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Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · 22d

Fantastic! 🤘

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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 28d

Every week, from now until the release of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND from @wordhorde.bsky.social, I will be posting a new installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I'll be exploring some of the many influences that shaped the collection, and my own odd conception of the Hollow Earth.

Hollow Earth Expeditions: Counting the Cats in Zanzibar

“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some ‘Symmes’ Hole’ by which to …

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 28d

I read an advance of this and found it a great mix of fun and weird and horrible. I know that sounds counterintuitive but it's not. Ordinary folks come in close contact with the inexplicable and are changed by it, unmade and remade.

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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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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Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · 28d

Preorder direct from Word Horde and you'll also get a signed bookplate and a free ebook!

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Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle

Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle coming soon to independent booksellers everywhere, and most onl…

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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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Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks so much! Definitely proud to be included in this company. ❤️

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lewishousley.bsky.social @lewishousley.bsky.social · Aug 31

Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!

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John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Ignotus!

I am surprised and delighted to share that Bocadaver y otras autobiografias, the Spanish language translation of my fifth collection, Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies, is a finalist in the tra…

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Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wow: @johnlangan.bsky.social’s “My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” from his collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions is so cool. Partway between Pale Fire and Stephen Bergs’s “Footnotes to An Unfinished Poem,” but, as always, pure horror, too. Much recommended. Hope it wins all the awards. Should

Banner version of the cover of John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Aug 31

This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link!
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A Tale of Demonic Possession in the Vein of ‘The Exorcist’

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John Langan @johnlangan.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Lost in the Dark in the New York Times!

This morning brought the astonishing news that my new collection, Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, has received a lovely review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review from the mighty Gabino…

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · Aug 17

Little Sunday new arrivals and restocks post! Excited to have these in the store…

Hellbound heart
Chopping spree
Why didn’t you just leave
Beneath
Haunting of winter falcon
Project vampire killer
Crypt of blood

The haar
Maggie’s grave
We light it cherry
Puppet’s banquet
The caged girl
Stab rabbit

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Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social · Aug 18

#bookmail It’s always a cause for celebration when there’s a new @johnlangan.bsky.social collection from @wordhorde.bsky.social. And here it is: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Dig that @mrj81.bsky.social cover, too. A complete package from back to front.

Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan

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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · Aug 14

#Bookmail 📚💙🩸(one belated as I've been working on Art)

The ARC for the IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS novelization from @echohorror.com - thanks so much for sending, excited to finally say "Yes, I read Sutter Cane!" 😜

LOST IN THE DARK... The newest from @johnlangan.bsky.social & @wordhorde.bsky.social 🖤

Paperbacks for IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS & LOST IN THE DARK & OTHER EXCURSIONS

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Brian Dassero @bdassero.bsky.social · Aug 14

@wordhorde.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social I can’t wait to dig into this! I waited for the physical book as I feel horror is best served by the feel of the text.

A picture of Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, the new book by John Langan. Also included is a bookplate that came with it.

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · Aug 15

In today's #bookmail: a finished copy of the brilliant new horror collection LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by @johnlangan.bsky.social! I loved this book and you will, too! Order today from @wordhorde.bsky.social ⭐
And check out my Chthonica interview with John here: youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...

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Ryan Whitley @frryanwhitley.bsky.social · Aug 15

“Madame Painte: For Sale” by @johnlangan.bsky.social, org. pub. In BEHOLD! ODDITIES, CURIOSITIES, AND UNDEFINABLE WONDERS, ed. by Doug Murano, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017. Read in: LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by John Langan, pub. @wordhorde.bsky.social, 2025.

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Bryan Center @dinnerladyarms.bsky.social · Aug 15

It’s amazing to find an author, read one book, and immediately realize you need their entire body of work. @johnlangan.bsky.social is that author. New book came today from @wordhorde.bsky.social w/ an autograph on a sticker! (I guess some book nerds can decide if they want their books marked on.)

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Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · Aug 13

More copies of @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions headed out today.

Day 1: ✅
Day 2: ✅

Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!

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Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ICYMI - @thisishorror.bsky.social news from last Friday:
www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u...

Lost in the Dark & Other Excursions by @johnlangan.bsky.social - out now @wordhorde.bsky.social, The Fake Ghost by @nuzo.bsky.social - released *today* @deadskypub.bsky.social ...

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News Round-up Week Ending 8 August 2025

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from author John Langan and Word Horde, Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions A garishly painted…

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · Aug 12

Shirley Jackson Award-Nominated author Nadia Bulkin’s sophomore collection ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY drenches the reader in a sensory overload of power, belief, and horrifying transformation.

PRE-ORDERS INCLUDE A SIGNED STICKER FROM THE AUTHOR: ghoulish.rip/product/issu...

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THE COVER JACKET FOR ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · Aug 12

Huge @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social order for the shop is officially on our shelves! Come check it out this week at Ghoulish Books!

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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · Aug 11

New @johnlangan.bsky.social is shipping, but the ePub is already here. Goodbye free time for the next few days! And the first story starts in the second person singular. That takes guts.

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Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · Aug 11

Great news! We have started shipping out orders of @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. 🎉

Day 1: ✅

Is your copy in here? 🙀

Back at again tomorrow. Thanks for your continued patience!

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