Angry Robot Books

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...

Agreed. This one rocks though.

A photo of a cover reveal panel. The cover is for a book called First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston. It features an archaic looking spaceship on scaffolding with a moon behind it. It is designed by Alice Coleman.

"Not because it's easy, but because it's hard."

Next up, in our cover reveal round-up, coming up on the 14th of April 2026, from the excellent
@cameronjohnston.bsky.social
a group of mages on the up...

Magic! War! Gods! Bureaucracy! Secrets! And lies!

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, what is real?"

Philip K. Dick

For the evening people. For the people further through the day.

A cover reveal graphic featuring the cover for The Violently Departed by Sarah J. Daley. The artwork features a human skull surrounded by red flames and red blooms.

So, we have some cover reveals to catch up on this week.

First of these is @sarahjdaley.bsky.social's excellent dark fantasy crime novel, The Violently Departed, publishing on April 28th 2026.

Nuns! Investigators! Demons! Dark secrets! An unlikely friendship! A terrible murder!

"Say 'Ahhhhhhhhhhggghhh'"

@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social looks at some recent examples of medical horror to investigate why the genre is especially telling in dystopian times.

The doctor will see you now...

A gigantic tree with eyes waves claw-like branches menacingly as a knight on horseback, dwarfed by its size, prepares to fire an arrow. Crows are flying around.

An enormous scary tree in an illustration by Nikolai Vorobiev for a 1970s book on Russian folk tales. I'm embarrassed that I know nothing about the story because it looks cool. However, the picture seemed ideal for #ThickTrunkTuesday.
#folklore #legends #folktales #illustration #Russian

"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
Gene Wolfe

📢Blog Tour Klaxon📢

'The Haunting of William Thorn' by @benaldersonauthor.bsky.social has modern characters and relationships, but deep down is a classic feeling spooky tale.

Out now

My SFBook.com review: sfbook.com/the-haunting...

Thank you @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social @caramalines.bsky.social

SFFH: A Deferred and Dramatised Apocalypse. Discuss.

Don't listen to us, listen to David.

(Also: cake!)

Can now confirm that there will indeed be a special guest.

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” - Ray Bradbury

Just the best.

Hey I'll be in London tomorrow at Waterstones Trafalgar Square with legends Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden, V. Castro and Ally Wilkes!

Tickets at the link in Tim's post. It's going to be a lot of fun!!

"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
J.R.R. Tolkien

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

The proportions of this image are about right for my library too.

Sweeeet!

A Flock of Nazgûls
UTúrin
The Smiths-of-Wooton-Major

#Tolkien1980sBands

“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality: for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it wisely”
@terriwindling.bsky.social

Great panel with @rainewilson.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com and Marko Hautala, moderated by @laurenwrites.bsky.social: Dark Fantasy vs Horror.

No fighting yet, but excellent discussion on another @britfantasysoc.bsky.social online day 🙌

This is on cheap on Kobo as well! Basically fun grimdark, as we root for the monstrous horde to take out the holy knight 'good guys'. I really enjoyed it.

Take it from a longtime editor/author/musician: no legitimate publisher/agent/book club/record label will ask you for money to work with you. Anyone who does is scamming and won’t do anything for you.

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-277

Wishing Alasdair, a champion of all that is best about SFFH and a great friend to the community, a very happy birthday. Give yourself a present and check out the links to his writing and work.

Decided to try following along with #drawtober this year! This is my art for prompt 1, candlelit messenger.
This is called ‘The Catacombs’, and I’ll be selling the original at World Fantasy Convention 2025. It’s been a while since I’ve taken part in Drawtober, and I’m really enjoying it so far!

"Stoker had to do most of his writing - as the letter-heads of his notes for Dracula attest - in hotel bedrooms while on tour, in railway trains, and during occasional lulls in the proceedings at the Lyceum. And, of course, during his annual summer holiday."

Nightmare, Christopher Frayling