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Brandon Barrows

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My noir-horror novel LONG BEFORE THEY DIE is out now! Bestselling author. Mustang Award winner and four-time finalist. Two-time Derringer nominee.

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 6d

THE DARKER THE NIGHT is coming 2026 from
@RowanProse!

Matt knew it wouldn’t be easy convincing his ex Lilly their son should have a chance to live with his dad. Lilly is dead set against the idea.

Now she’s just dead, and Matt is the prime suspect.

books2read.com/u/3Jq1Bv

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 6h

#horror #moviereview 1990's THE GUARDIAN--Friedkin doesn't disappoint, but...

youtu.be/a57DG344BMk?...

#horror #moviereview 1990's THE GUARDIAN--Friedkin doesn't disappoint, but...

YouTube video by Brandon Barrows / SnoodieReviews

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 8h

Watching

#horrorfilm #horroraddict #horrormovies #horror #horrorjunkie #horrorfan

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 1d

Who publishes existential horror? Nothing supernatural, no violence, just the dawning dread of being.

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 1d

A Target ad from 1968. Really going for the hip, young Mod crowd.

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 3d

Huh. I'll have to pick it up.

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 3d

Watching

Despite the subject matter, it has real classy slasher vibes.

#horrorfilm #horroraddict #horrormovies #horror #horrorjunkie #horrorfan #Slashers #slashermovies

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 3d

Is this brand-new? I thought I had all of Criminal but don't recognize this.

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 4d

#horror #moviereview 1995's THE MANGLER--this isn't one Tobe Hooper brags about, I'm sure.

youtu.be/bqNlrfBA3t8?...

#horror #moviereview 1995's THE MANGLER--this isn't one Tobe Hooper brags about, I'm sure.

YouTube video by Brandon Barrows / SnoodieReviews

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 4d

Watching

#horrorfilm #horroraddict #horrormovies #horror #horrorjunkie #horrorfan

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 4d

Reading

I'm not whether I like it.

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 5d

He's so perfectly suited to be a the villain. Even when he's not explicitly bad, he seems slimey.

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 5d

Reading.

My first nonfiction in a while.

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 6d

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

I should check out Spontaneous Combustion!

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

#slasher #moviereview 1991's BODY PARTS--A movie I saw as a kid that still holds up.

youtu.be/uogziAemsbM?...

#slasher #moviereview 1991's BODY PARTS--A movie I saw as a kid that still holds up.

YouTube video by Brandon Barrows / SnoodieReviews

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

I forgot it too until a couple weeks ago and I couldn't remember what it was called or who was in it, then Scream Factory had its "unstreamable sale" and I saw the cover and remembered it.

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

Mochi has no concept of personal space.

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

Watching

I saw this when it first came out, and was probably much too young at the time, and only recently remembered it existed. Hope it holds up.

#horrorfilm #horroraddict #horrormovies #horror #horrorjunkie #horrorfan #Slashers #slashermovies

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

Contributor copy of the new issue of ODM showed up, including my story "Twilight Komorebi," about an ex-cop turned exorcist, a story I wrote ten years ago and sold three times before it was actually published.

Glad that it's finally out in the world.

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

Hi. Are book submissions open? Your submission manager for books says my password is wrong even after changing it when prompted and that it's unable to log me in. I thought this might be because books aren't open yet.

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 7d

I've finished my first draft of a new story. It'll be my first submission to Weird Fiction Quarterly that isn't part of my Japanese folklore-inspired series.

Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 8d

Coming 2026 from @rowanprosepub.bsky.social!

Matt Allen knew it wouldn’t be easy convincing his ex Lilly their son should have a chance to live with his dad. Lilly is dead set against the idea.

Now she’s just dead, and Matt is the prime suspect.

books2read.com/u/3Jq1Bv

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Rowan Prose Publishing @rowanprosepub.bsky.social · 9d

Check out RPP author Paula Chaffee Scardamalia's interview with AutoCrit!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnVz...

#authorinterview #autocrit #podcast #romancebooks #booksky #readersky #rowanprosepub

AutoCrit Coffee Break Interview: Author Paula Chaffee Scardamalia

YouTube video by AutoCrit

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 9d

I blocked the editor of that zine on FB, cuz she kept DMing me trying to sell me her self-published book on how to write stuff.

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