Shortwave Publishing

Celebrating our Class of 2026 Women in Horror this month, and all year long!

10 of our 18 titles publishing this year are by women, with our first two titles of the year, The Extra and Sleep Alone, releasing later this month!

Huge thanks to @sgj.bsky.social for including @brianmcwriter.bsky.social's CANDY CAIN KILLS in his list of his 13 Favorite Slasher Books in today's NYTimes!

There's even a shoutout for the sequel and the Killer VHS Series as a whole!

Merry Killmas in February! 🎁🔪🎄
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Look at this beautiful cover!! 😍

Hey, @natcassidy.bsky.social in da house! Loved Rest Stop (review in Locus, if that’s your thing). Anyway, homie got some talented new guy named @stephenking.bsky.social to write the intro, which is exactly the kind of stuff Nat deserves. (@alandistro.bsky.social)

FEEL THE KEYS AND POKE THE EYES

Full wrap reveal for @natcassidy.bsky.social's I KNOW A PLACE.

Designed by @alandistro.bsky.social, this will be our first embossed cover (feel the keys and poke the googly eyes!) and our first book over 500 pages (look at that chonky spine!).

I KNOW A PLACE will be released May 5th everywhere!

This spring we're putting @laurelhightower.bsky.social's powerful CROSSROADS back in print with a new Shortwave edition.

Featuring all-new spot-glossed cover art by @alandistro.bsky.social, a new editing pass, but the same award-winning story (This is Horror, Novella of the Year).

Out April 21st!

Super cool news; doesn’t get any better than an introduction by this dude @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social

A brochure for the Fairview Acres retirement community that is actually an ad for The Sundowner's Dance by Todd Keisling.

This is one of the best advertising gimmicks I've seen for a horror novel. It looks like a flyer for a retirement community. But it looks a little off...

There's a QR code on the back. It leads to a page for The Sundowner's Dance by @toddkeisling.com.

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"Harrowing... While all 13 tales are chilling, Nat Cassidy nimbly hops genres throughout... but there’s a refreshing streak of irreverence amid the gloom. Cassidy's biting sense of humor shines through the mounting dread of these relentlessly upsetting tales." – Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly review for @natcassidy.bsky.social's I KNOW A PLACE just dropped!

I KNOW A PLACE is out everywhere May 5th!
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Name 5 authors you’ve read 3 short stories by. Stories have to be published within the last 10 years.

Nat Cassidy
Lyndsey Croal
Gemma Files
Philip Fracassi
Rae Wilde

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"The Extra is a masterwork of tension from page one."

Thanks for the great review!

Congrats to @gemmafiles.bsky.social, LITTLE HORN was announced as one of five 2025 Bram Stoker Award Finalists for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection!

We published LITTLE HORN last October in Hardcover, Paperback, and eBook.

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"Who among you is ready to know more?"

Cover reveal time for @comptonwrites.bsky.social's CHIMERA SKIN, a short science-fiction horror novel.

First contact. Apocalyptic. A messianic alien. This is unlike anything you've read from Johnny before!

Cover design by @alandistro.bsky.social.

More info: shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/chim...

Me, a woman with dark wavy hair in a black shirt holds up a copy of Sleep Alone in front of a wooden fence.

That’s me holding a final print copy of SLEEP ALONE!!!

It’s perfect. It even has that delicious book smell.

March 17 from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social

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By the way, if yesterday’s announcement got you feeling preordery, I know a great indie bookshop you could support this weekend …

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Stephen King Writes Intro For Nat Cassidy’s Story Collection Literary horror giant Stephen King rarely writes full introductions for contemporary books. Nat Cassidy's 'I Know a Place' is the rare exception to the rule.

I'm so grateful to @forbes.com and @joshuahweiss.bsky.social for helping me and @shortwavebooks.bsky.social break a little news . . .

And, of course, I'm beyond grateful to @stephenking.bsky.social. But that's really been true for quite some time.

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I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy - Shortwave Publishing The first collection from USA Today bestselling author Nat Cassidy, featuring his unique blend of gleefully terrifying short fiction. "[A] platter of phobias… Luckily, for every scare, there is a sens...

I KNOW A PLACE will be released on May 5th in Paperback, eBook, and Audio formats.

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We are incredibly grateful to King for taking the time to contribute an introduction. While he has written a few times for legacy anniversary editions, we are hard-pressed to think of many examples of a contemporary book being introduced by King. Making this quite the honor.

HUGE NEWS: Just announced in a @forbes.com exclusive, @stephenking.bsky.social has written an introduction for @natcassidy.bsky.social's I KNOW A PLACE! 👀

King recently called the collection "f*cking great," and his six-page introduction expands upon that.

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The Lovely Darkness of 'You Have To Let Them Bleed' - The Fandomentals You Have To Let Them Bleed, the newest collection by Stoker-nominated writer and poet Annie Neugebauer (The Extra, The Other) is a carefully curated descent

"This is horror that asks for attention and rewards it."

Thanks to Abby Wolf with The Fandomentals for the in-depth review of @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED. Check out the whole review. Then preorder!

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I Know a Place Review: Where the Light Never Quite Reaches I Know a Place is just the kind of collection we all need while we wait for the next outstanding horror novel from Nat Cassidy.

I Know a Place is just the kind of collection we all need while we wait for the next outstanding horror novel from Nat Cassidy.

@natcassidy.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social

Orange graphic with Sleep Alone cover (dirty buckle boots hiding a little blood splatter) and reasons you might like it: hungry queer succubi, a band on the run, loud music grimy dives & a bloody road trip, love in all its gory forms, award finalist, bonus short story!

One month until SLEEP ALONE releases from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social !

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I’m 39 today! I’d love you to check out the books I have for preorder! 💝

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Night of the Witch-Hunter - Killer VHS Series #6 (Paperback) Release Date: March 18, 2025 Paperback Edition Comes in a cardboard "video rental" shipping box 192 Pages 5.5" x 8.25" Full color cover “The modern day Goosebumps for adults.”—Horror Obsessive t’s 199...

#BuyMyBooks NIGHT OF THE WITCH-HUNTER. My Y2K Witchcraft Time Travel Supernatural Slasher for @shortwavebooks.bsky.social’s Killer VHS novella line.

Trivia: the title is based in part on one of my all-time fave movies the Robert Mitchum-starring, Charles Laughton-directed NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.

Congrats to @cybergodwrites.bsky.social on a *starred* review from @ala-booklist.bsky.social for his forthcoming poetry collection, NEUROTICA!

"Complex and atmospheric... Amongst the unease and sense of foreboding, there is belief in the power of one's heart to prevail." —Booklist, starred review

Wonderful gif use. 😂