If you’re in Calgary please head over to @shelflifebooks and pick up a copy of Super Castle Fun Park, and you’ll get one of these silly door hangers I made! 👻❤️👻❤️👻
This May we are excited to be reading Super Castle Fun Park by Canadian author Daniel Zomparelli.
A wild, beguiling novel about isolation, technology, and raising the dead by the co-editor of Queer Little Nightmares.
The dead want to speak to you. Are you ready to hear their words?
A group tends wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aimless pessimist staying at a themed hotel, tasked with caring for his aunt at the end of her life. Jeremy is Dario's anxious boyfriend who is trapped in his home, plagued by disturbing visions. Chelsea is an ornery medium who spends her free time trolling a group of misfits in an online game. Each of them is at the precipice of change, and the people they are interconnected to, including the dead, will be there when it happens.
I signed copies of Super Castle Fun Park and left bookmarks and limited edition ghost postcards at @irondogbooks if you want them. Excellent bookstore, perfect angels!
Hello this was my ideal launch. Thank you @irondogbooks and @delbauchery for everything and for everyone who came because it was literally all friends who I love and the people who couldn’t make it who I also love and the kindness of strangers and ghosts and you.
Thank you to @mrbigboyvv for taking these photos of me! And @delbauchery for saying I had to take a photo in my hooters shorts. And @gabeliedman who is the only reason I’m functionable. And my dog. And @arsenalpulp and everyone who works there. And my anxiety that is at an intense level. And indie bookstores who are being so nice to my book. And the several strangers who I played an online game with at a dark time in my life who kept me going. And my godmother who I miss so much and changed the way I see the world. And anyone else I missed because I’m in a car about to play pinball and eat a hot dog. Oh and my first novel is out now! Super Castle Fun Park! I love u
New! SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK is a wild, beguiling novel about isolation, technology, and raising the dead by Daniel Zomparelli (@dzompare ).
The dead want to speak to you. But are you ready to hear their words? SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK explores a group of people tending wistfully to their precarious lives. Dario is an aimless pessimist staying at a themed hotel who is tasked with the care of his aunt at the end of her life. Jeremy is Dario’s anxious boyfriend who is trapped in his home, plagued by disturbing visions. Chelsea is an ornery medium who spends her free time on her phone trolling a group of misfits in an online game. Each of them is at the precipice of change, and the people they are interconnected to, including the dead, will be there when it happens.
Moving seamlessly between quiet melancholy, wry humour, and the supernatural, SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK is a novel that defies expectations: a tragicomic, very human story about isolation, ghosts, technology, and our deep, abiding need for connection.
🌟 “I love this book. With writing that feels halfway to mysticism, like a blurting, flowing down from a mystic who also happens to be incredibly funny. This book squints in the bright light of reality and moves with the tidal pull of how we are haunted and how we haunt ourselves, what washes up and gets in our way, restricts our movements (or creates how we dance around what is disconcerting or inexplicable to us). It’s exciting, dry, and bright in its humour and unlike any literary voice I’ve ever read.” —Jenny Slate, author of LIFEFORM and LITTLE WEIRDS
👉 Out now in Canada and the US. Get your copy from your favourite local bookstore, or order direct from ArsenalPulp.com
SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK by Daniel Zomparelli is a Spring 2026 selection for The Booksellers’ List!
Moving seamlessly between quiet melancholy, wry humour, and the supernatural, SUPER CASTLE FUN PARK is a novel that defies expectations: a tragicomic, very human story about isolation, ghosts, technology, and our deep, abiding need for connection. Available April 14 at your favourite Canadian indie bookstore.
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Super Castle Fun Park is out in a couple weeks! I made the worst ads possible for the stuff inside the book! I don’t know why! Anyway hope you like it!!! 🤞🏼🥹
Save the date! Super Castle Fun Park is coming to a small independent bookstore near you on Thursday April 23rd! Join @dzompare to celebrate his debut novel. Hosted by @delbauchery at @irondogbooks . Fun times! Prizes! Vino! Two Italian clowns back together at last.
Credit to @artbedo for this illustration of Iron Dog Books!!!!
Promo video made by Dina. Is there anything she can’t do? Yes! The list is long
