Attention all you lovely spooky season readers!!! If you have pre-ordered How to Fake a Haunting, please join me & @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for a virtual launch party, Friday at 6:30 PM. Link below to sign up, after which you’ll receive the Zoom invite! Looking forward to seeing you there! 🏠🪰🕯️🪞👻🏚️

Celebrating NEW BOOKS today! Full list in the alt text! @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @adamgodfreyauthor.bsky.social @spmiskowski.bsky.social @moniqueasher.bsky.social @teaganoliviawrites.bsky.social @raforall.bsky.social

WHY I LOVE HORROR: Essays on Horror Literature by @raforall.bsky.social Becky Spratford is out today! This book will stand the test of time as the eternal response to the question of why we love horror. A special gift. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it deserves all the awards! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

They’re only going after Tylenol because the president of the United States can’t say acetaminophen. 🤦‍♂️

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

Back from a weekend visiting the college kid in Nashville and getting ready for release day tomorrow! Click below for details on how to join me on the road. @sagapressbooks.bsky.social @laneheymont.bsky.social raforall.blogspot.com/2025/08/why-...

8 book recs for Hobbits to celebrate #hobbitday and the first day of Fall 🍃 My reasons for picking these books is available in the alt text

Thrifting clothes Stocking my bookshelves Supporting my public library Watching Netflix Boycotting Corporate shit Shopping at Costco Still not shopping at Target or Amazon Pre-ordering books by BIPOC, queer, and women authors Buying a DVD player & DVDs again Farmers markets Spending locally

THEN THEN, 10/5, 2pm, I'm back to RI, this time at the Ashaway Free Library, again with my bud @christaqua.bsky.social for "Hauntings, Real and Imagined" a discussion about all things Gothic & Haunted, true or invented! Books available for sale/signing! Refreshments provided! Address in AltText:

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

Monday is the official start of Autumn and I have never needed it more in my whole life. I read Classic and Gothic Horror for the Fall/Winter season. This year's classic is THE OTHER by Thomas Tryon--but here are some that I have read & loved previously-try @valancourtbooks.bsky.social for books!

Hey! I did a little video about #whyilovehorror today. Please preorder Why I Love Horror edited by @raforall.bsky.social , the essays are incredible!! Why do you love horror? Make a video and use the hashtag #whyilovehorror !! @sagapressbooks.bsky.social

I have made a blog in which I have no takes! That's right, NO TAKES. Just a gal tryna nurture her sense of awe and wonder about the world earnestly and without cynicism. It's on Ko-Fi but it's completely free. ko-fi.com/explorigan

3 Auto-buy authors: Mariana Enriquez, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Isabel Cañas

Boosting the signal here—propaganda will be piped into our schools

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Join us in canceling Disney Plus. Let’s boycott ABC and Disney. If you’ve already canceled, drop a “done” in the comments.

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

Feeling scared or defeated? Time to binge-watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Star Wars saga

Based on true events, THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED is a contemporary gothic horror set in a cursed manor on a coconut plantation—and it’s coming this fall. Thank you, @aijiang.bsky.social, for the kind words! More info in 🧵 #TheVillaOnceBeloved #VictorManibo

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

BREAKING: ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely following comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Trump’s FCC chair earlier appeared on MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson’s show and threatened to revoke ABC’s broadcast license if they didn’t take action against him.

The ‘ber months are here, so that means we’re reading horror. You know we read horror all year round, but we brought in the expert – @sadiehartmann.bsky.social! Tune in to hear Mhairie chat about women in horror, becoming an accidental author, and good old fashioned vibes reading #booksky

Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."

In case you've missed this Mutual Appreciation Society thread about our books, Chris here published the most delightful (+ very useful reference text) A IS FOR ARSENIC: An ABC of Victorian Death! And @landisblair.bsky.social channeled Edward Gorey in such lovely art: bookshop.org/p/books/a-is...

Build your #horror TBR with these #newreleases! @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @markrainey.bsky.social @themordashin.bsky.social @gregfrost.bsky.social @rayvanhornjr.bsky.social @chelseaconradt.bsky.social @abigailtaylor.bsky.social @daniel-lorn.bsky.social @sadiehartmann.bsky.social

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION (out in 2 weeks!) praise continues with @sadiehartmann.bsky.social's kind words! Check out her new FERAL AND HYSTERICAL while you're at it! Find both books at @bookshop.org! Signed AMG pre-orders here: wordbookstores.com/book/9780806...

Wishing @rebelsam94.bsky.social and GALLOWAY'S GOSPEL a very happy book birthday! I called it "a wild, bristling ride that would make Lovecraft blush" in my foggy blurb as pigs chewed on me. Full blurb in the replies.

Happy #PubDay to @theladyaye.bsky.social! You aren't going to want to miss her haunting new book, WHEN WE SPOKE TO THE DEAD. Like a warm mug of cocoa, it’s the perfect companion to kick off spooky season. 👇

Celebrate New Books Today! @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @rebelsam94.bsky.social List in the alt text!

Don’t forget to vote, Minnesotans! Today’s special election will determine who fills the state House seat after Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated in June.

I stupidly thought most people just wanted to live in peace and let others live in peace too.

WE LIVE HERE NOW, Sarah Pinborough: Very scary. Turns out there's life in the haunted house plot, after all. Original and my God, so dark.

BREAKING NEWS!! *daily since 2016 Me:

We are starting a new book in the night worms book club! THE UNSEEN by Ania Ahlborn—Join us! fable.co/club/night-w...

I think I need to read some M. R. James ghost stories...perhaps this holiday season? Where should I start?

If you want to read more books, put your phone in another room.

Finally starting Red Rabbit by @alexgrecian.bsky.social after hearing it praised by my friends, namely @margueriteturl2.bsky.social and @kimberjohnson.bsky.social. 💙📚

JESUS: "Feed, clothe, and provide shelter to the homeless." CHRISTIANS: "Nah, let's just KILL them instead. Glory!"

Haven’t received any donations in the past two days 😔 I urgently need $500 to get through this please donate if you can & share this link with everyone you know. Every share matters, every dollar helps tinyurl.com/fzde8efj

ALSO would you like to look at some moss & lichen I saw when I was going between two buildings before lunchtime. This place is SO GREAT for things growing on stone I cannot even TELL you.

wait, everyone has a special 'dog food spoon', right? You don't just use any spoon, right?

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Wow. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. just single-handedly ruled that Congress doesn’t really control the purse strings. This is becoming a massive crisis for checks and balances and the separation of powers.

So I did this post on Instagram with some great doll horror book recs and someone directed me to this anthology from and indie press which is on Kindle Unlimited and I gathered up some friends for a buddy read and that's how bookstagram works. www.instagram.com/p/DObNOKZEda3/

BOOK DEAL: We've signed @timmcgregor.bsky.social's HEARTS STRANGE AND DREADFUL for re-release in 2026 with a foreword by @sadiehartmann.bsky.social! We're excited to be working with Tim again and to be bringing his much-beloved gothic tale back into print. rawdogscreaming.com/book-deal-ti...