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Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social · 13h

No time to use your eyes? I feel you. Just a reminder that Spotify was kind enough to produce the hell out of my debut. You can grab it there or anywhere else you grab stories to feed your ears.

open.spotify.com/show/6gQbdvC...

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 13h

This review from @peterrosch.bsky.social for Mad Days is just wonderful. You can pick up the collection today, and if you use Bookshop shipping is free!

Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq

Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 14h

It’s the right thing to do!

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15h

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
Around a banner that says free shipping

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 15h

AI isn’t just shitty art, it’s a grift from tech bro dipshits that actively hurts people and the environment.

Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 20h

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 1d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 1d

Project #6 in a year that's included...

1. Anthology (And One Day We Will Die)
2. Novella (JK-LOL)
3. Novella (Night of the Witch-Hunter)
4. Novella (The Nut House)
5. Novel (Abducted)
6. Another novella (The Big One).

Podcasters: bring me on your shows to talk about these books!

Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · 2d

#buymybooks TOMORROW! THE BIG ONE. The one with exploding tentacles. Over-the-top machismo heroics vs. Lovecraftian horrors from inside the Earth. Brought to you by yours truly and @tonyanuci.bsky.social. With a cover by THE @lynnehansenart.bsky.social. Will you be ready…for THE BIG ONE?

The Big One (preorder: releases 10/7) | Anuci Press

"Daddy's coming home." That's the promise Hank, a widowed ambulance driver finishing up his shift in San Francisco, makes to his two kids who are trapped in the ruins of their destroyed apartment buil...

www.anuci-press.com

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

You can get free shipping as part of bookshop.org’s antiprime day sale! Pick up some indie horror and support indie bookstores!

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Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 1d

Hell yeah we do! 🐀🖤🐁
#Booksky

Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a Halloween read? @infestedpublishing.bsky.social and I got you covered!

Never Leaving is a haunted house story about a family fighting back. Enjoy a tale of love and chainsaws! On Amazon and bookshop:

shorturl.at/7kxi3

bit.ly/3Xu1HJz

Never Leaving

Check out Never Leaving - <i>"Never Leaving evokes VHS classics like The Amityville Horror, House by the Cemetery, and The Boogens-all with Alley's easygoing humor and wicked penchant for driving like...

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a Halloween read? @infestedpublishing.bsky.social and I got you covered!

Never Leaving is a haunted house story about a family fighting back. Enjoy a tale of love and chainsaws! On Amazon and bookshop:

shorturl.at/7kxi3

bit.ly/3Xu1HJz

Never Leaving

Check out Never Leaving - <i>"Never Leaving evokes VHS classics like The Amityville Horror, House by the Cemetery, and The Boogens-all with Alley's easygoing humor and wicked penchant for driving like...

shorturl.at

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Trevor Henderson 🍉(commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 1d

Pieces (2 of 3) of photograph found at the site of ——

Connection to the missing —— of the victims unknown

Whereabouts of the missing piece still unknown. photo cannot be —— and as such is never to be re-assembled

a photo of a grinning man, the middle section where his eyes would be has been torn away, bisecting the photo in two.

"Pieces (2 of 3) of photograph found at the site of ——

Connection to the missing —— of the victims unknown

Whereabouts of the missing piece still unknown. photo cannot be —— and as such is never to be re-assembled"

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

Back from the grave, I've returned to @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social 😈

With my coming-of-rage short story collection TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS out now, Stephanie and I are here to recommend some of our favorite coming-of-rage horror books & movies 🖤

booksinthefreezer.podbean.com/e/coming-of-...

A banner saying Coming of Rage Horror with Hailey Piper on Books in the Freezer. Around it are the covers of the following books:
Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
Chlorine by Jade Song
The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison
Cherish Farrah by Bethany C. Morrow
Carrie by Stephen King
Penance by Eliza Clarke

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

I like to imagine if there’s a hell that she and Reagan are in the same circle of it.

Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 2d

In the month of the 100th birthday of Margaret Thatcher, let us pause to reflect on what a cruel, heartless twat she was.

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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 2d

Buy PYRES immediately! I read this last year, and absolutely loved it, so am confident you will too 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, shared, talked about and reviewed #Pyres on its first weekend. It's been a great start!

Have you stared into the flames yet?

