Some good news overnight. Writing the Magic, the latest in our series of essay collections from Dead Ink Books, has made the longlist for the BSFA Awards! Thanks again to all the contributing authors, and congratulations to everyone on the longlists. #BSFAAwards2026

Board of Peace.

Well they seem to be enjoying our cover reveal for UNEARTHED over on Instagram. 1.2K likes so far, and counting.

Here's the full lineup: Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Josh Malerman, Tim Lebbon, Eric LaRocca, A.M. Shine, Jonathan Maberry, Hildur Knútsdóttir, Ai Jiang, A. G. Slatter, Mark Chadbourn, Priya Sharma, Benjamin Percy, V. Castro, Gemma Amor, Cavan Scott, Premee Mohamed, Hache Pueyo & Steve Toase

I have a story in here. AI Cathedral. Because AI is a false god that only leads to destruction. Unless something more ancient gets it first. So grateful to @dancoxon.bsky.social and @pfracassi.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social

UNEARTHED has been a long-term project of mine: co-edited with Philip Fracassi, it collects together nineteen brand-new tales of ancient ruins and archeological horror. Unearthed will be published by Titan Books on 15 September. Hold onto your fedoras, and keep an eye out for more info!

We're thrilled to reveal the cover of UNEARTHED, a horror anthology from award-winning authors and editors @dancoxon.bsky.social and @pfracassi.bsky.social which digs beneath the crumbling structures of historical ruins to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Out September 15! 💀

Now reading - Unquiet Guests (2025), a collection of haunted house short stories edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Really enjoyable so far, with a good level of modest experimentation with form and genre. Was surprised to see Palahniuk going Weird! #booksky

The collection is complete! These three books are invaluable for any speculative fiction author 🤘🏻 @deadinkbooks.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social #booksky

#1 Hot New Release in Amazon's Cosmic & Eldritch Horror category too, ahead of new books by India-Rose Bower and Ronald Malfi. I'm honestly thrilled and confused. Clearly I sacrificed to the right gods.

Erm, what the hell?

Farage wants to bring Trump’s death squads to the streets of Britain. Together, we will stop him. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

I was thrilled to see that five of my stories appear on Ellen Datlow's Recommended Reading list this year, all of them from my collection Come Sing For The Harrowing ('In Flickering Light' is reprinted in Best Horror of the Year, where 'Beyond the Beach, the Trees' also gets an Honorable Mention).

Not forgetting these two cracking anthologies @dancoxon.bsky.social @helleborezine.bsky.social

Lots of excellent weird fiction from British writers around at the moment, enjoyed all of these hugely this year (@willmac23.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @raynewman.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social)

Well, that's a pleasant end to 2025. In her article for the Daily Express, Talya Honebeek names Unquiet Guests one of her 10 best books of the year. www.express.co.uk/entertainmen...

Great to see Come Sing For The Harrowing on this list!

Here’s your #folkhorror TBR for 2026! @davidbarnettuk.bsky.social @mathildazeller.bsky.social @danaisaly.bsky.social @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social @jennifermcmahon.bsky.social @jenjulian.bsky.social #Horror #horrorbooks #horrorauthors

I might be biased, but the Dead Ink sale looks flippin' great. 50% off a whole host of wonderful books, including my anthology Unquiet Guests (now £10!) and all of our Writing... series. Fill your boots!

Find your next great #horrorread with these #horror #newreleases @michaelrgoodwin.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @vlatinalondon.bsky.social @undertakerbooks.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @briangbhorror.bsky.social @joshuamoehling.bsky.social

I feel kind of guilty saying it since the world has been such a bin fire, but 2025 has been good to me. A World Fantasy Award, haunted houses, magic, Neutral Milk Hotel, alcoholism in Wake in Fright, folk-horror and Best Horror of the Year. Bring on 2026.

Early Christmas present from spooky @alisdairwood.bsky.social A handsome little volume (Betty helping steady my nerves)

Haunted house stories by Chuck Palahniuk, Grady Hendrix, Kirsty Logan, Matthew Holness, Claire Fuller, Will Maclean, Clay McLeod Chapman, Alison Moore, Irenosen Okojie and Ally Wilkes. Unquiet Guests is available now from Amazon, Waterstones and all good bookshops. Give a ghost for Christmas.

My copy of The Best Horror of the Year has arrived! Absolutely thrilled to be in this, alongside Paul Tremblay, Brian Evenson, Robert Shearman, Gemma Amor, Stephen Volk, Lucie McKnight Hardy & so many other fantastic writers. Thank you to Ellen Datlow for including me - writer achievement unlocked!

