On hard publishing days I always try to make a point of doing one thing that sends out a tiny lifeline of potential and possibility, just so that the whole day isn't terrible. Gotta go do that before the end of today, because it's been a real kick in the teeth.

I preordered this off a post Emma made weeks ago. I think everyone should shamelessly promote themselves here One of the best things about Bluesky is all the amazing artists sharing their talent. Links aren't suppressed like other sites. Let people see the cool things you are making!

And obviously, if you like horror and weird liminal haunted houses, you should preorder MY book, which is out in February next year bsky.app/profile/nino...

Wrote about the unlikely bonding of Mel Brooks and David Lynch, who both saw themselves in The Elephant Man. My Criterion column this month: www.avclub.com/cult-of-crit...

I still feel weird about this but Nino said it was fine, so here you go! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827832...

@amandatien.bsky.social is one of those writers who just has an endless well of ideas. Lucky for us, she likes bringing those ideas to Mothership. her latest: www.mothership.blog/sadie-adler-...

Fansplaining is officially open for pitches! 🥳 Please read our guide to get a sense of what we're looking for, and if you have any questions we haven't answered here, feel free to get in touch! [email protected]

Two sisters escaping foster care encounter the entities of the North American Great Lakes on an otherworldly quest to the matriarchal commune where they were raised… We're delighted to share the cover for Dark Waves by @allisonmick.bsky.social, a gothic horror emerging March 30, 2027!

We are watching The Prisoner (my first time!) and number 2 in this episode plays an obscure character in the most niche version of A Christmas Carol I've ever seen (and my husband's favorite): the Albert Finney musical Scrooge. Anyway he's great.

Showed this novella to the most merciless reader I know and she loved it. She disliked exactly one thing, and it was a thing I did on purpose. All the painted-van-circa-1973 visuals did their job, and a painted van circa 1973 is the book I needed to write. Here's the mailing list to get notified.

Please tell your friends that if they subscribe to @aftermath.site and they have a problem, I will go full Columbo on their problem long past the point of necessity, because that is the kind of hands-on service your subscription dollars get you

YESSSSSS

Corrected itinerary. If you can make it to any of this, come on out! And please preorder Crone (I've only begun to grovel.) Also, if you're a bookstore or event promoter and want to discuss doing an event, hit me up, let's see if we can work something out! As ever, thank you.

Love this cover!

Like Cosmic Horror, deep space exploration or Queer Romance? Maybe all three? You're welcome. DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social store.tenebrouspress.com/products/dea...

It's my birthday today! You should buy a book. Or a movie. Some sort of physical media, I don't care what. Get some fucking art. (and if you want to preorder my book, here you go: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827832...)

cutting physical media save costs for corporations with no benefit passed on at the expense of consumer rights and ownership

I hate being conditioned to distrust my own eyes

VAR is the dumbest thing.

Aftermath consistently puts out some of my favorite writing about art, whether that's literature or film or games or whatever. This is lovely. Read it then pick up a copy of the book.

In honor of the news that @slimyswampghost.bsky.social's creation Sirenhead is getting a movie (crucially, with him involved!) here's a great interview we did a while back about the character, his work, and how the internet often tries to wrench creations away from their creators.

The wait is over! Here are the official nominees for the 2026 FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, celebrating the scream of the crop. Now it's up to YOU to choose the winners. The polls are open through July 15th, so get your votes in asap!

when i was a teenager, the kids in my high school were all using oxycontin. this novel, negative space, is the only one to truly capture what being so surrounded by death feels like when you are so young. aftermath.site/negative-spa...

if you say "moses supposes his toeses are roses, but moses supposes..." to the lads they holler back "ERRONEOUSLY!" beastie boys style it's incredible

Time to whip this out whenever there's rehashed Discourse™️ about sex scenes, kink, horror fiction, etc

EMILY HUGHES! POLTERGEIST! GET INTO IT!

Good calls with authors: top ten experience.

Do you like pop culture swag & all manner of cool amazing items & experiences? STEP RIGHT UP to Romancing the Vote, July 1-5. Thousands of items for sale & I've donated a bunch of very rare & 🤩 items! For more on the orgs www.romancingthevote.com & beyond that, thread of Mo Stuff in RTV auction

Pretty sure my review of this is on twitter so adding it here: "Challenging, visceral, and deliberate, reading Joe Koch is an exercise in rethinking what horror and Weird and literature can be. If you open yourself up to the process, you will be deeply rewarded. And maybe a little grossed out."

Really wish Nicolas Winding Refn wasn't all in on AI, then I'd be more excited about Her Private Hell.

Huge congratulations to @michelletang.bsky.social on her Shirley Jackson Award nomination! We're incredibly proud to see DuMort nominated for Best Novella. Best of luck to all the nominees!

Today. bookshop.org/p/books/red-...

My 2026 has been a divorce-shaped Stygian nightmare of housing insecurity, drifting between Airbnbs, couchsurfing + housesitting. But the goddess just blessed me with my own tiny apartment! I need to move/furnish it for myself + kid almost from scratch: a humble call for help if you can to do so!

Are you a reviewer on Insta or Tiktok (where I dare not tread) interested in an ARC of DEAD BOYS DONT CRY when it's available? Let me know!

I suppose I should plug my book once before the month ends. I co-wrote CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS & I am very proud of it. We traced the lineage of transness in cinema alongside our medical and social history from the era of silent film to the present day. Check it out bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

BIPOC authors get less spotlight than others, and if you're looking to expand your TBR, @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social begins her monthly column at #NightTideMag to help you out! nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/s... 👻📚

BIPOC authors get less spotlight than others, and if you're looking to expand your TBR, @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social begins her monthly column at #NightTideMag to help you out! nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/s... 👻📚

As a queer Black artist, Bill Gunn created one of the most influential horror films of the 1970s, Ganja and Hess. @sharai.bsky.social looks at Gunn's legacy, the cost of historical erasure, and why giving overlooked artists their flowers matters for #NightTideMag 👻📽️ nighttidemag.com/2026/06/29/t...

Babe wake up new Canadian anti AI data center petition just dropped

thanks, Gabino! along with some wonderful co-founders, I started a new horror publication, @darkertimes.bsky.social, this month. we're worker-owned, subscriber-funded, and entirely dedicated to horror: www.darkertimes.com

Never seen anything like it, probably won't ever see anything like it again. I got to watch this on the big screen earlier this year and it was transcendent.

my first for @defector.com! The Omen was released on this day fifty years ago, three years after Roe v. Wade. I wrote about Kathy, bodily autonomy, the arc of abortion rights in America, and Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen. defector.com/diabolical-m...

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

We are living in a dystopian state in Ontario. Look at these ads that our province is running. people don't have anywhere to go anymore - and if you aren't a moment or two away from being in the same spot, count yourself fucking lucky.

I am having a ton of fun with this game, it's ridiculous and great.

🏳️‍🌈Pride Month Reads—Everydamnday Reads—From Tenebrous🏳️‍⚧️ @emnays.bsky.social’s FROM THE BELLY blends seafaring adventure, body horror & cosmic dread when whalers extract a still-living man from the belly of a whale & bring him aboard. Shit gets Weird. Get it: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/fro...

HAPPY FRIDAY I will yell more about books later but for now I would be delighted to see more entries in this Goodreads giveaway for my upcoming weird city fantaspionage (????) novel WICKHILLS! :D (US only for now, sorry! They will have another one later!) www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched: a pretty good week for movies when Speilberg's latest is my lowest rated watch.