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Fantasy / Horror / SciFi / Whatever The Unkillable Frank Lightning The Legend of Charlie Fish Death Aesthetic Stories in The Deadlands, PseudoPod, Bourbon Penn, and other cool places.

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That’s 88000 words in the rear view on my novel in progress. Getting pretty close to the end now.

22.11.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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Need more monsters in your life? How about β€œCreature From the Black Lagoon set during the great Galveston hurricane of 1900” or β€œFrankenstein but it’s a western?”

tachyonpublications.com?s=rountree&p...

21.11.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Final Curtain | Lethe Press edited by Steve Berman A mysterious dirge in human form, Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera is both man and monster, the villain of one of the more famous novels of the early 20th century. Fittingly...

Oh hey, I have a new short story coming soon in the Final Curtain anthology, tales about The Phantom of the Opera! Mine’s called β€œNow We Sing the Killing Song” and if you’ve been keeping up with my western monster stories, this is one of them!

www.lethepressbooks.com/product-page...

20.11.2025 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For the morning crowd.

19.11.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My son’s girlfriend was recently diagnosed with cancer. She’s a really awesome person and could use some help. Details are in the photo. Any help, even spreading the word, would be so appreciated. Can’t wait to see her kick cancer’s ass!

19.11.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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All set up at Then & Now Bookshop in Galveston! I’ll be here selling and signing books for the next few hours.

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In Galveston at Then & Now Bookshop

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Awesome! I’m gonna do a book signing there tomorrow!!

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That’s a strong stack of books!!

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Buttermilk pie is the best of all possible pies.

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I was 100% thinking about this book as I watched GDT's Frankenstein last week.
Do yourself a favor and pick it up!

07.11.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out my viscerally cinematic dark fantasy/horror novel, THE MONSTERS AMONG US, which recently won the Firebird Book Award and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award!

books2read.com/u/m27rzr

07.11.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Pyres cover in paperback and ebook with pull quote from Dan Howarth about the book

Pyres cover in paperback and ebook with pull quote from Dan Howarth about the book

Thank you as always, Gabino!
My second novel, #Pyres is picking up new reviews and readers, but I'd still love more people to check it out! πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯
Books2read.com/pyresnovel

07.11.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks @gabino.bsky.social !

Xmas HORRORMANCE !

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/las-posada...

07.11.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Shadow of Your Former Self A Shadow of Your Former Self [Grech, Amy, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Shadow of Your Former Self

www.amazon.com/Shadow-Your-...

07.11.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Calliope Street by Josh Hanson β€” Moonstruck Books A new psychedelic horror novel by author Josh Hanson

Thanks, Gabino!

Preorders are up for my upcoming novel, Calliope Street.
A story that digs into the relationship between tragedy and art, love and madness, with cult movies, crazy poets, and an actual cult.
www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/calli...

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Thanks, Gabino! ON COMICS AND GRIEF combines an exploration with the comics of 1976 with creative nonfiction about my mother and her death. It’s fragmented and experimental, and the reader is asked to make connections as they read.

07.11.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Four Weddings and a Funeral Director, showing a blonde woman handing some wilted flowers to a guy who looks like Hugh Grant

Four Weddings and a Funeral Director, showing a blonde woman handing some wilted flowers to a guy who looks like Hugh Grant

The goth house /barbie house meme with "they're dating" superimposed

The goth house /barbie house meme with "they're dating" superimposed

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR (by me, as Hazel Graves, Harper) is currently 99p in ebook!

It's a wild ride of a romcom about a funeral parlour and a bridal parlour that undergo a switcheroo...and the poor couple who have to clean up the mess. πŸŽ‚ πŸ–€ πŸͺ¦ πŸ’

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV/

07.11.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Heck yeah it is!

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⚑️⚑️⚑️

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😍😍😍😍😍

07.11.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for another #FridayReads Gabino!

Today I'll plug Old Habits Die Hard, a dark fantasy monk-heist novellette, in which Brother Statius must conduct a heist on his own monastery to defeat a demonic conspiracy.

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America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

Thank you, Gabino! Next week is my last in-person event of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION book tour, so I'm still hoping to signal-boost this new release where we examine real history & ghost lore through the lens of Gothic Literature! πŸ–€ bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

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Myopic Duplicity: Do the Ends Ever Justify the Means? Amazon.com: Myopic Duplicity: Do the Ends Ever Justify the Means? (Audible Audio Edition): Jeff Circle, Chris Ciulla, Eli Cranor, Hillary Huber, Suzanne Elise Freeman, Megan Tusing, Matt Godfrey, Andrea Emmes, Justin Price, Leonardo Audio: Books

Thanks, Gabino! I have a novelette included in this banger anthology, available in audio and ebook. 16 long crime stories, like an advent calendar of our worst impulses.

07.11.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Available now at your favorite digital store! Kick at the Darkness by Suleikha Snyder

So, I have this zombie apocalypse romance short. Like most zombie stories, it's not really about them. It’s about depression, isolation, immigrant experiences, and mistakes made. With some sex thrown in. People can grab Kick at the Darkness for $1.99: books2read.com/u/4Xrqqv

#fridayreads

07.11.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
THE GLASS GARDEN, by Jessica LΓ©vai. The book has a kaleidoscopic cover in green and red and is shown perched in a tree of lovely autumn foliage.

THE GLASS GARDEN, by Jessica LΓ©vai. The book has a kaleidoscopic cover in green and red and is shown perched in a tree of lovely autumn foliage.

Happy #FridayReads and Happy #Novellavember!

Got this picture of my youngest playing in a tree.

But seriously, if the horror you're reading doesn't have a mysterious, maybe alive, stained glass window in it, what are you even reading?
linktr.ee/authorlevai

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41: An Autobiography 41: An Autobiography [Buffington, J D] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. 41: An Autobiography

Thanks, Gabino!
The paperback of my grief horror soaked autobiography, 41, is only $7 on Amazon right now! This is the story of a horror author’s journey through pop culture, social events, cyclical trauma, and breaking out of those cyclesβ€”plus my personal ghost stories!
#FridayReads

07.11.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover. A young jackdaw on a dark, misty background with red fly agaric mushrooms to the foreground, surrounded by themes/vibes. The Haunting of Wounded Birds by Beverley Lee.

Book cover. A young jackdaw on a dark, misty background with red fly agaric mushrooms to the foreground, surrounded by themes/vibes. The Haunting of Wounded Birds by Beverley Lee.

Thanks, Gabino!
My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, releases in 5 days! If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys, this one's for you.
mybook.to/woundedbirds (I only need one more preorder to get me to my goal)

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