Ri Stypula

// SQUELCH!

Car wrecks. Dogs. Crowds. Birds. Their therapist. Worms. Most recently worms. All of these are things Cade is afraid of, the last of which has become uncomfortably present in their life.

Cade is unemployed, agoraphobic, and morbidly obsessed with the high number of suicides occurRing around their apartment.

Thrown onto a path of unsettling discovery, loss, and the realization that their reality is not what it seems, Cade must find a way to cope with this shifting paradigm or risk losing their mind entirely.

What starts as a simple curiosity into the suicide of yet another neighbor, leads Cade to the troubling insight into what lives beneath their skin while their reality crumbles around them.

A dark background with blue smoke forming the shape of a hand and the words 'Ri Stypula' at the top. The text below is stylized and is the title of the book "Squelch!"

Available September 21st 2026 // Paperback 266pp

// ISBN: 9798295780042

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"Ri Stypula's Squelch! is a book for enjoyers of worms, gore, anxious narrators, multiple unpleasant realities, brutal sudden deaths, and holes. Dry and deft in its execution, it is not a story for the squeamish." — Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Invaginies

"A story that’s equally hallucinatory and absurd, Squelch! does what body horror does best—explores the cross section of identity on both the macro and micro scales. Squelch! is sure to squirm into every pore, orifice, and the recesses of your brain." — Michael Bettendorf, author of TRVE CVLT

“Disgusting and weird as all hell, as quality literature should be!” — Bitter Karella, author of Moonflow

“As thought-provoking as it is disgusting, Squelch! starts with someone jumping off a building and doesn’t let off the horror throttle even once. Ri Stypula should be arrested for this one.” — Michael Boulerice, author of Inhalation and Feeding the Wheel

“A shocking, stomach churning, and beautifully nasty tale. Squelch! Will infect you with its offbeat brand of intrigue, and eat away at your psyche from the inside. Stypula proves they’re a promising new voice in queer horror we should all keep an eye on.” — Eve Harms, author of Transmuted

"Deviant and squirming with such visceral, stomach-churning intensity, Squelch! is a complex, uncompromising, and irreverent vision of utter filth and depravity." —Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke