Emily C. Hughes
@emilyhughes.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
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Emily C. Hughes
@emilyhughes.bsky.social
· Dec 10
2025’s New Horror Books
All the new horror books coming in 2025, featuring an array of slashers, ghosts, vampires, cults, monsters both human and otherwise, and all manner of nebulous eldritch terrors.
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GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...
here’s an incredibly stupid thing I saw today
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
here’s an incredibly stupid thing I saw today
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any time i see someone interacting with chatgpt
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
any time i see someone interacting with chatgpt
this is EXCELLENT
I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
this is EXCELLENT
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This list is so important to keep my horror section up to date!! Get your books on here if you haven’t already!
I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you!
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November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This list is so important to keep my horror section up to date!! Get your books on here if you haven’t already!
I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you!
forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...
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2025-2026 Horror Master List Book Submissions
Because I'm out of my mind, I maintain a running list of the year's new horror releases. If you're an author/editor/marketer/publicist/agent who'd like one of your books included, please fill out the ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm in the final stages of getting the 2026 new horror list ready to launch, so a reminder: please let me know about your books if you haven't already! RTs very appreciated
having made it to the end of this breathtakingly difficult read, my overwhelming feeling is that if I found myself in a room with either of the women in charge of this scam, I would not be responsible for my actions www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
having made it to the end of this breathtakingly difficult read, my overwhelming feeling is that if I found myself in a room with either of the women in charge of this scam, I would not be responsible for my actions www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
this summer I hired a local arborist to take care of a dying tree in our yard and now I get their *incredibly* charming monthly newsletter, which features a "tree of the month" segment and which also just informed me about a new cafe opening near us. the rare good company newsletter!
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
this summer I hired a local arborist to take care of a dying tree in our yard and now I get their *incredibly* charming monthly newsletter, which features a "tree of the month" segment and which also just informed me about a new cafe opening near us. the rare good company newsletter!
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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I know I keep saying this but I can't express how proud of I am of Mattie. This book is such an accomplishment, a huge leap forward in her work, and it'd be a shame if you didn't have a copy.
thrilled and honored for SIMPLICITY to be on here. thank you NPR~
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I know I keep saying this but I can't express how proud of I am of Mattie. This book is such an accomplishment, a huge leap forward in her work, and it'd be a shame if you didn't have a copy.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
we moved into our house seven months ago and we’re at the stage where every room is pretty much done except for one box per room of random shit that doesn’t really have a home and which neither of us want to deal with. I’m a hairsbreadth away from just sticking them all in closets.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
we moved into our house seven months ago and we’re at the stage where every room is pretty much done except for one box per room of random shit that doesn’t really have a home and which neither of us want to deal with. I’m a hairsbreadth away from just sticking them all in closets.
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I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?
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You will never guess what this is in reference to.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
You will never guess what this is in reference to.
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.
Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀
IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
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There are few great critical outlets left putting out work worth reading. Bright Wall/Dark Room is one of them.
Doing one of those earnest posts where we kindly remind you that we lost half our operating budget over the summer, and that we're looking for ways to keep this whole thing going, and that if you like what we do or that we exist, the best thing you could possibly do to support us is to subscribe
Subscribe - Bright Wall/Dark Room
Subscribe for $29 a year Subscribe now to receive immediate access to each new essay we publish, plus our entire 140+ issue archive. Bright Wall/Dark Room is 100% independent, runs no ads, and strongl...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
There are few great critical outlets left putting out work worth reading. Bright Wall/Dark Room is one of them.
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something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
something i'll note is that if nuzzi ran catch-and-kill ops for rfk jr and lizza knew this prior to him being appointed as HHS, and instead of telling anyone, he decided to save it for his substack long after rfk jr had made communicable disease into federal policy, that's completely fucked
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a new and wonderful way to enjoy the smiths without having to listen to morrissey
They’re really good at this
This Charming Man - EZ Band (The Smiths Norteño Cover)
YouTube video by EZ BAND
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November 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
a new and wonderful way to enjoy the smiths without having to listen to morrissey
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Must be a definition of ceasefire I’m not familiar with
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Must be a definition of ceasefire I’m not familiar with
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Today, while walking in the market with her three-year-old daughter, Sama'a witnessed an Israeli bombing run which targeted civilian cars and nearly claimed her life. Every day is a struggle for her and her family. Please give what you can.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Today, while walking in the market with her three-year-old daughter, Sama'a witnessed an Israeli bombing run which targeted civilian cars and nearly claimed her life. Every day is a struggle for her and her family. Please give what you can.
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily
this week I did two heavy workouts (including a squat PR) and planted, no joke, 300 spring bulbs in my yard and my mom's yard and today I can't even bend over to put a plate in the dishwasher, bodies are a scam
November 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
this week I did two heavy workouts (including a squat PR) and planted, no joke, 300 spring bulbs in my yard and my mom's yard and today I can't even bend over to put a plate in the dishwasher, bodies are a scam
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
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This is very cool. Often food pantries need to spend their money making sure everyone has the basics to keep them fed and healthy, but not on the spices and flavors that make an enjoyable meal. www.burlapandbarrel.com/products/don...
Donate a Holiday Spice Set • Give the Gift of Flavor | Burlap & Barrel
Help make someone's holiday meal special. When you purchase a single jar, 3-pack, or 6-pack of our equitably sourced spices, we’ll donate that exact set to a New York food pantry supporting families i...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is very cool. Often food pantries need to spend their money making sure everyone has the basics to keep them fed and healthy, but not on the spices and flavors that make an enjoyable meal. www.burlapandbarrel.com/products/don...
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH