Mathilda Zeller

It Looks Like You in the Dark, Mathilda Zeller

It's my pleasure to kickoff the year by helping spread the word on the cover of It Looks Like You in the Dark, by @mathildazeller.bsky.social.

Releasing October 13th, 2026

Full info:
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Thank you so much!!!

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Cover for It Looks Like You in The Dark on top of one of my icy lake photos with a little filter applied.

I’ve never preordered a book so fast... @mathildazeller.bsky.social has an Indigenous horror debut, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK, coming out October 2026!!! I became an instant fan when I read her short story "Kushtuka" in Never Whistle at Night. SO EXCITED! #booksky #indigenous #books

Stunned and grateful for the support, friends.

Thank you!!

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Elated to share @mathildazeller.bsky.social’s cover art for her Indigenous horror debut, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK, which expands her short story “Kushtuka” from that one anthology. It’s out October 13, 2026 and you should consider preordering it today :)

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This book was both the easiest and hardest thing I've ever written.

It's also the least made up thing I've written.

Quyanaq to @tornightfire for your faith in it, my agents for your advocacy, the incredible designers of the cover, and all the phenomenal people who said nice things about it.

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So like here's the thing

I have:

1) a newsletter that bothers inboxes less than once a year

and

2) something very cool that I would love your help with

So come sign up. If you do it before midnight tonight you'll be in on the party 😌🤫

fanart by @moscatdan

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I am!

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It was a pleasure to read it. <3

Hey, thanks for the shoutout! (sorry I'm seeing this so late!)

Book Deals: Week of November 3, 2025 Vintage lands a Shining-inspired horror anthology, Ron Chernow sets his next doorstopper biography, and more.

"The former centers on the Kushtuka, a creature who takes the form of a loved one, and a young woman whose sister goes missing from her remote Alaskan town." HOLY SHIT. My childhood in Alaska was FULL of Kushtuka ghost stories, so I'm gonna be FIRST IN LINE for @mathildazeller.bsky.social's book.

HEYYY Yes!! I'm so glad to hear it!!

“Kushtuka” by @mathildazeller.bsky.social in H&O’s #TheGhostBoxIV

How you hoped it would end.

Indeed @ttbrader.bsky.social similar in the devouring, but this time it’s for revenge/justice and not, um, supper.

I need to pay more attention to the graphics on the cover of the stories…

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Kushtuka by Mathilda Zeller in H&O's Ghost Box

Shared themes with yesterday's 'Window': smiles that distort faces, teeth that tear flesh ...

"...if it weren't flesh & blood itself, it wouldn't be able to do, whatever it just did."

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Heyyy Yes!

Thank you!!! (Sorry it's so belated, I just logged back in!)

For your consideration, if you are in a nominating mood and liked these stories:

"Kushtuka"
Short fiction
Vintage Books 9/19

"The Haunted"
Short fiction
Irreantum 10/17

A Roundtable Discussion on Indigenous Horror Many thanks to the contributors who sent the below responses. Never Whistle at Night, a haunting new anthology of dark fiction crafted by Native writers and edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van…

Hohóu to CrimeReads for providing a space for some of us from NWAN to share how we individually approached the anthology.

A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON INDIGENOUS HORROR
@tiffmorris.bsky.social
@andrealrogers.bsky.social
@tvayyyy.bsky.social
@mathildazeller.bsky.social

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AHHH THANK YOU CONNOR!

It's truly an honor to be a part of this issue of Irreantum!

Massage School update: I can now tell with very solid accuracy whether someone is right handed or left handed when they're laying facedown and unmoving

It's Sherlockian and I'm (literally lol) feeling it

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