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Micah Castle 🎃

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Preorder my new book THE COMPAIONS WE LOSE 👉 mybook.to/companion | Weird fiction and horror author. | Editor. | Wishing he was drifting in the void. www.linktr.ee/micahcastle

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 14d

!COVER REVEAL!

THE COMPANIONS WE LOSE will release November 7
in ebook, paperback, and on Kindle Unlimited! For a
limited time, it's only $0.99 (ʟɪɴᴋ ʙᴇʟᴏᴡ)! Only 25
signed copies will be available via my shop nearer to
release.

Artwork done by the amazing Red Lagoe (@redlagoe.bsky.social)

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 22h

Mybook.to/companion

Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 22h

In one month, you'll find out how far someone will go for the companion they love, and make you question if you would do the same.

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 22h

These fkn pubs, man. Just pay your authors ffd

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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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 22h

IT'S OUT AND IT'S GOOD AND YOU SHOULD BUY IT

Jenny Kiefer @jennykiefer.com · Mar 21

CRAFTING FOR SINNERS releases October 7! Pre-order a signed copy here: www.horrorbookstore.com/product/craf...

The cover for CRAFTING FOR SINNERS, featuring hand-crocheted art

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 23h

Ketchup sandwiches.

Plain white bread + ketchup, that's it.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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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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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 1d

Where you going through to the con?

Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 2d

Absolutely banger

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3d

1 horror movie every day of October:

5-MAGNETIC ROSE, Kōji Morimoto (1995)

Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 2d

Howtf do you get books on listicles and shit without already having a known name?

Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 2d

Nope, unfortunately. :( I wish it was a little bit closer to my side of PA.

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 2d

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 3d

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 3d

🏡mybook.to/homehorror
🐺mybook.to/companion
🔪mybook.to/theabyss

Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 3d

Couldn't happen to a better person, for real.

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 3d

Terrify Your Tablet hosted by Horrorsmith Publishing is today! You can get a ton of free and discounted books, including my books HOMECOMING, THE ABYSS BEYOND THE REFLECTION, and THE COMPANIONS WE LOSE.

👇ʟ🎃ɴᴋ ʙᴇʟ🎃ᴡ👇

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · 5d

Today's the day, friends! #Pyres is unleashed!
Massive thanks to Beverley Lee for the shelfie and a wonderful blurb for the book:

See what the fuss is all about here: books2read.com/pyresnovel
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚😱

The Pyres book cover in ebook and paperback with a pull quote from author Beverley Lee about it

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Catherine McCarthy @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social · 5d

I'd like to give a shout out to two dear friends whose books came out this week.
Harrowfield by @stephellis.bsky.social and Pyres by @kevharrison.bsky.social.
Both are crackers!

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 5d

Wtf

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 5d

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 5d

Just let me keep my hoodie on all day please

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Bob Pastorella @bobpastorella.com · 7d

My splatterpunk vampire novel, THE SMALL HOURS is available from @ghoulish.bsky.social.

Get it: ghoulish.rip/product/the-...

Cover art: @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social

Funny: check
Horny: check
Bloody: check

It checks all the boxes and scratches that itch for gory, sexy, vampire fun.

Get bloody!

THE SMALL HOURS by Bob Pastorella. Cover art: Betty Rocksteady. An alluring vampire in a coffin, blood smeared around her fang-filled mouth. Blurb from Michael David Wilson comparing the book to Peter Jackson and Adrian Lyne.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 6d

Tell me you sold the story on the title alone

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Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social · 7d

I’ll be doing my first Reddit AMA today at 3 p.m. Eastern! Stop by and make me say thoughtful, malevolent, or fun things. www.reddit.com/r/horrorlit/...

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 6d

Yet it's still 80 degrees in western PA. 🙃

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · 6d

Take as many breaks as you want. We'll still be here to support when you do find the time/energy. 🖤