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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 1d

If you're an active horror/Weird fiction reviewer, we'd love to send you ARCs of our upcoming books! Some folks on our reviewer list no longer review books, so we're wanting to connect with more folks. Sign up here for future Cursed Morsels ARCs!
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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 5d

Your body might be giving way. You may be more tired than you’ve ever been.

Even if you only get ten minutes a day or every other day to do what you love.

Do. It.

It adds to up. I promise.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 5d

This was a good week to hear this.

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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favorite parts of the year is @scareyoutosleep ‘s kids Halloween episode. It’s such a fever dream ride, but also kids under sixteen are writing some of the scariest things I’ve ever heard.

Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 6d

I’m usually lucky to get 10 minutes of writing a day, between work and family life.

So yes, it took me more than two weeks to write 6 pages.

But dammit, they’re written.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 8d

HUGE NEWS DAY!

We have a new @egallagher.bsky.social SPLIT SCREAM cover to share!

(In lesser news, there's a new T-Swift album! And that is literally all the news.)

Anyway! SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES! Featuring novelettes from @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social

April 2026🖤☠️

Cover art: the two illustrations feature a foreboding, wildly framed mirror and a human silhouette in the reflection; and two hands clutching a mysterious organic, vaguely heart-like mass; plus a blurb from M.Shaw.

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Robin Knabel - Inky Bones Press @robinknabel.bsky.social · 10d

More spooky books & stories to binge! It's the perfect time to grab a handful of scares!

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FREE Halloween Horror

Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.

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Robin Knabel - Inky Bones Press @robinknabel.bsky.social · 10d

It's the season for scary books & stories! I'll be sharing a few of these promos that begin today. Grab some scares! 📚😱

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Scary Stories

Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.

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Robin Knabel - Inky Bones Press @robinknabel.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting info & lots of book fr33bies in the 9/28 newsletter AND an early heads up for subscribers—plus ALL subs are eligible to receive 1 of 3 Liminal Spaces e-books in October by Deborah Sheldon! So much good stuff! Enjoy! 📚🖤🎉

Need to sign up?
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 14d

HAPPY SATURDAY! I'll be busy today with a bunch of Art stuff, but I'll still be around, hiding in the shadows and popping up unexpectedly 😆

Skeletor posing next to the words "LURK" "LAUGH" "LOATHE"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · 16d

It's National #CookingDay, so we're doing a 24-hour sale on Cursed Cooking, our fun little cookbook/horror anthology. 50% off ebooks and 15% hardback copies of Cursed Cooking. Order now at cateyepress.com/store

National "Cursed" Cooking Day Sale! 15% off Hardbacks and 50% Ebooks of Cursed Cooking. 24 hours only, so act fast! Order at cateyepress.com/store

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Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social · 16d

Read my story, "The Lingering Oil," about an absolute loser trying to fix up his family's burger restaurant while confronting ghosts--both literal and figurative--of the past. Plus a bunch more horror and some great recipes!

Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social · 16d

It's National #CookingDay, so we're doing a 24-hour sale on Cursed Cooking, our fun little cookbook/horror anthology. 50% off ebooks and 15% hardback copies of Cursed Cooking. Order now at cateyepress.com/store

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 16d

And this week our final 2025 Quarterly Book Boxes are shipping out!

What an awesome project this has been this year. Thank you to all subscribers who signed up and helped support all of our 2025 titles. We hope you enjoyed your great new books this year (and the fun merch!). 🖤

Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Jan 2

Our first ever Quarterly Book Boxes start shipping next week!

Here's the design of the shipping box (by @alandistro.bsky.social).

It's made to look like a mini Shortwave bookstore! Complete with entrance, author signing events, book posters in the windows, and a little graffiti...

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LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · 16d

My new baby kittens have a pricy vet follow-up in a few weeks, my old-man cat still needs his various prescriptions, AND my rent is going up in November, so book revenue is increasingly important nowadays! Please consider ordering a copy or leaving a review somewhere online 🤞

LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · Jun 13

R E M I N D E R that my debut horror/dark SFF/weird fiction collection Spiritus Ex Machina is available in ebook and paperback versions via Grimscribe Press (there was also a sold-out hardcover). Proceeds are mostly going towards my elderly cat's medical needs

Cover of Spiritus Ex Machina by LC von Hessen, available from Grimscribe Press. This book has . . . dolls! puppets! masks! mannequins!, olde-timey bollocks, extreme social discomfort, dream logic, weird kinks, dubious medical ethics, some Lovecraftian bits if you're into that (or if you HATE that), and D E S P A I R.

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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 15d

Some of the best change you’ll ever spend.

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 16d

Available today for only 99 cents: The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social!

Snag a copy if you want stories about unnerving hitchhikers, sex pest-hunting vampires, malevolent foster parents, and more.

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The Nightmare Box and Other Stories ebook | Cursed Morsels Press

A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. A witch who makes custom nightmares wonders why all her victims are connected to the Black P...

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Robin Knabel - Inky Bones Press @robinknabel.bsky.social · 16d

All subscribers will be eligible to win one of 3 Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories ebooks by Deborah Sheldon in October!👻📚😱

3 random subscribers will be selected for the Oct. 28 newsletter giveaway.🎉

subscribepage.io/sZmPPF 👈👈👈

Graphic letting everyone know 3 subscribers will receive a free ebook of Deborah Sheldon's book Liminal Spaces

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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 16d

Some of the spooky stuff my wife got me for my birthday

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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 17d

Something I didn’t expect from my 31st bday: my 3yo and my wife singing happy birthday to me legitimately made me cry.

They are my world.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 25d

Every few months Dark Owl Publishing does something bad and every few months I come here and remind people that shitty indie presses run by racists always do bad things.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 26d

The ghosts want you to read The Atrocities.

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Here's a lovely photo of my horror book The Atrocities. The cover features a hedge maze and a creepy manor house. The book is surrounded by three clay sheet ghosts that I sculpted. Two of the ghosts have animal ears. One is facing the wall, revealing shapely buttocks.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 26d

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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 26d

Heck yeah!

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Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social · 29d

Of course, I don’t need to tell you that nothing beats a book on the beach.

Having some fun with Wars in Wonderland by @ejpepinowrites.bsky.social aka @authorkestralmartin

Dark fantasy in the woods of Wonderland with lots of sapphic romance, intrigue, and blood!

#beachreads

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 29d

During the first week of October, @spicycloaca.bsky.social and I are running an open sub call for the zine that will accompany their book Gore Poetics. 500 words max on the theme FLESH. Pay is 10 cents/word. Samir's book is weird, erotic, and often transgressive vibewise, so keep that in mind.

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