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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 6d ago

Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca

Hand-Me-Downs is absolutely and 100% out now! Check out this pin-point perfect review from the legendary Ginger Nuts Of Horror. gnofhorror.com/hand-me-down...

Huge thanks to Jim and the dubiously named "Tom B. Stone" over at Ginger Nuts for this lovely review of Nightjars. 🥰

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Nightjars by Michael Wehunt Review: Blood Is Thicker Than Folklore https://gnofhorror.com/nightjars-by-michael-wehunt-review/

Excellent work

Great day as ever at Edgelit - lovely to spend time with writing buddies, some pictured below, many not.

Book mail! This, the latest collection from the sublime James Everington. Out TODAY from Black Shuck Books.

James Everington’s Defensive Wounds is a horror collection that plays by its own rules. Doppelgängers, eco-horror, and M. R. Jamesian dread. One of the most unsettling reads of the year. Full review here: 📚💙 @jheverington.bsky.social

Defensive Wounds By James Everington: A Collection That Changes You - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Defensive Wounds

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Tomorrow's @thisishorror.bsky.social news is ready to go, but #ICYMI, here's last week's new & forthcoming horror reads: www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u... Defensive Wounds and Other Stories by James Everington - out now @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social ... 1/?

Well, shit. I have a story in Dark Lane Anthology 14, which came out two weeks ago now. You should check it out. amzn.to/4wJm6tV

I wish modern snacks had day-glo cyberpunk art, like Space Raiders crisps did

Another week. Another HWA controversy. And this one has vague Sopranos vibes (when Tony’s crew slowly takes over David’s sporting goods store). Support to Amanda and K.J. for stepping forward (which is never easy), and Laurel for assisting in that process. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

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If you grew up with Looney Tunes cartoons as a kid, new film ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ is a lot of fun…

Hols

Yes, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 is, in fact, out early. I'd originally planned it for October, but various circumstances—notably that it was ready—prompted me to move it up. An amazing ToC!

The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications

Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in the twenty-first century.” -Zacha...

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Pleased to say my story, "The Locum Executioner", is out now in Dark Lane 14. www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Lane-An...

Dark Lane Anthology: Volume Fourteen (Dark Lane Anthologies Book 14)

Dark Lane Anthology: Volume Fourteen (Dark Lane Anthologies Book 14) eBook : Jeffreys, Tim, Harlow, J. Rosina, Everington, James, Wilkinson, Charles, Howling, Jack, Morris, Jeremy, Rowland, Callum, Gleeson, J.F. , LeRoy, E.J., Pope, Robert: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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This is your occasional reminder that Agatha Christie wasn't just the bestselling crime writer of all time but also she had a surfboard called Fred

“Everington is brilliant at making his characters almost grasp what’s happening to them… so many of the stories are grounded in the same idea: we’re all complicit in our own haunting.” Really great review of ‘Defensive Wounds & Other Stories’ over at The Upstairs Window

March and April 2026 reading notebook

Spring has sprung! Welcome to my first (and possibly only) reading round-up of the season.

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Finished this game the other day. The atmosphere/ use of setting (a North Sea oil rig that’s falling apart) / and voice acting make it one of the most effective horror video games I’ve ever played. Could nitpick certain aspects of the gameplay itself, but as an *experience* it’s great.

Time to send around again our Swan River Press starter pack. All people who we've worked with (who are also on Bluesky) in one handy place. I hope I've not forgot anyone! go.bsky.app/DJ1R1MF

New title: NOCTURNAL MIRRORS | Richard Gavin Drawing upon the literary traditions of the Gothic, fin de siècle, Decadence, and Surrealism, Nocturnal Mirrors gives form to the conviction that our world is most vitally experienced viewed through a glass darkly. swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/no...

Nocturnal Mirrors | Swan River Press

Estimated to ship in late June.  “Something foul is knocking at the door to our world.” A grand marble staircase prowls the night in search of passengers, Hidden Mothers whisper tales of the Wild Hunt...

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Whomst among us hasn't had a mother who scoops out her eyes with a spoon and lets us play with them? But that's just the beginning of @montanna-harling.bsky.social's story "Oleander".

Oleander - Small Wonders

Mama scooped her eyes out with an heirloom ornamental teaspoon, and let them roll to the floor.

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