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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 2h

free shipping on bookshop! the perfect time to get a book! and do I have one for you! weird medieval guys, gender™️, cannibalism, living beehives, illustrations, and big monster ladies

The West Passage

Check out The West Passage - THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES. Five starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and...

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 4h

Oh whoa, nice. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (@undertow.bsky.social) is on New York Public Library's list of 2025 best adult horror. Many thanks to NYPL!

Best New Horror of 2025 for Adults

Our expert horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites. There's something for everyone here—whether you're looking for jeepers, creepers, sca...

www.nypl.org

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 4h

Man, $200/day for nursing home care, and that's WITH insurance paying 80%. What is wrong with this country.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 6d

Apex is back! Submissions are open again! Help them fund another year of beautiful dark fiction.

My horror fantasy (and very messed up love) story, “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” which comes out in 2026, will be available early to all Kickstarter backers once they reach 60%!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

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

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 1d

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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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 22h

Happy book birthday!! 🎊

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 2d

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Sam grinning and holding up a huge board version of the Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

Rabbit Test and Other Stories cover, featuring the title in striking white and red font against black backdrop, with a rabbit, pregnancy test, and heart monitor line through the text

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

I was stunned by the perfection. That opener goes hard.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

@sashabrown.bsky.social is a genius (and found this thanks to @nmwhitley.bsky.social's fantastic short story recs)

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 1d

This review for Goodnight Moon is a fucking masterpiece.

Margaret Wise Brown's nihilistic classic is a howling renunciation of God, here depicted as a "quiet old lady whispering 'hush'." There is no afterlife here, no reward, no release from the crushing mundanity of life. There is only the bowl of pathetic mush, the forlorn mittens, the abandoned balloon, the telephone that never rings. We live our lives in a "great green room", but at the end we accumulate nothing but the discarded trappings of our childhoods. Even love cannot offer solace: where are our families when the end comes? "Goodnight nobody," we call into the blackness.

There is no hope in the world without us. We know what will happen, when we close our eyes, to the young mouse left alone with two kittens. They will toy with him; they will torture him and leave his decapitated body on our pillow. But we will never awake to see its guts splayed out near our heads. "Goodnight air," the poem ends. "Goodnight noises everywhere." We fall, silently, into the void.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/900911702

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been a long while, but I’ll be sending out my newsletter in a few days!

I'm including a poem that’s never been available online (one that’s very dear to me that I’ve always wanted to rewrite), along with all my recent short story/poetry/anime recs.

liu-angela.com/newsletter/

Newsletter

Sign up for my newsletter to get updates on new publications, books, a behind-the-scenes look behind my writing and submission process for certain stories and poems (and their inspiration), and fic…

liu-angela.com

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, ta) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Mid-Autumn #Festival, also known as the #MoonFestival, one of the big celebrations in Autumn for the Chinese and many other Asians. Sending traditional and contemporary pop culture greetings. To find out more about this occasion, here's my article. #culture

snowpavilion.co.uk/zhong-qiu-ji...

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 13d

Manhattan Midnight — Ellison Hoover, c. 1935
Lithograph

The bright lights and big buildings of Midtown we see the Chrysler and the Empire State Building and all the little towers in between

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been a long while, but I’ll be sending out my newsletter in a few days!

I'm including a poem that’s never been available online (one that’s very dear to me that I’ve always wanted to rewrite), along with all my recent short story/poetry/anime recs.

liu-angela.com/newsletter/

Newsletter

Sign up for my newsletter to get updates on new publications, books, a behind-the-scenes look behind my writing and submission process for certain stories and poems (and their inspiration), and fic…

liu-angela.com

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Patty! 🙏

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks always Nico! 🙏💙

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

Yay~ congrats to you both!! 🎊

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much Myna! 🖤

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

Whoa, whoa, thanks man. Every time I open a Sasha Brown story, I know I will be shocked (in the best way) 😂 Looking forward to checking this story out!

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 5d

So happy to see my poem, “The Final Trick,” get an honorable mention in the Rhysling Awards! Thanks to everyone who read and voted! Eternally grateful to @ajodasso.bsky.social who gave this poem the perfect home at @strangehorizons.bsky.social.

Congrats to all the winners and nominees!

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 6d

Apex is back! Submissions are open again! Help them fund another year of beautiful dark fiction.

My horror fantasy (and very messed up love) story, “The Island of Sea Turtles and Blood,” which comes out in 2026, will be available early to all Kickstarter backers once they reach 60%!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 7d

Apex Magazine 2026 is A Project We Love on Kickstarter!! ❤️🍾🥂🎉

Thank you to everyone who's donated so far! If you haven't checked us out yet, don't be shy! There's room for everyone at the monster mash 👻🪦

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

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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 6d

My book officially drops in almost a month!! And I’ll be reading at the online launch event!

Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social · 12d

Vanessa Fogg will read from THE HOUSE OF ILLUSIONISTS November 3rd. Register to attend online, free, via Zoom! www.interstellarflig...

Book Cover The House of Illusionists and other stories by Vanessa Fogg a fantasy house and tree with watercolor sky

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Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social · 6d

highly recommend checking out some of @sashabrown.bsky.social's other work too! always so wonderfully weird

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