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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 6h

Katy found this on a vintage handkerchief, is it the origin of the Cool S?!

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 7h

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 22h

Holy shit, Fr Dowling.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 23h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 20h

Still the best Batman movie there is.

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 1d

This is what I wrote to SF Gate's advertising contact after seeing ICE ads on sfgate.com. His email is at [email protected], if you're curious.

This morning I was reading your article about San Luis Obispo and I got bombarded with ICE ads. That's the right verb because there are twelve ad placements in that article. And every single one was for ICE.

Since you work in the media, you aren't new to the reality of ICE kidnapping an autistic boy and keeping him in custody for a week, even as his parents put up Missing posters for him. Or going to a family's home and shooting their dog. Or leaving a teenager abandoned in the middle of a traffic median after taking his father in front of him. (All stories from this very week, by the way.) You don't have to allow Google Ads to advertise for the agency that is carrying out these atrocities. You're choosing to allow them.

Stop.

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

Its the first thing I thought of! lol!

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Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 5d

Image by @cutfingers.bsky.social #writingcommunity

$Poster features a fractured skull and a chain link border. Micro publisher of weird fiction aiming to amplify working class voices in the face of corruption. www.infestedpublishing.com$

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Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 3d

You NEED this 🐀🖤🐁

Laura ‘Infested’ Cathcart @cutfingers.bsky.social · 3d

Sins of My Sisters by @jvgachs.bsky.social is released on 27th October, but in the meantime, you can get a copy of this amazing collection AND some cool af merch (which won’t be available after release!) 🔗 below!!

All funds are put back into @infestedpublishing.bsky.social 🖤

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Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 2d

🐁 Author announcement 🐀
Author announcement
Worm Hill
Morgan Blades

Eerie and folkloric, this is an uncomfortable read designed to make the reader uneasy.
This folk horror/crime thriller mashsup completes our 2026 lineup and we couldn't be happier.
Thanks all for the support #Booksky #horror

Image is the view from out of cave looking over countryside.
Author announcement
Worm Hill
Morgan Blades

Morgan Blades is an author living in the North East of England. They enjoy writing folklore, horror, fantasy, and the future.
Worm Hill is a modern day retelling of the North East "Lambton Worm" legend; it is a story about impurity and institutions.
Eerie and folkloric, this is an uncomfortable read designed to make the reader uneasy.
This folk horror/crime thriller mashsup completes our 2026 lineup and we couldn't be happier.
Thanks all for the support

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Teresa Ardrey (She/Her) @teresa-ardrey.bsky.social · 1d

Currently reading: Never Leaving by @elfordalley.bsky.social. And wow, I hate Patrick, page one!

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

He’s a real rat bastard!

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Deanne Marcus-Rupert @pocketbacon9.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Gabino! Happy #FridayReads My novella, Ember’s Hollow, is a perfect way to get into the spooky spirit.

A place that only exists on Halloween. For anyone who ever had a best friend they'd do anything for. Something Wicked This Way Comes but with teenage girls in the 90s.🎃💀

Also on Amazon.

Ember's Hollow

Check out Ember's Hollow - <p>In Ember, Pennsylvania there is a place known as The Hollow. A spot believed to only exist on October 31st.</p><p>Teenage best friends, Paige and Jojo, have always dreame...

bookshop.org

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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 2d

Hey #FridayReads
Please check out the works of Rebecca Crunden aka @bookspotlight.bsky.social

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Thanks Gabino!!

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

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David Swinson @dswinson.bsky.social · 1d

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 2d

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.

mybook.to/Harrowfield

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.

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Gabino!
A wildlife biologist does a psychedelic trip to touch the fabric of the universe but unknowingly brings a piece back with him. Can he find it in the wilds of Colorado, or will it find him first?
@bookpeople.bsky.social
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A black-and-white photo of an elk, stirring directly ahead. The cover of Kurt Phillips’s debut novel, the hand of the archer.

A road sign with a Stick Figure person and a stick figure elk that reads caution, aggressive elk

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is "People who didn't win a Nobel Peace Prize"
whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2025/10/10/p...

People who didn't win a Nobel Peace Prize

Vladimir Putin Skeletor Norman Bates The guy ahead of you in the kindergarten pickup line whose truck has a “Fuck Your Feelings” bumper sticker

whenfallsthecoliseum.com

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toddmorr.bsky.social @toddmorr.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, Gabino!
"Packed with razor-sharp wit, breakneck action, and a cast of criminals who make bad decisions look like an art form..."

A Briefcase Full Of The End Of The World : Todd Morr (Fahrenheit Pocket Noir)

A heist gone sideways, a briefcase with the power to end everything, and one very unlucky criminal caught in the middle. Carter isn’t exactly the smartest guy in the room, but even he knows he’s in de...

fahrenheit-press.myshopify.com

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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com · 2d

Thank you, Gabino!
In the House of In Between is NOW (finally!) available in ebook format as well as paperback wherever you like to buy books!
Except Amazon.
They suck. Bookshop.org supports local and indie bookstores, even with ebooks!

#FridayReads

In the House of In Between

Check out In the House of In Between - <p>The Backlund House is haunted, but no one knows why. No violence has taken place there, no one has died inside its walls. Over the course of a century, what-o...

bookshop.org

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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Friday, Gabino and everyone!

I don't know about you, but by us the weather is finally getting that crisp autumn feel.

Whatever your weather, one of my novels will probably be the perfect pairing.
linktr.ee/authorlevai

My two novellas against a starry background: THE NIGHT LIBRARY OF STERNENDACH: A VAMPIRE OPERA IN VERSE, and THE GLASS GARDEN. The first has batwings, fangs, and a book on the cover. The other has white letters on a kaleidoscope image.

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Gabino!!
My second novel, Pyres, dropped last Friday, and people are loving it so far. So, I'd be so happy for its brand of burning rage to find its way into more hands.
books2read.com/pyresnovel

It also got this crazily wonderful blurb from Lee Murray🔥🔥🔥

Ebook and paperback copies of Pyres with a blurb from award-winning author Lee Murray and a burning match in the background

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🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's a great day for some award winning erotic gothic horror, don't you? bsky.app/profile/tdcl...

🐣 Migi ➡️ SKIAMAKHIA drops 10/31! @tdcloud.bsky.social · Sep 12

Your Next Gothic Read And Why It Should Be OSSUARY:

🩸 Survival Horror Made Horny
💀 QIA's Best Novella of 2023
🩸 As Above, So Below x The Descent
💀 Magic vs The Supernatural
🩸 Gothic with a capital "G"
💀 The sickest cover you've ever seen

🩸 tdcloudofficial.com/books

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, Gabino!

I'm now 10 days into my effort to write a new essay on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN every day in October. Everyone can check it out over on my newsletter!

matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-...

Tracing The Shape - Matthew Jackson and The Scares That Shaped Us

matthewjacksonwrites.com

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