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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Suicide Music

When Hazel’s brother is found unresponsive with his eye…

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

Whisperings of poetry slither through Hazel’s day-to-day life, infecting everything. What’s real? What’s not? Why is everyone she feels close to acting so strange? Why does her blood rage for release with a fire that can never be quelled? Is she changing? Are they all changing?

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

brother. Investigate why he was hanging out with fellow classmate, Rowan and his band of weird poets. Try to find out why more kids have gone missing, find out why all of them are dreaming of a tree covered in dead snakes.

Soon enough, the missing turn into the dead.

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

obsessively follows her.

If only things were like before: back when she was at the Safe House with the other broken girls. They were the only ones she understood; they were the only ones who understood her. Hazel’s best friend, Clara, has an idea: they should hunt down the person who took her

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

SYNOPSIS:
When Hazel’s brother is found unresponsive with his eyes sewn shut, her urge to cut returns. It makes her feel whole, makes her feel like she’s letting the pain out. After all, what else can she do? Her family is homeless. Her dad stranded them for a new life and her ex-boyfriend, Dylan,

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 22

HAPPY RELEASE DAY TO @pauljessup.com!

SUIC1DE MUSIC is a tale of nightmarish surreality, gorgeous in its poetic storytelling. This one will linger with you, we guarantee. Pop below to see the full synopsis and order yours today straight from our shop!

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#horrorbooks 💙📚

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · Jul 22

Happy Release Day to @pauljessup.com and his book, SU!CIDE MUSIC! From @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social, this is a well-crafted surreal horror that will keep you enthralled until the very end.

Stop by the Third Estate Books shop and pick up your copy today!

www.thirdestatebooks.com/store/p/suic...

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · Jul 21

*checks ledger of the dead*

okay, we're 102 days from halloween!! but we're sadly not quite on target for our IMPOSSIBLE goal of adding one new patreon patron a day.

just one

it's a big goal but we ask anyway

for we are but bones, and dreaming

✨🙏💀

www.patreon.com/the_deadlands

Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon

a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · Jul 21

Do you love us? Would you like to support us so that we can keep doing what we all love doing – bringing you delicious, disturbing and thought-provoking horror week after week?

Yes? Then please consider heading to to pseudopod.org and clicking on FEED THE POD 🖤

PseudoPod | The Sound of Horror

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Critical Cupcake 🌈 ♿ ⚛️ @criticalcupcake.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 21

TOMORROW. Find out what it takes to be a poem.

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · Jul 21

HOLY SHIT

Tomorrow Suicide Music launches! And this Saturday I'll be at Werner Books signing copies!

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Suicide Music

Coming out July 22nd from Third Estate Pre-Order Now When Hazel’s brother is found unresponsive with his eyes sewn shut, her urge to cut returns. It makes her feel whole, makes her feel like she’s …

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · Jul 20

This book is a VIBE. It's eerie, it has you doing a double-take with the crazy stuff that happens, and it's wild in its creepiness. If you're a fan of Lynchian stuff, please, please, please check this one out.

💙📚 #horrorbooks

Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 20

2 days left until SU!CIDE MUSIC releases! How about some memes without explanation that relate to the book? Is this up your alley?

PRE-ORDER now! www.thirdestatebooks.com/store/p/suic...

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Sal O'Shea (they/them) @neuroatriplicate.bsky.social · Jul 20

I have never felt more seen by a book of horror stories. Thank you @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social @aquinoauthor.bsky.social @lormaggot.bsky.social 💙📚 #Autistic

Cover of the book “An Autistic Horror Anthology”

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 20

2 days left until SU!CIDE MUSIC releases! How about some memes without explanation that relate to the book? Is this up your alley?

PRE-ORDER now! www.thirdestatebooks.com/store/p/suic...

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Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com · Jul 20

There's hundreds of these lists and dozens of ways to support your favorite author, and I know I'm just adding to the pile. But, hopefully some of these you haven't tried or didn't know about... 👇

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Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · Jul 20

WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE won a Shirley Jackson! What an ending for the book @omgjulia.bsky.social and I thought up in our first interaction on a defunct social media site!

I can't thank our amazing contributors enough. And our publisher @ericraglin1992.bsky.social. And our Kickstarter backers!

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · Jul 19

Yesssssssss

Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 19

THREE DAYS LEFT! Are you a fan of David Lynch? Do you love books with unconventional storytelling and narrators? You NEEEEEEED this newest offering from @pauljessup.com. For lovers of the *void* and all that exists around it... This one's for you.

www.thirdestatebooks.com/store/p/suic...

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 19

THREE DAYS LEFT! Are you a fan of David Lynch? Do you love books with unconventional storytelling and narrators? You NEEEEEEED this newest offering from @pauljessup.com. For lovers of the *void* and all that exists around it... This one's for you.

www.thirdestatebooks.com/store/p/suic...

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Laurel Hightower @laurelhightower.bsky.social · Jul 18

It's cover reveal time! Check out the wicked art by Marc Vuletich and gorgeous layout by @shortwavebooks.bsky.social - excited to have the 7th in the Killer VHS series!

Critters and mines and corpses, oh my!!

A book cover reveal depicting a woman standing at the mouth of a cave that looks like a monstrous mouth

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Michael Boulerice @michaelboulerice.bsky.social · Jul 19

Was only able to spend a day at Necon, but I laughed, sweat, connected with loads of really good people, and made great use of my time by forcing best-dressed A-listers like @alyssaalessi.bsky.social @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social and @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social to pose with a Feeding the Wheel arc

Alyssa Alessi aka The Absinthe Assassin holding up a copy of Feeding the Wheel at the New England Horror Writers table

Katherine "Kat" Silva holding up a copy of Feeding the Wheel in the Necon lobby. Kat is the friggin best. If you're at Necon this weekend make sure you say hi

Rhonda J. Garcia aka RJ Joseph aka Horror Auntie aka One of the Coolest People Alive holding a copy of Feeding the Wheel at the random "free" table at Necon

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Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

5 DAYS LEFT! YOU HAVE FIVE DAYS LEFT TO PRE-ORDER THIS FIERY DREAMLIKE GOODNESS!

(I mean, you can totally order it when it comes out, too. No shade on when you order so long as you...order.) 😜

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S.H. C🎃🎃per @pippinacious.bsky.social · Jul 17

Still can't believe BHG is out in the world! Have you grabbed your copy yet? #booksky 📚👀 📚🩸

S.H. C🎃🎃per @pippinacious.bsky.social · Jul 15

🍾BOTTLING HIS GHOSTS IS OUT NOW🍾
Netta returns to her family home to mourn the loss of her husband, only to discover new grief awaits. Her adopted brother is drowning at the bottom of a bottle and a house never haunted is now held captive by the supernatural. #Booksky

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A graphic featuring text, "It's Release Day" over the cover of Bottling His Ghosts, depicting two shelves of colorful bottles, within each is a writhing human spirit. The text, "Gothic. Ghosts. Grief." is across the bottom of the graphic.

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Jacy Morris @jacymorris.bsky.social · Jul 17

We Like It Cherry skies above Voss, Norway. It looks down upon the simple life, frowning and saying... This is not survival.

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