In the puddle of mud that is Wales, our morning hike was along part of Offa's Dyke path nr Forden. We were aiming for Beacon Ring hill fort, but the path was dire in the end. Still covered a few miles though. Some of the trees felt as if they were going to get up and keep us company!

More folk horror on the horizon, and this time we're beaming it right to you with our online STRANGE AS FOLK event this May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #folkhorror #folklore #horror #horrorfiction #horrorwriting #writing #writers #authors #events #onlineevents

#Minneapolis #Minnesota #Signalboost of the Day Some of our neighbors are working to feed, get vet care for and fosters for as many of the pets who’ve lost their humans to ICE kidnappings or whose humans can’t work right now as they can and they need some ❤️. www.spotfund.com/story/a00a02...

We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest. We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.

Today, all Cursed Morsels store proceeds that would normally go to me will instead go to rent relief for 16 St. Paul families affected by ICE detention and occupation. Check out our store if you love weird horror and supporting neighbors during times of fascist terror: www.cursedmorselspress.com

Today's morning ramble was around Old Oswestry Iron Age hill fort. Set a bit lower than some of those we've tramped around but still a good hike. Very muddy so couldn't explore all the levels. Will be going back. (Oswestry is town in Shropshire not far from England/Wales border.)

Happy Friday!! I got hit with an unexpected expense and it would really help if people got physical copies directly from me <3

fans of MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW or horror poetry, get into IS MY CHAINSAW A HEART: 13 CENTOS, 1300 lines of found poetry from that book with foreword by @sgj.bsky.social , recommended by @csecooney.bsky.social and @jordanshiveley.bsky.social from @kithbooks.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/pope...

Love to get some eyes on my award-winning erotic gothic novella! bsky.app/profile/tdcl...

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! Here's my essay published yesterday on my noirish horror/thriller manuscript which is a follow-up to my 2024 novel, Chicano Frankenstein: "On Transformation and Addiction in My Novel-in-Progress, Chicana Werewolf" www.horrorhomeroom.com/on-transform... #horror

Sci-fi detective comedy novels narrated by a coffee machine robot who uses too many footnotes. The Great American Deception: Publishers Weekly (starred review) The Great American Betrayal: Vulture, “The Best Comedy Books of 2022” www.amazon.com/dp/B08RB4S319 scottsteinonline.com

Thank you, Gabino! I am Idris Elba is the chronicle of a man who may or may not be Idris Elba, living in Baltimore with his dog Tolstoy. Things get increasingly strange. Available: $12.50 includes shipping anywhere in the continental US. forms.gle/gDfQreKvu8ra...

Firebird Book Award and Independent Press Award winner. THE MONSTERS AMONG US is cinematic dark fantasy novel brimming with twists, tension, and high stakes. Unapologetically neurodivergent. Ruthlessly anti-authoritarian. Fully unique and thought provoking. books2read.com/u/m27rzr

Thanks Gabino!! The Unkillable Frank Lightning was named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by @bloody-disgusting.com! I’d love more folks to check it out! tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

Thanks, Gabino! It's my birthday so I'm shouting out my latest book, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, a coming-of-age folk horror, with old rituals, dark forests, black birds and lost boys. mybook.to/woundedbirds

Got a wonderfully insightful review over on Gingernuts of Horror! “If the idea of a psychological, structurally ambitious, genre-blending story intrigues you, if you’re the type who craves a why behind the ghost that’s smarter than a murderer, this house is waiting.”

Thanks Gabino! SPLIT SCREAM VOL. 8 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social is up for preorder, out 4/21, featuring new novelettes from myself and @matthewtpritt.bsky.social. #FridayReads store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...

Thanks Gabino! Have a great weekend! 😎🤙🏻 Another #FridayReads shout out for reposts for my dark #thriller, Badlands. Surf, sand, smugglers and murder, all set against the stunning backdrop of North Cornwall, UK. Check it out here: mybook.to/Badlands2025 #Booksky 📚⚡️📚💙📚📢 Thanks all! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Happy Friday, everyone! If you're somewhere snowy and it's getting to you, why not take an excursion to a warm cave on a distant planet with plenty of hot coffee and floral art to make you think of spring? Nothing will go wrong. Probably. linktr.ee/authorlevai

Con artists Serling and Price have found a strange device that allows them to create haunted houses. Unfortunately, they realize too late that the machine can do so much more… Only 99 cents: shorturl.at/fCEZ9

Honored to have Future Skinny included with these other bangers in @xraylitmag.bsky.social this week. Check the whole list out here: xraylitmag.com/honest-blurb... thnx @gabino.bsky.social 🙌🖤🙌

Thanks Gabino. Was just sharing a wintery excerpt from my eco-horror novella a while earlier. Available on this link: payhip.com/b/58paC #FridayReads bsky.app/profile/anna...

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share some books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s the kind of bilingual, multicultural stuff full of BIPOC and queer representation that angers fascists. Much love. (45% off!) www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

Glad I could still participate, even late! My novel, In the House of In Between is available wherever good books are sold, but if you buy through Bookshop, you’re benefitting the fight against our real life horrors here in the US. Consider buying books to say fuck 🧊.

The horse is placed so centrally in folklore because our relationship to it has always been a defining cultural feature. Its ghosts are many. They pull spectral corpse carts, are steeds in phantom battles. A network of invisible clip-clopping down a thousand lanes. – Dr. M. Benn #FolkloreThursday

Thank you, always! In this shit world, I'd rather read fiction, even the scary kind because at least it's fiction. My collection's offers an escape, as does all fiction. I hope you find comfort, somewhere, anywhere. mybook.to/AllsWell

Great #HorrorWritersChat, Mary! If you'd like to read "The Oily", which my original publisher described as "one of the most disturbing horror stories we’ve ever published", it appears in "It Calls From The Veil: An Anthology of Paranormal Horror". Here's the link: www.amazon.com/Calls-Veil-A...

Fed up with the cold? It's sunny in Harrowfield and the path of green and gold is shining. mybook.to/Harrowfield #folkhorror #booksky #horror #horrorwriting

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TONIGHT! Let's dive into the supernatural with Maine horror author, @reneedecamillis.bsky.social! Join us tonight at 8 PM EST at the link below. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3y...

Thank you, @marywyrd.bsky.social ! Frolic Press has launched with a special edition of Fritz Leiber's 'Conjure Wife' featuring two essays by @ramseycampbell.bsky.social Available for pre-order wherever books are sold. More information is here: frolicpress.ink/Conjure-Wife/ #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks again, @marywyrd.bsky.social! It's always fun. Intrigued by living appliances and the cult of the number line? Not sure if you toaster is plotting to kill you? (it isn't). Wondering if your electric toothbrush is being nosy? (It is). Find out. #horrowriterschat www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

I've taken the paywall off this eulogy I wrote for my magical, mysterious ex-stray cat George - who died last year - in case anybody would like a read. It was very, very hard to write but I think it might be my favourite thing I’ve ever written about cats. www.tom-cox.com/lots-of-peop...

#HorrorWritersChat Fun as always. Anyway, you can buy Unfold, a slow burn workplace creature feature. If you're mad about the oligarchs, I hope this can be cathartic for you. www.amazon.com/Unfold-Trist...

The smell of death's ripe. My father, a skeleton on the bed as if he's already gone. Buzzards wait, they smell it. "Natures clean-up crew," mom always said. I hear them, impatient talons scraping the roof shingles. A death rattle rings and a frenzied chorus of hunger surrounds us. #HorrorWritersChat

It's World Cancer Day. I’m highlighting Macmillan Cancer Support and the fundraiser for our dearly departed Matt 🕯️🤍 who we lost to cancer last year. Matt started #HorrorWritersChat which has grown into our dear community. Please also check out his books under MG Mason @chaoticauthor.online

Thanks as always, Mary! writesinister.substack.com is where you can find most of my stuff! #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks Mary I'll leave the link for all my books Looking to host them on another site too because of the obvious NO HEROICS, ONLY HORRORS NO REASON, ONLY RECKONING NO SAVIOURS, ONLY SYSTEMS WELCOME TO THE COLONIES OF THE TWAINEARTH www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Thanks, Mary #HorrorWritersChat is always entertaining. While Trapped in Amber goes through the tedious process of getting published, let's have some freebies books.bookfunnel.com/lurksintheda... books.bookfunnel.com/beneaththesh... storyoriginapp.com/to/8z8vySv books.bookfunnel.com/horrorgiveaw...

#HorrorWritersChat Thank you Mary! I’ve been chosen as one of the Locals in the Limelight at this year’s Granite Noir festival here in Aberdeen. I’ll be reading my poem ‘The Witch’s Hat’ at an event called Into the Dark. www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/gra...

I talked about Lazarus a lot this week so... Come meet him in his first short story? It's about a house, funnily enough, though it's no home, not anymore... ko-fi.com/s/8cd164bf0a payhip.com/b/JP4Q0 #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Mary! Great questions as ever, & a great tribute to Matt Since Marcellus has been in my answers again, here's my pay-what-you-like novella, By the Blood, with the Vampire Priest acting as ward and governor to a suspected vampire - protecting her from town and undead alike #HorrorWritersChat

Nothing new since last week, but if you haven't checked it out yet, you can get a mini-audio book of "Beware Cheap Houses," one of my Shadow Hill stories on several services now: books2read.com/BewareCheapH... (If you use Spotify, hit me up for a free code for a review copy) #HorrorWritersChat

IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT (extreme/splatterpunk, unsettlingly apt) has a release date: April 10, 2026 And a cover, art by David Kozlovsky. #HorrorWritersChat

The first thing to go was the wallpaper. One day there had been forest green and gold curlicues, the next only white walls. Now, a soft shadow of sadness hung over the place where the dining room used to be. The slates flew from the roof, and the birds outside stopped singing. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Working on the sequel to horror comedy WENDIGOGO. More cannibal misadventures with reluctant w*ndigo Morty! If you enjoy reading about bloody ends for horrible people, Northwoods legends,& occasional silly snark, check out the 1st book at books2read.com/u/mv5BzX & graythornpub.com

Cancer of the esophagus. A grand name. Architectural. In her house, it arrived as a cast iron, ornamental spiral staircase which corkscrewed upwards through two floors. But only when it started to rotate, like a barbershop Blood & Bandages, did she know it had some kind of life. #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks Mary! #HorrorWritersChat, looking for some winter horror to chill with? Check out "Rose," the story of a young woman turned into a plant/human hybrid in the middle of winter. And that's just the start of her problems! www.amazon.com/Rose-Rami-Un... #HorrorSky #BookSky

#HorrorWritersChat A ghastly collection www.amazon.com/Corpse-Road-...