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👻 Boo-tique books dissecting the horror you love, curated by the witches you fear...
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It's not too late to take part in Read Palestine Week 2025 — to find out more and access your free Palestine reading list, visit publishersforpalestine.org.

My current read: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine #readpalestine #booksky
Image 1: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 4 December 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption. Image 2: Black background with white, red, and green text: Publishers for Palestine (logo is open book in the colours from the flag of Palestine); Read Palestine Week; 29 November – 05 December. Image 3: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi; book on wooden desk with page-markers and page-marker bookmark.
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Marking a period of pause, healing, and revival, the Cold Moon reminds creatives to craft mindfully. 🌕

If looking for inspiration, our winter Writual collection is designed to encourage mindful reading and writing: holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays 💙📚

#writingprompts #stationery #art
Image: Full moon above clouds (Altınay Dinç | Unsplash). Text reads: Cold Moon. 4 December 2025.
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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It's December, which means it's time to GET OUT...THE DECORATIONS!

It also means our HoL-iday release is here!

Designed for fans of '60s + '70s horror, we have just 1 question: Dare you bring them home for the holidays?

❄️ holpublishing.com/shop/p/home-for-the-hol-idays ❄️

#art #horrorsky #booksky
Image: inverted image of house - High Hopes (The Amityville Horror, 1979) - with red filter and logo in red.
December 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Our book club is changing! Each month, we’ll be sharing reading lists curated around a specific subject... November's: Frankenstein!

Read the full list - containing 30 books: holpublishing.com/grimreader!

#frankenstein #readinglist #horror #nonfiction #books #maryshelley #art #sciencefiction
1: Victorian floral black grey background with a closeup of the face of the Creature from Frankenstein (2025, Double Dare You, Demilo Films & Bluegrass 7) in the centre (text reads: Grim Reader's syllabus; Frankenstein (logo from 2025 film). 2: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing text at top (Reading List Preview) and bottom (20+ more...). Six covers in the middle (clockwise): Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy (Orrin N. C. Wang); Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (Dennis R. Cutchins & Dennis R. Perry, eds.); Bride of Frankenstein (Shane Denson); Gothic Science: The Era of Ingenuity & the Making of Frankenstein (Joel Levy); Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley (Charlotte Gordon); Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years (Christopher Fraylin). 3: Victorian floral grey background with black bands containing HoL logo at top and text at bottom [holpublishing.com/grimreader]. Grim Reader bookworm (designed by Jessica Rose) in centre and finger pointing at bottom text.
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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@jessicarosehorror.bsky.social's essay features in 1428 Publishing's forthcoming anthology exploring liminality in horror, Darkest Margins.

Just 10 days left to back the crowdfunder and claim a perk: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/darkest-margins!

#crowdfunder #liminalspaces #indiepublishing #darkestmargins
Red embroidered patch by Screen13Shop: closeup of an elderly woman staring into the camera with blue/white eyes from The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014, Bad Hat Harry Productions) and white text across the middle stating the film's title.
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Writing is a liminal act, but when the subject matter is liminality itself, how does this affect the creative process?

@jessicarosehorror.bsky.social breaks down the process of crafting a liminal essay: holpublishing.com/hex-libris/jrdarkestmargins.

#horror #blog #book #nonfiction #foundfootage
Background: black and purple large flower pattern background. White and dark purple Hex Libris logo in gothic lettering. Image is purple-hued close up of an elderly woman staring into the camera with blue eyes from The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014, Bad Hat Harry Productions). 'House of Leaves' logo at the bottom of the image in white (minimalist house design containing tree and leaves / pages falling, and 'House of Leaves' text in bold font). Background: black and purple large flower pattern background. White and dark purple Hex Libris logo in gothic lettering. Glowing lilac and purple text in centre reads: Behind the Scenes: The Liminality of Essay Crafting (Spotlight: Darkest Margins). 'House of Leaves' logo at the bottom of the image in white (minimalist house design containing tree and leaves / pages falling, and 'House of Leaves' text in bold font). Red and black cover for Darkest Margins (cover art by Kim Thompson); open red door with darkness beyond and title above in block grey/cream letters.
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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On 23 Nov 2007, REC took a hefty, infectious bite out of found footage... 🧟‍♀️

Filtered Reality examines FF as material evidence in REC, and how this comments on Catholicism's historical treatment of women in Spain. 🎥

