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Eric Powell @eric-powell-comics.bsky.social · 3d

Read “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?”

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Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social · 4d

The first of my posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards is up! Featuring: @carsonwinter.bsky.social, @emnays.bsky.social, and Damien Casey.

@specawards.bsky.social

www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/10/smal...

Small Spec Book Awards - Semi-Finalist Feature #1

Welcome to the first of many posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards! Every few days between now and when the fina...

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Mx Morgan @mxmorgan.com · 10d

Dropped prices on a few originals, and also added a small batch of Prehistoric Pins to the ko-fi shop:

ko-fi.com/s/803767b1bd

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Mx Morgan @mxmorgan.com · 4d

packing orders to ship tomorrow - snag a pin and/or some artwork and they'll go in tomorrow's batch. i'm about $100 from meeting the goal c:

Mx Morgan @mxmorgan.com · 10d

Dropped prices on a few originals, and also added a small batch of Prehistoric Pins to the ko-fi shop:

ko-fi.com/s/803767b1bd

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 4d

Yes but do you Void?

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow is today🖤☠️

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 6d

Holler, Tenebrous Cult!

We're gonna be on the road for the next couple weeks, so TOMORROW is the last day we'll be shipping webstore orders until around October 18th.

So if you got something of our burnin' up your wishlist, get on it: store.tenebrouspress.com

Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror

Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

store.tenebrouspress.com

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 6d

HUGE NEWS DAY!

We have a new @egallagher.bsky.social SPLIT SCREAM cover to share!

(In lesser news, there's a new T-Swift album! And that is literally all the news.)

Anyway! SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES! Featuring novelettes from @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social

April 2026🖤☠️

Cover art: the two illustrations feature a foreboding, wildly framed mirror and a human silhouette in the reflection; and two hands clutching a mysterious organic, vaguely heart-like mass; plus a blurb from M.Shaw.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 7d

the October horror shopping list is live! feat. new books from @tanyapell.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @jennykiefer.com @richardkadrey.bsky.social @emotrophywife.bsky.social @carsonfaust.bsky.social @johnhornor.bsky.social @zefrrr.bsky.social @talkscaredpod.bsky.social & many more!

All the New Horror Books Coming in October 2025

October 2025’s new horror books, featuring titles from Joe Hill, Neil McRobert, Jewelle Gomez, Gemma Files, Caitlin Starling, Jenny Kiefer, Richard Kadrey, Tanya Pell, Brian Asman, Nuzo Onoh,…

readjumpscares.com

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 5d

**eBook ANTHOLOGY BUNDLE SALE**

GREEN INFERNO - Eco-Horror
IN SOMNIO - Gothic gone Weird
YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY - New Weird Horror by an all Trans/GNC crew

All 3 for just $8.99!

Why? Dunno, but they all seem pretty thematically relevant these days🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ten...

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 6d

Motorhead released 23 studio albums and all of them are good.

Many of them are great; at least half. But all of them are good. That's insane, even for Motorhead.

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 6d

Aaaaand that’s all the fuckin internet I can handle today

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 7d

The Night Ship is up on Netgalley for those of you so inclined! Reviewers, friends, enemies, anyone, if that's not accessible for you drop me a line, I *am* keeping a list of who has asked and will be dropping emails shortly. ♥️

www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

As the world goes dark, smuggler Rosi and her crew sail their truck across a murky sea of nothingness.
But something hungry lurks below...

THE NIGHT SHIP BY ALEX WOODROE
PREORDERS OPEN! Coming January 20, 2026 from Flame Tree Press

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 7d

"Horror sci-fi banger" is an incredibly generous interpretation of the genre chaos magic going on in this book that I am SO FREAKING EXCITED TO GET TO TELL YOU ABOUT oh my gosh this is gonna be so fun

Author of Whisperwood and editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press Alex Woodroe's TATRATEA in which a lone researcher arrives at an ancient Romanian manor to investigate the source of a virus driving the world insane, but is quickly locked in and caught between local hyperactive flora, invasive cosmic forces, and her own ability to remain lucid, to Christoph Paul at CLASH for publication in fall 2026

Clash Fall 2026 Alex Woodroe (photo of the author wearing a tenebrous press shirt and wielding a mean rusty axe)

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 7d

This is my favorite thing I've read, from my favorite writer; and a long time coming.
Brain-mangling and haunting and sneaky, grimly funny, all at once. I can't wait to see it set loose on the world🖤☠️

CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social · 7d

When you’re publishing your publisher friend. @alexwoodroe.com wrote an amazing horror sci-fi banger! So stoked be publishing her!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 11d

Just saw @mxmorgan.com's cover art for next year's YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY companion book and uh
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For all kindsa reasons, we're mindful to have all our swans in a row before we talk too much about this one; we know how much it means to a lot of people. Rest assured more news is coming soon🏳️‍⚧️🖤☠️

cover art for the original YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY by Mx Morgan G Robles; illustration of a swan being mauled by trans-flag-colored tentacles covered in spikes, eyes and viscera

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 11d

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 12d

Funny, I don’t *feel* war ravaged.

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 12d

BASKIN?

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 12d

Dan to Jewel🤘

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 12d

“Do not put unauthorized cinnamon on the goddamn meeting table. That’s all the fuck we need.”

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Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social · 13d

This is the first Big Hollywood Film™️ in years, a decade-plus probably, that has grabbed my attention. I’m very intrigued to check it out.

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 15d

I have the coolest writers

Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 15d

Trve Cvlt turns 1 today! If you asked me what my 30s would look like, I wouldn't have guessed it'd be this. Thank you @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Drums by yours truly. Guitars/vocals/production by @rynstonecowboy.bsky.social
I have the coolest friends and
I'm grateful for all of you 💀💜🤘

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 15d

One year ago, we didn't know how this Weird book would be received. All we knew was it was evil. It was damned.

It was...fun?

One year later, it remains one of our most popular titles. It must be the music videos.

Hails, Betts! Upon this TRVE grim, uh, 80-degree sunny day, we salute you🤘🖤☠️

Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 15d

Trve Cvlt turns 1 today! If you asked me what my 30s would look like, I wouldn't have guessed it'd be this. Thank you @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Drums by yours truly. Guitars/vocals/production by @rynstonecowboy.bsky.social
I have the coolest friends and
I'm grateful for all of you 💀💜🤘

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Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social · 20d

“A haunting story that’ll please fans of Black Swan and Suspiria, but with a distinctly Chinese folklore hue. It dances right up to phantasmagoric while still commanding a captive audience.”

Thank you for the lovely blurb, @mattblairstone.bsky.social! 🖤

DEMON SONG: 9/30, @titanbooks.bsky.social 👀

Blurb graphic with the following text beside a cover of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu: “A haunting story that’ll please fans of Black Swan and Suspiria, but with a distinctly Chinese folklore hue. It dances right up to phantasmagoric while still commanding a captive audience.”
—Matt Blairstone, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated Publisher at Tenebrous Press

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 20d

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves.

Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

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