🦇 Halloween night is here!! And with it the end of Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights💀
👻 All month we’ve been serving up our creepiest, kookiest, queer-iest titles to haunt your bookshelves. Thanks to everyone who joined us for the ride, it made this season extra fun! 📚
Halloween might be ending tonight, but you know us… the spooky energy sticks around year-round. 🎃💖
Stay weird, stay spooky, and keep your eyes peeled for what’s brewing next! 🔮🔥
🕯️🦇 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Day 24: WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE by E.M. Carroll 🦇 🕯️
Our lone traveler arrives at the Countess’ castle, determined to destroy the horror that dwells within…but nothing could prepare her for what hides within its turrets, what unfurls under its fluttering flags.
A lush, gothic fever dream, charged with eroticism that doesn’t just make your skin crawl… it crawls into it. 🕷️
Originally published by Koyama Press, this beloved classic returns in a stunning Silver Sprocket edition with a new foil-accented cover. 🌟
🕸️ Our last spooky highlight of the month! And with Halloween tomorrow, there’s no better time to light a candle, draw the curtains, and let this haunting tale sink its fangs in.
Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Day 23: Bloody Mary by Nick Winn @winnstinn 🩸
Deep House is the closest music to a heartbeat. Why wouldn’t a vampire love it? 🎶🧛
Maria’s just trying to have a normal date with her crush Evan, but when his cousin drags them into The Stake, the local vampire club, her night takes an unexpected turn. Is the night ruined, or can the irresistible beat of house music help Maria have a change of heart? ❤️🔥
Get your copy of BLOODY MARY today!! 🦇🦇
Nick will also be at CALA @comicartsla this December 13-14! Make sure to stop by and say hi!! 👋
🧟 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Day 22: INFLUENCA by Jade LFT Peters @pokoglio 📱
The apocalypse has gone viral...again. Two years ago, the apocalypse started for the seventh time, and as the number of zombies rise, so do the ranks of influencas: professional zombie hunters who post their lives online. 🤳
When Dodie and Beatriz, the accidental founders of the movement, find themselves trapped in their bunker with a horde outside, there’s only one thing left to do… take a romantic vacation. 🩸💕
So take a glimpse into a day at the end of the world and see what life looks like when the apocalypse becomes predictable. Originally published as part of the 2022 ShortBox Comics Fair, this edition includes the full comic plus a brand-new bonus story! 🤩
Get your copy today!! ✨
And make sure to swipe to the end to see Jade`s Halloween doodle Dodie and Bea!! 🗡️ 🌟
💖 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Day 21: Pinky & Pepper Forever: Special Edition by Eddy Atoms @eddyatoms 🔥
After Pinky’s lethal performance art piece, her devoted girlfriend Pepper follows her into death, only to find that in Hell, Pinky is…thriving.
A tragic love story wrapped in dark comedy, follow two puppygirls through art school and into the underworld. 😈 This special edition of the cult favorite comes with extra pages, behind-the-scenes art, and a shimmering foil cover straight from the depths. 🐶🔥
Get your copy today! 🖤 Pinky and Pepper Forever merch available on silversprocket.net
Make sure to slide to the end for some photos of Pinky from SDCC and Pinky and Pepper merch! 😍 -- Eddy will be attending: Punk Furry Mart: Oakland Secret, December 21 Further Confusion @further_confusion: San Jose Convention Center, January 16-18 Pride in Panels @prideinpanels: San Francisco Main Library, February 15
🔥😈 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Day 20: DEMONS collection by Hyena Hell @hyenahell 😈🔥
Welcome to Hell, it’s exactly as you’d imagine: violent bureaucracy, doomed romance, and demons just trying to get by. 🫠
Across four glorious volumes (NO ROMANCE IN HELL, TO EARTH AND BACK, BLOODLUST, and RISE AND GRIND) Hyena Hell serves up a brimstone-soaked satire of modern love, work, and the infernal grind. 😮💨
💔 From disastrous dating attempts with mortal men to the soul-crushing office politics of the underworld, these demons prove that even in Hell, things can always get worse.
✨ Bonus reason to celebrate: it’s the 3-year bookiversary of DEMONS: BLOODLUST! 🥳
Get your copies of all 4 books through our bundle today! 🔥
No one is more ready for halloween then Hyena! Slide to the end to check out some killer costumes! 🗡️
✨ Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Day 19: GROG THE FROG: THE BOOK OF TAURUS by Alba BG @albabbgg and Davilorium @davilorium 🐸
Meet Grog 🐸 the eternally grumpy wizard frog who always forgets the most important magic ritual of the year: the Perseids harvest. But this summer, he’s determined to get it right… unless, of course, a case of mistaken identities means that he becomes embroiled in a duel with his cosmic rival. Oops. 🤷
Between chaotic duels, flying delivery guys, weird snakes, and bald centaurs who rent cars, will Grog bring order to chaos or embrace it like the true Lord of Chaos he’s meant to be? All hail Grog! 🌀💫
Get your copy of GROG THE FROG: THE BOOK OF TAURUS today!
🎃 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Day 18: BE KIND, MY NEIGHBOR by Yugo Limbo @yugsly 🩸🧵
Welcome to Baths, USA 1973. A sleepy heartland town with a dark secret beating beneath its wholesome surface. Traveling musician Wegg rolls in, content to busk for a beat and be on his merry way once more. But when he meets Mr. Neighbor, the disarmingly sweet man made of cloth, Baths starts to look a lot more like home. 💓
Their connection hums with strange harmony, sweet, surreal, and maybe a little too perfect. But in a town haunted by ritual murders, and with both men hiding secrets of their own, love might be the most dangerous thing of all. 💀
This twisting graphic novel of queer love, deceit, and identity is 🪡 stitched together with folk horror, psychedelia, and a heaping helping of mirth.
Get your copy of BE KIND, MY NEIGHBOR today! 😈
And nothing will get you more in the halloween mood than these spooky photos of Yugo! Swipe to the end to see!🔥
Sprocket’s Double Feature Halloween Highlights Day 17 (Part 2!): Skin Deep by Flo Woolley @normallyblue ✨🎃
A queer horror romance comic that pulls you into a world where appearance and performance are paramount. 💃
Shy Mareike is used to blending into the background, until the mesmerizing lead dancer Soňa notices her. Suddenly, Mareike is drawn into the intoxicating spotlight, discovering not just the thrill of being seen, but also the hidden costs of performing perfection… 🤫
A darkly seductive story of love, identity, and the sacrifices we make for the spotlight. 💀
Get your copy today!!
And slide to the end to see Flo in costume! 🔥
--- Flo will be at London MCM @mcmcomiccon for a "Meet the story tellers" panel and signing with Rachel Faturoti @authorrachelfaturoti to talk about their book BLACK DOLLS, along with many other cool authors this Saturday, October 25th!! 🤩
Flo will also be tabling at Thought Bubble @thoughtbubblefestival this November! 💭
📞 Sprocket’s Halloween Highlights Double Feature Day 17 (Part 1): HELL PHONE Book 1 by Benji Nate @benjinate 🔥
Get ready for two amazing titles in one day!! 🎃 🥳
Sissy and Lola: Best friends. Next-door neighbors. Amateur murder solvers? 🔍
When Sissy picks up a lost flip phone and follows the eerie instructions from the stranger on the other line, she and Lola are pulled into an investigation of a grisly crime. Each new call drags them deeper into a dangerous conspiracy, one that could destroy their lives… and their friendship. 😱
Full of Benji`s signature charm, get pulled into a darkly funny story about what happens when curiosity rings. Would you answer the call? 💀
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