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The Plot Luck Book Club Podcast @plotluckpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 1

While you're checking out THE FAVORITES for our September Book Club, have a look at our Sept-Dec Bingo Board.

We have a mix of activity, social, and reading prompts.

And.... PRIZES! 🎉

Submit via Google Form: forms.gle/Htpo422F1SMd...
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A 3x3 Bingo Board.

Row 1, Column 1: Sport is a major feature.
Row 1, Column 2: Read a favourite author.
Row 1, Column 3: LGBTQIA+ author and/or main character.

Row 2, Column 1: Follow at least 1 of our socials.
Row 2, Column 2: Tag us in a “currently reading” post,
Row 2, Column 3: Read somewhere unusual for you

Row 3, Column 1: Female author.
Row 3, Column 2: Read a format you wouldn’t normally.
Row 3, Column 3: Spooky vibes.

One line = one entry.
Submit entries via google form.
Books do not need to be plot luck book club books to count.

Prizes.
One of our Sept-Dec selection.
Choose from The Favourites, Hungerstone, Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil, or Atmosphere.
Choose a prompt for our 2026 book club.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 20h

ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops

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June @sassafrass238.bsky.social · 1d

After finishing Hungerstone (recent Carmilla-inspired novel) by Kat Dunn this morning, I'm at 51! Mostly by queer authors, ~20 by trans and/or nonbinary authors, and a few I learned about through your posts (Dorley book 1, Trans/rad/fem, and Magica Riot)

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 2d

Love this prompt!

If you enjoyed the sapphic gothicness of The Needfire, check out:

@johannavanveen.bsky.social's My Darling Dreadful Thing
Angie Spoto's The Bone Diver
Kat Dunn's Hungerstone
@cemcgill.bsky.social's Our Hideous Progeny
Emily Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines
Anything by Sarah Waters

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 2d

What books should people be reading if they enjoy yourself? Shout them out! #WritingPrompt

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The Plot Luck Book Club Podcast @plotluckpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

🎤 Unravel the mystery of "Hungerstone" without spoilers.
Plus, Buffy and vampire tales await!
Listen to Episode 3 now!
#BookTalk #Podcast #Hungerstone
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Hungerstone by Kate Dunn - Part 1, No Spoilers

Podcast Episode · Plot Luck Podcast · 10/09/2025 · 26m

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 1d

Want a new place for ebooks in the UK? Well here you go!

Storyville Books @storyvillebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Ebook enjoyer? With Bookshop.org's recent ebook app you can now get a great range of digital titles while supporting your favorite indie bookshops (Including us)!

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bury...

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

The Instant Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

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

Hey, guess what?

Tomorrow (Sat 11th) is a really good day to go buy that book you were wanting: it's Bookshop Day, which means double Plus stamps in Waterstones!

#Booksky

A banner reading "celebrate bookshop day at your local Waterstones. Double Plus stamps in shops only, Saturday 11th October"

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The Plot Luck Book Club Podcast @plotluckpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

📚 Episode 3 is here!
Uncover the magic of "Hungerstone" with us.
No spoilers, just pure intrigue! Tune in now.
#KatDunn #Podcast #BookLovers
youtu.be/FxvDc54fSjA
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HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn 🧛‍♀️ Part 01 [Spoiler Free]

Join us for a spoiler-free introduction to our discussion of HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn, a sapphic, feminist reimagining of Carmilla, the novel which inspired Dracula. In this episode, we share our expectations, initial thoughts and chat about our favourite vampire media: from Interview with the Vampir

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 2d

Simon & Schuster is growing its audio team and expanding the audio imprint Simon Maverick in the UK 👇 #BookSky

S&S launches audio imprint Simon Maverick in UK

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key @keyitem.bsky.social · 9d

this is my monthly reminder please read hungerstone

Queer Liberation Library @queerliblib.bsky.social · 9d

QUEER VAMPIRE BOOKS

Queer Liberation Library has over 70 queer vampire books we’re highlighting this month: libbyapp.com/library/quee....
go on, sink your teeth in 🧛

Libby

All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.

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nat / bird king cosplay 🔜 GICOF @birdking.bsky.social · 6d

read hungerstone ty
#art

sketch i did inspired by the novel hungerstone; it depicts a portrait of a breasting boobily vampire lady with her hands wrapping around her neck and rising to her mouth

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Knitted Clanger @knittedclanger.bsky.social · 3d

First event of the Birmingham Literary Festival* tonight, a good-humoured conversation with the authors of a modern retelling of Carmilla (horny lesbian vampires) and a story of how Mary Shelley came to write Frankenstein (lusting after annoying men).

Book: Love, Sex and Frankenstein, by Caroline Lea.

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Jjwauthor @jjwauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Lesbian vampires for Halloween! Yes please KatDunn; Hungerstone
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0CLYKS69...

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A Nightmare On Fierce Street @nightmarefierce.bsky.social · 3d

For whomst, indeed?!?!

Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 3d

Very tempted by this mug, because listen, sometimes a movie WILL just have you asking: For Whomst?! FOR WHOMST.

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Big Gay Energy Podcast @biggayenergypod.bsky.social · 3d

What's one show/ ship you'll never be over. We'll go first: Villanelle and Eve did not deserve the ending Laura Neil wrote them. In this essay, I will--

#killingeve #villaneve #tvreview #podcast #wlw

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Mehsi-Hime @mehsi.bsky.social · 3d

BOO! 👻 Time for the newest October Horror Mystery Month Fest ~ 2024/2025 Favourites! Today's book is The Family Experiment by John Marrs. This book was WOW! It made me gasp, left me shocked, loved it!😍

#BookBloggers #Blogging #Horror #Spooktober #BookSky📚💙

twirlingbookprincess.com/2025/10/octo...

