BOOKS

Thorngale

By bestselling horror author Phoenix Mendoza: In their neglected, decaying family estate on the cliffs of the northern Cornish coast, two Anglo-Catholic brothers grow up in parasitic isolation during a time marked by the decay of English nobility. The elder, Alexander, is equal parts devout and sadistic, lording over Francis, the younger, as his tormentor and God. Oscillating between dreamlike fragments from their insular childhood to their final, sharp descent to madness in 1928, Thorngale is a chilling gothic horror tale of obsessive love and fatal devotion, written with the cutting, claustrophobic spiral of an ever tightening concertina wire.

Thorngale will be released with a custom 44 card oracle deck consisting of Phoenix Mendoza’s original art, as well as an accompanying booklet.

Yellow Wallpapering

“I’ve realized that going totally fucking insane is a completely rational outcome for an intelligent woman in society”— Michelle Tea

“Almost every woman I have ever met has a secret belief that she is just on the edge of madness, that there is some deep, crazy part within her, that she must be on guard constantly against ‘losing control’ — of her temper, of her appetite, of her sexuality, of her feelings, of her ambition, of her secret fantasies, of her mind.”
― Elana Dykewomon,

In this scathing feminist horror collection, readers will encounter ten short stories featuring ten different women with ten distinct manifestations of madness. Blending sci-fi, speculative fiction, and the achingly mundane, Phoenix Mendoza explores what it means to be a woman teetering on the edge of sanity in a society built to make us lose our minds.

Watch two childhood best friends develop a dangerous sex game inspired by their fathers' suicides. Accompany Kyrie as she visits her grandparents home where she skinned her very first deer. Spend several delirious, hallucinatory nights with Carolyn at the train station she haunts whenever she cannot sleep. Dress a mannequin who might not be a mannequin at all. Let these madwomen invite you, one by one, into the moment their complex interior worlds.

Let them function as a mirror, a reflection of the self and society.

Salivation

A group of teenagers meet God at an abandoned amusement park. An immortal, child-eating monster grows too close to his prey. A clandestine tryst in a Chuck-E-Cheese ball pit takes a turn for the revolting. A grieving man sets out in dogged pursuit of the artist he blames for his fiancé’s suicide. These ghosts and more reside in this electric debut short story collection by Phoenix Mendoza. This anthology’s aim is to explore the profound union between hunger and loneliness, told in a series of voyeuristic meditations on human longing. All at once sincere and absurd, tender and disgusting, hilarious and heat-twisting, Salivation is an unapologetic foray into the lengths we go to in order to seek even the pantomime of connection.