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Tenebrous Press
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.

@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.

SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️

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A Very Tenebrous 2025.
The finest stories are being written in the cryptic, concealed corners that no one ever thinks to look into.

It's our mission to find them.

We can safely say we lived up to our promise this year:
NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE🖤☠️

Read something Weird: store.tenebrouspress.com
Next year’s subscriptions open this Friday! SUPPORT INDIE PRESSES🖤☠️

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Book mail rules. Although, I'm afraid this is my last subscription box for the year. Good thing @tenebrouspress.bsky.social will be opening their 2026 subscription soon. Stay weird n be kind out there (well, except to fascists and terfs n shit. Fuck em) 💀💜🤘
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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If you've never read CROM CRUACH, this isn't marketing hyperbole: there really isn't another book in existence quite like it. Just ask @horrorsong.blog 😀

And then grab a copy for yourself: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/cro...
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Some of the supplementary material we designed in house w/@goresorcerer.bsky.social for her book CROM CRUACH, released in 2022.
Sharing for no reason other than I was thinking about it today. Burning paper edges in the name of art🖤☠️

Incredible cover art by @lamantia.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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CROM CRUACH was a wonderful cover art project that I also got to be totally normal about doing logo design for.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Should you be averse to words (what kind of monster are you?!), you can now drink ‘Crom Cruach’ while I regale you with praise for its brilliance and ingenuity.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some of the supplementary material we designed in house w/@goresorcerer.bsky.social for her book CROM CRUACH, released in 2022.
Sharing for no reason other than I was thinking about it today. Burning paper edges in the name of art🖤☠️

Incredible cover art by @lamantia.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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This is a little heads up to keep a lookout for the stabstress this week! She’ll be back out to do some fundraising for the Transgender Law Center. More details coming soon (and some in the alt text) 👀
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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All I need is ten of you to convince 20,000 of your closest friends to read my books and we'll be set.
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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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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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
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Join us in the Weird lane🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com
Hails new followers & voyagers into the Weird! May we interest you in a slice of:

🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?

And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
AGONY’s came during our 1st push at a “full”schedule. An exciting & nerve jangling time where we never knew what would happen (still don’t). But it hit hard for us, because Laura hustled hard for its success, & because it’s such a good fucking book w/a killer central hook that people want to read🖤☠️
Forever proud of this novella.
Have I improved as a writer since? Yes. Do I still love this story and these characters? YES. Do I have impossible sequel ideas? Yes, my good b*tch 🖤
Please purchase from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social , they are the realest of deals 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Forever proud of this novella.
Have I improved as a writer since? Yes. Do I still love this story and these characters? YES. Do I have impossible sequel ideas? Yes, my good b*tch 🖤
Please purchase from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social , they are the realest of deals 🖤
November 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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From the Belly by Emmett Nahil is a claustrophobic tale set aboard a whaling ship. This isn’t quite the Moby Dick you were expecting. #Horror #BookSky 💙📚 #SSBA2025
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social @emnays.bsky.social

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November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Join us in the Weird lane🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com
Hails new followers & voyagers into the Weird! May we interest you in a slice of:

🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?

And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Fuck it how about Tenebrous Press! We're Weird! We rule! We're FIVE FUCKING YEARS DEEP and we're not stopping.

Our 2026 Book Club launches next week, we've got a killer back catalogue, and you should buy everything in our store:

store.tenebrouspress.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Teneberous Press is a gem and the subscription is a great deal. Please don't make me regret this by selling out the subscriptions before I see they're up.

It's fair to take that last sentence as a challenge.
🔥NEXT WEEK🔥
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!

'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!

Get your holiday shop on:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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My favorite reads of the last few years have all been from indies like Tenebrous and Shortwave. Heck, if you're into novellas (and you should be) that's where most of the action is.
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:
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The Big Indies (if that's not a contradiction in terms) get mentioned a lot, but here's a very useful thread of lesser known magazines & small presses serving their own individual or peculiar editorial viewpoints & interests.

( @undertow.bsky.social gets a particularly high recommendation from me.)
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:
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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So I ended up pushing this car up a hill in the mud in the dark in the rain in the middle of nowhere in high heels. Often sticking the floor mats under the wheels for traction. I'm filthy and drenched and cold.
And all in all it was kind of fun.
And that's why I belong in indie publishing
STUCK IN THE MUD
AND I'M TO BLAME
BABY I GIVE MUD A BAD NAME
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Couldja tell I've been doing my ratty bestest to amplify positivity today? It's flensingly exhausting swimming upstream against the evil currents of All This, as y'all well ken, so as I take a sanity break, enjoy the fruits of someone else's positivity-thrusting efforts, and go buy books why not?
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:
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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When possible, buy local; buy small; buy weird 🧟‍♀️
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:
November 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Excellent list of indie pubs to support. Adding:

@wctracy.bsky.social runs www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com Queer sci-fi/fantasy stories
@mochamemoirspress.bsky.social diverse speculative fiction
AND
@gdpub.bsky.social stories with LGBTQIA+ characters or written by LGBTQIA+ authors.
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:
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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"THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING."

Great thread here of some fantastic indie presses to support directly with your dollars this holiday season (and all other seasons).
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social for books across the speculative genres;
@chmmagazine.bsky.social for the best Weird Horror/Sword & Sorcery magazines;
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social who force us all to be smarter & more literary;
I'll never remember everyone.

THE FUCKING POINT IS, SUPPORT INDIE PUBLISHING.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Very good list of indie pubs to support!
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:
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM