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Elford Alley
@elfordalley.bsky.social
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Horror author and disgraced paranormal investigator. Latest: my children's book A Haunted Holiday and my horror novella Never Leaving!

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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
elfordalley.bsky.social
Small Business Saturday! You can get FREE shipping on my paperbacks at Bookshop, no Amazon needed: bit.ly/48uCF1N

You can also get the ebook of Never Leaving straight from InfestedPublishing.com!
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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louwrites.bsky.social
I'm very sad to share the news that our lovely @chaoticauthor.online has passed away. His ending was peaceful and surrounded with love but came far too quickly after a short battle with pancreatic cancer.

I've known Matt for years. He was a warm, gentle, generous, all-weather friend. I miss him.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Hey, if you're a #horror creator, small press, artist, small business etc. and you're having a Black Friday sale, drop the details in this thread and I'll signal boost!

#HorrorSky
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November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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THE MONSTERS AMONG US is a viscerally cinematic and immersive dark fantasy/horror novel.

Winner of the Firebird Book Award, and Shirley Jackson Award nominee…and also 20% for Black Friday when bought directly from me:

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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rhiannonagrist.bsky.social
Thanks Gabino! My debut novel is now available for preorder 🪓

After an incident at work, Tamsin escapes to the Scottish countryside to start over. But her new home comes with an odd neighbour, strange folktales, and disturbances at night 👀

Preorder: geni.us/homesick
Goodreads: tinyurl.com/3mdv69dp
A graphic showing the book cover for HOME SICK. Two creepy sheep heads stare out, one with dead shark eyes. All against a sickly pink gradient. The book sits on a backdrop of mist-wreathed trees. Text around the book reads: This house isn't haunted. She is. A brand new psychological horror from award-winning author Rhiannon Grist.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Thanks Gabino!

Loads of my books are on sale/heavily discounted this week at the Nefarious Bat online store - along with titles from @anna-orridge.bsky.social and @shaunamceleney.bsky.social :)

There's a whole 🧵 of them here - and we'd be hugely grateful if people would consider buying direct! ⬇️
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Here we go... the ultimate 🧵 of our We're Not Bezos Batcave deals

Want to sate that horror, crime and fantasy fic hunger at a discount - without dipping a toe in the Big Evil River That Everyone Hates?

We can help! 📚💙

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November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The basic premise of the setting of my novel series is it's always Black Friday. Even before I knew it was narrated by a coffee machine robot, I knew it took place in a mall that spanned the continent, where people lived and never left.

www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319

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screenshot of starred review of The Great American Deception in Publishers Weekly, full text at https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-946501-21-9 The Great American Deception Scott Stein. Tiny Fox, $14.27 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-1-946501-21-9 Stein (Mean Martin Manning) delivers a madcap sci-fi take on the hard-boiled detective genre in this fun, near-future romp that’s chock-full of rapid-fire wit, tongue-in-cheek literary allusions, and playful futuristic absurdity. Arjay, a sentient, top-of-the-line coffee machine with an excess of pep, tags along on the cases of old-school PI Frank Harken within the luxurious but dystopian confines of the Great American—a giant, autonomous, U.S.-coast-spanning shopping mall. Though the grumpy gumshoe is not always thrilled by Arjay’s presence, he can’t deny that the bot makes a “damn fine” cup of coffee. When one of the Great American’s inhabitants, Pretty Lovely, hires Harken to find her sister, kidnapped heiress Winsome Smiles, Harken and Arjay are plunged into Great American’s underbelly, where they encounter genre staples including mobsters and incompetent cops. Stein keeps the stakes high and the laughs coming, juxtaposing the gritty mystery and dystopian setting with Arjay’s perky narration to excellent effect. Sure to appeal to fans of Douglas Adams, this zany, uproarious mystery is a constant delight. (May) review in Kirkus reviews of The Great American Deception. full text at: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/scott-stein/the-great-american-deception/ In a giant, futuristic mall, a coffee machine with artificial intelligence excitedly narrates the exploits of its new owner, a retro-style, hard-boiled gumshoe. Stein’s (Lost, 2019) satirical SF detective yarn at least initially owes much to Douglas Adams before the material finds its own humorous tone. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans may recall Adams’ ancillary detail of robotic home appliances with “Real People Personalities,” often annoying, single-minded entities. And coffee machines were among those conveniences so accessorized. Arjay, the first-person (or first-gadget?) narrator here, is such a device, an ever upbeat, persistent, and talkative “top of the line” coffee maker. Arjay gets delivered to Frank Harken, a private eye of the old school, whose beat is the Great American, a fortresslike, coast-to-coast shopping/dining/entertainment/residential mall (shades of Somtow Sucharitkul’s Mallworld). The mall is a consumer paradise and haven for the elite in an otherwise ill-described (but doubtlessly unpleasant) future United States. Because of a prime directive to serve coffee in any circumstance, Arjay is mobile, resourceful, multilimbed, and filled with extra goodies such as laser cutters. The AI becomes sidekick to bemused tough-guy Harken. The chipper appliance recounts their initial case together, a missing custom-dentistry heiress named Winsome Smiles, connected to shady characters and now apparently kidnapped. Arjay’s enthusiastic narration takes readers through not only the standard private investigator clichés (mobsters, clueless authorities, duplicitous dames), but also bizarre boutiques and services (“legstentions”), literary references encompassing The Princess Bride and Edgar Allan Poe, and—in a very Hitchhiker touch—reams of persnickety Arjay non sequitur footnotes. (Sample: “Assas… screenshot of review of The Great American Betrayal on Vulture, naming it one of the best comedy books of 2022 full text at the full list at https://www.vulture.com/article/best-comedy-books-2022.html
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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oddityprodigy.bsky.social
Thanks so much Gabino!

