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Stephanie Ellis
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Author, Elgin & Rhysling award-nominated poet, and reader.
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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 18d
And now for something completely different. Perfect for Christmas, an alt history laced with humour and a number of dead bodies. This is Napoleonic Britain 1913.

Twiggy Voo?

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#FridayReads #booksky #cosycrime #althistory
Twiggy Voo? full cover. Shows a wintery woodland scene at night. In the foreground, a man stands in shadow, in the depths of the wood is a mansion.
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marywyrd.bsky.social
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Horror Writers. Join fellow horror writers as we answer four questions, chat, and promote our work on Bluesky weekly on Wednesday 7 pm GMT (UK) / 2 pm ET (USA). Co-Hosts: Eryn - @erynmccee.bsky.social - Gree - @greethewriter.bsky.social - Mary - @marywyrd.bsky.social - Check out #HorrorWritersChat - Horror Writers Chat was created by author MG Mason - @chaoticauthor.online - to whom we are eternally grateful. Background: Manipulated photos with purple filters to create a corridor through an abandoned house with two ghostly hands pressing against either side of the frame. Image by Mary Wyrd.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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simonbleaken.bsky.social
Have just found out that an adaptation of my story 'The Mark on the Stones' is available on the Creepy Podcast...

Enjoy.

www.creepypod.com/episodes/202...

💙📚🩸📚😱
The Mark on the Stones — Creepy
The Mark on the Stones *** Written by: Simon Bleaken *** Content warnings: graphic dead forest animals *** Until the Day is Done *** Written by: Graham Farrow and Narrated by Michelle Kane ...
www.creepypod.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
stephellis.bsky.social
Twiggy Voo?

Napoleonic Britain 1913
A body in the library - or is there?
Doubles - and I don't mean tennis
Christmas is coming ...

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#booksky #cosycrime #Christmas #fiction
Full cover for Twiggy Voo? A snowy woodland scene at night in shades of deep blue and blue/white snow. In the distance a mansion. In the foreground a man in shadow. Blurb on the back: December 1913. Since Great Britain’s defeat at Waterloo, the island nation has existed as an ‘arrondissemont’ of France. Dowager Empress Eugénie the mother of Emperor Louis-Napoléon, is hosting a country party at her Hampshire home, Farnborough Hill House. Invitations to her Christmas gatherings are coveted and this particular occasion consists of a mixture of aristocracy, businessmen and music hall artistes including the infamous Paulette. Winston Churchill, purveyor of fine meats, and part of Britain’s underground resistance is also invited. His remit is to keep the errant Prince Eddie in check and shed some light on Paulette’s involvement in the scandal swirling around the murder of his friend, singer Harry Fragson. However, when the Empress decides to stage her own ‘murder mystery’ as part of the festivities, a real body in the library appears. Immediately, Paulette is suspected. As snow sets in and isolates the house and its inhabitants, can Winston save her bacon and escape a roasting from both the Emperor and the nominal King, George V?
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
stephellis.bsky.social
Just back from watching The Running Man. Enjoyed but the scariest thing is the deep fake videos made by the corporation. Too close to today's media. How can we trust anything anymore? Too much manipulation in all directions.
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists. #Hookland #WOTD
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
stephellis.bsky.social
Just finished Joe Jill's King Sorrow and I am sad. Such an absorbing and wonderful book. Reminds me again why I love doorstop books! Brilliant. (And Basingstoke gets a shoutout, that's where I took my driving test 😆).
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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kcgrifant.bsky.social
Today!! Hope to see you at this fun event! Horror writers will be at Barnes & Noble in Mira Mesa to chat with readers and discuss the latest in horror, including holiday horror 🦃🎄

Time: Sat Nov 22, from 4-6pm

#barnesandnoble #books #horrorbooks #horror #SoCal #SanDiego
BN event poster
November 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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psychopomp.com
a post about Psychopomp in 2026

please read and share

thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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jacobthomasaustin.bsky.social
Just got a copy of this random book in the mail. Idk if it's any good. Please advise.

#horror
#horrorbooks
#newbook
#newrelease
#booksky
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social
👻 HAPPY RELEASE DAY 👻

Lionhearts: Northern Ashes by @danhowarth20.bsky.social has hit the world 😱

Henry must make a choice between redemption and darkness, knowing that violence will come with either...

This Is England meets Taxi Driver; a propulsive novel written for these dark times.

🩸📚😱📚💙📢📚
Book cover of Lionhearts by Dan Howarth. The head of a lion features against a vivid blue background. The tagline reads - Don’t Let Them Sink Their Teeth In
November 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social
👻 HAPPY RELEASE DAY 👻

Dead Awake: Sanctuary by @robulitski.bsky.social has hit the world 😱

The explosive finale this series deserved! Sanctuary brings everything crashing together in this gripping battle for survival.

A brilliant end to a wild and amazing zombie saga

🩸📚😱📚💙📢📚
Book cover of Dead Awake: Sanctuary by Rob Ulitski. A bleak, rainy moonlight night. A darkened pier is at the forefront with a silhouette of a torn and disheveled figure at its end.
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social
Chapter 4: Liverpool Horror Book Con is going to be freaking massive 👻

Join 45 indie horror authors from the UK and Europe on 11 April for a day you won’t forget!

