Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!)
@hironennes.bsky.social
British fantasy award-winning author of LEECH and THE WORKS OF VERMIN
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THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
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Dec 6th's choice for best new #SFF hardbacks this year: The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social is a sumptuous, monstrous tale of horror, unnatural pests, a rotting fantastical city, court politics, and layers upon layers.
Visceral and unnervingly entrancing!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
Visceral and unnervingly entrancing!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Dec 6th's choice for best new #SFF hardbacks this year: The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social is a sumptuous, monstrous tale of horror, unnatural pests, a rotting fantastical city, court politics, and layers upon layers.
Visceral and unnervingly entrancing!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
Visceral and unnervingly entrancing!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
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Just letting @hironennes.bsky.social know that they have my brain held captive by Works of Vermin. I haven't felt this enamored with a fictional setting since reading Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris trilogy. Something about seedy cities with a mycological edge to them just hit the spot!
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Just letting @hironennes.bsky.social know that they have my brain held captive by Works of Vermin. I haven't felt this enamored with a fictional setting since reading Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris trilogy. Something about seedy cities with a mycological edge to them just hit the spot!
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It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
A great gift for:
People who want something weird/different
Your favorite genderfreaks
Your exterminator
Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB
That one theater kid
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holy shit what a book
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 AM
holy shit what a book
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Went through The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I have to read through it again- has some incredible twists and turns. After reading Leech I cannot wait to hear what they write next.
Also, the narrators on both audiobooks knock it out of the park.
Also, the narrators on both audiobooks knock it out of the park.
December 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Went through The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I have to read through it again- has some incredible twists and turns. After reading Leech I cannot wait to hear what they write next.
Also, the narrators on both audiobooks knock it out of the park.
Also, the narrators on both audiobooks knock it out of the park.
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My two favourite novels of 2025:
WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and
STARVING SAINTS by @caitlinstarling.com
These were the kind of books I wanted to slow down reading so I could enjoy them longer.
WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and
STARVING SAINTS by @caitlinstarling.com
These were the kind of books I wanted to slow down reading so I could enjoy them longer.
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
My two favourite novels of 2025:
WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and
STARVING SAINTS by @caitlinstarling.com
These were the kind of books I wanted to slow down reading so I could enjoy them longer.
WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and
STARVING SAINTS by @caitlinstarling.com
These were the kind of books I wanted to slow down reading so I could enjoy them longer.
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I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social
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So I found the man who wrote the Borisch Manual of Catoptric Pest Species
![Feeling only slight pain, Schmidt described the sting of an urban digger bee, categorized into pain level 1, as "almost pleasant, a lover just bit your earlobe a little too hard."[3] Also rated into pain level 1, Schmidt has described the sting of a sweat bee as "light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm."[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekyufswq3f2s3jmyfd5d47ar/bafkreiclsnlyjnbbfphg5qrzd4huuh6qhd55qfgec3h3sinlv2corcvjy4@jpeg)
![Some ants are also rated at a pain level 3, including the giant bull ant and the Maricopa harvester ant. Schmidt considered the sting of the Maricopa harvester ant to have a pain level of 3, describing it as such: "After eight unrelenting hours of drilling into that ingrown toenail, you find the drill wedged into the toe."[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekyufswq3f2s3jmyfd5d47ar/bafkreibqlewg4fjjzbxjq5gerrht3y2mdqieucmpwkruc6gt6op2hknirm@jpeg)
![Schmidt also later rated the sting of Synoeca septentrionalis as a 4, describing it as "Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?",[3] saying the pain lasts up to two hours.[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekyufswq3f2s3jmyfd5d47ar/bafkreiavgkef6qmiyvuatzaqb75mau5kcjropfhnvcrtfwfezsyazeop2i@jpeg)
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So I found the man who wrote the Borisch Manual of Catoptric Pest Species
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It's the most wonderful time...of the year! #endoftheyearlists
Love you @charliejane.bsky.social! I haven't read us.macmillan.com/books/978125... but I know from reading your other work, I'll love it. I'm sure it will end up on one of these lists!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Love you @charliejane.bsky.social! I haven't read us.macmillan.com/books/978125... but I know from reading your other work, I'll love it. I'm sure it will end up on one of these lists!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
The 10 best sci-fi and fantasy novels of 2025
From an indigenous vampire story to the tale of two sisters living in a cosmic whale, this year’s books kept us guessing.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's the most wonderful time...of the year! #endoftheyearlists
Love you @charliejane.bsky.social! I haven't read us.macmillan.com/books/978125... but I know from reading your other work, I'll love it. I'm sure it will end up on one of these lists!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Love you @charliejane.bsky.social! I haven't read us.macmillan.com/books/978125... but I know from reading your other work, I'll love it. I'm sure it will end up on one of these lists!
