“With this collection of novellas, Bulkin spins timely and politically charged weird fiction with her own personal touch.”
Cop Car
A psychic fixer for the government finds her true psychopathic calling.
Your Next Best American Girl
Paranoia consumes a beauty pageant contestant when she succumbs to a mysterious skin ailment that’s begins to eat holes in her body.
Red Skies in the Morning
Paracontagions infect viewers of certain cursed media, something the government is frantic to take control of.
… a sensory overload of power, belief, and horrifying transformation.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Nadia Bulkin’s contributions to horror and weird fiction are already the stuff of legend. The author of the short-story collection She Said Destroy, Bulkin’s fiction has graced the pages of such publications and anthologies as Ashes and Entropy, Nightmare Magazine, Bound in Blood: Stories of Cursed Books, Aickman’s Heirs, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors, Tales from a Talking Board, The Dark, Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora, The Years Best Horror, and The Years Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, among others, and has edited such anthologies as Why Didn’t You Just Leave (with Julia Rios). With this collection of novellas, Bulkin spins timely and politically charged weird fiction with her own personal touch. John Langan (The Fisherman) says: “Nadia Bulkin writes prose like a scalpel, deftly slicing to the beating hearts of her characters and the dilemmas they confront., Simon Strantzas (Burnt Black Suns) says: “Nadia Bulkin’s writing is beautiful, exciting, and a stellar contribution to the field of fantastic literature.”, and Laird Barron (Not a Speck of Light) says “Nadia Bulkin is required reading.”
Releasing from Ghoulish Books 16 September 2025, Issues With Authority by Nadia Bulkin is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
