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Harrison Stypula
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Writing queer horror that’s always weird, and occasionally about parasites. (They/Them)
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michaelboulerice.com
My writing advice? Find an activity that fully empties your skull, and make it a part of your daily routine. Exercise, art, video games, snowboarding, cooking; anything that leaves NO ROOM for intrusive thoughts or obsession. Brains need oil changes to maintain peak performance. Be stupid once a day
January 27, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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cateyepress.bsky.social
Hey everyone! We're excited to announce a fun little interview series we've been working on about horror subgenres called Your Fright to Know! First interview drops next week!

Learn more here: www.cateyepress.com/blog/announc...
Announcing Your Fright to Know Interview Series — Cat Eye Press LLC
Cat Eye Press is excited to announce a new interview series exploring horror subgenres entitled Your Fright to Know.
www.cateyepress.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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blanksword.bsky.social
Just posted a little Kickstarter update for the new year :]

www.kickstarter.com/projects/283...
Update 13: 2026 Update · BLANKSWORD
Hi, everyone!Now that the new year has rolled around, here's a little update to let you all know how Blanksword is doing in 2026!We have resumed active development since the first week of January - I'...
www.kickstarter.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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alexwoodroe.com
Feast your ears on Transmission zero, and welcome The Night Ship into the world!

Released today wherever you can grab it, and ready to be just about the strangest journey into the vast of night you'll ever go through.

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
January 20, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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cateyepress.bsky.social
Hiya, folks! Since we got a rush of new followers yesterday, we thought we'd do a quick reintroduction thread. 🧵

So, welcome! We're Cat Eye Press, an indie horror publisher. Our EIC is @acbauer.bsky.social but the real brains of the operation is our fiendish feline mascot Frankie the Cat!
The Cat Eye Press logo on a creepy green background with the word "Reintroducing" above it.
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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cateyepress.bsky.social
Did you know that you can get a free sample of our horror anthology/cookbook Cursed Cooking?

Yep! It's true. Our sampler platter comes complete with drabbles, recipes, and more, all from your favorite fiendish feline, Frankie the Cat.

mailchi.mp/fe599cf0bfcc...
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Subscribe to Cat Eye Press today!
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January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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earlronove.bsky.social
Urban legends, teen horror, missing hearts, & the truth buried in the woods. THE DEVIL IN THE WOODS is my hidden gem, and perfect for a spooky read. Check it out below! 🩸📚

books.earlronove.com/thedevilinth...

(if you still have the old version w/ the old cover, lmk! I'll send you a new copy!)
graphic for the horror novel, The Devil in the Woods by S. Jean. Off to the right is a paperback version of the book with Felix holding a match as he stares at the camera, while the Devil looms behind him. It is also in ebook form on a phone in front of the book. To the left is a description of the book. It reads: "Fifty years ago, a girl walked into the woods and then disappeared. No one could find until days later when her body came out without her heart. Upon her skin was written a dare: "Come into the woods and find my still beating heart." It’s a silly urban legend, or at least, it’s supposed to be... until Felix and his friends dare to solve it and something takes him into the dark." Along the bottom is text that claims the ebook & paperback are out now with a URL on where to find it. The url reads: books.earlronove.com/thedevilinthewoods .
January 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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coyotespeaks.bsky.social
The book that I mentioned on QAA by @alexwoodroe.com is Whisperwood. I can't recommend it enough. It's a solid piece of folk horror, a kind of Romanian Witcher. Alex even has a new book, The Night Ship, out next week. You can follow her here: alexwoodroe.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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cateyepress.bsky.social
Check this out! Our Modern Mummies horror anthology made the list!
January 5, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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probablyharmless.bsky.social
So living with my parents abruptly became unsafe (mentally/emotionally) and I'm leaving ASAP. I have somewhere to go, but it's out of state. I'm packing now but I have to register my car before I go and that's $500. Anything helps. 🫀

Venmo: probablyharmless
PayPal: theohillwriter at gmail
January 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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alexwoodroe.com
Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!

www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
The author holding her book like it's the lion king A hardcover in oranges and reds, truck on the cover, title is The Night Ship, Alex Woodroe The same book open to chapter three, called "the land of lonesomeness"
January 7, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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goblinstunts.bsky.social
DEAD HORSES - a feline lesboviolence fantasy western about getting what you deserve

🐛Available now on physical + digital 🐛

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

freya-jn.itch.io/dead-horses
January 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
New Year, New Terrors inbound!

