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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 20h

Well this just made my list of personal highlights! Happy book release day!

Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 20h

I stand by my comment that this isn't essential horror of Joe R. Lansdale, but essential horror, period. An absolutely flawless collection.

Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 21h

It's a #BOOKBIRTHDAY!

Celebrate the publication of THE ESSENTIAL #HORROR OF @JOELANSDALE!

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“Lansdale is a legend, and this collection is proof positive of that.” @chuckwendig.bsky.social

@joe-hill.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @davemckean.bsky.social

Cover art by Dave McKean
Design by Elizabeth Story

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 4d

This is gonna be fun! Come hang out with us.

Christa Faust @christafaust.bsky.social · 4d

Today! Being Bold: A @sincworldwide.bsky.social Roundtable with me, @gabino.bsky.social & @beaujohnson44.bsky.social
Exploring public personas, social media, strong opinions, owning your unique voice, and writing Noir. Saturday, October 4, 2025
1:00pm ET/12:00pm CT/11:00am MT/10:00am PT

Being Bold
A Roundtable with Christa Faust, Gabino Iglesisas & Beau Johnson.
Exploring public personas, social media, strong opinions, owning your unique voice, and writing Noir. Saturday, October 4, 2025
1:00pm ET/12:00pm CT/11:00am MT/10:00am PT

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 4d

I'm writing a series of 31 essays, one every day this month, on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN. Everyone can go check out what I've done so far at my newsletter!

matthewjacksonwrites.com/tag/tracing-...

Tracing The Shape - Matthew Jackson and The Scares That Shaped Us

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 5d

You rule, Gabino!!

If anyone’s looking for a fast-paced book with starred reviews from LJ, Booklist, and PW, raves from Stephen King, Rachel Harrison, and ✨Gabino Iglesias✨, AND that’s seasonally-appropriate (𝐇⃥⃒̸𝐚⃥⃒̸𝐥⃥⃒̸𝐥⃥⃒̸𝐨⃥⃒̸𝐰⃥⃒̸𝐞⃥⃒̸𝐞⃥⃒̸𝐧⃥⃒̸ 𝐦⃥⃒̸𝐚⃥⃒̸𝐬⃥⃒̸𝐤⃥⃒̸𝐬⃥⃒̸), I got something for ‘em!

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Gabino. I recently posted a video on my top ten horror novels of all time, and you might find a familiar pick for #6. youtu.be/rGsp03xLyqg?...

Top 10 Horror Novels of All Time

YouTube video by Books for the Back Porch

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 5d

It’s #FridayReads time and still Latine Heritage Month! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) Stoker/Locus/Goodreads finalist that’s perfect for spooky season: dark magic, old gods, revenge, blood, and ghosts.
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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 14d

I can see a lot of the Darkness on the Edge of Town album in your books for sure.

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 14d

Finished This Wretched Valley by @jennykiefer.com and this book is more than just an amazing cover. An absolutely hallucinogenic, terrifying story of a vengeful land. I pray to never see Dead Man Toes mushrooms in my life. Sign me up for more!

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 16d

I can't wait to pick this up, and apparently Lady Chevy too since I also loved The Last King of California and Sing Her Down.

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 20d

Waiting on my hold from the library to come in so I figured nows a good time to start Thr Harlequin and the Train by @paultremblay.bsky.social. 40 pages in and ohh boy, what have I gotten myself into?!? Paul Tremblay always succeeds in freaking me out.

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Curtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 21d

On Fire and Under Water is #8!!! in all short story anthologies, thanks to everyone’s support! Thanks so much, and if you haven’t ordered yet, here’s the link:

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · 23d

There is so much to love about that last chapter. Crazy to think it was delayed in U.S. because it's Harper's best book to date. (I reserve the right to change this view when his new one comes out, and each subsequent one)

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congratulations, that's awesome!

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 27

That's an awesome box of goodies. Love the poster inspired art included and the chainsaw pin.

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congrats on not only being a successful booktuber in the 2020s, but doing it apparently as a ghost of someone who passed away almost 20 years ago.

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 26

April 2026 cannot come soon enough!

Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · Aug 25

My goodness, sounds exciting.

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jorda...

The next epic crime novel from Jordan Harper, a story of Los Angeles power brokers and those at the edge, and a single shattering incident that threatens to bring it all crashing down.

Los Angeles, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein’s monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together into something like a city.

A city ready to explode: A Hollywood pedophile is arrested, and is ready to tear down the city to get his freedom. A young woman goes missing — and men in black rubber gloves who look like cops clean out her apartment in the middle of the night. And the serial killer known as the LA Ripper is on the loose, leaving tragic/graphic/brutal crime scenes in his wake. Three people trying to keep their heads above the dirty water will find themselves coming together to unite these strands into one enormous, unspeakable crime …

JAKE DEAL is a gonzo live-streaming nightcrawler, beaming the city’s chaos straight to his audience of blood-hungry subscribers, giving them the view from the top of the mushroom cloud — until a job he can’t refuse drags him back into his old life of Hollywood glamour, drugs, sex and sleaze. Armed with cameras and hidden mics, he’ll infiltrate private clubs, gather high-class dirt — and stumble onto a conspiracy woven into the center of LA’s most powerful men, who call themselves “The Kids in the Candy Store.”

DOUG GIBSON is a street lawyer, who fights for his clients against the army of cops, prosecutors and judges – he is the knife they bring to the gunfight. But when he’s hired by a Hollywood pedophile ready to sell out his friends for a chance for freedom, he’ll take on a fight bigger than he could have imagined. And when his client “commits suicide” in prison, Gibson will have to stop being a weapon – and become a warrior.

KARA DELGADO works for an underground private concierge company – a make-a-wish foundation for the terminally rich. She scores drugs, makes connections, and plans multi-million dollar sex parties.She has learned the secret truth of this world: there are no rules, only prices. Her best friend Phoebe has gone missing, and Kara’s the only person who knows that Phoebe’s place was wiped clean of evidence by men in black rubber gloves. But when she begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to Phoebe, and its connection to the killer known as the LA Ripper, it will drag her into the dark heart of the city.

As Jake, Doug and Kara all investigate these crimes, they’ll encounter ketamine-addled sitcom stars, bloody riots, homeless gangsters, a killer cop on death row, secret vaults in Beverly Hills, tech-bro orgies, medical cannibals, true crime junkies, private security wet-work teams, reality shows, street takeovers, car chases, coyotes, a sadistic Tarzan, and a three day, fifty million dollar wedding, before everything is revealed and they must each make their choice about how to fight back in this violent world before the bloody, blazing conclusion.

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 25

I recently read Kem Nunn's Tapping the Source and couldn't believe how no one talked about it anymore. It is an absolute classic in the crime genre, and more people should read it. Check out my thoughts on it here:

This Forgotten Classic Novel Deserves A Comeback

YouTube video by Books for the Back Porch

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 24

I always pictured Bug as someone bigger, almost Terry Crews size, where the size alone said don't mess with this guy. Olyphant as Ronnie would be incredible.

Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'm about 30 pages into American Tabloid by James Ellroy and already hooked on it.

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 23

Oh man I hope you're exaggerating on the lactose intolerant part. How could someone think AI will help with that?

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 22

Camp Damascus by @chucktingle.bsky.social is religious horror done right. It's truly frightening, unsettling, and heartbreaking. Horror is at its best when it has something to say about the world, and Camp Damascus proves that.

Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 18

I know a lot of people are excited for more from the world of The Stand, I'm excited for a new S.A. Cosby story to read.

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Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Aug 18

I know I'm late to the party, but Joe R. Lansdale's Moon Lake is an absolute fantastic Texas Gothic story, with a beautiful cover to match.

Matt @booksfortheporch.bsky.social · Jul 18

Why did I wait so long to read @jordanharper.bsky.social She Rides Shotgun? It's incredible. I swear if anything happens to Polly or her bear by the end of this book I'll never recover.

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