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2026-09-09
Wondered what the Chris ! designed stickers included in the Subscription Boxes (or solo in Sticker Club) look like?
We tried to photograph them all… and had a really hard time! After years of dropping two new ones every month, the collection has gotten quite vast. We have ghosts (of course) and cats, bats and raccoons, grim reapers both tough and flirty, bootylicious cryptids, and more!
What will Chris drop for the next round of new stickers? Truly, we never know. And often… neither does he until the mood strikes and that pen starts moving. But all of our sketchbooks and water bottles are better for it.
Support your local art ghost!
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2026-09-08
🚨 NEW BOOKS 🚨
KISS, SLAY, REPLAY Rachel Harrison
Time loops meet breakup recovery in this gory fun romp from one of our favourite authors. Live the day of your friend’s wedding where you’ll have to see your ex-fiancée again and again… but make it a different horror movie every time. 👀 🔪 👽 🐦⬛ 🩸
THE SUNKEN, THE ADORED - Donyae Coles
In Venice, Italy in the 1800s, a newly freed slave finds new pleasure in the home of a British Contessa. But something dreadful stalks the canals… is she the danger that haunts her new life?
THE EYE OF GOLIATH - Diego Muzzio
In an old sanitarium on the outskirts of Edinburgh, experimental therapies are used to treat WWI patients. However, when an engineer and lighthouse inspector is admitted with the uncontrollable urge to swim (even on dry land), he and is diary will challenge the sanity of the doctor working there…
MOTHERSUCKER - Kim Bohyun
A serial killer in Seoul is killing abusive men, leaving them drained of blood and no murder weapons, footprints, or leads have been found. Meanwhile, women with haunted pasts begun to dream of vengeance. A tale of violence, vampires, and the meaning of justice.
MY MONSTERS AIN’T LIKE YOURS Rhonda Jackson Garcia
A collection of stories of personal monsters, vivid nightmares, and ultimately the way all of our fears are interconnected. 25 tales of black intersectional horror at its rawest.
Which books are landing on your fall TBR?
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2026-09-07
Time is running out to sign up for Jason ‘s SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP!
In this 6 week course (once a week for five weeks, with one week break), Toronto’s own Jason Krawczyk will host a workshop for participants to craft their very own horror short screenplay. A hands-on class that develops screenwriting skills such as formatting, pitching, editing, story structure, and world building by utilizing the host’s real-world experience, short film examples, visual aids, and class participation. The last session will integrate a table read of everyone’s screenplay with an open and respectful discussion between peers. This workshop is friendly to writers of all experience levels!
Week 1 (Sept. 9th): Introduction and screenplay formatting.
Week 2 (Sept. 16th): Developing an idea. Three-Act Structure.
Week 3 (Sept. 23rd): Aesthetics, and World Building.
Week 4 (Sept. 30th): Pitching & Loglines.
*** Week 5 (Oct. 7th): BREAK/ NO PHYSICAL CLASS- finish up your scripts before final class...***
Week 6 (Oct 14th): Table Read
Only 5 spaces left! Don’t miss out on your opportunity to join a great class and leave scary season with your very own short film script. We are very pleased to announce that one of our screenwriting class alumni has a short in Little Ghosts Fest! Short Film block! Will yours be in the festival in 2027? 👀🖤👻🎥🍿🏳️🌈
Sign up for the class through the EVENTS tab on the website.
2026-09-06
Q***r Fears Book Club is reading SMOKE SEASON Word Horde Carrie Laben !
Twenty-something Justin Erasmus doesn’t know how he ended up in the mountains of Missoula, Montana on a commune with Adrian, his hookup from the other night. What he does know is that Adrian might help him find his estranged sister, Helen, since he and the other members of the group are devoted followers of her from afar, by way of her podcast and certain mysterious other communications. Justin himself only has hazy memories of Helen from when they were kids; he remembers her locked in a dog cage in his family’s living room and how, as though she were made of smoke, she reached her arms out to him through the bars before being sent away. A voice is telling him he needs to find her again.
