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Thank you!

Its #samhain, so carve your turnips & settle down for some good #Irish #folkhorror

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3 Image Book Challenge for your Saturday:

Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images

We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...

Bought it and wow, I can't recommend it enough!
I'm halfway through and there isn't a single story I didn't enjoy.

Thanks to all the wonderful authors that worked so hard to put together this incredible collection, you're absolutely terrific! 💙

Good For Her: An Anthology of Women's Rage If you're not angry - you should be.Good For Her: An Anthology of Women's Rage celebrates women's rights - and women's wrongs.Filled with rage, revenge and retribution and featuring stories from write...

Thanks Gabino!

I'd love more people to check out Good For Her: An Anthology of Women's Rage from Nefarious Bat, feat. contributions from some of the best female writers in the business (inc. Hailey Piper, RJ Joseph, Ai Jiang, MJ Mars, SH Cooper, Candace Nola, Leigh Kenny and many more!)

Good For Her edited by @sarahjuleswriting.bsky.social, @tcparker.bsky.social & @shaunamceleney.bsky.social - out now @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, Chimera by The Shippy Writers - out now Dammaged Productions, and Salt Bones by @jenngivhan.bsky.social - coming 14 August @littlebrown.bsky.social

The book // the dialogue

Thanks Gabino!

Good For Her: An Anthology of Female Rage (eds. me, @shaunamceleney.bsky.social & @sarahjuleswriting.bsky.social) is out on the 30th - and available for preorder now

Very proud to say, I've also got a story in this, as have my fellow editors @shaunamceleney.bsky.social and @sarahjuleswriting.bsky.social

We'd love you to check it out and help us raise some money for Sisters Uncut - a nonprofit taking direct action against gender-based violence & state violence

Promo image for A Press Of Feathers, featuring a harpy eagle superimposed on a sky and a white woman with black eyes and a fist of red energy in the foreground Promo promises: - gruesome body horror - Stanford Prison style experiments - vengeful crows and otherworldly harpy eagles - old ghosts and haunted houses - serial killers and mutilated corpses a go go

Does anyone have any experience relaunching a book?

We're tempted to rerelease Feathers, a haunted house book I wrote a while back

@kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social did an amazing job w/ the cover - but the bird/wand/witch artwork hasn't aged well, post-TERF wizard lady

Any thoughts/tips?

Pride Giveaway 2: The Text-Based Microblogging Batch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Since the TT giveaway went... not so well: who (in the UK 🇬🇧) fancies winning a signed copy of @tcparker.bsky.social's angrily sapphic, queer-tastic Hummingbird?

If you do: like, share, follow us... and we'll pick a winner sometime Wednesday!

Phengaris There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Bird...

It's Pride Bundle Time, Pt. 1! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🧟

This week (3rd-8th June) - buy @anna-orridge.bsky.social's PHENGARIS direct from our ebook store, and get @tcparker.bsky.social's SALTBLOOD half price!

(Keep checking through the month for more queer horror bundles...)

#pridemonth #queerhorror

The Nefarious Bat logo - a bat, wings spread, silhouetted in flight - set against a rainbow background

Happy #PrideMonth to all our lovely readers, from the heart of the rainbow-strewn Batcave

We (and our books) are pretty gay all year round... but rest assured, we'll be gaying it up extra hard these next 4 weeks

Keep reading. Keep fighting. And above all... keep it queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦇

Nefarious Bat Press We're a female-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime and dark fiction

Ebook delivered instantly...
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PHENGARIS by @anna-orridge.bsky.social
Buy directly from us and get one of our limited edition bookmarks! To celebrate this awesome eco-horror we wanted something a bit different. So, when you're done with the bookmark, soak in water and plant it in your garden for some beautiful UK wild flowers!

Thank you!!

Good For Her - coming next month!!!

New #horror anthologies & collections in June.

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Phengaris There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Bird...

PHENGARIS lives!!

@anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror (with bugs!) is out today... and you can grab it direct from us!

200,000 page reads, and it is officially gone from KDP. Good news, though - you can now buy the Awake in the Night ebook direct from NEFARIOUS BAT PRESS!!

Awake In The Night Jessica and Nicole think they’ve finally found their dream house by the sea in the West of Ireland. 17 Montpellier Street has history, character… and so many rooms you could easily lose your way, if y...

We're all Phengaris, all the time tomorrow... but it would be remiss of us not to mention, just this evening, that Awake In The Night is now available direct from us at the Bat webstore

Like Irish horror, haunted houses, sapphic heartbreak and supporting queer indie presses?

Go take a look! 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪☘️👻🏚️

I remember telling @shaunamceleney.bsky.social, when I first started reading Phengaris, that it had some of the weirdest and best body horror I'd ever read

So, since I know a lot of you enjoy a bit of weird body horror...

Why not preorder a copy?

Yes! Thank you 🤦🏻‍♀️

💍TRADWIFE & Toxic Suburbia 🏘️ .. I love a good domestic drama horror/thriller—juicy secrets & lies—behind closed doors arguments and forward-facing fakery. I love toxic mom groups and women pushed to the edge before they go too far. Very entertaining. 💍👒👛 I have read: 💕The Devil & Mrs. Davenport/Paulette Kennedy- a favorite book 💕Lady Killer/Joëlle Jones (graphic novel) 💕The Stepford Wives/Ira Levin- not as good as Rosemary’s Baby but definitely a must read 💕The Whispers/Ashley Audrain- perfectly crafted domestic drama between neighbors 💕Good Neighbors/Sarah Langan- a favorite escalation horror book, totally unhinged behavior .. TBR & Currently Reading: 💕My Husband/Maud Ventura- just got this one! I’ve heard mixed reviews 💕The Mad Wife/Megan Church- coming soon 💕Mrs. March/Virginia Feito- had to get after loving Victorian Psycho 💕Tradwife/TC Parker- I have this one too! 💕Normal Women/Ainslie Hogarth- mixed reviews on this too but I loved Motherthing

FERAL AND HYSTERICAL MOTHER HORROR'S ULTIMATE READING GUIDE TO DARK AND DISTURBING FICTION BY WOMEN 101 HORROR BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU'RE MURDERED I'm Sadie Hartmann, Mother Horror. If you like my book recommendations and curation, I have two books and a Patreon!

TRADWIFE and TOXIC SUBURBIA book recommendations!
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Ebook sale on RIGHT NOW at the Nefarious Bat webstore!

Prison Cooking: A Novelette of Strange Appetites

*FREE WEEKEND READ*

If the return of Andrea Jenkyns wasn't horror enough for you... here's PRISON COOKING: A NOVELETTE OF STRANGE APPETITES

Inspired by The Magnus Archives, ASMR and Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Prison Cooking is free to download all weekend*

Promo image for Awake In The Night, showing: A. Book cover: a white woman with a neck wound hovering in a cloud of blue smoke above an illustration of a house that appears to be bleeding B. Strapline, "Sleep may never come easily again" C. Blurb from Baker Reads: "manages to perfectly balance the dark and the light. A new favourite ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"

Now on to... AWAKE IN THE NIGHT from @shaunamceleney.bsky.social!

If you like haunted houses, sapphic grief horror, neo-gothic vibes & Irish feminist history... this could be for you

Paperback here (from us): tinyurl.com/2acpsp2y
Ebook: tinyurl.com/5aac6n9u

... or order it from your local store!

It's Indie Press Day! So: can we tempt you to some of our wares?

(Here follows a 🧵 of us trying to sell you books you might like)

Thrilled to share my involvement in this upcoming charity anthology! #Booksky