Trans Rites: An Anthology of Genderfucked Horror

By V.F. Thompson

The Dionysian Public Library is thrilled (and chilled) to present our first anthology, Trans Rites: An Anthology of Genderfucked Horror, for publication in print and digital. This collection features a bazaar of eleven bizarre tales of transition and transformation, beastliness and becoming: A bloody rebirth in the woods. A deadly game of consumption and corruption. A scientist putting the pieces of himself together. A patient becoming more and more like the china dolls she admires. A room with no exit except oblivion. A museum in a town renowned for its cryptids. These terrors and more await within.

To embody transness is to change shape, to become something else. The theorist Judith Butler refers to the construction of gender as a process of ritual and naturalization. Hear our screams, our howls, our primal gibbering, our moonlight dances and our bleeding guts.

This collection features the following stories, as well as lyrics and poetry from folk musician Skeleton Drive (Dillon Rae Oliver)

Birthday Suit by Lennox RexFresh Meat by Thea MaeveDeath Taught Me How to Live by Alicia HiltonSeen by Ju CollinsThe Moss Witch of the Cascade Mountains by Mave GorenWolformation by Michelle Jacklyn MillerFly by Madeleine VarleyFigs for Thistles by E. B. NovettiBleed For Your Wishes by R.S. SahaFrozen Charlotte by Mildred FaintlyDr. Frankenstein Dabbles in Self-Discovery by C.C. Rayne

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0982648642
• ISBN13: 9780982648643
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Dionysian Public Library
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"