DITM is a series of illustrated horror anthologies showcasing BIPOC and other ethnically marginalized writers and artists from around the world!
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Winner of the 2022 Australian Shadows Awards for best Edited WorkRecommended on Locus' 2022 Recommended Reading List
I ka ‘ōlelo ke ola, i ka ‘ōlelo ka make.“There is life in the mouth and death in the mouth.”
THE BOOK
What is horror to those living in the margins?Where terror is systematized and in the very air everyone happily breathes?A misheard word.
The thud of boots.
An impossible color.
A foreign growth.DEATH IN THE MOUTH is a horror anthology showcasing BIPOC and other ethnically marginalized writers and artists from around the world. It features 26 short stories accompanied by 26 original illustrations spanning across genre and time, from real and fictive worlds, all while exploring new and unique manifestations of horror.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Jolie Toomajan - “Water Goes, Sand Remains", with art by Jabari WeathersYah Yah Scholfield - "They Will Take Up Serpents", with art by Makoto ChiIsha Karki - "Welcome to Labyrinth", with art by Natalie HallEndria Richardson - "Wind Up Teeth", with art by TsulalaJohnny Compton - "No Hungry Generations", with art by Pierre RosetArasibo Campeche - "Drowned in Mindfulness", with art by Michael DeforgeK-Ming Chang - "The Three Resurrections of my Grandfather", with art by Sloane HongReno Evangelista - "Her Apocrypha", with art by Jess HaraCatherine Yu - "Balloon Girl", with art by Joy SanDaphne Fama - "The Pleiades", with art by Alicia FengBeatrice Iker- "They'll Keep You Gestated", with art by Molly MendozaCassie Hart - "She", with art by Weiwei XuC Pam Zang - "Alice or Rose or Aurora or Allerleuirah or Belle, on the Occasion of the Burial of the Beast", with art by Charlotte GomezP. H. Low - "Tongue is a Void", with art by JaeHoon ChoiKelsea Yu - "The Obedient Son", with art by Audrey MurtyJL Akagi - "Henry Watanabe and the Wandering Hand", with art by Bhanu PratapAmaranta Sepulveda Durán - "The Mother-Wound", with art by Vivian MagañaSloane Leong - "Paradise", with art by Solomon EnosRivers Solomon - "Some of us are Grapefruit", with art by Junko MizunoRas Cutlass - "Melinda and the Grub", with art by Naomi ButterfieldR.S.A. Garcia - "A Bonfire in the Night", with art by Zhang HetianJessica Cho - "On Tattered Wings", with art by Lina WuM. L. Krishnan - "The Eggshell Sanctuary", with art by Julie BenbassatPriya Chand - "Never Lie to Me" with art by CongmingKarin Lowachee - "The Black Hole of Beaumort", with art by Allissa ChanDarcie Little Badger - "Homebody", with art by Apolo Cacho
THE CAMPAIGN
With the help of over 1200 supporters, Death in the Mouth was successfully Kickstarted in August 2021 and published October 1st 2022. Printing was handled by Bookmobile and distribution was handled by Itasca Books Distribution.
WHAT IS HORROR TO THOSE WHO LIVING IN THE MARGINS?The scrape of machete.
The shift of shivering shadows.
A rusted lock on a heavy door.
Eyes, eyes ever looking.Death in the Mouth Volume 2 brings you more strangely horrific stories and fearsome art from storytellers and illustrators all over the world. Feel the scrabble of insectoid feet at the back of your neck as new terrors burrow inside you. Allow the line of reality and fantasy to blur as the mind leaks free and the body grapples with invasion. Answer the call when unfathomable monsters beckon, luring you into mythic and dystopic nightmares alike.In this anthology co-editors Sloane Leong and Cassie Hart bring you an incredible range of illustrated short stories that celebrate the voices of those overlooked and shine a light on the terrifying and exquisite breadth of what horror can be.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Beatrice Winifred Iker - "Above the Hungriest Dead", with art by Eli MinayaAna Hurtado - "En el obscurito", with art by Daylen SeuUlises Amaya - "Love Hurts", with art
by Sloane HongYasmeen Amro - "Vagusland", with art by Azam RaharjoJay Kang Romanus - "A Rising Tide Brings Sirens to the Shore", with art by WufLucy Zhang - "Root Rupture", with art by Sajan RaiJ. L. Jones - "The Place in the Fire", with art by Max BansheesAlexander Atreya - "Till Death", with art by Charis LokePriya Chand - "The Whispering Tongues" with art by Mateus RobertsNadia Bulkin - "Bring Your Own Bombs", with art by Jenna ChaEmily Y. Teng – "Persistence", with art by Leslé LieuXavier Garcia - "An Ode to the Minor Arcana in a Triplet Flow", with art by Cho-Hyun KimCassiopeia Gatmaitan - "Maiden, Monster, Muse", with art by Xinyue ChenJ.A.W. McCarthy - "Yellow Girls", with art by Julie BenbassatR. Diego Martinez - "A Jaguar in the Light of the Sixth Sun", with art by Mel TowPyper Haarala - "Body", with art by Alicia FengRadha Kai Zan - "On Lonely Hearts Beasts Do Feast", with art by Orin NoelK-Ming Chang - "The Three Fates", with art by Lina WuSamuel Marzioli - "From Dust We Came", with art by Malachi LilyAlexandra 'Sascha' Stronach - "The Sunken Ones", with art by RiotbonesM.H. Cheung - "Rebuild Me Out Of The Thing You Call Your Soul", with art by Bolzano
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The Editors
Sloane Leong is a cartoonist, artist, writer and editor of Hawaiian, Chinese, Mexican, Choctaw and European ancestries. She’s written and drawn two acclaimed graphic novels, Prism Stalker and A Map to the Sun, and has short fiction credits with Fireside Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, Analog SF, and co-edited the anthology Cautionary Fables and Fairy Tales: Oceania Edition. Sloane is currently living on Chinook land near what is known as Portland, Oregon.You can find more of her work at https://sloanesloane.comCassie Hart is a Māori/Pākehā author and editor from New Zealand. She has been an Australian Shadow, Hugo, and Sir Julius Vogel award finalist across the years, co-winning an SJV for Best Collected works for the anthology, Tales for Canterbury, and is a finalist for Best Edited Works in the Australian Shadow Awards 2021. Her supernatural suspense novel, Butcherbird, releases from Huia in 2021.You can find more of her work at https://www.cassiehart.nz