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👻 Boo-tique books dissecting the horror you love, curated by the witches you fear...
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Read Palestine Week 2025 (29 November to 5 December) focused on raising funds for writers who are in Gaza or recently left Gaza.

Visit publishersforpalestine.org for a list of writers to support and engage.

#globalstrikeforgaza #FreeGaza #FreePalestine #ReadPalestine #booksky #writersky
Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 11 December 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption.
December 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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From the dark history of Yule to the trashiest Christmas horror films, we’ve stuffed your stocking with another 20 book recs — all themed around Holiday Horror: holpublishing.com/grimreader.

#readinglist #grimreader #BlackChristmas #horrorart #horrorsky #horrormovie #nonfiction #booksky #bookrecs
Victorian floral black grey background with image of Billy from Black Christmas (1974, Canadian Film Development Corporation) in the centre. Text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and under image (Holiday Horror). House of Leaves logo at top. Victorian floral black grey background with text at top (Grim Reader's syllabus) and in the centre (Our nonfiction directory of book recs for horror fans, writers, and researchers – updated monthly...). House of Leaves logo at top. Victorian floral grey background with black bands at top and bottom containing text (top: Reading List Preview; bottom: House of Leaves logo). Six book covers in the middle (clockwise: It’s Me, Billy: Black Christmas Revisited by Dan Duffin, David Hastings & Paul Downey; Haunted Seasons: Television Ghost Stories for Christmas and Horror for Halloween by Derek Johnston; Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, ed. by Kier-la Janisse & Paul Corupe; The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts by Jeff Belanger; A Scary Little Christmas: A History of Yuletide Horror Films, 1972–2020 by Matthew C. DuPée; The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas by Sarah Clegg). Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Text in centre reads: Bookworms! Bookmark for later! Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
December 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Our book club is changing! Each month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated around a specific subject... November's: Frankenstein!

Read the full list - containing 30 books: holpublishing.com/grimreader!

#frankenstein #readinglist #horror #nonfiction #books #maryshelley #art #sciencefiction
1: Victorian floral black grey background with a closeup of the face of the Creature from Frankenstein (2025, Double Dare You, Demilo Films & Bluegrass 7) in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Frankenstein (logo from 2025 film). 2: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Reading List Preview) and bottom (20+ more...). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Orrin N. C. Wang); Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (Dennis R. Cutchins & Dennis R. Perry, eds.); Bride of Frankenstein (Shane Denson); Gothic Science: The Era of Ingenuity & the Making of Frankenstein (Joel Levy); Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley (Charlotte Gordon); Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years (Christopher Fraylin). 3: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Horror-themed stationery sets for mindful reading and writing, our latest Writual collection includes four reversible bookmarks, with space on the back for recording memories, writing notes, or annotation. 📖

holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays

#writersky #booksky #horrorsky #giftideas
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Horror-themed stationery sets for mindful reading and writing, our latest Writual collection includes four reversible bookmarks, with space on the back for recording memories, writing notes, or annotation. 📖

holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays

#writersky #booksky #horrorsky #giftideas
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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'Tis the season for spooky stories… and our winter Writual set is the perfect gift for horror-loving readers. 👻

Designed for fans of 1960s and ‘70s horror, artist Jessica Rose brings 4 iconic horror houses to life, decorated for the holidays…dare you bring them home? 🏚

#horrorsky #stationery #art
1: Bookmark depicting High Hopes from The Amityville Horror (line art with white and red lights, on a dark red background, with red accents on the reverse) surrounded by holiday lights and ornaments on wooden surface. 2: Gothic orange/red dried flowers and leaves on blue/grey background with text (Writual collection; Seasonal stationery sets for mindful reading + writing). 3: Gothic orange/red dried flowers and leaves on blue/grey background with Print is Undead logo in red gothic lettering.
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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It's not too late to take part in Read Palestine Week 2025 — to find out more and access your free Palestine reading list, visit publishersforpalestine.org.

My current read: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine #readpalestine #booksky
Image 1: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 4 December 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption. Image 2: Black background with white, red, and green text: Publishers for Palestine (logo is open book in the colours from the flag of Palestine); Read Palestine Week; 29 November – 05 December. Image 3: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi; book on wooden desk with page-markers and page-marker bookmark.
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Marking a period of pause, healing, and revival, the Cold Moon reminds creatives to craft mindfully. 🌕

If looking for inspiration, our winter Writual collection is designed to encourage mindful reading and writing: holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays 💙📚

#writingprompts #stationery #art
Image: Full moon above clouds (Altınay Dinç | Unsplash). Text reads: Cold Moon. 4 December 2025.
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It's December, which means it's time to GET OUT...THE DECORATIONS!

It also means our HoL-iday release is here!

Designed for fans of '60s + '70s horror, we have just 1 question: Dare you bring them home for the holidays?

❄️ holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays ❄️

#art #horrorsky #booksky
Image: inverted image of house - High Hopes (The Amityville Horror, 1979) - with red filter and logo in red.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Final day to enter our giveaway - open worldwide - to raise money for local food banks! Thank you to everyone's who's shared so far - details in caption! 💙

#giveaway #contest #spookystationery #journal #blog #booksky #writersky #author #art #horrorart #hellraiser #annabelle#horrormovies #foodbank
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 2
Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or [email protected]) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - for the chance to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻

Details in caption - please share! 🖤

#horrorsky #filmsky #writersky #stationery #giveaway
Images: Four squares containing black-and-white images of stationery sets: 1) two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves; 2) pumpkin-shaped sticky notes, page markers, washi tape with skeleton design, and Hex Libris bookplate with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 3) Zebra mildliner and Sarasa pens with black pen pouch and notebook on skeleton themed paper with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 4) silver notebook with stylised text at the bottom (reading: 'Warning: Positively Do Not Open') and an Annabelle doll sitting on top. Background is grey with leaves behind the doll. Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - and you'll be entered into a draw to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻 The bundle contains series one (sold out) and two of our annual Halloween Writual collections - horror-themed stationery sets curated for readers and writers - as well as a couple of extra surprises. 📚 Horror bundle includes: 🖋️ autumnal pens + stationery 📓 an Annabelle-inspired notebook 📑 spooky annotation + organizational tools 💀 Hellraiser-inspired greetings card set designed by featured artist John Sowder 👻 exclusive stickers designed by featured artist Jessica Rose 🫖 Northern Irish tea 🖤 and more… Open worldwide (including US) - we'll cover the postage. 🌎 We understand not everyone is in a position to donate, so to help us reach as many people as possible, you'll also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift if you share this post (just make sure we're tagged so we can enter you in the draw)! Winners announced 1 December 2025. Take care and stay spooky 🖤 Rebecca
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Our book club is changing! Each month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated around a specific subject... November's: Frankenstein!

Read the full list - containing 30 books: holpublishing.com/grimreader!

#frankenstein #readinglist #horror #nonfiction #books #maryshelley #art #sciencefiction
1: Victorian floral black grey background with a closeup of the face of the Creature from Frankenstein (2025, Double Dare You, Demilo Films & Bluegrass 7) in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Frankenstein (logo from 2025 film). 2: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Reading List Preview) and bottom (20+ more...). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Orrin N. C. Wang); Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (Dennis R. Cutchins & Dennis R. Perry, eds.); Bride of Frankenstein (Shane Denson); Gothic Science: The Era of Ingenuity & the Making of Frankenstein (Joel Levy); Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley (Charlotte Gordon); Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years (Christopher Fraylin). 3: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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@jessicarosehorror.bsky.social's essay features in 1428 Publishing's forthcoming anthology exploring liminality in horror, Darkest Margins.

Just 10 days left to back the crowdfunder and claim a perk: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/darkest-margins!

#crowdfunder #liminalspaces #indiepublishing #darkestmargins
Red embroidered patch by Screen13Shop: closeup of an elderly woman staring into the camera with blue/white eyes from The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014, Bad Hat Harry Productions) and white text across the middle stating the film's title.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Writing is a liminal act, but when the subject matter is liminality itself, how does this affect the creative process?

@jessicarosehorror.bsky.social breaks down the process of crafting a liminal essay: holpublishing.com/hex-libris/jrdarkestmargins.

#horror #blog #book #nonfiction #foundfootage
Background: black and purple large flower pattern background. White and dark purple Hex Libris logo in gothic lettering. Image is purple-hued close up of an elderly woman staring into the camera with blue eyes from The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014, Bad Hat Harry Productions). 'House of Leaves' logo at the bottom of the image in white (minimalist house design containing tree and leaves / pages falling, and 'House of Leaves' text in bold font). Background: black and purple large flower pattern background. White and dark purple Hex Libris logo in gothic lettering. Glowing lilac and purple text in centre reads: Behind the Scenes: The Liminality of Essay Crafting (Spotlight: Darkest Margins). 'House of Leaves' logo at the bottom of the image in white (minimalist house design containing tree and leaves / pages falling, and 'House of Leaves' text in bold font). Red and black cover for Darkest Margins (cover art by Kim Thompson); open red door with darkness beyond and title above in block grey/cream letters.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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On 23 Nov 2007, REC took a hefty, infectious bite out of found footage... 🧟‍♀️

