I'll have to wait a few more months before I put in my next semi-annual @blpublishing.bsky.social order, but this volume is easily the one I'm most anticipating. And this might be the best cover of the series so far.

I’ve got my copy through and it looks like a great collection on an author I know pretty much nothing about. Got a few things to get out of the way but looking forward to The Tiger Skin.

📚 Now available! 📚 THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY, published by @blpublishing.bsky.social I’ve wanted to bring Violet Hunt’s supernatural fiction back for a while now, so am happy to see these stories reach a wide audience again. Please share!

Love the 'Tales of the Weird' series from The British Library. May have a few of them...

BL Shop: shop.bl.uk/products/ill... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/illusio... Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Illusions-Pr...

The British Library have just sent me photos of ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE - it has been printed!!! EMINENT ANTHOLOGIST Aww yeah. #FESTIVESHINYSHINY Book out October 16, pre-order your copy from links below:

The Tiger Skin: And Other Tales of the Uneasy is a collection of uncanny and supernatural stories by the famed literary salon hostess, writer, and feminist Violet Hunt. Available online today: shop.bl.uk/products/the... Ed:@melissae.bsky.social

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Pride and Prejudice first edition facsimile is stunning - and also out TODAY! Read Darcy and Elizabeth's story as the first ever readers would have in 1813. tinyurl.com/PridePrejudi...

Who doesn’t love a festive mystery? #BookSky 💙📚

Announcing the cover for our Christmas Crime Classic, Death in Ambush: A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery. This rediscovered tale is a country-house murder with a clever mystery at its heart. Originally published in 1952, it will be an instant festive favourite. Pre-order:🌨️ shop.bl.uk/products/dea...

This is very true. My tbr of classic era women writers of gothic weird is growing and that’s not even taking into account Ann Radcliffe. Also included here in Francis Steven’s (Gertrude Burnett) from my Bison Books collection @blpublishing.bsky.social #weird #gothic #womenwriters #booksky 🩸📚💙

A couple of new spooksters for the shelves, courtesy of @blpublishing.bsky.social (and @weirdwalk.bsky.social) #TalesoftheWeird #Weird #Horror #Fictions #Books

My monthly book mail from @blpublishing.bsky.social is September’s Tales of the Weird The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt Edited by @melissae.bsky.social Cover by Mauricio Villemayor and Sandra Gomez Might start this weekend! 🩸📚

Next in, a pair of titles from @blpublishing.bsky.social in the Crime Classics range - I love their anthologies and I love a lost classic so both are perfect for me! 😊📚

Lots of doom and gloom this week, so a positive shout out to all the fantastic small publishers. Some sell direct and all have amazing books. @northodoxpress.bsky.social @valancourtbooks.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social @blpublishing.bsky.social Feel free to list more 🪐📚💙 🩸📚 #booksky

Locked room mysteries, confounding puzzles, crimes that happen as if by magic... award-winning crime writer @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social brings together a casebook of mystifying crime fiction, from the Golden Age of Crime. Available now: shop.bl.uk/products/as-...

In case you missed it… My friend Sabine and I are doing a readalong of @blpublishing.bsky.social’s Halloweird in October. Join us on Instagram for a deep dive into the weird, the wonderful, the ghostly, and the ghastly of Halloween with this spooky collection edited by @johnnymains.co.uk. 🎃

I know the current discourse is to frown on reading older works, but such daily takes on here are wearying, so I’m continuing with my mix old and new Nearly fin my Algernon Blackwood coll from @blpublishing.bsky.social I’d read Wendigo before, but Willows and Ancient Sorceries were excellent 🩸📚

Violet Hunt is here! Many thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social for the lovely complimentary copies. THE TIGER SKIN AND OTHER TALES OF THE UNEASY will be published later this month.

Popped into @rossiterbooks.bsky.social in Hereford earlier today and picked up Jackie Morris and @tamsintheshed.bsky.social's amazing looking book Wild Folk and @weirdwalk.bsky.social's 2nd collection from @blpublishing.bsky.social

🐲Spitting poison, breathing fire, churning the sea or flying high above, The Little Book of Dragons explores the myths and legends behind these endlessly fascinating serpentine creatures. Available online today: shop.bl.uk/products/the...

Today’s post-work/pre-dinner book shop was a successful 3-minute tactical strike. New @weirdwalk.bsky.social + @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird!

I adored it and genuinely consider it one of the best books in the @blpublishing.bsky.social Women Writers series - in a very strong field! Loved Dunning’s prose, and the contrasts between the three women were beautifully teased out. I hope I’ve done it justice in my review! #SpinsterSeptember 💙📚

I keep hoping The Spring Begins will truly take off, and a glowing review from @jacquiwine.bsky.social is an excellent way to help that happen!

New on the blog today, I've written about THE SPRING BEGINS by Katherine Dunning. I adored this evocative, beautifully written portrayal of the lives of three very different young women in the 1930s. A new favourite for #SpinsterSeptember! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/t...

How lovely is this? What an honour to have HALLOWEIRD as a read-along! Thank you, Caro!

Oh my, this is fantastic! @johnnymains.co.uk

I really love this subscription.

Violet will be here soon! And I share the love for that frontispiece. 🖤

Great to see this in Waterstones Piccadilly yesterday. They have always been a great supporter of our books & now have a side table dedicated solely to each months new Crime Classic. 🕵️‍♀️❤️.

✍️ Want to refine your writing? Swallowed by a Whale: Writing Advice from the World's Most Successful Authors, provides insights into the art of writing from 60 contemporary authors. Now available in paperback: shop.bl.uk/products/swallowed-by-a-whale-paperback

Publishing in October ‘Mystery in White’ is back! In a beautiful hardback special edition, featuring a new introduction by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social. Shiny crimey!

Melissa’s collections are always absolutely spot on. Looking forward to this!

Early stock at BL towers of our September Tales of the Weird! The Tiger Skin & Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt (edited by @melissae.bsky.social) publishes Sept 18th! Love that frontispiece 🖤

Erm, remember the date! 🖤

On the Ramblings today, I discover a new author in the @blpublishing.bsky.social women writers series, GB Stern - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/s...

Journey through forbidden mountain paths, ancient woodlands and collapsing coastlines at the far edges of Britain's wilderness with The Wayfarer's Weird: Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles... shop.bl.uk/products/the-wayfarers-weird-wild-tales-of-uncanny-rambles

ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE has a cover!! Really happy with how this one has turned out, it's going to be *THE* book to get this Christmas!! Links to order below! Please share this one far and wide! #christmasghoststories #santasshinyshiny

On the Ramblings today - catching up with classic crime from @blpublishing.bsky.social and @galileobooks.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/c...

I’ve just heard that ‘The Art of the Scribe’ now has an Australian distributor so any Aussies out there - this is your chance!! Also a wonderful review in Blue Wolf - makes for a lovely day for me!! bluewolf-reviews.com/non-fiction/... @blpublishing.bsky.social

You can read about the history of British puddings in my book The Philosophy of Puddings published by @blpublishing.bsky.social

Read all about it in The Philosophy of Puddings published by @blpublishing.bsky.social !

Book mail: August Tales of the Weird Subscription from @blpublishing.bsky.social A second volume of rambling weird with ‘The Wayfarer’s Weird: Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles’ by @weirdwalk.bsky.social Another great cover from Mauricio Villemayor and Sandra Gomez 🩸📚💙 #booksky #weird #rambling

Day off so playing around with my own book shelves. I love this series! @blpublishing.bsky.social - they're so pretty

🌙Experience the seedy London nightlife of the 50s in this republished mystery from 1954 by Nina Bawden, The Odd Flamingo, out today. 🦩 shop.bl.uk/products/the-odd-flamingo

I can thoroughly recommend Sidney Gilliat’s GREEN FOR DANGER and the source novel by Christianna Brand. #FilmSky #BookSky 💙📚

Find out more about the history of all puddings in my book The Philosophy of Puddings from @blpublishing.bsky.social

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