watching Scream 4 in a hotel in Barstow, California. Or, "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when Ghostface began to take hold."

These stories came from @dhbaron.bsky.social, @vermontgmg.bsky.social, @alixeharrow.bsky.social, @joe-hill.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social, @rfkuang.bsky.social, @kyliu99.bsky.social, @silviamg.bsky.social +

Fellow @sgj.bsky.social readers, if you've ever tried to visualize the bizarre sculpture at the beginning of "Parthenogenesis," here's the real thing, in Grand Junction, Colorado! (Get this wild story from Tor, a mere $2: torpublishinggroup.com/parthenogene... )

#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER @sgj.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle until the end of the month! amzn.to/49BVqBY #IWasATeenageSlasher #ad

Man, GoJo soap IN THE PUMP by the sink at this truckstop somewhere past Moab, headed west. GoJo in the pump is the DREAM.

Starting @sgj.bsky.social 's The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, and ooh I'm going to relish this writing! #booksky

Part 3 from @etchfilm.bsky.social, live (part III is where masks are handed out)

✨bish wrapped 2025✨ Shock of all shocks at my top book and author! (It’s Good Stab and @sgj.bsky.social) More slides and stats: www.instagram.com/p/DS-G6CPAAE...

My last book for 2025 was "The Only Good Indians" by @sgj.bsky.social. It's been so long since I have read a book that unsettled me the way this did. Truly great horror title. Can't wait to read more by them and other Indigenous authors.

My first preorder of 2026! Back For Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II Edited by @shanehawk.com and @tvayyyy.bsky.social

Not me checking the Aardvark Book Club app over and over this AM to see if I can grab yet another special edition of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social. This makes my 7th copy of BHH.

Writing What Hurts: Favorite Books 2025 My Favorite book (guess) plus my 9 other (making ten) favorites from the 51 Books I read. @bitterkarella.bsky.social @patrickbarb.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social @lauriedoveauthor.bsky.social

I had this idea for a Ripley's Believe It on Not cartoon based in the world of Nathan Ballingrud's incredible novella THE BUTCHER'S TABLE. I reached out to Kieran Castaño, current artist for the actual Ripley's daily cartoon and he took it on 😃 It turned out so well! Happy birthday to Nathan!🎁❤️

My favorite books from 2025, in no particular order. Check 'em out! They all got them weird vibes... each does their own unique thing. @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @christopherbond.bsky.social , Caitlin Starling, Valkyrie Loughcrew

So deeply grateful to everyone who picked up BLACK FLAME and gave it a chance this year. My weird little book about film restoration, New York Jewish culture, genocide, and repression got to touch some hearts, which is all any author can really ask for. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

it's a very cool, creepy novella:

I've been in the parenting void between Christmas and NYE & forgot to share my latest @bookriot.bsky.social post: I highlighted ghostly work by @babblewocky.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social, @tkingfisher.com, @kcmeadbrewer.com, @datlow.bsky.social, and Suzan Palumbo. bookriot.com/ghost-storie...

The Outsider's my favorite King from the last . . . twenty years? so good. did an ep of @thekingcast.bsky.social on it. maybe my first ep there/with them?

Finished @sgj.bsky.social’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter training to a frigid Wisconsin, feeling even more immersed in the final chapters. And dang, few authors know their characters as well as SGJ. My favorite book this year. More on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #amreading #horror

I review THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER @sgj.bsky.social in time to cap of 2025 reads. An awesome horror, unique & powerful. Highly recommended!! leanbhpearson.com/2025/12/29/t...

Mestizos / @sgj.bsky.social Historias, montones de historias. Con todo lo terrible de lo que cuenta, te ves reflejado en algunas de ellas o conoces a alguien que te las recuerda. Lo sobrenatural y lo social mano a mano. De lo mejorcito que me he leído este año.

I need to read many more books in 2026, but my favourites this year were, with very little contest at all, BLACK FLAME by @scumbelievable.bsky.social and THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social. Both of those are real-deal heavyweight horror epics. Unbelievable.

Read 85 books in 2025. Find me on thestorygraph.com for list and ratings (@seandillon). #1 fav of 2025: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social Just... impeccable. Total home run. Recommend it in the strongest possible terms to anyone who loves horror.

Some of my favorite reads of 2025: - Annihilation, @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social - Fever House & The Devil By Name, @keithrosson.bsky.social - The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, @sgj.bsky.social

Man, this German Cemetery Dance I Was a Teenage Slasher is BEAUTIFUL. Check those end pages!

Big sales for two of my fave @sgj.bsky.social on kindle today!

#Kindle #deal! Whoa! @sgj.bsky.social's latest, STATES OF GRACE, is just $2.99!! It's like a late Christmas gift showing up on your ereader! #booksky #ad #amreading amzn.to/3Kj4Uoq

I've bought a couple books this year. Did my part to keep my favorites writing. I've also read a few, and I'm comfortable saying that The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by SGJ @sgj.bsky.social was the very best book I've read all year. It's fuckin fantastic! If you haven't read it, shame on you!

Finally found a signed copy of this gem by @sgj.bsky.social during my many flights through the Denver airport.

Right shirt for trivia tonight, I hope:

My top 3 books of the year: 1. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social 2. Between Two Fires by @buehlmeister.bsky.social 3. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Honestly the first two are basically tied 😆

There’s a head-stab in this one that’s something else. Puts me in mind of other dinner-thriller/horror. Could be a list? The Similars. Last Stop in Yuma County. No Exit (but is that a rest stop?). Reeker. I seem to always like them, anyway. From Dusk til Dawn is one? A roadhouse can be a diner, sure

Tried to make a top 10 books of the year list, and I can't do it. No matter how I try, it comes out to about 25 books. But the top 3 don't change: 3) The Extra by Annie Neugebauer 2) Amid the Vastness of All Else Saga by C.S. Humble 1) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones #booksky

“Ito Romo’s vampires step across centuries with dignity, but with desperation, too—you don’t want to get close to them, but you can’t look away.” —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Today I wrote the ninth article in my series on #vampires, with a look at #TheBuffaloHunterHunter by #StephenGrahamJones. Take a look! proseandcontext.substack.com/p/vampires-i... #sff #books #booksky #horror

got it:

Another year over, another epic set of books that got us through the suck. If you have any patience for your be more list, here’s my top-10 horror books of 2025. Enjoy. Tell me your thoughts. All podcast platforms.

My top 10 reads on IG. For Witch Hat and Legend of Exorcism, I count all volumes. From @sgj.bsky.social old west vampire tale to a spaceship seeking revenge against Dracula to @crobertcargill.bsky.social ‘s robot apocalypse to highest fantasy, took quite a journey through 103 books this year.

My top BIPOC books of 2025! Featuring books by @sgj.bsky.social, @azaleacrowley.bsky.social, @taliabhatt.itch.io 📚💙 📚🌍 Full rundown: vm.tiktok.com/ZNR6HP9Bw/

So good:

today i decided to go touch books at my closest book shop. this one is traveling with me. my first @sgj.bsky.social novel(s)

Coming up farming in West Texas, this one hit hard—felt like Jackyl GOT it

Whoah, Leif Garrett on the radio. Been so long. He was my favorite, in first grade.

First and most important decoration in the new campus office:

The always amazing @sgj.bsky.social's The Ones that got Away is on sale for $1.99. @kithrup.bsky.social I thought you might want to know about this one.

Stress balls never last, with me. Second one this week

We've got our top Horror reads of 2025 up at @sffworld.com my list features @joe-hill.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social , @rachelharrison.bsky.social, @gradyhendrix.bsky.social & @pfracassi.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social www.sffworld.com/2025/12/sffw...

such an excellent patch:

proof of unicorns:

Squeeeee look how stunning these two new @sgj.bsky.social babies from @sstpublications.bsky.social are going to be!!!