@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
We're a small press publishing genre fiction. We offer a selection of original books, zines, and magazine articles. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member). Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
The chapbook covers of "Jubilee Juncture" and "Laughlines", featuring a broken doll with her eyes X'ed out, and a portrait of a nobleman with his face scratched out and replaced with a laughing jester emoji.
Out today! The next two installments in @natcassidy.bsky.social's From the Cassidy Catacombs chapbook series!
"Jubilee Juncture" and "Laughlines" are available exclusively from our shop:
shop.shortwavepublishing.com/collections/...
Cover of the fabulous Gemma Files' newest anthology LITTLE HORN STORIES
Such a wonderful way to spend October! I am allowing myself one story a day. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social
04.10.2025 18:55 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Nice to see The Sundowner's Dance on this Halloween list from @bookshop.org (and nice representation for @shortwavebooks.bsky.social overall)!
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Peppermint Candy Cain Kills? @brianmcwriter.bsky.social
02.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Another quarter, another day of paying out royalties to all of our fantastic authors 💰, and another donation of all funds raised from sales of our Shadows in the Stacks anthology to the Library Foundation SD!
01.10.2025 22:14 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0"Between this and Devil’s Creek, Todd Keisling is carving out a spot for himself as an absolute master of cosmic/cosmic-cult horror."
I'm humbled. Thank you. 🖤
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social @beckylejeune.bsky.social
Can’t think of abetter way to kick off October than w/ one of the ascendant greats like @pedroiniguez.bsky.social chatting w/me about MR. HALLOWEEN Ray Bradbury for Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author. Like I told @alandistro.bsky.social over at @shortwavebooks.bsky.social: this is a special one!
01.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Kicking off both my annual #31HorrorBooksforHalloween and @sffworld.com's annual Countdown is THE SUNDOWNER'S DANCE by @toddkeisling.com @shortwavebooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2025/10/sffw...
01.10.2025 17:41 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1Bradbury's blend of sci-fi and horror is unmatched! "We are an impossibility in an impossible universe." What’s your favorite Bradbury tale? 🪐📚 #RayBradbury #SciFi
01.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR'S FAVORITE AUTHOR: Pedro Iniguez on Ray Bradbury!
"I straddle science-fiction and horror prose along with speculative poetry, and no one did that better than Ray."
Read @patrickbarb.bsky.social's interview with @pedroiniguez.bsky.social in our magazine:
bit.ly/4pNWk4n
Believe it or not, I am in this! My story in Obsolescence is how this wild writerly journey began.
01.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Litter Horn by Gemma Files The Long Low Whistle by Laurel Hightower Jubilee Juncture by Nat Cassidy Laughlines by Nat Cassidy Killer VHS keychain Killer VHS membership card
The last quarterly box from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social is here!! Packed with highly anticipated books that are LEAPING to the top of the TBR. From @laurelhightower.bsky.social, @gemmafiles.bsky.social, and @natcassidy.bsky.social.
#booksky
Very cool to be two of these 101 gathered horror stories!! Grab the eBook box set now! ✨️🖤
30.09.2025 16:14 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Super excited and still very humbled to have my uncanny valley (reprint) short story out in Dark Frequencies and be among amazing names like these! ✨
30.09.2025 15:19 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A graphic featuring the cover art of 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories, Vol. 1 below the text: "Out Today! 101 Horror Stories from nearly 90 Authors including Nat Cassidy, Adam Cesare, Hailey Piper, Clay McLeod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Eric LaRocca, Gabino Iglecias, Johnny Compton, Laurel Hightower, Brian Keene, Tanya Pell, Jamie Flanagan, Mae Murray, and many others..."
Out today! 101 Horror Stories: Shortwave Publishing Collected Stories Vol 1
Featuring stories from nearly 90 authors, this eBook box set contains our previous anthologies and the new anthology Dark Frequencies (stories from our magazine and chapbooks).
shortwavepublishing.com/boxset/short...
In better news, UPS found my @shortwavebooks.bsky.social box & I couldn’t be happier. @gemmafiles.bsky.social comes out of the gate w a story about a forensic necromancer 🖤
We now return you to my anxiety spiraling firehose of Dino statue scheming & giant skeleton costuming already in progress.
Only *3* extra boxes left!
29.09.2025 17:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
November 2nd at @vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social is the release for THE LONG LOW WHISTLE from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social ! @beaujohnson44.bsky.social kindly let me join in his epic stateside signing - would love to see you! I managed to finagle the presence of the elusive @frank212.bsky.social too
29.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
The new Killer VHS keychains are also available separately!
shop.shortwavepublishing.com/collections/...
Just listed in our shop!
We have *10* Q4 Book Boxes available! Contains two @natcassidy.bsky.social chapbooks, @laurelhightower.bsky.social's THE LONG LOW WHISTLE, a hc of @gemmafiles.bsky.social's LITTLE HORN, and the NEW Killer VHS keychain, all available before they are released!
bit.ly/46MvK33
The new Killer VHS keychains are also available separately!
shop.shortwavepublishing.com/collections/...
Just listed in our shop!
We have *10* Q4 Book Boxes available! Contains two @natcassidy.bsky.social chapbooks, @laurelhightower.bsky.social's THE LONG LOW WHISTLE, a hc of @gemmafiles.bsky.social's LITTLE HORN, and the NEW Killer VHS keychain, all available before they are released!
bit.ly/46MvK33
The coolest book mail drop I’ve had in a while.
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
@annieneugebauer.bsky.social
@gemmafiles.bsky.social
The cover of the first issue of Tales from the Twisted Spine. The cover features a heart made of veins and roots, wrapping around and intertwined with the letters of the title.
Cover/project reveal!
We're teaming up with The Twisted Spine to publish their exclusive Tales from the Twisted Spine chapbook!
The first issue features a new story from Victor LaValle.
Cover art and interior designed by @alandistro.bsky.social
More details on how to get your copy coming soon!
Yessss I'm psyched to be signing at @vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social on November 2nd with the amazing @beaujohnson44.bsky.social ! It's the release of THE LONG, LOW WHISTLE from @shortwavebooks.bsky.social and I hope you'll come hang out!!
26.09.2025 01:52 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Hey! Did you know that Little Horn: Stories (from Shortwave) is almost here? I'm hugely proud of this book, and you can order it thusly: shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...
25.09.2025 17:59 — 👍 46 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 0
Big thanks to @patrickbarb.bsky.social for chatting with me about the great Mariana Enriquez for @shortwavebooks.bsky.social. We talked: polluted places, collective shame, horror with a social consciousness, the “default” reader, the early internet, borderlands, and more.
25.09.2025 16:02 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0And this week our final 2025 Quarterly Book Boxes are shipping out!
What an awesome project this has been this year. Thank you to all subscribers who signed up and helped support all of our 2025 titles. We hope you enjoyed your great new books this year (and the fun merch!). 🖤
Screenshot of Our Authors page, featuring a sampling of the authors we've worked with.
Did you know every author we've published has their own page on our site? Whether they had a single short story in an anthology, or we've published half a dozen of their books, everyone gets a bio, photo, list of titles and magazine stories, news articles, etc.
shortwavepublishing.com/our-authors/
