Jonathan Lees

I forgot this app existed. Hi.

I thought it was Bruce Jenner

World is a horror show yet again, but I wanted to highlight this Defenders story I wrote for the new Marvel: Black, White, & Blood and Guts #4.

In particular, I added a shout out to @cgolden.bsky.social & @briankeene.bsky.social whose Defenders Dialogue podcast got me back into the team.

Today on the Horror blog: Becky's Best Horror 2025

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Librarians deserve more love, more notice, and more respect.
Thrilled to see this @raforall.bsky.social
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Cover of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER - a dark but colorful illustration showing a winged creature with a human face, wings, and long trailing tails, in vibrant gold and orange tones, flying upwards towards the top right corner, while dozens of dark serpents with glowing eyes and forked tongues travel in the opposite direction. The book contains 16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name. Table of contents: Nadia Bulkin -- Infested ** Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette ** Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face Alexander Hay -- LEAD ** Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope Laura Mauro -- Ptichka ** David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful ** A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb Clint Smith -- “January Sick” J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector ** Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege ** Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber Pamela Weis -- An Abomination A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert ** Cover art and design by RewX Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan

Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!

I looooove The Start of Something!

A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025

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Well-deserved

The Best Non-Fiction Award Winner is Queer as Folklore: the Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters by Sacha Coward.

The Great Halloween Puzzle & Podcast A Halloween mystery puzzle that changes as you build it, with a podcast that gives you clues and tells you the history of Halloween.

We’re 2 pledges away from $11,000. That’s gonna make a lot of puzzles.

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Mr @johnlangan.bsky.social says I’m a horror hipster. As if.

Ah! The Ghost Box!! I wish I had all the volumes!

31 Days of Horror: Day 19 -- Why I Love Horror, Pitt Horror Studies Collection Week Edition Featuring An Introduction by Ben Rubin

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One of the name gags on last night’s Treehouse of Horrors.

There is no higher honor.

A purple book cover with yellow lettering and an uncompromising hole in the center: the Dead Ink edition of THE CIPHER

Down in the UK! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social offers the Funhole for your amusement, edification, and emotional dismemberment :) Preorders are live right now. #funhole

The Westport Library The Library is located on the shores of the Saugatuck River on Jesup Green, with ample free parking. WiFi, cafe, exhibits, programs, children services, public computers, reference services, audiovisua...

If you missed Westport Library’s STORYFEST this weekend (like I did) they taped all the panels. Just listened to @raforall.bsky.social’s Why I Love Horror and @datlow.bsky.social’s Night & Day panels. Fantastic thoughts from some of the best & brightest in horror fiction. youtube.com/@westportlib...

SALEM'S LOT turns 50 as of today. Didn't know until my pal (and co-writer) Rich Chizmar told me.

'It: Welcome To Derry' Blows Open the Legend of Pennywise. It'll Shock You. In the new HBO series, 'It' and 'It: Chapter Two' creators Andy and Barbara Muschietti go deep on the sewer-dwelling entity in Stephen King’s classic book.

While making the IT movies, Andy and Barbara Muschietti had a lot of questions about Pennywise's origins.

Even Stephen King admitted ... he didn't know all the answers.

Here's how their new HBO series IT: Welcome to Derry fills in the blanks 🎈

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Also, buying direct doubles the royalty and I'd love to send the contributors a holiday check in December hint hint...

Book cover for THE COOK by Harry Kressing

Today's $2.99 Kindle deal! A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, THE COOK (1965) is a dark fable "beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels" (The Observer). www.amazon.com/Cook-Valanco...

The Inconsolables The Inconsolables - Kindle edition by Wehunt, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Inconsolables.

If you've fallen in love with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social's THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT, let me recommend THE INCONSOLABLES.

"Michael Wehunt is one of my favorite, trusted guides navigating stories of grief and loss, sadness and regret." @sadiehartmann.bsky.social

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💙📚🩸 It's the 1st & been awhile since I shared so:

Horror #publishers on Bluesky; mostly #indie & active (posting regularly or w/in past 6 mos)

***with confirmed NO AI policies (will not use or accept generated words/images)***

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Truly iconic.

This is why I am no longer allowed to pre-order any books. I almost always ordering twice in that window of time… sometimes three.
On a good note, this means one of my friends is gonna get a copy of Neil McRobert’s highly anticpated debut novella, Good Boy, from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social

The Death of Mountains Check out The Death of Mountains - <p>The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories...

yes!
i wrote a queer novella about the Death of Mountains coming for mountain in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's out now from @lethepress.bsky.social

you can get it here:

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The coolest book mail drop I’ve had in a while.
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
@annieneugebauer.bsky.social
@gemmafiles.bsky.social

Shocked at how well-stocked the HORROR section is at Barnes & Noble in Salem, NH. Seeing stuff I’ve never seen in person on bookshelves!