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Meatship
Captain Evangeline Coarse is halfway through her journey home from war when her ship loses power and she’s left floating in the dark. Now, she must find a way to survive not only the cold loneliness of space, but also the maddening stink of one hundred thousand war-corpses in the hold.
Meatship by Sam Rebelein, featuring art by Chris Panatier. Limited to 250 numbered copies.
Meatship by Sam Rebelein, featuring art by Chris Panatier. Limited to 250 numbered copies.
33 pages, Paperback
Published June 2, 2025
About the author
Sam Rebelein
23 books276 followersSam Rebelein writes (and teaches writing) in Poughkeepsie, NY. His short fiction has appeared in PseudoPod, The Deadlands, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. His debut novel EDENVILLE was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, and won a Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel. Sam's recent collection of interconnected short fiction, THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS, is set in the same fictional world as EDENVILLE; GALLOWAY'S GOSPEL (Sep 2025) is set in the same world as well.
For more about Sam's work, and pictures of his scruffy pooch Frodo, follow him on Instagram @rebelsam94.
For more about Sam's work, and pictures of his scruffy pooch Frodo, follow him on Instagram @rebelsam94.
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April 1, 2026
First, this is not a new to me author I love Sam's other stuff, so I saw this and the cool pint glass that you could buy and said yup, I need some fucked up space horror, it's been too long since I read something that had me absolutely gripped like Dead Moon by Peter Clines but this, it's up there.
Deep in space, floating in the dark, with corpses, absolutely the nightmare it sounds like.
I keep thinking about the rott smell from a refrigerator that's lost power and that's pretty bad, but 13 days of no power and tons of dead bodies, I am absolutely gagging. And you're thinking what like 12 bodies maybe, no hundred thousand, good lawd.
Sam wrote this so well, I swear I caught myself snarling my nose reading Captain Evangeline's thoughts as she was stuck in this hell meatlocker. How did she get to this point??
Ps, fuck her dad for sure.
I am going to be super honest here, the way they talk about the wall of stink, I was starting to want to try heave thinking please let's not go in there, just, anything else.
The way things spiraled after, no spoilers, that horror I was not prepared for holy crap.
Meatship, it's more of a nightmare than I could have dreamed of..
All I can say is by the end, what did I just read, in the best way possible.
Deep in space, floating in the dark, with corpses, absolutely the nightmare it sounds like.
I keep thinking about the rott smell from a refrigerator that's lost power and that's pretty bad, but 13 days of no power and tons of dead bodies, I am absolutely gagging. And you're thinking what like 12 bodies maybe, no hundred thousand, good lawd.
Sam wrote this so well, I swear I caught myself snarling my nose reading Captain Evangeline's thoughts as she was stuck in this hell meatlocker. How did she get to this point??
Ps, fuck her dad for sure.
I am going to be super honest here, the way they talk about the wall of stink, I was starting to want to try heave thinking please let's not go in there, just, anything else.
The way things spiraled after, no spoilers, that horror I was not prepared for holy crap.
Meatship, it's more of a nightmare than I could have dreamed of..
All I can say is by the end, what did I just read, in the best way possible.
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