May Walker

Hulu Developing Drama Series ‘The Haunting Of Alejandra’ From Steven Paul Martinez 'The Haunting of Alejandra,' a series adaptation of the V. Castro book, is in development at Hulu with Steven Paul Martinez as writer-EP.

It’s finally announced. So grateful for @evalongoria.bsky.social and everyone who believed in me and my stories.

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Congrats! This essay really resonated with me, and this is so deserved.

I am honored and honestly a bit stunned that CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS is officially a Bram Stoker Award finalist! What do you mean my little book is nominated alongside the powerhouses of Hailey Piper, Gemma Files, John Langan, and Clay McLeod Chapman?? Wild. Huge congrats to all of the nominees!

Congrats, Hailey!!!

I can hear a room full of privileged white men laughing uproariously.

My new collection got a starred review in Library Journal!

*screams merrily from the rooftops*

So thrilled that this weird, queer, feminist horror collection is making its way into the world!

THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN is out on 4/14 from Raw Dog Screaming Press!

Black text over a cream background of wrinkled paper. The Text reads: OPEN CALL. What Sleeps Beneath is now accepting guest writers! We are looking for original scholarly articles, film analysis, book reviews, and pieces that examine the horrific. Please note that we are not accepting fiction pieces at this time. Do you have a story to tell? A film analysis you're dying to get out to the world? We want to read it! Visit www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/submit

Did you know that What Sleeps Beneath accepts submissions for original writing? 👀

Submit your scholarly article, film analysis, book review, editorial, or thoughtful piece that explores the horrific in all its forms: whatsleepsbeneath.com/submit

#cfp #horrorsky #filmsky #booksky

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

I always used Valentine's Day on that other site to promote Love for Slaughter, so I might as well do it again here 😆

If some #horrormance poetry is your thing 🖤🩸

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Images of a bunch of book covers that I'm not even going to try to describe. The titles are: On Sundays She Picked Flowers Humboldt Cut Mama Came Callin’ Burn Down Master’s House Dead First (10th) Indigent 3/20 You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom 3/10 The Curse of Hester Gardens 3/31 Older Than Ghosts 4/21 House of Margins 5/26 I’ll Watch Your Baby 5/26 Observer 9/15 Our Sister’s Keeper 6/9 These Walls Remember 8/19 The Sunken, The Adored 8/25

Via @sadiehartmann.bsky.social aka Mother Horror, here is an expertly gathered list of Black horror that will be released/have been released this very year. Some great authors on here:

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I just had frozen shoulder! Well, i’m still healing from it, but after the cortisone shot and a month of pretty intense physical therapy (which I did at home) it’s almost entirely healed. Sucks you have to go through it, but it’s not too bad with the right treatment!

Done!

Black History Month Recommended Reads It’s Black History Month ! Fill your TBR stack for the year with this collection of books from writers you may know and others who might be new to you. Please share, purchase, shout, review, …

BLACK HISTORY MONTH BOOK RECS
@sonorataylor.bsky.social & I have a stack of books to fill your YEAR. Nearly 50 mentions but this is only a sliver of Black excellence in lit
Most are dark/speculative but a few wildcards are included. ENJOY!
Decolonize your shelf
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Cover reveal for my forthcoming novella, IN THESE GILDED, GHOSTLY HEARTS!

Fabulous artwork by Luísa Dias!

This is my queer retelling of The Great Gatsby, and I couldn't be happier that it will soon be unleashed on the world!

Coming September 15th, 2026 from Creature Publishing! 🖤

I was absolutely delighted to be profiled for a recent interview at @ruemorguemag.bsky.social!

I've of course been reading Rue Morgue for years, so this was a huge honor. Big thanks to Adriana Gasiewski for spotlighting me!

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Join Max Gold, Billy Martin (ahh!), and me next week at the kickoff event for the Queer Horror Conference, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Library System! I'm delighted to take part in this conversation. Registration is required but free!
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While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.

Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

We're just a few weeks away from the start of Women in Horror Month!

If you'd like to get involved, either as an author or an ally, please let me know! Comment below, DM me, or send me an email through my site.

Don't self-reject! We need all the voices! 🖤🖤🖤

I'm really honored to see CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS on the preliminary list for the Bram Stoker Awards. It's exciting to make it this far, and I wish everyone so much luck as the ballot heads onward to the finals. Also, being on this longlist with these INCREDIBLE authors is surreal!

Superior Achievement in a Novel Baker, Kylie Lee — Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng (MIRA / Hodder & Stoughton) Chapman, Clay McLeod — Wake Up and Open Your Eyes (Quirk Books) Hendrix, Grady — Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Berkley) Hill, Joe — King Sorrow (William Morrow) Jones, Stephen Graham — The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Saga Press) Kraus, Daniel — Angel Down (Atria Books) Moreno-Garcia, Silvia — The Bewitching (Del Rey) Piper, Hailey — A Game in Yellow (Saga Press) Tingle, Chuck — Lucky Day (Tor Nightfire) Wagner, Wendy N. — Girl in the Creek (Tor Nightfire)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Castro, V. — The Pink Agave Motel & Other Stories (CLASH Books) Chapman, Clay McLeod — Acquired Taste (Titan Books) Files, Gemma — Little Horn: Stories (Shortwave) Guignard, Eric J. — A Graveside Gallery: Tales of Ghosts and Dark Matters (Cemetery Dance) Langan, John — Lost in The Dark and Other Excursions (Word Horde) Ntumy, Cheryl S. — Black Friday: Stories from Africa (Flame Tree Press) Piper, Hailey — Teenage Girls Can Be Demons (Titan Books) Regan, M. — stories in the minor key (Sobelo) Robertson, Andrew — InHUMANities (The Great Lakes Horror Company) Tantlinger, Sara — Cyanide Constellations (Dark Matter INK)

The Bram Stoker Award preliminary ballot for this year just went out, and congratulations to everyone whose work appears on it, be it under their name or their editor!!

Also TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS and A GAME IN YELLOW whaaat 🤩😭

I don’t talk about what’s happening in the world here because I try to focus on bookish things, but I’m angry, scared, and basically want to puke and cry all the time.

I want to be clear - If you support this administration and/or ICE, unfollow me. Don’t read my books.

Abolish and prosecute ICE

We've been getting some fantastic blurbs in for THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN by
@gwendolynkiste.bsky.social like this one from @wnwagner.bsky.social.

There's nothing "moderate" about voting to give billions more to Trump's lawless and murderous secret police force. This is a morally repugnant and politically reckless vote by members who embarrass and weaken the Democratic Party.

Absolutely thrilled that my story “Demon in Repose” gets to share a TOC with these fabulous writers! Ever wonder how the projectionist of your nightmares really feels? What if Fuseli had it all wrong? Also look at this stunning cover!

one poem by rebecca karas

My poem Catacomb of Silt is up today on Ritual Dagger 🗡️ 🦀

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Looking for some rage-filled horror that's also queer & feminist? My collection is now up on NetGalley!

This is my first new book in two years, so I'm super excited for it to make its way into the world! Ghosts, vampires, sentient board games, oh my! 👻🧛‍♂️🏚️🖤

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Text: February 3rd, get demonic in audio. Image: the audiobook cover of Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, narrated by Moniqua Plante, showing a girl turning into a horned fanged demon

It spent the last few months clawing across paperback and ebook, even getting nominated for a Splatterpunk Award, but I've been asked where's the audiobook, and now I can finally share:

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS in audio, February 3rd! 😈

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