@fletcherhorror.bsky.social
Author, editor, and publisher. Owner of queer horror publisher Slashic Horror Press. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐻🐻❄️🧸 🐦⬛ Raven’s Creek 🧛 The Count 🐔 The Haunting of Harry Peck 🔥 Hell is Other People 🦷 Indentured ✈️ Preorder He Will Have the World 🌍 www.fletcherhorror.com
Lane just wants to chill with his friends and listen to rock, until he can ride off to California with James. A mysterious red GTX is stalking him, though, and more and more young men are disappearing.
Come Cruising. See what happens.
MARCH 15. Preorder: books2read.com/u/mdJEVy
💀 Voting is still OPEN 💀
Have you cracked open the voting form for the OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS yet? There's still plenty of time. Voting closes May 30th.
There are so many talented authors included on the ballot, don't forget to read their work and vote for your favourite!
Voting link in comment.
An excerpt of the chilling coming-of-age novella from Dean Cade. Based on real killings from the 1970s.
Cruising, Book 1 of the SUMMER 1973 trilogy, arrives March 15.
Preorder: books2read.com/u/mdJEVy
🚗 IN 2 WEEKS 🚗
Dean Cade's trilogy begins MARCH 15. A harrowing coming-of-age tale about Lane and James, whose only dream of escaping their small town is threatened by strange figures circling their every move.
IT'S TIME TO GO CRUISING. IF YOU DARE.
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#BookSky
My upcoming novella is available as an arc on Booksirens, along with a ton of other great books! #booksky #queerhorror #horror #arcreaders
26.02.2026 00:55 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
A massive shout out to fellow Australian business, @losersbookcvlt Shadow & Thorn! They’ve been generous enough to feature a Slashic title in their fantastic mystery boxes.
JOIN THE CVLT.
🚨COVER REVEAL🚨
Pieties: Expanded Edition by @marc_ruvolo is a gripping, tense horror set in 1981, Illinois. The story follows Andrew after he contracts a disease the doctors are calling GRID.
Congratulations to the Splatter authors!!! 😀😀 Their sick little book is #1 in New Release LGBT Horror!
If you’ve not checked it out yet… what the hell are you waiting for?
@angelique_jordonna
@michael_r_collins_writes
@rowlandbercyjr
@chistohealy
🔪 OUT NOW 🔪
You might be on the menu, but you'll have a hell of a time reading this before you die 🤭
Splatter. OUT NOW.
Dine on it here: books2read.com/splatter
#BookSky
‼️ TOMORROW ‼️
Get ready to be SPLATTERED with all sorts of things in this wicked, extreme horror novel by Angelique Jordonna, Rowland Bercy Jr., Michael R. Collins, and Chisto Healy.
You will join the family. Dead or alive...that's your choice.
Order here: books2read.com/splatter
#BookSky
Here are the nominees for BEST ALLY for the 2025 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS!
If you can't find the voting form, here is the link: forms.gle/gKEasYXzSdSi...
Don't forget to try and read them before you vote!
Here the nominees for BEST LGBTQ+ Representation for the 2025 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS!
If you can't find the voting form, here is the link: buff.ly/h3L9Kvw
Here the nominees for BEST WORK for the 2025 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS!
If you can't find the voting form, here is the link: buff.ly/h3L9Kvw
Don't forget to try and read them before you vote!
Here are the nominees for BEST SUB-GENRE for the 2025 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS!
If you can't find the voting form, here is the link: forms.gle/gKEasYXzSdSi...
Don't forget to try and read them before you vote!
Cover Reveal Coming Soon!
“Pieties blends supernatural and real world horror in a way that is compelling and powerful.”
— Mark Allan Gunnells, author of IMPOSTER SYNDROME
***Arcs are also available; DM me if you're interested in this religious horror novella***
Unaware of the dangers circling closer and closer, Lane and James only care about one thing: each other.
Cruising explores young love and queerness in 1970s America and the lengths people will travel to destroy others.
Preorder here: books2read.com/u/mdJEVy
Lane and James dream of escaping their small town for greener pastures where they can be free. Free to be themselves. To be queer.
Someone has chosen them to be the next in a long line of victims.
I will never stop making weird queer shit and I will not shrink myself into a box for them.
Queer punk band vs sentient neofascist music from @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social
Preorder: books2read.com/splatter
02.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
In 2 weeks... you will eat. And if you're lucky... you will die.
Preorder Now to get your seat at the Collins table.
DL Winchester co-owns Undertaker Books and is one of the most honest people I know with a heart full of integrity.
Good luck everyone and PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
To ensure transparency and fairness, I have enlisted the help of @writerdlwinchester to collate all the voting data. This means I (David-Jack Fletcher) will not see the data while voting is live.
01.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
‼️OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS: VOTING OPEN‼️
Voting is now open. Please see the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The intention for voting is NOT to just vote for your friends. The intention is to go read the nominated works in each category and then vote. That's why voting is open for 4 months.
Cruising is a heartbreaking coming-of-age horror about love, self-discovery, and growing up gay in the 1970s. Book 1 releases March 15.
Preorder here: books2read.com/u/mdJEVy
In Cruising, Lane meets James, someone different like him. Together, they stumble into one of the most horrific crimes in the annals of American history.
*A fictionalised account of a true crime*
I sure am 🙂
01.02.2026 10:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 2026 schedule is full, these submissions are for the 2027 roster.
For more information and submission guidelines, visit www.slashichorrorpress.com/submissions
🚨Submissions are now open🚨
Between Feb 1–July 31, Slashic Horror Press will be accepting submissions for novels and novellas in any horror sub-genre. The only pre-requisite? It has to be QUEER.
Slashic has always, and will always, only publish queer horror.
Cover of the queer cosmic horror novella WASTE GROUND by Marc Ruvolo. A beat up, overgrown road sign and barrels of toxic waste.
A picture of the first page text of WASTE GROUND by Marc Ruvolo.
It's coming up on the one year anniversary of my queer cosmic horror novella WASTE GROUND, which was put out by @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social! If you like cults, and cryptids and nastiness, please give it a look-see. #horror #queerhorror #booksky www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
29.01.2026 23:53 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Summer of 1973 is a fictional account of some of those lost boys.
Preorder Book 1 Now. Releases March 15.
@deancade7
Preorder here: books2read.com/u/mdJEVy