@tenebroustexts.bsky.social
Author, artist, creative, publishing house
A colourful image, showing the 15 book covers that Tenebrous Texts have published between January and October 2025, and one of their variant logos, featuring the Rainbow overlaid their 'snowy trees' image.
And just like that it was October, and we had published 15 books.
15.
Voices you won't hear in the mainstream.
Talent the "big names" would love to have.
Working class. Independent. Alternative.
Orderable from any good bookshop.
A #bloody retelling of #robinhood
In 1,000 years nothing has changed #religiouswar #racewar #classwar #resistance #revolution #defiance
Revisit the past write the future #workingclass #fuckthepatriarchy
Lore of the Sælvatici
Hurnungaz
Hurnungaz the Dark Breath of Earth
Hurnungaz Dissever me Never
Two very different kinds of books: 'All the Colours of the Night', Lorna Rose, and 'Feral Dreaming', Steven C. Davis. The first is poetry, the second is semi-autobiographical. With time travel. And spirit guides. Both are deeply personal. Both are worth picking up from any good independent bookshop.
20.07.2025 09:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Glad you enjoyed it! We're hoping for more of this sort of thing!
20.07.2025 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book 7 of the 'Less than Human' series - Seven by Seven is here! In which Natalayiana Harewood, social worker and Were-Squirrel becomes Were Matriarch and everything changes. NSFC. Adult themes.
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In which I do an interview for the wonderful Harvey Duckman press: harvey-duckman-is-alive.ghost.io/stevencdavis...
15.06.2025 09:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We don't just say "We stand for Trans" .. we actually stand (that's Tenebrous in the green hair) and for our whole LGBT+ family, for the Roma community and more .. Tenebrous is a publishing community with an ethos, with pride, with honour ... and with talent.
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Celebrating 15 years of Tenebrous Texts and 32 publications! In between creating this microvideo and uploading it, that number is now 33.
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What has Tenebrous Texts published this year?
Constructing Churchill, Jon Hartless
Tenebrosian Ekphrasticity, anthology
Freshly dipped and bleeding love, Steven C. Davis
From Earth and Sky, Sadie Kaye
Hurnungaz Dissever me Never, SCD
The Green Boy, Laura Liptrot
Crown Her With Ivy, Lorna Rose
Phew
The 'Hurnungaz' trilogy is now available on the big river site and from all good bookshops. Chronicling a dark mythological-inspired/ visceral dark Pagan retelling of the Robin Hood cycle, this is the peoples' hero - but not as you might have read about before.
06.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us! Two #book #booklaunch for the price of one!
'Hurnungaz Dissever me Never' by Steven C. Davis and 'The Green Boy' by Laura Liptrot. Tenebrous Texts!
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Tenebrous Texts - see our gigs list for book launches, events, sales etc and why not join us on Sat 6th September in Wednesbury Library for our first mini-festival - 4.5 hours of plays, storytelling, music, art, poetry and more - all free!
31.03.2025 11:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our first three publications of the year - 'Constructing Churchill' by Jon Hartless, my 'Freshly dipped and bleeding love' (debut poetry collection) and 'Tenebrosian Ekphrasticity' an ekphrastic collection featuring the talents of Brendan Hawthorne, Al Monde, Jason Fullwood, Ian Henery and myself.
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Something for World Poetry Day 2025.
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Happy 'World Book Day 2025' from Tenebrous Texts.
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Tenebrous Texts. We bring the dark, speculative, alternative fiction and poetry, including carrying Hopeless, Maine books and art at events.
Dark Pagan Robin Hood retelling; space-fantasy-romance; poetry; shape-shifter tales examining society ... and a new website soon!
'Tenebrosian Ekphrasticity' is a collaborative work of art and poetry by Jason Fullwood, Ian Henery, Al Monde, Brendan Hawthorne and Steven C. Davis.
Presented in glorious full colour (internal as well as cover) and in hardback only, this is wonderfully different from anything we've done before ...
