One Cold Night

Watch Rhiannon's short horror film about unboxing her final copies of HOME SICK so you can obsess over it with me 🪓!

And it looks like... I've lost my... author?! Or have I gained a whole new cloaked author? 🫣 9 daaaaaaaaaays to go until you can get your hands on Rhiannon's debut (in the States). 11 daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays until the UK release!

In which Rhiannon's *EPIC* promo campaign for the brilliant Home Sick reaches it's terrifyingly inevitable conclusion...

@rhiannonagrist.bsky.social you are nuts, I love it! 🤩🤩😂🐑🪓🥷

At this rate, I'm fully expecting Rhiannon to release a feature-length found footage horror the day of Home Sick's launch

Book launches are in danger of growing stale. @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social is taking them to strange new places.

She’s okay. She’s totally okay. Right?……Right?

HOME SICK unboxing goes wrong 🫣 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

HOME SICK unboxing goes wrong 🫣 @solarisbooks.bsky.social

gm ☕️ 👂

Fawn by @cnvair.bsky.social is a book I can't stop talking about And here are ten books that are a perfect companion read to a book that is something special gnofhorror.com/fawn-by-c-n-... @angelaslatter.bsky.social @emiliahart.bsky.social @gengornichec.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social

Less than two weeks to go. HOME SICK Are you ready for your cottagegore era? @solarisbooks.bsky.social geni.us/homesick

I can’t remember if I said this already, but from the moment when Black Doe became the unofficial theme tune to the novel I was writing (Black Doe, obvs), I’d daydream about having a book trailer with the song as the backing track. It’s so good. Those drums! youtu.be/722dDnXtkgA?...

Less than two weeks to go. HOME SICK Are you ready for your cottagegore era? @solarisbooks.bsky.social geni.us/homesick

The Lion, the Witch, the Wardrobe and Another Lion

The fact that it's not a massive change plot-wise should have clued me into the fact this character was unnecessary aaaaaages ago

Got to the end of editing a big chapter where all 3 timelines collide for the first time and only now--ONLY NOW--do I realise that if I cut a character in the 2nd timeline it will streamline the whole book. FUUUUUUUUUUUUC--!!!

It's still a few months away, but if you're around Edinburgh on the 24th September, The Shape of Monsters will be launching at Blackwell's www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/c-l-hellis...

Do you think people who look at google's search terms know when a truly amazing xkcd drops? xkcd.com/3266/large/ (Note the hover-over text...)

Just a reminder you can perceive me and my BESTSELLING 🤯 novel at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social in a week and a half! I'll have Jumpscare Society stickers and maybe brownies (non-medicinal), if I can find prepackaged ones so we don't get sticky fingerprints all over the store.

Folk horror doesn't need fields. Blood in the Bricks drags the genre onto the underground, the surgery ward and the skate park. Lonely in a crowd, terrified at home. Neil Williamson's anthology is bleak and brilliant. https://gnofhorror.com/blood-in-the-bricks-urban-folk-horror-review/

AAHHHHH it's HOME SICK release month! I'm doing fine. Tamsin is fine. Tamsin's neighbour is totally fine. Just a good and normal amount of thoughts.

These books could not be more different, but they're both brilliant! 😁

Solaris may be settling into our new home @profilebooks.bsky.social , but the books don't stop coming! Here's what's out this month: 🪓🐑HOME SICK @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 's horror debut! geni.us/homesick 🍂🦉THE AMBER OWL (#1 THE HEARTWOOD DUOLOGY) @julietmarillier.bsky.social geni.us/amberowl

HAPPY JULY! Coming up on www.kindig.co.uk this month: 7th: #TheNightStairs by @mserinkelly.bsky.social 14th: #HomeSick by @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 21st: #YouKnowWhatYouDid by @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social 28th: #TheInfiniteState by @richardswanauthor.bsky.social #BookSky 📚💙 #books 🩸📚 🪐📚 ⚡️📚

AAHHHHH it's HOME SICK release month! I'm doing fine. Tamsin is fine. Tamsin's neighbour is totally fine. Just a good and normal amount of thoughts.

Whisper it, but after a long and frustrating dry spell, I may have made some progress with the edit

There's lots of horror books coming out in 2026 so I'll be posting a bunch each month. Here are the ones publishing in July. Book lists in ALT text. 1/2 #2026horror #horrorbooks #2026publication #julyreleases #horror #bookpost #bookrecs #postseries #booksky #books

So excited that HOME SICK is going to be in the August box from Night Worms!

HOME SICK IS A NIGHT WORMS PICK FOR AUGUST! www.instagram.com/night_worms/...

E. L. Chen on Slasher Summer: seven friends named after slasher icons, hauled back to the cabin from a cult '80s film and forced to replay the roles they outgrew. We talked Final Girls and writing yourself into a genre built to kill you first. #HorrorBooks

Just over a fortnight to go until @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 's debut psychological Scottish cottagegore horror novel HOME SICK hits the shelves! Sometimes when you escape to the country, you just take your problems with you... Preorder now: https://geni.us/homesick

So excited that HOME SICK is going to be in the August box from Night Worms!

HOME SICK IS A NIGHT WORMS PICK FOR AUGUST! www.instagram.com/night_worms/...

Another golden egg merchant kills its own goose

Test batch of macaroni pies 👀

Following @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social 's lead ahead of her "Home Sick" release and making sure I have a grip on my axe to grind (Axe spotted at Firedoor restaurant in Sydney, Oz)

First print review of HOME SICK 🖤

Did I just hustle all the way to the WH Smiths at Waverley station just to pick up the latest Scream magazine with the first print review of HOME SICK? You bet your ass I did! Thanks for the 5💀! @solarisbooks.bsky.social

“Drips with female rage” My job here is done! Massive thanks to @thevampireslibrary.bsky.social for this review in Scream Magazine. This really made my day. I respect her so much as a reviewer and human because she reads diversely , champions women , and has great style 😁 @titanbooks.bsky.social

Did I just hustle all the way to the WH Smiths at Waverley station just to pick up the latest Scream magazine with the first print review of HOME SICK? You bet your ass I did! Thanks for the 5💀! @solarisbooks.bsky.social

Calling LBGTQ+ folks in Edinburgh/Lothians 🏳️‍🌈 There's a new advocacy service to help you access things like GIC or anything where you'd like support saying/getting what you need. Deets below:

📚 👻Happy Summerween! Here's a spooky stack of recent and forthcoming releases from Solaris! Inc. books from @mkhardywrites.com @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social Lindy Ryan @alexgrecian.bsky.social @isabelcanas.bsky.social & more! All available to buy/preorder now...with more to come! #booksky💙📚

A recommendation that is not my book. FLEDGLING by Josh Holton. It's about masculinity, grief and birds, and one of the most insightful and hilarious books I've read in years. Trust me, just read it: www.waterstones.com/book/fledgli...

Last day!

Last day!

It was hot, so I made more HOME SICK memes. This about sums things up.

HOME SICK Coming July @solarisbooks.bsky.social Art credit: Ian Cumberland 'Distance' (2016)

The Backrooms went viral because we’d all already worked there. https://gnofhorror.com/backrooms-horror-the-british-working-class-truth/