Spooky banner with a glowy pumpkin for Twirling Book Princess feature: October Horror Mystery Month Fest: Spooky Favourites From 2024/2025.

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The Plot Luck Book Club Podcast @plotluckpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

🎧 Dive into The Plot Luck Book Club's latest episode! No spoilers yet as we explore Kat Dunn's "Hungerstone," plus chat about Buffy, Carmilla, & IWTV. Listen now!
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#BookClub #Hungerstone #Podcast youtu.be/FxvDc54fSjA

HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn 🧛‍♀️ Part 01 [Spoiler Free]

YouTube video by Plot Luck Book Club

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The Plot Luck Book Club Podcast @plotluckpodcast.bsky.social · 4d

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 4d

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Time for some #FridayFun!

In honour of #thegarlicbook - aka Jennifer L. Armentrout’s partnership with Hellmanns Garlic Aoli on a garlic ink version of THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE - welcome to... Solaris Feasts!

We can't afford garlic ink, but, we've drawn up a menu for some of our titles...

#Friday Fun Welcome to Solaris Feasts. *Please note, we're an indie and we can't afford garlic ink.

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Louise @foxesfairytales.bsky.social · 9d

Fancy joining us for some vampires this month?
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The Plot Luck Book Club Podcast @plotluckpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

For our October book pick, we're reading HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn: a sapphic Carmilla retelling that pits the British Industrial Revolution against wildness of the Peaks.

Which cover do you prefer?

HUNGERSTONE BY KAT DUNN COVER. Text in neon green, stonecut style, with a long drive on the first U. The image is a woman with long unbound hair in a white dress, draped on her back on a bed, so her head and one arm dangle over the edge. The white contrasts with the dark red background.

HUNGERSTONE BY KAT DUNN COVER. Text in white and barbie pink, in a messy, handwriting style. The image is a woman sitting beside a table with a silver fruit bowl. The bowl is piled high with berries, grapes, and sliced oranges, and more pears, pomegranates, and a melon half spill across the table in the foreground. The woman is only visible from waist to nose, but she wears a white dress and holds a Cockerell in her lap.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 9d

ICYMI: Bookshop.org has launched a new e-book platform, enabling indie bookshops to access the growing e-book market in the UK 👇 #BookSky

Bookshop.org launches new e-book platform for indie bookshops

ebx.sh

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The Plot Luck Book Club Podcast @plotluckpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

For our October book pick, we're reading HUNGERSTONE by Kat Dunn: a sapphic Carmilla retelling that pits the British Industrial Revolution against wildness of the Peaks.

Which cover do you prefer?

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Sarakas @sarakas.bsky.social · Feb 23

Book 5 of ‘25: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn. It’s bloody. It’s carnal. It’s gothic as hell. It held a mirror up to the parts of myself I dislike, which was uncomfortable!😅 I only wish I could’ve had MORE Carmilla. “Oh, little Lenore. It is terrible to be alive. But it is worse to be dead to ourselves.”

Book cover for “Hungerstone” by Kat Dunn. At the top of the cover, “Hungerstone” is written in bright green letters and the “paint” of the U drips down until it nearly touches the face of the woman on the cover. At the bottom of the cover “a novel” is written in white cursive font, and below that “Kat Dunn” is written in all caps, once again in the bright green color. The majority of the cover is a depiction of a woman lying on her back draped across some sort of settee or couch. Her head and both arms are hanging over the edge of the settee on the left side of the cover. She is wearing a white short sleeve dress with a gold brooch pinned just above her breasts. Her throat and the top of her chest are bared to the light. Her skin is pale except for a blush on the cheek that is turned to the light and a slight pink color in her lips. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is slightly open. Her blonde hair tumbles to the floor. Her arm in the foreground of the picture hangs down so that her knuckles brush against the ground. The cushion of the settee is white although there is a blanket draped over it in colors of gold and pink and red. The rest of the colors surrounding the woman are all warm dark browns and reds. There is a light shining on the red drapes behind the woman and a curiously shaped shadow can be seen blocking part of the light.

A meme in two panels. The top panel shows princess daisy and princess peach. Princess daisy looks at princess peach with a smile on her face. A text box reads: “Are you tired of being nice?” The bottom panel shows princess daisy now leaning in very close to princess peach, still smiling. A second text box reads: “Don’t you just want to go ape shitt” (Sorry to be a memeing millennial but I couldn’t help thinking of this meme every time Carmilla and Lenore interacted.)

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · Aug 11

This list of book recommendations is about women--their relationships, their love and yearning, and desire for each other, and hunger...blood lust...to hunt and devour.

Carmilla, Hungerstone, The Gilda Stories, Carmilla The First Vampire-graphic novel, A Long Time Dead, House of Hunger, A Dowry of Blood, This Vicious Hunger, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, Thirst, Blood on Her Tongue, When I Arrived at the Castle

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elliejoypanic @elliejoypanic.bsky.social · 26d

if I’m tired today it’s because I stayed up too late reading about lesbian vampires

A hardback novel, “Hungerstone - Kat Dunn”. The cover has a woman draped in a white nightgown over the end of a bed in an oil painting style, with a bright neon green title and author

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