Ring in the new year with some screams. Here are our most anticipated horror books from indie and small presses this January! @severnhouse.bsky.social @rebecca-rowland.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social @alexwoodroe.com @willowylungs.bsky.social @deadskypub.bsky.social

the first monthly horror shopping list of 2026 is live! w/ new books from @allisonmick.bsky.social @rebeccarowland.bsky.social @ravineangel.bsky.social @shaunhamill.bsky.social @toribovalino.bsky.social @simonestjames.bsky.social @alexwoodroe.com @acwise.bsky.social @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social & more!

Just finished THE NIGHT SHIP by @alexwoodroe.com (out 1/20/26). 5/5⭐️. I don’t want to give away too much, but it gave me feelings of Stranger Things, The Last of Us, and The Thing at different times. Also, pretty righteous nautical horror feel despite there not being an actual boat. Sequel, please.

New Year, New Terrors inbound! February brings @kristalstittle.bsky.social's KAYAK, whose DNA can be traced to the classic survival novel HATCHET as well as A QUIET PLACE & THE WALKING DEAD, but spun into a unique, impossibly tense alien invasion sci-horror. Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

Welcome to Night Ship month, let's turn the engines over 😁

In case you missed it (which includes pretty much everyone tbh 😆) my review of @alexwoodroe.com's The Night Ship is on my lonely little website. Highly recommended.

My review of The Night Ship by Alex Woodroe from Flame Tree Press is on my website now. Adrift on an impossible sea of darkness, can a group of survivors find sanctuary? Highly recommended. stevenpatchettwriter.home.blog/2025/12/31/t...

Thread of top ten books I read in 2025? Why not? (Note these are books I read in 2025—not all of them necessarily were published then or are even published yet but books have no expiration date!) Here are the books that stuck with me (complimentary) in no particular order with review excerpts:

The Night Ship by @alexwoodroe.com (forthcoming) "A thrilling adventure from the first paragraph to the last that rarely lets up and allows you to draw breath... Fans of weird horror with cosmic and survivalist themes will surely enjoy this expertly plotted and thrilling take on the genre."

Not gonna do one of those 2025 wrap ups because lol lmao but it was such a long year, I forgot a book I did the interior illustrations for came out in 2025 Casual by @kojiadae.bsky.social is a cutting look at a future that is all too plausible. Pubbed by the inimitable @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

Do you read the Tenebrous newsletter?** sendfox.com/tenebrouspress **I mean, you're prolly not reading it right now; we haven't sent one in like a week. We may not next week either, I dunno. It's the holidays & we're tired. Point is, we won't clutter up your inbox, so you should prolly sign up🖤☠️

Be on the Look Out For ... THE NIGHT SHIP by Alex Woodroe (@alexwoodroe.com), releasing next month!

This world is a True Terror, but we're grateful that you've kept it Weird in all the best ways with us. Thank you for all your support in 2025; we can't wait to share what's coming next. HAIL INDIE PUBLISHING. HAIL NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE. HAIL THE TENEBROUS CULT. All our love- Alex + Matt 🖤☠️

Hails @bloody-disgusting.com ! PUPPET’S BANQUET by @goresorcerer.bsky.social is featured among their Best Books of 2025; couldn’t agree more 🖤☠️ bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

New at @bloody-disgusting.com, my list of the best horror books of 2025, featuring @sgj.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @scumbelievable.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @ericlarocca.bsky.social , @talkscaredpod.bsky.social, and MORE! bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

Oooooh! KAYAK looks AWESOME! 💜

🎄💀Yoooo, last minute Christmas shoppers!💀🎄 We're still shipping today through Friday, & anything within the continental US should reach you with time to spare. (We're a couple days from restock on REEF MIND, alas, but everything else is in stock!) BUY INDIE🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

If you want a book by a 41 year old crone who whittled it with her bare hands and clacking keyboard and barks at AI like a feral mongoose, spend your money here 🫶😃🧟‍♀️

If you think you might wanna have the book that got this review, there's ten foiled hardback copies up for grabs! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

If you think you might wanna have the book that got this review, there's ten foiled hardback copies up for grabs! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Easily in the top 2 or 3 books I read this year... weird and cosmic horror fans will 100% want to add this to your TBR list. A true triumph of writing skill and imagination

I am looking forward to this!!!

This book. You need to pre-order this book. The comps in this LJ review are spot on and the hype is real. The Night Ship is so preposterously good it blew my tits clean off. Seriously, a small team of locals canvassed the woods and couldn't find them so now I have to see a plastic surgeon

"read-alikes include The Mist and The Langoliers" *mashes pre-order button like a person possessed*

Hell yes 🥰🥰🥰

I might need to be pinched because I can't quite believe this Library Journal review is really real and really mine ❤️❤️❤️❤️😅 Who over there needs an alibi? I'm great in a crisis and you were with me all day that day I swear

Northern Nights is a very good horror anthology of twenty new stories by Canadians. There's notable work by Simon Strantzas, Rory Say, David Demchuk, A.C. Wise, Premee Mohamed, Marc A. Godin, E.C. Dorgan, and David Nickle. The Nickle and Mohamed are reprinted herein. -Best Horror of the Year 17

My ambitious 2026 TBR has evolved into "A Jam's list to 2026 releases"; and it's time for the first part (I would say there are a few more). First part of my most awaited titles for 2026 and that I hope to cover in the blog: jamreads.com/articles/a-j... 💙📚

The first few snowflakes of the winter caught me outside, running, therefore I'm considering myself divinely blessed and will take no arguments. I will however take any suggestions as to which divinity this might have been, currently idk where to send the thank you note?

Fun morning coffee thought: thing about these tech supercompanies is that they don't exist because we need them, *we need them because they exist*. If meta, zon, etc disappeared tomorrow it would be an uncomfortable month with some adjustments... And then we'd be absolutely fine. And relieved

Alright sickos n scuzzoids, how about this neon-soaked beauty? I'm spoiled once again by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social who always brings in the coolest artists. Arianna Bosa nailed the assignment. Perfectly pulpy. A proper fit for something that's a bit of Hammett & PKD, but 100% 10p & yours truly.

It's his party and he's gonna make you cry if he wants to

TODAY IS MY 50th BIRTHDAY & I HAVE OPINIONS All you have to do is sit & bask in my vast knowledge of important topics such as this first one: TOP FIVE MOTORHEAD ALBUMS

Fun language fact of the day: only just now did I realize that the English (well, French) word 'cloche' I keep hearing in cooking shows, and the Romanian word for a broody hen 'cloșcă' (pronounced cloche-ka), are clearly related and both used to talk about something hiding precious cargo underneath

"Tenebrous went for broke here & this is by far their best. A painstaking, demented journey" @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social's ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT is part of our 2026 Book Club! print+eBook & eBook-only (9 books for $31.99) options available: store.tenebrouspress.com art: @jennacha.bsky.social

one of the most beautiful and poetic works of weird fiction of the past few years. harrowing, angry, sad and, ultimately, filled with a sense of stark bio-optimism.

Have there been any papers or essays published yet on why AI tech support, and specifically its almost-real-sounding-but-not-quite-correct advice and interminable friendly but useless loops, particularly triggers anxiety and meltdowns in neurodivergent people, because ...

Congrats to @kojiadae.bsky.social whose extraordinary Weird SF novel CASUAL made this @lithub.com.web.brid.gy roundup of some of the best, overlooked books of the year! lithub.com/memory-rehab...

Congrats to @hazelzorn.bsky.social whose incredible Eco-Body-Horror cli-fi novella REEF MIND made @lithub.com.web.brid.gy's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025! lithub.com/100-notable-...

We've been in this fog bank for weeks, and if you're asking whether I'm well, it is debatable at this stage who is more self-aware: the lichen, or I

Horror Finalists: 💙A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE by @carsonwinter.bsky.social (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social) 💙BENOTHINGED by @alvartheo.bsky.social (@hauntpublishing.bsky.social)

Running to the post office in an hour-ish! If ya want your doodled copy of Trve Cvlt going out in this first batch, hit me up sooner rather than later 💀💜🤘

Claiming works for our genres until somebody stops me day 1746: The Dark Crystal is a work of New Weird Dark Fantasy

If you saw me get h@cked, don't worry about it. We call that Eastern European cardio

What your patronage means to an indie press: If you have a Tenebrous shelf, you are our patron saint. Your emails will always be answered. If you have the entire collection? I will answer the phone as your alibi and/or former employer. You were with me the whole time & you did an *amazing* job.

I still have space on mine.... Schnell. 😁

One of our rad Cultists just emailed a pic of their updated centerpiece bookshelf & y’all: I am continually humbled that this thing that Alex & I started 5 years ago inspires such loyalty & passion. Forget the holiday: every day of the year, we’re thankful for you🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT: It's gonna be a weird one, folks. Deeply personal, very grim. This themed collection is me strapped to a chair with an IV full of sodium pentathol as administered by @alexwoodroe.com (who was kind enough to write a foreword). If you've ever wanted The Boulerice Buffet, this is it