Antonija Mežnarić
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Antonija Mežnarić
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She/her. Croatian writer & editor at Shtriga and Morina kutija. Living and breathing speculative fiction. Writes queer horror and fantasy. hauntednarratives.com
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Happy pub day to this #ecohorror bug extravaganza by my dear friend and colleague, Lea Katarina Gobec. Both stories in here remind us that we are so terribly small in the vastness of nature. 🦋 🩸📚

books2read.com/u/m0Lo0P
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The Substance (2024) (dir. Coralie Fargeat)
We're currently looking for ARC readers who are fans of #ecohorror & would like to learn what kinds of ravenous dangers lurk in a hidden Croatian national park & a primeval forest. This book is brimming with insects, oozing with decay, and hits hard with sadness. 🦋 🩸📚

shtriga.com/arcteamsignup/
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The signups for the August sale are open!

Click here to receive your invitation: www.subscribepage.io/NIS

Click here to bookmark the sale page: indiebook.sale
For fans of: queer horror, found footage, folklore, and nightmarish hiking trips, my folk horror book The Lost Treasure Hunters and Other Tales of Folk Terrors is up for grabs for $/€.99. Today is the last day of the sale!

🌈📚 🩸📚
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It's #Pride2025! To celebrate, may I present you with 4 thoroughly queer anthologies and a thoroughly gay short story collection that I never thought I'd get to write.

To win an eBook copy of the latter, just fave and RT this post.

I'll announce the ✨5✨ winners at the end of June.
🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️📚💙
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Did you know that Haunt is a queer-led press?

We publish horror that doesn’t use harmful tropes in the representation of queer people. We want to celebrate horror queerness in all it’s gory glory!

Why not use our current 30% discount (ends 11:59pm 15 June!) to treat yourself to some queer horror?
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There's a lot of reasons to be angry right now, so we're smashing into Pride 2025 with a gang of radical queer writers and a brand new book.

We're channeling our fury into a new collection of biting, blood-splattered stories at the cutting edge of fantasy, horror and science fiction.
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Happy #PrideMonth to all our lovely readers, from the heart of the rainbow-strewn Batcave

We (and our books) are pretty gay all year round... but rest assured, we'll be gaying it up extra hard these next 4 weeks

Keep reading. Keep fighting. And above all... keep it queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦇
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Seriously Google? How does your "AI" get "but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories" from the countless news stories written about us NOT WANTING GENERATED STORIES and actively fighting against them. Oh wait, it's not actually intelligent, is it? Just bullshit all the way down
Corgi! 😍 Jako dragi mali pas, bas je sladak 🥰
On top of my head: Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy by Hailey Piper (this is one of my all time faves)
Never Have I Ever by Isabel Yap
Sea, Swallow Me and Other Stories by Craig Laurance Gidney
Anthologies can also be a great way to find amazing short stories and new authors 😊
I'm dead 😆 we need more promo like this

(also read the book, for the dog and bc it's great and a lot of fun)
#Chaospit #transhorror #indiehorror

Buy this book for the dog in slow motion and the stock model staring at the beach!

books2read.com/u/boB9YL
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🔥OUT NOW 🔥

A very happy book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD, an eco-horror novella about the beauty unearthed in the wake of disaster.

Gorgeous cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social. Get it now from @ghostorchidpress.com & anywhere books are sold 🖤
I was at moments between screaming at characters, laughing out loud, and on the edge of tears. I can't remember the last time I was up late reading bc I needed to finish a book. Really glad I found it! 😊
Finished it last night and loved it! It was such a wild ride both plotwise & emotionally.
Finished The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra - a weird, fun queer horror comedy that's just the right amount of angsty. And at one point gets super dark. The last 200ish pages were so intense I couldn't stop reading, and the ending is perfect. 🌈📚🩸

That would be book 2 done for #trr25
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If you're looking for some #transhorror that's off the beaten path for the #transrightsreadathon, my queer horror comedy, The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle combines the atmosphere of Twin Peaks with a contemporary story about monstrosity & onlineness that's full of twists and turns!

books2read.com/u/boB9YL
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