@joe-hill.bsky.social I wanted to get in on the King Sorrow ARC love. What an amazing book! This is the fastest I’ve ever read 900 pages. Pacing was incredible, and King Sorrow’s Freddy Krueger-meets-Smaug-with-Robert-Shaw’s-Voice vibe was so fun. Congratulations on such an accomplishment. Wow.

I do not say this lightly. INSTANT CLASSIC. King Sorrow is by far my favorite @joe-hill.bsky.social novel. It made me feel like I was back in high school reading one of the great books that set me on this path to begin with. LOVED it.

Becky's #ALAAC25 Schedule Including Me Interviewing @joe-hill.bsky.social plus my appearance for @libraryreads.bsky.social. ARCs of WHY I LOVE HORROR for all who attend if you RSVP (link in post). @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social raforall.blogspot.com/2025/06/beck...

THIS A UNITED STATES SENATOR ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA BEING PHYSICALLY SHOVED OUT OF A MEETING ABOUT WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO THE BIGGEST CITY IN OUR STATE.

#Kindle deal! Just over our normal $2.99 threshold, but FOUR @joe-hill.bsky.social novels for $3.99? Yes, please and thank you. The bundle contains HEART-SHAPED BOX; 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS; HORNS; and N0S4A2. #horror #ad #booksky #ebookdeals amzn.to/3Kj4Uoq

BOSCH stars Titus Welliver takes up the Van Helsing mantle in the trailer for Shudder and RLJE Films' ABRAHAM'S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY.

HUGE thanks to @joe-hill.bsky.social for featuring @benjaminpercy.bsky.social’s THE END TIMES in his SubStack. That’s wild! badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...

Time is running out to bid on a signed and doodled King Sorrow for this really excellent fund-raiser. 4 days to go. bsky.app/profile/laur...

Featuring a career best performance by @markhamillofficial.bsky.social.

I might say this is @joe-hill.bsky.social best yet? 🐉 I have screamed loudly several times already. Just passed the 60% mark

One of my fave film teams is back, baby. Fresh from the success of THE GORGE, @scottderrickson.bsky.social @crobertcargill.bsky.social return to the nightmarish @joe-hill.bsky.social inspired call of THE BLACK PHONE. And those @maggielevin.bsky.social Super8 clips...every one hits like a body blow.

It’s perfectly natural that people should believe Sherlock Holmes is the main character of 56 stories and 4 novels about Sherlock Holmes. But Doyle was always a clever hand when it came to misdirection and of course the best Sherlock Holmes stories are great because they’re really about John Watson.

From @joe-hill.bsky.social: “It’s always later than you think. Even when I’m sitting still at my desk, I’m in a desperate footrace against the clock to get in one more paragraph, one more line. It may look like not much is happening, but really I’m sprinting madly for my life.” #writingcommunity

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

"Prepare to be disturbed, grossed out, and laugh all at the same time." @sgj.bsky.social, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter tachyonpublications.... @joerlansdale.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @davemckean.bsky.social #horror

Thanks--though the language might be a bit salty for 6th grade English.

Not really sure how to share the latest Oliver Burkeman column, "Navigating by Aliveness," which is too bad--his thinking about A.I. is clarifying. And hopeful. And good humored. He's done some of the best writing I've read about how to live well in our bizarre, disorientating moment.

Was so pleased to see “Ushers” selected for this year’s Best American SF&F. Look at this amazing line up.

It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908. "You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."

In a congressional hearing today, RFK, jr, stated: “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.” The correct next sentence should’ve been, “For that reason I am today resigning my post as head of Health and Human Services.”

CHUCK MARKETING! Mary Kate Jacobs found this in Central Park this weekend. Call the number, it's real! ☎️ Stephen King's The Life of Chuck movie StephenKingCatalog.com

I read that a dump truck loaded with crap crashed into the Whiskey A-Go-Go on the Sunset Strip yesterday. Someone should've warned them not to book Creed.