But as his feelings for Adrian grow and the commune starts to feel more like home, Justin discovers he’s not the only person trying to find Helen. A shadowy government organization called The Aversion Project with a mysterious magic of their own are bent on eradicating Helen: her magic, her free thinking, her free-love community and free-living movement in favor of a more rigid, orderly, heteronormative world–and soon they’re knocking on their door... and invading their dreams. If Justin is going to find his sister and remain with his beloved new community, he’ll first have to deal with the ominous figures haunting his sister and found family.
Join us Friday September 25th for snacks and chats about this great novel!
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2026-09-04
The Classic Little Ghosts Crew Neck is BACK!
That’s right, ghosts. Stocked up for the first time since 2024, this cozy sweater features our storefront so you can rep the bookshop everywhere you go. Feel that little snap in the air in the early mornings? That’s a sign of our SEASON! Size S - ###L on the shelves and online.
Even more chilly weather merch coming soon, and that means we are slinging our LAST bandanas and NO GODS NO BILLIONAIRES tank tops, so get them before cozy season begins in earnest.
Happy September, Little Ghosts!
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2026-09-02
Little Ghosts-
VINCENT WAS STOLEN!!
While we wish this was a joke or some kind of prank, a bandit came in today and stole one of our beloved sheet ghosts and took off down the street. We encourage the peaceful return of the ghosts Chris lovingly stitched himself at the start of our bookshop’s life.
So much of our store is made by hand, and it is a complete betrayal of our community space to commit any act of theft, but ESPECIALLY when it is an irreplaceable item. If this is in fact some kind of joke, we implore the thief to rethink it- we don’t find it funny.
If you see Vincent, his safe return is of deep importance to us.
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2026-09-02
For September Book Club, Little Ghosts are reading YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN 🪱 Andrew Joseph White 🔪
Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. It’s an offer that none refuse.
Crane is grateful. Among his hive’s followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won’t destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnant—and the hive demands the child’s birth, no matter the cost—Crane’s desperation to make it stop will drive the community that saved him into a devastating spiral that can only end in blood.
Join us for chats and snacks about this great q***r novel.
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2026-08-29
Let’s celebrate some Q***r Horror, shall we?!
Come by tonight and meet Max Turner, author of The Child of Hameln & Queeird: An Anthology of Unusual Trans Masculine Erotica!
THE CHILD OF HAMELN
Elk Pass is a town cloaked in darkness and plagued by an unknown evil, where twenty years earlier all but one of the town’s children were stolen. That remaining child, now the deputy sheriff, is left to unravel corruption and cover up when his mentor, the town sheriff, dies unexpectedly. The mystery unfolds as a snow storm blows in, threatening to isolate the town, leaving Deputy Bobby Taylor to deal with a plague of rats and the monsters, both human and fae, that follow.
QUEEIRD
Androids and aliens, werewolves and vampires, furries and... tentacles?
This is a collection of unusual, and at times monstrous, erotica ranging from the ridiculous to the romantic: expect kinks, quirks and tropes.
All fourteen erotic short stories feature trans masculine main characters, with a variety of cis, non-binary, trans female and trans male lovers.
Get your signed copies tonight!
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2026-08-28
Hey Little Ghosts Pals!
A message from your smoll bookshop Dad due to a large influx of stock request emails from indie authors:
When you generate an AI book cover you make the ghosts sad!
We know that money is tight and you are doing your best to wear all of the hats, and we do our best to support indie horror authors at all stages of their careers.
HOWEVER
Little Ghosts Books has a strict anti-AI policy. We will not accept or purchase any written or visual art created using AI. We’re a community of writers, filmmakers, and artists ourselves- AI use has damaged the economy and solidarity of the arts, creating the circulation of free stolen assets and devaluing the labour and creativity of working artists across all mediums. We can’t buy or host AI generated content, including books with AI generated covers.
This extends to everything Little Ghosts does in house! The Little Ghost pictured here draws our stickers, does book layout, screen prints merch, and regularly gets them hands dirty. The photos for this caption brought to you by the fact that the social media ghost is on vacation- so they aren’t as nice as they could be and were taken with the iPad camera timer.
S**t is imperfect, but it is in that mess that we make meaning. AI tech has its place, but we believe that place is NOT in the arts. If you are looking for an artist for your cover, I encourage you to reach out to us or other writing communities. There will be a real person happy to help give you the cover of your dreams, nightmares, hallucinations…
Stay scary (but not scary as in stealing the work of other artists, okay?)
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