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Caitlin Starling

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Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · Apr 11

periodic reminder that I’ve got two more books out this year. they are both unhinged in different ways. please try to enjoy each book equally.

A trope graphic for The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling.

two girls chilling in a cistern 0" apart because they're not gay

unnegotiated bdsm for fun and esoteric knowledge

lesbian ot3 but they all hate each other

"let's use all our iron for incendiaries! what could go wrong?"

please don't eat the mind control food

!! VIOLATION OF THE BEE SPACE!!

cute girl with a knife serving up a literal foot

A trope graphic for THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT by Caitlin Starling.

what day is it again?

jello

tfw the hospital is literally rotting but nobody else can see it.

why is the pharma rep daddy

professional whiteboard abuse

wait where did the other trial patient go

what do you mean I can only have tylenol??

sure wish dr house was here

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Blue House Books @bluehousebooks.bsky.social · 6h

Happy #NewReleaseTuesday everyone!

There are so many incredible new books hitting the shelves this week that we couldn’t fit them all into one post, so stay tuned for more!

Which of these new reads are you grabbing first?

A photo of the book, "The Graceview Patient" by Caitlin Starling sitting on the floor of the bookstore.
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Margaret’s rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.

The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.

Unsure of what's real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls

A photo of the book, "Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse, and the Storm" by Charlie Mackesy sitting on the floor of the bookstore.
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‘One day you’ll look back and realise how hard it was, and just how well you did’

Charlie Mackesy’s four unlikely friends are wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult, but that they love each other, and cake is often the answer.

When the dark clouds come, can the boy remember what he needs to get through the storm?

A photo of the book, "Dragonborn" by Struan Murray sitting on the floor of the bookstore with the sprayed edges facing you.
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An astonishing new fantasy series takes flight in this soaring, action-packed adventure filled with twists and surprises. The secret world of dragons is waiting for you!

*This stunning book features a dragon-scale edge, full-color illustrated endpapers, a foil scene on the case, foil on the jacket, and an interior map*

There is a secret world of dragons that lurks at the edges of our own. But dragons also live among us. These Slumberers have been human for so long they have forgotten their true selves—until something awakens the dragon within.

Twelve-year-old Alex Evans is about to wake up.

Ever since her father’s death, Alex’s overprotective mother has smothered her with unbreakable rules and unspoken fears. Feeling trapped, Alex’s frustration has become too big to hide away. Burning inside, she erupts into a fierce, fiery roar.

A new school and a new life await Alex on the legendary island of Skralla, one of the last surviving dragon havens. There, she will train alongside other young dragons who are wild, untamed, and—unlike Alex—skilled at transforming and embracing their dragons within.

As dark factions begin to rise, Alex finds herself in a race to unlock her long-dormant power before Drak Midna, the greatest dragon of all, rises again to wage war against the human world.

A picture of a hand holding the book, "The Secret Christmas Library" by Jenny Colgan in front of a bookshelf.
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A new holiday story set in the Scottish Highlands to warm booklovers’ hearts by Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling author of Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop.

Mirren Sutherland stumbled into a career as an antiquarian book hunter after finding a priceless antique book in her great aunt’s attic. Now, as Christmas approaches, she’s been hired by Jamie McKinnon, the surprisingly young and handsome laird of a Highland clan whose ancestral holdings include a vast crumbling castle. Family lore suggests that the McKinnon family’s collection includes a rare book so valuable that it could save the entire estate—if they only knew where it was. Jamie needs Mirren to help him track down this treasure, which he believes is hidden in his own home.

But on the train to the Highlands, Mirren runs into rival book hunter Theo Palliser, and instantly knows that it’s not a chance meeting. She’s all too familiar with Theo’s good looks and smooth talk, and his uncanny ability to appear whenever there’s a treasure that needs locating.

Almost as soon as Mirren and Theo arrive at the castle, a deep snow blankets the Highlands, cutting off the outside world. Stuck inside, the three of them plot their search as the wind whistles outside. Mirren knows that Jamie’s grandfather, the castle’s most recent laird, had been a book collector, a hoarder, and a great lover of treasure hunts. Now they must unpuzzle his clues, discovering the secrets of the house—forming and breaking alliances in a race against time.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 7h

Takeaways: A Cure For Wellness matches my freak, I want to write a Flatliners-inspired book, and hospital workplace comedies are great.

Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 7h

with the help of @watchifyoudare.bsky.social I put together a hospital horror watch list/mini review set!

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Five Horror Films Set in Hospitals

Man, how good was The Pitt? There’s something about a medical drama that will always get me. From ER to Scrubs, from MASH to New Amsterdam, stories about doctors, nurses, medical care in general, n…

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 10h

book’s out! hospital gothic, more claustrophobia and slippage of reality, more medical minutiae than most people need, a sinister whiteboard. get it where you get your books but here’s an option:

www.powells.com/book/gracevi...

A promo photo of The Graceview Patient. The hardcover is stacked on the left, and also face out in the center. There’s a sharps container to the right, two decorative medicine vials, a craft syringe filled with food coloring, some alcohol prep swabs, and a package of cotton gauze.

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Rosiee "Captain" Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 12h

ITS A BAT DAMN TIME! 🦇⚰️🩸

Dead & Breakfast is out today! Vampires Arthur and Sal just want to live a quiet retirement running a B&B, but when the mayor is found dead in their garden, they must solve the crime to prove their innocence!

Get your copy: www.rosieethor.com/dead-and-bre...

Rosiee (white, nonbinary, short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses) wearing a sun hat and overalls with sunflowers on them and holding a copy of Dead & Breakfast.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 13h

NEW BOOKS! October 14th, 2025
@haleynewlin.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @caitlinstarling.com @wordhorde.bsky.social

I’ll Quit When I’m Dead
The Film You Are About to See
My Lips Her Voice
The Unveiling
When We Talk to the Dead
The Works of Vermin
The Bleeding Woods
Our Gifted Hearts
The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
Notes From the Underground
Little Horn
The Graceview Patient
The Scald Crow
Veal
The Last Witch
Senseless

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 1d

dyemadyarns.com/products/wre... it’s also absolutely gorgeous

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

"When they left fully loaded for ClevelandAnd later that night when the ship's bell rangCould it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?" "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a 1976 hit song written...

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 1d

fun fact: my current sock pair on the needles is made with wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald-themed yarn

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 1d

oops, want me to take it down?

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 1d

proof! from @jordanshiveley.bsky.social! That’s my book! holy shit!

A photo of this quarter’s issue of Fangoria, open to the Nightmare Library section. The Graceview Patient is in the top right segment.

Close up of The Graceview Patient review in Fangoria, which calls it “mean and moody”. Hell yeah.

“Margaret Culpepper is at the mercy of a chronic illness called Fayette Gehret Syndrome. In a last-ditch effort to gain back quality of life, she agrees to an experimental treatment at Graceview Hospital. The pain of the treatment is extraordinary as her immune system is slowly destroyed and rebuilt. While wasting away in her hospital bed, she notices a growing presence in the building. She can hear murmur and soon, she can begin to see it. Is she actually recovering? Or is she succumbing to what lives inside the aged walls?

The medical world is elusive by nature, but The Graceview Patient lays the mystery on thicker and freakier. Readers get to know Margaret only through her confusion and discomfort, infusing the whole story with a nervous energy. The legitimacy of her interactions with staff and other patients is debatable, but her perseverance in a fight for wellness and dignity elicits deep empathy. Fans of Jacob's Ladder will devour the air of uncertainty the story exudes. The haunted hospital trope is scary enough, but Starling's sci-fi style transforms it into a hellscape of gooey terror and nosophobia. Strong imagery of needle use, open sores, and bodily slime give the story a grimy edge. A mean and moody medical horror, The Graceview Patient spotlights the tragedy of chronic illness and the predatory practices of a flawed healthcare system.”