UNQUIET GUESTS is out now, available from all good bookshops (and next-day delivery via Amazon). Ten haunted house stories from some of the best short stories writers around - perfect for all lovers of ghost stories this Christmas (and a beautiful edition, too).

With only a week of shopping until Christmas, don't forget that UNQUIET GUESTS is available from most good bookshops in this glorious hardback edition. Amazon still have stock for next-day delivery and pretty much every Waterstones branch has at least one copy. Give the gift of fear this Christmas!

Signed copies of UNQUIET GUESTS now at Waterstones Trafalgar Square. Thrilled by the handwritten review - "A gloriously chilling collection"!

Unquiet Guests is OUT NOW from Dead Ink Books. Ten haunted house stories from Grady Hendrix, Alison Moore, Irenosen Okojie, Chuck Palahniuk, Claire Fuller, Clay McLeod Chapman, Will Maclean, Matthew Holness, Kirsty Logan and Ally Wilkes. Introduced and curated by yours truly. Santa says yes.

Remember to add Unquiet Guests to your Christmas wish lists! (Or, if you've already read it and enjoyed it, buy it for someone else.) Ten haunted house stories for Christmas, in a glorious deluxe hardback edition. Available now from Amazon, Waterstones & all good bookshops, or direct from Dead Ink.

We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.

If you're wondering how our Neil Williamson puts together anthologies like Blood in the Bricks (NewCon Press), he's written about his process for next year's Collective: The Collaborative Art of Anthologies. Check it out at the link below. @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @lunapress.bsky.social

Today I'm on the Write and Wrong Podcast, talking about our series of Writing... books from Dead Ink, ways of worldbuilding in fantasy fiction, and the rather chaotic path I've taken through publishing. Maybe give it a listen! www.writeandwrong.co.uk/home/episode...

A reminder that ARCs of my collection Come Sing For The Harrowing are available now on NetGalley. Physical ARCs from @clashbooks.bsky.social (I have a couple of copies too, if you're in the UK). Weird folk #horror for all you strange people.

Book news! Publishing October 2026, COLLECTIVE presents a group of essays by leading editors on the art of editing (and curating) anthologies. Just look at the cumulative experience behind this one - everything you've ever wanted to know about putting an anthology together!

Unquiet Guests - 10 smashing stories. From Dead Ink Press, edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social

Only a week to go until my workshop at Bard Books, north #London! Grab a ticket now, and join me and artist Alice Sielle as we use her artworks as inspiration for introducing elements of play and experimentation into your #writing. Details in the thread.

Just a reminder for those of you who have already started buying Christmas presents: Unquiet Guests makes a wonderful gift, and absolutely will not creep out your loved ones.* Available now from Amazon, Waterstones, and all good bookshops. *Not legally binding.

It's a little under two weeks until my writing workshop at Bard Books #NorthLondon. I'll be joined by artist Alice Sielle, using her artworks as inspirational jumping-off points for exercises incorporating play into our writing. Details via the link below! www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

Um, yes, please... A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸 "From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."

Those of you who use Audible should know that UNQUIET GUESTS is now also available as an audiobook. Not as pretty as the gorgeous hardback edition, but easier to stick in your ears. www.amazon.co.uk/AUDIBLE-Unqu...

A quick plea for help: if you've read and enjoyed Unquiet Guests, please leave a review on Amazon! We're currently sitting on a big fat ZERO reviews, despite strong sales. Let your opinion be heard!

Listening to @iammilliam.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social (wrote for Writing the Future) and @quantick.bsky.social (whose books I copy-edited for Titan) discuss Marc Behm's Eye of the Beholder (@charliehigson.bsky.social recommended in Writing the Murder). www.backlisted.fm/episodes/248...

It's a little known fact that if you leave 13 copies of UNQUIET GUESTS unattended overnight, they will assemble themselves into the arcane structure known as 'the Green Lodge'. Bad news for booksellers, but those of you buying a single copy for yourselves - or one for a friend - have nothing to fear

Hiya Womble. Last week I finished Ian McDonald's The Wilding, which was all the peat bog fun. And right now I'm enjoying Dan Coxon's Unquiet Guests anthology very much.

You should do this.

COVER REVEAL! My short story collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING will be reissued by the marvellous CLASH Books next April with this tasty new cover. I've also added two new stories, one previously unpublished - what more can you ask? ARCs are available now from NetGalley, or drop me a line!

Just read the first story from this anthology from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social. Love @dancoxon.bsky.social’s intro - was inspired to jot some ideas down for first time in months. Then there’s I am the House by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social Woah! 👏👏👏 Can’t wait to read the rest …

Lovely review of UNQUIET GUESTS over at Critical Popcorn. "...a veritable eerie indulgence of stories". criticalpopcorn.com/2025/10/31/u...