a brutal world.
If you missed the book earlier this year, it’s not too late to snag one from us. Cynthia and I even edited a bonus Solidarity Forever zine that comes with orders of the book placed through our store. Grab the paperback here or ebook here.
Speaking of best-of-the-year lists…
I’ve been having fun making playlists recently and put together a genre-agnostic best music of 2024 one. If you’d like a little whiplash—horny and unhinged Geordie Greep one moment, tender and reflective Haley Heynderickx the next—give it a listen.
Okay, that’s all for this year! See y’all in 2025.