Tenebrous Texts has a fantastic and very busy year ahead of them - potentially a couple of dozen publications - and our first is already out - Constructing Churchill, by Jon Hartless. If you like snark taking a swipe at the predator class (they like to think they rule, but no) then this is for you.
29.01.2025 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Hurnungaz (the novel) now available in @scripthavenltd.bsky.social in Worcester!
Laura Liptrot, reading from her poetry collection, 'Cocktails'.
Laura Liptrot performing her poetic works at the Court House in Dudley on 18.01.2025.
A display of books by Laura Liptrot and Laura Jane Round at Saturday Books in Dudley
The six (so far!) books from the 'Less than Human' series by Steven C. Davis, taken on 18.01.2025, at Saturday Books, and a chalkboard sign saying Local Authors.
Good to see Laura Liptrot smashing it at this morning's Poetry Breakfast at the Court House in Dudley as well as the opportunity to perform (for the first time) 'On a declaration of independence', & 'Transformation' w/Laura Jane Round, the first poem we ever delivered together as Poetic Malevolence.
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A set of images or text, four across by three down, showing either fully created book covers, partial ideas, or simply the author and book titles. From left to right (top line): 'Constructing Churchill', by Jon Hartless. 'Tenebrosian Exphrasticity', an anthology. The draft image for the 2nd book in Laura Liptrot's 'Garden of Time' series. And text that says: 'Sadie Kaye, From Earth and Sky'. Middle line: Text that says, 'Here there be monsters, anthology'. The cover of Hurnungaz Dissever me Never' by Steven C. Davis. Then 'Nimue Brown Fast Food at the Centre of the World' and Nimue Brown, 'Fast Fashion at the Centre of the World. Bottom line: 'Freshly dipped and bleeding love' cover; book by Steven C. Davis. 'Lorna Rose, All the Colours of the Night'. The cover image for book 7 of the 'Less than Human' series by Steven C. Davis. And finally, the cover for 'Feral Dreaming' by Steven C. Davis.
Happy new year - 2025 will be better! And what does everyone's favourite goth/dark/alternative publisher have planned? Well, see below, this is only what's coming up in the first half of the year or so.
10.01.2025 11:08 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Coming soon - 'Seven by Seven', the 7th in a Were-series set in the UK.
WereSquirrels.
Feral writing.
Social commentary.
Books 1-6 from me, good bookshops or the big rainforest company.
No one can tell if you're a Were by looking at you.
A series about identity, about being true to yourself.
The third novel in the 'Hurnungaz' series will be launched in May '25.
Are you interested in folk lore?
Dark Paganism?
Myths and legends?
Robin Hood?
Reinterpreted Norse mythology?
Tales of defiance of authority?
Visceral, bloody, tales.
Check out 'Hurnungaz' and 'Hurnungaz the Dark Breath of Earth'
14.12.2024 16:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tenebrous Texts and 2024: VoidHeart, The Croviss Girls, Hurnungaz, I am not a padlock, Synapse, Hurnungaz the Dark breath of Earth, Dreamcatchers in paperback.
And William and the Dancer, William and the Manticoras, Maelmoth the Wanderer, The Hel-Boar of Kedbyy and Elu of Keadby kindle tales.
The second time, I think, that the Saelvatici crossed paths with Hopeless, Maine ...
06.12.2024 18:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today on the blog we have some exciting news from @tenebroustexts.bsky.social hopeless-maine.co.uk/2024/12/06/t...
06.12.2024 11:40 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Find them on that rainforest superstore or anywhere you get your Kindle fix.
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There's a pair of tales out in the Saelvatici world ... Elu is the daughter of Thoralf, headman of the village, but her mother ... this is a pair of tales about swans and boar, wild femininity and gods and belief.
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Full on storyteller mode for last night's delivery of 'The Littlest Krampus' at Katie Fitzgerald's, Stourbridge. To be level with the audience, to set the scene so they are there, in Sherewode, as outlaws, on a freezing cold night, a low fire is crackling and all their concentration is on the Skald.
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