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Chuck Wendig

@chuckwendig.bsky.social

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I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Nov 20

As I am a writer and must peddle my wares lest I die in the abyss, hey! In April 2025, THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS emerges from the fog and the trees and if you wanted to pre-order it from your favorite local bookstore -- or get signed, personalized copies from Doylestown Bookshop -- that'd be nice.

Cover reveal for Chuck Wendig's THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, listed as Coming April 29, 2025. On the cover a spiral staircase rises through eerie mist in a dim forest of crooked trees. A crow sits on the railing of the staircase. DEL REY is the publisher. Cover design by The Boland Design Co.

Text: A group of friends investigates the mystery of a strange staircase in the woods in this mesmerizing horror novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Accidents.

Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what.

Then, on a camping trip in the middle of the forest, they find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere.

One friend walks up—and never comes back down. Then the staircase disappears.

Twenty years later, the staircase has reappeared. Now the group returns to find the lost boy—and what lies beyond the staircase in the woods. . . .

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 9h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 12h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you so much for coming out!

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Embyr Rose @itsembyrrose.bsky.social · 8h

Had the delight of meeting @chuckwendig.bsky.social and @marthawells.com tonight with some of my favorite people!

@ashzelda.bsky.social @curiouscatart.bsky.social

Embyr, Ash, and Cat posing at the front of a selfie with Chuck Wendig and Martha Wells indulging us from behind the signing table.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 8h

Too many things to count tbh

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Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 10h

I blame @chuckwendig.bsky.social

A box of heirloom apples from Scott Farm Orchard.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 13h

Goddammit more AI bubble scare stories from Ed Zitron, this time apparently using sock puppet account “the Bank of England”

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

Exist in public? They can arrest you.

Sitting quietly in your home. They can arrest you, and take all your stuff

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com · 15h

Scare quotes on justice for sure.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 15h

🚨 #Pennsylvania Republicans are pulling out all the stops to remove 3 Democratic State Supreme Court Justices this year!

25 DAYS TO GO. Help keep them on the bench.

There's also seats up in #WI & #NC next year. Donate today!

secure.actblue.com/donate/state...

Chip in!

Show your support with a contribution.

secure.actblue.com

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 20h

#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 10: The @chuckwendig.bsky.social novel that tickles my fear the most is Black River Orchard. Folksy, juicy, with impeccable pacing it maintains over a significant page count. It flew by, and I ate it down to the core before asking for more.

Cover for Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig, depicting a dead-looking tree with a single red apple hanging off it

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Rob Bedford 📚🍺 @robhb.bsky.social · 19h

#31HorrorBooksforHalloween WANDERERS by @chuckwendig.bsky.social #horrorbooks #horrorbooksky #booksky #postapocalyptichorror

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 17h

I’m excited! Hope any travel you have to do to get here goes well!

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 18h

Tonight, Friday October 10, with @chuckwendig.bsky.social !

Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 5d

Oct 10 Let's Play Books, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 4/11

theendbooks.co/event/2025-1...

Martha Wells, in Conversation with Chuck Wendig

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

theendbooks.co

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 18h

My fmr boss to the rescue after that very confusing announcement, which featured a lot of Hegseth riffing bsky.app/profile/samf...

Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 18h

Not really. This is a US air base that will host a facility where Qatari pilots are trained to fly F-15. The US also trains pilots from Singapore there www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 18h

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho.

While Americans can’t afford groceries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 18h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 18h

From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August)

THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18h

the greasy little shits are really itchin' to murder people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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