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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📚 🐛🔫New review! 🔫🐛📚
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social from @torbooks.bsky.social
"...not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century."
Have I found my SFF book of the year? We'll see...
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social from @torbooks.bsky.social
"...not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century."
Have I found my SFF book of the year? We'll see...
REVIEW: The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes
The Works of Vermin is not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century.
www.grimdarkmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
📚 🐛🔫New review! 🔫🐛📚
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social from @torbooks.bsky.social
"...not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century."
Have I found my SFF book of the year? We'll see...
The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social from @torbooks.bsky.social
"...not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century."
Have I found my SFF book of the year? We'll see...
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THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman
"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear
"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber
Get your copy from your local bookstore!
Please donate, this store rules.
It's been said by many already, but I will say it again: @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social is not just a store, it's a community and an inspiration and some of the best people you'll ever meet. And right now, they need our help:
www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...
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Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde
Dear friends: I need your help.
I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now
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November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Please donate, this store rules.
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God, how I hate what kind of society we are becoming... Btw, we can stop it, it depends on us: which kind of world we create, which kind of community we foster, which kind of cities we live in. You can help @argonautbooks.bsky.social by sharing wide and far!
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
God, how I hate what kind of society we are becoming... Btw, we can stop it, it depends on us: which kind of world we create, which kind of community we foster, which kind of cities we live in. You can help @argonautbooks.bsky.social by sharing wide and far!
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Daily obligatory verminposting: please enjoy this meme that's old enough to drive
September 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Daily obligatory verminposting: please enjoy this meme that's old enough to drive
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Currently reading The Works Of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I'm honestly blown away. It's absolutely amazing. Every sentence is poetry. Just a glorious read.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Currently reading The Works Of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I'm honestly blown away. It's absolutely amazing. Every sentence is poetry. Just a glorious read.
So stoked to share that there is still genuinely, excellently frightening horror out there
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
So stoked to share that there is still genuinely, excellently frightening horror out there
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I’m almost done with it now (I’ve been savoring it slowly) and The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social might very well be one of the best books I’ve ever read. Period. I’ve already waxed feverish over its prose so I’ll spare you that this time. But you must read this book.
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I’m almost done with it now (I’ve been savoring it slowly) and The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social might very well be one of the best books I’ve ever read. Period. I’ve already waxed feverish over its prose so I’ll spare you that this time. But you must read this book.
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@hironennes.bsky.social has crushed it again
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
@hironennes.bsky.social has crushed it again
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Just finished this. What a f***ing masterpiece. Threads of Peake, and Cisco, perhaps? But absolutely it's own thing. We only get a handful of writers this good in our timelines, everyone interested in Weird fic needs to read @hironennes.bsky.social now. My review hopefully soonish in a mag near you.
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Just finished this. What a f***ing masterpiece. Threads of Peake, and Cisco, perhaps? But absolutely it's own thing. We only get a handful of writers this good in our timelines, everyone interested in Weird fic needs to read @hironennes.bsky.social now. My review hopefully soonish in a mag near you.
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Holy shit I’m a third of the way into @hironennes.bsky.social WORKS OF VERMIN and they are now one of my favorite writers all the Byzantine feral layered prose of Wolfe or Peake and the modern brutal verve and sensibilities of Mariana Enriquez synthesized into a wholly unique voice all of their own
November 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Holy shit I’m a third of the way into @hironennes.bsky.social WORKS OF VERMIN and they are now one of my favorite writers all the Byzantine feral layered prose of Wolfe or Peake and the modern brutal verve and sensibilities of Mariana Enriquez synthesized into a wholly unique voice all of their own
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i feel sorry for all of you who missed an incredible discussion on Saturday between myself, @jillndaviesbooks.bsky.social and @hironennes.bsky.social at @bloodstonebookshop.bsky.social about starting a horse piss business and force-femming that one billionaire who drinks his son's blood
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
i feel sorry for all of you who missed an incredible discussion on Saturday between myself, @jillndaviesbooks.bsky.social and @hironennes.bsky.social at @bloodstonebookshop.bsky.social about starting a horse piss business and force-femming that one billionaire who drinks his son's blood