Got to have a beer or two with Stoker nominated author @douglasgwilym.bsky.social tonight. And I got a present!! A copy of one of my all time favorite books from one of my all time favorite people. Thanks Douglas.

This Story Hour, a favorite returns and a new favorite makes her debut! Douglas Gwilym reads for us once more, and we welcome Mar Vincent for the first time. Unmissable! Join us Wednesday, July 30 at 7:00 PDT! #Booksky @douglasgwilym.bsky.social @marofthebooks.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Did you miss this week's Story Hour? You know, the first one ever with Mar Vincent? With stories from the always-excellent Douglas Gwilym? You're in luck! It's available to watch on YouTube! @marofthebooks.bsky.social @douglasgwilym.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Fb...

Thanks to @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social and @danmarcus.bsky.social for having me! And thank you to @douglasgwilym.bsky.social for his spectacular stories.

Did you miss last week's Story Hour? You know, the first one ever with Mar Vincent? With stories from the always-excellent Douglas Gwilym? You're in luck! It's available to watch on YouTube! @marofthebooks.bsky.social @douglasgwilym.bsky.social @danmarcus.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Fb...

Guess it's out of the bag: I'll be a panelist at the Baltimore Book Festival again this year! Stop by the SFWA stage on Saturday, September 13 for the How Horror Healed Me panel, featuring @dariusjones.bsky.social @redlagoe.bsky.social @douglasgwilym.bsky.social & ME!

Woot! Finally bought my Amtrak tix for the Baltimore Book Fair on 9/13. I'll be panelling with @dariusjones.bsky.social, @douglasgwilym.bsky.social, & M’Shai Dash on How Horror Healed Me at 1PM, then signing copies of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters right afterward.

Our standard awkward photo @douglasgwilym.bsky.social. We need a prom pose photo next year.

If you see @douglasgwilym.bsky.social at StokerCon this weekend, you can tell him what an excellent guest host he is on this week's Story Hour! You won't see guests @robertarjoyan.bsky.social or @canwig.bsky.social there, though alas...so all the more reason to watch!

I had such a lovely time reading "New Ancestors" for @storyhour.bsky.social last night. Many thanks to @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social for inviting me and @douglasgwilym.bsky.social for hosting. @canwig.bsky.social read an incredible story too! Get SILK & SINEW from @badhandbooks.bsky.social!

This is going to be a lot of fun! Not only are @robertarjoyan.bsky.social and @canwig.bsky.social reading on Story Hour tonight, @douglasgwilym.bsky.social will serve as guest host! Let his smooth, velvety voice lull you into a feeling of security, and then: horror stories.

Welcome to episode 692. We one tale for you this week, about a man who enlists the help of a broken doll to help find his missing daughter (read by @douglasgwilym.bsky.social ). talestoterrify.com/episodes/692-f-marion-crawford

If you haven't heard, we recently released this interview with @douglasgwilym.bsky.social. A new column with @jordanscarroll.bsky.social about the alt-right and Spec Fic, will be starting soon. Then an interview w/ @hntdove.bsky.social will be out. Find it here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Hey all, It's time for a podcast/health update. I'm still recovering from covid, but things are getting back to normal. I'm about a month behind schedule. I should have the newest interview with @douglasgwilym.bsky.social out fairly soon, then @hntdove.bsky.social. After that @older.bsky.social!

This Story Hour, the doughty @douglasgwilym.bsky.social stepped in to guest host for these spooky stories from @christaqua.bsky.social and Gregory Frost! If you missed the Zoom, you can still watch on YouTube...and subscribe to make sure never miss a stream again! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlR...

This Story Hour, things could get dark! Bram Stoker Award winner Christa Carmen returns, and Gregory Frost makes his debut. Fave @douglasgwilym.bsky.social guest hosts! So keep the lights on—or turn them low. Just join us Wednesday at 7:00 PDT! #Booksky @christaqua.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Read my true, dark tale "The Different Monsters" in YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THE DARK from Eugene Johnson, @ericjguignard.bsky.social, @cemeterydance.bsky.social, & @richardchizmar.bsky.social! PLUS: Poppy Z. Brite, Paul Tremblay, Ramsey Campbell, Eugen Bacon, Joe Lansdale, Ai Jiang, Geneve Flynn & MORE!

This Story Hour brimmed with strange transformations! Shelley Lavigne and Douglas Gwilym led us through strange tales with resonant themes. You can still watch! @shelleylavigne.bsky.social @douglasgwilym.bsky.social www.facebook.com/100039975042...

I had an absolute BLAST at @storyhour.bsky.social reading my story The Skin We're In alongside @douglasgwilym.bsky.social. If you didn't make it to the reading you can watch the replay here: www.facebook.com/100039975042...

The latest from The Story Hour, featuring two stories from me, and one from the (really excellent) Shelley Lavigne, is ready to stream! Hope you will come and check it out. www.facebook.com/100039975042...