Read more: holpublishing.com! 🖤

#booksky #nonfictionnovember #horrorsky #writing
Ángela Vidal grimacing, wearing a dirty tank top with sweat-drenched hair, in grainy black and white image with stylised REC logo in white and red (REC: Castelao Productions, 2007). First page of Rebecca Booth's chapter, Emblazoned Eve: Embodied Spectatorship, Material Feminism and Monstrous Religiosity in REC (2007) and The Devil’s Doorway (2018), in Filtered Reality. Overview of Filtered Reality (text: Filtered Reality is our love letter to found footage horror. Featuring a foreword from Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch) and an introduction from Aislínn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway), the book's sixteen chapters are divided into two sections — Progenitors and Evolution — to chart the genesis of the contemporary found footage horror film. The first section includes influences such as epistolary Victorian horror novels (Dracula), radio hoaxes (The War of the Worlds), and the mondo film (Cannibal Holocaust), before the second explores subjects ranging from digital folklore (The Blair Witch Project), to video games (Resident Evil), to post-cinematic horror (Host) — and what lies beyond… Our collectible first-edition paperbacks include a themed, numbered bookplate and a reversible bookmark). Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of Found Footage Horror' paperback book. The cover has a central eye with a camera lens inside with tree branches/roots above and below, and the text is stylised to look like vintage embossed labels. Further text: Foreword by Stephen Volk; Introduction by Aislínn Clarke; Edited by Rebecca Booth & Valeska Griffiths.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Continuing our October book club recs... 💙📚

What were your favourite reads last month? 🍂

#grimreader #bookworm #booksky #saturday #horror #bookchallenge #bookrecommendations #bookclub #bookprompts #tbr #readingcommunity #author #writingcommunity #paranormal #ghost #witchcraft #foundfootage
Image five: Victorian floral background with prompt (13 O'clock) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (The Witching Hour: Ghostly Tales for the Darkest Nights; Various; Sphere, 2025). Image six: Victorian floral background with prompt (Darkness Falls) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural; Ben Machell, 2025). Image seven: Victorian floral background with prompt (“It's Not the House That's Haunted....”) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country; Edward Parnell; William Collins, 2020). Image eight: Victorian floral background with title (Also available from holpublishing.com) in black text box at top and two book covers in centre (Scared Sacred; Filtered Reality).
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Happy weekend, Grim Readers!! 🪱

We’re back with a brand new LEWK and, of course, more book recs from our October book club! 📖

Continued in comment... 👇

#booksky #october #november #books #nonfiction #reading #illustration #art #weekend #horror #horrorsky #writersky #readingcommunity #bookrecs
Image one: Victorian floral black background with Grim Reader worm (designed by Jessica Rose). Text reads: Grim Reader's book club; October 2025 edition. Image two: Victorian floral background with five reading prompts in yellow boxes. Title reads: October 2025 Reading Prompts. Prompts read (clockwise): Silver Shamrock; “The Worms Crawl In...”; 13 O'clock; Darkness Falls; “It's Not the House That's Haunted....” Image three: Victorian floral background with prompt (Silver Shamrock) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (A Haunted Land: Ireland’s Ghosts; Bob Curran; O’Brien Press, 2004). Image four: Victorian floral background with prompt (“The Worms Crawl In...”) in black text box at top and book cover in centre (Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond; Alice Roberts; Simon & Schuster, 2025).
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Every Thursday, our shop will be closed until there is a permanent ceasefire and a Palestinian state.

Support Palestinian writers by taking part in Read Palestine Week 2025 (29 November–5 December): publishersforpalestine.org.

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine #readpalestine #booksky
Image 1: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 20 November 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption. Image 2: Black background with white, red, and green text: Publishers for Palestine (logo is open book in the colours from the flag of Palestine); Read Palestine Week; 29 November – 05 December; Read | Resist | Rise-up.
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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What's on your agenda this blustery November Monday? 🍂

Around edits and LOTS of planning, here's a sneak peek at a lovely arrival: material swatches for our next book... ✨

To hear book news first, join our Undead Community: holpublishing.com! 💀

#booksky #books #bookcover #indie #publisher #edit
Image: Layers of textured material (deep blue, light blue, sage green, russet and maroon) on light wood desk with darker grain. House of Leaves logo: black house with leaves falling inside in minimalist style.
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Today, and every Thursday, our shop will be closed until there is a permanent ceasefire and a Palestinian state. We encourage those who are able to do the same to join us. 🍉

For more details and updates, visit humantiproject.org.

