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So true

Fish finger! But just the one. That’s always disappointing.

FRANGIPANE TART

Thursday, when I scare my temporary neighbours with random riotous shrieking for an hour before bed #Taskmaster

Book Review: Stolen Tongues, by Felix Blackwell Quick summary: “High up on the windswept cliffs of Pale Peak, Faye and Felix celebrate their new engagement. But soon, a chorus of ghastly noises erupts from the nearby woods: the screams of …

For #spooktasticreads day 2, it's my first full review of a horror book, and what a book! If paranormal terror is your jam, this popular nosleep-story-turned-novel will definitely have you afraid to look out your windows. #booksky 🩸📚

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Derelict space ships and salvage missions are catnip for me. It’s such a good set up for shenanigans! Highly recommend The Immortality Thief if that one passed you by.

I’m diverting from fiction into fancy for today’s post in honour of #SpooktasticReads

Yes I nearly said fact. But. Ghost ships. Very little hard evidence.

Ghost Ships This Spooktastic Reads prompt is where this year's Wyrd & Wonder maritime fantasy theme meets the atmospheric thrills of spooky season. I've always loved tales of ghost ships, so today I'm sharing five of my favourites. You can decide what to believe and whether you'll think of them next time you set out to sea...

Why yes, I am taking the #SpooktasticReads prompts out of order. Will you sail the seven seas in search of ghosts with me?

Oh you just reshaped my plans for this weekend ❤️ these look amazing!

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Spooktastic Reads (Day 1): My Favorite Horror Stories Happy Spooktastic Reads, an bookish event about horror for 13 days until October 31th! This is my first time doing a Wyrd & Wonder event in about five years, and I was so excited to see that it…

I'm splitting my #spooktasticreads participation between my blog and BSky, where I'll post 3 short horror films (<10 mins) throughout the week.

But for today, I'll start with the most obvious into: my favorite scary books, from terrifying to fun. 👻🦇🖤🥀

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Oh wow - welcome back to the party :)

I'll be hospitable and put some bubbles in the fridge just in case.

I do have a dentist appointment on Wednesday morning. Breakfast is too early for wild, celebratory bacchanals, right?

Background: A silhouette of a hand pushing against an opaque white surface Text: 13 prompts for Spooktastic Reads: Spooktastic TBR | Omen | Blood red | Fog incoming | Ghost ship | Footsteps | #StackSaturday | Pitch black | It's behind you | Creepy forest | Bone white | Moon | Samhain / Day of the Dead

It wouldn't be #SpooktasticReads without 13 prompts to inspire our reading and blogging. @adancewithbooks.bsky.social has put together a brilliant set for us with some nods to this years #WyrdAndWonder maritime fantasy theme

Spooktastic Reads: TBR! Hello hello, everyone! I hope October started in the best possible way! Mine started pretty great! I went back to knitting and crocheting, and I am pretty happy (Qwordy, the author behind The Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 2.0 is hosting an event dedicated to crafting, in all its forms, and obviously, I had to participate!). That said, this year I have a lot of spooky reads on my TBR, so when I saw that&hellip;

Spooktastic Reads: TBR!

Hello hello, everyone! I hope October started in the best possible way! Mine started pretty great! I went back to knitting and crocheting, and I am pretty happy (Qwordy, the author behind The Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 2.0 is hosting an event dedicated to…

An informational graphic. The text reads: Books for Ace Week Day 1: Spooky Season It’s the second half of October, so of course we’re starting this week off with books specifically for spooky season. Whether it’s ghouls or ghosts, supernatural romcom or outright horror, if it’s spooky (or spoopy) it all goes for this set of acespec books. One rule: The rep has to be a major character. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com

An informational graphic. It features a small version of a book cover with text beside it. The book cover is for: Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger The text reads: Books for Ace Week Day 1: Spooky Season Elatsoe is an mesmerising, award-winning young adult novel featuring an aroace Lipan Apache lead who can raise the ghosts of dead animals, and has a ghost dog named Kirby. (Kirby is the best dog.) When her cousin is murdered, Elatsoe sets out with her best friend to discover the identity of the killer and bring them to justice. A powerful, magical narrative about the importance of family and friendship, and a scathing look at the effects of colonisation. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com

An informational graphic. It features a small version of a book cover with text beside it. The book cover is for: Stake Sauce by RoAnna Sylver The text reads: Books for Ace Week Day 1: Spooky Season Stake Sauce is a fantastic vampire novel, starring a disabled former firefighter turned mall cop. In this supernatural cosy-adjacent story, love is the secret ingredient that allows people to heal and stay alive. This heartwarming tale explores the fluidity of aspec identity as well as delivering an emotional rollercoaster of the best kind as Jude and Pixie team up to stand up to bullies and defeat some extremely bad people in the process. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com

An informational graphic. It features a small version of a book cover with text beside it. The book cover is for: He Must Go Walk the Woods So Wild by S.L. Dove Cooper The text reads: Books for Ace Week He Must Go Walk the Woods So Wild is the titular piece in this collection. After a group of teenagers decides to brave the woods at night, during a storm, they end up with regrets as creepy fey creatures decide to, ah, make a deal with one of them. Their friendship and lives will never be the same again. Other spooky season tales in the collection include The Stalking of Sally Foth (don’t be fooled by the cosy-adjacent), Kitty (who is a dog, yes I know) and Balanced by Those Horrors. The graphic was created by S.L. Dove Cooper at https://www.dovelynnwriter.com

It's that time again. Ace Week! Below are 3 books with spooktastic acespec rep for your enjoyment and perusal! I'm only doing 3 per topic, but there are many more books out there. Share your own recs with people. :D

#AceWeek #QueerBooks

My Spooky Season TBR & Bingo [Spooktastic Reads] - Falling Letters My TBR and customized bingo for Spooktastic Reads 2025 (a Wyrd & Wonder mini event)

📚💀🦇🎃 New post! My TBR and bingo for #SpooktasticReads (a @wyrdandwonder.bsky.social mini event)

#horror #specfic

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Let’s get spooktastic Welcome to Spooktastic Reads, when your Wyrd and Wonderful friends indulge in 13 days of haunting reads from the darker side of fantasy. I'm still edging my way back into reading and blogging this month, so naturally I have wildly ambitious ideas that may or may not survive contact with the first jump scare...

Welcome to Spooktastic Reads, when your Wyrd and Wonderful friends indulge in 13 days of haunting reads from the darker side of fantasy. Will you join us from now until Hallowe'en?

Look, I'm a hardened cynic, a sarcastic bastard, but this is it. We have to have hope.

Happy Sunday Womble! I've got coffee, I've got pastries, and I'm in the mood for blogging: let's gooooo.

I'm rereading Barbara Hambly's The Time Of The Dark for #SpooktasticReads this weekend after enjoying Premee Mohamed's The Butcher Of The Forest in the week

So excited for these novellas

Twelve days to go until #TheSoundoftheDark hits the shelves! @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social #danielchurch #thehollows #theravening #horrornovel

OH HAI

Details of the launch of Project Hanuman at WFC in Brighton on the 31st October at 2pm in the main room of the convention. The picture includes a picture of me in a natty shirt, the cover of the book and the details included in this alt text.

If you're @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social my new novel, Project Hanuman, is launching there two weeks early.

@aptshadow.bsky.social called it 'A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries of the genre.'

#scifi #projecthanuman @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

No. That way lies the path of forgetting I’ve already (tried to) read it 😂

A paperback copy of THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Barnett held over a pile of Autumn Reads. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

🌲 Don't get lost.
👁️ Pray you're not found.

The gloriously foiled paperback of Fiona Barnett's THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES is available now from all good bookshops!

“Folk horror of the most classic kind, refreshed for the new century.”
- Esquire

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Fancy revisiting the Imperial Radch with us? We’ll be reading Ancillary Justice for #ScifiMonth2025

Waterstones flyer with cover of book and description of deal as explained in text.

Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