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NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 20+ more, visit the site or just trust me. DanielKraus.com

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · Jul 26

Holy hell. NYT raves don’t get any better:

“A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction. Mysterious and full of grace, rambling and ducking and shifting for 285 dizzying, blood-soaked, astonishing pages.”

New York Times image of the angel down book cover

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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 21h

LJ/SLJ LibraryCon Live is Coming November 6th to A Computer Near Your and for FREE:

I will be in convo with @danielkraus.com and @vantine.bsky.social has a panel as well. Details and registration: raforall.blogspot.com/2025/10/ljsl...

LJ/SLJ LibraryCon Live is Coming November 6th to A Computer Near Your and for FREE

LibraryCon Live is coming soon and I wanted to make sure you all knew to sign up! From the homepage: Join Library Journal and School Lib...

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 1d

MY
CRAZY
SUPERHERO
CORPSES
ADDICTION
PSYCHO-HORROR
GRAPHIC NOVEL
IS OUT
TODAY
💚✅🍀🌳🍏🦠🧩❎❇️🪀♻️🧑‍🎤🧪

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 1d

MY
CRAZY
SUPERHERO
CORPSES
ADDICTION
PSYCHO-HORROR
GRAPHIC NOVEL
IS OUT
TODAY
💚✅🍀🌳🍏🦠🧩❎❇️🪀♻️🧑‍🎤🧪

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Craig Clevenger @craigclevenger.bsky.social · 2d

This book. Goddamn. Seventy-five pages in and it's already on a (very) short list of 'do not read right before I go to sleep' books. Get this one, stat. @danielkraus.com

Cover image of "Whalefall" by Daniel Kraus, showing a whale swimming upward and about to swallow a lone diver. Bonus alt text: the only other books in my "do not read right before bedtime" are all by Brian Evenson.

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 2d

Telluride Horror Show is known for their literary programming, and this year's lineup is a veritable roll call of the best horror authors working today.

Telluride Horror Show’s Author Roll Call

Telluride Horror Show is known for their literary programming, and this year's lineup is a veritable roll call of the best horror authors working today.

dlvr.it

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 3d

“And though generative A.I. was trained on the work of human creators, so were you: Every show you’ve watched, every script you’ve read, surely left its mark. You have no cause to apologize.”

If I have to explain the flaw in this logic, you are too fucked to fix. 🖕

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/m...

I’m a Screenwriter. Is It All Right if I Use A.I.?

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 3d

New cover for a new edition of ANGEL DOWN. 💥

A slightly different version of the angel down hardcover

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 3d

Preach, sister

Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning, Bluesky.

I chanced upon my own alternative universe yesterday, unexpectedly taking a long walk through the neighborhood I once thought would be my lifelong home, surprised/gratified/chagrinned at how limited my imagination is when it comes to my own life.

Domino Sugar plant at sunrise, seemingly quite excited to see me this morning.

But, seriously: I always tell my writing students that they won’t be able to achieve things that they’re not willing to articulate to at least one other sentient being. I tell them they have to own their dreams. If you want to be a NYT bestseller or a Nobel Prize winner or have Marion Ettlinger take your author photo — whatever your dream is, you must speak to it. But there was a time when my own dreams were so limited, when all I could see was a certain kind of house, a career like my father’s, a life like my mother’s, i.e. having a job AND doing almost all the housework/child care. By sheer happenstance, I walked away from newspapers less than a decade before the industry imploded and through crazy luck I’ve kept my head above water in an industry whose obituary is written every six months or so.

tl;dr: Who knows what the next 5, 10, 20 years will bring?

Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 3d

I had the same reaction. I just couldn’t stop reading it. I’m not sure where it gets its magic.

Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 4d

Final Draft users: I can’t get FD on my ipad to sync - that sync symbol does nothing when I hit it.

Any ideas?

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

History repeats.

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 5d

Next week in Telluride!

Me
& @jrjisprobable.bsky.social
& @paultremblay.bsky.social
& @sgj.bsky.social
& Langan
& Grady.

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 5d

The Graff book is kinda a sequel to ANGEL DOWN!

Ravishing Rick Ruud van Nistelroy @astroscounty.bsky.social · 5d

What a library haul this evening @danielkraus.com @vermontgmg.bsky.social

“The Devil Reached Toward The Sky” by Garrett Graff

“The Order” by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt

Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 5d

That’s what I’m doing

Steve Reads Scares @stevereadsscares.bsky.social · 6d

And here I thought the most commas in a sentence was Absolution with like 15, @danielkraus.com seems to doing a 304 page sentence in Angel Down lol (in chapter 3 so I'm going to assume the trend continues)

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 7d

How dare you

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Flynn @flynnwrites.bsky.social · 9d

I've just finished reading 'Angel Down', by Daniel Kraus.
I'm completely blown away.
It's a work of high art; poetic, beautiful, grim, hopeful, & honest.
I thought the format would be problematic for me... but it melts into being exactly how it should be.
& that confuses me now that I've finished.

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THE FANBASE WEEKLY Podcast @thefanbaseweekly.bsky.social · 8d

@aiptcomics.com: The mighty and the fallen: Daniel Kraus and Dani detail their ‘anti-superhero’ OGN ATHANASIA

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The mighty and the fallen: Daniel Kraus and Dani detail their ‘anti-superhero’ OGN ‘ATHANASIA’

This cutting new story explores heroes, addiction, regret, and what we'd really do with power.

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 7d

Aww thanks! No bowing allowed

Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 7d

99% new. No real method – just stuff that’s gathered up that I wanna see.

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 7d

My October 2025 viewing list. Goal as always is 31, but travel (including overseas travel) is probably going to make that impossible this year. But I’ll try!

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 8d

BFWWP is BACK!

NYT-bestselling author @danielkraus.com comes on the show to discuss--and read an excerpt from!--his new novel "Angel Down."

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Angel Down: A Discussion with Daniel Kraus

Podcast Episode · Battles of the First World War Podcast · 10/01/2025 · 46m

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Battles of the First World War Podcast @ww1podcast.bsky.social · 8d

Set in the Meuse-Argonne campaign of WW1, 5 Doughboys are ordered out to No Man's Land to dispatch a wounded comrade. What they find is someone who is not of their world...

@danielkraus.com has written an engrossing and thrilling book! Damn, this was a hell of a ride.

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Alan Fisher @amfisher.bsky.social · 8d

Book 67: Whalefall, by @danielkraus.com. An emotional and well-crafted tale about a young man coming to terms with his complicated relationship with his overbearing father. The book explores the tensions between generations, the problematic nature of masculinity, and the importance of family.

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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 10d

UKRAINE! 🇺🇦

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