A little shout out for Ashe Woodward’s gothic novella A Cemetery for Zooey, where a grave-digging Beast battles burnout, burials, and a rising epidemic of monsters.
What do a crypt full of corpses, a freshly dead heiress, and your emotionally unavailable boss have in common? Probably more than you’d like to admit. In this episode, we’re digging deep—literally and emotionally—into A Cemetery for Zooey by Ashe Woodward, a novella that blends dark humor, pandemic panic, and personal transformation into one compact gothic package.
Zooey is a Beast who works as a grave-digger. Her coworkers are ghouls, her boss is a nightmare, and her town is filling up with the dead at an alarming rate. But when she decides to investigate the surge in monster deaths—with help from an undead socialite sidekick—she begins to unearth more than just bodies. This is a story about survival, authenticity, and what happens when we stop trying to shrink ourselves just to fit in.
If you like stories that carry the scent of decay and liberation, this one’s for you.
You can learn more about Ashe Woodward and her hauntingly clever work at Spooky Scholars. And if this book piques your interest, please consider purchasing a copy online to support indie writers like Ashe—we need more weird, wonderful voices like hers out there.
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