Filtered Reality examines FF as material evidence in REC, and how this comments on Catholicism's historical treatment of women in Spain. 🎥

Read more: holpublishing.com! 🖤

#booksky #nonfictionnovember #horrorsky #writing
Ángela Vidal grimacing, wearing a dirty tank top with sweat-drenched hair, in grainy black and white image with stylised REC logo in white and red (REC: Castelao Productions, 2007). First page of Rebecca Booth's chapter, Emblazoned Eve: Embodied Spectatorship, Material Feminism and Monstrous Religiosity in REC (2007) and The Devil’s Doorway (2018), in Filtered Reality. Overview of Filtered Reality (text: Filtered Reality is our love letter to found footage horror. Featuring a foreword from Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch) and an introduction from Aislínn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway), the book's sixteen chapters are divided into two sections — Progenitors and Evolution — to chart the genesis of the contemporary found footage horror film. The first section includes influences such as epistolary Victorian horror novels (Dracula), radio hoaxes (The War of the Worlds), and the mondo film (Cannibal Holocaust), before the second explores subjects ranging from digital folklore (The Blair Witch Project), to video games (Resident Evil), to post-cinematic horror (Host) — and what lies beyond… Our collectible first-edition paperbacks include a themed, numbered bookplate and a reversible bookmark). Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of Found Footage Horror' paperback book. The cover has a central eye with a camera lens inside with tree branches/roots above and below, and the text is stylised to look like vintage embossed labels. Further text: Foreword by Stephen Volk; Introduction by Aislínn Clarke; Edited by Rebecca Booth & Valeska Griffiths.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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November giveaway - post shares much appreciated (and could win you a wee prize - open worldwide)! 🌍

Full details in post! 🖤

#foodbank #giveaway #spookystationery #writersky #horrorsky #writual
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 2
Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or [email protected]) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - for the chance to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻

Details in caption - please share! 🖤

#horrorsky #filmsky #writersky #stationery #giveaway
Images: Four squares containing black-and-white images of stationery sets: 1) two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves; 2) pumpkin-shaped sticky notes, page markers, washi tape with skeleton design, and Hex Libris bookplate with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 3) Zebra mildliner and Sarasa pens with black pen pouch and notebook on skeleton themed paper with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 4) silver notebook with stylised text at the bottom (reading: 'Warning: Positively Do Not Open') and an Annabelle doll sitting on top. Background is grey with leaves behind the doll. Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - and you'll be entered into a draw to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻 The bundle contains series one (sold out) and two of our annual Halloween Writual collections - horror-themed stationery sets curated for readers and writers - as well as a couple of extra surprises. 📚 Horror bundle includes: 🖋️ autumnal pens + stationery 📓 an Annabelle-inspired notebook 📑 spooky annotation + organizational tools 💀 Hellraiser-inspired greetings card set designed by featured artist John Sowder 👻 exclusive stickers designed by featured artist Jessica Rose 🫖 Northern Irish tea 🖤 and more… Open worldwide (including US) - we'll cover the postage. 🌎 We understand not everyone is in a position to donate, so to help us reach as many people as possible, you'll also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift if you share this post (just make sure we're tagged so we can enter you in the draw)! Winners announced 1 December 2025. Take care and stay spooky 🖤 Rebecca
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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November giveaway - post shares much appreciated (and could win you a wee prize - open worldwide)! 🌍

Full details in post! 🖤

#foodbank #giveaway #spookystationery #writersky #horrorsky #writual
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 2
Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or [email protected]) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - for the chance to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻

