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Emily C. Hughes

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Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Vulture, Slate, Reactor, & more. She/her. 🍉 readjumpscares.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · Dec 10

GOOD MORNING the 2025 horror list is LIVE! repost to destroy a TBR: readjumpscares.com/2025s-new-ho...

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.

readjumpscares.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6h

WE’RE THE SAME AGE

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 8h

I promise you do not need to tell me about the Internet archive thanks

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 9h

anyway, I highly recommend you sell your books to a publisher other than Quirk!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 9h

hey they finally thought to email authors about the Quirk sale four days later! …via a mass email blast that asks us to “hold all questions till December” and “continue working with your contacts at Quirk” (cute that he assumes we still have any)

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3d

would you like to take a guess as to whether I, as a Quirk author, have received any communication whatsoever about this? because lol guess what

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 12h

Huh. Just noticed a strange hooded figure at the periphery of my daily life. Hope it’s not me from the future trying to stop a horrific event from occurring but accidentally creating a closed time-travel loop that guarantees it due to her interference, lol. Hang on a sec, someone’s at the door

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 10h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 10h

feed me your booooooooooks

Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · Aug 1

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...

Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11h

entire media & publishing industry is just the hell dimension from event horizon now. i'm sure it's fine.

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 12h

Me and @markkrotov.bsky.social wrote about Laszlo Krasznahorkai and the Nobel Prize in Literature newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the Prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

newrepublic.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11h

and it's not just me but all the people who wrote for me! like, fuck, man.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11h

yeah I know I can, but it's just so spiritually insulting and exhausting

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11h

it's fine I'm feeling extremely normal about it. normal as can be.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11h

signed, someone who spent nearly a decade running two websites, both of which are now just straight up gone from the internet

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 11h

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 12h

do you ever just want to slam your own head into a brick wall over and over

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 16h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Apr 13

MARK KNOPFLER: Here comes Guitar George
ME: Why do they call him that
MARK KNOPFLER: He knows all the chords
ME: Ah

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17h

"A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons in countries with notorious human rights records."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 1d

i will vote for anybody who fixes the headlight brightness situation

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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MP Broache @mbroache.bsky.social · 1d

If you get called for jury duty, you have to do it

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Jury Refuses To Indict Chicago ICE Protesters In Latest Revolt Against Trump Overreach

A grand jury Tuesday night declined to indict two protesters in the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

I SURE DO PAL

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Flora 🏳️‍⚧️ @faggyflora.bsky.social · 1d

This book slaps! As a medium horror girlie, it was nice to finally know (1) the plot of Hereditary and (2) it’s probably too scary for me to watch without someone’s arms to jump into.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

bookshop.org

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

I loved this book so much I gave it a Bugge Awarde last year for favourite nonfiction

(those are awards given out by me, a large bugge)

I wish it was a series with like 50 more books

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

bookshop.org

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