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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Sep 16

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. 🦋 🩸📚

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The promo image with book mockups for The Last Witch of Lonjsko Polje by Lea Katarina Gobec, published by Shtriga. The mockups are of the paperback and ereader. The cover of the book is of a woman blending into a bark-like background, her face split with a bloody gash over her cheeks and nose, moths crawling out of it all over the woman’s face. The cover is washed in golden hues. The mockup books are on the front right corner of an image of woods from Lonjsko Polje, Croatia’s nature park. The text above the mockups says: Out Now! In ebook and paperback. A witch burdened with pain, a woman cursed with a ravenous inheritance. In the bottom left corner are logos for the retailers: Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple, Vivlio, Everand, and under it is written shtriga.com

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Substance (2024) (dir. Coralie Fargeat)

Pink Godzilla from Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire shedding an older skin

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Jul 29

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/

The image is a promo pic with the cover of the novella The Last Witch of Lonjsko Polje. The cover of the novella is in soft yellow hues, showing a face of an otherwordly woman whose eyes are black and lensed like the eye of the fly, and through her face is a bloody crack from which fully grown yellowish moths crawl out to, going over the rest of her face and blond hair. The background of the promo pic is a close up of the bark. What to expect question is written above the cover, and the tropes and motifs point toward the cover with the arrows. These are: eco horror, decay, malevolent forests, witches, swampcore, insects, grief. In the bottom right corner is written pre-order and under it are the logos of the Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple and Vivlio.

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Narratess @narratess.com · Jul 14

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

Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale

indiebook.sale

Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror

August 23 - 25

Banner designed by Arden Powell

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Lost Treasure Hunters and Other Tales of Folk Terrors by Antonija Meznaric

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Jun 20

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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James Bennett @jamesbennett.bsky.social · Jun 1

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.
🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️📚💙

Two red devils entwined makes up the special edition of The Book of Queer Saints Vol I

The cover of I Want That Twink Obliterated. A green giant looks over a space magician and warrior on a cratered planet in the foreground. Green tentacles emerge from one crater. A white phallic space station rises in the background.

The red flock wallpaper cover of The Dust of the Red Rose Knight. A phallic sword hilt rises on the left of the image.

An angel with eviscerated wings and bandages to cover his wounds is the cover for my short story collection Preaching To The Perverted. White feathers drift in the background.

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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · Jun 14

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?

Black background with a rainbow in the middle and three book covers with skulls on.

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · Jun 1

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.

A "trope arrows" post, pointing at a mock-up of the cover of Wrath Month, showing a black book with a bright pink sigil.

The "tropes" are: Bisexual fury, queer rage, demon hunters, vengeful lesbian witches, antifascist mutant vigilantes, transfem superheroes.

A tag line at the bottom reads: Pride Month is OVER.

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · Jun 1

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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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · May 9

💙💙 Vidimo se! 😁

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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · May 6

My friends are doing a horror anthology about messed up deer.

Get your copy in the kickstarter! 🩸📚

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

THE DEER IS MESSED UP

An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.

www.kickstarter.com

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · Mar 12

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

Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online science fiction and fantasy magazine known for publishing short stories by authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Kij Johnson, and Caitlín R. Kiernan. The magazine has been praised for its high-quality content and diverse range of stories, but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories. FALSE

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Apr 5

Corgi! 😍 Jako dragi mali pas, bas je sladak 🥰

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Apr 5

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 😊

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Apr 2

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)

Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · Apr 1

#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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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · Mar 25

🔥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 🖤

Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD standing on scarf with design featuring Van Gogh’s iris painting.

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Mar 23

It is! 😁

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Mar 23

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! 😊

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Mar 23

Finished it last night and loved it! It was such a wild ride both plotwise & emotionally.

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Antonija Mežnarić @antonijamezni.bsky.social · Mar 23

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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Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · Mar 22

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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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · Mar 22

Friends of Change

The light is doing me good ☀️

#art #animalart #fox #traditionalart

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Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · Mar 22

Me when it’s time for the #TransRightsReadathon

A stock photo of a shady character holding his coat open to reveal his illicit wares, edited in are the book I coauthored with Mariah Darling CHASERS and my trans body horror novella TRANSMUTED

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