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After by Drew Starling was my most gut-wrenching read of 2025. A cross between The Road and All the Fiends of Hell, the book features its share of gore and depraved psychos, but it’s deeply meditative too. Relentless, raw and beautiful. Highly recommended.

MOUNTAIN FAST was one of the best books I read this year. An historical fantasy haunted house novel.

My books to date. Links below.

I'm very happy to announce that the @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social has produced my story, “Incorruptible.” The cast is fantastic and the score is amazing. The whole episode is great, but if you're in the mood for religious horror, my story starts at about the 47. Many thanks to the No Sleep crew!

I wrote 2100 words this morning (monstrous output for me) and reached the halfway point of my current WIP. A great day of art! #kaboom

Kalivas! by @nmamatas.bsky.social is a re-imagining of The Tempest for our AI-accelerated end times. This techno dystopia draws plenty of inspiration from the old-fashioned kind. It’s bleak, absurd and charming, and I couldn’t stop laughing. Highly recommended!

This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution is on sale this week. Ebook is 99 cents! ⬇️

New book release!! A Dark Whimsy is a contemporary dark fantasy tale of horror and magical realism set in the forest. Tagline: Sometimes you should just stay out of the woods. Please check it out! Link in comments.

Mitchell Lüthi’s In the Name of the Worm is an absorbing medieval horror and a worthy successor to His Black Tongue. The squalid streetscapes and gnarly brawls remain, but the cast is broader, the backstories richer, and the diabolical terrors are now streaked through with the cosmic. 1/3

It's fall. Time to wear a cardigan and profit from all those corpses.💀 Check out THE KNAVE OF GRAVES, my new dark fantasy novel about occult deals gone wrong. Available now! 🔗 www.amazon.com/dp/B0F68GKJ1G #darkfantasy #graverobber

I'd like to give a shout-out to a superb antho that published this week, which I'm three quarters of the way through. This World of Vile Wonder, edited by @coyhall.bsky.social, reads like a true classic!

ICYMI: Our latest episode features spooky-season books by @sjshank.bsky.social, @therealjackfinn.bsky.social, @marktbates-writer.bsky.social, and @thebrettoreilly.bsky.social, plus a all sorts of updates from @ronaldmcgillvray.bsky.social & @michaelshotter.com! postmortemreport.com #booksky 💙📚🩸🎃👍

Extremely jazzed to see my historical horror story "Ars Logica" appear today in the new anthology, THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER: HORROR TALES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, edited by @coyhall.bsky.social 🔗 Mybook.to/vilewonder

RELEASE DAY! This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution is out now. Nine tales! Appreciate any help spreading the word. Mybook.to/vilewonder

Discovered today in the wild - Count Orlok's costume from Nosferatu (2024). Orlok was a big guy!

Paperback of THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER: HORROR TALES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION available now! Release day is Oct 20, so paperback orders should arrive by then. Mybook.to/vilewonder

Happy release day to @gemmafiles.bsky.social and LITTLE HORN, a new collection of 14 stories and novelettes! Each story features an accompanying full-page illustration by the author. Out today in hardcover, paperback, and ebook! shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/litt...

Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/

In honour of the Halloween season, I've dropped the price of all my ebooks to 99¢. Whether you're looking for grimy dark fantasy or chilling medieval horror, I've got a book for you. Excerpts for my books can be found on my website sjshank.com. Please help spread the word!

Today's secondhand find: ✧ Language and Power in the Early Middle Ages by Patrick J. Geary

Find your next great #horrorread with these #newreleases @titanbooks.bsky.social @elizabethsuggs.bsky.social @effiecampbell.bsky.social @armandomunoz.bsky.social @coyhall.bsky.social @annyihyang.bsky.social @whisperhousepress.bsky.social

I'm sad to hear On Spec Magazine will be closing. I'm grateful to their team for publishing my story "Storm Surge" (a personal favourite) back in #116.

Find my story, “Two Paths, One Death,” in this anthology coming out October 20! 💀 In “Two Paths, One Death,” Death takes pity on a young Spanish woman and sends her down two parallel paths: one to know the world, the other to know the universe. 🌊✨

The Guest Children by @patrickt.bsky.social is a ghost story that's full of mystery. Set in a crumbling and isolated northern lodge, the book explores where ghosts come from and how we allow ourselves to be trapped by their hauntings. It's also a damn spooky page turner. Highly recommended!

