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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

SIMILAR VIBES TO LIMELIGHT who's going to tell my ruined soul though

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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 2d

“Her Wicked Roots,” by @tanyapell.bsky.social is a full-blooded and enchanting gothic, that much like some of the flora it features, is beautiful and lethal in equal measure. OCT 7TH from Gallery Books.

Review: Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell | FanFiAddict

Synopsis: Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate t ...

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god that cover is incredible

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

the longer my lazy arse takes to do my cover reveal the more stupid my ideas get

Me topless covered in neon paint in the pitch black interpretive dancing as lamps are slowly turned on to reveal a giant poster of my book cover on my wall?

If you think that’s bad you should see the rejected ideas

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I (Vulcan) salute you for noticing that

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

📚🔪🧑‍🦳New review 🔪🧑‍🦳📚

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by @pfracassi.bsky.social

"Rivals Fracassi’s best work... a deeply moving, marvelously twisty, and terrifyingly dark tale which gives us one of modern horror’s most triumphant final girls in the indomitable pensioner Rose DuBois."

REVIEW: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi

The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a superbly creepy yet truly moving slasher that rivals Fracassi’s best work.

www.grimdarkmagazine.com

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I’ve been saying for years

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 2d

SUNYI’S BACK AND NO ONE IS READY

Genuinely love this HK-Gothic cover I have to say

sunyi @handle.invalid · 2d

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS

A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive.

Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.

But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood.

As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I have a sore little finger from a combination of recent racket sports and typing all day so I splinted it with packing tape and I shall now wait for all the comments and DMs telling me what a genius I am

My little finger splinted with packing tape

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Pleasure is mine Catherine, thanks for transforming the way I do edit readthroughs 😂

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Had a lot of fun guest editing the 1st issue of a new indie writer’s mag

Feat.

flash fiction from @scrimscribes.bsky.social & @frasierarmitage.bsky.social

& articles from @rasandpiper.bsky.social @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social @alethearlyons.bsky.social @oboylewrites.bsky.social

Link below!

ℂ𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕦𝕟𝕖 @creativecommune.bsky.social · 4d

The Indie Writer's Voice is FOR #indieauthors, written BY #indieauthors.
Featuring catherinemccarthy.bsky.social @oboylewrites.bsky.social @frasierarmitage.bsky.social Alethea Lyons, NC Scrimgeour & RA Sandpiper, edited by @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social
www.philparker-fantasywriter.com/creativecomm...

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 8d

This headline brought to you by the satire department of late-stage capitalism

Guardian headline ‘Hate your job - but can't afford to leave? 20 ways to love your work a little more’

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 10d

Oh you better believe it

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 10d

Making a book rec video with a book in it by the horror & fantasy author Christopher Buehlman and the captions heard his name as Christopher Beowulf and why is that somehow perfect

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 12d

📕💀🌳New review! 🌳💀📕

Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day by @emmaemurray.bsky.social @apocalypseparty.bsky.social

"A shining masterpiece of the transgressive horror genre, forcing the reader into an uncomfortable examination of the complexities of domestic abuse and the courage of survival."

Review: Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day by Emma E. Murray | FanFiAddict

The return of horror's new transgressive star Synopsis Birdie lost everything when her son died. Now, on track to rebuild her life, she has to evade he ...

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 6 month book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD!!! 🍄☁️🖤

Hard to believe this novella has been in the world for half a year. Thank you to everyone who’s read, reviewed, gifted, and listened to these words. Keep it up ⛅️
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Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD on a Victorian mortician’s table flanked by plants and bones.

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Anna Rose Reads @annarosereads.bsky.social · 15d

New author interview with @delilahsdawson.bsky.social now LIVE! We chat about her most recent release, House of Idyll, some of her other novellas, the social horror implemented, and the true cost of fame/recognition. Huge thanks to Delilah for her time, and links to listen below!

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Yes but also slorped up through the sky straw 😂😂

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 15d

It’s so wild 😂

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 15d

📕💧💀New Review💀💧 📕

Body of Water by @adamgodfreyauthor.bsky.social

"A genuinely moving father–daughter re-bonding tale submerged in a terrifying story of living bloodthirsty water, not so much a creature feature as a water feature, and a nail-bitingly tense and inventive one at that."

REVIEW: Body of Water by Adam Godfrey

Body of Water is a genuinely moving father–daughter re-bonding tale submerged in a terrifying story of living bloodthirsty water

www.grimdarkmagazine.com

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Happy book birthday! This is on my reading list this month, I am very ready for some space fantasy tech fae mystery

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 21d

I wish Dupes I WISH

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 21d

If I get physical arcs for book 2 (haven't had it confirmed yet, you never know with a book 2 of a series, but I'm hoping!) then yes, you and the rest of the very nice folk who supported me first time round will be getting one!

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George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social · 23d

Beauty and rot, gilt and decay all feature in “The Works of Vermin,” by Hiron Ennes. With shades of Miéville but a palette that is completely its own, this one will ensure you never complain about an eight legged housemate again. @torbooksuk.bsky.social
OCTOBER 14TH

Review: The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes | FanFiAddict

Synopsis: Monster hunters tangle with court politics in this horror adventure by the critically acclaimed author of Leech.Enter the decadent, deadly city of ...

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