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine
Image: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 13 November 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption.
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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ICYMI... CHAPTER PREVIEW! 🧡

Found footage hound? 🎥

Haunted attraction enthusiast? 👻

Enjoy a full chapter preview from #FilteredReality... 📖👇

#horror #art #horrorsky #filmsky #booksky #writersky #illustration #read #book #writing #foundfootage #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amreading
Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of Found Footage Horror' paperback book. The cover has a central eye with a camera lens inside with tree branches/roots above and below, and the text is stylised to look like vintage embossed labels. Further text: Foreword by Stephen Volk; Introduction by Aislínn Clarke; Edited by Rebecca Booth & Valeska Griffiths. Overview of Filtered Reality (text: Filtered Reality is our love letter to found footage horror. Featuring a foreword from Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch) and an introduction from Aislínn Clarke (The Devil’s Doorway), the book's sixteen chapters are divided into two sections — Progenitors and Evolution — to chart the genesis of the contemporary found footage horror film. The first section includes influences such as epistolary Victorian horror novels (Dracula), radio hoaxes (The War of the Worlds), and the mondo film (Cannibal Holocaust), before the second explores subjects ranging from digital folklore (The Blair Witch Project), to video games (Resident Evil), to post-cinematic horror (Host) — and what lies beyond… Our collectible first-edition paperbacks include a themed, numbered bookplate and a reversible bookmark.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Having a clear, unwavering goal that provides consistent direction + motivation = healthy writing habits. 🖋

Taking this quote with you + venturing beyond the ethical boundary of creation itself = Frankenstein. ⚡

#maryshelley #frankenstein #guillermodeltoro #netflix #quote #writersky #horrorsky
Text: "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilise the mind as a steady purpose.”― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Image description: Black background with quote text in gothic style, and greyscale rose at top left of the image. Border is a double grey line with crescent moon in each corner. 'House of Leaves' logo at the top of the image in white (minimalist house design containing tree and leaves / pages falling, and 'House of Leaves' text in bold font). Image credit: Photo by Megan Broadbent
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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With 10% off everything (no code needed), join our Undead Community for an extra discount code (30% off in total!)—sign up to our mailing list at holpublishing.com! 🧟‍♀️

#booksky #books #horrorsky #spookyseason #indie #writersky #horror #horrorart #art #horrorwriting #author #filmsky #writingcommunity
Image: 'Scared Sacred: Idolatry, Religion and Worship in the Horror Film' paperback and two greetings cards surrounded by leaves. The book's cover contains a matte black background with a cross / opened box shape foiled in silver (artwork by Jeremy Thompson, inspired by the Lament Configuration). The title is also foiled in silver. Credits: Foreword by Doug Bradley; Edited by Rebecca Booth, Valeska Griffiths & Erin Thompson; Curated by RF Todd. The first draws from the Scared Sacred's illustrated chapters to depict Pinhead from Hellraiser (“Malice in Chains”); the second shows the matte black back of the other card design, containing House of Leave Publishing's Print Is Undead logo. Text: holpublishing.com; 30% off everything; Halloween sale.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Used copies of #ScaredSacred are going for more than £600 on eBay! 😂💀

Not only is the paperback still available via holpublishing.com, we've extended our sale until the end of the week! 📚

Keep Valak happy—join us in supporting indie publishing! 👻

#PrintIsUndead #booksky #sale #nonfictionnovember
Image: Grid containing four greyscale images (clockwise: Valak screaming; Valak smiling; Scared Sacred book on wooden table with House of Leaves Publishing logo on the left; Scared Sacred book on wooden table with eBay logo on the left). Valak images from The Nun (2018); Scared Sacred images by Cristina Resa.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Today, and every Thursday, our shop will continue to be closed until there is a permanent ceasefire and a Palestinian state. We encourage those who are able to do so to join us. 🍉

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine
Image: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 6 November 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The Beaver Moon is so-named after the industrious effort of its namesake building winter dams, signalling a period of preparation. 🌕❄️

Now is the time to review and refine our systems and practices, so we can ease into 2026 with mindful readiness. 🖤

#writersky #fullmoon #writingcommunity #authorsky
Image: Full moon above clouds (Altınay Dinç | Unsplash). Text reads: Beaver Moon. 5 November 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Here's mine:
Email confirming 50 pound donation to the Trussell Trust
November 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or [email protected]) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - for the chance to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻

