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Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social · 4h

Huge thank you to @indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social for this remarkable shoutout to mark the worldwide release of THIS WAY LIES MADNESS. It's genuinely appreciated.

Indie Horror Chapter @indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social · 5h

👻 HAPPY RELEASE DAY 👻

This Way Lies Madness, edited by @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social has hit the world 😱

An anthology that
challenges mental health stigma, awakens understanding, and offers hope to readers through the lens of horror.

🩸📚😱📚💙📢📚

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 4h

"compelling and evocative, crafting this expletive-laden, vengeance-filled story into an unpredictable and fiercely inventive tale that leaves a lasting and satisfying aftertaste on anyone who devours its pages"

@titanbooks.bsky.social @nuzo.bsky.social

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Futility By Nuzo Onoh: Female Rage And Deadly Bargains: Book Review - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Futility by Nuzo Onoh: Female Rage and Deadly Bargains: Book Review

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Adam Hulse @adamhulse.bsky.social · 4h

INSANE amount of talented authors in these two anthologies. Seriously, take a look for yourself!

Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 4h

An insane amount of talent within these books. We think you're just the right amount of crazy to read them. Thanks for supporting indy 🐁🎃🐀
www.infestedpublishing.com
#BookSky #spookyseason #supportindy

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Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 4h

What happens when horror stops looking for monsters in the dark and starts confronting the ones hiding in plain sight? For author Todd Brown, the most profound terror isn’t found in a haunted house,

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Centering In On The Unseen By Todd Brown - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Todd Brown's "When Shadows Burn" shatters small-town myths by centering neurodivergent and queer characters as full humans.

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 3h

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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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 3h

Another morning, another awesome review!

Massive thanks to Kayleigh at Happy Goat Horror for this write up of #Pyres 🔥🔥🔥 happygoathorror.com/2025/10/14/p...

#HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚😱

Pyres – by Kev Harrison

Angela has been a spirit painter for years. Channelling the spirits as they commit memories to canvas through her: childhood pets, favourite holiday locations, and sprawling homesteads. But now, so…

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 13h

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a bar and saying `` no ... thank you '' .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a bar and saying `` no ... thank you '' .

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Horror DNA @horrordna.bsky.social · 13h

Tony's piece is thorough. Check it out if you haven't!

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 13h

... @gnofhorror.com hear from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social on the impact Barker's Weaveworld had on him, @crimereads.bsky.social select ten horrors which take place on means of transport, & @horrortree.com hear from @angelaslatter.bsky.social on writing fear through grief!

Happy reading, friends!🎃

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 13h

That's right, it's Monday, so it's #MustRead horror:
@bloody-disgusting.com send The Wolfman to stay the night in the Poltergeist house, @horrordna.bsky.social's @jonezyboy.bsky.social presents 20 of the most terrifying cults in horror fiction ...

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 18h

Coming at you through the waves of the internet, @kevharrison.bsky.social curates the 5 must-read horror articles online, only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.

5 Must Read Horror Articles 13 October 2025

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Bloody Disgusting send one of their writers to the hou…

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 14h

Who doesn't like cults, right?!
I mean in fiction, of course. Yes, just in fiction...

a group of people walking in a line with a woman standing on a pole

ALT: a group of people walking in a line with a woman standing on a pole

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a brown jacket is standing in front of a sign that says " you 're too kind "

ALT: a man in a brown jacket is standing in front of a sign that says " you 're too kind "

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Waking up to a review like this is a *great* way to start the week!!! 🔥🔥😱😱
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚😱

Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 1d

Good morning, my lovelies, it's the start of a new week and the start of my October holiday.

To kick off a week of horror, we have a review of Pyres by Kev Harrison.

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Pyres By Kev Harrison: A Fiery Supernatural Thriller With Political Bite - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Pyres by Kev Harrison arrives as a compelling supernatural thriller that masterfully blends ancient mythology with contemporary political commentary.

