Gretchen Felker-Martin

Hi, I'm Gretchen Felker-Martin. I write the most disgusting books in the English language, books about sexual revulsion, about body horror, about how violence forms and fits into our lives. Thanks to your generous support I now write full-time on here and for outlets like Polygon, FanByte, and Nylon. I am deeply, overwhelmingly grateful. My work includes:<ul><li><a href="https://tornightfire.com/catalog/manhunt-gretchen-felker-martin/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Manhunt</a>, my debut novel with traditional publishing, follows two trans women attempting to survive in a world ravaged by a plague which transforms anyone with enough testosterone in their system into a shrieking monstrosity.</li><li><a href="https://gum.co/rnidm" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ego Homini Lupus</a>, my medieval body horror novel about domestic labor, suffering, and black magic.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/561344779/no-end-will-be-found-by-gretchen-felker?show_sold_out_detail=1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">No End Will Be Found</a>, my horror novella about a young woman tried for witchcraft during the Witch Trials of Wurzburg.</li><li><a href="https://gum.co/TiNWt" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Dreadnought</a>,&nbsp;a giant mecha novella about tortured teens piloting gigantic robots and trying to survive their own cataclysmic emotions.</li><li><a href="https://doctopmaru.bigcartel.com/product/skin-deep" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Skin Deep</a>, a horror comic about dysmorphia, self-loathing, and dissociation written by me and illustrated by artist Garrett Young.</li><li>The foreword to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/562508017/mirror-mirror-ii-gothic-comics-anthology?ref=shop_home_feat_1" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Mirror Mirror II</a>, a collection of Gothic porn, art, and comics with work by Clive Barker, Julia Gfrorer, Sean T. Collins, Celine Loup, Carol Swain, and others.&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://vrvblog.co/author/felker-martin/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">IN THE FLESH</a>, a Monday column on the visceral inner workings of film for the (now-discontinued) VRV blog.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://monoceros-anthology.myshopify.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">You Only Come to Girls</a>: A short story in Monoceros, an adult anthology of unicorn-themed art and fiction. Illustrated by my dear friend Julia Gfrörer.</li><li><a href="https://deathwound.com/collections/beyond-the-book-of-eibon" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">The Skin of Other Men</a>: A short story in Beyond the Book of Eibon, an anthology of horror stories inspired by the films of Lucio Fulci.</li></ul>Right now I'm working on two film columns--I Would Like to See It and In the Flesh&nbsp;--as well as my next project for Tor Nightfire, the details of which I hope to be able to share with you soon!&nbsp; I also screen between 8 and 12 movies a month for patrons at the $10 level and above in the Deadlights Theater on discord, complete with introductions and moderated discussion! See you at the movies!

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Ghoul

Pick at my ulcerous skin. 
 
1. All ghoul-tier benefits. 
 
2. A PDF of my novella NO END WILL BE FOUND. 
 
3. Original fiction.

Poltergeist

Fresh meat on the daily.
 
1. All ghoul and poltergeist-tier benefits.
 
2. Go to the movies with me! You'll get my review of everything I see in the theater (1-3 movies a month).
 
3. PDFs of NO END WILL BE FOUND and SKIN DEEP as well as all other novellas I publish as they come out.

Ghast

A banquet of maggots and muck. 
 
1. All ghoul, poltergeist, and ghast-tier benefits. 
2. PDFs of all novels and longer work. 3. Monthly horror screenings introduced and hosted by me in the Deadlights theater!

Wight

Gnaw at my sanity. 
 
1. All ghoul, poltergeist, ghast, and wight-tier benefits. 
 2. You can message me the title of a film and sooner or later I'll write about it. Please no more than once every other month.

Phantom

Suckle at my vital essence. 
 
1. All ghoul, poltergeist, ghast, wight, and phantom-tier benefits. 
2. You can ask for my eye on your work; I can't do full reviews, but I can give you feedback on a few pages at a time!

Wraith

All benefits of lower tiers, but really you just want to see my metamorphosis accelerate out of control and ineradicably reshape the face of culture into a screaming alien hellscape &lt;3

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