I’ve been away for an age, brooding over a grief-filled vampire novel. But now that it’s written, I don’t know what to do with it. Is anywhere lusting for blood these days? 🩸

I got asked for ID while buying a book today. What is in Kylie Lee Baker’s Bat Eater that I need to be 25+ to read?!

I got asked for ID while buying a book today. What is in Kylie Lee Baker’s Bat Eater that I need to be 25+ to read?!

Only a couple of weeks to go until our sorcerous submissions call-out opens! We're SO looking forward to reading what you're brewing up. View the guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/anthology-2-...

Carnyx Press@carnyxpress.co.uk · 5mo ago

Hear ye! Starting next month, submissions open for our second anthology: a collection of sorcerous tales. Give us high, low, urban or dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, magical realism - anything that crackles with magic and stretches the realm of the possible.

I’m reading @katevanderborgh.bsky.social’s And He Shall Appear and listening to @chinckleys.bsky.social’s The Black Lord and they are both just so, so good. Phenomenal storytelling.

Another top effort from Cumbernauld Library’s horror section display. @librariesnl.bsky.social

Another top effort from Cumbernauld Library’s horror section display. @librariesnl.bsky.social

Support indie horror this holiday season, please. We need you. We're waiting for you to find us. Click on any of the presses to find rad horror titles now. @nwreader.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social 1/3

Our current reading period is open until midnight on the 20th December. We're looking for novellas and short story collections to publish in 2026-27, from writers living in the North of England, in speculative genres. Read our guidelines: carnyxpress.co.uk/novella-and-...

Overheard my four year old daughter having a conversation with her own reflection earlier, asking who was the real girl and who was the ‘not real’ girl out of the two of them. Both girls insisted that they were the real one. So excuse me while I don’t sleep ever again.

* ANNOUNCING * Wild Hunt Books are seeking short stories in Jan 2026 for our upcoming anthology, Modern Decadent, which embraces the fin de siècle literary & arts of the decadents, along with 19th century symbolism and aestheticism. We also welcome stories with a good dash of proto-Weird 🖤

Happy Hallowe’en, fiends! What a day. New Creeper album, new Alkaline Trio single, and then guising in the rain with my kids. 🎃

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Because it seems like a good Tuesday for this. Janet returns May 1st, 2026. Coming from Strange Wilds Press. Official cover reveal and pre-order coming in 2026. More below.

My colleagues got me a copy of @natcassidy.bsky.social’s Nestlings shipped over from America for my birthday and it is without a doubt the most skin-crawlingly tense, jaw-droppingly upsetting, insightfully clever ‘vampire’ book I’ve read in a long time. Instantly one of my favourite horror reads.

We're running a giveaway for a copy of Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements. It's our last giveaway of the year! UK residents enter over on our IG

Writing pals, a pupil at my school has written and just released her debut novel! (I wish I was this together at 17!) If dystopia is your thing, check out V.O.I.D here: amzn.eu/d/9bN1k6e

V.O.I.D: Violation of Intellectual Dominion

V.O.I.D: Violation of Intellectual Dominion eBook : Yuzalk, Sami: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Well this is exciting! I don’t think I’ve sold books in Italy before.

Well this is exciting! I don’t think I’ve sold books in Italy before.

Want to submit a story to THE SHINING anthology? Open call is on 2/1/26. Details are at Chuck Palahniuk’s newsletter: bit.ly/4nXb1B4 Hope to see you at The Overlook!

*Submission reminder* We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual. More info below🐐 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

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Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions  from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...

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What an email to start the day with. Congratulations @talkscaredpod.bsky.social! Thank you @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social!

*SUBMISSION WINDOW NOW OPEN 5 DAYS ONLY* We're open to unagented subs from 6-12 Oct. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K). We're specifically looking for novellas that play w horror, mystery, weird & the unusual. More info 🐐 www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

Last day for a free download of my creepy novelette Hunger. Ideal for fans of old houses, weird curses, and vulnerable men.

Samuel Best@storiesbysamuel.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to everyone downloading Hunger while it’s on offer - it’s creeping up the Amazon charts once again! amzn.eu/d/iq6rEc4

Thanks to everyone downloading Hunger while it’s on offer - it’s creeping up the Amazon charts once again! amzn.eu/d/iq6rEc4

Samuel Best@storiesbysamuel.bsky.social · last yr.

From me to you for Hallowe’en - a free novella. amzn.eu/d/2DfyGTX

Thanks to everyone downloading Hunger while it’s on offer - it’s creeping up the Amazon charts once again! amzn.eu/d/iq6rEc4

Samuel Best@storiesbysamuel.bsky.social · last yr.

From me to you for Hallowe’en - a free novella. amzn.eu/d/2DfyGTX

Hunger is free to download right now! Ideal for spooky season, especially if you love old houses, weird curses, and vulnerable men.

Samuel Best@storiesbysamuel.bsky.social · last yr.

From me to you for Hallowe’en - a free novella. amzn.eu/d/2DfyGTX

It’s #FridayReads time and still Latine Heritage Month! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) Stoker/Locus/Goodreads finalist that’s perfect for spooky season: dark magic, old gods, revenge, blood, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

From me to you for Hallowe’en - a free novella. amzn.eu/d/2DfyGTX

Samuel Best@storiesbysamuel.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Spooky Season, one and all. I hope it brings you horrors (the good kind).

Happy Spooky Season, one and all. I hope it brings you horrors (the good kind).

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Alt: Gary Oldman’s Dracula, laughing

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Happy Spooky Season, one and all. I hope it brings you horrors (the good kind).

a close up of a person 's face with a red light behind them

Alt: Gary Oldman’s Dracula, laughing

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