Black Velvet by Fox N. Locke

After a near death experience, troubled trans boy Aaron Phillips is haunted by the ghost of Elvis Presley. As if that wasn’t enough, he soon discovers he can bring things back from the dead. 2005 casts a long shadow as Aaron navigates a barely breathing music career, a fraying romantic relationship, and fragile mental health seven years after his dad disappeared. Wracked with academic ennui, depression, and gender dysphoria, Aaron and the afterlife will have to get reacquainted before he can finally find solace. An exploration of love, loss, and queerness, Black Velvet balances the supernatural with the agonies and apathies of confronting adulthood in the Myspace age. For fans of The Lovely Bones, Cemetery Boys, Life is Strange, and Turtles All The Way Down.

Adult • Diversity Representation/LGBTQ+ • Diversity Representation/Mental Health • Horror • Horror/Supernatural and Occult

Content Warning: Black Velvet contains discussions of suicide, eating disorders, drug abuse, terrorism, bullying, and references to homophobic and transphobic language. It includes depictions of gender dysphoria, depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, drowning, death and animal death, violence, grief, and parent loss.