BIG NEWS ALERT BIG BEWS ALERT Happy Halloween, ya creeps. Some fun-size horror treats will be coming your way soooon …

Freddy vs Jason is a masterpiece and you cannot tell me otherwise.

Seeing SCREAM on the big screen for the first time ever with @melsbookshelves.bsky.social

HELP ME I WAS ATTACKED BY THE BARNES & NOBLE HINGHAM HORROR BOOK CLUB @barnesandnoble.com

Hey, chowderheads! I’m hopping in the car right now and heading your way! See you in Massachusetts, baby!

The more I sit with The Long Walk the more I understand the changes and the more I think I love that movie with my whole heart. Those performances were just stunning.

I wait alllll year to put a horror table up front at work and I’m so lucky that I have had all these authors in & have a full side of signed copies for our customers.

@danielkraus.com 👀

man, wow. who'd have ever guessed. vampires go everywhere, yeah? so do Blackfeet:

So so so happy and lucky to have this happening at our store, black flame is incredible. Like truly worked for me on so many levels.

Encountered a man whose shirt says “assault rifle” and then proceeds to define the words but his shirt claims it is an adjective and I really just want to explain to this man that an assault rifle is a noun.

Just found out that @paultremblay.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social and Catherine M. Valente (who I haven’t had the pleasure of reading yet) are going to be at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on my birthday! Such a treat for me 😊😊😊

More StokerCon highlights: All of the author readings Starting out the morning with @claymcleod.bsky.social becoming a chair to scare @rachelharrison.bsky.social Getting a picture with Adam Nevill @nytebird45.bsky.social telling me to keep writing and being a genuine and fantastic person

UM I WON A STOKER AWARD

Wake up call for Rachel Harrison before her reading (thank you Ryan for capturing the moment) @rachelharrison.bsky.social

Highlights from StokerCon so far: @tanyapell.bsky.social & @haileypiperfights.bsky.social being the nicest humans on planet earth; literal ICONS @equinoxsociety.bsky.social and his robin journey @johnlangan.bsky.social drawing on my tote bag to outdo @paultremblay.bsky.social

SUPER SECRET SERIAL KILLER NOVELLA NOT-SO SECRET ANYMORE: bit.ly/4n04aqf @fangoria.bsky.social @titanbooks.bsky.social

Just started The Waste Lands deep dive on @talkscaredpod.bsky.social and now I’m genuinely scared to continue. What does @scribeofhades.bsky.social say ‼️‼️‼️

Second STARRED review for THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: NEW TALES OF STEPHEN KING'S THE STAND. Getting love from queen librarian and horror influencer Becky Spratford is always such an honor!

The book that changed my life, A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS, is ten years old today. Ten??? I was once so innocent and naive, and tall. At least I’m still tall. I had the folks (mostly family and friends) sign MY book on release night. I kinda wish I kept that going.

I stepped on a storm drain without realizing and the second I did realize, the physical reaction I had was so dramatic, and that is how I know the 1990 IT adaptation still haunts me.

Final Destination Bloodlines was somehow the best in the entire franchise. I wanted to stand up and clap when it was over.

One of my most anticipated books of the year just arrived and now I don’t want to read it because I’ve just discovered that it has deckled edges 🫠🫠🫠

Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Horror book club goes to the movies!!! We are seated for clown in a cornfield @adamcesare.bsky.social

Huge thanks to everyone who turned out for my two launch events last week for THE NIGHT BIRDS! What a blast we had! I love this pic from my event at An Unlikely Story with Paul Tremblay. So many happy faces!

Happy Clown in a Cornfield day! I love horror & this book has been a solid rec from me for years for young adults & adults alike. I’m delighted that half of the folks who come to horror book club are heading out Monday night to see this together! 13 of us are SEATED for @adamcesare.bsky.social

Such a great event and couldn’t ask for a better friend than @vampireslibrary.bsky.social 📚😊👻

TONIGHT...The Night Birds Launch Part 1. I'll be chatting with @erricknunnally.bsky.social at @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social at 6:30 pm! (with free beer tasting!) THURSDAY...Launch Part 2. I'll be with @paultremblay.bsky.social at @anunlikelystory.bsky.social at 6:30 pm! Come hang out with us!

oh, wonderful & perfect:

NEW BOOKS TODAY!! @ghoulish.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @pkennedywrites.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social @apexmag.bsky.social

Also just a casual Sunday suggestion. Thank you @bookmonstergeorge.bsky.social for my @paultremblay.bsky.social pin I’ve sold two copies of his books today bc of it!

I gave away all my secrets. All of them. Now you, too, can start your own Nat Cassidy Franchise with these simple steps. (Actually, I just wrote a silly article that is probably quite ridiculous, but you know me well enough by now to know I like to riff.) www.writersdigest.com/how-one-nons...

Pssssssst. A little birdie told me that my interview with @natcassidy.bsky.social is dropping early TOMORROW. We of course discuss When the Wolf Comes Home, writing about fear, and naturally, Stephen King. Check back here tomorrow for links!

Cinema #Wrestlemania

Someone at work today asked me what my favorite book I’ve read so far this year was and I had to look them in the face and lie because I was not trying to explain Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by @claymcleod.bsky.social to a conservative coworker

WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, Nat Cassidy: This is a balls-to-the-wall horror novel which I defy you to put down...it's that good. Published later this month. You might want to get your claws into this one.

I’m 65% of the way through The Troop by Nick Cutter and I’ve seriously considered DNFing, not because I am not enjoying it, but because it is so gross I think I’ve lost my appetite for the entire day 😩🤢

Going to make my commute home 900 percent better! My favorite of the entire series 😍

This week @sgj.bsky.social joins me for a conversation about THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER - his new epic of blood, and vengeance in the American West. We talk about how the book's birth, its many voices, and its tactic for tackling the vampire and the “Indian story”. Enjoy - all podcast platforms.

Not me patiently refreshing my podcast app to see if @talkscaredpod.bsky.social has posted the SGJ chat yet. I can’t wait any longer for this one!!!

NEVER SIT IN THE FRONT ROW @barnesandnoble.com

WELL, BARNES & NOBLE, THAT BOOK CLUB WAS NOT HAPPY WITH ME @barnesandnoble.com #WakeUpAndOpenYourEyes

Book club tonight was the perfect thing I needed to destress from life. Thank you so much to @claymcleod.bsky.social for joining us to talk about your book and @vampireslibrary.bsky.social for hosting and to all the other people that also came!! 📚📚📚

My hunt for the B&N edition of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social has concluded. I’m only a fraction of a way into this thing, but I already know it’s a book I want every edition of.

I can’t wait to do nothing all day except read and watch the new episodes of Yellow Jackets 😍

NEW COVER! NOWHERE BURNING by Catriona Ward. I am the world's biggest Cat Ward Junkie, so. This will have me floating for the next stretch of time before I open my laptop again. From Tor Nightfire ⛰️10.7.25⛰️⁣"...a ranch of feral children..."

Don’t you want to feel better? Don’t you want to be happy? Don’t you want to finally shine? SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE, a new YA sci-fi horror novel, is slithering onto bookshelves this November from Delacorte Press. Preorder here: bit.ly/4aZbbC0 Cover art by Elena Masci, designed by Casey Moses. 11/11/25.

if i text you this just know you’re cooked

Wait can someone tell me why brand new hardcover books are $38?!?!?!?! I don’t care that Joe Hill’s new book is almost 900 pages. WHY IS IT THIRTY EIGHT DOLLARS?!