📚 New Review: Fitcher’s Bird by @angelaslatter.bsky.social Three sisters survived the fire. Years later, two disappear. @stephellis.bsky.social reviews this dark modern fairy tale from @titanbooks.bsky.social. Read: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

The land withers. Autumn is told in both the fading scars of drought and the gathering mud. Hooklanders call this blurred border of days harbrim. A time whenthey know that mists are coming to eat certainty and monsters feast to fatten ahead of hibernation. – #DAKilroy, 1982

This is such a lovely thing to read, especially from one of my academic heroes.

Dr Diane A Rodgers@dianearodgers.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spending the day here, speaking about my usual folklore/telly nonsense amongst a load of very cool people who are intimidatingly clever! Notably nice props to @hookland.bsky.social from @robertedgar.bsky.social in his lovely talk :)

Here's where I'll be when not milling around and getting lost at @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Fantasycon. Come and say hello 😊 (And yes, I'll be buying books. It would be sacrilege not to!)

Last few tickets are available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tread...

Buy tickets – Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books

Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books, Thu 24 Sep 2026 - The creator of England's imagined lost county on re-enchantment as resistance. Through near-daily postings in th...

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Next week's Hookland talk is written and I just need to lose 20 minutes of material from it. Hopefully, this paragraph on the importance of folklore and re-enchantment will be retained. #Folklore #Reenchantment

DJNA Contributor Announcements. @stephanieellis.bsky.social @writerofweird.bsky.social & Samson Stormcrow Hayes #booksky #book #read #horror #noir #horrorlit

DJNA Contributor Announcement: @kcgrifant.bsky.social & Mason Lyle Morgan & E Senteio. 🐦‍⬛ ❤️ #booksky #read #horrorlit

It's official: THE HUNGER is optioned to AMC & Ridley Scott, possibly for an upcoming season of The Terror. Hopefully we'll see an official announcement soon, but I couldn't wait

QUEER GOTHIC HORROR / BRITISH NEW WEIRD 🌈 📚 💙 😱 📚 🩸 📣 📚 THE CROWS is £1.99 on selected eBook platforms. THIRTEENTH is £1.99 on selected eBook platforms. THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD is 99p until 30 Sept #Horror #QueerBooks #BookSky #DiscountBooks books.bookfunnel.com/pagham-on-sea

Finished this today. Wonderful, wonderful book. And it crossed my mind that Moore's prose is akin to @cultauthor.bsky.social. A turn of phrase, a poetic take, took me back to Hookland, although I hope no Pope of Blades walks there!

Stephanie Ellis@stephellis.bsky.social · last wk.

Wrexham library's doing well! Picked up Alan Moore's latest, I Hear A New World. (The Great When was my Xmas book last year). 😊

In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

📚 New Review: Rituals in the Night Cryptids, ancient magic, a dark ritual, and a town called Odder. @stephellis.bsky.social reviews this YA horror from @crystallake.bsky.social. Read: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

Those churches which act as stone bestiaries call me to visit. They are lithic libraries, places where my eyes and fingers can trace stories of wonder. In them I may meet the fabulous beasts I've dreamed about since childhood. They are gateways into folkloric joy. – #CLNolan

During the years of the Iron-toothed Vampire panic in Ashcourt Necropolis, many tombs were disturbed by the curious, by gangs of teenage vampire hunters and rogue, defrocked priests. It's not unreasonable to dwell on what the possible consequences of those disturbances might be. – Brian Danbury

Wrexham library's doing well! Picked up Alan Moore's latest, I Hear A New World. (The Great When was my Xmas book last year). 😊

Calling on the BIPOC authors of horror, SF and fantasy - the award winning small press Mocha Memoirs is open for submissions all this month! Check out the guidelines here: mochamemoirspress.com/write-for-us/

The post box at Oak Acre has gained a reputation as one those places where you can post a letter to a dead loved one and possibly receive a reply. The GPO investigated to see if someone in from the Father Christmas letters reply team had gone rogue, but the results haven't been publicly shared.

HORROR STORY CALL ALERT! Bag of Bones Press is back in action and after your darkest stories for our next paid, charity anthology. Working title: STUCK. Details can be found here: www.bagofbonespress.com/submission-c... Please like and share!