February brings @kristalstittle.bsky.social's KAYAK, whose DNA can be traced to the classic survival novel HATCHET as well as A QUIET PLACE & THE WALKING DEAD, but spun into a unique, impossibly tense alien invasion sci-horror.

Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
Cover art by Kerisson Wemerson, a lone kayaker navigates islands shaped like a monster’s jaws, and blurbs for KAYAK
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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chrisshapedghost.bsky.social
In the past couple months, designed and printed two new long sleeve shirts for @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social

Hope to make fun pieces that I’d be happy to wear, and was pretty pleased with how it these turned out. Hand printing sleeves is tricky! But I think worth the effort.

🖤👻
Two black long sleeve shirts sit side by side. They have white print on them: The one to the left has ghosts reading books up the sleeves. The front says “A Good Story Will Haunt You” with a grim reaper reading a book. The one on the right says No Gods No Billionaires in a heavy metal inspired font, with flails on the sleeves.
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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plaguerelic.bsky.social
Didn't think this would get done in time for the holiday, but managed to pull it off.
If you want creepy dungeon drone why not flay your mind with a trip into arcane darkness?

The only price is always your sanity

#dungeonsynth #darkambient #fantasysynth

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Necromancy, by Plague Relic
7 track album
plaguerelic.bandcamp.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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eyerarat.bsky.social
Time for the Literary Nasties. Dark fiction. Weird. Mean. Uncomfortable. The type of fiction that doesn't play well with others.

Vote for your favorite work of the year on the Filthy Loot website.

Please share. 🥰
December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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alexwoodroe.com
I might need to be pinched because I can't quite believe this Library Journal review is really real and really mine

❤️❤️❤️❤️😅 Who over there needs an alibi? I'm great in a crisis and you were with me all day that day I swear
"When the world goes dark in 1980s Romania, Rosi is trapped on the truck she uses as a smuggling vessel along with the driver, Gigi, her arranged-marriage fiancé. The mood of the novel perfectly matches the grim and oppressive descriptions of this newly changed world. As cosmic horrors erupt around them, Rosi gathers the other survivors together to make their way to a hoped-for safety, led only by the radio signals they pick up. Woodroe’s writing is tight and clean, emphasizing the desperation and also the real fear that people would experience in this apocalyptic setting. The novel skillfully mixes celestial terror and off-the-wall weirdness while making good use of tweaked and twisted science, the Communist Romania setting, and believable characters. The ending hopefully paves the way for a sequel. VERDICT: Woodroe (Whisperwood) offers a haunting and propulsive treat in this survival horror story, whose read-alikes include The Mist and The Langoliers, both by Stephen King, and God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines."
December 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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beardedbetts.bsky.social
Midwestern Chrome hits the streets this summer, but I might know a guy who can get you a copy (an ARC) from the black market (my inbox). We're all fixers here @tenebrouspress.bsky.social 🩵🚬
A scuzzoid opens his trench coat, hawking copies of MIDWESTERN CHROME. He wears a brown fedora, sunglasses, and is smoking a cigar. Everything is lit by a neon glow.
December 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
"Underneath the monsters, this is a story about guilt, responsibility & the thin line between self preservation & abandonment. Strong, well crafted & distinctive enough that whenever you see a lone kayak on a quiet lake, you're going to think of this shit & feel less safe." - THE BLOG WITHOUT A FACE
Cover art by Kerisson Wemerson: illustration of a lone kayaker traversing the waters into a the mouth of a massive, monstrous skull + Blurbs from Max Booth, Sonora Taylor, Laura Cranehill
December 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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chrisshapedghost.bsky.social
Social media is a hellscape, every tech company is evil, so we are back to blogging like it’s the early 2000s!

Just an intro to being a terrible entrepreneur, looking back on my first shop, and a little rant about the costs of everything. Y’know, light stuff.

www.scribblezilla.ca/blog
A screenshot of the Scribblezilla blog, with a post called “It’s Just Business” and accompanying comic.
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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earlronove.bsky.social
i put up some community copies of be not afraid on itchio in case you can't afford it. i'll put up more if someone tips when they buy a copy (putting the community in community copy). i try to do that for all my books.
earlronove.bsky.social Ronove (aka S. Jean) @earlronove.bsky.social · Dec 9
BE NOT AFRAID is out now!
A deadbeat guitarist's bad night gets worse when he's thrust into hell, seraphs demanding his death hot on his heels. His only hope is another angel, one with eyes he used to know.

retailers: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
itch: earlronove.itch.io/benotafraid
#booksky 💙📚
A release day graphic for BE NOT AFRAID by S. Jean. A 3D version of the book is to the left with a phone displaying the same cover as an ebook. There is a short descrption to the right of the book and it reads: a fast-paced blaze through hell... When deadbeat Trent Cain takes a shortcut home through the park at 3AM, he find five angels there to greet him. Unfortunately, despite their proclamations of "be not afraid", they mean him harm. His only hope is another angel wielding a lead pipe, but there's something familiar about this one... Along the bottom of the graphic is the url for where to find your copy: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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horrorsong.blog
Rats hold hands and dance every time I post a new story or two
December 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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earlronove.bsky.social
It would be remiss of me not to continue BE NOT AFRAID's countdown to release day. The seraph's getting a little distorted though, huh. What's with those guys anyway...

Also, have another snippet!
Still time to pre-order! Find it at itchio, amz, b&n, & more!
books.earlronove.com/benotafraid
Countdown graphic for BE NOT AFRAID. The seraph character stands staring creepily at the viewer, holding a copy of Be Not Afraid by S. Jean. His wings spread out behind him, one eyeball showing beneath the feathers. His grin is full of sharp teeth and blood trails down his chin. A word bubble from him reads: "PREORDER MY BOOK". Along the bottom of the image is more text that reads: "8 days remain" and a URL for where to find the book: books.earlronove.com/benotafraid Writing snippet graphic for BE NOT AFRAID with a URL for preorders at the bottom (books.earlronove.com/benotafraid). The snippet reads: "Trent threw the angel off, catching them by surprise, and scrambled to get away. His back found the wall near the bathroom entryway and he used it to brace himself into a sitting position. The bathroom light turned on, sensing him nearby, and it lit the angel in a soft, gauzy orange. There was a coy smile on the angel’s lips as they began to speak. Trent cut them off. “You say ‘be not afraid’ one more time, I am going to fucking freak out.” The angel blinked and shut their mouth."
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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mxmorgan.com
the full illustration made in procreate for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ! matt and alex are a dream to work with 🖤 thanks for letting me go buck wild on this one, haha

weird horror writers, consider submitting to this anthology. it's gonna be awesome, i promise.
illustration of a swan landing on a lake, water splashing at their landing, and a sunset with pillow-y clouds behind them. the lake descends to a reflection of the swan, now twisted, writhing, and incomprehensible, a black hole cutting through the cosmos where the setting sun would be. the lake becomes a sea of stars and clusters of eyes swirling in the cosmos. the palette is in the colors of the trans flag
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Have we mentioned what Weird, lovely holiday gifts our books make?🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com
pixelsandpins.bsky.social Ashe Thurman @pixelsandpins.bsky.social · Nov 19
Bookmail today brought Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social.

The packaging from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social press is just lovely!

#booksky 💙📚🪐
A purple box. The image on top is a flaming skull in a flower crown. The word "Tenebrous" is on the front wall in a serif font.. The previous purple box flipped over to reveal a flower crown skull logo on the back. A sticker with more skeletons. A bookmark featuring book covers from the company, a pin with the skull logo, the book Dear Stupid Penpal.
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM