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A.C. Bauer
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Horror writer and storyteller. Fan of books, comics and movies. Owner of @Cateyepress.bsky.social, an indie horror press. Halloween III stan account 🎃. He/him

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November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Recently found (thanks to a Reddit thread) a book I remember reading and loving in the fourth grade. Found a copy online and just finished reading it. Have to say, it’s actually pretty good and enjoyable. Lots of fun monsters make an appearance. Very glad I was able to find it after all these years!
The cover for the book “Monster Road” by David Lubar
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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ICYMI: our Halloween Sale is going on all weekend long! Get 31% OFF EVERYTHING in our store!
cateyepress.bsky.social Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · 21d
Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃🐈‍⬛

To celebrate the creepiest day of the year, we're offering 31% OFF EVERYTHING in the Cat Eye Press store. This includes both print books and ebooks! Shop the sale while it lasts at cateyepress.com/store
A black cat with a cute orange collar looks up. Text reads Cat Eye Press Halloween Sale. All Books 31% Off. Shop now at cateyepress.com/store
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Halloween Fun Fact: you can get our Modern Mummies horror anthology for the lowest price it’s ever been!
cateyepress.bsky.social Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · 21d
Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃🐈‍⬛

To celebrate the creepiest day of the year, we're offering 31% OFF EVERYTHING in the Cat Eye Press store. This includes both print books and ebooks! Shop the sale while it lasts at cateyepress.com/store
A black cat with a cute orange collar looks up. Text reads Cat Eye Press Halloween Sale. All Books 31% Off. Shop now at cateyepress.com/store
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Love this 💚
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · Oct 20
Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’
Ryan Coogler Is Rebooting The X-Files for His Mom
Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’
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October 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Question for you, horror hivemind: do you recall an older episode of the @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social with a deer like this? I want to say the story was called Edith? Charlie? Pretty sure the deer talked whatever its name was.
toothandbranch.bsky.social 𝖙𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖍 🦷🌿 @toothandbranch.bsky.social · Sep 22
We keep finding each other in strange circumstances.
Digital art of a red stag with massive mandibles. It stands in the middle of a double-line road, entrails hanging from its maw as it feeds on fresh, steaming roadkill. The air is crisp and the beast's breath hangs around its face. It is glitchy in places, distorted, and its white eyes glow with a trailing light that draws the eyes down toward the horrific sight below its snout. In the distance are the taillights of a passing car - perhaps the culprit responsible for the strike? Digital painting of a white-eyed elk standing in a foggy, dreary place with a backgdrop of dead, branchless trees. Tangled in its antlers are the antlers of another elk, whose head has been severed at the neck and has exposed spine showing. A simple gold ribbon loops around the first elk's body, going from one side of the painting to the other.
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Just finished my second novella-length project of the year. Exhausted but happy.

Hopefully I’ll feel the same way when I’m through editing it haha.

In the meantime, cake 🍰
October 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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cateyepress.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS: they cracked the code and deciphered what this mummy had to say. Unsurprising (to us) it said: “READ MODERN MUMMIES!”

Learn more about our latest horror anthology here: www.cateyepress.com/modern-mummies
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 24
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
October 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Saturday morning cartoons are great, but Saturday morning *books* may be even better. Especially if they’re about mummies, like our latest horror anthology is. And it’s ready for immediate download. www.cateyepress.com/store/p/mm-e...
Modern Mummies: A Horror Anthology (eBook) — Cat Eye Press LLC
They’ve been dead for centuries, but all that changes right now. Mummies are front-and-center in the second anthology from Cat Eye Press. But these aren’t typical mummy horror stories from centuries ...
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September 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Read my story, "The Lingering Oil," about an absolute loser trying to fix up his family's burger restaurant while confronting ghosts--both literal and figurative--of the past. Plus a bunch more horror and some great recipes!
cateyepress.bsky.social Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · Sep 25
It's National #CookingDay, so we're doing a 24-hour sale on Cursed Cooking, our fun little cookbook/horror anthology. 50% off ebooks and 15% hardback copies of Cursed Cooking. Order now at cateyepress.com/store
National "Cursed" Cooking Day Sale! 15% off Hardbacks and 50% Ebooks of Cursed Cooking. 24 hours only, so act fast! Order at cateyepress.com/store
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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It's National #CookingDay, so we're doing a 24-hour sale on Cursed Cooking, our fun little cookbook/horror anthology. 50% off ebooks and 15% hardback copies of Cursed Cooking. Order now at cateyepress.com/store
National "Cursed" Cooking Day Sale! 15% off Hardbacks and 50% Ebooks of Cursed Cooking. 24 hours only, so act fast! Order at cateyepress.com/store
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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We may be closed for submissions for now, but if you don't want to miss the next open call, you should totally sign up to our newsletter below. You'll get the latest news and deals from Cat Eye Press too! mailchi.mp/918980054083...
September 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Pretty proud of this book. The authors wrote some amazing stories and @valhal.bsky.social killed it with the cover. Get your copy today and support indie horror!
cateyepress.bsky.social Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · Aug 26
Happy #PubDay to Modern Mummies, our latest horror anthology! 13 tales of mummified remains await within this chilling anthology. Explore the horrors of the modern world with the iconic mummy like you’ve never seen it before. Now available in ebook and paperback at cateyepress.com/store

