Another day, another reason I’m glad I let my HWA membership lapse a few years ago. Writing organizations should look out for the best interests of their members, bare minimum.

I needed a comfort read this past weekend-something familiar and warm that fires on all cylinders and by golly, does this book ever do the trick.

Horror Hive Mind, give me a hand with something? What are some books that use extended (at least 2 pages) excerpts from fictitious non-fiction books for narrative purposes? I’m looking for some formatting inspiration.

Sharing a couple reviews for fall horror releases. I really, really dug these two. - This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper - Crone by Keith Rosson

A sincere and heartfelt thank you to everyone who offered condolences and love yesterday, whether through comments, likes, or personal messages. It is humbly appreciated. (1/2)

We had to say goodbye to my Benny today. He had seven wonderful years with us and passed at home in the sunshine with all of us around him, so loved. My heart hurts, but he’s at peace. Rest well, sweet boy.

Out-of-print sale! I have some (limited) extra copies of the old DarkLit Press editions of Noose and The Demon Devil’s Cavern, including the original Noose train cover. 8$ plus shipping, specify which you’re looking for when checking out. 🔗⬇️

I wrote about depictions of witches and what text and subtext can reveal about the cultural anxieties behind these iconic figures. The title is Emily's atrocity, which she foisted on me like a deadly disease and for which I will never forgive her.

Emily C. Hughes@emilyhughes.bsky.social · 7d ago

today on @darkertimes.bsky.social: I *love* this essay from the inimitable @scumbelievable.bsky.social on witches on film and text, subtext, power, and worldview: www.darkertimes.com/witches-worl...

today on @darkertimes.bsky.social: I *love* this essay from the inimitable @scumbelievable.bsky.social on witches on film and text, subtext, power, and worldview: www.darkertimes.com/witches-worl...

We Are the Daughters of the Witches You Couldn't Film

Gretchen Felker-Martin examines the tangled web of historical fact, social anxieties, and authorial worldview in art about witchcraft.

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Out-of-print sale! I have some (limited) extra copies of the old DarkLit Press editions of Noose and The Demon Devil’s Cavern, including the original Noose train cover. 8$ plus shipping, specify which you’re looking for when checking out. 🔗⬇️

They’re coming to get you, Barbra. And they’ve got books. If you see this post, then read The Denizens, when you get to ch. 18, pt. 1, the answer to your question is “Yes.”

Look, I just need you to know that there’s a scene in this book that involves zombies and magic mushrooms. Get it, love it, talk about it until your tongue falls out. THE DENIZENS

I’ve been doling out Partially Devoured by Daniel Kraus piece by piece. What a gorgeous, affecting mix of unapologetically ardent fandom and thoughtful dissection. Kraus argues Night’s place in the center of horror’s heart and wraps it up with a stunning case for the timeliness of a timeless film.

Morning jam

Call them zombies, walkers, ghouls, neighbors, the undead, the living dead, revenants, or denizens. Just don’t call them late for dinner. Whatever you call them, you’ve never seen them like this. THE DENIZENS - out now in ebook and paperback.

This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.

ULTRA🏝️BLAST@ultrakillblast.bsky.social · last wk.

Life has been lifing hard enough to make me forget what the date was. So I’m a little late, but 5 years ago on July 20th, 2021, I was celebrating my very first book baby at jury duty with a bunch of strangers who could not have cared less.

BREAKING: People who use generative AI to make art are dork ass losers and should get bent.

SO CLOSE! Just $185 to go to fund WICKED WESTERNS, from the New England Horror Writers w/a score of weird Western tales by me & great authors @christaqua.bsky.social @brennanlafaro.bsky.social @authordonnataylor.bsky.social etc. Great rewards and we wanna hit those stretch goals! kck.st/3R9EVqw

Wicked Westerns

The Eleventh Anthology of the New England Horror Writers

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Just a week to support the New England Horror Writers Wicked West anthology. It's full of talented horror authors doing their best (worst?) to the Old West. Featuring @kradec.bsky.social, @christaqua.bsky.social, and @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, and more! If you can't Please share! kck.st/3R9EVqw

Wicked Westerns

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When you’re more up in arms about language than outsourcing art to a computer. Fucks’ sake.

6 DAYS LEFT! Please consider supporting WICKED WESTERNS, with a new Calamity Jane/Wild Bill story by me, plus weird West tales by @christaqua.bsky.social @brennanlafaro.bsky.social & more! Ed. by Trisha J. Wooldridge & @denverauthor.bsky.social, illos by @artbyogmios.bsky.social. kck.st/3R9EVqw

Wicked Westerns

The Eleventh Anthology of the New England Horror Writers

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July issue of Postcards is out now. Check-ch-check check check-ch-check it out.

Starting a sentence with “And” or “But” is like starting a musical phrase with a pickup note. A terrific touch to trampoline the melody into motion that loses its effect when you overuse it.

I can’t prove it, but I think the current hopeless feeling we have as a society is directly tied to the fact that you can’t win prizes under your soda bottle cap anymore.

I read a book instead of wasting my time watching a derivative speech. All the same…

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Saratoga Schaeffer is now responsible for two of my favorite reads of 2026. A Thousand Monstrous Forms is modern gothic love letter to traditional gothic (and fairy tale) brimming with paranoia, genuine creeps, and relationship dynamics that drive the story. Tense and chilling throughout.