🎃 👻 Hershey wins suit claiming its Reese's Hallowe'en candies aren't spooky. 💀 🧟 🍫 🎃 But the wrapper & the candy inside don't match! @dmcwriter.bsky.social @trishcwilson.bsky.social @charlesbastille.bsky.social @hdwp.com @leannareneehieber.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/hershey...

If a stopped escalator is a weapon, the MTA has been trying to murder me for YEARS

👽 🧘 📖 🍂 ⏳ 🎃 alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/countdown-to-halloween-2025-excerpts-from-alien-buddha-zine-67-october-2024-edition-featuring-amy-grech-lynn-white-kenneth-vincent-walker-luanne-castle-allen-seward-zeke-jarvis/ 🌑 👤 🪞 🐺 👻 🐾 ☣️ 👻 🌹 #HorrorCommunity #SpookySeason

I have an incredible network of friends and colleagues. I am eternally grateful beyond words for you all.

Dear God Did you make disease and the diamond blue? Did you make mankind after we made you And the devil too?

Old enough to actually be interesting

subway fauna

Disappointing Bribe Just Duffel Bag https://theonion.com/disappointing-bribe-just-duffel-bag-1849135583/

This haunting anthology includes my #GriefPoem, “A Trick of the Light”. 💡🖤 #AuthorSky #BookSky #HorrorSky #NYCPoet #PoetrySky #WriterSky

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. -Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" #poetry #poetrysky

Meet my newest fabric art creatures Isadora the Phantom and the Destroyer. I designed and hand-sewed them. Isadora believes that haunting jerks is her sacred duty, and she's doing her best to pass on her values to her daughter the Destroyer. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

My friends know just how to cheer me up. Lol! One of my Best Buds just sent me these: #horrormemes #horror #horrorfam #horrorsky #lol

Coffee and a donut to celebrate Chopping Spree’s one year birthday! 🎂 Thank you to everyone who’s read my little anti-capitalist slasher, and thank you to Dark Matter Ink for publishing this stabby cutie! 🛍️🔪

sorry i set the kitchen on fire (sent with confetti)

Good morning, readers & writers! What was the last jack o'lantern you carved? #goodmorning #reading #readers #writing #writers #books #booklovers

Blondie ✨"RAPTURE" ✨(Official Music Video) Yes, the Rapture is on time! @dmcwriter.bsky.social @theothermike.bsky.social @mickeyd123.bsky.social @tomr-bsky.bsky.social @amygrech.bsky.social @charlesbastille.bsky.social @theorginalbang.bsky.social youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?...

Micro poems: DWARF STAR AWARDS announced today! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @angelayurikosmith.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @authorlindamcrate.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social

I'd love for you to read my Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book during the the Halloween season. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Jenna Barton.

The beautiful dust jacket for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION has incredibly kind quotes of spooky praise from @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @juliajoyce.bsky.social @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social & @sambaltrusis.bsky.social! Full text in AltText: Thank you for your support! 🖤👻

Finding solace in words, your #GriefPoem feels like a gentle embrace in the shadows. It’s beautiful how poetry can illuminate our darkest moments. 💡 Keep shining your light! #BookSky #PoetrySky

This haunting anthology includes my #GriefPoem, “A Trick of the Light”. 💡🖤 #AuthorSky #BookSky #HorrorSky #NYCPoet #PoetrySky #WriterSky

Extrasensory Overload: an anthology of speculative excess a.co/d/7wD1qkF

I sure wish I could be there, but the wonderful @amygoldschlager.bsky.social will keep the ship righted and sailing in my absence! Be sure to check this one out!

Mark your calendars! The next BBB at Barrows happens OCT. 17 @ 7pm -- back to a normal Tuesday schedule! Join us for sips, stories, & a salon-like atmosphere with readings from @matthewkressel.net @cwroseauthor.bsky.social @crissachappell.bsky.social & #PaulaBomer! 📚🎙️🧉 More: BrooklynBooksBooze.com

Happy birthday to my new book baby: "Leave No Trace"! What if the bear chooses you? 🐻🌲📚🎸👀 Featuring: 🌟 Irish & Scottish mythical beings 🌟 vanishing fae world 🌟 discovering your own power 🌟 magical forest in the Rocky Mountains More about & links to buy: randeedawn.com/books/leave-...

I hope everyone who believes they'll be raptured today gets their wish. It's a win for all of us.

Today is the day! You can read WHY I LOVE HORROR with 18 of today's best Horror authors. In their essays they ALL bring their personal connection to Horror directly to you, their readers. A post to celebrate with the full table of contents is below. raforall.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

Oh, wow! I've never seen ALL THREE on any bookshelf other than my own!!!

Why I Love Horror edited by Becky Spratford releases tomorrow! Please join us tomorrow for the launch, and to celebrate these fantastic essays. Details in the blog link below.

Nikai is fall ready 🎃🍂 #ambassadorwolf #happyfall

NEW SUBSTACK: "Authors, You Need to Fall in Love with Your Book Cover" dawncolclasure.substack.com/p/authors-yo... #books #callforsubmissions #coverdesign #deaf #disabilitycommunity #nonfiction #novels #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #writingparent

but babe, im getting raptured tomorrow this is our last chance

Imagine a society that stopped rewarding sociopathy.

Happy New Year to pals celebrating! Here’s to a year as golden as honey and as fresh as fall apples.🍯🍎😻

Reviewers, librarians, HWA folk! Honored if you would consider AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, our follow-up to our Stoker-nominated A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN for the Stoker reading list! Out 9/30, on NetGalley thru 10/7: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Two guys who grew up in mobile homes get to hang in NYC and be celebrated at the BROOKLYN BOOK FEST .. If this was a movie it would be titled LOOK AT US NOW!!

The final trailer for ‘WICKED: FOR GOOD’ will be released on Wednesday.

Hey, it's my birthday! I am Moderately Old! If you want to do something nice for me today, you could buy either of my new books for yourself or a friend! books2read.com/b/angelmaker books2read.com/b/thefoldedsky

A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF has 11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews…see what all of the buzz is about! #AuthorSky #BookSly #HorrorSky #NYCPoet #PoetrySky #SoeculativePoetry #WriterSky www.amazon.com/Shadow-Your-...

Back from a weekend visiting the college kid in Nashville and getting ready for release day tomorrow! Click below for details on how to join me on the road. @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @laneheymont.bsky.social raforall.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...

IT IS TIME.

The leaves are going orange and the air is just chilly enough that being under a blanket is a treat. Autumn, my beloved, it is divine to see you again.

A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF has 11 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reviews…see what all of the buzz is about! #AuthorSky #BookSly #HorrorSky #NYCPoet #PoetrySky #SoeculativePoetry #WriterSky www.amazon.com/Shadow-Your-...

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little." ‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.” So a napkin is a little tablecloth. 10/10, no notes.

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Yang Xueguo.