Our latest anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK was just released last week! We're very proud of this collection of over 30 superhero short stories, and it's available on all major online book retailers as well as our own shop:

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The cover for the superhero anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK (depicting five superheroes of varying designs standing before a cityscape) is laid over a blue radial background with halftones. Text reads as follows: "On Sale Now! WHERE LEGENDS WALK A Superhero Anthology Edited by Jacob Jones-Goldstein and Nicholas Leamy | Foreword by J. M. DeMatteis Featuring over thirty prose tales of superheroes, with a foreword by legendary comic author J. M. DeMatteis! wherelegendswalk.com" The cover for the superhero anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK (depicting five superheroes of varying designs standing before a cityscape) is laid over a blue radial background with halftones. Text reads as follows: "On Sale Now! WHERE LEGENDS WALK A Superhero Anthology Edited by Jacob Jones-Goldstein and Nicholas Leamy | Foreword by J. M. DeMatteis Featuring over thirty prose tales of superheroes, with a foreword by legendary comic author J. M. DeMatteis! wherelegendswalk.com"
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I chipped a molar on my morning granola, so I have to go to the dentist. 🦷⛏️

It would make me feel better if you checked out my books. They're perfect for this stressful time of year because they're short and exciting and have families bickering maybe even harder than yours.
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The poster's two novellas, available for purchase/library borrowing. THE GLASS GARDEN has a kaleidoscopic cover, THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE has batwings and a book against a starry sky. They books are resting on a lawn strewn with autumn leaves.
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Thanks, Gabino!
Enter a world where ghosts walk in meatspace, portals exist, and interdimensional shenanigans abound!

Books 1 & 2 of the Tuner Trilogy
#TUNERVILLE
#CONFLUENCE

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A large blue portal, its edges crackling with white energy, opens in a field of stars. The books Tunerville and Confluence are being sucked into it. Tunerville screams, "Help!!" Confluence says, "Whee!" Both books are by A. Elizabeth West.
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
elfordalley.bsky.social
Get you some Gabino! No one is writing like him.
gabino.bsky.social Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 1d
It’s #FridayReads time! Books are great gifts. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a happy tale full of old gods, magic, grief, violence, ghosts, a hurricane, friendship, and things from beyond the reef...

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November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Black Friday book sale! My horror-comedies Apartment 239 and the sequel, High Strangeness, are both just 99 cents!

Apt. 239
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High Strangeness
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November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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I have helpers!
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Today on the This Is Horror Podcast Patreon, we present to you the video version of our full conversation with @gabino.bsky.social.

This video is not behind a paywall and everyone can watch it right now. For more like this, please consider supporting us on Patreon.

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November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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What happens when you put an overplanner in a situation she never could have seen coming? She's home alone with her dogs, sirens are wailing, the tornado is coming, and there's a stranger already occupying her storm shelter. Check it out in SEEK SHELTER NOW.

Available at the link:
Available now at your favorite digital store!
Seek Shelter Now by Stellan Dickerson
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October 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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For the evening crowd, 99 cent cosmic horrors!
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Black Friday cosmic horror! Only 99 cents for the story of Serling and Price, con artists who buy and sell haunted houses. Of course, they unleash something hungry and thoroughly pissed off…

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November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Black Friday cosmic horror! Only 99 cents for the story of Serling and Price, con artists who buy and sell haunted houses. Of course, they unleash something hungry and thoroughly pissed off…

shorturl.at/fCEZ9
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
elfordalley.bsky.social
Katy made me the greatest thing ever for our anniversary. If there was a fire I’d save this and then go back for the kids.
November 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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For the afternoon crowd!
elfordalley.bsky.social Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 4d
Looking for a spooky holiday read for the kids? @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and I got you covered! Check out Hazel’s haunted holiday adventure! If you have already, then consider dropping a review on goodreads or Amazon!

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November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Looking for a spooky holiday read for the kids? @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social and I got you covered! Check out Hazel’s haunted holiday adventure! If you have already, then consider dropping a review on goodreads or Amazon!

a.co/d/78HLN7G
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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This is exciting! My novella in this collection is dark af, and EVERYONE brought their A game!
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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You can read these in any order, pick one up today from Vortex!
beaujohnson44.bsky.social Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 5d
Hey, it #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Repost this post & tell us what you want reposted. Me, I no longer have a publisher. Doesn’t mean you can’t find my books.
@vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social

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November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Inspiration can strike at any time, coming in the unlikeliest of places.

With the release of the BISHOP RIDER LIVES anthology I got the idea to make and start promoting it and my other books using fake magazine covers.

Below is issue #45

Keep telling your stories. The world needs them. #BookSky
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
elfordalley.bsky.social
18 years! Happy anniversary, Katy!
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM