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Nefarious Bat Press
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
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We're a women-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, operated by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney

We like intersectional feminism. A lot

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www.nefariousbatpress.com

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Undead fans! @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's smalltown zombie grief-horror THE DENIZENS claws its way up through the soil a month today - and we'd love you to preorder your copy

All the thanks to @rachelharrison.bsky.social for her wonderful blurb ❤️

www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
Promo image for Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens, showing the book clutched in the hand of a green zombie rising from the leaves and earth Strapline reads: "Rising from the earth February 17th" "Mesmerizing, with a quiet but profound sense of dread"- Rachel Harrison, USA Today Bestselling author of PLAY NICE and SO THIRSTY
January 17, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Morning everyone!

It's January, and we're back building out our ARC reviewer list ahead of this year's releases: @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS, @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS, @discobooks.bsky.social's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS... 🧵
Collage of the covers of our upcoming 2026 book releases Top left to bottom left: Drew Huff's The Denizens (ghostly figures with extremely long fingers), Disco Barrington's This Is How The World Ends (cover TBC), panel reading "our 2026 releases" with the Nefarious Bat logo, and Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens (aerial view of a rural forest town, its layout not unlike a human skull)
January 10, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Preorders are incredibly important, especially for small presses

With that in mind... here's the digital preorder link to @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's smalltown undead grief-horror THE DENIZENS, out February 17th

And booksellers: we'd love you to order it in!

www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
Cover of Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens, with text "Coming February 2026" Blurb for The Denizens, reading "The Denizens destroys you from the get-go, then has the audacity to resuscitate you with a simple flip of the page. LaFaro has the uncanny knack to equally decimate and resurrect his readers, chapter after chapter, a grief-stricken Prometheus, weighing his writing down with an ache that just keeps us coming back for more." - Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up And Open Your Eyes
January 9, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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📣 NEW AUTHOR ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣

We're very, very happy to report that we've signed the amazing @discobooks.bsky.social's debut novella, dystopian specfic THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS - tacitly scheduled for an Autumn release

And we're pretty sure you're going to love it as much as we do 🦇📚
Collage of faintly dystopian images (dead trees in floodlands, explosions, mists, too-shiny geodesic domes) with the text: THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS by DISCO BARRINGTON COMING THIS AUTUMN FROM NEFARIOUS BAT PRESS
January 8, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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Just to confirm: all our books are 100% LLM-free, at every stage of the writing, editing, design/production and marketing process

We are a 100% LLM-free publisher. It's in our contracts

Any alternative is repugnant
Lineup of covers of a few Nefarious Bat books (including Drew Huff's The Exodontists, Brennan LaFaro's The Denizens, Anna Orridge's Phengaris, Shauna Mc Eleney's Awake In The Night and TC Parker's Tradwife) with a red ribbon promising: 100% LLM Free
January 6, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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A little astonished we've had to do this, but lo: thanks to the unbelievably quick work of the wonderful @ruthannaevans.bsky.social... TRADWIFE has a new cover, for the Bad Place only

(If there's an issue with *plastic* hearts... I'm all out of ideas)

OG cover still VERY available everywhere else
Updated cover of TRADWIFE, showing a young white woman in 1950s dress in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding A PLASTIC MODEL OF A HEART on a plate and smiling at the camera
January 2, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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The Denizens are coming

Preorder now:
www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
December 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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If you're looking for a new rage-read in this strange, interstitial, neither-Christmas-nor-New Year period...

Here's Tradwife!

Get it here:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMMG6D1V

Or here, direct from us:
payhip.com/b/TDowG
December 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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When the holidays feel overwhelming... read a book!
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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It's Christmas - and to celebrate, we've made the recently-relaunched A Press of Feathers free/PWYW all this week on the Nefarious Bat webstore

Happy holidays! (if haunted houses, sinister neighbours, Victorian asylum ghosts & grisly serial killings are your thing) 🎄🎅

payhip.com/b/jHS8G
Promo image for A Press of Feathers, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" ~ Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Merry Christmas, from us and this guy

May your spirits be bright, and free of monsters! 🎄
Seasons greetings image featuring the Nuckelavee, an Orcadian folkloric monster with a human head and long-armed torso sprouting from the body of a zombie-like horse It is skinless, and its eyes burn red It is wearing two hats: an elf hat on its horse-head, and a Santa hat on its human skull. A scarf is draped around its horse-neck, and tinsel adorns its monstrous human chest Text reads: Merry Christmas, from us and this guy
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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It's £1.99/$2.99 at the Bad Place right now*... so here's the sort of thing you can expect to find, if you pick up @tcparker.bsky.social's The Debt

www.amazon.com/Debt-El-Gard...

*though, if you wanted to buy it direct from us at the Bat store... we wouldn't hate it
A Plot Recipe infographic for The Debt, identifying it as Crime/Heist and showing the various influences on the book, namely: - Ocean's 8 - The Usual Suspects - Now You See Me - Set It Off - Widows - Leverage
December 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Relaunched Feathers paperbacks have landed in the Batcave... and they're glorious!
A white person's hand - Shauna's, in fact - holding up a copy of TC Parker's A Press of Feathers against a grey bedspread that, now I look at it, seems oddly reminiscent of some of the ones you used to see everywhere in teen boys' bedrooms in the 80s... Book cover itself is deep red, and shows 4 images in a frame: a Natural History Museum-esque illustration of an oversized bird; an illustrated cross section of a human head and neck, minus skin (with tendons etc showing); a daguerreotype of a woman in Victorian-style dress and hat; and a giant, bestial hand that seems to break the frame and reach for you through the cover
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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📣 COVER REVEAL! 📣

We're very, very happy to reveal the cover for @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS - out Halloween '26!

(Cover by Drew themselves, because they're multitalented :) )

Add it to your TBR (and your GR) today!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Cover reveal image of Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS - a book cover on a graded green background Cover shows a sketch of 4 tall, translucent humanoids with long, spindly limbs and glowing gold eyes holding pliers and reads: "The Exodontists: A Horror Novel" Background text reads: "Coming October 2026 from Nefarious Bat Press"
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Reboot sale! To celebrate the relaunch of A PRESS OF FEATHERS... you can pick up the ebook for just 99p until Sunday at the digital Batstore 🦇🦇🦇🪶🪶🪶

It's a steal, we tell you! A steal!

payhip.com/b/jHS8G
Blurb for A Press of Feathers, from Ross Jeffery, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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We're both really proud of this one - and are delighted to have a chance to lavish a bit of attention on it

So, if Clive Barker meets The Birds in a haunted house is your cup of tea (per Ross Jeffery!) - we'd love you to give it a read :)

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Blurb for A Press of Feathers from Ross Jeffery, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" - Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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FEATHERS has had a makeover... and we couldn't be happier!

(A quick 🧵)
New cover for TC Parker's A Press of Feathers Cover has a maroon background, with 4 framed central images Clockwise from top left: - Victorian-era portrait of a giant bird - medical illustration of a human head, side-on, skinless with muscle etc visible - Victoria-era white (likely English) woman posing for daguerreotype - a clawed human hand, covered in dirt, breaking the frame to reach out towards the audience
December 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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So happy to share this - another wonderful blurb for @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS, this time from the wonderful @aijiang.bsky.social!

Get your preorders in now:
www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...
"A gripping, yet somber apocalyptic novel filled with the occult, the roaming dead, and disparate relationships mended and strained" ~ Ai Jiang, author of Linghun and The Palace Near The Wind Image of the cover of THE DENIZENS, featuring a bird's eye view of a town in the middle of a forest, the layout of trees, quarries and houses making the whole place look from a distance like a skull Caption reads: Coming February 2026
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES & OTHER STORIES is out now!

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November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A surprise ebook drop from the Batcave - @tcparker.bsky.social's first story collection, THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES!

No ARCs, no blurbs, not so much as a whisper of PR for this one... we're going all-in on word of mouth

Check it out - and help us spread the word!

tinyurl.com/4z45pbb9
Cover of TC Parker's The Nine O'Clock Horses & Other Stories, showing a black horse's eye and muzzle in closeup against a dark background Urban legend, body horror and suburban paranoia collide in THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES - a collection of short stories, novelettes and micro-fictions from the author of TRADWIFE, HUMMINGBIRD and SALTBLOOD A toxic relationship turns monstrous. An insurance investigator discovers something unthinkable in a decaying English boarding school. And a hungry insomniac gets much more than she bargains for when she falls down a rabbit-hole of cooking videos... Equal parts unsettling, stomach-churning and macabre, and seasoned with a healthy dose of feminist rage, THE NINE O'CLOCK HORSES is perfect for fans of Jonathan Sims, Eliza Clark, Daisy Johnson and The Magnus Archives
November 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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2-for-1 weekend sale on intersectional feminist rage!

Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!

payhip.com/b/TDowG
Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry" Venn diagram, featuring cover of TC Parker's The Debt at the centre, with overlapping circles promising: - Cons, heists and hustles - Vengeance is sweet - All-female crime caper, Ocean's 8-style Book cover itself shows a shadowy figure in a hooded top walking down a nighttime street, while an eye watches from overhead
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Next: the upcoming The Denizens, by @brennanlafaro.bsky.social!

(Preorder here: www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...)
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Next: Tradwife by @tcparker.bsky.social!

(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/TDowG)
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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It's Sunday, so we thought we'd share a 🧵 of some of our promo videos - and see if they can persuade you to grab a copy of one of our titles...

First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!

(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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3 Image Book Challenge for your Saturday:

Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images

We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
October 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM