Our WEST COAST HORROR event was AWESOME~ Thanks to Fireside Books Parksville for hosting & to all who made it out!🎃 50% of our lineup fell to the very-on-theme event planning curse, but we welcomed surprise special guests Shanon Sinn & Haley Healey💞 [photos credits: Kim Bannerman, Shanon Sinn] 🧵1

PROGRAM UPDATES: 🎃Spooky scavenger hunt (first 20 arrivals) 🎃Chat local cryptids & ghost lore w/ folks who've lived, unearthed & reimagined coastal horror! 🎃Haunting & horrifying (short) readings! 🎃Interactive storytelling—let's invent our own bookshop cryptid/urban legend/local creepypasta!

Indulge in an eerie night out at WEST COAST HORROR at Fireside Books in Parksville BC with the authors of THE KINDREAD COAST @blackcatbooks.bsky.social feat. 13 stories of supernatural beings set in the haunting landscapes of British Columbia🎃 www.facebook.com/share/1Du3bx...

2025 Release 🧵4: Powerhouse in THE KINDREAD COAST @blackcatbooks.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛Gen-Alpha slang attempt (feel free to laugh!)🫡 🐈‍⬛Much horror, many monsters, also cryptids🐙 🐈‍⬛Nature is SO over us💀 🐈‍⬛He likes to neg, she likes to watch (her bullies get eaten)👀 books.kawiggins.com/kindread #ecopunk

Received my contributor copy of The Kindread Coast from @blackcatbooks.bsky.social 🎃 It was an absolute thrill to write for this collection - thanks to the editors and look forward to reading these haunting tales by firelight tonight…

All the 🖤 to @factorfourmagazine.com Ansible Press @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social PULPHOUSE(x2) @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for giving 🇨🇦weird SFF/H a home in 2025 (it's been a whirlwind few months~) Read/links: kaie.space/standalones Details in 🧵

Dates for the Diary! The next hosted #FolkloreThursday dates and themes are as follows: Thur 4th September: Folklore of the Stars, Skies and Heavens Thur 2nd October: Folklore of Ghosts, the Supernatural, and all things Spooky!

We are having another Art Jam Night on Thursday July 3rd, at 7 pm at the Drake in Victoria. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join us. Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (a few people confirmed who don't use the Meetup app). www.meetup.com/boho-victori... #Victora #DrinkandDraw

“A black cat that comes aboard carries a gale in her tail” In 1898, the Victoria Daily Times said the sealer Dora Sieward brought 648 pelts in even with a “hoodoo” in the form of a black cat. Many sailers believed black cats were lucky to have aboard #FolkloreThursday Image family collection

A few of us are meeting tomorrow, May 8th, at 7 pm at the Drake in #Victoria BC for a drink and draw. Anyone who sees this is welcome to join Either sign up on Meetup, or message me directly (five confirmed on Discord, etc. who don't use Meetup) Art Jam at the Drake www.meetup.com/boho-victori...

Black Cats are often associated with Witches. They might be familiars, carrying out tasks, or a witch in her animal form. Sometimes, as in Lady Wilde's accounts of Irish folklore, Black Cats were used in witchcraft. Hopefully, never true. #FolkloreThursday #Witchsky Arthur Rackham 1924

There is an old German proverb that says a person who makes a cat his enemy will be attended at his funeral by rats and rain #FolkloreThursday 1903 image Théophile Alexandre Steinlen. Proverb from 1885 Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and Sailors by Fletcher S. Bassett

Awesome, more friends making it over here! Can I put my hand up for the next wave of additions & also nominate 🇨🇦 indies @kimberbannerman.bsky.social @babellec.bsky.social @blackcatbooks.bsky.social @shanonsinn.bsky.social ?

Was lovely to see @blackcatbooks.bsky.social in Coombs today!

Black Cat and That Witch Whispers! Looking good at Russell Books in Victoria, BC. I was happy to hear both were bestsellers over the holidays 🐈‍⬛ #booksky #vancuverisland

'Black Cat' - Inagaki Tomoo. #Caturday #JapaneseArt

2025 is off to a great start ✨ Our third anthology is manifesting into something extraordinary! Caroline and Monique have already approved eight story pitches about supernatural beings by some of Western Canada's most exciting genre authors. More to come. Image: Alchemy 1977

Wishing you and your family a happy Holiday Season! Merry #Christmas to you and your loved ones 🎄 1880 Louis Wain. Be good, silent, kind, and brave 😅

European folklore said animals knelt and prayed on Christmas night and, as they did, the planets would stand still... 🎨Erina Star #FolkloreThursday

Editing and answering emails from the Island of Flores this afternoon. Grateful to have some time in this peaceful space, as we head back to Guatemala City tonight #writing #workspace

We had our first team meeting for the next Black Cat anthology on zoom yesterday! The editors are building a list of unagented, prev pub (for pay), Western Canadian authors so they can invite them to pitch their story in the next few weeks. The theme is Supernatural Creatures. #BCLit #writing #BC

"Childlore is one of the great cultural inheritances of humanity, and one of the most enduring" nevermindgenx.substack.com/p/will-nosta... #substack #childlore

Black Cats are lucky to have aboard a ship. Stories of misfortune following a cat's mistreatment were common in the old newspapers. Some say their reputation came from eating rats, others that they warded off evil spirits. Alchemy England images #FolkloreThursday #BlackCat

Staring down some exciting projects at Black Cat Books. One book is well underway and two more are on the horizon. Make sure to introduce yourself! Especially if you're a previously published (traditional, paid) West Canadian short story writer. Genre storytellers are our jam. img. Arthur Rackham

Black Cat Books is just over one year old. With plans for two more books and a comic anthology, our goal is to create supernatural content for readers alongside a paying market for mid-level Western Canadian creators 🖤 Images courtesy of KT Wagner and Zoe McKenna

A Halloween photo of my grandmother. I believe from the late 1970s. One of the strongest women I've ever known. Thinking of you tonight Grandma 🔥

The Russell Books "That Witch Whispers Halloween Book Launch" is this Wednesday from 7:00-8:00 pm 🎃 This is a closed event only open to witches and people who like to read about witches. #Victoria #BC on Fort Street #BCBooks #witches

A fellowship of witches is called a coven. The term can be traced to the 17th Century. In 1921, Margaret Murray claimed a coven needed twelve members plus a devil leader. Each witch was a specialist in some form of magic - like storms, death, or seduction. 1815 Image Townshend & Dubourg #witch

That Witch Whispers will launch after hours at Russell Books in Victoria, BC on October 30th 🎃 Our 1st book Black Cat launched last year at a multi-author event in their new store. For the Haunting of Vancouver Island, the old store was full! People couldn't get in. #Halloween #Victoria #BlackCat

Our new book 'That Witch Whispers' was published this month! We started a bsky account here too. These thirteen mystical tales of witches are set against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest of British Columbia 🖤 #witches #witchcraft #ThatWitchWhispers #blackcat

Spooky Thread Witch Edition is now live! It's open all week, so respond whenever you see it. I’ll do my best to reply and boost your posts! Don’t have anything witchy? Recommend your favs, tell us a spooky story, show off your fan art. Most importantly: Have fun and keep it fun! #spookythread

That Witch Whispers is now available at Mermaid Tales in Tofino! With Black Cat and The Haunting of Vancouver Island. These thirteen mystical tales of witches are set against the backdrop of the Pacific Northwest of British Columbia 🖤 #witches #Tofino #VancouverIsland #blackcatbooks

We love "Brambles Beneath a Dark Moon" 🖤 Thank you for sharing your story with us KT!

My short story "Brambles Beneath a Dark Moon" is part of a new anthology of YA stories set in British Columbia titled "That Witch Whispers". Coming September 1st. Ebook is up for preorder on Amazon. A print version will also be available in September. Isn't it a lovely cover?

My comic and the Black Cat anthology at CCAF in Victoria, BC this April. Luciana, my skeletal ghost storyteller, is also in the class's poster behind me. A close up of the cover from Cavity Curiosity 💀

Our choice is Black Cat always. For quality and freshness. (Black Cat cigarette ad from Vancouver Province, 1950) #BlackCat #BritishColumbia #BlackCatBooks

black cats are awesome

Hello friends and felines! To introduce ourselves, allow us to share two photos of our new anthologies from Victoria, British Columbia. Boutique collections of supernatural fiction. That Witch Whispers was published today 🖤