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Jim, thank you so much, man!! So glad you enjoyed it!!! 🔥🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼
Enjoy your holiday!!! 🎉🎉

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🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's a great day for some award winning erotic gothic horror, don't you? bsky.app/profile/tdcl...

🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · Sep 12

Your Next Gothic Read And Why It Should Be OSSUARY:

🩸 Survival Horror Made Horny
💀 QIA's Best Novella of 2023
🩸 As Above, So Below x The Descent
💀 Magic vs The Supernatural
🩸 Gothic with a capital "G"
💀 The sickest cover you've ever seen

🩸 tdcloudofficial.com/books

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Douglas Lumsden @douglaslumsden.bsky.social · 3d

Check out the complete Alexander Southerland, P.I. urban fantasy series.

"Imagine a world where detectives dodge troll punches, witches curse over whiskey, and demons lurk in Yerba City's neon glow" -- Mark Atley, author of the Tulsa Underworld series

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Alexander Southerland, P.I.

Visit Amazon's Alexander Southerland, P.I. Page and shop for all Alexander Southerland, P.I. books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of Alexander Southerland, P.I.

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #FridayReads
Please check out the works of Rebecca Crunden aka @bookspotlight.bsky.social

💙📚
Thanks Gabino!!

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Gabino!
A wildlife biologist does a psychedelic trip to touch the fabric of the universe but unknowingly brings a piece back with him. Can he find it in the wilds of Colorado, or will it find him first?
@bookpeople.bsky.social
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A black-and-white photo of an elk, stirring directly ahead. The cover of Kurt Phillips’s debut novel, the hand of the archer.

A road sign with a Stick Figure person and a stick figure elk that reads caution, aggressive elk

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Gabino!

I'm now 10 days into my effort to write a new essay on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN every day in October. Everyone can check it out over on my newsletter!

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Tracing The Shape - Matthew Jackson and The Scares That Shaped Us

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Viva La Vivian @vivalavivian.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!
My collection is up for pre-order! Out on Halloweenie!

mybook.to/AllsWell

All's Well That Ends Well

Read it now

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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Friday, Gabino and everyone!

I don't know about you, but by us the weather is finally getting that crisp autumn feel.

Whatever your weather, one of my novels will probably be the perfect pairing.
linktr.ee/authorlevai

My two novellas against a starry background: THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE, and THE GLASS GARDEN. The first has batwings, fangs, and a book on the cover. The other has white letters on a kaleidoscope image.

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Gabino. My quiet folk horror, Harrowfield came out recently. #FridayReads

The pagan v the occult compete for newcomer to Harrowfield, Derwenna Parry, in the isolated borderline between Wales and England.

mybook.to/Harrowfield

Full cover for Harrow field novel. Lower half a dark green, almost black, field, with a slushy green sky above. Front cover has a solitary tree sheltering two standing stones. Back cover shows a standing stones and two ravens flying above.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 4d

Pick up our Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology, Why Didn't You Just Leave, if you like your ghost stories dark, scary, and smart. #halloween #ghosts #horror
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/why-...

Why Didn't You Just Leave paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

It's the question asked of any story about a haunting: why didn't you just leave? But if accounts of people who have stayed in haunted houses are any indication … it's never that simple.In...

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Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social · 3d

is my debut selling well? I’m told it’s steady. obvious joke aside, I’m thrilled to see the ratings and review numbers this far on Goodreads. “..stands out as the most original ghost story I’ve ever enjoyed…” -GRR / WTDCD is the spooky season book you didn’t know you needed. Thx @gabino.bsky.social

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Beverley Lee @beverleylee.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Gabino ❤️
My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, is out in one month. If dark English forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys make your autumn heart beat faster, preorder today!
mybook.to/woundedbirds

Book cover. A young jackdaw on a dark misty background with red fly agaric mushrooms to the foreground. The Haunting of Wounded Birds by Beverley Lee.

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