#booksky
Happy Release Day for Modern Mummies! Now available in ebook and paperback at cateyepress.com/store
August 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
acbauer.bsky.social
Ah, Sunday. The perfect day to support #indie #horror!
cateyepress.bsky.social Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · Aug 17
We’ll be mailing out preorders of Modern Mummies this week, so if you want to be one of the first people to get their hands on a copy, you better order soon! www.cateyepress.com/modern-mummies
MODERN MUMMIES — Cat Eye Press LLC
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August 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Incredibly humbled by this review of our upcoming anthology, Modern Mummies. The authors did some incredible work and we’re really proud of it 🖤
August 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
acbauer.bsky.social
Very excited that my cat demonic possession is now out in the wild! Go on and give it a read! 😸
dielaughingmag.bsky.social Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · Aug 15
Nothing can really prepare you for the realities of pet ownership. From fancy food to vet bills, new toys to demonic possession, anything is possible with a cat! Wait, what was that last one?

Let @acbauer.bsky.social tell you all about it in "Cattus Mallus" - dielaughingmag.com/2025/08/15/c...
On a tan background, centered, a photograph of the author (a smiling, bespectacled person with dark hair and a beard with a mischievous-looking orange cat holding onto his head). Top text: A.C. Bauer's story "Cattus Mallus" is free to read on the Die Laughing Website. MEOW! In the lower left corner, the Die Laughing logo peeks in (an illustration of a dead clown in a coffin, with red hair and white gloved hands crossed over his chest. He has silver coins over his eyes). In a speech bubble, the clown says "Get ready to meet Melon... Melon is one HELL of a cat!!!!!!"
August 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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probablyharmless.bsky.social
Oh, cats. Always full of surprises.
dielaughingmag.bsky.social Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · Aug 15
Nothing can really prepare you for the realities of pet ownership. From fancy food to vet bills, new toys to demonic possession, anything is possible with a cat! Wait, what was that last one?

Let @acbauer.bsky.social tell you all about it in "Cattus Mallus" - dielaughingmag.com/2025/08/15/c...
On a tan background, centered, a photograph of the author (a smiling, bespectacled person with dark hair and a beard with a mischievous-looking orange cat holding onto his head). Top text: A.C. Bauer's story "Cattus Mallus" is free to read on the Die Laughing Website. MEOW! In the lower left corner, the Die Laughing logo peeks in (an illustration of a dead clown in a coffin, with red hair and white gloved hands crossed over his chest. He has silver coins over his eyes). In a speech bubble, the clown says "Get ready to meet Melon... Melon is one HELL of a cat!!!!!!"
August 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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cateyepress.bsky.social
We want to do something special for spooky season this year, so we're excited to announce our first ever micro horror contest called October Oddities! We're challenging you to write a story of no more than 500 words that takes place around Halloween and involves a strange and/or unusual item!
Titled October Oddities, we're challenging you to write a story of no more than 500 words that takes place around Halloween and involves a strange and/or unusual item! Contest runs Aug. 16-31. Full details at cateyepress.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Did you check the kitchen drawers? Under the bed? Are you absolutely sure? Prepare yourself for anything by reading "The Tunnel People" by @lilliekoi.bsky.social. You never know where they could be hiding.