Feeling…unsettled? Put that to good use with eerie readings by Douglas Gwilym and Shelley Lavigne! Wednesday at 7:00 PST. Join us! @douglasgwilym.bsky.social @shelleylavigne.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com

Welcome to episode 674. First, we meet a woman with an unusual connection to colour (by @dackleymcphail.bsky.social). Then, a man dreams of escape in the face of the hangman’s noose (read by @douglasgwilym.bsky.social). talestoterrify.com/episodes/674-danielle-ackley-mcphail-ambrose-bierce

Book mail! The Ramsey Campbell story originally appeared in NOVUS MONSTRUM, co-edited by @douglasgwilym.bsky.social and myself.

The cast and crew of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds wish you and yours a very merry Christmas.

8 NOVUS MONSTRUM STORIES made Ellen Datlow's BEST HORROR 16. They REPRINTED Ramsey Campbell's The Assembled & RECOMMENDED the stories by R.A. Busby, Marco Cultrera, Gemma Files, Jamie Lackey, Joe Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Tim Pieraccini! Get your copy at a.co/d/3GdTxcw

NOVUS MONSTRUM & authors on Ellen Datlow's list: R.A. Busby for "Catfish"; Marco Cultrera for "I Clean the Monster..."; Gemma Files for "The Corpse-Door"; Jamie Lackey for "Unsubscribe Bird Facts"; Joe Lansdale for "Lizard War"; Jonathan Maberry for "Critical Mass"; Tim Pieraccini for "The Thirsty".

Pumpkin pie #1 is in the oven! #thanksgiving2024 #friendsgiving2024

AAAH! When you get a shout-out from @datlow.bsky.social in vol. 16 of BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR!! Many thanks to @douglasgwilym.bsky.social and @kenmacgregor.bsky.social for their Novus Monstrum anthology! #horror #monster #horrorfiction

BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR 16 includes NOVUS MONSTRUM: "an anthology of twenty-two new stories about monsters. It includes notable stories by Ramsey Campbell, Marco Cultrera, R. A. Busby, Jamie Lackey, Gemma Files, Joe R. Lansdale, and Jonathan Maberry. The Campbell is reprinted herein." Thanks, Ellen!

I am pleased to report that Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen is out today, and it includes @ramseycampbell.bsky.social‘s "The Assembled", which he penned for our original monster anthology NOVUS MONSTRUM. Congratulations, Ramsey!

Here's a handy starter pack featuring the awesome folks from the short story collection Novus Monstrum! It includes my story "The Pike" and is available from Dragon's Roost Press. thedragonsroost.biz/product/novu... go.bsky.app/BeARpF3

@prissears.bsky.social Pris! I need to add you to the NOVUS MONSTRUM Bluesky starter pack! :)

An amazing book!

Hello, Bluesky friends and fans of The Midnight Zone: NOVUS MONSTRUM. We've gathered all of the amazing talent behind the collection @johnnycompton.bsky.social calls "mysterious, merciless, mirthful..." and "superb" in one Bluesky starter pack! go.bsky.app/BeARpF3

We've just screened two of my all-time favorite '50s horror movies with the Creature: The Blob (1958) and The Fly (also 1958). I don't have a clear plan, but I'd like to continue the streak (though not necessarily '58). What would you watch next?

Can we start using these? 💰💸 #MutantFam #HorrorCommunity #HorrorMovies #HorrorFam #HorrorSky #FilmSky #Cryptids

Preorder YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THE DARK from Cemetery Dance. You get a darkly comic tale from me, plus Poppy Z. Brite, Lisa Morton, John Skipp, Linda D. Addison, Paul Tremblay, Tim Waggoner, Jamal Hodge, Joe R. Lansdale, Geneve Flynn, Ramsey Campbell, & Ai Jiang! www.cemeterydance.com/YoureNotAlon...

@stephenking.bsky.social Hey, Stephen King. Super happy to see you here.

About 4 minutes ago, I pulled the plug on my twitter account. Weird feeling. But twitter's been gone for 16 months, hasn't it?

Pleased to have a (dark, funny) piece in this important book.

An exemplary book on mental health with powerful essays by award-winning authors, poets, publishers and editors. @ericjguignard.bsky.social 💞

All right, all right. I guess I'm moving in for realz now.

SpoooOOOOooookymonth! @douglasgwilym.bsky.social and @rebelsam94.bsky.social read us two horror stories each, and the levels in these stories. The LEVELS. You can still watch—if you're brave! www.facebook.com/watch/live/?...

Celebrate 40 years of Freddy Krueger and discuss Wes Craven's unproduced and lesser known works. Joe Maddrey, author of The Soul of Wes Craven, will join Ben Rubin in this new Horror Studies Webinar. Event is free and open to the public but does require registration. Register at pi.tt/craven24.

This week, thrill to two Story Hour debuts! Douglas Gwilym and K.P. Kulski are going to make thing a little spooky. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @douglasgwilym.bsky.social @garnetonwinter.bsky.social #authors #StoryHour2020 www.storyhour2020.com

The Midnight Zone is proud to announce a Valentine's Day surprise: SILVER DAGGER BOOKTOURS will be featuring NOVUS MONSTRUM from Feb 14 to Mar 14. Bloggers, social-media kaiju, & sly mad Bookstagrammers, JOIN OUR VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR: www.silverdaggertours.com/tour-sign-up... @dragonsroost.bsky.social

LeVar Burton is a literacy campaigner and child advocate and should be treated with Fred Rogers levels of reverence and if he's not, people havent been paying attention, they're racist, or both. That man is a national treasure.