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Scarmilla de Winter

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Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social · May 15

A thread of fundraisers and other resources to support Palestinians. If you are Palestinian please feel welcome to add your own in the comments <3 :

A Palestinian flag with the words, in bold, 'Free Free Palestine Fundraising Thread'.

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have a little money to spare? Want some good, original comics to read, and also to help get some money to the Palestine Red Crescent Society? You can always check out Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine!

SAMIDOON: COMICS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

www.samidoonanthology.com

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Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 2h

ICYMI! Cover reveal for 'Poisoned Soup' from @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social - coming in December 2025, this one is packed full of nostalgic, formative horrors - both fiction and non-fiction - about the scares that shaped us.

#horror #horrorbooks #booksky

Image shows the cover of Poisoned Soup against a backdrop of skeletal trees with the text Brigid's Gate Press and December 2025. The cover features an illustration of a cauldron over a log fire, filled with bubbling green liquid emanating green smoke.

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 4d

Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.

Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions

We're now open to publishing enquiries for novellas and short fiction collections, from writers living in the North of England. We're seeking works of strange and literary speculative fiction, of 15,000 to 40,000 words.

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Stefanie 🏳️‍⚧️ @foxenlock.bsky.social · 1d

Putting together a list of every cyberpunk book ever written by Trans+ person. Trad or self.

If you’ve got ‘em, drop em’ below.

To kick things off, Aubrey Wood’s modern masterpiece Bang Bang Bodhisattva.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 1d

This will be happening tonight.

We will probably be talking about Glasgow Council's reaction to the 224 year waiting list at Sandyford too.

www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

You can tune into that here:

discord.com/invite/asCjUkk

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Bee Delores @beedelores.bsky.social · 4d

I just made my @fangoria.bsky.social debut (!!!!!) writing about 10 essential indie horror films. My picks include Slay, HeBGB TV, Deadware, and Death Drop Gorgeous 💅🏻 www.fangoria.com/essential-in...

10 Indie Horror Films That Are Criminally Overlooked

We love our horror blockbusters, but we also need to shine some more light (and love) on these indie gems! Add these to your watchlist immediately. How many have you already seen?

www.fangoria.com

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 4d

Big Thinking Publishing is about to release The Leaves Still Fallow - an anthology of queer love stories, poems, and essays created entirely for trans charities. Every contributor has donated their work, and 100% of profits will go directly to TransActual and Mermaids UK.

#QueerLiterature

Image of the book which has a maroon cover. Titled 'The leaves Still Fallow An anthology of queer love' The text is surrounded by autumnal illustrations of leaves, acorns etc and rainbows

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Issy Waldrom @iwaldrom.bsky.social · 4d

32 authors have gotten together to create the Trans People Take on the World bundle, a collection of stories that all feature trans mc's! There's a lot of good books in their, including one of my as well ^^

itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Title (Top) Alt
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio
32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson.

Title (centred) Alt
32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors.
Centre Text: Trans People Take on the World

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The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson
What Lies Within, Issy Waldon
Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton
Non-Player Character, Veo Corva
A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson
Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance
A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle
My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek
Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider
The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar
The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud
The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra
The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross
Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell
Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood
Echo Sight, Cian Verath
The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross
Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver
Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide
Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan
Manipulators War, Elise Carlson
Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans
Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null
All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire
1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com
First Rose, Jake Vanguard
A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger
Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates
Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo
Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis
Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault
Illusory, M.X. Misfits

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 22d

Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair is less than a month away!

4 Days of bookstalls from 50+ presses
20 events incl DragQueen Storytelling, Community Lunch & 2 Cabarets!

Full program is live, hybrid & either £5 or free!
5-9Nov: Join us!

tinyurl.com/RadicalBookF...
lighthousebookshop.com/events/edinb...

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Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social · 4d

Me replying to messages:

Text over a misty grey Loch Ness reading: 'Four decades later in the year of the Scot'.

Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social · 4d

So I certainly didn't get #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days, but this was a great time and I can't wait to beat my score next year! Happy Halloween peeps! :D <3

Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'm in the middle of two courses, four books and I'm at work most of the time, so I'm thinking of giving #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days a go :P

A graphic for the '100 Horror Movies in 92 Days' challenge.

Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social · 4d

27. The Loch Ness Horror (1981) #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days

(Started watching The Eye Creatures, then I found out there was a movie from the same director set in SCOOOTTTLLLAAANNND).

The Loch Ness Monster is attacking a boat amidst crashing waves. In the background the full moon sits behind a castle on a cliff. The captions read 'It IS alive!' and 'At last.. The world's most treasured story comes to the screen!'.

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Lio 🌿 Gravehearts out now! @kroovv.bsky.social · 7d

To celebrate Halloween, Gravehearts will be 10% off until the 4th of November!