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On a navy blue background, centered, a photograph of the author (a serious looking person with brown hair and a floral shirt, a dark blue scarf around her neck). Top text: Lillie E. Franks' story "The Tunnel People" is free to read on the Die Laughing Website In the lower left corner, the Die Laughing logo peeks in (an illustration of a dead clown in a coffin, with red hair and white gloved hands crossed over his chest. He has silver coins over his eyes). In a speech bubble, the clown says "Don't forget to check under the sofa!"
August 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Finally, the moment you've been waiting for, Die Laughing Issue 4 has arrived! You can get all 6 of these amazing, hilarifying stories for the low price of $5 right here!

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The cover for Die Laughing Magazine Issue 4! The image is of a room with pale, yellow walls, with a framed photo on the wall of a vase of flowers in the back. On a table in the foreground, a slice of furry looking fruit pie with stubby paws and a tail (appearing to be somehow both pie and also a star-nosed mole) sits on a light blue plate. Many of their distinctive noses are visible amongst the pinkish berries. To the left of the plate is a fork, also slightly furry and with tines that look like the claws of the mole. Cover text follows. Issue No. 4, July 2025. Die Laughing Magazine. A.C. Bauer Lillie E. Franks Joelle Killian Randall Madden SJ Townend Rob Walker Edited by Theodore Hill and Cassandra Daucus Cover art by Teresa Galusaurus Interior art by Iseult Murphy. On a black background, on the left, Screwball the dead clown reclines in a coffin shaped frame. His bright red smile is stitched shut, his white gloves hands are crossed over his chest, and he has silver coins over his eyes. On his black shirt, in white text, the words "Die Laughing" are printed. Image text: Die Laughing Magazine, Issue 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS “Cattus Malus” by A.C. Bauer “The Tunnel People” by Lillie E. Franks “I’m Entering My Apocalyptic Era” by Joelle Killian “Inescapable” by Randall Madden “You always drive too fast” by SJ Townend “Are You there, Dagon? It's Me Kevin” by Rob Walker.
July 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
acbauer.bsky.social
Oh yeah. Was reading Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House alone in my first apartment. Heard a noise from outside the room and immediately locked my bedroom door. Damn good book.
cateyepress.bsky.social Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · Jul 16
The #Reading Void is back with another question for you all: has a horror story or book ever frightened you enough that it made you make sure your doors were locked?
The Reading Void asks... Has a horror story/book ever made you make sure you doors were locked?
July 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📣Calling all horror readers and reviewers: Modern Mummies, our latest horror anthology, is now up on NetGalley! If you love modern twists on classic monsters, you're gonna want to give this a read!

#booksky #readersky #horrorsky

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July 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
acbauer.bsky.social
Now that’s how you do a mystery. Wowza.
acbauer.bsky.social A.C. Bauer @acbauer.bsky.social · Jul 4
Only about a quarter into Strange Pictures by Uketsu but wow, am I digging this book.

#amreading
The bright green cover of Strange Pictures by Uketsu
July 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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probablyharmless.bsky.social
So much fuzzy terror! Coming soon. 😼
dielaughingmag.bsky.social Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · Jul 5
Your kitty likes to knock your glass off the table? Cry to be fed in the middle of the night? Sit on your keyboard when you’re trying to work? Your cat has nothing on Melon, who you'll meet in A.C. Bauer’s “Cattus Malus,” coming in Die Laughing Issue 4! $5 for a PDF, available on July 15.
In the center, a photo of the author (a smiling, bespectacled person with dark hair and a beard with a mischievous-looking orange cat holding onto his head). Top text: Die Laughing Magazine, Issue 4 A.C. Bauer "Cattus Malus" Bottom text, a quote from the story: It took us a while to notice anything was wrong with Melon. He had always been an asshole.
July 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Your kitty likes to knock your glass off the table? Cry to be fed in the middle of the night? Sit on your keyboard when you’re trying to work? Your cat has nothing on Melon, who you'll meet in A.C. Bauer’s “Cattus Malus,” coming in Die Laughing Issue 4! $5 for a PDF, available on July 15.
In the center, a photo of the author (a smiling, bespectacled person with dark hair and a beard with a mischievous-looking orange cat holding onto his head). Top text: Die Laughing Magazine, Issue 4 A.C. Bauer "Cattus Malus" Bottom text, a quote from the story: It took us a while to notice anything was wrong with Melon. He had always been an asshole.
July 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM