May Walker

Thanks for the heads up! I didn’t even get an email. I had to call, but got a room!

I feel that. But…your name on that cover 😍

Guilt and grief and a gold ring. Add a little accidental blood magic and maybe the ocean will answer.

So excited for this!!!! 🖤🖤🖤

My new story "The Interior" is free to read today in print and in a phenomenal narration by @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social! @3lobedmag.com at www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/

"Separating art from the artist" is always a complicated conversation.

But when an artist says they are going to use their art's proceeds to further hurt marginalized people, don't just believe them, SHUN THEM.

The Trans community needs your support more than you need ANOTHER fucking Harry Potter.

Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories TABLE OF CONTENTS The Viridescent Dark As Humans Burn Beneath Us The Bones He Planted A Haunting of Lawn Ornaments The Revenge of Rappaccini’s Daughter Cyanide Constellations With Radium on Her Lips A...

Looking through the eARC of CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS and it's feeling more real that my debut fiction collection is coming out in 3 months! This one is for those who find comfort in a bit of gloom (someday I'll write hopeful horror, but not this time *cackles*) darkmattermagazine.shop/products/cya...

Check it out babes! ⬇️ My story features something scary in a basement, don’t you want to know what it is? Don’t you?!?

So thrilled that I got to write the introduction for a new annotated edition of Dracula!

Truly, what an honor! Thank you so much to DBS Press for inviting me to be part of this! 🦇🦇🦇

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Thanks for a great #HorrorWritersChat, Eryn!

My interview with award-winning horror writer Gwendolyn Kiste will soon appear in The Horror Zine, probably for the August issue. I have another very exciting interview coming soon. No names. BIG surprise!

Pride Month might be over, but queer horror is worth celebrating all yearlong! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

So here are my five picks for fabulous queer horror from Hollywood's Golden Age! 🎥🎬🖤

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That feeling when your government is building concentration camps in Florida and selling merch for it. And you're trying to keep on making art and telling yourself it matters but holy shit it feels bleak out here.

It's GOOD FOR HER release day!

New from Nefarious Bat Press, an anthology of women's rage, all proceeds go to the Sisters Uncut charity.

I'm proud to have my story "A Change in Universal Flavor" return to print here after years of being unavailable alongside these necessary tales 🖤

Screenshot of a Publishers Marketplace Deal Report which reads: "Author of SOMETIMES WE'RE CRUEL AND OTHER STORIES J.A.W. McCarthy's SLEEP ALONE, in which a merch girl is trapped cleaning up after a band of hungry succubi, leaving bodies in the wake of their shows, until a mysterious disease devouring succubi from the inside out starts infecting its members, to Alan Lastufka at Shortwave, in an exclusive submission, for publication in January 2026, by Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency (world English)."

New Deal Report: the Bram Stoker Award nominated SLEEP ALONE by @jawmccarthy.bsky.social is coming to Shortwave in January!

Merch girl Ronnie is trapped cleaning up after a band of hungry succubi, leaving bodies in the wake of their shows, until a mysterious disease starts infecting its members…

The joy of losing a Stoker No, seriously

Wrote a thing. Long live horror.
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new NO GODS FOR DROWNING cover art just dropped, alongside my jaw 🤩 ahhhh

So grateful to @badhandbooks.bsky.social for bringing this back into print next year, and the new art is gorgeous while capturing the feel of the book. I'm so excited! 🔪🌊

Limited signed bookplates at Bad Hand:

I really appreciate this! My collection is still in print and would love to go home with new readers. Body horror. Doppelgängers. Haunted body parts. Women doing terrible and wondrous things. Half the stories are exclusive to this collection. Let’s body swap and dance!

So many amazing pictures from the Stokers, but this one's probably my favorite. Female horror writers taking over the world! 🖤🔥🖤

Agree!!! So honored to be in this photo with so many amazing and talented women!

Well, as I said on Insta, I enjoyed goop hunting, and viewing the lamp room with you, so that was one perk of the very odd amenities!

The Dead Spot Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The dead spot: a corner drenched in shadow; an earthquake's epicenter; the part of a roller coaster ride where the car rounds the final curve and all force dissipates, leaving those trapped beneath the safety bar feeling sick and hollow. From the belove...

Guess what?!? My Bram Stoker Award nominated collection, THE DEAD SPOT: STORIES OF LOST GIRLS, is now available as an audiobook, narrated by the incredible Bridie Jurasevich😃

Check it out on Audible or click the link below! It’ll break your heart🖤

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My debut novel has officially been acquired by @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social, an imprint of Macmillan. It’s such an honor to finally announce the news, especially at #stokercon on Friday the 13th of Pride Month. 🌈🔪

I look forward to the inevitable glut of "liminal hotel backroom" and "lamp room" stories in the near future. A year from now, submission guidelines will read "No creepy hotel stories, please."

The VERY surreal moment of Joyce Carol Oates asking to take a photo of us for her social media 😆 and so graciously taking a photo with us, too. StokerCon 2025 was full of such amazing energy! @maywalker.bsky.social @jessiannyork.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the Stoker Award winners! Including @sofiaajram.bsky.social, @edenroyce.bsky.social, @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, @pedroiniguez.bsky.social, and @coraliefargeat.bsky.social!

This win means a lot to me for a lot of reasons, but most notably: I am the first trans man to ever win in this category!!! 🏳️‍⚧️

I hope this gives my queer & trans writer siblings heart—your work is important!

So this happened last night. The Haunting of Velkwood won the Stoker!!!

It's twelve hours later, and this still feels like a dream! So many congrats to all the winners and the nominees! ❤️

I didn’t realize you weren’t going ☹️. I wanted to meet in person, but I guess I will have to make do with Zoom. Hopefully we can chat again soon!

I won’t be at StokerCon this year, but I did participate in two virtual panels:

Unmarked Graves & Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora

Final Girls & the Ferocious Feminine: The Heroines & Female Villains of Horror

Virtual attendees, don’t miss these!

The Haunting of Velkwood is a Shirley Jackson Award nominee!

WHAT?!?!

Seriously, this is such a huge honor. Congrats to all the nominees! I feel so lucky to be in your company! ❤️