Lio 🌿 Gravehearts out now! @kroovv.bsky.social · 25d

Gravehearts chapter 1 is now live on itch! 🪦💛

kroovv.itch.io/gravehearts

and an illustration of 3 characters surrounded by an orange autumnal tree and graves. One character is a cat clown doll floating above the right shoulder of a large buff man with a beard and overalls, then floating over the man's other shoulder is a slightly transparent cowboy with green hair and heavy scars.

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Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 5d

Happy Halloween! 👻 Looking for a new spooky story? We've got 15 spooky book recommendations featuring SFF books by indie authors to celebrate:

www.readindiefantasy.com/15-spooky-bo...

A banner image featuring a collection of different sized carved pumpkins and candles with the text 15 Books for Halloween.

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dom jordan @domjordan.bsky.social · 5d

need a dead simple system to run your halloween one shot? why not try Darkness Ever Creeps?

domjordan.itch.io/darkness-eve...

#gothichorror #horror #ttrpg #nsr #rpg

Darkness Ever Creeps by domjordan

A gothic horror rules-lite ttrpg

domjordan.itch.io

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 6d

🎸Open Call
Cursed Morsels wants your weirdest work for its Dec 1–7 window
💋 Cunty Horrors
🎤 Cursed Concerts
💘 Monstrous Dating Profiles
💼 Batshit LinkedIn Posts
💰 Nightmare Grifters
10¢/word+5 copies
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-cursed-morsels-december-2025-window/

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 5d

FYI: As Halloween approaches, we're cozying up with some classics. What's on your watchlist this week?

7 Classic Horror Movies You Can Watch Right Now (And Where To Find Them)

As Halloween approaches, we're cozying up with some classics. What's on your watchlist this week?

dlvr.it

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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 5d

#SFFChat Q1: I'm giving myself a pass on seriously answering this one because it's my academic work, ahaha

But basically--a whole ton of shit.

You can read a very basic rundown here!: tinyelfarcanist.com/2023/06/12/s...

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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · 5d

🎃 HAPPY #HALLOWEEN! 🎃

We are celebrating by offering 33% off ALL our books!

Gothic, horror & dark fiction paperback, ebooks & audiobooks.

We got all you ghouls covered like a duvet tent in the dark.

Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout! Ends Sun 2 Nov 11:59pm GMT.

www.hauntpublishing.com/books

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Tiffany Baxter @ Thought Bubble Redshirt D9 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 29d

💀The Ghostly Galliard💀

An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent.

They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them.

The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.

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Alice Maio Mackay @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social · 5d

Plz watch any of my films for Halloween 🥹

Alice Maio Mackay @alicemaiomackay.bsky.social · Feb 3

All 5 of my trans horror features are now streaming exclusively on SHUDDER (AMC) - all made for no money before I turned 20🥹

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 5d

And here is the Little Free Library World Map: littlefreelibrary.org/map/

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Dr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 6d

Perfect Hallowe'en-e'en post - my author copies of The Haunted Library, @blpublishing.bsky.social's latest Tales of the Weird volume, out on 13th November. My story 'The Advent Visitor' appears alongside some true classics of the genre...

Two copies of The Haunted Library on a table with richly patterned table cloths in red and white. The book cover is green and black, with a figure holding a candle looking up at a domed library.

The Haunted Library book open at the contents page:
The Devil's Manuscript S. LEVETT-YEATS
The Tractate Middoth M. R. JAMES
The Whisperers ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Fingers of a Hand H. D. EVERETT
Mr. Tallent's Ghost MARY WEBB
The Book MARGARET IRWIN
The Library HESTER HOLLAND
Midnight Express ALFRED NOYES
Herodes Redivivus A. N. L. MUNBY
W. S. L. P. HARTLEY
What Shadows We Pursue RUSSELL KIRK
The Work of Evil WILLIAM CROFT DICKINSON
Revenant as Typewriter PENELOPE LIVELY
The Advent Visitor C. J. FARADAY

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Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social · 6d

26. Night of the Demons (1988) #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days

A blonde woman in a pink dress, with glowing yellow eyes, is clutching a shard of mirror and drawing on her face with lipstick. To her side are a gothic bride and a man wearing a pig nose, both with demonic features. Below them their friends are backed up against a creepy house while zombie arms wearing a spiked cuff and a spiked glove make a grab for them. The caption reads: 'You'll have a hell of a time'.

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Jack Parker @mxjackparker.bsky.social · 15d

What can you expect to read about in Transactional Intercourse, an anthology of trans and intersex sex workers' experiences?

Here's a thread of some of the topics to be covered, and you can pre-order a copy here to help it get made: www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...

transactional intercourse, a trans and intersex sex worker anthology.

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