Person Deeply Stuck in Thick Mud

ALT: Person Deeply Stuck in Thick Mud

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People talk of the 'Hookland Howl' – a feral cry heard in its forests and on the edge of its brined-marshes. Some say it's a mournful Woodwose, others claim it as angry Marsh Ape. Those who've heard the howl call it a 'shaking of the soul'. – George Kindred, 'Monster County, 1973

Thanks Eryn! I'd love everyone to take a look at THE TOMMY - a liminal horror novelette I'm offering as a free download this week, pre-Halloween... #HorrorWritersChat

The Tommy: A Liminal Horror Novelette

When she opened her mouth to bare her teeth, I saw a polar desert, cold as eternity…It’s a hot summer night in 1998 when Joey gets the call: his brother Shane’s been in an accident, a bad one, and Joe...

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I have four books in the B&N pre-order sale: the large print editions of Little White Flowers and Hallowed Deadly Seeds, the hardcover edition of Hallowed Deadly Seeds, and the paperback of Our Tangled Roots. Link for LWF large print below. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for running this, Eryn! I have a gothic horror novella: In 1926, Rosalyn (aged 9) invents a game of royalty with her dormmates. When it takes over their lives and stopping isn't an option; Rosalyn must 'win' and be Queen. It.../escalates/. 👑🍀🔨 bookshop.org/p/books/what... 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

What Happened at Hawthorne House

Set in 1926, nine-year-old Rosalyn invents a new game to play with the girls she shares a dormitory with in the Hawthorne House Orphanage. Revolving around a Royal Court, their make-believe game quick...

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Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Horrorwriterschat thanks for being you. Share your promo, promo others, you know the craic. If you've not answered the questions yet, go back, do that, and then come and promo. Build the community you want to have.

Thanks Eryn! Another great week for #Horrorwriterschat You can find my stuff on Amazon under A.C. Cross, on Patreon under aaronccross or my website at www.aaronccross.com I also could use a beta reader or two for a weird Western novella. Regardless, I always hunger eternally for feedback!

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8/5/2026: Since I promised on social media, and we all know that social media promises are legally-binding, I'll be posting a new story under Stories every week in August. Moral of the story: don't...

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Thanks for another great #HorrorWritersChat You can find my horror at dangerouswhenbored.com/collections/... Stories from Shadow Hill is coming up on her one year release-a-versary and has more than one creepy childhood moment within her pages to go along with our theme.

Horror Stories | Dangerous When Bored

Horror Stories by Samantha Bryant

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Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Horrorwriterschat thanks for being you. Share your promo, promo others, you know the craic. If you've not answered the questions yet, go back, do that, and then come and promo. Build the community you want to have.

#horrorwriterschat I am not physically well enough to promo any story in particular. Just look over my stuff on itchio if you haven't already. And please take care of yourselves. Good luck out there. vincentlore.itch.io

Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Horrorwriterschat thanks for being you. Share your promo, promo others, you know the craic. If you've not answered the questions yet, go back, do that, and then come and promo. Build the community you want to have.

Thanks for hosting #horrorwriterschat! Um... #TheWorldsBetweenUs is out. It's a 200+ graphic novel set in the wild hills of VT. Magic and Horror. Americana and music. Having a book release party on the 25th in VT! onegemini.com/the-worlds-b...

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks, Eryn, for allowing this to play out... I'm getting better with the weekly Substacking; this one includes links to two recent short stories of mine online... jamesryanfiction.substack.com/p/going-on-t...

Going On the Account: Prompt Attention

Why story prompts may be just what I need right now

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Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Horrorwriterschat thanks for being you. Share your promo, promo others, you know the craic. If you've not answered the questions yet, go back, do that, and then come and promo. Build the community you want to have.

Thank you for hosting, Eryn! And thank you #HorrorWritersChat for yet another killer Wednesday. All my books are 30% off on itchio this week, both horror and erotica: itch.io/s/200048/sss... Blue Circuits launches next month! Follow the page to stay updated: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

A Book About Queer Workplace Situationships and Other Strange Phenomena

From Mitch Miller - A Book About Queer Workplace Situationships and Other Strange Phenomena

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Eryn McCee@erynmccee.bsky.social · 2w ago

#Horrorwriterschat thanks for being you. Share your promo, promo others, you know the craic. If you've not answered the questions yet, go back, do that, and then come and promo. Build the community you want to have.