Details in caption - please share! 🖤

#horrorsky #filmsky #writersky #stationery #giveaway
Images: Four squares containing black-and-white images of stationery sets: 1) two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves; 2) pumpkin-shaped sticky notes, page markers, washi tape with skeleton design, and Hex Libris bookplate with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 3) Zebra mildliner and Sarasa pens with black pen pouch and notebook on skeleton themed paper with ceramic skull and pumpkins, and gypsophila; 4) silver notebook with stylised text at the bottom (reading: 'Warning: Positively Do Not Open') and an Annabelle doll sitting on top. Background is grey with leaves behind the doll. Throughout November, send us proof (via DM or info@holpublishing.com) that you've donated at least £3 (or equivalent) to your local food bank - in any country - and you'll be entered into a draw to win a HoL horror bundle. 👻 The bundle contains series one (sold out) and two of our annual Halloween Writual collections - horror-themed stationery sets curated for readers and writers - as well as a couple of extra surprises. 📚 Horror bundle includes: 🖋️ autumnal pens + stationery 📓 an Annabelle-inspired notebook 📑 spooky annotation + organizational tools 💀 Hellraiser-inspired greetings card set designed by featured artist John Sowder 👻 exclusive stickers designed by featured artist Jessica Rose 🫖 Northern Irish tea 🖤 and more… Open worldwide (including US) - we'll cover the postage. 🌎 We understand not everyone is in a position to donate, so to help us reach as many people as possible, you'll also be in with a chance of winning a wee gift if you share this post (just make sure we're tagged so we can enter you in the draw)! Winners announced 1 December 2025. Take care and stay spooky 🖤 Rebecca
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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We have such stationery sets to show you... ✒️

Don't miss this limited collection in our extended Halloween sale—it would be a waste of good suffering... 💀

Sign up to our newsletter for 30% off everything: holpublishing.com! 👻

#stationery #writersky #sale #horrorsky #hellraiser #conjuring #booksky
Image: two greetings cards, notebook, gold pen, black envelopes, and lament configuration, surrounded by leaves. The first card blends the character of Pinhead with Valak from The Conjuring 2 (“Angels to nun, demons to others...”), and the second card draws from the Scared Sacred's illustrated chapters to complete the set (“Malice in Chains”). Text: holpublishing.com; Halloween sale; 30% off everything.
November 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Happy Halloween!! 🎃

As a wee treat, step inside one of our haunted attractions: Filtered Reality, our collection exploring found footage horror. 📹

Read Peter Turner's chapter on haunted attractions + the culture of excess: holpublishing.com/halloweentreat2025!

#booksky #horrorsky #horror #filmsky
Image: sky with clouds and moon, with cover for Filtered Reality and posters for The Houses October Built (2014) and Hell House LLC, 2015. Text: holpublishing.com; Halloween Treat; Read full chapter.
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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House of Leaves is participating in the global economic strike for Gaza. Today and every Thursday our shop will be closed until there is a permanent ceasefire and a Palestinian state. We encourage those who are able to do the same to join us. 🍉

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine
Image: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 30 October 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption.
October 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Triple the treat for HOL-loween... 🎃

Everything's on sale until midnight on 31 October, discounted by 10%—no code needed! 📚

But wait, there's more...

Sign up to our newsletter for an extra 20% off: holpublishing.com! 🖤

#sale #horrorcommunity #spookyseason #horrorsky #booksky #stationery #filmsky
Image: Black-and-white photograph of 'Filtered Reality: The Progenitors and Evolution of Found Footage Horror' paperback book and lit candle. The cover has a central eye with a camera lens inside with tree branches/roots above and below, and the text is stylised to look like vintage embossed labels; the candle has a matching design. Further text on book: Foreword by Stephen Volk; Introduction by Aislínn Clarke; Edited by Rebecca Booth & Valeska Griffiths. Text on image: holpublishing.com; Halloween sale; 30% off everything.
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Today and every Thursday our shop will continue to be closed until there is a permanent ceasefire and a Palestinian state. Who's joining us? 🍉

#globalstrikeforgaza #freegaza #freepalestine
Image: Background: Green and grey with a ribbon containing the colours from the flag of Palestine. Text: 23 October 2025. Every Thursday. Global Strike for Gaza. Please read caption.
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM