Johnny Compton

If I ever hit the Powerball, I think I would sink a lot of money into creating a HELLRAISER musical with PHANTOM of the OPERA production levels.

A flyer for Peter Rosch's book launch event at Austin's First Light Books. The event is a conversation with author Johnny Compton. It starts at 7PM. You can visit the link to RSVP with or without the purchase of a book! The flyer features the stunning book cover for WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO, Peter's debut speculative thriller from Crooked Lane Books.

#austin friends. Come celebrate the launch of my speculative thriller and send me off on my mini book tour in grand-ish fashion! In convo with @comptonwrites.bsky.social 👀 Aug 26 @ 7 PM at First Light Books.

Dream-come-true stuff (assuming we make it to August). thethirdplace.is/event/peter-... 🙏🖤🙏

I just got home. Invitation is always open.

Thanks for having me!

It's so much of a thing that there are several instances It's wild.

Whenever I'm feeling haughty about all the garbage everyone else consumes on social media, I remind myself that I'm strangely addicted to "marathon cheater drama" videos. Am I interested in running a marathon? No. Will I watch and rewatch hours of videos about marathon cheaters? Damn right I will.

Publisher's Marketplace post from Johnny Compton's Instagram Dated April 18, 2025 Where Devils Stand by Johnny Compton Titan Books Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Spite House, Devils Kill Devils, and the upcoming Dead First, Johnny Compton's Where Devils Stand, an anthology of stories centered on places where the Devil, according to rumor, legend, or tradition, has appeared on Earth, featuring a diverse range of acclaimed writers, including Erin Craig, Jamie Flanagan, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Clay McLeod Chapman, Erin E. Adams, Linda Addison, Cynthia Pelayo, and more, to Daniel Carpenter at Titan Books, by Lane Heymont at the Tobias Literary Agency (world rights).

Delighted to be part of a new upcoming anthology, WHERE DEVILS STAND, edited by the terrific @comptonwrites.bsky.social, about places where the devil is said to have been!
Look at those authors 🤩😈 @tananarivedue.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social and so many more!

Good morning. Today is National Indie Bookstore Day. Instead of shopping at Amazon, B&N, etc give stores like Vortex Books & Comics, Park Books, Midtown Scholar, Butcher Cabin, Bucket of Blood, Poisoned Pen, Cupboard Maker, Mysterious Galaxy, etc your business. Most have online stores, as well!

Devils Kill Devils|Paperback Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that readers fell in love with in ...

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Hell, I even have a vampire novel...

Fuck this shit.

Talk to your local librarian about any number of really great recent horror books by BIPOC authors.

Spite House by @comptonwrites.bsky.social comes readily to mind, for example.

Getting a tree trimmed at the house. Guy comes to give us an estimate talks about cypresses, elms and oaks with impressive enthusiasm. I immediately wonder if he's ever had to deal with a monster tree, or haunted tree, or cursed tree. A story he's never told. Gonna ask when he's done. #horrorbrain

Had a blast in San Antonio with @celsohurtado.bsky.social, @tvayyyy.bsky.social, and @comptonwrites.bsky.social. Great seeing @sgj.bsky.social, @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social, @itoromo.bsky.social, and everyone else!

I’ll be in San Antonio tomorrow hanging out with @itoromo.bsky.social, @tvayyyy.bsky.social, and @comptonwrites.bsky.social. Hope to see some of you there!

"One reason why Val Kilmer is rightly praised for his magnetic turn as Holliday is that he makes a murderous, borderline-psychopathic asshole likable...He’s a scoundrel at best, a bloodthirsty, opportunistic murderer at worst."

Yet Holliday's the most beloved character in the film, by far.

Perfect Rivals: Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo – TOMBSTONE Some rivalries are built and strengthened by the opponents being perfect opposites, but others are memorable because the enemies reflect each other a little too closely for comfort. Doc Holliday sp…

I think Val Kilmer was almost too good. He could be funny, quirky, heroic, villainous. A character actor with leading man looks. He was made to be a show-stealer.

Here's something I wrote a while ago about Doc Holliday and Johnny Ringo being perfect rivals. johnnycompton.com/perfect-riva...

So glad you enjoyed it!

Logo/cover for the Nightlight podcast. A black and white photo of a desolate road leading to an abandoned building. The word NIGHTLIGHT stands in the center in bold, orange text. At the bottom of the screen in smaller, white letters is: Audio horror for all. In the lower right corner is their logo: an orange lightbulb shaped like a fist. 

Nightlight: A Horror Fiction Podcast is back for it's 8th season and I'm honored to kick it off with my story, "The Spirit Bed", 1st pubbed in WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE? @omgjulia.bsky.social & @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, eds.

Read by @missdefying.bsky.social and free to listen!

nightlightpod.com

Domestic violence, abuse and sexual assault have been on the rise under this new administration. If you or someone you know needs help (shelter, legal aid, etc...) The national hotline is 800.799.SAFE (7233) or you can visit the website: www.thehotline.org

Episode 18: "Sweets to the Sweet" with Johnny Compton Listen to The Scares That Shaped Us on RedCircle

NEW EPISODE

@comptonwrites.bsky.social stops by to talk about his books THE SPITE HOUSE and DEVILS KILL DEVILS, and to dive deep into Robert Bloch's wickedly fun short story "Sweets to the Sweet" and its impact on his work.

LISTEN NOW:

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It's @comptonwrites.bsky.social week on The Scares That Shaped Us!

Episode drops Wednesday at Noon Central!

P.S. "Sweets to the Sweet" is in the collection PLEASANT DREAMS, which @valancourtbooks.bsky.social re-released *this month* so you can go grab it and read!

I'll reach out and check on Virginia's interest

"Early on, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and I used to watch kung fu movies, leave the theater, do some kung fu fighting, get on the train, keep fighting, and then run into MCs and musically battle them like it was a kung fu fight. That was my weekend habit." - RZA.

This should have been the whole TV series.

NEXT WEEK:

@comptonwrites.bsky.social joins the show to talk about his books, THE SPITE HOUSE and DEVILS KILL DEVILS, and to unpack the creepy power of Robert Bloch's legendary short story "Sweets to the Sweet."

Episode drops 2/19 at Noon Central!

What's the scariest or strangest thing you've seen on a road trip? @iameeadams.bsky.social might have you beat.

This is what I'm talking about. This is the mind of a writer on display. I love it

I'm at my favorite away-from-home writing spot, alone at a table for six because. A couple of men came up to ask if they could take two chairs, and of course I said yes, but then thought, "What kind of person would say no?" And now I need to write about this imagined, disagreeable individual.

YouTube video by JohnnyComptonAuthor "How Not to Start Your Novel"

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I'm fond of saying "read less writing advice, read more writing." So this isn't so much "writing advice" as it is "advice about writing advice." It's an hour long, it's a bit rambling, but I like to think it could be helpful.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH BOOKS

Black history month books!

Black history month books!

Happy Black History Month! Celebrating this month as a unified showcase and forever & always! These are just a few of my book recommendations. Enjoy these amazing stories! 🫶🏼 #booksky 🩸📚

Black History is American History.