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From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice.

Fashion influencer by day and grave robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer icon unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie’s body from the medical examiner’s office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.

Now, Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.

Publisher Review

Another banger from the king of camp horror! Fabulous Bodies is Chuck Tingle flexing his prodigious powers of entertainment, and it's easily his best book yet. Tightly paced, deliciously frightening, and emotionally sweeping, this one's a masterly ride across terror and wonder. I can't wait for wherever Chuck Tingle takes me next. - Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Girl Dinner A wild, brutal romp through Hollywood's desert playground. Turning the pages felt nearly compulsive, and I'll follow Poppy Stringer wherever the dark night takes her. Gory, outrageous, and full of showmanship, this is one spectacle you don't want to miss. - CJ Leede, USA Today bestselling author of Maeve Fly and Headlights A groovy, glittery supernova of a roadtrip novel that will wrap a feather boa around your neck and garrote you ... Fabulous Bodies reeks of hairspray and is the very essence of rock n roll baby. --FanFiAddict PRAISE FOR CHUCK TINGLE Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts. A profoundly smart and emotionally resonant novel that is sprinkled with cinema magic and a brutal Hollywood reckoning. - RACHEL HARRISON, national bestselling author of Black Sheep This triumph of a book effortlessly and cleverly upends cliche. One of the best novels ever about LA, the film industry, and horror movies, it delivers all the fandom, fear, and feels, and then some. Only Chuck Tingle can tell a story as masterfully as this, and he once again proves that love is so real. - CJ LEEDE, author of Maeve Fly RIP gay clichEs! Wickedly funny and hella entertaining, this takes great pride in digging up Hollywood's skeletons and gleefully pounding them to dust. I loved every eerie, nostalgic, blood-spattered, rainbow-flag-waving page. --Josh Winning, author of Heads Will Roll We have what I'm coming to think of as the trademark Tingle style; effortless character work and world-building, a ruthlessly efficient and immediate pulp prose style that belies an impressive depth of storytelling in terms of concepts and themes, and a damn near visionary ability to speak directly to bleeding edge concerns of the cultural moment. --Ginger Nuts of Horror Tingle cements his place in horror with this gory romp...[his] vivid, visceral storytelling combines with prescient insight into the corporate dynamics that rule mainstream media. The result is smart, subtle, and a bloody good time. - Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) Tingle burst onto the traditional publishing scene with one of the best books of 2023 (Camp Damascus), but his follow-up is even better ... taking readers on a highly entertaining, fast-paced ride, filled with thought-provoking satire, original monsters, and some of the most realistic characters they will encounter on any page, all to prove that love is real and horror itself is, at its core, a celebration of life. - Booklist (STARRED review) PRAISE FOR CHUCK TINGLE Fantastic. Camp Damascus is seriously good. - Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy A genuinely terrifying nightmare - but it ain't the monsters you gotta be afraid of. Chuck Tingle is absolutely the best guide through this level of Hell. - N.K. Jemisin, New York Times bestselling author Righteous anger seethes beneath the surface in this well-wrought horror tale. --The Financial Times It's a bighearted, chilling ride that proves the author's mantra over and over: Love is, indeed, real. - Vulture This book is highly entertaining, cinematic, and filled with monsters, both human and supernatural, all of which will lure horror fans to its pages, but what holds it all together is the immense love at the heart of the novel. - Library Journal (STARRED review) A timely, authentically chilling story. - Booklist (STARRED review) Chuck Tingle continues to surprise and thrill. Camp Damascus is terrifying, darkly funny, and engagingly humane. - John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author Camp Damascus is a queer horror novel that unpacks the cruelty of conversion camps and that particular brand of religious fervor that actively harms people who are different under the guise of godliness....It is genuinely horrifying.... It is also beautiful and affirming. - Tor.com Camp Damascus feels like a fantastic debut, and a subtle reinvention, and a proper evolution, all at once....a genuinely great horror story. - BoingBoing This chilling page-turner should win Tingle a slew of new fans. - Publishers Weekly A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love. - T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of What Moves the Dead Camp Damascus is a hell of a ride. Tingle is right at home in the horror genre - he delivers all the thrills of a slasher while exploring the deep wounds that can be inflicted by broken systems. This book is worth your time. - Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home Jaw-dropping...both frightening and utterly cathartic. A queer nightmare of demonic proportions! Mark Oshiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anger is a Gift This book is for anyone who thought they were going to hell for being themselves. Chuck Tingle takes that fear and weaves it into a seamless horror that will keep you up at night, not only because it's got monsters but because we've known those monsters. And yet it still proves love is real. Camp Damascus is a big hug to all of us who had to fight to find each other. - J.R. Dawson, author of The First Bright Thing Intelligent, cleverly written, and subversive. A strong and brilliant story of identity, love, sincerity, and personal triumphs even when things get dark. - R.R. Virdi, USA Today bestselling author of The First Binding Thrilling, engrossing, surprising, and ultimately uplifting. I loved it. Tingle blends horror and sincerity and makes it look easy, producing a mystery of betrayal and righteous justice that you won't forget. - Ryan North, New York Times bestselling & Eisner-winning author Clever, scary as hell, and deeply satisfying. Love is real, and it transcends genre. - Jay Edidin, cohost of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men podcast A well-crafted and surprisingly moving novel. And certainly quite different from Tingle's previous work... - CrimeReads