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S.J. Shank

@sjshank.bsky.social

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Writer of the grim fantastic Dark Fantasy // Historical Horror Books: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒, 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓 sjshank.com

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'm excited to announce my new dark fantasy novel – 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐒.

This tale of sorcerous dilemmas and Faustian solutions will be released July 24 and is available for pre-order.👇

Cover design by Raven Daly.

I appreciate any help spreading the word!

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Happy release day to @gemmafiles.bsky.social and LITTLE HORN, a new collection of 14 stories and novelettes!

Each story features an accompanying full-page illustration by the author.

Out today in hardcover, paperback, and ebook!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

The cover of Little Horn (title spelling out in bound sticks and twigs), flanked by the words "Out Today!" on both sides.

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo!

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E. L. Chen @elainechen.com · 2d

Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/

A graphic from Run For It with a photo of me, a middle-aged Asian woman with long black hair and glasses wearing an olive green bomber jacket. Above is a red banner that reads, "Acquisition Announcement", and below is "One of Us Is Already Dead, E. L. Chen."

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!🙏

S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 2d

In honour of the Halloween season, I've dropped the price of all my ebooks to 99¢. Whether you're looking for grimy dark fantasy or chilling medieval horror, I've got a book for you.

Excerpts for my books can be found on my website sjshank.com.

Please help spread the word!

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 4d

Today's secondhand find:
✧ Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages by Patrick J. Geary

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 5d

Find your next great #horrorread with these #newreleases

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Find your next great #horrorread with these #newreleases

Dread Mondays -Steve Capone Jr & Elizabeth Suggs
The Hangmaid - Cameron Jace
Vampiro- K.L. Feel
Unwell -Effie Campbell
The Recluse Rules - Martin Weller
The Elevator Curse -Jannick Siewers
Howl- Carl.M Holton
Silent Night, Deadly Night- Armando Muñoz
Shattered Veil - Nika Vyre
What They Brought Back - Bethany Gleghorn
This World of Vile Wonder- Coy Hall & Stephanie Ellis
Lightning Falls - J.W.G. Wise
Withdrawal - Kyle Atwood
Barrett's Island - Rhyan Pike
FxkinEntity- Jodie King
Eye in the Blue Box- Ann Yihyang Kim

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sad to hear On Spec Magazine will be closing. I'm grateful to their team for publishing my story "Storm Surge" (a personal favourite) back in #116.

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Chey Rivera @criverawrites.bsky.social · 6d

Find my story, “Two Paths, One Death,” in this anthology coming out October 20! 💀

In “Two Paths, One Death,” Death takes pity on a young Spanish woman and sends her down two parallel paths: one to know the world, the other to know the universe. 🌊✨

Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 6d

In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil.

This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution releases October 20. Ebook preorder up now on Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 6d

The Guest Children by @patrickt.bsky.social is a ghost story that's full of mystery. Set in a crumbling and isolated northern lodge, the book explores where ghosts come from and how we allow ourselves to be trapped by their hauntings. It's also a damn spooky page turner. Highly recommended!

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 6d

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Patrick Tarr @patrickt.bsky.social · 8d

Toronto friends, three weeks from today come see Emily Weedon, Daniel Perry, Michael Rowe, @mcallway.bsky.social, and myself read at the spooky October edition of Drunk Fiction. Oct 28th, 6pm at the Caledonian at College and Ossington.

An ad for the event 'Spoooky Drunk Fiction', with a dark background featuring covers for the novels #TheGuestChildren, #HemoSapiens, #SnakeOilAndOtherTales, #Pride, and #ModernFolklore.

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 7d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, shared, talked about and reviewed #Pyres on its first weekend. It's been a great start!

Have you stared into the flames yet?

#HorrorBooks #BookSky #IndieAuthor 📚😱
books2read.com/pyresnovel

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 8d

Do yourself a favour and read some Steve Stred!

Only 99c a pop!

Steve Stred @stevestred.bsky.social · 8d

Final day to grab these 6 ebooks for only 99c each! Thanks to all who have done so already!

Find them here - author.to/stevestred

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 8d

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Michael Johnstone @mikejwrites.bsky.social · 8d

Starting THE KNAVE OF GRAVES today, the second novel by @sjshank.bsky.social! Ornery gravedigger who treats with a night hag? I'm in. A perfect read for Hallowe'en month. 🎃

Image of the cover of the novel THE KNAVE OF GRAVES, by S.J. Shank. Red-orange illustration of a pile of skulls.

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 9d

I had a fantastic time at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Festival this weekend!

Thanks so much to the LG gang for putting on the event and giving me the the chance to read alongside a slate of stellar writers (who I unfortunately didn't get a picture of).

Here's a pic of my book haul instead.

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 12d

I'm excited to be reading at Little Ghosts Festival this weekend!

Come out on Sunday (Oct. 5) at 4pm to hear me read from my latest, The Knave of Graves.

Hope to see you there!

@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social #horror #reading

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Ronald McGillvray @ronaldmcgillvray.bsky.social · 14d

Releasing on October 20th comes a new anthology edited by @coyhall.bsky.social. In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. Their discoveries were grim, their knowledge foul, their names buried. Pre-order it now here:
www.amazon.com/This-World-V...

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 20d

I'm proud to say my story "Ars Logica" will appear in this incredible collection of historical horror stories inspired by the Scientific Revolution.

Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 21d

A month until the veil is lifted and THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER: HORROR TALES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION is unleashed! Nine tales of horror & dread that put candle flame to the underbelly of this mortal coil. Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

The full wrap of This World of Vile Wonder. The cover art is an astronomer holding a candle, resting his hand on a globe, reading a manuscript. The art is a 1650s painting by Gerrit Dou called 'Astronomer by Candlelight.'

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HWA Ontario @hwaontario.bsky.social · 21d

This weekend is the first annual Little Ghosts Fest at Little Ghost Books in Toronto hosted by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social . Two of our members will be on a panel on Saturday! @andrewawesome.bsky.social and @sillysyntax.bsky.social

www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

www.littleghostsbooks.com

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 22d

Load up your #horror TBR with these new releases!

@j-schiecke.bsky.social
@rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social
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@lamaupin.bsky.social
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The Clatter Man - Janelle Schiecke
Letter 26 - Jacob Moon
Six O’Clock House - Rebecca Cuthbert
Horrifica Paperback –Sheldon Woodbury
Danforth: Eldritch Tales of WWII - Christopher Michael
What Comes Before - Molly Macabre
Portalmania – Debbie Urbanski
The Weird - Carl H. Sederholm
Brimstone & Blades – Maria Alexander
Tick Town – Christopher Micklos
The Owl Men of Shanidar - Coy Hall
Rain Shadows – Clay Vermuln & Tamara Sellman
The Breathing House – Stacey L . Pierson
They Come When You Sleep – Jack Finn
An Illegal Feast - Addison, Flores
Zombie Mom – Eddie J Morales
Screamplay - Adam Black
The Girl Who Walked On Ice - Joseph Lewis

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S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social · 26d

I bought yet more books. Today's secondhand finds:

✧ The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C. by Robert Drews
✧ Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 27d

Here’s where you’ll find the Dorin Toth stories so far. An occult investigator travels Eastern Europe in the 1680s with his greyhound, Vinegar Tom, and Great Pyrenees, Basina.

Pictures are the books titled Grimoire of the Four Impostors, The Promise of Plague Wolves, The Fiends in the Furrows III, & This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution.

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