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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 1h

A Flemish folktale says people never went near the dunes at night because it was haunted. A man decided to risk it anyway and was knocked over by a ghost who appeared as a headless horse. It stomped on him so badly that he was lucky to live to tell the tale.

🎨Jaroslav Panuska
#PhantomsFriday

Artwork of a white headless horse running in the night. Grass, dark cloudy background.

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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social · 2h

It's just 28 days to WFC. PR3 has gone out and with it the news about our new MC. We are very sorry to lose Sarah Pinborough but delighted to welcome Joanne Harris.
Joanne Harris was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has written over 20 novels, published in over 50 countries.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2h

"Thou shalt not - or else thou shalt depart beggared into endless regret. The gentlest 'nursery-tales' know it. Even Peter Rabbit was forbidden a garden, lost his blue coat, and took sick. The Locked Door stands as an eternal temptation."

On Fairy Stories, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Last but not least in our cover reveal catch-up week is Hunt The Ever Wild coming 23rd June 2026 from the excellent S.E. Kiser.

Forest-core, dark-gaslamp fantasy plus slow-burn rivals-to-lovers. All the hyphens! Plus curses, magical creatures, witches and a competition where everything is at stake.

A cover reveal panel featuring the cover of a book called Hunt the Ever Wold by S.E. Kiser. The cover features a rich forest border with, amongst others an exotic moth and a phoenix.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 18h

Cor!

Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · Mar 15

Sea of Giants

#art #illustration #personalwork

An illustration by Eleonor Piteira of a night scene on a desert landscape with giant rocks, some of them sculpted. A giant statue of a woman indirectly points at a moon/planet in the sky. The sky is full of stars and 4 comet-like phenomenon.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 18h

The moon has risen, a Noon is coming.

Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

More moon related cover reveal action (though a different moon).

Coming on the 12th of May 2026 the new novel from Jeff Noon, award-winning author of Vurt and the Nyquist novels.

A new Noon is a cosmic event.

A cover reveal panel for Moon Over Brendle by Jeff Noon. The cover features two interlocking orange spheres on a black background, the lower one shows a pointed tower in front of an orange moon. The accompanying text reads: "Magical contemporary fantasy meets fantastical memoir in the new novel from a cult favourite author, Jeff Noon" and "12th May 2026."

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

We are all Zach.

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 1d

Say the line, Bart! three panel meme but it’s SAY THE LINE, ZACH and then then I HAVE A COPY OF THAT BUT HAVEN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO READING IT YET and then the cheering

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

The editorial meeting was going really well.

Zdzisław Beksiński @zbeksinski.bsky.social · 1d

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

More moon related cover reveal action (though a different moon).

Coming on the 12th of May 2026 the new novel from Jeff Noon, award-winning author of Vurt and the Nyquist novels.

A new Noon is a cosmic event.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."

Diana Wynne Jones

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

For the evening people, for the moon people.

Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

"Not because it's easy, but because it's hard."

Next up, in our cover reveal round-up, coming up on the 14th of April 2026, from the excellent
@cameronjohnston.bsky.social
a group of mages on the up...

Magic! War! Gods! Bureaucracy! Secrets! And lies!

A photo of a cover reveal panel. The cover is for a book called First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston. It features an archaic looking spaceship on scaffolding with a moon behind it. It is designed by Alice Coleman.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

If this is the throne of the magical kingdom to which you aspire, you might want to reconsider your life choices.

Zdzisław Beksiński @zbeksinski.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social · 1d

DAYTIDE is up for preorder now and I sort of buried the lede on this limited edition, illustrated, horror-fantasy.

There’s an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social that blew the bombas right off of my feet. I’m still reeling.

350 total books. Order: www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed. This one rocks though.

James Brogden @jamesbrogden.bsky.social · 2d

Chapter titles are hard.

A text document screen shot consisting of a blank page headed with the words "Big Fuck-Off Fight Scene"

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

"Not because it's easy, but because it's hard."

Next up, in our cover reveal round-up, coming up on the 14th of April 2026, from the excellent
@cameronjohnston.bsky.social
a group of mages on the up...

Magic! War! Gods! Bureaucracy! Secrets! And lies!

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, what is real?"

Philip K. Dick

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

For the evening people. For the people further through the day.

Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

So, we have some cover reveals to catch up on this week.

First of these is @sarahjdaley.bsky.social's excellent dark fantasy crime novel, The Violently Departed, publishing on April 28th 2026.

Nuns! Investigators! Demons! Dark secrets! An unlikely friendship! A terrible murder!

A cover reveal graphic featuring the cover for The Violently Departed by Sarah J. Daley. The artwork features a human skull surrounded by red flames and red blooms.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

So, we have some cover reveals to catch up on this week.

First of these is @sarahjdaley.bsky.social's excellent dark fantasy crime novel, The Violently Departed, publishing on April 28th 2026.

Nuns! Investigators! Demons! Dark secrets! An unlikely friendship! A terrible murder!

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"Say 'Ahhhhhhhhhhggghhh'"

@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social looks at some recent examples of medical horror to investigate why the genre is especially telling in dystopian times.

The doctor will see you now...

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 3d

Drawing from stories such as Hiron Ennes' Leech and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, author @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social reviews the popularity of medical horror, placing it alongside the return of dystopian fiction:

reactormag.com/dystopian-me...

Dystopian Medicine: Why Medical Horror Has a Hold on Us - Reactor

When society feels at its most unstable, we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction...

reactormag.com

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 3d

An enormous scary tree in an illustration by Nikolai Vorobiev for a 1970s book on Russian folk tales. I'm embarrassed that I know nothing about the story because it looks cool. However, the picture seemed ideal for #ThickTrunkTuesday.
#folklore #legends #folktales #illustration #Russian

A gigantic tree with eyes waves claw-like branches menacingly as a knight on horseback, dwarfed by its size, prepares to fire an arrow. Crows are flying around.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
Gene Wolfe

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Sam Tyler @reelsamtyler.bsky.social · 3d

📢Blog Tour Klaxon📢

'The Haunting of William Thorn' by @benaldersonauthor.bsky.social has modern characters and relationships, but deep down is a classic feeling spooky tale.

Out now

My SFBook.com review: sfbook.com/the-haunting...

Thank you @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social @caramalines.bsky.social

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 4d

SFFH: A Deferred and Dramatised Apocalypse. Discuss.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s rather grim proof note:

P415 line 24: delete “people”

Sorry, people.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 4d

a man with a backpack and binoculars is saying cake is my weakness .

ALT: a man with a backpack and binoculars is saying cake is my weakness .

media.tenor.com

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Don't listen to us, listen to David.

(Also: cake!)

David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 4d

I've been lucky enough to read this book, and it's brilliant.

Also, Stew provides only the best wine and cake 🎂 🍷

Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 4d

Project Hanuman has its launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social two weeks before it's in shops. There will be cake, wine and merch. 2pm on the Friday of the convention (31st October).

I'm petrified of launching this thing alone so please come along and eat my cakes

There may also be special guest

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