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Sometimes writer | Always reader | Podcast Listener | Basketball fan | He/Him

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And here's the full wrap, which really highlights the impeccable design of @joelamatguell.bsky.social

Letters to the Purple Satin Killer signed limited ed. hardcover from Thunderstorm Books! Includes the OG short story & a brand new intro by Todd Robinson.

thunderstormbooks.com/thunderstorm...

17.06.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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On Melting makes the Dennis Cooper 2025 Best of (so far) list ๐Ÿ–ค Thanks Tom Over for alerting me to this! @filthyloot.bsky.social

denniscooperblog.com/mine-for-you...

14.06.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Uhhh so quick update on our hours this week: we are now closed until Tuesday. You can thank last nightโ€™s storm for flooding half our showroom ๐Ÿ˜ญ

In the meantime, please support us on our webstore at www.ghoulish.rip

We can still ship stuff!

12.06.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Copies of Metympyschosis have arrived. Felt cute might delete later.

13.06.2025 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What does the act of writing have to do with skateboarding? Surprisingly, quite a bit. Callum explains everything (very well) in this essay.

13.06.2025 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Look Out For โ€ฆ The Unkillable Frank Lightning by Josh Rountree โ€œWith his latest, Rountree puts his own unique spin on the legend of Frankenstein, channeling classic westerns mixed with Universal Monsters.โ€ Doctor, occultist, andโ€”brieflyโ€”a widow, Caโ€ฆ

Be on the Look Out For ... THE UNKILLABLE FRANK LIGHTNING by Josh Rountree (@joshrountree.bsky.social), available from your favorite book stores next month!

12.06.2025 12:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The paperback reissue of The Folger Variation was launched at @cymerafestival.co.uk last weekend
and is out tomorrow through @shoreinf.bsky.social. It's a revised edition and the best version to pick up ๐Ÿ”ซ

www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/the-...

11.06.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot of the PM announcement for Child of Mud and Clay, a horror fantasy by Gemma Amor from Angry Robot pitched as Clan of the Cave Bear meets The Road

A screenshot of the PM announcement for Child of Mud and Clay, a horror fantasy by Gemma Amor from Angry Robot pitched as Clan of the Cave Bear meets The Road

No better way to pass time before my flight by ANNOUNCING A NEW BOOK DEAL!

I've been bothering ancient stones, sweet tracks, settlements and burial chambers for years. Now I can put my love for prehistory, quests, dark magic, animals, and long, epic journeys into a horror fantasy novel.

Ecstatic.

11.06.2025 10:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Honestly loving "the lovechild of Rosemary's Baby and Children of the Corn", we're rolling with that comp @carsonwinter.bsky.social

10.06.2025 17:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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More Metympsychosis (for the impatient peeping Toms out there) @feraldove.com

10.06.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Announcing Metympsychosis! An art novel about transformation. Please buy it from the @feraldove.com website

feraldove.com/metympsychosis

09.06.2025 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
cover for bury your gays

cover for bury your gays

We are deeply honored to announce BURY YOUR GAYS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRAGIC QUEER HORROR has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. This project wouldn't exist without our wonderful, talented authors and our kickass editor @sofiaajram.bsky.social. ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅฐ
www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2025/06/09/t...

09.06.2025 19:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 116    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
Nominees Announced for the 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards โ€“ The Shirley Jackson Awards

Absolutely thrilled that our ghost story anthology WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Congrats to editors @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and @omgjulia.bsky.social, and to every author who contributed a story. This is huge!
www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2025/06/09/t...

09.06.2025 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 113    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Destry Allyn Spielbergโ€™s Directorial Debut: Please Don't Feed The Children, Premieres Friday, June 27ย  - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website TUBI ACQUIRES DESTRY ALLYN SPIELBERGโ€™S FEATURE DIRECTORIAL DEBUT HORROR THRILLER โ€œPLEASE DONโ€™T FEED THE CHILDRENโ€

Destry Allyn Spielberg, the daughter of Steven Spielberg, makes her feature directorial debut with post-apocalyptic horror movie PLEASE DON'T FEED THE CHILDREN

The Tubi Original Starring and Giancarlo Esposito

Premieres Friday, June 27

gnofhorror.com/please-dont-...

04.06.2025 08:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil By V.E. Schwab: A Haunting Ode To Immortality, Hunger, And Queer Resilience - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website 03/06/2025 V.E. Schwabโ€™sย Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soilย is a genre defying triumph that intertwines the lives of three women bound by a shared hunger for freedom

New book review

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab: A Haunting Ode to Immortality, Hunger, and Queer Resilience

gnofhorror.com/bury-our-bon...

