Have we told you lately just how badass @wordhorde.bsky.social & their namesake brick & mortar @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social are? We are eternally grateful for everyone who bets on us. Bookstores, we’re tellin ya: put us on your shelves, & we will sell🖤☠️

Yeah that's right, I had energy for one more boost, fun fact! If you can't afford Nick's THE SECOND SHOOTER for some reason, you can at least go out and get KALIVAS! at your local awesome indie bookstore, such as Petaluma's own @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social, zum Beispiel. They're so dang'd good!

Hey, Northern California — my debut storybook is back in stock right now at @wordhorde.bsky.social. Thank you, @lossrockhart.bsky.social! And for those who live in the #BayArea — lemme know if I should come do a book signing in your region. It’s being considered, so let’s hear from you. 👀 #goth

Given the capitulatory pressure / temptation experienced by corporate media and institutions, there has arguably been no greater moment in recent history for us all to increasingly, vocally and materially support independent media.

That deafening silence is the collective roar of every free speech absolutist staying quiet while the government tells us what to say, what art is appropriate, who deserves to be on TV, and what books your kids can read.

We now pause for station identification.

The bad news: Legacy media outlets in America are bowing to fascism. The good news: You have another reason to break free of the remakes, reboots and nostalgia porn they sell you. Support indie creators.

Up at Fantasy Literature:

My review of @annaleen.bsky.social 's tasty novella AUTOMATIC NOODLE is up at Fantasy Literature.

They will move on to the next tragedy to try and blame trans people again. We cannot let them recklessly demonize the trans community.

My review of THE SECRET MARKET OF THE DEAD is up. Spoiler alert: I liked it.

The US Supreme Court’s storied history of white people determining what’s inconvenient and/or oppressive to non-white people continues.

Tomorrow night at @bloodstonebookshop.bsky.social in Sacramento. Includes art by Margaret Brundage, Frank Frazetta, and @mrj81.bsky.social's original painting for Scott Nicolay’s DS book caterpillars. Special edition (26 lettered copies) of caterpillars signed by Matt and Scott will be available.

Congrats to @emnays.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social, whose FROM THE BELLY & A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE, respectively, are semifinalists in the inaugural @specawards.bsky.social ! Both books are available in our webstore, & anywhere you buy books🐋🎃💀 store.tenebrouspress.com

If you're looking for New Weird fiction that doesn't know how to stay in its own lane...try THE SKULL & LAUREL🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

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

I am very pleased to announce the table of contents for SUFFERING THE OTHER, a benefit anthology for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center. For plain text version see the ALT text. Coming late 2025 or early 2026.

And we also made Locus.

I was slipped an advance copy of Notes from the Underground, which I had the pleasure of reading a couple weeks ago and found it weird and wonderful. You probably will, too, once it hits shelves.

Word Horde are the good guys, end of post.

So, it’s nearly impossible to get a photo without light glares in here, but behold! We now stock Criterion horror movies at Ghoulish Books! Also, for those curious, those wonderful paintings above the movies are from Deadly Prey Gallery!

All month long, we’ve been celebrating INDEPENDENTS—publishers who keep the indie spirit alive by bringing you the best in horror, fantasy, and sci-fi (plus LGBTQIA+ fiction, weird fiction, Bizarro & more!).

Throughout July, we’re celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic. Today, we’re looking at another small press publisher who also run a spooky bookstore, Toronto’s @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social.

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a press named for a river in Greek mythology… though I seem to have forgotten its name. No, wait, that’s right, today we’re looking at @lethepress.bsky.social! 😅

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at the oldest and largest publisher of Bizarro fiction, Eraserhead Press.

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a publishing house dedicated to the work and influence of author Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe Press (@grimscribepress.bsky.social).

Thank you!

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a stalwart of the modern weird fiction scene, NYC-based Hippocampus Press.

We’re nearing the end of July and our celebration of Independents, but not to worry, the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic is where you can find HUNDREDS of awesome indie books year round! We also love to host indie authors & we have a fantastic one for you to cap off Independents Month.

Reminder you can grab some of our titles from @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social in person or online! Great Indie store and press!

Hell yeah thank you for platforming @undertow.bsky.social ! :D Michael gave me a chance on my first ever short story collection and NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US ended up winning an Ignyte Award, a World Fantasy Award, and an Alberta Literary Award from the Writers Guild of Alberta!

San Francisco Bay Area readers! You can now get BOTH my collections at @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social! TO WONDER AND STARSHINE is out now! And I spy THE SHADOW GALAXY in a stack in the second picture. These are all published by Trepidatio Publishing / @journalstone.bsky.social. Thanks, guys! #books

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we're featuring @journalstone.bsky.social and their dark fiction imprint Trepidatio.

Hi folks! We’ve recently identified some suspicious activity on our store platform, and have had to limit certain activities while we investigate this matter. Most customers will not be affected. That said, if you have any issues with your order, please drop us a line at [email protected].

Just dropped off some Hazeland books for @bloodstonebookshop.bsky.social and figure you can buy 'em there in a week or so. Tell 'em I sent ya!

I’ve got a thing in the latest Forbidden Futures! Here’s your chance to preorder a copy. Or several copies. forbiddenfuturesmagazine.com

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Word Horde Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a small press based in the Pacific Northwest, Shortwave Publishing (@shortwavebooks.bsky.social).

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Word Horde Emporium! Today, we're featuring an award-winning indie press dedicated to delivering high-quality dark and darkly humorous fiction, Dark Matter INK.

Ozzy Osbourne may be gone, but rock ‘n’ roll lives on. Black Sabbath meets The Thing in Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth… wordhorde.com/books/an-aug...

Fuck yes! I love Word Horde, I love the Emporium (god I wish I lived closer), and I love @lossrockhart.bsky.social.

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at an award-winning publisher of neglected classics, supernatural horror, and LGBTQ literature, Richmond, Virginia’s Valancourt Books (@valancourtbooks.bsky.social)!

If you haven’t visited @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social before, you’re missing out. It’s one of my and Hannah’s favorite places. Seeing our books there is so surreal!! 💀🙏🏻 -Kell

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today’s feature is on a new addition to our Indie Horror section, California-based Graveside Press (@gravesidepress.bsky.social).

And that’s all she wrote… for now! Our Selma location is officially CLOSED. Thank you so much for one of the best sales days since opening our doors 2.5 years ago. Please stay tuned for news on our grand opening at our new location in Downtown San Antonio. Until then, STAY GHOULISH!

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we're looking at Washington, DC-based publisher of queer speculative fiction, 'zines, and chapbooks, Neon Hemlock Press (@neonhemlock.bsky.social).

I'm a lil biased, but 10p is well worthy of celebration 💀💜🤘

hi! we are relocating out bookstore from Selma to downtown San Antonio and we're having a massive sale today and tomorrow to clean out some of our remaining inventory. come on down?

AI is scraping our art and our humanity. AI "musicians" on Spotify; AI "writers" on Amazon. I simply don't understand why anyone would want to create something through prompts. That's not creation. Why not take the time and effort to learn to write, play music, etc.? Isn't that part of being human?

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we're featuring a small press that leans into the dark and shadowy insinuations of their name, Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social)!

Oh hey! It's coming right up!