Me and @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social went to an occult exhibition and took some ghost photographs.

It's nearly impossible to make a living entertaining children in a sewer since Stephen king's "It"

2025 has been a productive year. I’m hoping to raise awareness on a few works up for awards consideration: Fiction Collection: ACQUIRED TASTE Graphic Novel: SEANCE IN THE ASYLUM Novel: WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES Young Adult Novel: SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE Thanks, y’all, for reading these stories of mine

Future Worlds Prize 2026 is open for entries! We're looking for great works of SFF by unpublished writers of colour. If that's you, check out our website for more information: www.futureworldsprize.co.uk/2026-prize/

Congrats to all the winners and the finalists! 🎉

“Part one.” @titanbooks.bsky.social

Ahhh so Welcome to Derry is one of those Extremely Bad TV shows they seem to make every so often.

Hi, Ozymandias here, Hope you're okay. I'm writing to submit my works, upon which I would love you to look. I would pitch them as a cross between ye mighty and despair. If you like them, I can send the full colossal wreck, boundless and bare. Please be aware I am submitting my works elsewhere.

true care, truth brings I'll take one lift ahab's best trip

My first time seeing A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON 🌕🩸 in the wild, at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social! @dancarpenter.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social

this is the view from my reading chair and I’m reading @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social’s strange lovely gem of a vampire novel and having the time of my life. nobody can tell me shit!

ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE and BOUND IN BLOOD in the biggest bookshop in Berlin!! Mind BLOWN!!

Oct 27th - Daniel Challis asked the coroner's assistant for information on the man who set himself on fire after killing Harry Grimbridge. 📽️📅 Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

A reminder that E. Nesbit wrote the greatest opening to a ghost story ever.

I really really liked Nadia Latif's disquieting, uncanny THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT. Very Aickman-esque - mundane and deeply Weird, and with two absolutely fantastic central performances. It's on Disney + and well worth your time.

What's this that we've just had delivered to @titanbooks.bsky.social HQ?

Can we ask him about garlic scented ink pls?

So chuffed to be included here alongside some of the very best horror authors around. If you're looking for scary Halloween reads, dive in!

Was recommending this same one (that I do here) at dinner last night:

What horror story do I recommend? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... @titanbooks.bsky.social

Rigatoni and Susan

Terrific list of horror recommendations from @paultremblay.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @nedbeauman.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @cjtudor.bsky.social and others! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

THE CAPTIVE by Ned Beauman, writing as Kit Burgoyne, is officially out now! 🩸 A darkly comedic, cinematic horror about a revolutionary group who kidnap an heiress, only to discover she’s pregnant with the antichrist, and she’s about to give birth. https://tinyurl.com/c7r3x6u5

I enjoyed the Captive by 'Kit Burgoyne' where a radical group kidnap an heiress but find her billionaire parents are using her to bear the Antichrist and she's happy to get out. Then the baby is born... Savagely political take on Rosemary's baby, both horrific and comic. #books also...

Hear my full review of A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social (available now from @titanbooks.bsky.social) and see how the drink is made at Bar Cart Bookshelf on YouTube. youtu.be/cjKGodoZrh4

Up next from A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON author @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social... IN VACUO A queer gothic coming of age novel about a young boy confronting the ghosts of the past and the restless, obsessive pursuit of immortality. Coming August 2026!

I am prepping an extremely ridiculous workshop at the moment and having the time of my life.

Apologies to all my authors but I will henceforth be replacing all blurbs with this.

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by Andrea Morstabilini. A dreamlike vampire novel with a resonant emotional maturity, the queer fantasia was a fresh & exciting entry to one of my fave subgenres. Our drink is the perfectly pink Moonkin!

BOUND IN BLOOD in Potsdam!! Holy shit, this is amazing!!!

"All bones have a story." I cannot wait for readers to meet Henry, Clara, Dr Hammond, Markovi (my personal chaotic favourite), Xavier and everyone else in the strange valley at the centre of @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social's exceptional second novel IN VACUO. AUGUST 2026.

An absolutely ridiculous running gag now in its sixteenth year. I love Comedy Bang Bang and all its stupidity.

do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...

Happy book birthday to JEKYLL & HYDE: WINTER RETREAT by @timjmajor.bsky.social! In festive instalment of the series, the Jekyll & Hyde detective agency must solve a locked-room mystery. ❄️ Out now! https://tinyurl.com/2jdvnut9

THE CAPTIVE by @nedbeauman.bsky.social writing as Kit Burgoyne is The Guardian's book of the day! "Rosemary’s Baby by way of Raising Arizona... gleefully chucks every old-school horror trope you care to think of at the wall" bit.ly/4n66Cdy

Have you picked up TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social yet?🩸 A downright terrifying collection of 13 stories covering everything from body horror and ancient eldritch beings to horrifying urban legends. https://tinyurl.com/ms2knabp

Spooky season has FINALLY arrived! 🎃 To celebrate our favourite time of year, we'll be recommending horror reads every week of October! This week’s theme: MONSTER MASH!

Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror has a listing of all the anthologies across genres from @titanbooks.bsky.social. More publishers need to do stuff like this! #booksky #horrorbooks #gifted

This was the year I judged The Kitschies, so I have actually read all of these titles. A formidable line up.

Issue one of this wonderful zine contains my story 'They Have Gone to the City'. You can pick it up with a discount here!

Halloween people! Does your city feel like it's watching you? Have you been swallowed up by urban decay, capitalism and the terrifying rise of fascism? Then you need HUNTING BY THE RIVER - fourteen stories of cat killers, plague pits, nightclub demons and more. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...

Expanding a short story that was greatly in need of breathing room.

Bet they don’t advertise Duke of York anywhere. It’ll be one of the family that gets it, no interview, nothing. Bloody stitch-up.

You ever see a take so bad you were forced immediately to go to sleep

Alan Garner is 91 today. A brilliant and unique author. His books have inspired and enchanted me since I read The Weirdstone of Brisingamen at the age of 11. Here is my treasured copy of Red Shift. The Le Guin quote on the cover is wholly accurate.

Halloween people! Does your city feel like it's watching you? Have you been swallowed up by urban decay, capitalism and the terrifying rise of fascism? Then you need HUNTING BY THE RIVER - fourteen stories of cat killers, plague pits, nightclub demons and more. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...

Having a rewatch of this tonight.

Tremendous review of Kit Burgoyne's (aka Ned Beauman) The Captive, in the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... "Every chapter or two something unexpected and urgent happens. Faces peel off. People are burned alive. There’s lots and lots of blood... a gory, wildly entertaining romp."

I somehow missed that my 16th book came out on the 16th, so that's pretty neat, but anyway, happy one month of TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS! 😈 It's been immensely cool seeing everyone check out the stories, and meet or get reacquainted with Benny Rose the Cannibal King this Halloween season 🎃

What's this that we've just had delivered to @titanbooks.bsky.social HQ?