Antonia’s life has unraveled after surviving a brutal attack at a local queer nightclub. Plagued with insomnia, she has trouble keeping her thoughts on track, and definitely can’t focus on the brand new restaurant she and her friends recently opened in New York.
Then Antonia discovers a new street drug. The experimental and mysterious Cloud, gifted to her from an equally mysterious stranger, Antonia finds she can sleep again, and her thoughts are back on track.
Now Chef Antonia finds her life consumed by a single obsession: crafting the perfect dish. A dish purified from all the rot in the universe.
But perfection has a price—and Antonia is running out of time to pay it back.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Occasionally a debut horror release gets that early buzz that says ‘this is a book you need to read’, and Valentina Rojas has written such a debut. With fiction in Mouthfeel Fiction, Coffin Bell Journal, and Ghoulish Tales, A Feast of Putrid Delights is Rojas’ first novella. Troubling insomnia collides with culinary obsession when a young chef experiments with a new drug with nightmarish and devastating consequences. Cynthia Pelayo (Forgotten Sisters, Children of Chicago) says: “When the price of peaceful sleep is a waking nightmare, Valentina Rojas’ A Feast of Putrid Delights is a delightfully disorienting and grotesque descent into monstrosity.”
Releasing from Ghoulish Books 25 March 2025, A Feast of Putrid Delights by Valentina Rojas (with cover art by Matthew Revert) is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA