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Jonathan Lees

@jonathanlees.bsky.social

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Writer of horrors and other things feat. in: The Rack (Vol. II), Long Division, Fear of Clowns, Other Terrors, Even in the Grave, & The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors +++ more ✒️📚🏳️‍🌈☠️🩸 Director, Video: ex-Complex & ex-Tidal www.documentiaprojects.com

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · Dec 1

My starter pack needs more space than the 150 allotted so I’ll make a part two of horror folk, creatives, and evil doers. Also, why does Bluesky allow me to change the title of the pack but the graphic still says “horror writers”. Anyways, go celebrate these artists go.bsky.app/QBuj23L

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 6d

Today's $2.99 Kindle deal! A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, THE COOK (1965) is a dark fable "beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels" (The Observer). www.amazon.com/Cook-Valanco...

Book cover for THE COOK by Harry Kressing

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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 7d

If you've fallen in love with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social's THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT, let me recommend THE INCONSOLABLES.

"Michael Wehunt is one of my favorite, trusted guides navigating stories of grief and loss, sadness and regret." @sadiehartmann.bsky.social

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

The Inconsolables

The Inconsolables - Kindle edition by Wehunt, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Inconsolables.

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 7d

💙📚🩸 It's the 1st & been awhile since I shared so:

Horror #publishers on Bluesky; mostly #indie & active (posting regularly or w/in past 6 mos)

***with confirmed NO AI policies (will not use or accept generated words/images)***

Starter Pack:
go.bsky.app/UwgWqLc

Feed list:
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · 7d

Truly iconic.

Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 7d

On this day in Horror History, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE premiered in Austin, Texas in 1974.

A man wearing a scary mask is dragging a screaming woman into a house.

Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · 8d

This is why I am no longer allowed to pre-order any books. I almost always ordering twice in that window of time… sometimes three.
On a good note, this means one of my friends is gonna get a copy of Neil McRobert’s highly anticpated debut novella, Good Boy, from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social

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Kurella De'vil is in the Details @kurellian.bsky.social · Sep 3

yes!
i wrote a queer novella about the Death of Mountains coming for mountain in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's out now from @lethepress.bsky.social

you can get it here:

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Death of Mountains

Check out The Death of Mountains - <p>The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories...

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · 12d

The coolest book mail drop I’ve had in a while.
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
@annieneugebauer.bsky.social
@gemmafiles.bsky.social

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · 26d

Shocked at how well-stocked the HORROR section is at Barnes & Noble in Salem, NH. Seeing stuff I’ve never seen in person on bookshelves!

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 28d

New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!

Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · 28d

Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · 28d

🙌🙌🙌🙌

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Marguerite/Peg Turley @margueriteturl2.bsky.social · 29d

Happiest of pub days to my favorite guy @claymcleod.bsky.social !
This collection is fkd up beyond words, but that’s what I love about his stories! His are always the first ones I read in every anthology I have and more than likely they are my favorite! Go out and pick this one up today! #books

Acquired Taste book by Clay McLeod Chapman

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.bsky.social · 29d

Today’s the day! Welcome to the world of Burnt Sparrow… 🪶🖤 Now available everywhere books are sold!

Here’s an essay I wrote for Barnes & Noble:

www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/eric-la...

Giving a Voice to the Faceless: A Guest Post by Eric LaRocca - B&N Reads

This is a terrifying (and thrilling) start to a brand-new trilogy from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and At Dark, I Become Loathsome. Read on for an exclusive essay from E...

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · 29d

The most insane horror novel release day evvverrrrrrrr.

Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 29d

New Books today!! Let's Celebrate! Full list in the alt text, descriptions, discussion, and a shopping list on my Patreon

-Acquired Taste
-The Belles
-You Weren’t Meant to be Human
-The Macabre
-Marrow
-The Burial Tide
-Play Nice
-Roots of My Fears
-House of Idyll
-The Extra
-They Fear Not Men in the Woods
-The Haunting of William Thorn
-We Are Always Tender With Our Dead
-Death in the Aviary
-Coffin Moon
-Reef Mind

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 29d

The Extra has arrived! 👀

Out today, @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's The Extra is the first in The Outsiders Sequence, standalone stories in a shared universe.

Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra?

A graphic showcasing the book and audiobook covers for The Extra, mostly an uneven green cover with large white text and a linked string of paper people, eleven of them, connected at the hands.

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · 29d

I’m ready to Play Nice. @rachelharrison.bsky.social is the best.

Rachel Harrison @rachelharrison.bsky.social · 29d

Ready to PLAY NICE? 😈

OUT NOW 🖤 It’s a beautiful day to give your demons a hug 💕

bookshop.org/p/books/play...

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 29d

A massive happy publication day to @manylittlewords.bsky.social and her @titanbooks.bsky.social anthology ROOTS OF MY FEARS.

Out today and available in all good bookstores!

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Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tomorrow.

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John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Why I Love Horror: A Selection of Images

In just a couple of weeks, a book called Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, edited by Becky Siegel Spratford, will be released. I was pleased to be asked to contribute to the volume, a…

johnpaullangan.wordpress.com

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · Sep 6

My in-person six-week class starts soon. Alumni have published workshoped stories in Asimov's and Lightspeed and Uncanny, have been nominated for Hugo, and have turned their haphazard novelettes into novels published by Harper Voyager etc.

www.sfwriting.institute/course/intro...

Intro to Fiction

Where does your story start? How on Earth do you keep it going? What’s the difference between ending a story and just stopping it? This class will teach you the architecture of story and how to build ...

www.sfwriting.institute

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · Sep 6

Very exciting!!

Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · Sep 6

👁️👁️

Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wait until y'all see what Chris and I have cooked up for our next trick... ;-)

Reading with My Eyes @trhixson.bsky.social · Sep 6

The End of the World As We Know It is an excellent book and a great snapshot of the world of horror writers as we know it.
Fantastic job to @cgolden.bsky.social and @briankeene.bsky.social

#horror #booksky #Books

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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hapoy birthday Phil! Thanks for all you do.

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Sep 6

Did you get your ticket yet?

This Wednesday join @annieneugebauer.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @tanyapell.bsky.social, @seanpatrickhopkins.bsky.social, @psantomasso.bsky.social, and @alandistro.bsky.social to celebrate the release of THE EXTRA!

Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · Aug 25

Join us live on Wed, Sept. 10th for THE EXTRA Launch Party!

Author @annieneugebauer.bsky.social with special guests:
- @claymcleod.bsky.social
- @tanyapell.bsky.social
- @seanpatrickhopkins.bsky.social
- @psantomasso.bsky.social

Tickets are FREE (limit of 90) here:
shortwavepublishing.com/tickets

Shortwave Publishing presents The Extra Launch Party, hosted by Alan Lastufka and Alec Shane. Featuring Annie Neugebauer, Clay McLeod Chapman, Tanya Pell, Sean Patrick Hopkins, and Patricia Santomasso. The evening will feature a Q&A with the author, a special sneak peek at book 2 (The Other), and a live reading from the audiobook narrators!

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Rachel Harrison @rachelharrison.bsky.social · Sep 4

I cannot put into words how cathartic it was to write this, or how thrilled I am to have written for @peoplemag.bsky.social 🖤

I’m really proud of this essay, hope you’ll go give it a read 💕✨

people.com/rachel-harri...

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Tabloid Terrors @tabloidterrors.bsky.social · Sep 6

[The Boston Globe; Massachusetts - 10/2/1994]

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