See what our reviewers are saying about @deancade7's tragic SUMMER 1973 finale! Due in 2 weeks. Preorder here: books2read.com/shallowgraves

Preorders are LIVE and hungry for @riengray’s queer body horror-noir LESSER HUNGERS, audiobook narrated by @raincorbyn! It is on its way to Audible and will be wide distro, but for the best price and to support the artist, head to Haruspex Audio! haruspex-audio.com/products/les...

🚨 COVER REVEAL 🚨 @ttmaddenwrites delivers an interactive nostalgic 90s horror video game with Extremities #2: The Light-House. PLAY THE GAME. THIS SEPTEMBER.

Congratulations to the winners of the OutWrite Scary Awards! It was so wonderful sharing the news with everyone who came along to the awards. I am travelling tomorrow, but will email all the winners by Monday (Aus time) to arrange receipt of awards 😁 The website will also be updated soon.

👾 SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT 👾 Submissions for Cheat Code: A Queer Horror LITRPG Anthology, curated by @ttmaddenwrites will be opening in soon! Submission period TBD. 🕹️ MORE INFO ON THE SHP WEBSITE 🕹️ www.slashichorrorpress.com/opencalls

👀 TOMORROW!! 👀 The first OutWrite Scary Award winners will be announced LIVE ON IG. US viewers: June 26 from 7pm EST AU viewers: June 27 from 9am AEST Here's a world clock, in case you're somewhere else: www.calculator.net/time-zone-ca...

👀 Cover reveal coming JUNE 30 👀 Extremities #2 is on the way by @ttmaddenwrites. I'm so excited to reveal the cover soon, with arcs to follow. PLAY THE GAME. SEE IF YOU WIN.

Don’t forget 😀 Live awards show on IG to announce the OutWrite Scary Awards winners. I hope to see you all there!

🪏 GET BURIED 🪏 SUMMER 1973 is about to end... Find out how. Preorder here: books2read.com/shallowgraves

Happy Juneteenth! As a queer, mixed-race writer, I'll never stop filling my books with POC! @speculationpub.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social

🪏 BOOK 3 in the SUMMER 1973 series 🪏 @deancade7's heartbreaking finale will leave you broken. The Candyman is here, and his appetite is torture. Can Lane and James escape? Read how it ends. Preorder here: books2read.com/shallowgraves

🧟‍♂️ OUT NOW 🧟‍♂️ Extremities #1: Deadbeat is the first in a series of queer extreme narrative mazes. Choosing Your Own Death has never been so much fun! OUT NOW! Enter the Maze: books2read.com/DeadBeat-Ext...

📣 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS 📣 The winners of the first OutWrite Scary Awards will be announced live on IG on JUNE 26th from 7pm EST! That's 9am Saturday 27th for me here in Australia... bring coffee for me!! ☕️ #pridemonth #BookSky

🚨 IN 3 DAYS 🚨 @Maximvolk1's novella is the perfect read for Pride Month! Releasing June 15, this narrative maze will destroy you. Whether it be cannibals, cults, or zombies... make your choice. Enter the Maze: books2read.com/DeadBeat-Ext...

Our friends at @horrificscribblings sat down with Maxim Volk to chat about l things horror, including impeding release, DeadBeat. Thanks to @landrew42 for the interview! Have a read here: horrificscribblings.com/interview-wi...

Check out this review of Deadbeat, the first in a series of queer narrative mazes!!

🚨 PREORDER ALERT 🚨 Lane and James are almost out of town. Almost free to start a life together. Almost. The Candyman isn't closing in anymore. The Candyman is here. See how it ends. July 15. Dig the grave: books2read.com/shallowgraves

The inimitable Jim from @gnofhorror.com reviewed our upcoming release from @maximvolk1, Extremities #1: DeadBeat. The first crazy entry into the narrative maze series of extreme horror. Full review coming soon! Choose Your Death here: books2read.com/DeadBeat-Ext... #BookSky

🚨 SEE HOW IT ENDS 🚨 The Candyman has been circling Lane. He's closed in. Find out how Lane's saga ends in the final book in the SUMMER 1973 trilogy. Preorder now. Releasing July 15. Preorder here: books2read.com/shallowgraves

Thanks to @writerdlwinchester for collating the results for me!

📣 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS FINALISTS — PART 1📣 Please join me in congratulating the finalists for the category of BEST LGBTQ+ Rep in 2025 Queer Horror Fiction for the OutWrite Scary Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists!! Keep an eye out for details on the livestream to announce winners!

📣 AUTHOR SIGNING 📣 Please join me in welcoming Dalton Primeaux @djprimeaux to the Slashic family with his novella, VIP: Very Important Prey. Dalton Primeaux is a proud gay author who poured blood all over his fashion-focused repertoire with his brutal self-published novelette Daddy, Why Are You

📣 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS FINALISTS — PART 2📣 Please join me in congratulating the finalists for the category of BEST WORK in 2025 Queer Horror Fiction for the OutWrite Scary Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists!! Keep an eye out for details on the livestream to announce winners!

📣 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS FINALISTS — PART 3📣 Please join me in congratulating the finalists for the category of BEST SUB-GENRE in 2025 Queer Horror Fiction for the OutWrite Scary Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists!! Keep an eye out for details on the livestream to announce winners!

📣 OUTWRITE SCARY AWARDS FINALISTS — PART 4📣 Please join me in congratulating the finalists for the category of BEST ALLY in 2025 Queer Horror Fiction for the OutWrite Scary Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists!! Keep an eye out for details on the livestream to announce winners!

📣 AUDIO DEALS 📣 Have a look at the Slashic titles @Haruspexaudio is turning into audiobooks! To say I'm excited is an understatement; I cannot wait to hear these epic titles in audio, and to be able to share these with people who engage with literature through sound! Stay tuned for updates!

📣 AUTHOR SIGNING 📣 Please join me in welcoming Mariah Stillbrook to the Slashic family with BETSY, a nostalgic 90s horror with a freaky AF mannequin. Mariah has a BA in English from The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and currently has five published books with Creative James Media:

📣 AUTHOR SIGNING 📣 Please join me in welcoming Bear Lee @bearleebooks to the Slashic family with their cosmic giallo novel, Morphia Slow! Bear Lee (they/them) is an author, editor, and lover of all things dark and icky. A lifelong love of horror films and literature led them to write books that

I’m a horror writer from Australia. PhD in Cultural Studies. BA in Pug Cuddles. Editor and Publisher. 🏳️‍🌈 WIP: Re/Awaken, a horror sci-fi pitched as The Strangers x Groundhog Dog. I haven’t actually written any of it yet, but it’s forming in my brain 🤓

Only 3 days left to vote in the 2026 OutWrite Scary Awards! For queer horror fiction published in 2025, these awards aim to put queerness at the centre of awards, rather than continue to keep us at the margins. There are 29 categories across genres, modes of representation, and story form.

📣 DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 The incredible @heyitschloespencer is back with another delicious horror for us to devour! In 2027, Make a House a Home invokes Single White Female and Waif in a nightmare you can't miss.

My latest novella has been out two months! "The horror is ever-looming in so very many ways throughout this book; from realistic pains that strain the heart, to the more supernatural egging you on to wonder how it all came to be. Even more so, to wonder what comes next..." #booksky #queerhorror

📣 AUTHOR SIGNING 📣 Please join me in welcoming PR Wersnman to the Slashic family with their debut (!!!) Exit Left. P. R. Wernsman is a queer author writing in the horror and speculative fiction space. They live in Chicago with their wife and two feline overlords.

Cruising by Dean Cade, Review: The Summer of 1973 Never Felt so Terrifying @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social https://gnofhorror.com/cruising-by-dean-cade-review/

📕 IN 3 WEEKS 📕 DeadBeat: Extremities #1 is a narrative maze. You wake up dead—what you choose to do from there will make you laugh and then vomit in what one reviewer called a "unique, wildly amusing, and gruesomely delightful" book. Preorder the chaos now: books2read.com/DeadBeat-Ext...

don't just vote for their friends—we all want awards that are genuine and authentic, so voting for works you've read and loved is super important. Voting link here: forms.gle/itFtVLLfKHQE...

📣 VOTING CLOSING SOON 📣 The first OutWrite Scary Awards are still open for voting, until May 30th. There are so many talented authors included in these awards, and I am so thankful for everyone's interest so far. Don't forget to vote for your favourite title. Note: I'm really hoping people—

🚨 LOST BOYS OUT NOW 🚨 Join me in celebrating the release of Dean Cade's release of Lost Boys. Inspired by true crimes in the 1970s, this heartbreaking gay love story will destroy you. Purchase link: books2read.com/Lost-Boys-Su...

🚨 ALL ROADS LEAD TO DEATH 🚨 @Maximvolk's DeadBeat lets you choose. Do you want to eat a corpse? Go to a sauna? Join a cult? Your darkest desires will send you down a bloody road that asks one question: What's Your Ending?

📣 A HELLISH COLLABORATION 📣 @HaruspexAudio and Slashic Horror Press have teamed up to deliver 10—count 'em, TEN!—audiobooks from the disturbed minds of some of the best indie horror authors. Watch this space for further announcements! Thanks to @RainCorbyn for enabling this collaboration!

Some exciting news this way comes... contracts are signed, but the ink is still wet... Keep your eyes peeled for Tuesday when all is revealed ✍️

‼️ In 5 days! ‼️ LOST BOYS from the SUMMER 1973 trilogy lands May 15. Young lovers, Lane and James, have a few loose ends to tie up before riding out of their small town forever. But the Candyman is closing in... and he's got a real sweet tooth for young men.

My friends over at HORRIFIC SCRIBBLINGS are launching a crowd funding campaign for splatter horror anthology. The author lineup is incredible, including Slashic’s very own Maxim Volk. The anthology, EXTREMELY WEIRD SPLATTER, is not one to miss—support it below! www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

You wake up dead. And that's not even the worst part... Choose your own path. See what new deaths await. Deadbeat: Extremities #1. Preorder now. June 15. books2read.com/DeadBeat-Ext...

🔔 VOTING STILL OPEN 🔔 The OUTWRITE SCARY Awards are still open for voting, until MAY 30. The link is here: buff.ly/dpEQqip Vote for your favourite queer horror from 2025—there are sooooo many to choose from! Make sure you read their work before voting #nonepotism

🚨PREORDER ALERT🚨 @DeanCade7's second instalment of the SUMMER 1973 trilogy releases May 15. There's still time to preorder. Lane and James are exploring their newfound relationship while dreaming of escaping the confines of their small town.

Welp, you’re dead. Weird, right? That’s usually how these books end, but here you are, at the beginning, dead as a doornail. Good news? There’s a magical cult ready and willing to resurrect you. Bad news? You’ve reawakened with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.