From today's newsletter: "Not as many people will read DEAR STUPID PENPAL as *should*. But the ones who do? Get ready to hear them talking about it a whole lot, for a long time to come. This book changes people. It changed me." Preorder @rascalhartley.bsky.social's debut: store.tenebrouspress.com

Hails to The Line-Up! They agree that @rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is a must-read. This unique blend of sci-fi, cosmic horror, buddy comedy & romance is one of the best things you'll read all...ever. Out next Tuesday, order now here: store.tenebrouspress.com

This person mos def wins the coveted Sexiest Tenebrous Cultist of the Day. But share & share alike, we always say; this is a title that can be proudly paraded by multiple folks at once! So: who else wants to be Sexiest Tenebrous Cultist of the Day? You know what to do🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

This is gonna be great. @spicycloaca.bsky.social is a Brave New Weird award winner, an incredible writer, & a hell of an interior art designer for THE SKULL & LAUREL magazines to boot🖤☠️

2025 so far: 💀3 issues o'Weird shorts 💀Dystopian Feminist Sci-Fi 💀Freaky Novelettes of Loss & Rebirth 💀Indigenous Supernatural Chiller 💀Cronenbergian Phantasmagoria Mindfuck 💀Best New Weird Horror of the Year 💀Eco-Body-Coral Horror 💀Tarot-themed Terror Get some Tenebrous🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

Blurb, blur, blurb. Blurb is the word. Here's part of a killer blurb from @mattblairstone.bsky.social Matt Blairstone, Cult Leader over at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Also, got a bit of a promo video for One-Shot in the comments. Click that link, maybe buy a book, maybe get weird with me.

Dudes who can’t get hired anywhere else and took the worst possible lessons from cosplay💀 theonion.com/ice-agent-7-...

Also, oh hey bookstores and shop owners! If you wanna carry Tenebrous books without all the hidden markups that In**amSp**k adds, all the deets are here: tenebrouspress.com/wholesaledis... Better % for you; better % for us and our authors🖤☠️

Most of my life has been in restaurants, at every level, from dishwasher to rat catcher to general manager. There is sooo little money in restaurants. That it’s falling to them to feed this country for free should shame both worthless political parties. www.wweek.com/food/2025/10...

🎃HALLOWEEN READS🎃 Cuz books don't have expiration dates @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social's POSTHASTE MANOR takes you on a tour of the most f%&ked up haunted house imaginable. Think HAUSU (Japan, 1977) but middle America Art @slimyswampghost.bsky.social tinyurl.com/28ez4hb6

My latest cover for Tenebrous. Definitely had some Carpenter Brut rattling around in my skull while working on it. ALSO: my commissions are OPEN again. Indie publishers, indie authors: I'm keen to get you unique art for your project that won't break the bank. DMs are open🖤☠️

If you're a reviewer and willing to do a girl a solid, there's definitely something on this list for calls for reviews that would treat you right. And also there's my hoodlum of a book ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/02/c...

"One of the Most Anticipated Horror Books of Fall" - @pastemagazine.bsky.social "Messy, horny & mean in the best way": The Blog Without a Face Eleven tales that will exhilarate and terrify. @momoshaty.bsky.social's CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT, out now🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

Rolled many small boulders up the hill for 2026 today, & I'm in awe at the variety. Feels like such a trope-y answer—like a metal guitarist saying "yeah it's both our heaviest & most melodic album yet"—but it's also true. Next year is bleak AF & Electric Neon. Who's in for next year's book club? 🖤☠️

Looking for some horror this October? 🎃 Contributor @cavar.bsky.social has a story in BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 3, from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social! You can read their interview right here: buff.ly/wZS1iOt

Wanna stock up on some great Weird Horror reading for the weekend? 3 volumes of BRAVE NEW WEIRD or 3 cornerstone Tenebrous anthologies; each bundle is less than ten bucks! (Also, if you buy eBooks direct from Tenebrous, you own them outright🖤☠️) store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

🔥💀RELEASE DAY💀🔥 Love, congrats & happy book birthday to @momoshaty.bsky.social! CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT features 11 terrifying stories of Occult Horror that cut deep across time & space. These cards play for keeps🖤☠️ Cover art by @ear-a-corn.bsky.social store.tenebrouspress.com

🔥💀COVER ART REVEAL💀🔥 As if this day couldn't be awesome enough, we have this wraparound cover art for @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE, immaculately crafted by @jennacha.bsky.social OLYOKE sets the world afire in March 2026! Much more info to come🖤☠️

Wanna dig deeper beneath the surface of @momoshaty.bsky.social's CLAIRVIOLENCE ? The Blog Without a Face's review paints a rich picture: theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/10/21/c...

Mo has thoughts on things🖤☠️ Read @momoshaty.bsky.social's great interview covering CLAIRVIOLENCE, plus a whole lot more, conducted by @paulsemel.bsky.social: paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...

Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social. If we meet our $1200 goal, we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting January 2026. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (re-posted w/corrected link) #signalboost #writers #authors

The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, and learning cryptids and banished, embittered gods are real. You can order here through @malarkeybooks.bsky.social ! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Our 35th(?!) book is out next month. Here’s the full cover wrap for @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s DEAR STUPID PENPAL, featuring stellar art by @carlydraws.bsky.social Cosmic Horror x Queer Romance in an entirely epistolary story. You gotta read it to believe it🖤☠️ Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

This could be you, reading this excellent book! check it out :-)

The only thing burning Portland down is my hot riffs

Pullbox-plus pickup today 🖤☠️

Gift from @alexwoodroe.com bought at the @crucialblast.bsky.social table based purely on vibes. And, based purely on vibes, she nailed it; late 70s lo-fi scuzz-punk by The Mentally Ill, that sounds like it was recorded in an insane asylum🤘

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head. THE DEATH WHEELERS THE BROOD THE DUNWICH HORROR THE BEYOND

We’re days away from the release of @momoshaty.bsky.social’s CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT & the cards are restless! 11 tales of occult terror that will rattle you to your core🖤☠️ Cover art by @ear-a-corn.bsky.social Order: store.tenebrouspress.com

Fortune favors the Weird. CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT by @momoshaty.bsky.social arrives next Tuesday! The cards never lie🖤☠️ Cover art by @ear-a-corn.bsky.social Get CLAIRVIOLENCE: store.tenebrouspress.com

We're gonna be revealing the first of two cover art brain-melters from @jennacha.bsky.social in next week's newsletter. If you have amazing taste in art—and of course you do, you follow us!—and wanna see just why Jenna is one of our faves, you should subscribe now: sendfox.com/tenebrouspress

Cosmic Horror. Sci-Fi time shenanigans. And… …Tenebrous finds LOVE??? 🖤🖤🖤💀💀💀 It’s true. @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s DEAR STUPID PENPAL is up for preorder now! store.tenebrouspress.com Stunning cover art by @carlydraws.bsky.social

October is halfway over! Have you submitted anything for the BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR OF THE YEAR?

Tenebrous & Void 4EVA

Keep on rockin, Ace, you fabulous lunatic👾👾👾🖤🖤🎸🎸🎸

Sharing this again ICYMI THE ABYSS HORROR PR LIST docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Summary of @voidcon.bsky.social: life doesn't owe us much and publishing even less, every chance we get to live new things, be happy in these skins, and love on our people is gravy. Appreciate the Void for giving us gravy time. They did a great job and looked cool doing it. Hail Void crew!

Read “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?”

The first of my posts featuring the semi-finalists of the Small Spec Book Awards is up! Featuring: @carsonwinter.bsky.social, @emnays.bsky.social, and Damien Casey. @specawards.bsky.social www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2025/10/smal...

Dropped prices on a few originals, and also added a small batch of Prehistoric Pins to the ko-fi shop: ko-fi.com/s/803767b1bd

packing orders to ship tomorrow - snag a pin and/or some artwork and they'll go in tomorrow's batch. i'm about $100 from meeting the goal c:

Tomorrow is today🖤☠️

HUGE NEWS DAY! We have a new @egallagher.bsky.social SPLIT SCREAM cover to share! (In lesser news, there's a new T-Swift album! And that is literally all the news.) Anyway! SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES! Featuring novelettes from @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social April 2026🖤☠️

the October horror shopping list is live! feat. new books from @tanyapell.bsky.social @manylittlewords.bsky.social @jennykiefer.com @richardkadrey.bsky.social @emotrophywife.bsky.social @carsonfaust.bsky.social @johnhornor.bsky.social @zefrrr.bsky.social @talkscaredpod.bsky.social & many more!

**eBook ANTHOLOGY BUNDLE SALE** GREEN INFERNO - Eco-Horror IN SOMNIO - Gothic gone Weird YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY - New Weird Horror by an all Trans/GNC crew All 3 for just $8.99! Why? Dunno, but they all seem pretty thematically relevant these days🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ten...

Motorhead released 23 studio albums and all of them are good. Many of them are great; at least half. But all of them are good. That's insane, even for Motorhead.

Aaaaand that’s all the fuckin internet I can handle today

The Night Ship is up on Netgalley for those of you so inclined! Reviewers, friends, enemies, anyone, if that's not accessible for you drop me a line, I *am* keeping a list of who has asked and will be dropping emails shortly. ♥️ www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...

"Horror sci-fi banger" is an incredibly generous interpretation of the genre chaos magic going on in this book that I am SO FREAKING EXCITED TO GET TO TELL YOU ABOUT oh my gosh this is gonna be so fun

This is my favorite thing I've read, from my favorite writer; and a long time coming. Brain-mangling and haunting and sneaky, grimly funny, all at once. I can't wait to see it set loose on the world🖤☠️