I put together some of my favorite reads of the year so far. If you're looking for a horror or weird recommendation, this is the place! /thread
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Here are three relentlessly terrifying horror books to give you sleepless nights! Featuring @cgolden.bsky.social Matt Clark and @pollyschattel.bsky.social youtu.be/5tug6TZw8Xw?...
My buddy @eerieyore.bsky.social has a story in @tenebrouspress.bsky.social's "Brave New Weird Vol. 4!" Really proud of TJ, and am so happy for him. Check it out. store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...
This is an incredible deal. Two amazing books for 2 bucks! Snap this up quick.
Carson Winter@carsonwinter.bsky.social · 4w agoThe heat is oppressive and uncomfortable, but so is life itself! Embrace the Bleakness of your reality by picking up my latest two releases from Salt Heart Press for $1.99 each! Grab PORTRAITS OF DECAY and THE CORPSE PRIEST from my webstore: carsonwinter.com/store/
Chiroptera Press, Ligotti's primary publisher these days, gave us all a gift for his birthday: the news that he's working on a new collection of stories, likely to be published next year, his first new book of fiction in over 10 years.
FUCK IT. I’ll start posting it here. I’ll feed it to you in pieces.
WELCOME TO THE THIRTY-666 PITCH-A-THON! As we know, there’s only one thing authors really want on their birthdays, and it’s to be read. /THREAD
If your publisher uses AI art, they're bad at their job. Full stop. When a publisher claims they can't afford to invest in your cover art, what they're really saying is that they can't sell your book. /THREAD O'CLOCK
Here are three absolutely mind blowing horror books that'll twist your brain into balloon animals! Featuring @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @authorjohnfranz.bsky.social and Jerry Barksdale. youtu.be/xZ98ja6jj6I?...
I'm pretty floored that I seem to have won a Bram Stoker Award for First Novel! 😱 Thank you to everyone who voted for The October Film Haunt, and congratulations to all the winners and nominees. What a ballot and what a horror community!
If this doesn't make you want to check out THE PSYCHOGRAPHIST, I don't know what will.
THE CORPSE PRIEST is dark, horrific sword and sorcery. Flesh towers, revenants, philosophical pessimism, weird religion, and lots and lots of blood. Get it wherever you like to buy books.
Best part of sending a novel off to betas, is starting a new novel. Inspirations for this one.
Establish a self-care routine. Breathe into your toes. Because we're going to fuck you up with some inflammatory and reductive writing opinions! This week: Hot Takes. open.spotify.com/episode/2qKR...
🖤☠️MEET @calebbethea.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD AWARD WINNER🖤☠️ In "Glitter in Your Eyes", a sleep paralysis demon slits its own throat & bleeds glitter into the eyes of a different patron each night. Y'know, that doesn't sound so bad, actually! Preorder BNW Vol. 4: store.tenebrouspress.com
It’s a self-promo kinda day. This week I’m on the @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social with @erikmchatton.bsky.social talking slashers w/ @carsonwinter.bsky.social & @authorplm.bsky.social for 2+ hours. And believe it or not we stay on topic for at least 50% of the time! 😅
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Comedy Podcast · Updated Weekly · Authors P.L. McMillan and Carson Winter have joined forces to have lively, irreverent, and hopefully helpful conversations on the craft of writing horror fiction. Exp...
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Hey, come listen to me be real unreasonable about the slasher genre.
Dead Languages Podcast@deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 3mo agoRemember when we all killed that kid at camp ten years ago? Oh, it's the anniversary? UH OH! We talk slashers with @erikmchatton.bsky.social and @patrickbarb.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/5Oym...
THE CORPSE PRIEST has been out for one month and I couldn't be happier with how many people picked it up. Sales are kind of a dirty word in the indie book sphere, but I thought it might be fun and informative to be a little transparent about where these sales came from and how. /THREAD
Recording an episode on slashers with the passionate @erikmchatton.bsky.social and @patrickbarb.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL for issue 71! Cover art by Jakub Jagoda and featuring stories by Mary Magagna, Eliott Gish, Akis Linardos, Allison Mulder, Terena Elizabeth Bell, Matthew MacDonald, Nicole Duff, and Leonora Lewis!
This week, Carson talks about everything that went into bringing THE CORPSE PRIEST to life from a publishing and marketing perspective! open.spotify.com/episode/22zq...
my article is up about weird fiction in weird, horrifying times, and the community that forms around people trying to wrestle their fears together! www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...
The H Word: Why Do We Like the Weird? - Nightmare Magazine
I, like many of us, am always scared. A friend of mine once asked me why. And the first thing that came to my head was to show him Junji Ito’s “The Enigma of Amigara Fault.”
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The reviews are trickling in. Thank you @erikmchatton.bsky.social 💀A death-obsessed hero on a philosophical quest ⚔️Sword and sorcery carnage 🐙Cosmic horror of reality-shattering proportions THE CORPSE PRIEST is out now wherever you buy books. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR5SCNZ6/
The Corpse Priest releases today!Carson really outdid himself with this one. A perfect example of how to bring classic weird horror fantasies to a current audience, while innovating at the same time. Check it out.
Carson Winter@carsonwinter.bsky.social · 4mo agoSURPRISE RELEASE! THE CORPSE PRIEST is out today! This is a strange beast of a novella, a bloody cocktail of sword & sorcery, Ligottian pessimism, and cosmic horror. I’m going to talk a little about how this release came to be, inspirations, and more—SO PREPARE FOR A THREAD!!!
One of the big inspirations for Rachael in Crawl Space was myself, or at least my career, but we'll get to that soon. First, I wanted to talk about archaeology. Archaeology is a big tent profession. There are lots of different disciplines that are part of archaeology 1/10
The closing story in Frost Zone Stories book 3 is "Going Last" by SJ Townend @sjtownend.bsky.social books2read.com/u/mvgvoJ www.frostzonestories.com/p/issuesbook...
Back with another SSBA Finalist Spotlight! www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2026/01/cars... Today, it's Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social author of A Spectre is Haunting Greentree! @specawards.bsky.social
Carson Winter - A Spectre is Haunting Greentree - SSBA Horror Finalist
Hello again! Slight schedule change on the SSBA posts. Last time, I promised 1 every Sunday, but instead I got sick and missed one. The curr...
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