If you need some good news this weekend, "Experimental Files", an anthology of short stories inspired by @gemmafiles.bsky.social's "Experimental Film" is now available. Edited by Sarah Walker and Elizabeth Mitchell, all profit generated by this book will be donated to autism research efforts.

I got heartwarming good news today that I can’t share yet, but I am clinging to that good feeling like a life raft.

9 DAYS to our Meet the Editors event! Are you a short story writer? Planning to submit to Summer in the City? Come meet the editors and ask them anything! 📅 January 8, 2026 ⏰ 8:30 PM ET 📍 On Zoom. 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/SummerAMA #WriterSky #shortstories #writingcommunity #AuthorSky

I have been accused of having no filter. I have one. I use it a lot. This is what gets through. I can be meaner.

The #1 movie from when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go. Uh oh.

Know what you're doing tonight? You're hopping onto Zoom for the SINISTER SOCIETIES LAUNCH PARTY! ⏰ 9 PM ET 📍 Zoom 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/S6LAUNCH With: @cindyoquinn.bsky.social @erricknunnally.bsky.social @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social @comicazimike.bsky.social @horrortom.bsky.social #BookSky

Thanks to @comicazimike.bsky.social for this great photo! Find his novella in SINISTER SOCIETIES, along with tales from: @cindyoquinn.bsky.social @erricknunnally.bsky.social @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social @horrortom.bsky.social & @inkwellmonster.bsky.social #BookSky #HorrorSky #TBR

I was driving home from work and saw a meteor breaking up as it moved across the sky. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. It was so big and bright I was worried it was a plane crash until I got home and checked the news. It was in a lot of pieces. Does that mean I get to make a lot of wishes?

The Rat King rules below; the Coin King rules above. When a pickpocket proves power can be stolen, chaos reigns. Out 12.9.25: links.ruadanbooks.com/buyS6 Cult of the Rat King by @inkwellmonster.bsky.social is a city crawl remaking one thief's understanding of the world one revelation at a time.

We've built in a short breather over the holidays, so there won't be any more releases this year. We resume in February with @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's hotly anticipated collection, YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED. Pre-orders are through the roof for this one. badhandbooks.com/preorders/yo...

SIX DAYS to Sinister Societies! Join us for a live reading and Q&A with the SINISTER SIX horror authors, hosted by @yerpalskipp.bsky.social: 📅 Tuesday, December 9, 2025 ⏰ 9 PM ET / 6 PM PT 📍 On Zoom 🔗 links.ruadanbooks.com/S6LAUNCH See you at the launch party! #BookSky #HorrorSky #thrillers

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Gabino speaks truth

LAST DAY to get your pre-order for SPRING IN THE CITY in at a fantastic sale price and get a metal bookmark. 🌸 links.ruadanbooks.com/spring Your book order will also help build a donation for the Greater Boston Food Bank, don't forget! #BookSky #darkfantasy #shortstories #urbanfantasy

Huge thanks to @inkwellmonster.bsky.social for these kind words for YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED by @annieneugebauer.bsky.social. Pre-orders are LIVE for what is shaping up to be one of 2026's biggest horror collections. badhandbooks.com/preorders/yo...

ICYMI: Get your Bad Hand Books for less. Upcoming titles by @cgolden.bsky.social @toddkeisling.com @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @genni.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social @annieneugebauer.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social and more!

I cannot get over the synchronicity between Caitlin Starling’s book The Starving Saints and Florence + the Machine’s Everybody Scream album. It’s uncanny how well they align. Both divine.

Join us, buy books, fight hunger: Ruadán Books is donating 50% of all profits on our books sold between 11/1–12/23/2025 to @gr8bosfoodbank.bsky.social. Our CEO will personally match this donation as well! Get our books direct: 🔗 ruadanbooks.com 📚 or wherever books are sold! #BookSky #charity

If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you. There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.

In a late-1800s mining town, the Molly Maguires arrive to help workers fight for better working conditions—but even they can't save the ones sent to work in.... @horrortom.bsky.social's Tunnel 17 will keep you up at night. SINISTER SOCIETIES out 12.09—pre-order: ⛏️ links.ruadanbooks.com/buyS6 #TBR

A new Amazon review for THE ATROPINE TREE by @inkwellmonster.bsky.social says, "This feels timeless and outstandingly enchanting." In the mood for something ghostly and gothic? www.amazon.com/Atropine-Tre...

The reason the headline is "doom!" is because when you see what's already been done, you see that we can do more, which means things can get better, which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.

The eye in the hand agrees: you don't want to miss this gift! Pre-order #SinisterSocieties BEFORE 12.09 and you'll get a free collectible art card featuring one of the original Kip Ayers' illustrations from the anthology. Order here: 💀 links.ruadanbooks.com/buyS6 #BookSky #HorrorSky #thrillers

@brianevenson.bsky.social readers: his new story "i will came {sic} haunt you" in @weirdhousepress.bsky.social's anthology 13 POSSESSIONS is now out in paperback! Contributors include Richard Gavin, Sarah Read (@inkwellmonster.bsky.social) & James Chambers (@mothman13.bsky.social) ⭐ a.co/d/3EUbSvT

PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is out today! This is a Southern Gothic fantasy with family secrets, Gullah funeral traditions, a beautifully strange house, and a generous sprinkling of magic. In hardcover, eBook, & audiobook Available wherever books are sold. #booksky #Blackbooksky

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

Great news for librarians, booksellers, reviewers—Sinister Societies is now available to request on NetGalley & Edelweiss. Become one of us & request this sinister sextet of novellas: EW: links.ruadanbooks.com/S6EW NG: links.ruadanbooks.com/S6NG UK: links.ruadanbooks.com/S6UK #BookSky #HorrorSky

It’s Little Bookshop of Horrors day at Caramel Crisp Corner! Cookies, books, coffee, and all the Halloween vibes!

"With its lush prose and growing dread, The Atropine Tree is a dark literary marvel." -- Lisa Morton, author of Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances and The Castle of Los Angeles Get @inkwellmonster.bsky.social's latest gothic novel today. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Titles by @brackenmacleod.bsky.social @jfdt.bsky.social @tomsnig.bsky.social and @jsuretteacheson.bsky.social @timlebbon.bsky.social @lairdbarron.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @inkwellmonster.bsky.social @michaelwehunt.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social & more.

This chilling depiction of The Tooth Fairy haunts @inkwellmonster.bsky.social's Stoker nominated collection, ROOT ROT & OTHER GRIM TALES. Illustrations (including the cover) by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

New editions of The Atropine Tree will be fully laced with nightshade. What could go wrong?

Hey! Did you know that Little Horn: Stories (from Shortwave) is almost here? I'm hugely proud of this book, and you can order it thusly: shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

I’m reading from my PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE tomorrow and donated exclusives to the fundraiser supporting @thepixelproject.bsky.social's mission to stop violence against women & girls. Join me! 9/26 at 9:30 am EST/2:30 pm UK. thepixelproject.rallyup.com/read4pixelsf... #booksky #Blackbooksky

Edited by Linda Hartley, Sinister Societies features six novellas by: @cindyoquinn.bsky.social @erricknunnally.bsky.social @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social @comicazimike.bsky.social @horrortom.bsky.social @inkwellmonster.bsky.social 🔗: links.ruadanbooks.com/buyS6 #BookSky #TBR #horrorbooks

hey, new LibGuide up @sowellcollection.bsky.social for my stuff there:

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS today! 13 coming-of-rage stories including the return to print of "Benny Rose the Cannibal King" about the monstrousness of adolescence and those who will do whatever it takes to get away, or get even. Out now from Titan Books! 😈 tinyurl.com/prhdemons

A fantasy world inspired not by medieval western Europe, but by classic noir ... ... plus bloodthirsty gods and sea monsters. Returning to print next year, and with limited signed bookplates from Bad Hand Books;

One of us! One of us! YOU could be one of us with a pre-order of SINISTER SOCIETIES, a collection of six secretive novellas out 12.09.25. Featuring six of the finest horror writers publishing today, this selection of stunning stories won’t easily let you go. links.ruadanbooks.com/buyS6 #BookSky

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

#DarkAcademia & #Schoolhorror - Day 4 @patricklacey.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social ‬‪ @colinwinnette.bsky.social @inkwellmonster.bsky.social @joshmalerman.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @quirkbooks.bsky.social

"Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind." ~ Toni Morrison

And my portentous First gig for @badhandbooks.bsky.social, cover art for Root Rot by @inkwellmonster.bsky.social. The beginning of two wonderful creative relationships. (and the start of my needing to read everything by Sarah Read)

Winter in the City features work by: ❄️ @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social ❄️ @inkwellmonster.bsky.social ❄️ @lilychilds.bsky.social ❄️ @brianevenson.bsky.social ❄️ @timlees.bsky.social ❄️ @thelatejonnypapers.bsky.social ❄️ @nmamatas.bsky.social ❄️ @katherinetraylor.bsky.social ❄️ @richardkadrey.bsky.social

Walk into the woods. Dive into the water. Make a wish. Meet your fate. If you missed Bram Stoker Award-winning author @inkwellmonster.bsky.social's stunning collection, ROOT ROT, now is the time to fix that. Illustrations by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. bookshop.org/p/books/root...

Two of my longest-running friends and colleagues back from our Books of the Dead days. Left, @brackenmacleod.bsky.social, middle, me, right @markmatthews.bsky.social. Photobombing us is the great @inkwellmonster.bsky.social! And the fantastic @timwaggoner.bsky.social lurks in the background.

Speaking of @inkwellmonster.bsky.social, the first novel we ever published was her stunning vision of gothic terror, THE ATROPINE TREE. Poison gardens. Seances. Family secrets. Ghost children. With cover art by @johncoulthart.com. You need this in your life. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

This collection. This gorgeous, Bram Stoker Award-nominated collection by @inkwellmonster.bsky.social. I will sing Sarah's praises all the way to my grave. She's phenomenal. And @tomsbrown.bsky.social's cover art/interior sketches pair perfectly with the tales. www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...

Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed my wife's day job, so every single pre-order, purchase, signal boost, kind word means more than ever right now. Thank you all for your support. There's tons of goodness on the other end of this link: badhandbooks.com/preorders

Ooooh--this one is so good! @inkwellmonster.bsky.social is a master of quiet, gothic horror.