Susan Snyder
Susan Snyder
2023-10-18
This store holds a treasure of horror books from non-fiction to children’s books to extreme horror. The owners are absolutely wonderful and welcoming. They have special events as well! You have to check them out!
Cynthia Pelayo
Cynthia Pelayo
2023-10-17
Very cool place! Great owner. Great books. They are super nice and knowledgeable. It’s very family friendly here. Just fair warning, The owner likes to dress like his dog. So, you may see him dressed in a dog suit from time to time,
Caleb Carroll
Caleb Carroll
2023-10-17
Some pretty professional ghouls in this joint. If you don't have the pleasure of stopping in physically they have a great online store!
Leslie Johnson
Leslie Johnson
2023-10-11
The staff are helpful and welcoming. Max, the owner is awesome (he is a horror author too)!! They have horror books that you won't find in other retail bookstores and a few signed copies. They carry spooky books for YA, middle, and kids too. This is my favorite bookstore!! 🤓🖤
Andrew Hilbert
Andrew Hilbert
2023-10-08
Great shop run by friendly people. My church is in the same lot and if I have any money left over from my offering to Jesus, I offer it to Satan right after. Update: it's still great especially the packed house for ghouls night out
Autumn rose
Autumn rose
2023-09-13
Probably the best bookstore I've ever been to. Found tons of great horror you'd never find in a mainstream bookshop, was absolutely THRILLED to find this place, always happy to find local bookstores in general but a horror focused one is just a dream come true.
Selena velazquez
Selena velazquez
2023-09-03
Went to visit this bookstore that I heard was amazingly spooky with a friendly atmosphere. It a nice cozy bookstore with tons of Horror books and one of them catching my eye immediately! The staff there was very nice and welcoming. They even hold A scary movie night at the end of each month and they offer free book marks to have. This is a win win in my books!
Zach Chapman
Zach Chapman
2023-08-29
Has all your spooky book needs! Great collection of horror comics, horror kids books and paperbacks from hell!
Andy Dominguez
Andy Dominguez
2023-06-20
This place is awesome!

Like Real

$5.99$16.95

A GHOULISH BOOKS PUBLICATION

ISBN: 978-1-943720-82-8

Author: Shelly Lyons

Cover Artist: Luke Spooner

Publication Date: February 14, 2023

“A hilarious bizarroid science fiction horror thriller, with great vivid characters, crackling first-rate dialogue, nonstop momentum and unguessable plot twists galore. Rarely does a book make me laugh out loud this often, while keeping me engaged in the delirious drama unfolding.”

—John Skipp, Wonderland Award winning author of Don’t Push the Button

In Shelly Lyons’s debut novel, Like Real, Vic Moss—kenjutsu hobbyist and clueless Lothario—lets vanity dictate his decision to acquire an experimental new-tech prosthesis that promises to evolve into a seamless, realistic looking hand. Instead, it tears from his body, transforms into his clone, and pursues a relationship with the same woman Vic has in his crosshairs—forcing Vic to kill or be replaced.

This mind-bending body horror rom-com is a rollicking Cronenbergian gene splice of Idle Hands and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. It’s freaky. It’s fun. It’s LIKE REAL.

“Cyborgs, self-improvement, and the horrors of the LA dating scene collide in Like Real. A side-splitting, ass-kicking, and oddly tear-jerking good time.”

—Brian Asman, author of Man, Fuck This House


ABOUT SHELLY LYONS

Shelly is a nice lady from Los Angeles who considers herself a real LA townie. Her favorite TV movies are The Initiation of Sara, Mansquito, Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon, and Lifetime’s Killer Under the Bed, the best movie about evil sentient dolls.

As an entertainment journalist, she interviewed Roger Corman and once angered Burt Reynolds by asking what he learned about directing from Paul Thomas Anderson. Now she knows Reynolds directed at least nine movies, and wishes to apologize to him, wherever he is.

She wrote screenplays for unsavory characters and marketing copy for a big search engine before reinventing herself as a narrative prose writer. Perhaps you’ve seen her short stories in anthologies or on her site, shellylyons.com.

If you wish to meet Shelly in her natural habitat, you might find her skulking through various Los Angeles neighborhoods in search of a Little Free Library or standing in line for a double feature at The New Bev.

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