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Co-host of the This Is Horror podcast. Author of THEY’RE WATCHING (with Michael David Wilson). My vampire novel, THE SMALL HOURS, is available now. Anti-A.I. bobpastorella.com https://ghoulish.rip/product/the-small-hours/ patreon.com/BobPastorella

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · Nov 2

The Small Hours is the darkest part of night, right before dawn.

It's also the title of my upcoming vampire novel.
It's funny, sexy, and very, very bloody.

A modern-day splatterpunk.

You cannot touch me, you would not dare
I am the chill that's in the air

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Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · 3h

Such an honor to have @barbaracrampton.bsky.social on the cover—and in the pages—of this third a True Believers:

Barbara Crampton Lands the Cover of Stephen Graham Jones’ ‘True Believers’ Final Issue [Exclusive]

New York Times-bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw) and Joshua Viola are bringing their slasher comic series True Believers to a star-studded conclus...

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 1d

"It’s often said that horror and comedy blend well together, and that’s because they both thrive off punchlines."

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The Horror Punchline

This won’t be the first article written about the intersection of horror and comedy. But it will probably be the last.

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 6h

Get the book that early readers say "I received an advance review copy for free"

Er ... wait ...

How about: "Pastorella’s pacing is killer, Willi rules, and the oyster scene is an all-timer metaphor for how monsters eat us with a smile."

THE SMALL HOURS.

Get it: ghoulish.rip/product/the-...

Cover of THE SMALL HOURS by Bob Pastorella. Cover art by Betty Rocksteady. A redheaded vampire in a coffin with large eyes and a blood smeared fang-filled mouth. A blurb compares the writing to Peter Jackson meets Adrian Lyne.

Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 8h

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Day 8

BURNT OFFERINGS

Another film I saw way too young that creeped me the fuck out. Stellar performances all around and a film that isn't afraid to embrace the strange and weird that still works today.

Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 19h

I've had some hellacious hours at the daily grind this past week, but thankfully I have the next 2 days off and vacation all next week. Going to get back in the saddle with my next project. Not gonna lie, it felt good to step away from the keyboard to recharge.

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 19h

We do not need another TRON movie, but I will always take more NIN music.

Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 19h

Will Christopher Baer is reviving his twitter account and unleashing hell in short burst form. I'm not on twitter, thinking of maybe creating a burner account just to read Baer's posts, which will be the best fucking thing ever written on twitter because Baer fucking rocks.

Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 20h

New Kirk Windstein album released 10/3, just learned about this, listening now.

Checked this out yet @thisishorror.bsky.social?

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1d

One week into Halloween Season, so here's your reminder that I wrote a slasher novel about teenagers trying to pull a quick heist who find a masked killer waiting in the basement of a mansion.

It's fun, it's scary, and it needs a good home.

#amquerying #amwriting #horrorsky

🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · Jan 27

NIGHT OF THE SKULL

Clown in A Cornfield x Don't Breathe

Three desperate teens try to save their families by robbing the local slumlord's mansion, and find a legendary slasher who terrorized their Texas town 50 years earlier is hiding in the basement.

#2025pit #H #YA / #A (crossover appeal)

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 20h

I feel like people should have realized this about the time the "sexing Gein up" posts started before the series debuted. Murphy isn't interested in facts, more interested in using lurid details to tell an entertaining story ... and make up the rest of it along the way.

Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 20h

Seeing people complain the Monster: Ed Gein series isn't accurate.

No shit. It's the same team that created American Horror Story. I think of it as a meta adaptation of Psycho. I'm not done watching it, only 2 eps. in, but so far it's entertaining. If you want accurate, read DEVIANT.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 1d

New Book Releases: October 7, 2025

Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Allen, Mike: Trail of Shadows (Broken Eye Books 978-1940372723, $21.99, 276pp, formats:…

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

My new book, THE FLESH KING is out today and available everywhere your get your books. But I’d feel like an ass if I didn’t mention new books by two of my favorite writers: THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE and SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon. Why not go nuts and get all three?

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 1d

Excellent news! Congrats my blood brother!

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1d

HEY IT'S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY

YESSSS

Cancer Eats the Heart is out in the world! Disabled, dying, and chronically ill turn to vampirism as a cure, only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters for their bones

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Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 1d

Oooo, I really like the trope Urban Dread. If Urban Wyrd could be a genre, then it would be Urban Dread.

THE SMALL HOURS by Bob Pastorella

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Time to get bloody!

trope graphic for the small hours. The books cover against a background exclaiming urban dread, murder mystery, Texas backyard noir, Mafia horror, don't trust neighbors, Dracula retelling, and hot sauce.

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 1d

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Day 7

Let me showcase something a lot more recent.

SINNERS embodies everything good horror cinema should reflect in this age. Great story, very sexy, and drooling vampires. Combine the setting and the music and oh WOW ... so good!

still from SINNERS. Ready for a standoff.

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 1d

I refuse to leave. I'm not doing it again. I'm here, and threads (which feels extremely paranoid to me), and insta (rarely). I have my website, but I'm not letting others run me off of a SM site, never again. They'll have to ban me.

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 2d

come get yer texas backyard noir, with an extra dab of creepy hot sauce. Bob Pastorella's THE SMALL HOURS is out now through Ghoulish Books.

snag a copy here: ghoulish.rip/product/the-...

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a trope graphic for THE SMALL HOURS including urban dread, murder mystery, texas backyard noir, hot sauce, mafia horror, dracula retelling, and don't trust your neighbors

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Cris Morris @cristophermorris.com · 2d

One more week until my first published short story! www.amazon.com/Incurable-St...

Incurable: Stories from the World of Cure

Incurable: Stories from the World of Cure [White, Benjamin, Purdon, Jerry, Sarkar, Neepa, Scott, Patrick, Ness, Katie, Raymond, Keith, Brennan, Deborah, Morris, Cris, Abbud, Trevor, Kastner, Lisa Diane] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Incurable: Stories from the World of Cure

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 2d

The 5 must-read horror articles online, once again curated by @kevharrison.bsky.social, are available for your reading pleasure, only at @thisishorror.bsky.social.

5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 October 2025

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Paste Magazine choose their twenty favourite lovecraft…

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 2d

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Days 5 & 6.

Since I dropped the ball yesterday, you get a two'fer.

CREEPY, and EERIE. These two magazines, each with its own vibe, fueled my young imagination with lurid and exciting, often horrifying, tales of science-fiction and fantasy.

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 2d

I've been busy with day job shit and website stuff. I come here and see people talking about leaving and going to other social media platforms. I'm over here scratching my head wondering WTF happened, and no ... I'm not running away from another SM site, fuck that I will stand my fucking ground.

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 4d

31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN

Day 4

Vampirella.

Vampi assaulted my mind at a way too young age and warped me for life. No regrets.

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, Gabino! Always looking to for an opportunity to boost BACKMASK

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · Aug 27

Had a dream that Harold Bloom wrote a really nice review of @ossuary.bsky.social’s novel Backmask, so maybe there is an afterlife? Anyway get it on bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/back...

Backmask

Check out Backmask - <p>Inspired by pop music history and written in the style of 60s horror pulp, BACKMASK is the fake history of a conspiracy theory surrounding the Satanic agenda to control childre...

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