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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 1h

COVER REVEAL! @cgolden.bsky.social’s landmark urban fantasy series returns in 2026 with OF SAINTS AND SHADOWS. With a new foreword by @ericlarocca.bsky.social. Cover art by @summerray.bsky.social. Layout by @toddkeisling.com.

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Nuzo Onoh "Queen of African Horror" @nuzo.bsky.social · 8h

FUTILITY is published in the UK today! Mega-thanks to @cathtrechman.bsky.social & @titanbooks.bsky.social for giving this story a platform to shine. I dedicated this story of rage & vengeance to myself because it let me freely express my own rage over a horrible incident in my past.
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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 9h

WRETCH by @ericlarocca.bsky.social is currently 25% off in the Waterstones 2026 Pre-Order Promotion! #WPreorder

Use the code OCTOBER25 on their website or app, now until 23.59 October 17.

https://bit.ly/WSpreorder

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Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social · 5h

“If you're a fan of my work, you should have this on your shelf. Your collection is incomplete without it.” — Brian Keene

EXPLORING THE LABYRINTH by @kitgonzo.bsky.social
Introduction by @ericlarocca.bsky.social

PAPERBACK: Amazon / B&N
EBOOK: Kindle / Nook

www.briankeene.com/news/explori...

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Germs @toughluckjames.bsky.social · 17h

Q: "Hey James how do you feel whenever you are about to read an @ericlarocca.bsky.social book?"

A: "Eric LaRocca is a knife and I'm ready to be scarred again."

Moral of the story....go read Eric LaRocca.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 18h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social · 1d

Announced today in the Bookseller, next UK books coming from Bloomsbury/Archer. I’m excited for the new opportunity while eternally grateful for all that the awesome people at Titan Books have done for my prior books. linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%...

Bloomsbury Archer signs Paul Tremblay’s AI horror in three-book deal

Bloomsbury Archer has won Paul Tremblay over with a three-book deal.

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

Finished reading this excellent book earlier today and feeling a bit wounded, raw. This one is gritty, bleak, and utterly ferocious. But also tender and careful. Loved it! @keithrosson.bsky.social

A limited edition hardcover ARC of Coffin Moon

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

STORYFEST SATURDAY in Westport, CT! This is likely my final in-person event this year 🖤

at noon, I'll be talking Why I Love Horror with cool horror folk

and then right after at 1pm, talking coming-of-age fiction with awesome authors of many genres

Both in the Trefz Forum. Can't wait!

StoryFest 2025, October 18 in Westport, CT at the Westport Library
Hailey Piper's author photo beside her book A Game in Yellow, art by Caroline Johnson

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1d

Loaned my copy of @ericlarocca.bsky.social's WE ARE ALWAYS TENDER WITH OUR DEAD to Mama Jackson this weekend. We'll see how she reacts.

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

…. Oh my. 😂 Now I’m curious!!!

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

It was such an honor to speak about transgressive literature at NY Comic Con today! It was a delight to see friends Clay McLeod Chapman, Hailey Piper, and Delilah S. Dawson. Feeling so grateful and fortunate to share the stage with such talented and kindhearted authors. ❤️

Clay, Eric, Hailey, and Delilah posing in front of the Comic Con backdrop

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

A glorious day of horror at NYCC 😄

Clay McLeod Chapman, Eric LaRocca, Hailey Piper, and Delilah S. Dawson, steeped in shadows at New York Comic-con 2025

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Michelle Kenneth @michellekenneth.bsky.social · 1d

Last day of NYCC.

Today was all about filling up our bags with books. Then we rested at a horror panel featuring @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social and @delilahsdawson.bsky.social.

Oh, and we finally found my favorite costume. Predator!

Until 2026.

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 1d

It was so lovely seeing you again!! Hope to see you soon ❤️

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 1d

Super fun day with Eric LaRocca, Hailey Piper and Delilah S. Dawson, chatting up transgressive horror at New York Comic, then signing books for folks. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social for making it possible, @bnunionsqnyc.bsky.social for supplying the books, and to everyone who came out to hear us.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 2d

Use this post to add all of these upcoming dark & disturbing books to your "want to read" shelf or reading journals! Full list in the Alt text

The Children
Spoiled Milk
On Sundays She Picked Flowers
The Girl with A Thousand Faces
A Slow and Secret Poison
I’ll Watch Your Baby
Wolf Worm
Molka
The Two Deaths of Lillian Carmichael
Wife Shaped Bodies
Nowhere Burning
Wretch
Hex House
Weavingshaw
Spider, Spider
A Box Full of Darkness
Trad Wife
This House Will Feed
Dead First
A Forest Darkly
You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom
The Summer of the Serpent
The Midnight Muse
Japanese Gothic
Mother is Watching
We Call Them Witches
Cabaret in Flames
The Body
Ballad of the Bone Road
Morsel

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 2d

TODAY!! See you soon, Comic Con!!
@titanbooks.bsky.social

Crossing Thresholds: The Rise of Transgressive Horror

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 2d

CAAAAAAWMIC KAAAAAHN #NYCC @titanbooks.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 3d

One of the best things about being in NYC this weekend has been visiting different bookstores and meeting booksellers. This morning I visited McNally Jackson at Rockefeller Center and Barnes & Noble on 5th Ave!

Eric holding up a copy of AT DARK, I BECOME LOATHSOME

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"They Were Here Before Us warps reality in a way that allows us to see the horrific, grotesque beauty." -- Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club.

Don't miss @ericlarocca.bsky.social's stunning "novella in pieces."

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They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces

A Novella in Pieces

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 4d

Headed to NYC this weekend to speak on a panel about transgressive horror at Comic-Con!

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4d

I’ll admit that before he won the Nobel Prize, I was barely aware of László Krasznahorkai and had never read him. I’m making up for that now. I also grateful because while researching him I stumbled upon José Donoso’s amazing The Obscene Bird of Night in a new, expanded edition from New Directions

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The Vampires Library @vampireslibrary.bsky.social · 4d

Thrilled that The Antidote made the National Book Award shortlist for fiction. If you haven't read it yet, I strongly rec this one. & Horror readers, if you want to try a lit fic this one conversation with Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls and The Reformatory. It's just wonderful.

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Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 4d

HWA folks! Have you recommended others' work to the Recommended Reading list for the Bram Stoker Awards? Horror writers, have you submitted your own work to the juries? Here's how! You can even click through to the full rules if you're intrepid! www.thebramstokerawards.com/submissions/

Submissions – The Bram Stoker Awards

www.thebramstokerawards.com

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