Nefarious Bat Press

Promo image for Hummingbird, featuring: Book cover - a humanoid figure with a skull for a head and antlers made of branches, with a body constructed of what look like tree roots Strapline: Small Town. Big Evil Blurb from Hailey Piper reading: "a Pulp Fiction-esque horror show"

It's #FridayReads time, so... here's Hummingbird!

A small-town horror in the Salem's Lot/Needful things vein, it features:

Obscene body trees!
Sardonic demigods!
Sapphic werefoxes!
Demonic preachers!
A cover by the brilliant @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social
And much more!

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We couldn't agree more!

Get your hands on a copy here

Phengaris There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Birds sing in ...

Thanks, Matt. Lovely to have you as a host again ❤️

Here's my novella, where nobody is being a good friend to anybody else, really.

Apart from maybe the ants.

#HorrorWritersChat

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@anna-orridge.bsky.social, it just hit me that this plaque goes beautifully with the cover of GOOD FOR HER!

Oh hell yes!!

Aw. Thank you for having me, Story Hour. Yes, that's me holding up a copy of 'Good For Her', the @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social anthology of women's rage, which I was reading from.
And Clay's very chilly story of mountaineering gone wrong was terrific. Very worth a listen.

August seems like a good month to tell the world more about The Denizens, my 2026 novel out through @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social

I can tell you one thing. It’s got one hell of a playlist.

Oooooh. Just remembered, I'm reading for @storyhour.bsky.social along with Clay Vermulm tomorrow at 7pm PDT (don't even ask what time that is in the UK lolsob).
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I'll be reading 'Babs' from the @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social anthology Good For Her.

I was kindly sent an eARC of this amazing anthology by @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social but I had to get myself a Real Book. It's SO perfectly timed and written - full review coming soon! #Bookthreads

Last day of this 2-for-1 ebook deal if you're so inclined 🦇🦇🦇

We don't accept or use LLM-extruded content in any form, for any reason

If you use it, in any form, for any reason - we don't want to hear from you

And for God's sake, stop calling probabilistic chatbots and auto-generators "AI." You're embarrassing yourself

Good For Her front cover

Good For Her HOT pink spine

So worth the wait, stunning! That spine 😍 🩷🩷

Promo image for The Debt, showing the book cover (a shadowy figure against a dark city backdrop) and promises of: Grifts and hustles Takedowns of the rich and powerful Smart, capable women getting even Ocean's 8, Leverage and Hustle vibes Unexpected twists 90s London setting

This is the book, if anyone's interested :)

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(You can also get it FREE from the Nefarious Bat web store all weekend if you buy a copy of Tradwife...)

Amazing endorsement of The Debt here from @sheenalouisef.bsky.social's Mum - a woman who knows her books :)

I am delighted 🎉🎉🎉

Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"

Promo image for Hummingbird showing: A. Book cover - a humanoid skeleton with antlers and a body taken over by tree roots and branches B. Strapline: "Small Town. Big Evil" C. Blurb from Hailey Piper, calling Hummingbird "a Pulp Fiction-esque horror show"

Promo image for Saltblood, with the strapline "Black Mirror In The Deep Blue Sea" And a 5 star review from Scream Magazine

Hello! I help run @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social with @shaunamceleney.bsky.social - and we're both *massive* lesbians

I also write extremely sapphic crime and horror books, with nary a cishet bloke in sight...

(Most recently, Tradwife, Hummingbird and Saltblood, as well as a few others)

My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen, Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, and Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne are some recent horror favorites of mine!

Currently reading We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer, and so far, so good!

We hear sapphic sci-fi/spec fic and horror is flooding the shelves of UK/US bookstores lately - so much so, readers are struggling to find a hetero female MC amid this rising tide of textual lesbianism!

So tell us: what's the best sapphic horror/spec fic you've read lately?

Phengaris There's something very wrong in Thurstrop Wood.Mark Warner never noticed it before. He's there to get away from his life, his ailing mother. Out of his head. Not to think about anything.Birds sing in ...

Flying ants, do you say?

Did I mention that my novella has HUGE flying ants?

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Cover for ALL THE PIECES COMING TOGETHER: COLLECTED WORKS by Sonora Taylor. Features a blue skull with golden bleeding eyes.

Today's the day! ALL THE PIECES COMING TOGETHER: COLLECTED WORKS is now available wherever book are sold!

Manta Press: www.mantapress.com/product-page...

Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/all-...

B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/all-the-pi...

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Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"

Promo image for The Debt, showing the book cover (a shadowy figure against a dark city backdrop) and promises of: Grifts and hustles Takedowns of the rich and powerful Smart, capable women getting even Ocean's 8, Leverage and Hustle vibes Unexpected twists 90s London setting

Early weekend deal, direct from the Batcave!

Buy @tcparker.bsky.social's Tradwife from our ebook store... and get heist novel The Debt COMPLETELY FREE!

(Just add Tradwife to your cart and let Payhip do the rest :) )

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Oh, oh, oh I LOVE this

Hey, you know what else is on Bookshop.org, and eligible for this Anti-Prime Sale discount?

@anna-orridge.bsky.social's cosmic eco-horror Phengaris is what...

This Prime Day, support indie presses and authors directly if you can.

For instance, our friends at @ghoulish.bsky.social who will be moving shop locations soon! They're good people who put out good books.
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It's Anti-Prime Day!

Feels like a good time to go check out Tradwife on Bookshop.org

Tradwife Everyone remembers the Heart of Solomon murders: three …

My review of @tcparker.bsky.social 's and @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social 's
Tradwife.
Seriously, a book to inspire a rebellion.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

support indie presses!

And bookshop is offering free shipping through the 11th to celebrate.

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Nefarious Bat Press We're a female-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime and dark fiction

Prime Day is upon us - so, if you're of a book-buying inclination, please consider picking up some titles from indie bookstores and small presses

Here's our ebook shop - but you can also find our titles on Bookshop & order us in from your local brick-and-mortar store

Support indie. Keep us alive

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