#HorrorBooks #BookSky #IndieAuthor 📚😱
books2read.com/pyresnovel

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 2d

It’s sex month- I mean, monster month

Photo of two deeply sexual Paperback Paradise bookmarks. First one reads i only like books that haveGraphic SkeletonSeX Scenes’ accompanied by a woman and a skeleton making out with additional text:
‘aw hell yeah — this is what i'm talkin' about’

Second bookmark features a slyly sexual demon winking at you with the text:
GO AHEAD
slide this bookmark in between them pages all the way down to the crack of that spine cause you know i'm a damn
BOOK
FREAK

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Anthony D. Herrera @aherrera.bsky.social · 2d

If E.T. The Extraterrestrial did kill people it would be the scariest monster in movie history. Just imagine E.T. screaming and flailing at you with a straight razor saying "ouch" every time it cut into your flesh. I don't want that to happen to me and that's how you know something is scary.

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 3d

For those who enjoy audiobooks, I have one book left for purchase. It’s my first book exclusive to Bishop Rider and his story. Come, join the resistance. Hear how we make them burn. @leonardoaudio.bsky.social
#BookSky

www.amazon.com/Audible-Bran...

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

Mad Days: Stories and Curses is the perfect reading for Halloween. A terrifying collection of tales and illustrations, available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99!

Amazon
bit.ly/4lZImtq

Bookshop
bit.ly/41USpIQ

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 2d

You should go so I can live vicariously through you!

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Retweet this tweet & tell us what you want retweeted. Me, I’m going on an adventure. I’m also bringing the awesome @laurelhightower.bsky.social with me. I hear there might be snacks! @vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social

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A Local Cryptid @michelleheller.bsky.social · 3d

Hell fucking yeah. Get out of here, fascist garbage.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 3d

The birds!

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max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 4d

we made these available several years ago and since then you freaks have been asking us to do another run. well now we are. get 'em while you can. (artwork by luke spooner)

Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 4d

BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKES US SCARIER. T-shirts, tanks, and bags available to pre-order throughout October only. Get yours reserved here: ghoulish.rip/product-cate...

a graphic advertising t shirts tanks and tote bags with luke spooner's commissioned art for our BANNING BOOKS ONLY MAKES US SCARIER quote

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 4d

Sharing again because this book was fun as hell.

Patrick Tumblety @patricktumblety.bsky.social · 13d

My new #horror #slasher #novel, One Fright Only, releases on #October 4th and is the perfect #spooky season read! #Murder, #mystery, #hayrides, #Halloween!

#Reading #WritingCommunity #writing

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 4d

Out today! This is a fantastic slasher novel, get it!

Candace Nola @candacenola.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Release Day to Patrick Tumblety! www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/10-04-2...

10/04/2025 ONE FRIGHT ONLY By Patrick Tumblety! Now Available Everywhere!

Happy Release Day to our very own Patrick Tumblety! His perfect Halloween Horror novel is now available everywhere books are sold! It's a perfect spooky season read, an intoxicating blend of murder my...

www.uncomfortablydark.com

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Elford Alley @elfordalley.bsky.social · 4d

I had a book mentioned on some list on 2016 during a free giveaway promo. I moved 750 copies in a day. How many reviews did that get me? None. I’m sitting at 34 Amazon reviews, it’s my least reviewed book!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 5d

While I feel it's a bit early to nail down any best-of-the-year lists, I'm glad Bookbub enjoyed A GAME IN YELLOW and gave it a place among these terrific horror titles of 2025 so far by Alma Katsu, RF Kuang, Rachel Harrison, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones & more 💛
www.bookbub.com/blog/best-ho...

Riffing on the classic horror story The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper tells the story of Carmen, who is bored in her relationship and anxious that she’s losing her hold on her girlfriend, Blanca. In an effort to keep Blanca interested, Carmen has been pushing her physical boundaries, ultimately leading her to discover a play that makes its readers feel euphoric — at a cost. Carmen is warned that reading too much of the play will drive her insane, but she keeps chasing the high she feels when she reads it, seeking out more and more of the text. As she reads, her sense of reality begins to slip in horrifying ways… but she can’t stop.

The Best Horror Books of 2025, article by Jeff Somers, showing the cover of Katabasis by R.F. Kuang amid lit candles

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