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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 3h

At the end of #BatAppreciationMonth 🦇

The natives of Renwick were once known as "bats" because of the monstrous bat-like creature inhabiting their ruined church

From: 'Folklore of the Lake District'
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#folklore #lakedistrict #booksky

Image of a giant bat-like being; the natives of Renwick were once known as "bats"

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hansentor.bsky.social @hansentor.bsky.social · 2h

1890?

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 2h

Bonnier Books UK has teamed up with audio player company Yoto on a new literacy initiative in UK school libraries 👇 #BookSky

Bonnier teams up with Yoto on new literacy initiative in school libraries

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Katheryn97T @katheryn97t.bsky.social · 2h

Happy publication day to The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery - a fun and fresh take on the locked room mystery 💙📚

My thoughts ⬇️

The cover of The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery (a Stockingham & Pike mystery), which is dark blue with a large house in the middle and waves at the bottom, all in dark brown.

Believing that Halley's Comet will bring about the end of the world, the Viscount of Tithe Hall gives orders for it to be sealed from top to bottom. When the servants and guests wake the next morning, it is to find the world still standing but the Viscount dead...

I love a locked-room mystery, and The Murder at World's End has both a remote setting with a small pool of suspects (which is what the term usually refers to) and a dead body found inside an actual locked room. Tithe Hall is also located on a remote tidal island. I loved the different possibilities investigated by the characters, as well as the final solution which manages to be both surprising and satisfying. The Murder at World's End also adds a fresh twist to the locked-room trope with its apocalyptic setting, which really adds to the tension and atmosphere in the first part of the book.

The Murder at World's End is mostly narrated by Stephen Pike, Tithe's Hall newest under-butler, who immediately finds himself under suspicion but discovers an unlikely ally in Miss Decima Stockingham, the fearless and forthright matriarch he is ordered to wait upon. Their characters both have a touch of the cliché about them, but I loved the way Ross Montgomery uses them to tackle the class issues that pervade his book's setting.

I found The Murder at World's End an absorbing and humorous read, especially in its depiction of the hapless Inspector Jarvis, and I would definitely be happy to read more books in the series.

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 1d

I have finished this. A man touched by the dark of arcspace is witness to a double supernova & its lightspeed wave of destruction. Worlds die, populations are evacuated or oppressed, interventions are contemplated. The SLOW have...other plans. Lots to like. 👍🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #spaceopera #nowreading

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Holland House Books @hollandhousebooks.bsky.social · 1d

In London on the 31st? Fancy some Halloween fun?

The Penny Bloods Podcast is performing at the Omnibus Theatre with 2 Halloween-themed stories blended with humour and spookiness. The shows are performed in 1930s radio-show ambiance, with live Foley.
omnibus-clapham.org/penny-bloods/

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hansentor.bsky.social @hansentor.bsky.social · 1d

What I aim to #read for #Halloween. It's nice to sit with something bone-chilling at the end of October (if it's a #book, that is)

#spookybooks #BookSky 📚🩸
#booksky 📚💙

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Nicky McGill @nickymcgill.bsky.social · 1d

Nora Roberts has never met me, but she can still tell me off somehow.

#amWriting #WritingPrompts #Writers #Writing #Authors #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #FantasySky #AuthorSky #booksky

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Emma | 𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚋𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜.𝚌𝚘𝚖 @damppebbles.bsky.social · 2d

*NEW BLOG POST*

Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #TopTenTuesday post. My theme for this week is 𝐇𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐋𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐓 🏚️📚👻

Check out my list here...
➡️ buff.ly/j8VwoyP

#BookSky #skybrarians #books #top10 #list #bookrecommendation #bookish #whattoread #booksworthreading

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 2d

Oh!

And FYI it's DOUBLE STAMPS in Waterstones shops and on the website today and tomorrow.

Good time to buy some books, hint hint 📚📚📚

www.waterstones.com/plus

#Booksky

A green banner reading "double Plus stamps 28-29 October. In shops and online. T&cs available at Waterstones.com"

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hansentor.bsky.social @hansentor.bsky.social · 2d

Could be authors buying copies of their book to give to friends and family, or to take with them to sell at conventions.

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 2d

In Cumbrian dialects, 'mowdiwarp' is mole

In lore, if you hold a dying mole in your hands until it passes, your hands will acquire the power of healing

from: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#nature #folklore #booksky
art: Fern Forest Fables

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hansentor.bsky.social @hansentor.bsky.social · 3d

#Cats, of course, were believed to possess a sixth sense (similar to the Severed Sense that the Nighthunter has in the books I #amwriting)

#research #folklore #blog

nightwalks.co.uk/2024/11/05/d...

