Apocalypse Party

@apocalypseparty.bsky.social

A heavy metal acid trip via literature. Publishing books for the end of the world. apocalypse-party.com/books

Thrilled to announce David Peak’s XLR8, a horror novel in which a family moves to the suburbs to escape scrutiny surrounding a violent incident, only to befriend a group of heavily armed preppers who seem welcoming at first but may actually be part of a dangerous doomsday cult.

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The gates are opening again. Apocalypse Party is accepting submissions and pitches, with reading beginning at the end of March. We’ll be choosing only a handful of manuscripts, so send us the work you believe in most. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to send us your work, this is it.

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Emma E. Murray writes some of the bleakest, most vicious and unpleasant contemporary transgressive horror fiction I’ve read. This novel is exceptional and I highly recommend you put this on your radar for August 2025. Also that title is 🔥🤩❤️

Title page for SHOOT ME IN THE FACE ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY by Emma E. Murray

Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of people advising against engaging with dark or bleak art when you’re in a bad mental space, but all I can think about is how that kind of art has saved me from my worst impulses during my lowest points.

I don't think some of these authors are necessarily lesser known, but: Simon Kurt Unsworth, Lisa Tuttle, Elizabeth Engstrom, Robert Aickman, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Michael Shea, Karl Edward Wagner, T.E.D. Klein, Orrin Grey, Jeffrey Ford, Michael Wehunt, Attila Veres, Hailey Piper, B.R. Yeager...

Clay McLeod Chapman@claymcleod.bsky.social · 2y ago

Who is an author you'll proselytize over? A lesser-known writer who you feel you need to spread the word on to make converts out of other readers?