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Nat Cassidy

@natcassidy.bsky.social

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USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY: AN AWAKENING OF TERROR; NESTLINGS; REST STOP). TV actor. Musician. Out now: WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, April 22, 2025, Tor Nightfire. (he/him)

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · Nov 13

Do these introduction-y posts do anything? I guess we shall see! Hi, new followers and/or The Curious: I write spookyangry horrorbooks like MARY, NESTLINGS, REST STOP, and the upcoming WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME. I've also maybe appeared as a scumbag on your favorite crime procedural TV show!

A snarling, too-many-teethed wolf lurking outside a dirty window. The cover for WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, by Nat Cassidy, a book you should totally preorder.

A bloody tile floor with some googly eyes and the title REST STOP spelled out with various cut-out letters. The cover of a novella by Nat Cassidy, which you should totally buy.

A skeletal bird creature hovering over a nest with a human skull, with the New York City skyline in the distant background. The cover of the book, NESTLINGS, by Nat Cassidy, which you should totally buy.

A woman relaxing in a bathtub with a journal and a glass of wine, but also with a pillowcase over her head and an additional, unaccounted-for arm coming out of the water. The cover of the novel, MARY, by Nat Cassidy, which, you guessed it, you should totally buy.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social · 14h

One of the top tier opening scenes hands down

Text: Drew Barrymore dies at the start of this painting, doesn't she?

The Scream painting

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 16h

but in the meantime

a girl with red hair is asking what did it cost ..

ALT: a girl with red hair is asking what did it cost ..

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 16h

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 23h

Phase one complete. (I save the load-bearing chinhair for the last minute, when I can be alone with my shame and terror.)

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 23h

One of the best to ever do it.

Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 23h

"If it sounds like #writing, I rewrite it." – Elmore Leonard, born 100 years ago on today's date

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

I am a truly simple creature. A few hours in the American SW and I’m already just standing outside, soaking up the sun and sky and wanting to cry in happiness at the smell of certain plants.

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 1d

Many have asked: “Clay, where do you get your ideas?” Well, my friends, wonder no more. I’m giving away all of my creative secrets in this inspirational how-to at the Barnes & Noble blog. Learn how you, too, can write such devastating stories as the ones featured in ACQUIRED TASTE: bit.ly/3L4s8SH

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 1d

None needed whatsoever!!! Our google hits have crossed for a long time and I love that she has a book out!! Thank you for helping promote it—we authors need all the help we can get! 😂

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much!!!

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Lord Samper @lordsamper.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure where the week went but here we are. Have some quick thoughts on the superb 'Rest Stop' by @natcassidy.bsky.social (and then promise yourself that you'll never help someone find their inhaler...)

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'Rest Stop' - Nat Cassidy (Shortwave Publishing)

Page Count: 124 Pages I’ve got enough of a ‘book buying problem’ as it is so as a rule, I try not to act on other people’s recommendations...

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

Woke up in Fairfax. Took a car to DC. Took a train to Manhattan. Took another train to Queens. Took another car to the airport. Took a plane to Albuquerque. About to take another car to a hotel. Now that’s a travel day. 🙃

(Managed to get 2k of a short story done along the way, too.)

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Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 2d

HWA folks! Have you recommended others' work to the Recommended Reading list for the Bram Stoker Awards? Horror writers, have you submitted your own work to the juries? Here's how! You can even click through to the full rules if you're intrepid! www.thebramstokerawards.com/submissions/

Submissions – The Bram Stoker Awards

www.thebramstokerawards.com

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

Quite the opposite, probably! But it’s for a video game, so it involves facial imaging and I gotta give them a clean face 😭

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

Spoiler: he admits he learned everything from me and Rachel

Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social · 2d

A self-indulgent moment on Talking Scared. @natcassidy.bsky.social and @rachelharrison.bsky.social come onboard to grill ME about my debut GOOD BOY.

We talk about the inspirations, the struggles, the characters, and what I’ve learned in 5 years of talking to authors.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

Haha - this is actually for the OTHER Nat Cassidy, but now that we’re both officially actor/authors, I feel like we have to do an event together somehow.

KarenKisreading @karenkisreading.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you @hqstories.bsky.social for a gorgeous book post parcel, including a signed copy of Happy Days by @natcassidy.bsky.social to celebrate publication day.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

a man in a suit and tie is holding his eyes closed and saying `` i get it '' .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding his eyes closed and saying `` i get it '' .

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

I have very unfortunate news for anyone planning on attending my upcoming appearances.

No, I’m not canceling anything. It’s just … I booked an acting gig that requires me to shave all my facial hair on Monday and it’s gonna be weird for a while. I’ll understand if you need to rethink your plans.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

Such an absolute delight!!! And, Alma, you’re always the best. Thank you, @fallforthebook.bsky.social!!
(Also I swear my hair wasn’t that grey before this booktour!)

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Alma Katsu (FIEND is out now) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to everyone who came to the @fallforthebook.bsky.social event yesterday. Lots of writing students there made for lots of craft questions & hopefully we did not disappoint. @natcassidy.bsky.social enthralls the crowd

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

I always knew me, @rachelharrison.bsky.social, and @claymcleod.bsky.social would wind up on Page Six because of our shenanigans. Thankfully, we look goooooood in these photos.

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so grateful for this community. I wrote this wanting to write an action character who was more than a tough woman kicking ass in the streets in steel toe boots and brass rings. She’s also vulnerable. She bleeds.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3d

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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