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@joe-hill.bsky.social

Author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, and King Sorrow (out in October). Co-creator of Locke & Key (along with maestro Gabriel Rodriguez). Let's do a better job lookin after the kids: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org

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Thanks for the kind words and I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

28.06.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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@joe-hill.bsky.social I wanted to get in on the King Sorrow ARC love.

What an amazing book! This is the fastest I’ve ever read 900 pages. Pacing was incredible, and King Sorrow’s Freddy Krueger-meets-Smaug-with-Robert-Shaw’s-Voice vibe was so fun.

Congratulations on such an accomplishment. Wow.

27.06.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3

Aw, thanks, Chris.

28.06.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I do not say this lightly.
INSTANT CLASSIC.
King Sorrow is by far my favorite @joe-hill.bsky.social novel. It made me feel like I was back in high school reading one of the great books that set me on this path to begin with. LOVED it.

27.06.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
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Becky's ALA Schedule Including Me Interviewing Joe Hill Click through for the full schedule of events and panels I think I may have my busiest ALA Annual Conference ever mostly because I am attend...

Becky's #ALAAC25 Schedule Including Me Interviewing @joe-hill.bsky.social plus my appearance for @libraryreads.bsky.social. ARCs of WHY I LOVE HORROR for all who attend if you RSVP (link in post). @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social

raforall.blogspot.com/2025/06/beck...

18.06.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

12.06.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8625    πŸ” 3232    πŸ’¬ 268    πŸ“Œ 135
Cover for the JOE HILL E-BOOK BUNDLE. The top 1/3 is a black background with Hill's name in yellow and E-Book Bundle in white. The bottom third is red with a pitch fork coming in from the right towards the bottom. In yellow are the following book titles on the bottom half in yellow:

HEART-SHAPED BOX
20TH CENTURY GHOSTS
HORNS
N0S4A2

Cover for the JOE HILL E-BOOK BUNDLE. The top 1/3 is a black background with Hill's name in yellow and E-Book Bundle in white. The bottom third is red with a pitch fork coming in from the right towards the bottom. In yellow are the following book titles on the bottom half in yellow: HEART-SHAPED BOX 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS HORNS N0S4A2

#Kindle deal! Just over our normal $2.99 threshold, but FOUR @joe-hill.bsky.social novels for $3.99? Yes, please and thank you. The bundle contains HEART-SHAPED BOX; 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS; HORNS; and N0S4A2. #horror #ad #booksky #ebookdeals

amzn.to/3Kj4Uoq

09.06.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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ABRAHAM’S BOYS Trailer Sees BOSCH Star Titus Welliver Take Up The Van Helsing Mantle BOSCH stars Titus Welliver takes up the Van Helsing mantle in the trailer for Shudder and RLJE Films' ABRAHAM'S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY.

BOSCH stars Titus Welliver takes up the Van Helsing mantle in the trailer for Shudder and RLJE Films' ABRAHAM'S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY.

10.06.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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The End Times by Benjamin Percy (Physical Subscription) β€” Bad Hand Books Get ready for an immersive, serialized, post-apocalyptic storytelling experience like nothing you've ever seen. Starting this November, acclaimed author Benjamin Percy brings you THE END TIMES: The ...

HUGE thanks to @joe-hill.bsky.social for featuring @benjaminpercy.bsky.social’s THE END TIMES in his SubStack.

That’s wild!

badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...

10.06.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Time is running out to bid on a signed and doodled King Sorrow for this really excellent fund-raiser. 4 days to go.

bsky.app/profile/laur...

03.06.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Featuring a career best performance by @markhamillofficial.bsky.social.

03.06.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Hope you like the last 40%

02.06.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I might say this is @joe-hill.bsky.social best yet? πŸ‰

I have screamed loudly several times already. Just passed the 60% mark

01.06.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

One of my fave film teams is back, baby. Fresh from the success of THE GORGE, @scottderrickson.bsky.social @crobertcargill.bsky.social return to the nightmarish @joe-hill.bsky.social inspired call of THE BLACK PHONE.

And those @maggielevin.bsky.social Super8 clips...every one hits like a body blow.

02.06.2025 05:13 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not on LinkedIn.

30.05.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s perfectly natural that people should believe Sherlock Holmes is the main character of 56 stories and 4 novels about Sherlock Holmes. But Doyle was always a clever hand when it came to misdirection and of course the best Sherlock Holmes stories are great because they’re really about John Watson.

29.05.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

From @joe-hill.bsky.social: β€œIt’s always later than you think. Even when I’m sitting still at my desk, I’m in a desperate footrace against the clock to get in one more paragraph, one more line. It may look like not much is happening, but really I’m sprinting madly for my life.”
#writingcommunity

26.05.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Title: How to focus on writing your book 

There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read:

Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark).
Put them in a drawer. 
Lock the drawer.
Throw away the key. 
Leave the house. 
Do not look back.
Keep to backroads and hedgerows. 
Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes)
Sleep by day. 
Forage in the evening. 
Write by the light of the moon 
When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).

Title: How to focus on writing your book There follow eleven tiny images telling a story. The captions read: Turn your devices off (a writer with a phone and laptop. The screens are dark). Put them in a drawer. Lock the drawer. Throw away the key. Leave the house. Do not look back. Keep to backroads and hedgerows. Feel your old life slip away. (the writer has shed his clothes) Sleep by day. Forage in the evening. Write by the light of the moon When you have a passable first draft, commit a minor crime and use your phone call to contact your agent. (the naked writer is in a prison holding a phone while an unamused police officer looks on).

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

18.05.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5459    πŸ” 972    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 95
Cover to THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE
Art by Dave McKean
Design by Elizabeth Story

Cover to THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE Art by Dave McKean Design by Elizabeth Story

"Prepare to be disturbed, grossed out, and laugh all at the same time." @sgj.bsky.social, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

tachyonpublications....

@joerlansdale.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @davemckean.bsky.social

#horror

14.05.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks--though the language might be a bit salty for 6th grade English.

19.05.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 272    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2

Not really sure how to share the latest Oliver Burkeman column, "Navigating by Aliveness," which is too bad--his thinking about A.I. is clarifying. And hopeful. And good humored. He's done some of the best writing I've read about how to live well in our bizarre, disorientating moment.

19.05.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Was so pleased to see β€œUshers” selected for this year’s Best American SF&F. Look at this amazing line up.

14.05.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908.

"You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."

14.05.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2267    πŸ” 631    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 10

In a congressional hearing today, RFK, jr, stated: β€œI don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.”
The correct next sentence should’ve been, β€œFor that reason I am today resigning my post as head of Health and Human Services.”

14.05.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 235    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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CHUCK MARKETING!
Mary Kate Jacobs found this in Central Park this weekend.
Call the number, it's real! ☎️
Stephen King's The Life of Chuck movie
StephenKingCatalog.com

11.05.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I read that a dump truck loaded with crap crashed into the Whiskey A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip yesterday. Someone should've warned them not to book Creed.

11.05.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

A crocheted axolotl or a blanket in trans flag colours, home-made dragon wings, a full 100k manuscript copy edit by Jo Hall, tickets to Empire UK's live roleplay event, bespoke micro fictions on postcards and, just added, a signed ARC of the new @joe-hill.bsky.social bit.ly/genrefortrans

08.05.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Title: Just in time for Mother's Day: Classic literature with added Mums 

Panel 1: Moby Dick 
"Ahab! Moby! Enough of this nonsense. Apologise to each other and if you can't get along, stay apart." says Ahab's mother, standing in a little boat and looking sternly into Moby's eye, while her son sits chastened behing her.


Panel 2: Casino Royale.
"Vodka martini, shaken not stirred... And a sweet sherry for my mother."
says James Bond. His mother calls over feom their table "Just a little one."

Panel 3: The Lord of the Rings.
"You can look for your ring after you tidy your room and walk the dog, Sauron."
says Sauron's mother, holding out the dog lead to her son, who replies "Aw, mum!".

Title: Just in time for Mother's Day: Classic literature with added Mums Panel 1: Moby Dick "Ahab! Moby! Enough of this nonsense. Apologise to each other and if you can't get along, stay apart." says Ahab's mother, standing in a little boat and looking sternly into Moby's eye, while her son sits chastened behing her. Panel 2: Casino Royale. "Vodka martini, shaken not stirred... And a sweet sherry for my mother." says James Bond. His mother calls over feom their table "Just a little one." Panel 3: The Lord of the Rings. "You can look for your ring after you tidy your room and walk the dog, Sauron." says Sauron's mother, holding out the dog lead to her son, who replies "Aw, mum!".

A cartoon reminder that it’s probably Mother’s Day tomorrow unless you are in the UK.

10.05.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 933    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 13
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King Sorrow (ARC) Auction item 'King Sorrow (ARC)' hosted online at 32auctions.

Signed and doodled ARC of KING SORROW up now as part of an auction to raise a few quid for Gendered Intelligence, an org lookin to do some good for transfolk and their families. Just noting, my dragon doodle is nothing to shake a scaly, spiked tail at.

www.32auctions.com/organization...

10.05.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Horror Beats- Music + Horror. Cursed songs, music, & musicians. Go see SINNERS in theaters! @elizabethhand.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @johnhornor.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @victorlavalle.bsky.social @jimmyjuliano.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @scottleeds.bsky.social

07.05.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2

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