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horror writer, musician, educator The Hand of the Archer a.co/d/1FN2itN Noise Ordinance a.co/d/hutoMgi https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-hand-of-the-archer/

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 10d

For your Spooky Season pleasure, here is:
Boris Karloff‘s Guacamole Recipe.

Click below for more! 🖤💀🖤💀

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A newspaper clipping of Boris Karloff‘s guacamole recipe. A photo of Mr. Karloff included.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations!

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 2d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 1d

I am halfway through Bring Her Back and it just went off the fucking rails.
I am concerned about the state of Australian family and protective services though.

A young boy with a scar and red bloodshot eyes. The movie poster for the film, bring her back.

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 1d

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 2d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Misty Massey @mistymassey.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Friday, Gabino! I'd like to push a friend's book today: Fabricated, by @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social.

Cybil Lewis, a PI in The District, is hired to help Territory Alliance agents track an escaped violator into the city's gritty underbelly, where life is cheap and everything can be fabricated.

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Deanne Marcus-Rupert @pocketbacon9.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Gabino! Happy #FridayReads My novella, Ember’s Hollow, is a perfect way to get into the spooky spirit.

A place that only exists on Halloween. For anyone who ever had a best friend they'd do anything for. Something Wicked This Way Comes but with teenage girls in the 90s.🎃💀

Also on Amazon.

Ember's Hollow

Check out Ember's Hollow - <p>In Ember, Pennsylvania there is a place known as The Hollow. A spot believed to only exist on October 31st.</p><p>Teenage best friends, Paige and Jojo, have always dreame...

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Daniel A. Olivas @danielolivas.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! My new book, Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts, received a lovely review from Wendy J. Fox of Electric Literature: electricliterature.com/15-small-pre...

15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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Dale Jacobs @tigerpride.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #FridayReads, Gabino! As always, thanks for doing this.

ON COMICS AND GRIEF is me examining the comic books of 1976, as well as my memories about my mother and grief around her death. The book combines analysis and memoir in ways that are experimental, asking the reader to make connections.

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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Gabino!
Out now as ebook and audiobook (paperback coming later this month) from cohesionpress.com - SNAFU: Contagion, an anthology packed with truly "sick" stories of military action and horror, including one of my own, "Black Hell Rising."
Had a ton of fun with this one.

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Oddity Prodigy Productions @oddityprodigy.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks so much Gabino! Our new anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK, a collection of superhero tales with a foreword by the amazing J.M. DeMatteis, is now available for preorder on Bookshop & other online outlets. The book will be out on November 18th, and folks can visit wherelegendswalk.com for more info!

The cover for WHERE LEGENDS WALK (an anthology of superhero prose tales, featuring five superheroes in varying costumes standing before a cityscape) is laid over a yellow radial background with comic halftones. Text reads as follows:

"Now available for preorder!

Bookshop.org
Barnes & Noble
Books-A-Million

WhereLegendsWalk.com"

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 3d

Thank you, Gabino!
In the House of In Between is NOW (finally!) available in ebook format as well as paperback wherever you like to buy books!
Except Amazon.
They suck. Bookshop.org supports local and indie bookstores, even with ebooks!

#FridayReads

In the House of In Between

Check out In the House of In Between - <p>The Backlund House is haunted, but no one knows why. No violence has taken place there, no one has died inside its walls. Over the course of a century, what-o...

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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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Zakariah Johnson 🪕 @zakariah.bsky.social · 3d

This week I read an anthology I was blessed enough to be in: ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER: A CLIMATE CHANGE CRIME FICTION ANTHOLOGY. Stories focus on the fact that the disaster isn't coming, it's here. Features a who's who of award-winning indie crime writers.
www.rockandahardplacemag.com/on-fire-and-...

Cover of the book paired with an author photo of contributor Zakariah Johnson.

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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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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.
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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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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 3d

I like this cover a lot.

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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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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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Gabino!!
My second novel, Pyres, dropped last Friday, and people are loving it so far. So, I'd be so happy for its brand of burning rage to find its way into more hands.
books2read.com/pyresnovel

It also got this crazily wonderful blurb from Lee Murray🔥🔥🔥

Ebook and paperback copies of Pyres with a blurb from award-winning author Lee Murray and a burning match in the background

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Amy "Gory" Grech @amygrech.bsky.social · 3d

www.amazon.com/Shadow-Your-...

A Shadow of Your Former Self

A Shadow of Your Former Self [Grech, Amy, Buddha, Alien] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A Shadow of Your Former Self

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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!

matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-...

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

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 3d

This one’s on my TBR

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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Josh Hanson @doomglossary.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks, Gabino.

I'd love everyone to consider preordering my novel, Caliope Street. I think this is the best work I've ever done, and I can't wait to get it into people's hands.
A hallucinatory ahunted house/portal fantasy freakout. www.moonstruck-books.com/shop/p/calli...

Calliope Street by Josh Hanson — Moonstruck Books

A new psychedelic horror novel by author Josh Hanson

www.moonstruck-books.com

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 3d

Pick this one up.

Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 3d

Mad Days: Stories and Curses is the perfect reading for Halloween. A terrifying collection of tales and illustrations, available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!

Amazon
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Bookshop
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