Having recently read Deep Water, Strangers on a Train, and now making my way through the entirety of the Mr. Ripley canon, I still have to say my favorite Patricia Highsmith character is George Santos.

The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social is the best fantasy book I've read in 2025 and there is strong competition. "Infestation" is often the best phrase to describe a mode of life. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/9e69...

It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN A great gift for: People who want something weird/different Your favorite genderfreaks Your exterminator Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB That one theater kid

Read my latest interview with @hironennes.bsky.social!

Dec 6th's choice for best new #SFF hardbacks this year: The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social is a sumptuous, monstrous tale of horror, unnatural pests, a rotting fantastical city, court politics, and layers upon layers. Visceral and unnervingly entrancing! 💙📚🪐 #horrorsky

Just letting @hironennes.bsky.social know that they have my brain held captive by Works of Vermin. I haven't felt this enamored with a fictional setting since reading Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris trilogy. Something about seedy cities with a mycological edge to them just hit the spot!

It's obligatory consumption season! Please consider poisoning your friends and family with THE WORKS OF VERMIN A great gift for: People who want something weird/different Your favorite genderfreaks Your exterminator Asthmatics/anyone with latent or active TB That one theater kid

holy shit what a book

Went through The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I have to read through it again- has some incredible twists and turns. After reading Leech I cannot wait to hear what they write next. Also, the narrators on both audiobooks knock it out of the park.

My two favourite novels of 2025: WORKS OF VERMIN by @hironennes.bsky.social and STARVING SAINTS by @caitlinstarling.com These were the kind of books I wanted to slow down reading so I could enjoy them longer.

I loved this. Decadently and deftly written. A book deeply concerned with aesthetics, and refreshingly cavalier with its setting - a visceral Gene-Wolfe-esque opera of a novel. Bravo, @hironennes.bsky.social

Lovely review in Locus for the vermin work locusmag.com/review/the-w...

Lovely review in Locus for the vermin work locusmag.com/review/the-w...

So I found the man who wrote the Borisch Manual of Catoptric Pest Species

It's the most wonderful time...of the year! #endoftheyearlists Love you @charliejane.bsky.social! I haven't read us.macmillan.com/books/978125... but I know from reading your other work, I'll love it. I'm sure it will end up on one of these lists! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

📚 🐛🔫New review! 🔫🐛📚 The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social from @torbooks.bsky.social "...not just a landmark novel of dystopian satire but one of the great speculative works of the twenty-first century." Have I found my SFF book of the year? We'll see...

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

Please donate, this store rules.

God, how I hate what kind of society we are becoming... Btw, we can stop it, it depends on us: which kind of world we create, which kind of community we foster, which kind of cities we live in. You can help @argonautbooks.bsky.social by sharing wide and far! www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...

Daily obligatory verminposting: please enjoy this meme that's old enough to drive

Currently reading The Works Of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social and I'm honestly blown away. It's absolutely amazing. Every sentence is poetry. Just a glorious read.

So stoked to share that there is still genuinely, excellently frightening horror out there

I’m almost done with it now (I’ve been savoring it slowly) and The Works of Vermin by @hironennes.bsky.social might very well be one of the best books I’ve ever read. Period. I’ve already waxed feverish over its prose so I’ll spare you that this time. But you must read this book.

@hironennes.bsky.social has crushed it again

Just finished this. What a f***ing masterpiece. Threads of Peake, and Cisco, perhaps? But absolutely it's own thing. We only get a handful of writers this good in our timelines, everyone interested in Weird fic needs to read @hironennes.bsky.social now. My review hopefully soonish in a mag near you.

locusmag.com/2025/11/worl... Congratulations winners and nominees!!

Holy shit I’m a third of the way into @hironennes.bsky.social WORKS OF VERMIN and they are now one of my favorite writers all the Byzantine feral layered prose of Wolfe or Peake and the modern brutal verve and sensibilities of Mariana Enriquez synthesized into a wholly unique voice all of their own

i feel sorry for all of you who missed an incredible discussion on Saturday between myself, @jillndaviesbooks.bsky.social and @hironennes.bsky.social at @bloodstonebookshop.bsky.social about starting a horse piss business and force-femming that one billionaire who drinks his son's blood

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes. A entomological epic in a Weird city where art & revolution are intimately entwined, this queer puzzle box is TRANSCENDENT. Our drink is the Extemporist, for a perfume-soaked night at the opera.

Saturday, 11/1, I will be speaking on a panel Bloodstone Books in Sacramento for their Halloween event! My panel, "Speculative Fiction, Empathy, and Power" begins at ~7 PM, but there are plenty of panels and plenty of authors, starting from 3 pm onward Come to it! bloodstonebookshop.com

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

Got my copy of the Best Weird Fiction from @undertow.bsky.social. Amazing collection--not just because it features my all-natural plant-based horror story "Our Best Selves," now nominated for a World Fantasy Award! Get your filthy hands on a copy here: undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

This week our book club reads the 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤, 𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘺 novel 𝐋𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 by author and mad doctor @hironennes.bsky.social   Join our discussoin on our Discord! More info on 𝕙𝕠𝕨𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕥𝕪.𝕔𝕠𝕞.

I finished reading this today, and it might be my favourite book of the year so far. A beautiful, ornate, sticky, slippery thing about art and metamorphosis. It's Peake-influenced in all the right ways, blackly funny even in its darkest corners. And so, so full of wriggling, crawling things.

Got my copy of the Best Weird Fiction from @undertow.bsky.social. Amazing collection--not just because it features my all-natural plant-based horror story "Our Best Selves," now nominated for a World Fantasy Award! Get your filthy hands on a copy here: undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

New from @undertow.bsky.social, THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1, edited by Michael Kelly! weightlessbooks.com/the-best-wei...

The World Fantasy Awards are presented next Sunday, and we're so fortunate to be recognized again in Best Antho and Special Award. And so happy for @hironennes.bsky.social for their Weird Horror story. All the fab finalists are here: locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...

Book post is the absolute best post! I've really been looking forward to these two ones arriving! @mcflycahill90.bsky.social & @hironennes.bsky.social are not just two writers I deeply admire, but also that I am proud to call my friends. In short, absolutely cannot wait to cuddle up with these two 😍

Ran to @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social this afternoon and got to pick up the new @hironennes.bsky.social and @maryrobinettekowal.com + @sentencebender.bsky.social books!

A wonderful review of ECO24! "The diversity of stories reflects the diversity of the authors and also showcases the indefinable quality of eco-fiction." Ben highlights stories by K-Ming Chang, Guillermo G. Mendoza, @hironennes.bsky.social, @renanbernardo.com, @kayv.bsky.social & Mathew Freeman 💚

Hell yeah maybe people will stop using it and we will FINALLY see a decline in the amount of damage this fucking website does to cultural discourse.

It's #WorldOperaDay, so I had to pull together some of my favorite operatic books. From the wide expanse of space to Weird Cities in trees, from the reception of a Problematic Fave to squid operas inspired by his work, this art form moves the spirit and shakes the rafters. See any faves?

I have been informed that THE WORKS OF VERMIN has infested the USA Today bestseller list! Someone get me one of those foam #1 fingers but it's a hideous deformity of a glove with 124 fingers instead

I'm half way through this and it's an absolute stunner. Weird, wet, sticky baroque madness, with notes of Mervyn Peake and a plot about a dragon-sized centipede that eats art. It's a joy on every level.

I loved "Leech" so can't wait to get stuck in to the new @hironennes.bsky.social - and the spredges match my sofa!

@hironennes.bsky.social's Works of Vermin is easily one of the best books I've read in 2025. Weird, dark, artful, and rich with drippingly gorgeous prose. Felt like the first time I read Perdido Street Station - simply transported and enveloped.

TODAY TODAY TODAY: My last stop on my Vermin tour will be at A Seat at the Table Books in Elk Grove at 1!! Come say hi and get a signed copy before I have to go back to work on Monday 🥲

TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT If you want to take a short break from getting tear gassed and hear about (fictional) political fumigations, bring your resilient, stubborn, unstoppable verminous ass to Always Here at 7 PM for a convo with me and @caitlinstarling.com!!!!!

The genocide is not over. Ceasefire is not liberation. Keep giving. chuffed.org/project/help... “Donations for mutual aid groups dropped by 50% since the ceasefire announcement. Most of the bombing stopped but the genocide continues and Palestinians in Gaza are in dire need of material support.”

Portlanders and Vancouverites! Tomorrow, Oct 18th, I will be stopping by the Vancouver public library to do a horror panel (4 pm), and Always Here Bookstore in convo with @caitlinstarling.com (7 pm), on my tour for VERMIN!!!