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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 28m

Keep dying at floor 20. Breaking out the Power Pad

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 31m

And then has a sick cut screen Tecmo style;

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 50m

🤣 It’s ridiculous and maddening. An unreleased game. Big shock there.

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 1h

Friends over tonight. Playing Drac’s Night Out on NES (where Dracula laces up Reebok fucking Pumps for a warp speed power up), having drinks, & watching House by the Cemetery!

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M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social · 9h

I have a guest post at Stiletto Gang today ... it's a fun one: What Do the Girls Have to Say About the Guy? ... If you're curious, have a read: www.thestilettogang.com/2025/10/10/w...

What Do the Girls Have to Say About the Guy? | The Stiletto Gang

A Guest Post by Author M.E. Proctor

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 8h

Comparison between last year (right), this year (left). Still a lot going on behind the scenes, much of which should be out in 2026 (& even beyond) & some things are on submission.

(Twiggy Voo - my NOT horror novel - is out but not being actively promoted just yet, because it's not Christmas 😅)

A gallery of books: Harrowfield, This World of Vile Wonder, Loki, Monster Bones, Punkology, and Twiggy Voo?
The output of Stephanie Ellis for 2025.

A gallery of book covers for author Stephanie Ellis:
Nature Triumphs, Hospital of Haunts, Mason Gorey, The Barricade, Hel's Claim, and Odin.
Output for 2024

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 9h

31 Days of Horror: Quatermass and the Pit (1967). A Hammer classic from the first scene. Sci-fi horror with Dr Bernard Quatermass investigating. Hammer was doing everything right at this point.

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The Striped Bananas @thestripedbananas.bsky.social · 7h

Attention writers, artists, and musicians of uplifting and hopeful works! We're helping run this BlueSky event in November 🌻

#HopePit Community @hopepit.bsky.social · 1d

Let's spin visions of hope & resilience!

🌞🌱

We hope you can JOIN US Nov 9 for #Hopepit, uplifting all types of media under the big #hopepunk & #clifi ⛱️ umbrellas.
Here on 🦋.

#solarpunk #permaculture #hopecore #hope
#WritingCommunity #GameDev #IndieDev #TTRPG #Comic
#WriteSky #Writers #MusicSky

Flier for #Hopepit
Sunday, Nov 9
community connect Nov 5 - 8

🌞🌱 Let’s elevate hope! 🌱🌞

An inclusive community-building hype event for voices of light & vision in the darkness.

Open to creators of all media telling stories of hope, resilience, sustainability, mindfulness, climate change, & collapse navigation

#Hopepit

🌞Use the #Hopepit hashtag to share your pitches, books, videos, articles, and art

🌱We encourage the use of additional tags, like: #hopepunk, #solarpunk, #clifi, #IndigenousFuturism, etc

🌳Not sure which genre? JOIN US anyway!

🌱We 💛 resource sharing & discussion threads!

@hopepit.bsky.social

climate fiction hopecore hopepunk clifi #Climatefiction nomadpunk solarpunk #solarpunk #hopecore indigenous futurism pitch hype permaculture

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 8h

I can see why it would!

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 9h

31 Days of Horror: Quatermass and the Pit (1967). A Hammer classic from the first scene. Sci-fi horror with Dr Bernard Quatermass investigating. Hammer was doing everything right at this point.

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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 11h

Find your next great #horrorread with these #newreleases

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Find your next great #horrorread with these #newreleases

Dread Mondays -Steve Capone Jr & Elizabeth Suggs
The Hangmaid - Cameron Jace
Vampiro- K.L. Feel
Unwell -Effie Campbell
The Recluse Rules - Martin Weller
The Elevator Curse -Jannick Siewers
Howl- Carl.M Holton
Silent Night, Deadly Night- Armando Muñoz
Shattered Veil - Nika Vyre
What They Brought Back - Bethany Gleghorn
This World of Vile Wonder- Coy Hall & Stephanie Ellis
Lightning Falls - J.W.G. Wise
Withdrawal - Kyle Atwood
Barrett's Island - Rhyan Pike
FxkinEntity- Jodie King
Eye in the Blue Box- Ann Yihyang Kim

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 14h

That regal Pyrenean blood

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 1d

So many scenes in this stick with me. The final suitcase scene is unforgettable. Just a gut punch.

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 1d

Revisiting an all time favorite for 31 Days of Horror. Tonight it’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986).

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Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social · 1d

AVAILABLE NOW from @rhppress.bsky.social: Read what @coyhall.bsky.social says about WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN--stories of heartbreak and hope from Derringer Award winner @cwblackwell.bsky.social. Don't miss picking up this collection. Order your copy today: amzn.to/4nQ5bl7

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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 1d

Harrowfield.

Quiet folk horror in the Marches. Memories of summer to be enjoyed in the autumn.

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Wrap of novel Harrowfield. Front cover shows tree overlooking two standing stones in a dark field. The back, a larger stone in the corner, 'looking' towards the tree. In the sky, fly two ravens. Colours are all shades of green.

Blurb:
Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales. On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing.

When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge?

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Chey Rivera @criverawrites.bsky.social · 1d

Find my story, “Two Paths, One Death,” in this anthology coming out October 20! 💀

In “Two Paths, One Death,” Death takes pity on a young Spanish woman and sends her down two parallel paths: one to know the world, the other to know the universe. 🌊✨

Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 2d

In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil.

This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution releases October 20. Ebook preorder up now on Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

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Michael Shotter @michaelshotter.com · 1d

I've provided my 3 Favorite Reads of the year to Shepherd. The range for this is Oct. '24 to Sept. '25, so the list is slightly different than if it had been from Jan. to now.

shepherd.com/bboy/2025/f/...

#booksky 🪐📚💙🩸📚⚡️
@coyhall.bsky.social @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social @adamhulse.bsky.social

Want to know Michael Shotter's Top 3 Books of 2025?

Michael's top 3 reads of 2025 include Colossus with a Poison Tongue and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 1d

Althea looking majestic on her morning walk.

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 2d

In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil.

This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution releases October 20. Ebook preorder up now on Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

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Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social · 1d

Coy’s anthologies are simply brilliant. And what a title!

Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 2d

In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil.

This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution releases October 20. Ebook preorder up now on Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 2d

🤣 Totally on board

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Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 2d

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Point of Impact Publishing @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I know all of youse has already pre-ordered this brilliant anthology filled with brilliant writers.

But what about your families or your coworkers?

Shouldn't they have a chance to be happy?

Tell them to pre-order today. Or better yet, take their credit card and do it for them.

They'll thank you.

Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social · 2d

In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil.

This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution releases October 20. Ebook preorder up now on Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

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