โ€ช@torbooksuk.bsky.socialโ€ฌ

#Booksky ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿ“š

04.06.2025 08:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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IF YOU KNEW ME is available to NetGalley members, and it could use more ratings and reviews at NetGalley and Goodreads. Also available to pre-order almost anywhere. It's a psychological thriller about obsession and identity. (I have reason to believe the audiobook edition is going to be awesome.)

03.06.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Review: Cathedral of the Drowned (The Lunar Gothic Trilogy Volume 2) by Nathan Ballingrud | FanFiAddict Synopsis: The sequel toย Crypt of the Moon Spider,ย Cathedral of the Drownedย is a dripping, squirming,ย scuttling tale of altered bodies an ...

Nathan Ballingrud returns in October with CATHEDRAL OF THE DROWNED, the second entry in his Lunar Gothic trilogy from Tor Nightfire. Check out my #bookreview for this retrofuturistic oddity at #FanFiAddict now! ๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿช๐Ÿ“š ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š

03.06.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Helicopter Parenting in the Age of Drone Warfare An alternative cover edition can be found here In a neโ€ฆ

#buymybooks HELICOPTER PARENTING IN THE AGE OF DRONE WARFARE: a novelette of sci-fi/horror. What happens when parents can see everything their kid is doing AND seeing but they're still missing out on the truth?

Now up at GoodReads with the preferred cover:

02.06.2025 18:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Call me a necromancer the way I'm working to raise my out-of-print collection from the dead. ๐Ÿ˜ค

Any leads for non-sketchy horror/Weird fiction small presses are welcome. Note that this collection is significantly expanded from its original form and is even better than it was before.

02.06.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thank you for writing something endlessly, repeatedly entertaining!

01.06.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"I mistakenly believed that my life had finally reached the peak of Crazy Bullshit Mountain.
Hindsight would indicate I'd only just made it to base camp."

01.06.2025 11:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here- first teaser. Much more to comeโ€ฆ

01.06.2025 01:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8774    ๐Ÿ” 1651    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 315    ๐Ÿ“Œ 147
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Editing Services I offer freelance editing services for speculative fiction of any length. My specialties are horror and Weird fiction, but Iโ€™m open to fantasy and science fiction as well.For descriptions of โ€ฆ

Got a horror or Weird fiction novella that needs an editor? Iโ€™m your guy. Iโ€™ve edited fiction by such lovely people as J.A.W. McCarthy, Nadia Bulkin, Joe Koch, Keith Rosson, and Gordon B. White. My rates are also pretty reasonable. Take a look:
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31.05.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
excerpt from my story.

First, I just want to thank you for hearing me out. I know you came over
tonight thinking something else was gonna happen. And, shit, who knows?
If everything works out, who says it canโ€™t still happen, right? I do like guys.
That part wasnโ€™t a lie. And you are cute. But obviously you already know
that. I mean, Jesus Christ, look at you. Youโ€™re fucking ripped. Which was
why I chose you. I need someone with some goddamn muscles. The shit I
would let you do to me . . . but not right now. Later, maybe. Iโ€™m sorry, but
horny is probably the last emotion Iโ€™m feeling tonight, as crazy as that
sounds.
I also want to emphasize that you arenโ€™t a hostage. You can leave any
time you want. Yes, I have the gun, but itโ€™s not like Iโ€™m going to use it. Iโ€™ve
never shot anybody in my life. The only reason Iโ€™m even holding it now is
because you saw it when you werenโ€™t supposed to and started freaking out.
Iโ€™ll put it away the moment you calm down.
And yeah, okay, technically youโ€™re wearing handcuffs right now, but
cโ€™mon. Theyโ€™re pink and fuzzy. These are not hostage handcuffs. Their
purpose is to inspire erections, not fear.
Iโ€™ll unlock them the moment Iโ€™m done telling you what I gotta say. And
then, if you donโ€™t want to help me out, you can leave. No problem. Itโ€™s a
free country, right? Iโ€™m not trying to make you do anything against your
will. Except maybe listen. Iโ€™ll ungag you as soon as Iโ€™m finished, I promise.
Look, Iโ€™m in a bit of a fucking pickle here, all right? And thatโ€™s putting
it lightly. The problem I got, itโ€™s a life-or-death thing, you know? No, not
you. Iโ€™m talking about me. This shit goes a certain way and youโ€™re looking
at a dead man. Thereโ€™s not a place in this world Savini wonโ€™t find me. Well,
maybe thereโ€™s one place . . . but more on that in a minute.
You know Johnny Savini? You ever hear of that motherf

excerpt from my story. First, I just want to thank you for hearing me out. I know you came over tonight thinking something else was gonna happen. And, shit, who knows? If everything works out, who says it canโ€™t still happen, right? I do like guys. That part wasnโ€™t a lie. And you are cute. But obviously you already know that. I mean, Jesus Christ, look at you. Youโ€™re fucking ripped. Which was why I chose you. I need someone with some goddamn muscles. The shit I would let you do to me . . . but not right now. Later, maybe. Iโ€™m sorry, but horny is probably the last emotion Iโ€™m feeling tonight, as crazy as that sounds. I also want to emphasize that you arenโ€™t a hostage. You can leave any time you want. Yes, I have the gun, but itโ€™s not like Iโ€™m going to use it. Iโ€™ve never shot anybody in my life. The only reason Iโ€™m even holding it now is because you saw it when you werenโ€™t supposed to and started freaking out. Iโ€™ll put it away the moment you calm down. And yeah, okay, technically youโ€™re wearing handcuffs right now, but cโ€™mon. Theyโ€™re pink and fuzzy. These are not hostage handcuffs. Their purpose is to inspire erections, not fear. Iโ€™ll unlock them the moment Iโ€™m done telling you what I gotta say. And then, if you donโ€™t want to help me out, you can leave. No problem. Itโ€™s a free country, right? Iโ€™m not trying to make you do anything against your will. Except maybe listen. Iโ€™ll ungag you as soon as Iโ€™m finished, I promise. Look, Iโ€™m in a bit of a fucking pickle here, all right? And thatโ€™s putting it lightly. The problem I got, itโ€™s a life-or-death thing, you know? No, not you. Iโ€™m talking about me. This shit goes a certain way and youโ€™re looking at a dead man. Thereโ€™s not a place in this world Savini wonโ€™t find me. Well, maybe thereโ€™s one place . . . but more on that in a minute. You know Johnny Savini? You ever hear of that motherf

GabaGhoul: A Mafia Horror Anthology is officially out TODAY, and it includes my story "The Corpse Box"

31.05.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Brian Asman: Full Conversation | This Is Horror Get more from This Is Horror on Patreon

Today's treat on the This Is Horror Podcast Patreon, the full conversation with Brian Asman (@thebrianasman.bsky.social) on writing fearlessly.

www.patreon.com/posts/130332...

31.05.2025 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

... telling you a story you've heard countless times before, but you've really missed them in the intervening years, and all you want to do is listen to their voice. I just love it.

30.05.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Exactly how long can you stand on a street corner showing two drug dealers your scar-tissue-induced radical penis curvature? The answer is twelve seconds. After that it feels weird."

Man, coming back to SKULLCRACK CITY by @jrjisprobable.bsky.social is like catching up with an old friend...

30.05.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Cover art of POSTHASTE MANOR by Trevor Henderson: a dog's head and a rat's head juxtaposed together, hovering over a manor in dark lit only from within by mysterious orange-yellow light.

Features:
Homicidal Homes & Gardens!
Tortured Artists!
So Many Dead Husbands!
Kinky dead swingers
Nosy dead repairmen
ARE YOU DOG OR ARE YOU RAT?

Cover art of POSTHASTE MANOR by Trevor Henderson: a dog's head and a rat's head juxtaposed together, hovering over a manor in dark lit only from within by mysterious orange-yellow light. Features: Homicidal Homes & Gardens! Tortured Artists! So Many Dead Husbands! Kinky dead swingers Nosy dead repairmen ARE YOU DOG OR ARE YOU RAT?

๐Ÿ–คโ˜ ๏ธ$0.99 sale๐Ÿ–คโ˜ ๏ธ

A book never goes out of fashion; it can always use more eyes on it; & you, yes YOU, look like you need A SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP HOUSE in your life.

Get @carsonwinter.bsky.social & @jolietoomajan.bsky.social's POSTHASTE MANOR for less than a buck direct from us!

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30.05.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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COVER REVEAL!

Thrilled to share this new cover for the paperback edition of A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS, releasing Oct 7.

Now up for preorder wherever you buy books.

Features an Introduction by Clay McLeod Chapman and an original bonus story, "Hot Red Dress."

pfracassi.com/a-child-alon...

26.05.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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