Bitter Karella is a genderfluid transvestite goblin, author of Moonflow, The Ballad of Horse Girl, and the upcoming Quaint Folk. She is the creator of the three time Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account
@Midnight_Pals which asks what if all your favorite horror writers were to gather around the campfire and tell scary stories like in the classic Nickelodeon series “
Are You Afraid of the Dark?” @Midnight Pals has had
three successfully crowdfunded collections and was adapted into an
audio podcast.
Karella writes
gonzo psycho-sexual body horror with a grotesquely humorous edge. His short story “
Low Tide Jenny,” originally published in
Seize the Press magazine, was a winner of the
Brave New Weird award for best new weird fiction of 2022 by Tenebrous Press. Her work has also appeared in Bag of Bones’ “
Step into the Light,” Tenebrous Press’ “
Your Body is Not Your Body,” Ghoulish Books’ “
Bound in Flesh,” and From Beyond Press’ “
This World Belongs to Us.” He’s the co-host of the podcast “
A Special Presentation, or Alf Will Not be Seen Tonight” about comic strips adapted into TV specials.
Karella lives with their partner, three cats, and a tarantula. When not writing, he also dabbles in
text game design.
Karella is represented by
John Baker and
Julie Gourinchas.
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