We are delighted to announce @e-r-vickers.bsky.social as one of our attending authors.

🩸📚😱📚💙
Photograph of E.R. Vickers, an author attending Liverpool Horror Book Con
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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diebooth.bsky.social
Don't forget - I'll be reading from my story in Darkness Most Fowl this Sunday!
diebooth.bsky.social Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social · 7d
I'm reading from Darkness Most Fowl this Sunday 23rd November 2025 and it's gonna be excellent! Visit my blog post for more info and for links to attend diebooth.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/f...

#booksky #authorsky #virtualevent #freeevent #shortstories
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
A new entry from the #HooklandEncyclopaedia – #HooklandEncyclopedia for Hooklanders abroad). Double lives, autogyros, aerial archaeology, the Soot Sprite Trust and ghosts. All in all, typical of the county.
CABLE, JAMES James Jonathon Cable CMG CBE FSA (April 1st 1887 – November 17th 1973) played many roles in his life. World War I air ace, a pioneer in aerial archaeology and industrialist might have been enough for most, but he was also a noted as a steam railway restorer and psychic researcher. Born in Wormingford, he was commissioned in 1906 as an officer in the Royal Hookland Regiment. During his time in the army he developed an interest in aviation and supported by his father’s fortune, obtained his Royal Aero Club aviation certificate which helped in 1914 to secure his transfer to the Royal Flying Corp. During the First World War, Cable largely specialised in reconnaissance and later aerial photography, but won a reputation as a skilled and brave flyer ending the war with the rank of Lt. Colonel and induction into the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. In the late 1920s he established Cable Autogyro as part of his father’s Cable Engineering company, developing the CA-100 – an autogyro with helicopter abilities which proved successful and was made under licence in America, Germany and France. In the early 1930s, to promote the reconnaissance capability of the improved CA-200, Cable began working with Hookland Archaeological Trust (HAT) undertaking innovative aerial surveys of the county’s prehistoric landscape recording several previously unknown sites, possible hill figures the ‘Lost Owl’ and ancient trackways. Cable also made films for Pathé News and the Hookland Electric Film Company including their From Above series of short documentaries. During the Second World War, Cable Autogyro became Cable Aviation under his direction and produced the Spearhead aircraft used for clandestine missions and the twin-engined, cannon-armed Vortex fighter. After the war Cable turned the company into a leading British helicopter manufacturer.
November 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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vivalavivian.bsky.social
I'm always late to the party since my day starts later, but my first collection could use more readers! I have heard it's a fun time. Thank you! x
mybook.to/AllsWell
All's Well That Ends Well
Read it now
mybook.to
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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elfordalley.bsky.social
What does 99 cents get ya? How about a murder mystery with ghosts, monsters, and dueling serial killers?!

amzn.to/3TizhOT
Apartment 239
Amazon.com: Apartment 239 eBook : Alley, Elford : Books
amzn.to
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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beverleylee.bsky.social
Thank you, Gabino ❤️
My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, released last week. If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys, this one is for you!
mybook.to/woundedbirds
Book cover. A young jackdaw on a dark, misty background with red fly agaric mushrooms to the foreground, on a twilight blue sky banner with winter trees and birds flying. The Haunting of Wounded Birds by Beverley Lee.
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
stephellis.bsky.social
A great read (& a bonus to me is the setting of my old stomping ground 😁)
kevharrison.bsky.social Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks, Gabino!
Pyres is the searing inferno of a book people need to keep warm as the cold weather draws in.

Come for the grotesque art made manifest, stay for the right wing scumbags being incinerated 🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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catherinemccarthy.bsky.social
New shop in my little corner of #Wales has offered to stock my books!😀That's a first!
Many of you will know the struggle us indies face here in the UK when it comes to store presence, so I'm grateful.
Shop window, signage Destiny' Loot
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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skullsandsheets.bsky.social
The first batch of Christmas cards sold out… so am ordering more

These will arrive next week so please preorder here:

skullsandsheets.etsy.com/listing/4409...
November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
stephellis.bsky.social
Currently at p381 of King Sorrow #FridayReads 😁
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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lordsteerpike.bsky.social
For lovers of folk horror and the British Gothic, a novel set in the midwinter of 1665, within a remote Scottish priory haunted by ancient sorcery and deadly secrets. Enter the Priory…if you dare.

amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD

#horror #gothic #thriller
November 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
stephellis.bsky.social
Twiggy Voo?

A country Christmas party in 1913 Napoleonic Britain.

Winston Churchill, purveyor of fine meats, is charged with discovering who killed Franz Ferdinand - and others. But the bodies disappear...

A Christmas cosy crime.

mybook.to/TwiggyVoo

#booksky #murdermystery #althistory #fiction
Front cover of Twiggy Voo? novel. An avenue of trees in a snowy wood lead the eye to a mansion in the distance. In the foreground of this night time scene, a shadowy figure stands watching.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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beverleylee.bsky.social
Thanks for hosting, Eryn!
💫THE HAUNTING OF WOUNDED BIRDS went live on the feast of Martinmas, old Halloween — a coming-of-age folk horror steeped in secrets & tragedy.
Dark forests. Black birds. Old rituals. Haunted boys.
Some stories will not rest.
mybook.to/woundedbirds
#horrorwriterschat
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM