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Elsewhen Press @elsewhen.press · 7h

We are delighted today to publish Body and Soul by Andrew Hook. Available in eBook and paperback via all good retailers.
Heart is a world recovering from a catastrophe so long ago that inhabitants, unaware of history, live in isolated settlements, their only outside information from lone nomads.

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Body and Soul by Andrew Hook

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 7h

My sixth novel, "Body and Soul", a post-post-apocalyptic SF story, is published today by Elsewhen Press. Please consider picking up a copy in either e-book or paperback. I've blogged about it here: andrew-hook.blogspot.com/2025/10/body...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 19h

Many thanks to the generous @lmanusos.bsky.social at Book Riot for spotlighting @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS as a 'knockout horror collection'.

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6 Recent & Upcoming Knockout Horror Short Story Collections

Dabble in the abuses of power that happen everyday, read about Halloween pranks going horribly wrong, and more

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 20h

Always important to keep those indie presses running!

Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 2d

Help Salt take its publishing to the next level!

Donate to Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026, organized by Christopher Hamilton-Emery

Help Salt Publish Brilliant New Books in 2026 For twenty-… Christopher Hamilton-Emery needs your support for Keep Independent Publishing Alive – Support Salt Books 2026

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 2d

Happy publication day to @kristinaten.bsky.social This promises to be one of the best collections of the year in a year filled with incredible collections.

Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 2d

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 2d

My Weird Horror 11 story is now available to read online:

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 3d

New story up at Weird Horror. @jackklausner.bsky.social's chilling "We Didn't Used to Be Like This." It's sublime.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-didnt-use...

Screen grab of page from weirdhorrormagazine.com showing the story, title and front cover. Black text on ochre nackgrounb

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 3d

New story up at Weird Horror. @jackklausner.bsky.social's chilling "We Didn't Used to Be Like This." It's sublime.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-didnt-use...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 3d

Grabbed some books from the @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social fest. @slimyswampghost.bsky.social @charleneelsby.bsky.social @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social

4 books: scarewaves, and Odd Noises in Empty Rooms, borh by Trevor Henderson. The Organization is Here to Support You, by Charlene Elsby. And The Other Shore, by Rebecca Campbell.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 4d

All thanks to @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social and @jkrawczyk.bsky.social and Kristin and so many more.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 4d

What a weekend. Got to see @afsulli.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social @sillysyntax.bsky.social @slimyswampghost.bsky.social @lormaggot.ca @stelliform.press @charleneelsby.bsky.social @evavroslin.bsky.social @gothmother666.bsky.social @strantzas.bsky.social and more!

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 4d

I Would Haunt You(r Ebook Reader) If I Could

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 4d

Having a beer while slinging books. How civil.

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lewishousley.bsky.social @lewishousley.bsky.social · 4d

All great titles, "To Drown in Dark Water", and "The Ghost Sequences" are some of my absolute favorites!

Pick 'em up people, you won't be disappointed!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 4d

Me and the fab @dianadima.com with Best Weird. Pick it up to read Diana's great story Auspicium.

Diana Dima and me with Best Weird Fiction

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 4d

Generous words from a master of the form.

Steve Rasnic Tem @stevetem.bsky.social · 4d

I highly recommend this new collection by Thomas Ha from Undertow Books. Ha is one of the most exciting writers of short fantastic fiction to come along in years. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories — Undertow Publications

Sept. 2025 Cover art by Ove Tøpfer Trade paperback (284 pages) Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; ...

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Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social · 5d

New blog post on the writing of "Mont Blanc", my short story recently published online at House Magazine @saltpublishing.com
andrew-hook.blogspot.com/2025/10/mont...

#shortstories #shortfiction #jeannemoreau #julesetjim #truffaut

Mont Blanc

My short story titled "Mont Blanc" was recently published online at House Magazine (Salt Publishing) and as usual I'm blogging a few words ...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder we have 5 of our titles at just $2 each for the eBook for October. Get some ghostly weirdness.

undertowpublications.com/ebooks

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Stewart Horn @thenakedpoet.bsky.social · 5d

I have all of these books, and every one is brilliant.

Undertow has never disappointed me.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 9d

It's October! Hurrah!

I've specially curated 5 of our spookier titles, and discounted the eBooks to just $2. Grab a couple, or all 5 for $10. It's your choice.

@seanbirnie.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social

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5 book covers: Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8 (Michael Kelly, ed.) - Finalist for the World Fantasy; Shirley Jackson; and British Fantasy Awards. Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Featuring Kay Chronister, Krisit DeMeester; Brian Evenson, M. Rickert, and more.

Aickman's Heirs (Simon Strantzas, ed.) - Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Finalist for the World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. Reprints in 5 'Best Ofs'. Featuring Nadia Bulkin, Brian Evenson, John Langan, Lynda E. Rucker, and more.

The Ghost Sequences, by A.C. Wise - Finalist for the World Fantasy; Locus; Bram Stoker; and British Fantasy Awards.

To Drown in Dark Water, by Steve Toase - Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Praise from Booklist, and Rue Morgue.

I Would Haunt You if I Could, by Seán Padraic Birnie - Reprints in 2 'Best Ofs'. Praise from The Toronto Star, and Library Journal.

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Jessi D (Scary Ver.) @gothydellamorte.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly everything coming out from Undertow is super great and worth reading

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder we have 5 of our titles at just $2 each for the eBook for October. Get some ghostly weirdness.

undertowpublications.com/ebooks

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Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social · 6d

My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.

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David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social · 5d

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David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social · 5d

1. First of today's reviews, with thanks to Sharon Tyers.
2. Another lovely review from Susan Baker. Thank you!
3. Coldwell - link to buy in the first comment below.
4. Work continues on the new novel.
#saturdaynightsalrightforwriting

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Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social · 5d

It’s true. We are publishing a mini-collection by this talented writer. Normally we publish stories singly, in pairs. If that makes sense. Something made us break that pattern.

Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social · 6d

My first collection of short stories is out this month (17 October) on @nightjarpress.bsky.social ! Very excited. And nervous. But mostly excited.

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 6d

And Blood In The Bricks, an anthology of urban folk horror. Secretive communities and dark rituals and all the good FH stuff... but right here in our towns and cities. Brilliant stories by Angela Slatter, James Bennett, Tim Major, Lyndsey Croal and more!

www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

Blood in the Bricks, James Bennett, Ray Cluley , Joanna Corrance, Dan Coxon, Lyndsey Croal, James Everington, Tracy Fahey, Matthew Hopkins, Timothy J Jarvis, Penny Jones, Kim Lakin, Tim Major, Phil Ra...

NewCon Press is a multiple award-winning independent publisher specialising in science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy and horror.

www.newconpress.co.uk

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 6d

Now we're into October and we're all looking for spooky reads, I've got a couple of things due for release later in the month which I'm gonna be promoting. (Sorry in advance!)

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 6d

Another satisfied customer.

John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 6d

Finished *Uncertain Sons* by @thomasha.bsky.social last night. Fantastic collection that does all the best literary and intellectual work of classic weird fiction while expertly updating and adapting the genre to address our present moment. Not a dud in it—every story’s a gem. Highly recommend!

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