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A publisher of award-winning horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Find us at www.wordhorde.com
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Orrin Grey
9 days ago
"Orrin Grey loves monsters and movies more than anyone. By the time you’re done with this book, so will you." Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.
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(Nonfiction Review) Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film by Orrin Grey
Summary: Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore! From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade…
https://darkintersections.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/nonfiction-review-glowing-in-the-dark-writings-on-the-horror-film-by-orrin-grey/
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Orrin Grey
9 days ago
"This is Grey’s most unified book, a capstone to his museum-of-monsters vibe that threads his obsessions into a single, durable rope." A vivid, insightful review of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND that says many very nice things and seems to get exactly what I was going for.
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Notes from Underground: Welcome to the Hollow Earth, Population: Not You Anymore
Body Horror Cosmic Horror Cults / Religious Horror Folk Horror Occult Supernatural TL;DR: A linked cycle where cults, beetles, and underworlds elbow each other for the mic, then harmonize into a si…
https://theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/10/31/notes-from-underground-welcome-to-the-hollow-earth-population-not-you-anymore/
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Carrie-Edmund Laben
13 days ago
"Justin felt untethered, one step outside of time, from the moment the car door slammed behind him to the moment he stood on his aunt’s front step." - first line of Smoke Season, coming next spring from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
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Want to wish Orrin Grey a happy birthday? Pick up a copy of his latest collection, Notes from Underground!
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Happy Book Birthday to Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, the new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton
@orringrey.com
! 🥳
about 1 month ago
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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror)
about 1 month ago
NEW BOOKS! October 14th, 2025
@haleynewlin.bsky.social
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
@caitlinstarling.com
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Orrin Grey
about 1 month ago
Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!
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Orrin Grey
2 months ago
Every week, from now until the release of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
, I will be posting a new installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I'll be exploring some of the many influences that shaped the collection, and my own odd conception of the Hollow Earth.
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Hollow Earth Expeditions: Counting the Cats in Zanzibar
“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some ‘Symmes’ Hole’ by which to …
https://orringrey.com/2025/09/10/hollow-earth-expeditions-counting-the-cats-in-zanzibar/
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Critical Nostalgia
2 months ago
I read an advance of this and found it a great mix of fun and weird and horrible. I know that sounds counterintuitive but it's not. Ordinary folks come in close contact with the inexplicable and are changed by it, unmade and remade.
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Orrin Grey
2 months ago
New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!
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Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (
@orringrey.com
) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!
2 months ago
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3 months ago
Shout out to
@undertow.bsky.social
,
@badhandbooks.bsky.social
,
@grimscribepress.bsky.social
,
@wordhorde.bsky.social
and
@dimshores.bsky.social
. I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!
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John Langan
3 months ago
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Ignotus!
I am surprised and delighted to share that Bocadaver y otras autobiografias, the Spanish language translation of my fifth collection, Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies, is a finalist in the tra…
https://johnpaullangan.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/ignotus/
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Stephen Graham Jones
3 months ago
Wow:
@johnlangan.bsky.social
’s “My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” from his collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions is so cool. Partway between Pale Fire and Stephen Bergs’s “Footnotes to An Unfinished Poem,” but, as always, pure horror, too. Much recommended. Hope it wins all the awards. Should
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Gabino Iglesias
3 months ago
This month’s column is up at
@nytimes.com
! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
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A Tale of Demonic Possession in the Vein of ‘The Exorcist’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/books/review/new-horror-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU8.5Br4.yAJp-H09U1a4&smid=url-share
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John Langan
3 months ago
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Lost in the Dark in the New York Times!
This morning brought the astonishing news that my new collection, Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, has received a lovely review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review from the mighty Gabino…
https://johnpaullangan.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/lost-in-the-dark-in-the-new-york-times/
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Ghoulish Books
3 months ago
Little Sunday new arrivals and restocks post! Excited to have these in the store…
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Patrick Barb
3 months ago
#bookmail
It’s always a cause for celebration when there’s a new
@johnlangan.bsky.social
collection from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
. And here it is: Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Dig that
@mrj81.bsky.social
cover, too. A complete package from back to front.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie)
3 months ago
#Bookmail
📚💙🩸(one belated as I've been working on Art) The ARC for the IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS novelization from
@echohorror.com
- thanks so much for sending, excited to finally say "Yes, I read Sutter Cane!" 😜 LOST IN THE DARK... The newest from
@johnlangan.bsky.social
&
@wordhorde.bsky.social
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Brian Dassero
3 months ago
@wordhorde.bsky.social
@johnlangan.bsky.social
I can’t wait to dig into this! I waited for the physical book as I feel horror is best served by the feel of the text.
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Greg Greene
3 months ago
In today's
#bookmail
: a finished copy of the brilliant new horror collection LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by
@johnlangan.bsky.social
! I loved this book and you will, too! Order today from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
⭐ And check out my Chthonica interview with John here:
youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
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Ryan Whitley
3 months ago
“Madame Painte: For Sale” by
@johnlangan.bsky.social
, org. pub. In BEHOLD! ODDITIES, CURIOSITIES, AND UNDEFINABLE WONDERS, ed. by Doug Murano, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2017. Read in: LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS by John Langan, pub.
@wordhorde.bsky.social
, 2025.
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Bryan Center
3 months ago
It’s amazing to find an author, read one book, and immediately realize you need their entire body of work.
@johnlangan.bsky.social
is that author. New book came today from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
w/ an autograph on a sticker! (I guess some book nerds can decide if they want their books marked on.)
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More copies of
@johnlangan.bsky.social
’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions headed out today. Day 1: ✅ Day 2: ✅ Hoping to wrap things up tomorrow. 🤞 Thanks for supporting independent publishing!
3 months ago
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Kev Harrison
3 months ago
#ICYMI
-
@thisishorror.bsky.social
news from last Friday:
www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u...
Lost in the Dark & Other Excursions by
@johnlangan.bsky.social
- out now
@wordhorde.bsky.social
, The Fake Ghost by
@nuzo.bsky.social
- released *today*
@deadskypub.bsky.social
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News Round-up Week Ending 8 August 2025
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from author John Langan and Word Horde, Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions A garishly painted…
https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-up-week-ending-8-august-2025/
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Ghoulish Books
3 months ago
Shirley Jackson Award-Nominated author Nadia Bulkin’s sophomore collection ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY drenches the reader in a sensory overload of power, belief, and horrifying transformation. PRE-ORDERS INCLUDE A SIGNED STICKER FROM THE AUTHOR:
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Ghoulish Books
3 months ago
Huge
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order for the shop is officially on our shelves! Come check it out this week at Ghoulish Books!
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Der Fisher
3 months ago
New
@johnlangan.bsky.social
is shipping, but the ePub is already here. Goodbye free time for the next few days! And the first story starts in the second person singular. That takes guts.
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Great news! We have started shipping out orders of
@johnlangan.bsky.social
’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. 🎉 Day 1: ✅ Is your copy in here? 🙀 Back at again tomorrow. Thanks for your continued patience!
3 months ago
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Christian Sager
4 months ago
It’s a wonderful coincidence that I’m on vacation the same week that John Langan’s new story collection dropped. Not only that, but the folks at Lovecraft eZine interviewed him too. It’s
@johnlangan.bsky.social
week! Links below.
wordhorde.com/books/lost-i...
www.youtube.com/live/dKrCDUG...
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Greg Greene
4 months ago
In the new episode of Chthonica, I interview horror legend
@johnlangan.bsky.social
about his new collection LOST IN THE DARK! We talk thalassophobia, apocalyptic anxieties, and... feral ghosts??👻 It's spoiler-free, so order the book from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
while you watch!
youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc
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CHTHONICA #11: Lost in the Dark with John Langan
YouTube video by Chthonica
https://youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc
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Greg Greene
4 months ago
If you've ever wished
@johnlangan.bsky.social
's cosmic horror classic THE FISHERMAN would get made into a movie, we've got news for you... it almost happened! And it'll blow your horror-lovin' mind when you learn who wanted to do it!
youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
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CHTHONICA #11: Lost in the Dark with John Langan
YouTube video by Chthonica
https://youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?si=wD472Ao26AENci1j&t=3018
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Emily C. Hughes
4 months ago
the august horror list is live, feat. new books from
@johnlangan.bsky.social
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
@patrickbarb.bsky.social
@isabelcanas.bsky.social
@lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social
@daphnefama.bsky.social
@steelhester.bsky.social
@chucktingle.bsky.social
& more!
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All the New Horror Books Coming in August 2025
August 2025’s new horror books, featuring titles from Hailey Piper, Ania Ahlborn, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Rachel Eve Moulton, Chuck Tingle, Isabel Cañas, Nuzo Onoh, and more!
https://readjumpscares.com/2025/08/08/all-the-new-horror-books-coming-in-august-2025/
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4 months ago
It's once again time for the Friends of the Barron Read-along. This month Corpsemouth by
@johnlangan.bsky.social
. Also,
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
is in the hospital, I'm sure we all wish him the best but for more specific support you can follow him on Patreon. (Link Below.)
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Friends of the Barron 4: "Corpsemouth"
Family is hard.
https://open.substack.com/pub/eldritchexarchpress/p/friends-of-the-barron-4-corpsemouth?r=49zgid&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Greg Greene
4 months ago
My conversation with
@johnlangan.bsky.social
on his new collection LOST IN THE DARK turns to the numinous as he describes a ghostly encounter. Plus: we compare John's view of the dif between horror & the weird with
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
's &
@michaelcisco.bsky.social
's!
youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
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CHTHONICA #11: Lost in the Dark with John Langan
YouTube video by Chthonica
https://youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?si=LuSphNtXUdYQBc8C
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Happy Book Birthday to Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions, the new collection of cosmic horror from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman,
@johnlangan.bsky.social
! 🥳
4 months ago
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Dizzy
4 months ago
How could I have been so foolish as to forget it was NEW JOHN LANGAN DAY Cannot wait to dive into Lost in the Dark. I expect the usual creepy and bizarre goodness that has made
@johnlangan.bsky.social
one of my very favorite authors.
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David Bowman
4 months ago
Top tip! If you order directly from the publisher
@wordhorde.bsky.social
, they will send you a DRM-free ePub gratis, but they also have been known to pop a bookmark and a sticker in the box when they mail you your book.
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Jeremiah Dylan Cook
4 months ago
That's a wrap on the
@johnlangan.bsky.social
Read Along! 56 posts, 7k visitors, many comments and shares. Thanks to all who participated and don't be afraid to drop in to the subreddit to discuss Lost in the Dark, which is out August 5th from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
.
www.reddit.com/r/JohnLangan...
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From the JohnLangan community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the JohnLangan community
https://www.reddit.com/r/JohnLangan/s/Fp3hiNVI6Z
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4 months ago
Looking forward to getting lost in this
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Greg Greene
4 months ago
Happy book birthday to
@johnlangan.bsky.social
's LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS! This is a mesmerizing read, ingeniously inventive and downright scary. And Mr. Langan, our dear gentleman frightener, is one of the best guys you'll ever meet. Order your copy today!
wordhorde.com/books/lost-i...
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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer
4 months ago
Happy Release Day,
@johnlangan.bsky.social
! I'm just waiting for my
@wordhorde.bsky.social
shipment notification and digital copy to hit my inbox. Exciting times ahead!
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Mike Davis
4 months ago
John Langan, the author of THE FISHERMAN, returns with 13 new tales of cosmic horror:
www.amazon.com/Lost-Dark-Ot...
Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
. Join me Sunday for a conversation with
@johnlangan.bsky.social
!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrC...
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Ozzy Osbourne may be gone, but rock ‘n’ roll lives on. Black Sabbath meets The Thing in Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth…
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An Augmented Fourth
From the twisted mind of Tony McMillen comes the hilarious rock and roll horror of An Augmented Fourth, a novel of the Lord of Low End. Look for An Augmented Fourth at better independent bookseller…
https://wordhorde.com/books/an-augmented-fourth/
4 months ago
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Jack Finn
4 months ago
Start building your TBR with these new horror releases coming in August! August Horror releases - Day 1
@patrickt.bsky.social
@stephenrhoades.bsky.social
@johnlangan.bsky.social
@moniqueasher.bsky.social
@daniel-lorn.bsky.social
@jimmyjuliano.bsky.social
@johnchrostek.com
@shaynagrissom.bsky.social
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Greg Greene
4 months ago
Wide Carnivorous Sky cover art by
@santiagocaruso.bsky.social
Corpsemouth and Lost in the Dark cover art by
@mrj81.bsky.social
All editions from the magnificent
@wordhorde.bsky.social
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David Busboom
4 months ago
In no particular order:
@weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
because Sam is cool AF
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
because they're weird pioneers
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
because Eric is a champion
@undertow.bsky.social
because they suck you in
@wordhorde.bsky.social
because Ross publishes real treasures
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Greg Greene
4 months ago
Reading
@johnlangan.bsky.social
’s LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS, coming August 5 from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
. Wondrously clever. Devilishly frightening. You need this book. You aren’t ready for this book.
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Reactor includes John Langan’s forthcoming collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions in their list of Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025. And gives John’s novel The Fisherman a shout-out. Check out the full list at:
reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...
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Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025 - Reactor
New titles for your summer reading, covering everything from eldritch horrors to career highlights...
https://reactormag.com/cant-miss-indie-press-speculative-fiction-for-july-and-august-2025/
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Jeremiah Dylan Cook
4 months ago
Do you read
@johnlangan.bsky.social
? Come join our community of over 250 acolytes of the black ocean as we read through Langan's work leading up to the release of Lost in the Dark from
@wordhorde.bsky.social
.
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JohnLangan
This is a place to discuss the works of John Langan and his horror mythos.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JohnLangan/s/rW2tp1xjuj
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