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the august horror list is live, feat. new books from @johnlangan.bsky.social @scumbelievable.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @patrickbarb.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social @daphnefama.bsky.social @steelhester.bsky.social @chucktingle.bsky.social & more!

Two boxes of the described tea stand on either side of the suggested book.

This week's Cozy Reads Tea Kit is Pomegranate, Raspberry & Strawberry Green Tea, available on Fri 7/18 until 5pm, and Sat 7/19, 10am-3pm.
Our matching book is "Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Two" edited by Alex Woodroe, published by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social.
#libsky #cozyreads

Publishers Marketplace announcment: Sonora Taylor and Matthew Pritt's SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES, the eighth volume of the split novelette series, featuring "Passing Glance," in which a young woman reuniting with college friends discovers strange and terrible things during their overnight stay in the infamous Moore Mansion, a house built to be a city, but which unfolds like a trap; and "Lash Egg," in which a plague threatens to collapse an entire ecosystem and a refugee must discover how he has offended the local deity or risk losing the only safe place he’s ever found, to Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone at Tenebrous Press, with Alex Ebenstein editing, for publication in April 2026.

🎉💀SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT🎉💀

Friday's a good day to SCREAM & we're thrilled to announce the authors of the 8th(!) volume of our split-novelette series, SPLIT SCREAM.

Welcome to the Tenebrous Cult, @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social

SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES, coming April 2026🖤☠️

“Characters to sink into & a gorgeous setting, this modern Gothic fantasy touched on the soul of so many of my favourite classics, but stands unique through the mesmerizing use of folklore & excellent unfolding of mystery right up to the end.”

Thank you @alexwoodroe.com for blurbing DEMON SONG! 🖤🥰🎶

That's so wonderful to hear and it means the world to me, thank you

Hahahaha I had no idea!!!

A cute terrier sniffing at a corn stalk in a very, incredibly green hillsy setting

Volunteer corn popped up by the stream, seeds spread probably from last year's harvest in nearby fields. Plants are cool

Nightwish Your innermost fears lead you inexorably to a dream of death... your own death! Using sensory deprivation techniques, a doctor of parapsychology provokes his students to examine their own deaths in evermore horrifying circumstances. Roles are exchanged and shuffled as reality and fantasy become indistinguishable and each new dreadful death

Having a rough one, so I'm cheering myself up by looking up what's good on Night Flight for tonight's viewing. Check this out, never heard of it before but damned if it isn't speaking right to my interests

CRUSH IT

Oh yeah. Well, dwindling now but a lot of them after the revolution went "oh no we were never with THAT crazy guy, we're the good communists, we swear". They are as much a reason as he is why "good communists" is speculative fiction

It's actually old Romanian mythology! Saturday's Waters is the name of the river that springs from the roots of the tree of life, circles the world nine times collecting all the other waters, and then pours into the afterlife. Saint Saturday is its patron. Caring for it is her job.

I'm confused, did you... Think I didn't know? That somehow my own history slipped past me in the night? Are you unwell? Do you need help

Thank you!!

Another favorite of mine is "he went down Saturday's waters"

That's one of ours, translated directly!

One of the old communist leaders of Romania tipped the priest yesterday, and the nation-wide celebration is so uplifting.
And before you tell me that we're not allowed to celebrate monsters passing, I just want to remind you that *this one* went naturally. We celebrated even harder for the other one

Hang on that's just a snack :)) I... would and do eat that just to eat it. A little lard on fresh baked bread, sprinkled with sweet paprika and salt, is basically our traditional breakfast :))

Wait I just remembered the worst one: pickled cabbage leaves! For a fever! On the chest under your shirt, and inside your socks.
I am still to this day absolutely *horrified* by even just the thought of having cold and damp feet. I cannot. I can't. I will not. Shan't. No. Nu-uh

Remembering old remedies today, and I think one of our weirdest was making red&yellow onion peel tea for coughs. Super pungent, foul-smelling concoction.
Still doesn't make me recoil as badly as lemon slices dipped in sugar for a sore throat. Love lemons! But dipped in sugar? never again.

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A'ight friends, it's almost time.
Revisiting guidelines, planning plans, reticulating splines. We have inbox zero.

(Also just in case: this system is nearly perfect but with thousands of submissions there may well still be blips so check your spam & check in if you should have heard but didn't)

JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world

We Like It Cherry, by @jacymorris.bsky.social (pub by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social) is like the son between Midsommar and Green Inferno, a shocking folk horror novella that horror lovers will find excellent.

Full thoughts:
jamreads.com/reviews/we-l...

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Honestly? It's fucking amazing; it's gruesome and tense. A must read of horror.

If this sounds like it would be right up your alley, I recommend you check it out!!! #WeLikeItCherry

Congratulations to the most emotionally balanced person I've ever met who writes the most emotionally unwell characters you've ever read, @jacymorris.bsky.social

Happy Release Day to @jacymorris.bsky.social & his incredible WE LIKE IT CHERRY!

“Not for the faint of heart. Morris’ narrative does not pull punches…Highly recommended for fans of Stephen Graham Jones.” @ala-booklist.bsky.social (starred review)

We're thrilled to have it loose in the wild🍒❄️💀

Michael Bettendorf's Author Interview - Getting to know writers a little better… Q. Why do you write? A. The short answer is I don’t think I have any other choice. The longer answer is as much as humans tend to destroy things; I think we ha...

Have you seen Michael Bettendorf's author interview over at @indiosyncrasy.bsky.social? You can read it here: indiosyncrasy.com/2025/03/18/m...

You'd think an exercise called "skull crushers" would be about crushing the skulls of your enemies, not your own, but god forbid a girl have hobbies

STUNNER!!!

No, I can't be normal about editing, why do you ask

Writers who have ever only had antagonistic feedback will think this sounds absurd because their experiences left them feeling drained and unmotivated. Maybe had them quitting entire projects altogether. So I suppose it's also fair to say that when it's bad, it is a destroyer of sum total energy