Matt’s Books and Drams

#250: Anna Dupre & Matt Morris - Horror Week Continuing Horror Week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes Anna Dupre and Matt Morris to the podcast to discuss the horror genre, bookstagram, and more!

We celebrate the 250 episode milestone with @annarosereads.bsky.social and Matt Morris during Horror Week! Anna is a Capes and Tights contributing writer, podcaster, and a passionate online horror voice. Matt is a horror favorite, known for hosting multiple book clubs and championing the genre.

Cover of Chris Panatier book Daytide

All the tabs in the book Daytide

I finally finished @scribeofhades.bsky.social Daytide at midnight, and I am here to tell you all it’s 5 stars from me. I need time to sit with it for a full review but these characters!! Adam! Hadriel! I’m IN LOVE, order this giant work of art before it sells out from @rapturepublishing.bsky.social

Books against a wall Daytide by Chris Panatier nowhere burning by catriona ward and cathedral of the drowned by Nathan ballingrud

I’m off to Cape May today for our annual girls trip and of course I need to bring books. I’m still burning through @scribeofhades.bsky.social magnum opus Daytide, but I’m also bringing two of my fave authors along with me. @catrionaward.bsky.social and @nathanballingrud.bsky.social

In @sgj.bsky.social's flash fiction collection STATES OF GRACE, "The Sheep You Shear Will Turn Out To Have Been Koala Bears All Along, Or, How To Write a Novel" is a 12-point list outlining a set of characters & reveals. It's 2 pgs long & very strange. In another universe, this novel surely exists.

Join us, @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social , and @jonathanjanz.bsky.social in ONE WEEK (!!!!!) for a discussion on CHILDREN OF THE DARK 2 at 8PM EST on Oct 21! RSVP for our meeting below and reply if you’d like us to add you to our readalong chat on IG!

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DAYTIDE is up for preorder now and I sort of buried the lede on this limited edition, illustrated, horror-fantasy.

There’s an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social that blew the bombas right off of my feet. I’m still reeling.

350 total books. Order: www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...

A+ packaging. No notes.

Thank you @rapturepublishing.bsky.social & @scribeofhades.bsky.social !!!

31 Days of Horror: Day 1-- Here We Go Again for the 15th Year and the First Giveaway Today is October 1st and here we are again with  31 Days of Horror . Each year  31 Days of Horror  grows in readership. While some of you ar...

31 Days of Horror begins today. This year, it will be posted in one single thread.

Day 1-- Here We Go Again for the 15th Year and the First Giveaway

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This is so cool.

STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES newsflash! Open Road's reissue of @sgj.bsky.social's ultra-rare flash fiction collection, STATES OF GRACE, gets an expanded edition on 12/9/25, with 20 stories not in the original, 10 of them published here for the first time! SGJ's flash fiction is the bourbon of storytelling 🥃

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

"There is nothing funny about calling me or Donald Trump a fascist, and if you do, we will ship you to Guantanamo."

Really shocked and incredibly pleased to see AUTUMN SPRINGS on this list of BEST HORROR OF 2025 from BookBub.

A great list of books.

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@bookbubpartners.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social

TEXT: Tremendously Postseason Bound Postseason 2025 IMAGE: Postseason clinch graphic featuring shaded, black and white cutouts of players on the 2025 Red Sox roster on top of a light blue background. The design includes a red hanging Sox logo, the 2025 MLB Postseason logo and sticker variations of the team’s slogan “Tremendously Locked In.”

YOUR BOSTON RED SOX ARE POSTSEASON BOUND!

WHY I LOVE HORROR edited by the incredible @raforall.bsky.social offers a sneak peak behind the curtain of modern horror fiction, with essays from Clay McLeod Chapman, Rachel Harrison, Hailey Piper, and Stephen Graham Jones (to name a few).
Pick up a copy on 9/23 from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social :)

My very first short story was accepted into the anthology With Teeth, curated by the awesome Cassandra Celia. Proceeds will go to the Lakota Wolf Preserve!

My story is heavily based on my mother’s stories about growing up in Texas with a Mongrels by @sgj.bsky.social flair 🐺

Pub: February 10, 2026!

Some notes from my reading of @michaelwehunt.bsky.social’s eerie & thought-provoking THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT. Drops Sept 30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social.

Congratulations!!!!

So I’m a NYTimes bestselling author…

12 is my new favorite number 😭😭😭

YouTube video by Syn's Book Nook Watching Evil Dead: Unearthing the Radiant Artist Within by Josh Malerman

Chatting about Josh Malerman’s newest book about creativity, writing, and being an artist. His enthusiasm literally leaps off the page at you! #books #booksky youtu.be/3XAWLju9AWQ

Re-reading this @jonathanjanz.bsky.social gem for @novelnightmares.bsky.social book club with my friends @amberkreu.bsky.social and @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social.

Want to read with us? I've posted a few ebook codes below. Happy reading!

It wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be

Last few days to order copies of my early novels, now in deluxe editions from Thunderstorm Books.

The books can be ordered through 9/2, after which they will be out of print.

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😂😂😂

This is better than all those Hard Mtn Dews and the Baja/vodka mixture (the latter of which was fucking horrid)

It’s not nearly as bad as I thought it would be

I’m trying a Whiskey Code Red so you don’t have to @rebelsam94.bsky.social

The text "C.S. Humble - The Saga Concludes - September 2, 2025" surrounded by six book covers featuring all titles in the Amid the Vastness of All Else saga.

The saga concludes next week!

Baroness of the Eastern Seaboard (Sept 2nd) is the final book in the Amid the Vastness of All Else saga from @cshumble.bsky.social

All six titles are available in paperback or eBook, and together as one low-price eBook box set.
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Tomorrow we're announcing our single longest title yet at around 120,000 words.

*Well, the book is 120,000 words, not the *title*, we're not Fiona Apple.

**Fiona Apple is a musician from the 90s who released an album whose title was an entire 90-word poem.

***I'm really dating myself here.

When you give fascists the finger, do it with a bad hand.

A message from The Management.

welp, new novel's submitted, is away from me now. probably an announcement . . . this fall? earlier than later, I'd guess. wish I could just go ahead and say it. but @sagapressbooks.bsky.social's on a high floor, could easily push a safe out a window, to crush me into the sidewalk.