A crocheted axolotl or a blanket in trans flag colours, home-made dragon wings, a full 100k manuscript copy edit by Jo Hall, tickets to Empire UK's live roleplay event, bespoke micro fictions on postcards and, just added, a signed ARC of the new @joe-hill.bsky.social bit.ly/genrefortrans

A cartoon reminder that it’s probably Mother’s Day tomorrow unless you are in the UK.

Signed and doodled ARC of KING SORROW up now as part of an auction to raise a few quid for Gendered Intelligence, an org lookin to do some good for transfolk and their families. Just noting, my dragon doodle is nothing to shake a scaly, spiked tail at. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Horror Beats- Music + Horror. Cursed songs, music, & musicians. Go see SINNERS in theaters! @elizabethhand.bsky.social @joe-hill.bsky.social @johnhornor.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @victorlavalle.bsky.social @jimmyjuliano.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @scottleeds.bsky.social

"You get an astronaut's life whether you want it or not. Leave it all behind for a world you know nothing about. That's just the deal.” - Arthur Roth in Pop Art by @joe-hill.bsky.social *Art by the late, great Gahan Wilson.

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

Go on and get it, you're gonna love it.

I was unprepared for Thunderbolts* to pack such a big emotional wallop. Gillian immediately put her finger on just why it's such an especially good Marvel film. It's *about something*. It's about depression. (teeny 🧵)

I guess Dot's pretzels are the best snack to go with the lunchtime sandwich. I don't feel like there could really be any realistic debate on the subject.

Finally, something RFK jr and I can agree on. You can begin doing your own research into the subject of dragons with #KingSorrow, out in October. If you order from Water Street Books in Exeter, NH you can even get your copy signed.

@himself.bsky.social Oh, yeah, I scrapped the blog & I don't think I saved anything. I had a Tumblr piece about JAWS that was popular too that I also allowed to vanish into the ether. I hope there'll be a wide release of The Stone Table someday but at least we've got Nonesuch to look forward to.

@joe-hill.bsky.social is back…and this time, he’s bringing a dragon! This is probably the most exciting bookmail I’ve ever received, thank you SO MUCH @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social for sending me King Sorrow. Diving in immediately.

I'm trying to read all of the new Amazon Originals Shiver Collection this month. Of course I had to start with one of my favorite authors, @joe-hill.bsky.social bookertsfarm.blogspot.com/2025/04/bewa...

Everyone now and again I will see someone use the phrase "woke mind virus" seriously and I will wonder what it is like to be them, and to have a head full of rancid pudding where a brain is meant to be

I could not wish for a more beautiful standalone edition of my short story, “The Black Phone.” With an afterword by @crobertcargill.bsky.social. From Suntup Editions. suntup.press/the-black-ph...

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

At the Old North Church in Boston for Patriot's Day

A good new short story. @joe-hill.bsky.social

As is typical for most aging social networks, TikTok is now dominated by discussion of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Younger users, desperate to consider other classic monsters without getting "creechbombed", are fleeing in droves. More on my newsletter:

An update on my forthcoming events in the UK and US. Some have sold out but some have moved to bigger venues, so more tickets should be available... joeabercrombie.com/us-and-uk-to...

King Sorrow by @joe-hill.bsky.social is an absolute barnburner of a book. Seriously, put this one on your must read list of upcoming books.

These two are released today @joe-hill.bsky.social @owenkingauthor.bsky.social

"Jackknife" is out now for your Kindle as part of the Shivers Collection. More about that in a special three-Joes-for-the-price-of-one issue of Escape Hatch.

It has arrived. My review ARC for KING SORROW @joe-hill.bsky.social. Thanks to @librarylovefest.bsky.social for the book. If you are going to ALA Annual, Hill is speaking on Monday!

What a cool pic. Want to steal.

Wow you can get 14 years of work for just $4 woo hoo! (Sob!)

Underfunded libraries don’t make America greater. They make communities poorer—resource poor. This is a bummer.