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publisher, editor, & bookseller at ghoulish books, a small press & bookstore in san antonio, tx novelist, screenwriter, playwright nonbinary dirtbag (they/them) fuckmaxbooth.com

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 20d

okay send @garbagesauce.bsky.social and me some deranged shit

Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 20d

Ghoulish Tales has reopened submissions until October 17, 2025. Nothing longer than 5k words. Payment is 10c per word. Full guidelines here: ghoulish.rip/ghoulish-tal...

the first four issues of ghoulish tales on a spinner rack

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 9h

Ok pick up the phone

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 21h

"It’s often said that horror and comedy blend well together, and that’s because they both thrive off punchlines."

www.talesfromthebooth.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Horror Punchline

This won’t be the first article written about the intersection of horror and comedy. But it will probably be the last.

www.talesfromthebooth.com

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Cold🪦Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 16h

if ur ever lonely just remember that love is all around us. love has us fully surrounded and is demanding we come out with our hands up. love has opened fire and there are multiple reported fatalities

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16h

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 17h

yesss

max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 17h

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madeline @mads.haus · 17h

horror, porn, and comedy - all intersected. when you can do 'em all at once magic happens.

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 18h

getting called "mister max" by publicists on the phone makes me wish i could do that freddy krueger mouth thing and vomit directly down the caller's throat

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 18h

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Grunkle Harm @harmcox.bsky.social · 1d

pov: every artist and writer you know realizing that social media is collapsing into a bog of rich arrogant dumb-dumbs, leaving us the option of continuing to exploit ourselves on the extremely off-chance we go "viral" OR opting out and resigning ourselves to regional lit mag poverty and obscurity

sally in the back of the truck at the end of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. a bloody woman laughing and screaming at the same time. sally never had to learn how discord works, so who is the victim here exactly?

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 19h

works every time

Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 19h

when people attempt to have speakerphone conversations in the bookshop that's our cue to blare the volume on the store music

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 19h

great job

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Claire 'Val Loughcrew' [Unknown] @goresorcerer.bsky.social · Jul 27

breakfast doodle

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1weirddogmom.bsky.social @1weirddogmom.bsky.social · 3d

Banned books week starts tomorrow. 💙📚

I received a sticker for supporting their move…now with more merch!

Sticker reads: Banning books only makes us scarier. Ghoulish.rip

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 20h

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 3d

BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKES US SCARIER. T-shirts, tanks, and bags available to pre-order throughout October only. Get yours reserved here: ghoulish.rip/product-cate...

a graphic advertising t shirts tanks and tote bags with luke spooner's commissioned art for our BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKES US SCARIER quote

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 20h

Chalkboard sign that’s says BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKES US SCARIER

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 21h

"It’s often said that horror and comedy blend well together, and that’s because they both thrive off punchlines."

www.talesfromthebooth.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Horror Punchline

This won’t be the first article written about the intersection of horror and comedy. But it will probably be the last.

www.talesfromthebooth.com

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

sharing this again now that my website host fixed an error with linking to bluesky. I RETURNED TO BLOGGING. READ MY BLOG. thank you i love you. www.talesfromthebooth.com/2025/10/06/g...

Get in, loser. We’re going blogging.

Return of the blog.

www.talesfromthebooth.com

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 22h

Pls don’t

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

They should let you jerk off when you’re in the electric chair. One final god-tier ejaculation as your body is overwhelmed with enough juice to kill a great beast. It would make capital punishment almost worth it

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

No they gotta wait until they get home. This isn’t about them

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 24d

As it happens I wrote a whole thing about the small press horror fiction of @goresorcerer.bsky.social not too long ago.

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

I would never dream of telling you what to do

max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

sharing this again now that my website host fixed an error with linking to bluesky. I RETURNED TO BLOGGING. READ MY BLOG. thank you i love you. www.talesfromthebooth.com/2025/10/06/g...

Get in, loser. We’re going blogging.

Return of the blog.

www.talesfromthebooth.com

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

😭