Dead Cats and Lucky Cats

Part VIII of Amulets & Talismans Since at least the 16th-century in England, Scotland, North Europe, and North America, people erecting houses would hide the corpse of a cat (and sometimes othe…

nightwalks.co.uk

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 4d

Apex needs $3412 to hit their base goal!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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hansentor.bsky.social @hansentor.bsky.social · 3d

I've been meaning to read this since I read Zelazny's Gods of Egypt. How are you finding it so far?

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hansentor.bsky.social @hansentor.bsky.social · 3d

Logan Bartholom, Nighthunter to the Emperor, wakes with Ghost-induced amnesia in Little Beddin, Ossyan. All he has from his previous life is a magical sword and a talking dog from Hell. To find his true identity and discover what happened to him, he must go on a dangerous journey...

a.co/d/dKZP086

A Dark Heritage: The Nighthunter

Amazon.com: A Dark Heritage: The Nighthunter eBook : Adcock, Hansen: Kindle Store

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DrACula Cross @aaronccross.bsky.social · 3d

I don't even need sales (although I do love me some money), but I'm posting a free horror story EVERY MORNING in October and the almighty algorithm doesn't show them. So, here is the link to my website and free reading! Who can argue with that?

www.aaronccross.com/stories-your...

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔 @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the support indie!

My debut novel came out last week and I’d love to get it in more people’s hands. I know times are tough for everyone right now so I’m also happy to send anyone a free ebook copy if you DM me 😁

Universal link: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij

A trope map for Songs of Broken Bells

FOUND FAMILY
DADDY ISSUES (BUT DAD IS A GOD)
QUEERNORMATIVE SETTING
THE REAL ADVENTURE WAS THE THERAPY WE GOT ALONG THE WAY
LET'S KILL A SAINT.
MAGICAL CORRUPTION
PAYING THE PRICE
LIVING MAGIC (AND IT'S OUT FOR BLOOD)
ROMANCE SUBPLOT X2
MAGIC CONTROLLED BY EMOTIONS
@VOICESOFVALHOON

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Paris Vivian - TCotO on Dec 4! @parisvivian.bsky.social · 3d

Preorders are open for my upcoming novel!

bsky.app/profile/pari...

Paris Vivian - TCotO on Dec 4! @parisvivian.bsky.social · 4d

40 days left until The Claws of the Ounce, my #UrbanFantasy novel about a snow wereleopard’s quest to find the truth and be rid of her guilt, is out! 🫀

Preorder here: parisvivian.itch.io/the-claws-of-the-ounce

#BookSky #IndieAuthor

💙📚🪐
🌃📚🩸
♿️♾️📚

A promo graphic consisting of eight labelled arrows around a white square with the text “To Be Revealed” (representing the cover) on a red background. Going clockwise, the text reads: Werefelines. C-PTSD & anxiety rep. Breaking cycles. Carni-cuisine. The Ship of Theseus. Carrying around a bag of your own shed teeth. Shady researchers. South Ontario setting.

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Glenn Quigley @glennquigley.bsky.social · 3d

Heart of the Wren is a new gay paranormal romance novel

🐻 Big, burly, bear MCs
👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Gay romance (with spice!)
🇮🇪 1980s Ireland setting
🌙 Witchcraft & paranormal
🐑 Farm in winter
🧚‍♂️ Folklore frights
📚 272 pages
🔗 Mybook.to/heartofthewren

Ireland

Gay Romance

Bears

Spicy

HEART OF THE WREN

Winter

Own-voice

A HAUNTED HEARTS SERIES NOVEL

1980s

GLENN QUIGLEY

Witchcraft

Folklore frights

OUT NOW in ebook, print, KU

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Ava Glass @avaglassbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Pull up a chair, please. I think it's time to have a talk about book jackets. Particularly modern book jackets. Especially in the UK, and particularly in the crime genre. My sense is that publishers haven't known how to jacket crime novels since the 20th century. I have evidence.

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to Episode 79 with @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/23bf7d41

And read the full poem “Apostrophe” here: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sa...

📚💙🎙️ #poetry #podcast #booksky
@uakronpress.bsky.social

from "Apostrophe"

I know now, if I drive long enough, // yearning opens onto a smooth lake in the dark / where I can set down my lanterns like questions.

Sarah Green

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Olivia Gaines, Author @ogaines.com · 5d

Ready for the weekend #Booksky!

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Mags 📚🎧📱 @rather-be-readin.bsky.social · 5d

Want to hang out and chat books with me and some other amazing people through cozy season?!
Join us at the Out Of Place Society book club! Discord Link in my bio/linktree!
#booksky #bookish #booknerd #cozyseason

A cozy themed graphic. The upper half says OOPS BOOK CLUB and has leaves. It says - Book of the month. - seasonal challenges - seasonal trackers - a safe place to talk about all books
- bookish daily questions.

The bottom half is in autumn toned plaid and has books and a pumpkin latte

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