Hot damn, CRAWLSPACE is on the list too! Roll on 2026 🖤🖤🖤

2026 is going to be another INSANE year for horror fiction! Very honored to see WRETCH mentioned here 🖤🕯️🪲 cinemachords.com/2026-horror-...

My top 10 books of 2025! @alixeharrow.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @jrdawson.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @allymalinenko.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @peterclines.com @claymcleod.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social

Love seeing A GAME IN YELLOW here with books by Stephen Graham Jones, Eric LaRocca, Rachel Harrison, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Oyinkan Braithwaite, and more 💛 what a year for horror fiction

Very honored to be included on this list twice 🥹❤️ it was a fabulous year for horror fiction!!

Just finished The Dead Take the A Train by the amazing @casskhaw.bsky.social and @richardkadrey.bsky.social (LOVE!) and am listening to At Night I Become Loathsome by @ericlarocca.bsky.social

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

Regardless of lines like these, IT CAME FROM NEVERLAND is a horror romance. "Further down, a torso without legs. A leg without a torso. A helmet still strapped to a head which had its face blasted off by enemy fire." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803654...

A forgotten Tennessee Williams horror play, written for radio as part of his University of Iowa coursework and performed on air perhaps only once, has been published in the Strand Magazine. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

My favorite first reads of 2025—new releases + older books I finally got to. @ramseycampbell.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @agustinabazterrica.bsky.social @okokno.bsky.social @ivygrimes.bsky.social #BooksOf2025 #BookSky

Today's treat on the This Is Horror Podcast Patreon is the full conversation with Eric LaRocca (@ericlarocca.bsky.social) in which we talk about his latest book, Burnt Sparrow, acknowledge his recent This Is Horror Award, and much more. www.patreon.com/posts/146268...

I really don't know what anyone in the SFWA was thinking allowing gen slop into the Nebula Awards in the first place, but I'm glad that decision has been reversed.

My year in review is live on The Lineup. I will have a liner post of my best horror books on Monday along with my annual best books Becky read in 2025 post on Tuesday. the-line-up.com/2025-horror-...

This was excellent!! The ending genuinely shocked me. Sayaka Murata will always be one of my faves ❤️

Check out @Gabino_Iglesias’s review of WE ARE ALWAYS TENDER WITH OUR DEAD by @ericlarocca.bsky.social: “Some of LaRocca’s best writing… and haunting scenes of abuse and murder serve as a superb start to what promises to be an amazing trilogy.”

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Very honored to learn that my collection, THIS SKIN WAS ONCE MINE AND OTHER DISTURBANCES, won the This is Horror Award for Best Short Story Collection of 2024! www.thisishorror.co.uk/this-is-horr...

If you don't stand with trans people, I hope you get your fucking ass beat.

Signed copies of my new book at Trident Booksellers on Newbury Street in Boston, MA!! 🖤

This is beyond *insert every swear word* unacceptable.

We Are Always Tender with Our Dead by Eric LaRocca: Review by Gabino Iglesias locusmag.com/review/...

Becky Spratford is the unassuming champion behind the rise in horror lit. “To me, Becky is the spark plug, lynchpin, head coach and fairy godmother of horror,” says author Daniel Kraus.

I just finished @ericlarocca.bsky.social ‘s incredible new novel “Wretch”, courtesy of #NetGalley and #SagaPress #SimonAndSchuster due out March 24. Haunting and visceral and deeply affecting, this queer horror story gripped me from the first page and wouldn’t let go. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly recommended! Damn

I’m always saying the same shit and I mean it every time. In the age of soulless AI slop, nothing matters more than your voice, so write/create whatever makes you happy. Make it weird. Make it dark. Make it queer. Make it surreal, diverse, sexy. Make it political as fuck. Do YOU.

Hallucinatory, fiendish, and destructively beautiful. Wretch has arrived at Kendall Reviews. That Clive Barker quote at the beginning is a stunner. 😍 @ericlarocca.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social

On this day in Horror History, THE WOLF MAN was released in the U.K. in 1941.

Feeling BLESSED @ericlarocca.bsky.social thankyou @titanbooks.bsky.social @kabriya.bsky.social (although the 🪰 👀 evil!)

I love @sgj.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @ericlarocca.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social , @natcassidy.bsky.social, @rachelharrison.bsky.social, @danielkraus.com, @scumbelievable.bsky.social, @wnwagner.bsky.social. Great writers, better humans, and all with books out this year!

Consortium Corner, our staff spotlight series celebrating Consortium's 40th anniversary, continues with Josh Brown, Consortium’s manager of operations and metadata (and in-house Star Wars expert). Read the full Q&A here: www.cbsd.com/blog/2025/10...

This is happening in an hour (8pm) if you want to join!

I am beyond excited to have this book with Shortwave!!!! Described by a reader as “Melancholia if it was an episode of Black Mirror,” y’all are going to love this one! I can’t wait!!!!!

Hey, I'm launching a Patreon! You may have heard that it's just a little bit hard to make a living as a writer these days, so if you like my culture writing, please consider subscribing 🖤 My first essay, live now and free to all, is on Elem Klimov's Come and See www.patreon.com/posts/143805...

It’s that time of year again! For this year's State of the Horror Nation, I’m joined by @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @annarosereads.bsky.social and @georgesreads.bsky.social for a deep appraisal of 2025 in horror writing (and some film) SO MANY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS! All podcast places - enjoy.

WE ARE ALWAYS TENDER WITH OUR DEAD, the first in the Burnt Sparrow trilogy by@[ericlarocca.bsky.social](did:plc:2tb3pcpobqj62n3stdzaxmtq) is an intense, visceral, beautifully written queer horror set in a small New England town. ⚰️ Out now! https://tinyurl.com/4ndby38t

Titan is sending out ARCs for WRETCH including candles and tiny plastic beetles to UK-based reviewers!

Good morning

My year-end THINGS WHAT I LIKED over yonder hill and dale to terribleminds house we go -- books, movies, TV, games.

Nice to see DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEET on the 2026 look ahead. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Short story today was "Write My Eulogy on the Gloryhole Bathroom Stall" by @raewilde.bsky.social. This story is like Clive Barker, @ericlarocca.bsky.social, and CJ Leede got together and made a gloriously depraved horror baby. It was grimy and disgusting and poignant. Reading it again immediately.

Honored to be on here twice with fellow doublers Eric and Clay along with all these fantastic authors 🖤🖤 It's been a wild year, and A GAME IN YELLOW and TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS have such amazing company in horror books here 🤩

Wow! Library Journal selected around 30 horror titles as The Best Horror Books of the Year and they included both of my 2025 published releases! I’m so honored 😭🖤 Clay McLeod Chapman, Hailey Piper, and I are the only authors to appear on the list twice!!! www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...

Most of the people still get worried about Saw. So my recommendation is to get comfortable with some of this shit existing and shut the fuck up if you don't like it because we've gotten to the point that it's all coming down because fascist fundamentalists hate you personally.

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter wasn't actually that intense. A lot of the "queer community" pilloried a trans woman and ran her out of society entirely and buried her literary future because they felt like it and they could taste blood in the water, and that's how all this works.

Every year Emily does this and every year it's my most-visited web page for anything related to books. Thank you, Emily, for saving the horror lit world so many headaches with your hard work.

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

Well that looks nice.

I read a ton of amazing books this year and it seems like every major horror author released new fiction in 2025. Here are my four favorite novels published this year: —ANGEL DOWN by Daniel Kraus —rekt by Alex Gonzalez —THE UNWORTHY by Agustina Bazterrica —SHOOT ME IN THE FACE… by Emma E. Murray

On this day in Horror History, CAT PEOPLE premiered at the Rialto Theatre in 1942.

So this is an exciting thing happening next month. www.harvard.com/event/george...

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