From Beehive Books: 💀 LIVE NOW: DEATH IS A ROOM on Kickstarter! 💀

KICKSTARTER LAUNCH! Horror begins at home. Our new Illuminated Edition, DEATH IS A ROOM: Domestic Nightmares by Women Writers, an anthology of horror tales with illustrations by Julie Doucet and an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado, is live and available for preorder! Vintage tales of horror and suspense about homes and houses, inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman's THE YELLOW WALLPAPER. RESERVE YOUR COPY NOW! Nine women. Nine houses. A century of domestic gothic horror from Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Kate Chopin, Susan Glaspell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Frances Hodgson Burnett and more — illustrated in blood-black linocut by Julie Doucet, who co-curated the selection of tales. In the nineteenth century, women began making their voices heard through the short story and the novel — and the ghost story gave them cover. A woman losing her mind in an upstairs bedroom was just a nervous case, a shiver before bed — editors could print that. Gilman wrote THE YELLOW WALLPAPER after a physician ordered her to rest and stop writing; for eighty years, it was read as a well-made chiller, but Gilman said it was a warning. Shirley Jackson's Hill House, Du Maurier's Manderley, Morrison's 124 Bluestone Road — they all live downstream of these rooms. So we didn't just bind a book — we built a home. A boarding house full of stories. Remove the slipcase to see the turmoil behind the charming window boxes. A mind unraveling under doctor's orders. A murder weapon hidden in a sewing box. A heart that stops like a clock. Julie Doucet has spent forty years drawing crowded rooms and bodies that won't stay contained, from DIRTY PLOTTE to TIME ZONE J, which brought her back to publishing after two decades and earned her Angoulême's Grand Prix — only the third woman to receive it. Beehive will publish DEATH IS A ROOM in three exquisite oversized editions, including a lettered edition in a clamshell solander case with laser-cut plates, and featuring a piece of original artwork, limited to just twenty-six copies. The book is illustrated, designed, laid out and ready for the presses. If you'd like to pre-order on our site to reserve your copy but also want to participate in the Kickstarter, you can pledge $1 when we go live, and we'll refund the buck to you at the end of the campaign. So please. Come inside. Don't mind the yellow wallpaper. Join us in the Room... And as always, we thank you for your support, without which we could not reanimate classic tales and publish beautiful books like this. Julie Doucet is one of our favorite artists and authors, and we've been dreaming and working on this with her for years. Here's to hauntings and houseguests, Yours, Bees Beehive Books · 4440 Ludlow Street, Philadelphia PA 19104, United States © 2026 Beehive Books