In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. The least fortunate peered beyond the veil. This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution releases October 20. Ebook preorder up now on Amazon & Kobo ⬇️

Toronto friends, three weeks from today come see Emily Weedon, Daniel Perry, Michael Rowe, @mcallway.bsky.social, and myself read at the spooky October edition of Drunk Fiction. Oct 28th, 6pm at the Caledonian at College and Ossington.

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’ It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered, bought, shared, talked about and reviewed #Pyres on its first weekend. It's been a great start! Have you stared into the flames yet? #HorrorBooks #BookSky #IndieAuthor 📚😱 books2read.com/pyresnovel

Do yourself a favour and read some Steve Stred! Only 99c a pop!

Starting THE KNAVE OF GRAVES today, the second novel by @sjshank.bsky.social! Ornery gravedigger who treats with a night hag? I'm in. A perfect read for Hallowe'en month. 🎃

I had a fantastic time at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Festival this weekend! Thanks so much to the LG gang for putting on the event and giving me the the chance to read alongside a slate of stellar writers (who I unfortunately didn't get a picture of). Here's a pic of my book haul instead.

I'm excited to be reading at Little Ghosts Festival this weekend! Come out on Sunday (Oct. 5) at 4pm to hear me read from my latest, The Knave of Graves. Hope to see you there! @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social #horror #reading

Releasing on October 20th comes a new anthology edited by @coyhall.bsky.social. In an age lit by fire, only the most curious and driven souls turned a flame to the unknown. Their discoveries were grim, their knowledge foul, their names buried. Pre-order it now here: www.amazon.com/This-World-V...

I'm proud to say my story "Ars Logica" will appear in this incredible collection of historical horror stories inspired by the Scientific Revolution.

This weekend is the first annual Little Ghosts Fest at Little Ghost Books in Toronto hosted by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social . Two of our members will be on a panel on Saturday! @andrewawesome.bsky.social and @sillysyntax.bsky.social www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

Load up your #horror TBR with these new releases! @j-schiecke.bsky.social @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social @debbieurbanski.bsky.social @lamaupin.bsky.social @coyhall.bsky.social @rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social @superstacey318.bsky.social @ejmorales-author.bsky.social @tonyanuci.bsky.social

I bought yet more books. Today's secondhand finds: ✧ The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe Ca. 1200 B.C. by Robert Drews ✧ Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh

Here’s where you’ll find the Dorin Toth stories so far. An occult investigator travels Eastern Europe in the 1680s with his greyhound, Vinegar Tom, and Great Pyrenees, Basina.

2025 New Releases for Your TBR @kevinbachar.bsky.social @jamiedeangibson.bsky.social @brianpinkerton1.bsky.social @kevharrison.bsky.social @spookywv.bsky.social @timwaggoner.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @crystallake.bsky.social @chrstnabergling.bsky.social @gravesidepress.bsky.social

IT'S LAUNCH DAY FOR IMMORTELLE!🥂 My thanks to the incredible @sobelobooks.bsky.social for making this a reality.🙏 Discover the background to this classic Gothic horror via link in pic or link in bio.👇

Roses are red Einstein was clever

I still have editing to do on my previous manuscript (and the one before that), but it's time to look ahead to my next writing project. I'll be spending the next few months with these guys. #historicalhorror #fancydress

This is a fantastic interview about the ideas behind one of the coolest and most thought-provoking books of 2025.

Had a great conversation with Caroline Shea, talking about my novel The Owl Men of Shanidar, medieval relics, writing a Robin Hood novel, & other topics. Check it out!

It's always a thrill to see my baby on the shelves at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social. #theknaveofgraves #shopindie #darkfantasy

Yesterday I went to @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social to attend the book launch of The Malevolent Eight by @decastell.bsky.social. He was joined by @phokion.bsky.social for a lively and insightful conversation about the writing life. I also hung out with the authors and fellow fans at the bar. Good times!

I say tomato And you say R'lyeh I say potato And you say R'lyeh Tomato R'lyeh Potato R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Let's Chthul the whole thing thing off

I just finished reading my proof copy of This World of Vile Wonder, out October 20 from @coyhall.bsky.social's Scythian Wolf press, and well, I can't wait for these stories to be unleashed upon the world. Yall are in for a treat. Preorder the ebook now for less than a cup of joe: