Hails to The Line-Up! They agree that @rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is a must-read. This unique blend of sci-fi, cosmic horror, buddy comedy & romance is one of the best things you'll read all...ever. Out next Tuesday, order now here: store.tenebrouspress.com

From today's newsletter: "Not as many people will read DEAR STUPID PENPAL as *should*. But the ones who do? Get ready to hear them talking about it a whole lot, for a long time to come. This book changes people. It changed me." Preorder @rascalhartley.bsky.social's debut: store.tenebrouspress.com

2025 so far🔥 With one more book to come. This has been our most ambitious, heartburn-y year so far, & only most of it was self-induced. But no one died. That's key. If you missed any of these badass titles, well you know they're gonna be Weird. Hail the Tenebrous Cult. store.tenebrouspress.com

Thank you to this Indie-Lovin' Legend! 🔥🔥🔥

From today's newsletter: "Not as many people will read DEAR STUPID PENPAL as *should*. But the ones who do? Get ready to hear them talking about it a whole lot, for a long time to come. This book changes people. It changed me." Preorder @rascalhartley.bsky.social's debut: store.tenebrouspress.com

This person mos def wins the coveted Sexiest Tenebrous Cultist of the Day. But share & share alike, we always say; this is a title that can be proudly paraded by multiple folks at once! So: who else wants to be Sexiest Tenebrous Cultist of the Day? You know what to do🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

Thanks, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for the shout-out today for Cerulean Sky! Give their latest newsletter a read for a quick interview I did with @alexwoodroe.com. sendfox.com/tenebrouspre...

I'm getting the urge to write another essay... I don't know about what For my last one, see "Because You Let Me: On a horror of manners and the tragedy of politeness," in Skull & Laurel issue 4 @tenebrouspress.bsky.social along with a bunch of dope stories store.tenebrouspress.com/products/the...

Be the change you want to Hold On Loosely to🎶🖤☠️🎶

I’ve got a new book coming out later this month (the 16th to be exact) and my copies showed up the other day. With everything going on, I’m struggling to be excited. But I promise to post pictures soon. The book looks fantastic. @crossedcrowbooks.bsky.social created a cover to be proud of

I'm so glad!! Always nice to hear. Definitely check out the other @tenebrouspress.bsky.social titles too!

2025 so far🔥 With one more book to come. This has been our most ambitious, heartburn-y year so far, & only most of it was self-induced. But no one died. That's key. If you missed any of these badass titles, well you know they're gonna be Weird. Hail the Tenebrous Cult. store.tenebrouspress.com

"Felt, Fur, & Frightful Things: An Autistic Love of Mascot Horror," published by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social . This was my first non-fiction pub, and it taught me how much fun it is to essentially info-dump in text. Thank you again Alex & Cameron 👻 Award Eligibility Thread 6/9 #booksky #indiebooks

Yo, Tenebrous Cult! Friend o'the press Wendy Wagner has been busy pulling together a great fundraiser to support the Oregon Food Bank, which is in (even more) desperate need these days. Tenebrous will be on site, helping out in any way we can. Come join us next Monday at the Rose City Book Pub🖤☠️

I like to think that, every few books, we yeet a new one into existence that catches even our core audience off guard; the ones who put their full faith in us, knowing that the ride will at least be memorable. @rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is one. I'm dying to see yr reactions🖤☠️

This sounds awesome! If you're around, go out and hang with cool folks for a good cause! 💀💚🤘

🌈📚 Pre-Order Party!👇 DEAR STUPID PENPAL is out next week. It's Queer, it's creepy, it's cosmic. It has monsters and humor and horror and so much heart. It's a friggin' masterpiece and you just need to trust on this, okay? 👉 Preorder it here: store.tenebrouspress.com #booksky #queerbooks

PDX peeps! What are you doing next Monday? How about attending STORYTELLING AGAINST HUNGER, a 5-hour marathon of author readings & open mic fun that's a fundraiser for the @oregonfoodbank.bsky.social ???? Rose City Book Pub, 4 pm - 9pm. bit.ly/43i9s8D

Yo, Tenebrous Cult! Friend o'the press Wendy Wagner has been busy pulling together a great fundraiser to support the Oregon Food Bank, which is in (even more) desperate need these days. Tenebrous will be on site, helping out in any way we can. Come join us next Monday at the Rose City Book Pub🖤☠️

I like to think that, every few books, we yeet a new one into existence that catches even our core audience off guard; the ones who put their full faith in us, knowing that the ride will at least be memorable. @rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is one. I'm dying to see yr reactions🖤☠️

It's halloween time again, therefore I must provide some new SURGERYHEAD music. From BEAUTIFUL FOREVER, my upcoming 'pop' album youtu.be/Kfk_Ee8pXY0?...

"Big swings, sticky images & absolute rippers...for readers who enjoy weird, intimate brutality." - The Blog Without a Face Read Horror All Year Long. @momoshaty.bsky.social's vicious collection CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT is out now! store.tenebrouspress.com

Good morning. I'm alternating between the In Somnio anthology from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social , and the fascinating Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

It’s almost that time, Tenebrous Cult. Time for what, you ask? For the world to discover DEAR STUPID PENPAL is a genre-blurring masterpiece that refuses to fit into a convenient slot. @rascalhartley.bsky.social best get ready for the attention 🖤☠️ Out November 11; get it: store.tenebrouspress.com

169.- Dear Stupid Penpal, by @rascalhartley.bsky.social (pub by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social)

I'm at it again with the book reviews. Check out my adoring rambles about Dear Stupid Penpal by @rascalhartley.bsky.social, published by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social: www.leootherland.com/post/dear-st...

The art of cover copy 🖤☠️ Often it starts with Alex, often it starts with Matt—either way usually working off the author’s original pitch—then it gets bounced back and forth between us. It usually turns out best when we can’t recognize anymore where it started.

Test pressing looks damn gorgeous. @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s genre-blurring Cosmic Sci-Horror Queer Romance epistolary novel DEAR STUPID PENPAL is out in less than two weeks! Preorder it here: store.tenebrouspress.com

💀THE BEYOND 💀CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD 💀ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK 💀BAY OF BLOOD 💀LISA AND THE DEVIL 💀YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY 💀DEMONS 💀DEMONS 2 💀THE CHURCH We have thoughts on the subject🖤☠️

Test pressing looks damn gorgeous. @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s genre-blurring Cosmic Sci-Horror Queer Romance epistolary novel DEAR STUPID PENPAL is out in less than two weeks! Preorder it here: store.tenebrouspress.com

🎃HALLOWEEN READS🎃 Cuz books don't have expiration dates @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social's POSTHASTE MANOR takes you on a tour of the most f%&ked up haunted house imaginable. Think HAUSU (Japan, 1977) but middle America Art @slimyswampghost.bsky.social tinyurl.com/28ez4hb6

🎃HALLOWEEN READS🎃 Cuz books don't have expiration dates! The straight-up insidious PUPPET'S BANQUET by @goresorcerer.bsky.social: Silent Hill vibes & Cronenbergian medical body horror in an Irish institute & voila: no sleep for days. Art by @donnaablack.bsky.social Get it: tinyurl.com/ywnhjfsv

SOFT TARGETS has never looked better! @editrixemma.bsky.social models @carsonwinter.bsky.social’s Wonderland-nominated New Weird Horror novel in style 🖤☠️ Cover art by @blackyshep.bsky.social

🧵2 - My novelette “Sequoia Point” in Split Scream volume 7 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social get it at: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...

Fuck yeah, congrats @sofiaajram.bsky.social , congrats @ghoulish.bsky.social !! 🖤☠️

We have a special Halloween announcement: Lanternfish Press is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the first short story collection by M.M. Olivas, Sangronas And Other Things With Teeth, for publication in Spring-Summer 2027. Learn more: lanternfishpress.com/news/2025/10...

Also, oh hey bookstores and shop owners! If you wanna carry Tenebrous books without all the hidden markups that In**amSp**k adds, all the deets are here: tenebrouspress.com/wholesaledis... Better % for you; better % for us and our authors🖤☠️

Halloween's a perfect time for a Horror press to give thanks, right?🎃🖤 The trashfire state of the world has us all feeling the pinch. Sales are down—understandably, people are prioritizing groceries & rent over buying books for fun. I can relate: I'm on SNAP too. Nonetheless we're grateful⬇️

Happy Halloween🤘🎃 Show us your pumpkins in the comments (I still have one more to carve, hopefully later today)🖤☠️

🍂🌾🌖Happy Samhain/Halloween/rainy day book eating/reading season!📚Here’s a thread of my scariest fictions, with links to read/purchase ( or find all the links at idehennessy.com/fiction ) 🧵1 #amwritinghorror #horrorbooks #horrorrecs #womeninhorror

Spread the cult!

Also, oh hey bookstores and shop owners! If you wanna carry Tenebrous books without all the hidden markups that In**amSp**k adds, all the deets are here: tenebrouspress.com/wholesaledis... Better % for you; better % for us and our authors🖤☠️

Halloween's a perfect time for a Horror press to give thanks, right?🎃🖤 The trashfire state of the world has us all feeling the pinch. Sales are down—understandably, people are prioritizing groceries & rent over buying books for fun. I can relate: I'm on SNAP too. Nonetheless we're grateful⬇️

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Hello scary, silly friends! We are proud to present the FIFTH issue of Die Laughing Mag, complete with four shorts, 2 flashes, and more laughs and scares than you can shake a stick at. Available now for a perfect Halloween treat! Buy DL Issue 5 here for $5: ko-fi.com/s/3936f3817e

SOFT TARGETS has never looked better! @editrixemma.bsky.social models @carsonwinter.bsky.social’s Wonderland-nominated New Weird Horror novel in style 🖤☠️ Cover art by @blackyshep.bsky.social

Happy Halloween🤘🎃 Show us your pumpkins in the comments (I still have one more to carve, hopefully later today)🖤☠️

The next—and ONLY—logical step from a black metal, not-quite Choose Your Own Adventure, really. Hell yeah Betts🤘🖤☠️

🎃HALLOWEEN READS🎃 Cuz books don't have expiration dates! The straight-up insidious PUPPET'S BANQUET by @goresorcerer.bsky.social: Silent Hill vibes & Cronenbergian medical body horror in an Irish institute & voila: no sleep for days. Art by @donnaablack.bsky.social Get it: tinyurl.com/ywnhjfsv

I'd be so honoured if you read my books on Halloween. One a novella, the other a collection of short stories🕯️🎃🕯️ "Agony's Lodestone" @tenebrouspress.bsky.social When a mysterious videotape reveals the terrifying final night of their long-lost sister, 3 siblings are drawn into a nightmarish reality.