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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 8h

For the evening people, for the moon people.

Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 15h

"Not because it's easy, but because it's hard."

Next up, in our cover reveal round-up, coming up on the 14th of April 2026, from the excellent
@cameronjohnston.bsky.social
a group of mages on the up...

Magic! War! Gods! Bureaucracy! Secrets! And lies!

A photo of a cover reveal panel. The cover is for a book called First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston. It features an archaic looking spaceship on scaffolding with a moon behind it. It is designed by Alice Coleman.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 9h

If this is the throne of the magical kingdom to which you aspire, you might want to reconsider your life choices.

Zdzisław Beksiński @zbeksinski.bsky.social · 9h

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Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social · 11h

DAYTIDE is up for preorder now and I sort of buried the lede on this limited edition, illustrated, horror-fantasy.

There’s an introduction by @pfracassi.bsky.social that blew the bombas right off of my feet. I’m still reeling.

350 total books. Order: www.rapturepublishing.com/product/dayt...

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 14h

Agreed. This one rocks though.

James Brogden @jamesbrogden.bsky.social · 14h

Chapter titles are hard.

A text document screen shot consisting of a blank page headed with the words "Big Fuck-Off Fight Scene"

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 15h

"Not because it's easy, but because it's hard."

Next up, in our cover reveal round-up, coming up on the 14th of April 2026, from the excellent
@cameronjohnston.bsky.social
a group of mages on the up...

Magic! War! Gods! Bureaucracy! Secrets! And lies!

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 16h

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, what is real?"

Philip K. Dick

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

For the evening people. For the people further through the day.

Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

So, we have some cover reveals to catch up on this week.

First of these is @sarahjdaley.bsky.social's excellent dark fantasy crime novel, The Violently Departed, publishing on April 28th 2026.

Nuns! Investigators! Demons! Dark secrets! An unlikely friendship! A terrible murder!

A cover reveal graphic featuring the cover for The Violently Departed by Sarah J. Daley. The artwork features a human skull surrounded by red flames and red blooms.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

So, we have some cover reveals to catch up on this week.

First of these is @sarahjdaley.bsky.social's excellent dark fantasy crime novel, The Violently Departed, publishing on April 28th 2026.

Nuns! Investigators! Demons! Dark secrets! An unlikely friendship! A terrible murder!

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"Say 'Ahhhhhhhhhhggghhh'"

@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social looks at some recent examples of medical horror to investigate why the genre is especially telling in dystopian times.

The doctor will see you now...

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d

Drawing from stories such as Hiron Ennes' Leech and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, author @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social reviews the popularity of medical horror, placing it alongside the return of dystopian fiction:

reactormag.com/dystopian-me...

Dystopian Medicine: Why Medical Horror Has a Hold on Us - Reactor

When society feels at its most unstable, we find ourselves turning to the darker genres of fiction...

reactormag.com

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 1d

An enormous scary tree in an illustration by Nikolai Vorobiev for a 1970s book on Russian folk tales. I'm embarrassed that I know nothing about the story because it looks cool. However, the picture seemed ideal for #ThickTrunkTuesday.
#folklore #legends #folktales #illustration #Russian

A gigantic tree with eyes waves claw-like branches menacingly as a knight on horseback, dwarfed by its size, prepares to fire an arrow. Crows are flying around.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it."
Gene Wolfe

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Sam Tyler @reelsamtyler.bsky.social · 2d

📢Blog Tour Klaxon📢

'The Haunting of William Thorn' by @benaldersonauthor.bsky.social has modern characters and relationships, but deep down is a classic feeling spooky tale.

Out now

My SFBook.com review: sfbook.com/the-haunting...

Thank you @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social @caramalines.bsky.social

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

SFFH: A Deferred and Dramatised Apocalypse. Discuss.

Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s rather grim proof note:

P415 line 24: delete “people”

Sorry, people.

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a backpack and binoculars is saying cake is my weakness .

ALT: a man with a backpack and binoculars is saying cake is my weakness .

media.tenor.com

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Don't listen to us, listen to David.

(Also: cake!)

David Green @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social · 2d

I've been lucky enough to read this book, and it's brilliant.

Also, Stew provides only the best wine and cake 🎂 🍷

Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 2d

Project Hanuman has its launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social two weeks before it's in shops. There will be cake, wine and merch. 2pm on the Friday of the convention (31st October).

I'm petrified of launching this thing alone so please come along and eat my cakes

There may also be special guest

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Can now confirm that there will indeed be a special guest.

Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 2d

Project Hanuman has its launch at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social two weeks before it's in shops. There will be cake, wine and merch. 2pm on the Friday of the convention (31st October).

I'm petrified of launching this thing alone so please come along and eat my cakes

There may also be special guest

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 2d

“So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.” - Ray Bradbury

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Just the best.

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 2d

Hey I'll be in London tomorrow at Waterstones Trafalgar Square with legends Tim Lebbon, Christopher Golden, V. Castro and Ally Wilkes!

Tickets at the link in Tim's post. It's going to be a lot of fun!!

Tim Lebbon @timlebbon.bsky.social · 2d

The Titans of Terror Tour continues ... London, TOMORROW, @cgolden.bsky.social and I are joined by @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @vlatinalondon.bsky.social and @manylittlewords.bsky.social where we'll talk all things horror! Please come along!

www.waterstones.com/events/new-w...

New Wave of Horror Fiction: Panel at Waterstones Trafalgar Square | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about New Wave of Horror Fiction: Panel at Waterstones Trafalgar Square today.

www.waterstones.com

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 2d

"The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
J.R.R. Tolkien

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 7d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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SciFiScavenger @scifiscavenger.bsky.social · 3d

The proportions of this image are about right for my library too.

Joanna Maciejewska @authorjmac.bsky.social · 3d

How is your reading plan going this year? Because this picture sums up mine quite accurately... And it just keep snowing new books ;)

A roof covered in heavy snow with the text "to be read" over it and a tiny portion of it cleaned off snow with the text "books read this year."

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Sweeeet!

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 3d

A Flock of Nazgûls
UTúrin
The Smiths-of-Wooton-Major

#Tolkien1980sBands

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Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social · 3d

“Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality: for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it wisely”
@terriwindling.bsky.social

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