Season's greetings! We hope you get to enjoy some time off from your responsibilities and have some fun; rediscover that child-like sense of wonder and imagination.

And just like that it was October, and we had published 15 books. 15. Voices you won't hear in the mainstream. Talent the "big names" would love to have. Working class. Independent. Alternative. Orderable from any good bookshop.

A #bloody retelling of #robinhood In 1,000 years nothing has changed #religiouswar #racewar #classwar #resistance #revolution #defiance Revisit the past write the future #workingclass #fuckthepatriarchy Lore of the Sælvatici Hurnungaz Hurnungaz the Dark Breath of Earth Hurnungaz Dissever me Never

Two very different kinds of books: 'All the Colours of the Night', Lorna Rose, and 'Feral Dreaming', Steven C. Davis. The first is poetry, the second is semi-autobiographical. With time travel. And spirit guides. Both are deeply personal. Both are worth picking up from any good independent bookshop.

Book 7 of the 'Less than Human' series - Seven by Seven is here! In which Natalayiana Harewood, social worker and Were-Squirrel becomes Were Matriarch and everything changes. NSFC. Adult themes.

In which I do an interview for the wonderful Harvey Duckman press: harvey-duckman-is-alive.ghost.io/stevencdavis...

We don't just say "We stand for Trans" .. we actually stand (that's Tenebrous in the green hair) and for our whole LGBT+ family, for the Roma community and more .. Tenebrous is a publishing community with an ethos, with pride, with honour ... and with talent. www.flickr.com/photos/wolve...

Celebrating 15 years of Tenebrous Texts and 32 publications! In between creating this microvideo and uploading it, that number is now 33. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yzK...

What has Tenebrous Texts published this year? Constructing Churchill, Jon Hartless Tenebrosian Ekphrasticity, anthology Freshly dipped and bleeding love, Steven C. Davis From Earth and Sky, Sadie Kaye Hurnungaz Dissever me Never, SCD The Green Boy, Laura Liptrot Crown Her With Ivy, Lorna Rose Phew

The 'Hurnungaz' trilogy is now available on the big river site and from all good bookshops. Chronicling a dark mythological-inspired/ visceral dark Pagan retelling of the Robin Hood cycle, this is the peoples' hero - but not as you might have read about before.

Join us! Two #book #booklaunch for the price of one! 'Hurnungaz Dissever me Never' by Steven C. Davis and 'The Green Boy' by Laura Liptrot. Tenebrous Texts! wegottickets.com/event/658147

Tenebrous Texts - see our gigs list for book launches, events, sales etc and why not join us on Sat 6th September in Wednesbury Library for our first mini-festival - 4.5 hours of plays, storytelling, music, art, poetry and more - all free!

Our first three publications of the year - 'Constructing Churchill' by Jon Hartless, my 'Freshly dipped and bleeding love' (debut poetry collection) and 'Tenebrosian Ekphrasticity' an ekphrastic collection featuring the talents of Brendan Hawthorne, Al Monde, Jason Fullwood, Ian Henery and myself.

Something for World Poetry Day 2025.

Happy 'World Book Day 2025' from Tenebrous Texts.

Tenebrous Texts. We bring the dark, speculative, alternative fiction and poetry, including carrying Hopeless, Maine books and art at events. Dark Pagan Robin Hood retelling; space-fantasy-romance; poetry; shape-shifter tales examining society ... and a new website soon!

'Tenebrosian Ekphrasticity' is a collaborative work of art and poetry by Jason Fullwood, Ian Henery, Al Monde, Brendan Hawthorne and Steven C. Davis. Presented in glorious full colour (internal as well as cover) and in hardback only, this is wonderfully different from anything we've done before ...

Tenebrous Texts has a fantastic and very busy year ahead of them - potentially a couple of dozen publications - and our first is already out - Constructing Churchill, by Jon Hartless. If you like snark taking a swipe at the predator class (they like to think they rule, but no) then this is for you.

www.instagram.com/p/DFFelNgxN6... Hurnungaz (the novel) now available in @scripthavenltd.bsky.social in Worcester!

Good to see Laura Liptrot smashing it at this morning's Poetry Breakfast at the Court House in Dudley as well as the opportunity to perform (for the first time) 'On a declaration of independence', & 'Transformation' w/Laura Jane Round, the first poem we ever delivered together as Poetic Malevolence.

Happy new year - 2025 will be better! And what does everyone's favourite goth/dark/alternative publisher have planned? Well, see below, this is only what's coming up in the first half of the year or so.

Coming soon - 'Seven by Seven', the 7th in a Were-series set in the UK. WereSquirrels. Feral writing. Social commentary. Books 1-6 from me, good bookshops or the big rainforest company. No one can tell if you're a Were by looking at you. A series about identity, about being true to yourself.

The third novel in the 'Hurnungaz' series will be launched in May '25. Are you interested in folk lore? Dark Paganism? Myths and legends? Robin Hood? Reinterpreted Norse mythology? Tales of defiance of authority? Visceral, bloody, tales. Check out 'Hurnungaz' and 'Hurnungaz the Dark Breath of Earth'

Tenebrous Texts and 2024: VoidHeart, The Croviss Girls, Hurnungaz, I am not a padlock, Synapse, Hurnungaz the Dark breath of Earth, Dreamcatchers in paperback. And William and the Dancer, William and the Manticoras, Maelmoth the Wanderer, The Hel-Boar of Kedbyy and Elu of Keadby kindle tales.

Today on the blog we have some exciting news from @tenebroustexts.bsky.social hopeless-maine.co.uk/2024/12/06/t...

There's a pair of tales out in the Saelvatici world ... Elu is the daughter of Thoralf, headman of the village, but her mother ... this is a pair of tales about swans and boar, wild femininity and gods and belief.

Full on storyteller mode for last night's delivery of 'The Littlest Krampus' at Katie Fitzgerald's, Stourbridge. To be level with the audience, to set the scene so they are there, in Sherewode, as outlaws, on a freezing cold night, a low fire is crackling and all their concentration is on the Skald.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRFY... We may have published a book, an anthology, a pamphlet or two over the years ... so far ...

Tenebrous Texts' latest variant of their logo - now available as a tattoo!

Night Soup Café. I don't know what or where it is - possibly multi-dimensional, but I know it exists...

Today we have a poem from Steven C Davis of @tenebroustexts.bsky.social with an illustration from @nimueb.bsky.social hopeless-maine.co.uk/2024/05/10/t...

I tend to forget I have a blue sky account! In the interim, here's a picture of books because books are life.

A collection of poems I found particularly moving, by Jemima Hughes: www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

11-14/07/2024: the Raising Steam Arts Festival: words, music, dance, arts, theatre, storytelling, workshops and more. Find out more here: raisingsteamfestival.weebly.com

My annual Books of the year awards, features a bunch of brilliant authors and the awards are exactly as valuable and sort after as last year #bookblog #reads #books #amreading markhayesblog.com/2023/12/01/b...

So proud to be a part of 'Ere We Bin - Scrumpin' at the Orchard' CD, with my partner in rhyme, Laura Jane Round (we perform under the name Poetic Malevolence).

The first three dates for the new Poetic Malevolence / Ash Mandrake / Mother Hode or Sælvatici performances.. more to follow in '24!