Emily C. Hughes
@emilyhughes.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
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Emily C. Hughes
@emilyhughes.bsky.social
· Dec 10
2025’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2025, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors.
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GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...
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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)
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do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
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Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project
Imagine looking around America in 2025 and thinking, "What we need less of is morality."
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Would hate to have to work with Wa-Luigi Coates on a group project
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every day romantasy calves new icebergs of discourse and from this shore of ignorance I watch them float by
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
every day romantasy calves new icebergs of discourse and from this shore of ignorance I watch them float by
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The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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It is genuinely insane how bright and distracting car lights are now
I wish we, like, regulated shit nowadays. Between car bloat, blinding headlines, and neighbourhoods packed with rental suites but no on-property parking, driving is an absolute nightmare now.
Nearly all drivers say vehicles' lights are too bright in study
The study, commissioned by the Department for Transport, was completed by Berkshire's TRL.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It is genuinely insane how bright and distracting car lights are now
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The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.
After Arrest by ICE, City Comptroller Rejects Deal and Seeks Trial
Other officials arrested while protesting at 26 Federal Plaza in September will have their federal charges dropped if they avoid arrest inside a federal building for six months.
www.thecity.nyc
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.
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Come read Emily C. Hughes' words and debate what's the best horror book to give someone over Christmas (and why it's The Library at Mount Char)
my November horror highlights column is live at @reactorsff.bsky.social! feat. @beatriceiker.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com, @peterclines.bsky.social, and more!
We ask you to kindly lay down your Edmund Fitzgerald commemorative baseball hats and tune into @emilyhughes.bsky.social's November Horror Highlights, where she asks for 2026 horror recommendations and provides a few new release suggestions of her own!
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Come read Emily C. Hughes' words and debate what's the best horror book to give someone over Christmas (and why it's The Library at Mount Char)
my November horror highlights column is live at @reactorsff.bsky.social! feat. @beatriceiker.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com, @peterclines.bsky.social, and more!
We ask you to kindly lay down your Edmund Fitzgerald commemorative baseball hats and tune into @emilyhughes.bsky.social's November Horror Highlights, where she asks for 2026 horror recommendations and provides a few new release suggestions of her own!
Abandoned Mines and Secret Societies: Horror Highlights for November 2025 - Reactor
Spooky Season doesn't have to end with October!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
my November horror highlights column is live at @reactorsff.bsky.social! feat. @beatriceiker.bsky.social, @victormanibo.com, @peterclines.bsky.social, and more!
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I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is a published novel!
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU is a published novel!
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
My Gothic horror novel is a tribute to Black Appalachia, HBCUs, and Hoodoo, featuring a lesbian main character whose name and life mission are profoundly inspired by icon Zora Neale Hurston.
Order here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beatr...
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We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
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can bad prose be sexually transmitted
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
can bad prose be sexually transmitted
I cannot stress enough how much you HAVE GOT TO READ TILL THE END
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I cannot stress enough how much you HAVE GOT TO READ TILL THE END
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oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
is there a name for the TV subgenre of sexy young friends living their sexy sexy lives in the big city? SATC, Girls, Insecure, I Love LA, Search Party, etc
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
is there a name for the TV subgenre of sexy young friends living their sexy sexy lives in the big city? SATC, Girls, Insecure, I Love LA, Search Party, etc
i would rather eat shrapnel, thanks!
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
i would rather eat shrapnel, thanks!
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Olivia Nuzzi has done a valuable service to American letters. For a country full of writers deeply insecure about their own prose, her work is a balm on the troubled soul. I'd even call it a profound inspiration
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Olivia Nuzzi has done a valuable service to American letters. For a country full of writers deeply insecure about their own prose, her work is a balm on the troubled soul. I'd even call it a profound inspiration
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hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
hey instead of reading and sharing some book that sucks by a woman in love with an insane corpse who neither deserves nor needs the coverage, why not instead buy and read MY book. due to me being normal simplicitybook.xyz
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Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
A Holiday Gift Guide: Tools, Treats, and Trifles for Food Lovers
Our food critic’s annual roundup of gastronomic ideas for giving.
www.newyorker.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hello it’s Helen’s Holiday Gift Guide time!!!!!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...
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Why’d they call it Erowid and not TripAdvisor
November 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Why’d they call it Erowid and not TripAdvisor
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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There are a few time-sensitive things HWA members should know about the Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List. PLEASE forgive my shouty caps and read this entire short thread before reposting/quote-posting. (1/3) horror.org/awards/curre...
HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations
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November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There are a few time-sensitive things HWA members should know about the Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List. PLEASE forgive my shouty caps and read this entire short thread before reposting/quote-posting. (1/3) horror.org/awards/curre...
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my five copies of MOBY DICK, @emilyhughes.bsky.social's HORROR FOR WEENIES, @boneysoups.bsky.social THE RED SACRAMENT, HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN
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You have been asked to do a televised interview over the web. What goes on a bookshelf behind you?
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
my five copies of MOBY DICK, @emilyhughes.bsky.social's HORROR FOR WEENIES, @boneysoups.bsky.social THE RED SACRAMENT, HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN
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I agree that Noem should resign and be criminally charged (I mean, I’d prefer several other things, but I would settle for that) but I think it’s important to say that there’s no number of resulting arrests that would make this raid defensible or any less of a heinous moral atrocity
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.
'Noem should resign over this': Fury over alleged DHS 'child kidnapping and trafficking'
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.ProPublica recently reported on the DHS raid on an apartment building that was al...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I agree that Noem should resign and be criminally charged (I mean, I’d prefer several other things, but I would settle for that) but I think it’s important to say that there’s no number of resulting arrests that would make this raid defensible or any less of a heinous moral atrocity