Details in caption - please share! 🖤

#horrorsky #filmsky #writersky #stationery #giveaway
Images: Four squares containing black-and-white images of stationery sets: 1) two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves; 2) pumpkin-shaped sticky notes, page markers, washi tape with skeleton design, and Hex Libris bookplate with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 3) Zebra mildliner and Sarasa pens with black pen pouch and notebook on skeleton themed paper with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 4) silver notebook with stylised text at the bottom (reading: 'Warning: Positively Do Not Open') and an Annabelle doll sitting on top. Background is grey with leaves behind the doll. Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - and you'll be entered into a draw to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻 The bundle contains series one (sold out) and two of our annual Halloween Writual collections - horror-themed stationery sets curated for readers and writers - as well as a couple of extra surprises. 📚 Horror bundle includes: 🖋️ autumnal pens + stationery 📓 an Annabelle-inspired notebook 📑 spooky annotation + organizational tools 💀 Hellraiser-inspired greetings card set designed by featured artist John Sowder 👻 exclusive stickers designed by featured artist Jessica Rose 🫖 Northern Irish tea 🖤 and more… Open worldwide (including US) - we'll cover the postage. 🌎 We understand not everyone is in a position to donate, so to help us reach as many people as possible, you'll also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift if you share this post (just make sure we're tagged so we can enter you in the draw)! Winners announced 1 December 2025. Take care and stay spooky 🖤 Rebecca
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Happy weekend, Grim Readers!! 🪱

We’re back with a brand new LEWK and, of course, more book recs from our October book club! 📖

Continued in comment... 👇

#booksky #october #november #books #nonfiction #reading #illustration #art #weekend #horror #horrorsky #writersky #readingcommunity #bookrecs
Image one: Victorian floral black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader's book club; October 2025 edition. Image two: Victorian floral background with five reading prompts in yellow boxes. Title reads: October 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): Silver Shamrock; “The Worms Crawl In...”; 13 O'clock; Darkness Falls; “It's Not the House That's Haunted....” Image three: Victorian floral background with prompt (Silver Shamrock) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (A Haunted Land: Ireland’s Ghosts; Bob Curran; O’Brien Press, 2004). Image four: Victorian floral background with prompt (“The Worms Crawl In...”) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond; Alice Roberts; Simon & Schuster, 2025).
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Happy weekend, Grim Readers!! 🪱

We’re back with a brand new LEWK and, of course, more book recs from our October book club! 📖

Continued in comment... 👇

#booksky #october #november #books #nonfiction #reading #illustration #art #weekend #horror #horrorsky #writersky #readingcommunity #bookrecs
Image one: Victorian floral black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader's book club; October 2025 edition. Image two: Victorian floral background with five reading prompts in yellow boxes. Title reads: October 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): Silver Shamrock; “The Worms Crawl In...”; 13 O'clock; Darkness Falls; “It's Not the House That's Haunted....” Image three: Victorian floral background with prompt (Silver Shamrock) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (A Haunted Land: Ireland’s Ghosts; Bob Curran; O’Brien Press, 2004). Image four: Victorian floral background with prompt (“The Worms Crawl In...”) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond; Alice Roberts; Simon & Schuster, 2025).
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Every Thursday, our shop will be closed until there is a permanent ceasefire and a Palestinian state.

Support Palestinian writers by taking part in Read Palestine Week 2025 (29 November–5 December): publishersforpalestine.org.

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine #readpalestine #booksky
Image 1: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 20 November 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption. Image 2: Black background with white, red, and green text: Publishers for Palestine (logo is open book in the colours from the flag of Palestine); Read Palestine Week; 29 November – 05 December; Read | Resist | Rise-up.
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Gentle reminder that our November giveaway to support food banks is still live - any post shares will also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift! Full details below... 🖤

#foodbank #giveaway #stationery #booksky #horrorsky #authorsky #journal #writersky #horror #filmsky #art #illustration #pen
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 2
Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or [email protected]) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - for the chance to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻

Details in caption - please share! 🖤

#horrorsky #filmsky #writersky #stationery #giveaway
Images: Four squares containing black-and-white images of stationery sets: 1) two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves; 2) pumpkin-shaped sticky notes, page markers, washi tape with skeleton design, and Hex Libris bookplate with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 3) Zebra mildliner and Sarasa pens with black pen pouch and notebook on skeleton themed paper with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 4) silver notebook with stylised text at the bottom (reading: 'Warning: Positively Do Not Open') and an Annabelle doll sitting on top. Background is grey with leaves behind the doll. Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - and you'll be entered into a draw to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻 The bundle contains series one (sold out) and two of our annual Halloween Writual collections - horror-themed stationery sets curated for readers and writers - as well as a couple of extra surprises. 📚 Horror bundle includes: 🖋️ autumnal pens + stationery 📓 an Annabelle-inspired notebook 📑 spooky annotation + organizational tools 💀 Hellraiser-inspired greetings card set designed by featured artist John Sowder 👻 exclusive stickers designed by featured artist Jessica Rose 🫖 Northern Irish tea 🖤 and more… Open worldwide (including US) - we'll cover the postage. 🌎 We understand not everyone is in a position to donate, so to help us reach as many people as possible, you'll also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift if you share this post (just make sure we're tagged so we can enter you in the draw)! Winners announced 1 December 2025. Take care and stay spooky 🖤 Rebecca
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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What's on your agenda this blustery November Monday? 🍂

Around edits and LOTS of planning, here's a sneak peek at a lovely arrival: material swatches for our next book... ✨

To hear book news first, join our Undead Community: holpublishing.com! 💀

#booksky #books #bookcover #indie #publisher #edit
Image: Layers of textured material (deep blue, light blue, sage green, russet and maroon) on light wood desk with darker grain. House of Leaves logo: black house with leaves falling inside in minimalist style.
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Today, and every Thursday, our shop will be closed until there is a permanent ceasefire and a Palestinian state. We encourage those who are able to do the same to join us. 🍉

For more details and updates, visit humantiproject.org.

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine
Image: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 13 November 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption.
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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ICYMI... CHAPTER PREVIEW! 🧡

Found footage hound? 🎥

Haunted attraction enthusiast? 👻

Enjoy a full chapter preview from #FilteredReality... 📖👇

#horror #art #horrorsky #filmsky #booksky #writersky #illustration #read #book #writing #foundfootage #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amreading
Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of Found Footage Horror' paperback book. The cover has a central eye with a camera lens inside with tree branches/roots above and below, and the text is stylised to look like vintage embossed labels. Further text: Foreword by Stephen Volk; Introduction by Aislínn Clarke; Edited by Rebecca Booth & Valeska Griffiths. Overview of Filtered Reality (text: Filtered Reality is our love letter to found footage horror. Featuring a foreword from Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch) and an introduction from Aislínn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway), the book's sixteen chapters are divided into two sections — Progenitors and Evolution — to chart the genesis of the contemporary found footage horror film. The first section includes influences such as epistolary Victorian horror novels (Dracula), radio hoaxes (The War of the Worlds), and the mondo film (Cannibal Holocaust), before the second explores subjects ranging from digital folklore (The Blair Witch Project), to video games (Resident Evil), to post-cinematic horror (Host) — and what lies beyond… Our collectible first-edition paperbacks include a themed, numbered bookplate and a reversible bookmark.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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ICYMI... NOVEMBER GIVEAWAY! 💜

Support your local food bank for the chance to win a horror bundle! 👇

#horror #art #stationery #horrorsky #filmsky #booksky #giveaway #writersky #amwriting #blog #illustration #writual #planner #journal #author #read #book #writing #writingprompt #study #darkacademia
holpublishing.bsky.social House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 2
Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or [email protected]) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - for the chance to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻

Details in caption - please share! 🖤

#horrorsky #filmsky #writersky #stationery #giveaway
Images: Four squares containing black-and-white images of stationery sets: 1) two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves; 2) pumpkin-shaped sticky notes, page markers, washi tape with skeleton design, and Hex Libris bookplate with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 3) Zebra mildliner and Sarasa pens with black pen pouch and notebook on skeleton themed paper with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 4) silver notebook with stylised text at the bottom (reading: 'Warning: Positively Do Not Open') and an Annabelle doll sitting on top. Background is grey with leaves behind the doll. Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - and you'll be entered into a draw to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻 The bundle contains series one (sold out) and two of our annual Halloween Writual collections - horror-themed stationery sets curated for readers and writers - as well as a couple of extra surprises. 📚 Horror bundle includes: 🖋️ autumnal pens + stationery 📓 an Annabelle-inspired notebook 📑 spooky annotation + organizational tools 💀 Hellraiser-inspired greetings card set designed by featured artist John Sowder 👻 exclusive stickers designed by featured artist Jessica Rose 🫖 Northern Irish tea 🖤 and more… Open worldwide (including US) - we'll cover the postage. 🌎 We understand not everyone is in a position to donate, so to help us reach as many people as possible, you'll also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift if you share this post (just make sure we're tagged so we can enter you in the draw)! Winners announced 1 December 2025. Take care and stay spooky 🖤 Rebecca
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Having a clear, unwavering goal that provides consistent direction + motivation = healthy writing habits. 🖋

Taking this quote with you + venturing beyond the ethical boundary of creation itself = Frankenstein. ⚡

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Text: "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilise the mind as a steady purpose.”― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Image description: Black background with quote text in gothic style, and greyscale rose at top left of the image. Border is a double grey line with crescent moon in each corner. 'House of Leaves' logo at the top of the image in white (minimalist house design containing tree and leaves / pages falling, and 'House of Leaves' text in bold font). Image credit: Photo by Megan Broadbent
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM