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Stephanie Ellis
@stephellis.bsky.social
3.3K followers 2.6K following 1.6K posts
Author, Elgin & Rhysling award-nominated poet, and reader.
Active Member HWA, member BFS
https://stephanieellis.org/
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Twiggy Voo?

A country Christmas party in 1913 Napoleonic Britain.

Winston Churchill, purveyor of fine meats, is charged with discovering who killed Franz Ferdinand - and others. But the bodies disappear...

A Christmas cosy crime.

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#booksky #murdermystery #althistory #fiction
Front cover of Twiggy Voo? novel. An avenue of trees in a snowy wood lead the eye to a mansion in the distance. In the foreground of this night time scene, a shadowy figure stands watching.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Thanks for tonight, Eryn!

The Five Turns of the Wheel, the first of my Five Turns universe books has very decided patriarchal views which control & destroy the women, until they fight back, with a little help from Mother Nature.
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The cover of The Five Turns of the Wheel. A broken skull lies side on on a bed of autumnal leaves set within a wheel.
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Do you Twiggy Voo?

Who killed Harry Fragson?

Empress Eugenie hosts a Christmas party and arranges an 'entertainment' but it all goes wrong and bodies appear & disappear at will. Life in 1913 Britain is not what you thought.

Twiggy Voo? mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#booksky #cosycrime #Christmas
Front cover of Twiggy Voo novel. Wintry woodland scene showing a path through the woods to a mansion. At the front of the trees, a figure stands in shadow. A picture of singer Harry Fragson (1869-1913). Dressed in black suit, white shirt and white bow tie. Standing in front of piano.
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Thanks for taking us to the movies, Mary!

Historical horror: I have a story in This World of Vile Wonder from @coyhall.bsky.social (he's a great writer btw) mybook.to/vilewonder

Folk horror: Harrowfield mybook.to/Harrowfield

#HorrorWritersChat
Cover of This World of Vile Wonder, text in red in lower half of page, effectively 'beneath' a table. A man leans on the table above, reading a manuscript by candlelight, his hand resting on a globe, an hourglass on the other side of the table. Cover of novel Harrowfield, title and author name in lower half of the page, above is a tree sheltering two small standing stones. The sky is a sludgy green and the tree and ground are in very dark shades of green
November 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Twiggy Voo?
Part of Winston Churchill's 'Resistance', Marie Lloyd is also invited to the country house party. Knowing they want her to sing in French - she's determined to refuse. Vive la révolution, oops, long live the revolution!

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#booksky #althistory #Christmas #cosycrime
Picture of music hall star Marie Lloyd c. 1900. She is wearing a lace-trimmed hat and dress with a lace collar. Her hair, forming long ringlets, is over one shoulder. Front cover of Twiggy Voo? novel. Wintry nighttime woodland scene in shades of white and blue. A man stands in shadow in the foreground looking towards a mansion in the distance.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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New novel Twiggy Voo? features a variety of real life cast of characters. Including a younger Winston Churchill & his wife Clemmie, plus the muscleman Monte Saldo, the latter becoming the personal trainer to Winston for 'reasons' 😅

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo
#booksky #althistory #cosycrime #christmas
Picture of Monte Saldo, muscleman from early days of stage. He is standing, muscled arms folded, and wearing a leopard-print leotard. A young Winston Churchill, wearing three-piece suit and hat, is sat on a bench beside his wife to be - Clemmie. She is wearing a long dress and wide-brimmed hat. Image is black and white Front cover of Twiggy Voo? Wintery woodland scene in shades of blue and white. The shadow of a man in the foreground is looking towards a mansion buried in the trees in the distance/
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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And now for something completely different. Perfect for Christmas, an alt history laced with humour and a number of dead bodies. This is Napoleonic Britain 1913.

Twiggy Voo?

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#FridayReads #booksky #cosycrime #althistory
Twiggy Voo? full cover. Shows a wintery woodland scene at night. In the foreground, a man stands in shadow, in the depths of the wood is a mansion.
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Thank you for tonight's admittance!

Recent folk horror release Harrowfield is available to read on KU (but won't be forever!) & can be bought here mybook.to/Harrowfield

Harrowfield has secrets & a Terrible Truth but whether it's what people want to hear is another thing.

#HorrorWritersChat
Full wrap of Harrowfield novel in shades of green. Very dark lower half, with a greenish sky. The front cover has a solitary tree standing over two small monoliths. The back cover has a larger monolith in the foreground and 2 birds flying above.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Just finished the first book off my book tower from World FantasyCon: The Stones of Landane by @catcavendish.bsky.social. Loved it & would recommend if you'd like a spooky story set in a small village surrounded by standing stones. (yes, I know the real life equivalent, favourite part of the world.)
Cover of Catherine Cavendish's novel, The Stones of Landane. Image above author name and title is of a large standing stone with a ghostly figure of a woman beside it. Other stones are visible in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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A few pics from World FantasyCon - and what a book tower I came home with (including a diversion to Waterstones round the corner from my travelodge 😅). So pleased to finally meet @leemurraywriter.bsky.social in the flesh, talk to @datlow.bsky.social, & catch @davebjeffery.bsky.social amongst others!
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The past few days, I've been working on a picture of Tommy from The Five Turns World. The result is image top left - my own work, from paper to digital. The other images are me playing with filters to see effects. I have a plan which will probably take all months ... 😅
October 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Bucket list band ticked off. Disturbed last night at AO in Manchester (Megadeth support). Great gig. Photos courtesy of eldest (her camera is better than mine so she is usually nominated photographer 😅) \m/
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Thank you, Mary. Really enjoyed this week, actually I enjoy every week!
My latest book is quiet folk horror, Harrowfield. mybook.to/Harrowfield

And I'd also like to shout out @coyhall.bsky.social This World of Vile Wonder, an antho of historical horror (& I have a story in it!)

#HorrorWritersChat
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Following horse and barge this morning alongside Llangollen canal. Made a peaceful morning seem more so.
October 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Happy Book Birthday @coyhall.bsky.social This World of Vile Wonder!

Delighted to be part of this anthology.

(Can't link atm as Amazon seems to be down)
Cover of This World of Vile Wonder anthology. Title and editor name in lower portion of cover as if beneath the table surface just above. Top half shows medieval man holding candle over a book. To his right is an hourglass, to his left a globe.
October 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The two author copies I splashed out on for Harrowfield and Twiggy Voo? arrived today. Both are 5x8 and most def. formatted and uploaded at that size. Noticed these two have just shy of 0.5 cm difference in height (ie Harrowfield is shorter than should be). Anyone else get these discrepancies?
October 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I'm proud of everything I've written & now here's something different: Twiggy Voo?

There are doubles, mistaken identities, humour & a touch of farce in this alt history. I had so much fun writing this, blending fact with fiction & making myself laugh.

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#booksky #FridayReads
Full wrap of Twiggy Voo? novel. Snow covered ground in a wood with a mansion lit in the distance. In the foreground a shadowy figure is watching the house. Back blurb: December 1913. Since Great Britain’s defeat at Waterloo, the island nation has existed as an ‘arrondissemont’ of France. Dowager Empress Eugénie the mother of Emperor Louis-Napoléon, is hosting a country party at her Hampshire home, Farnborough Hill House. Invitations to her Christmas gatherings are coveted and this particular occasion consists of a mixture of aristocracy, businessmen and music hall artistes including the infamous Paulette. Winston Churchill, purveyor of fine meats, and part of Britain’s underground resistance is also invited. His remit is to keep the errant Prince Eddie in check and shed some light on Paulette’s involvement in the scandal swirling around the murder of his friend, singer Harry Fragson. However, when the Empress decides to stage her own ‘murder mystery’ as part of the festivities, a real body in the library appears. Immediately, Paulette is suspected. As snow sets in and isolates the house and its inhabitants, can Winston save her bacon and escape a roasting from both the Emperor and the nominal King, George V?
October 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Finished @erynmccee.bsky.social 's The Woman in White. Emotive and poignant ghost story very much highlighting historic traumas of women and the failure of the establishment to recognise such (then and, to an extent, now, despite public rhetoric - justice does not prevail).

Highly recommend.
October 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Thanks for allowing me to expose the chip on my shoulder this week!
Folk horror, Harrowfield, is actually driven by an initial decision taken for financial stability. A decision leading to an isolated village & a community with old beliefs & strange stories.
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Full cover spread for Harrowfield novel. Bottom half, a very dark, almost pitch field, the sky above sludgy green. On the front is a single tree sheltering 2 small standing stones. On the back is a larger stone with 2 birds flying above it. Blurb reads: Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales. On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing. When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge?
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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This anthology came out under the radar this year but am remedying that. I came into the project to help get it out and this most certainly wouldn't have been achieved without the work of Noel Osualdini & Dan Franklin. A proper team effort. www.amazon.com/Monster-Bone...
October 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales.

When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. And now Midsummer approaches ...

mybook.to/Harrowfield
Front cover of Harrowfield novel Lower half, dark green almost black with title and author name. Above is a solitary tree sheltering two small standing stones. The sky is a sludgy green.
October 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Thanks, Gabino. My quiet folk horror, Harrowfield came out recently. #FridayReads

The pagan v the occult compete for newcomer to Harrowfield, Derwenna Parry, in the isolated borderline between Wales and England.

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Full cover for Harrow field novel. Lower half a dark green, almost black, field, with a slushy green sky above. Front cover has a solitary tree sheltering two standing stones. Back cover shows a standing stones and two ravens flying above.
October 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Comparison between last year (right), this year (left). Still a lot going on behind the scenes, much of which should be out in 2026 (& even beyond) & some things are on submission.

(Twiggy Voo - my NOT horror novel - is out but not being actively promoted just yet, because it's not Christmas 😅)
A gallery of books: Harrowfield, This World of Vile Wonder, Loki, Monster Bones, Punkology, and Twiggy Voo? The output of Stephanie Ellis for 2025. A gallery of book covers for author Stephanie Ellis: Nature Triumphs, Hospital of Haunts, Mason Gorey, The Barricade, Hel's Claim, and Odin. Output for 2024
October 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Folk horror, Harrowfield was released 1st Oct.
The present remains bound to a past w here both pagan and occult interests compete for newcomer, Deri.
mybook.to/Harrowfield

(And thank you!)
Front cover of novel, Harrowfield. A solitary tree in a field shelters two small standing stones. Tree, field and stones are shades of almost black green, the sky itself is a lighter green. Title and author in lower part of cover.
October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Harrowfield.

Quiet folk horror in the Marches. Memories of summer to be enjoyed in the autumn.

mybook.to/Harrowfield
Wrap of novel Harrowfield. Front cover shows tree overlooking two standing stones in a dark field. The back, a larger stone in the corner, 'looking' towards the tree. In the sky, fly two ravens. Colours are all shades of green. Blurb: Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales. On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing. When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge?
October 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM