Dead Teenagers

“Adolescents grapple with trauma and the meaning of life in this darkly humorous high school horror story set in the late 1990s. […] A fantastically bizarre and demented look at the teenage mindset.” —Kirkus Reviews


“A fun and visually appealing horror/scifi/comedy mash-up that will please fans of films like Happy Death Day and Cabin in the Woods. […] A great choice for readers who appreciate tongue-in-cheek blood and gore.”—Booklist

“A 1990s style horror romp with a playful time loop that entertains in ways you’d be surprised and outstanding artwork by Caitlin Yarsky… Dead Teenagers is another one of those stories by Jude Ellison S. Doyle that had me hooked from the first page. Doyle’s ability to craft a horrifying story with meaning, but also adding a spin to the tale that makes you stick around is like no one else. Add in the playful horror artwork by Caitlin Yarsky, not to mention lettering by Becca Carey, and you get one of hell of a horror comic.”—Capes and Tights

“A delightful, nostalgic tale.”—Comic Book Spot

“Weird, bloody, emotional, and much smarter than the premise first suggests. At first, it looks like a fun prom-night horror story where teenagers die in increasingly ridiculous ways. And it is that. Very much that. But it is also about identity, regret, queer characters, messy feelings, and the versions of ourselves we might become if we actually get the time to figure things out. […]Absolutely worth reading.” —Comic Warlocks

“Their understanding of the genre and getting the mercurial mix of horror and teen angst just right is on full display in Dead Teenagers and is the perfect treat for readers this spooky season and beyond.”—FREAK SUGAR

Jude Ellison S. Doyle is an author, journalist, and comic book writer living in upstate New York. Under his former pen name “Sady Doyle,” Jude founded the feminist blog Tiger Beatdown in 2008. He is the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why (Melville House 2016), which has been called “smart, funny and fearless” (Boston Globe), “compelling” and “persuasive” (New York Times Book Review). The Atlantic predicted that “Trainwreck will very likely join the feminist canon.”

Doyle’s second book, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy and the Fear of Female Power (Melville House, 2019) was named a Best Non-Fiction Book of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and was shortlisted for Starburst Magazine’s Brave New Words award. His first non-fiction book under his real name, DILF: Did I Leave Feminism, will be published by Melville House in the fall of 2025.

In 2021, Jude published his first comic: Maw, a limited-series horror comic with artist A.L. Kaplan, for Boom! Studios. His follow-up, The Neighbors with artist Letizia Cadonici, was published in 2023, and was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD award for “Outstanding Comic.” Both are now available in collected editions, and Jude’s third series, Be Not Afraid with artist Lisandro Estherren, is forthcoming from BOOM! Studios.

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