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George Sandison

@georgesandison.bsky.social

This might be the only Black Friday sale you need. The Influx list is monumental (original UK publishers for Percival Everett, Jeffrey Boakye's Hold Tight & Eliza Clark's Boy Parts remember).

I'd recommend Malcolm Devlin, Joel Lane and Gareth Rees, but honestly you can't go wrong with these guys.

Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 2d

We're running a big #BlackFridaySale!

All Influx titles in paperback and eBook are a full 50% off (+P&P) until November 30th

Just use discount code BFRIDAY25 at checkout.

influxpress.com/shop

November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM

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A.C. Wise

@acwise.bsky.social

My review of the August issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!

locusmag.com/review/clark...

Clarkesworld: Review by A.C. Wise

Clarkesworld 8/25 The August issue of Clarkesworld opens with “A Shaky Bridge” by Marissa Lingen, in which a man receives a MindBridge implant after a stroke. It restores his speech and motor funct…

locusmag.com

November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM

Charlotte Tierney

@charlieratpig.bsky.social

Heated debate over whether this story contains the *most* ghosts and some clever customer has suggested Lincoln In The Bardo might have more, or at least as many.

*narrows eyes at Lincoln In The Bardo*

Grant Dowell @weirdmurmur.com · 8d

A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...

A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home

Weird Murmur Blog by Grant Dowell. Weird Fiction, Pulp Tales, and Horror Story Discussions.

www.weirdmurmur.com

November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM

Charlotte Tierney

@charlieratpig.bsky.social

O, thank you!

Grant Dowell @weirdmurmur.com · 8d

A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...

A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home

Weird Murmur Blog by Grant Dowell. Weird Fiction, Pulp Tales, and Horror Story Discussions.

www.weirdmurmur.com

November 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM

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Lucy Mercer

@lucymercer.bsky.social

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!

www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book

Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.

www.thebookseller.com

November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM

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Adam Farrer

@adamjfarrer.bsky.social

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation radicalised into flat earth trutherism by the comment section of a Smashing Pumpkins Facebook fan page.

November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM

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Paul Tremblay

@paultremblay.bsky.social

For 2 + years now, when asked for a blurb from me, the writer requesting the blurb must confirm that they did not use AI/LMMs in the writing/researching of the book.

If I blurb something and find out later that the author lied to me, I will loudly retract my support. I don't support scabs.

November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Paul Tremblay

@paultremblay.bsky.social

(1/2) Speaking as a math person, I question the validity and rigor of the sample and study given who commissioned it. However, more writers/readers must adopt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to supporting OTHER writers using AI for fiction.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI

A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.

www.publishersweekly.com

November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Rose Ruane

@regretteruane.bsky.social

This is tomorrow, I know it is staying in, eating soup, watching telly weather but do please come along, we promise to do our utmost to delight you & tickets are free, although you can also order a book with one included

Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · Oct 17

Glasgow loves please join me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida Books on the 6th of November to talk about the marvel that is The Expansion Project.
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night

*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...

Green text on cream background reads The Expansion Project, Ben Pester, 6th November with Rose Ruane

November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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Runalong Womble

@runalongwomble.bsky.social

The BFS Award for best novella went to the excellent The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson and you will not forget this story in a hurry www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/2/...

The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves

I would like to thank Luna Press Publishing for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – 19/2 Price – £8.99 paper...

www.runalongtheshelves.net

November 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM

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Runalong Womble

@runalongwomble.bsky.social

Picked up some #BookPost The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol 1 edited by Michael Kelly looks very interesting

An eye with a skull at the centre on the cover

Joe Koch

Uchechukwu Nwaka

• Kelly Robson

Nicholas Royle

Kristina Ten

Natalia Theodoridou
Charlotte Tierney

Shaoni C. White

Kaaron Warren

Zachariah Claypole White
Greg van Eekhout

Mia Xuan

Welcome, once again, to the weird.
Joanne Anderton
Jason Baltazar
Seán Padraic Birnie
Chris Campbell
F.E. Choe
Kay Chronister
Dominique Dickey
Diana Dima
Hiron Ennes
Richard Gavin
Elliott Gish
Thomas Ha
Rachael K. Jones
A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Piction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor,

October 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM

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Weightless Books

@weightlessbooks.bsky.social

New from @undertow.bsky.social, THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1, edited by Michael Kelly! weightlessbooks.com/the-best-wei...

Cover art for THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR VOL. 1, curated by Michael Kelly, featuring a weird wrinkly face looking out of the pupil of a huge eyeball

October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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Sarah Coomer

@sarahcoomer.bsky.social

The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...

Limited edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol, illustrated by me. It's bound in red leather with embossed gold wreath and lettering, and the box is lined by and illustration of a snowy night time Dickensian city scene. Surrounded by stuff on my desk (pens, glasses, glue etc).

The standard edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol illustrated by me. The book itself featured a view of Scrooge in a long black coat with a top hat and red scarf from the back, surveying the snowy London skyline. The slip case is green and has vignettes of relevent scenes and motifs in the style of Georgian wallpaper. One of the vignettes is a circular cut out, so when the book is in the slipcase you can see Scrooge's head through it. Surrounded by the loads of rubbish I have on my desk.

An illustration from the first stave of A Christmas Carol. Scrogge is sat by his fire eating his gruel when across his large but shabby drawing room, Marley's ghost appears.

An illustration of the fourth stave, featuring Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas yet to come (who is a Victorian widow in high mourning, completely draped and almost invisible in black net and bombazine). They are in a graveyard, which is based largely on St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in Edinburgh. She points to his grave, and he looks at it in horror. There is a smaller gravestone to his right, capped with snow which features a skull in bas relief and the words 'MOMENTO MORI' in a motto scroll over the top. The moon shines from an Atkinson Grimshaw-esque greenish winter sky, illuminating the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.

October 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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Ginger Nuts of Horror

@gnofhorror.com

Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN

Forget what you know. This is the most faithful and most gorgeous take on Shelley's novel.

Gothic splendour, glorious excess, and a true compassion for the monster.

gnofhorror.com/guillermo-de...

#GuillermodelToro #Frankenstein

@maddwolfcolumbus.bsky.social

Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein: A Monstrous Masterpiece Of Heart And Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein arrives not as just another adaptation, but as a culmination of almost a century of cinematic Frankensteins.

gnofhorror.com

October 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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Tanja at Good Night To Read

@gntread24.bsky.social

More Book 📚 recommendations for 🎃the Spooky Season #UKKidLit #Librarians #BookBloggers #ReadingRecommendations 📚💀👻🎃 #SpookyBooks @michellepaver.bsky.social @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social @spookypurcell.bsky.social

Dark blue background with flowers, creatures & symbols. Churchyard with graves & house in grey at top of cover.

Green & yellow. Black rose, lake with spooky cowled figure rising from whirlpool, creepy house in background & full moon in top right hand corner. Darkening sky. Green leaves.

Black background, gold edging of flowers , single eye 👁 in cameo at top, house below. Gothic style cover.

Blue background. Troubled girl in white with flowing hair. Black writing.

October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest,

@megapolisomancy.bsky.social

ICYMI, I’m writing a quarterly column on collections of weird fiction. So far we’ve got an intro, one on Steve Rasnic Tem, Ananda Lima, and Christi Nogle, and another on John Langan, Rebecca Campbell, and B. Catling. There’s a lot of weird theorizing and words like “apophatic” and “genric”.

Profane Illuminations – Ancillary Review of Books

Posts about Profane Illuminations written by Zach

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org

October 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM

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Charlotte Tierney

@charlieratpig.bsky.social

If you buy a copy of my nineties, gothic, cat-lady novel ‘The Cat Bride’, you are supporting independent publishing.

If you have bought it - thank you! - even better, read it! See what you think…

Perhaps leave a review! It helps so much if there is no massive marketing budget to prop it up. X

Cover of The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney with text “HAVE A BREAK HAVE A BIG CAT”

October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM

Charlotte Tierney

@charlieratpig.bsky.social

If you buy a copy of my nineties, gothic, cat-lady novel ‘The Cat Bride’, you are supporting independent publishing.

If you have bought it - thank you! - even better, read it! See what you think…

Perhaps leave a review! It helps so much if there is no massive marketing budget to prop it up. X

October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM

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Catsuka

@catsuka.bsky.social

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

October 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM

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Terri Windling

@terriwindling.bsky.social

For those on the other side of the moor, Emma will also be talking about Dartmoor myths & legends with author & broadcaster @smpierce.bsky.social on 9 October in Ashburton. To book tickets: www.dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk

Event poster: 'Tall Tales and Strange Stories' at St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton, TQ13 7DD, on 9 October at 7 pm. Explore Dartmoor's legends with guide & author Emma Cunis and writer Sophie Pierce, delving into the moor's best-known myths, their origins, and their deep connection to the land and roots. The image is a drawing of a ghostly coach crossing the Dartmoor landscape. Art by Gina Hemery.

October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM

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Terri Windling

@terriwindling.bsky.social

For those within traveling distance of #Dartmoor, this #nature & #folklore event is coming up in Chagford soon: a talk with Dartmoor historian & guide Emma Cunis, with art by Gina Hemery. Emma's people have lived on the moor for generations; her knowledge of this land is deep and wise.