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 1d

Can I share the photo you sent me with the good folks

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 1d

Apparently The Graceview Patient is in Fangoria??? shout out to @jordanshiveley.bsky.social who spotted it first

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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow night! I'll be talking to @caitlinstarling.com about her new novel, THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT, at Powell's! 7 PM! Be therrrrrrre!

www.powells.com/events/caitl...

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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 1d

While the question of genre sometimes stymies, or even annoys, some authors, in talking with me about her new novel The Graceview Patient," Caitlin Starling provided a workaround by creating her own for this book: "hospital Gothic."
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Exclusive Interview: "The Graceview Patient" Author Caitlin Starling

Exclusive Interview: "The Graceview Patient" Author Caitlin Starling \ In which she talks about this "hospital Gothic" horror novel.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 4d

Heads up! I'm doing TWO Litquake events this week.

TUES 10/14 @ Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library: talking banned books w/ Kate Folk, Elena Darling-Hammond & moderator Becka Robbins

THURS 10/16 @ Lost Church SF: Queer Magic w/ Michelle Tea, Caitlin Starling & moderator Evette Davis.

PARTY!!!!

A flier that repeats the same info as in my skeet, with photos of Charlie Jane Anders, Kate Folk and Becka Robbins, plus fancy curlicues and golden vines, against a green background

A flier that repeats the same info as in my skeet, with photos of me, Caitlin Starling, Michelle Tea and Evette Davis, plus a parrot sitting on a pile of books and a burning candle on top of a tree. Purple background.

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Dan DiIorio @trampolinetales.com · 4d

Maze Mice is out now on iOS!

The Android version is still in review by google for some reason, hopefully they approve it soon...

‎Maze Mice

‎Maze Mice is a bullet heaven roguelite where time only moves when you move. Collect dots, level up, choose upgrades, and avoid cats. All at your own pace. Features: Gameplay designed by the same sol...

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 4d

YESSSS

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Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 5d

This week’s #ResearchSpotlight chills to the bone with body horror and gothic desire. How does asexuality haunt The Death of Jane Lawrence? Dare to find out: works.hcommons.org/records/7h90... 💉🖤

Pale orange flyer with red lettering that reads "The Horror of Sex: Gothic Asexuality and Medical Body Horror in The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling by Vickie Brestwer"

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 5d

I just started running again and How It’s Done reliably gets me my best and smoothest pace of the workout.

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Blue House Books @bluehousebooks.bsky.social · 6d

October events continue with >>>

More information here - blue-house-books.com/events

#booksky💙📚

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The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social · 6d

Thursday, 10/16, at The Lost Church, we'll be slinging books for LItquake's QUEER MAGIC event, with Charile Jane Anders, Michelle Tea, Caitlin Starling, and Evette Davis. Info & tickets: booksmith.com/event/2025-1...

graphic for the event with headshots of the panelists

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 7d

They have glitter inside and change colors when you shake them!!

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Chad Nichols @chadlowtel.bsky.social · 8d

One of our best horror writers has a new one. Do yourself a favor and check out this sneak peek.

John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social · 8d

You can read an excerpt of my novel that releases tomorrow here, at TheNerdDaily! thenerddaily.com/the-night-th...

A Facebook post with the following text and a link: Tomorrow, my novel THE NIGHT THAT FINDS US ALL releases in the US. You can find it in almost any Barnes & Noble and many indie bookstores. I don't know how many libraries will have it but almost every library has a form where you can request that they buy a copy. There is also an audiobook you can purchase at whatever vendor you prefer, B&N, Audible, etc. Also, the Libby app carries ebooks and audiobooks and more than likely you'll be able to find it there within the next week or so. This has been both a personal and public service announcement.

If you'd like to read an excerpt, you can find one here.

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Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 7d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 7d

YAY YAY YAY