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World is a horror show yet again, but I wanted to highlight this Defenders story I wrote for the new Marvel: Black, White, & Blood and Guts #4. In particular, I added a shout out to @cgolden.bsky.social & @briankeene.bsky.social whose Defenders Dialogue podcast got me back into the team.

Today on the Horror blog: Becky's Best Horror 2025 raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2025/12/beck...

Librarians deserve more love, more notice, and more respect. Thrilled to see this @raforall.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/16/c...

Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!

A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025

The Best Non-Fiction Award Winner is Queer as Folklore: the Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters by Sacha Coward.

We’re 2 pledges away from $11,000. That’s gonna make a lot of puzzles. www.kickstarter.com/projects/448...

Mr @johnlangan.bsky.social says I’m a horror hipster. As if.

31 Days of Horror: Day 19 -- Why I Love Horror, Pitt Horror Studies Collection Week Edition Featuring An Introduction by Ben Rubin raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-d...

One of the name gags on last night’s Treehouse of Horrors. There is no higher honor.

Down in the UK! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social offers the Funhole for your amusement, edification, and emotional dismemberment :) Preorders are live right now. #funhole

If you missed Westport Library’s STORYFEST this weekend (like I did) they taped all the panels. Just listened to @raforall.bsky.social’s Why I Love Horror and @datlow.bsky.social’s Night & Day panels. Fantastic thoughts from some of the best & brightest in horror fiction. youtube.com/@westportlib...

SALEM'S LOT turns 50 as of today. Didn't know until my pal (and co-writer) Rich Chizmar told me.

While making the IT movies, Andy and Barbara Muschietti had a lot of questions about Pennywise's origins. Even Stephen King admitted ... he didn't know all the answers. Here's how their new HBO series IT: Welcome to Derry fills in the blanks 🎈

Also, buying direct doubles the royalty and I'd love to send the contributors a holiday check in December hint hint...

Today's $2.99 Kindle deal! A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, THE COOK (1965) is a dark fable "beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels" (The Observer). www.amazon.com/Cook-Valanco...

If you've fallen in love with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social's THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT, let me recommend THE INCONSOLABLES. "Michael Wehunt is one of my favorite, trusted guides navigating stories of grief and loss, sadness and regret." @sadiehartmann.bsky.social www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

💙📚🩸 It's the 1st & been awhile since I shared so: Horror #publishers on Bluesky; mostly #indie & active (posting regularly or w/in past 6 mos) ***with confirmed NO AI policies (will not use or accept generated words/images)*** Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/UwgWqLc Feed list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Truly iconic.

This is why I am no longer allowed to pre-order any books. I almost always ordering twice in that window of time… sometimes three. On a good note, this means one of my friends is gonna get a copy of Neil McRobert’s highly anticpated debut novella, Good Boy, from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social

yes! i wrote a queer novella about the Death of Mountains coming for mountain in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's out now from @lethepress.bsky.social you can get it here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The coolest book mail drop I’ve had in a while. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @annieneugebauer.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social

Shocked at how well-stocked the HORROR section is at Barnes & Noble in Salem, NH. Seeing stuff I’ve never seen in person on bookshelves!

New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!

Happiest of pub days to my favorite guy @claymcleod.bsky.social ! This collection is fkd up beyond words, but that’s what I love about his stories! His are always the first ones I read in every anthology I have and more than likely they are my favorite! Go out and pick this one up today! #books

Today’s the day! Welcome to the world of Burnt Sparrow… 🪶🖤 Now available everywhere books are sold! Here’s an essay I wrote for Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/eric-la...

The most insane horror novel release day evvverrrrrrrr.

The Extra has arrived! 👀 Out today, @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's The Extra is the first in The Outsiders Sequence, standalone stories in a shared universe. Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra?

I’m ready to Play Nice. @rachelharrison.bsky.social is the best.

A massive happy publication day to @manylittlewords.bsky.social and her @titanbooks.bsky.social anthology ROOTS OF MY FEARS. Out today and available in all good bookstores!

Tomorrow.

My in-person six-week class starts soon. Alumni have published workshoped stories in Asimov's and Lightspeed and Uncanny, have been nominated for Hugo, and have turned their haphazard novelettes into novels published by Harper Voyager etc. www.sfwriting.institute/course/intro...

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Did you get your ticket yet? This Wednesday join @annieneugebauer.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @tanyapell.bsky.social, @seanpatrickhopkins.bsky.social, @psantomasso.bsky.social, and @alandistro.bsky.social to celebrate the release of THE EXTRA!

I cannot put into words how cathartic it was to write this, or how thrilled I am to have written for @peoplemag.bsky.social 🖤 I’m really proud of this essay, hope you’ll go give it a read 💕✨ people.com/rachel-harri...

[The Boston Globe; Massachusetts - 10/2/1994]

I AM THE FIRST CUSTOMER TO WALK INSIDE NYC’S BRAND NEW HORROR BOOKSTORE THE TWISTED SPINE DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A TOUR OF THIS GORGEOUS STORE WITH MEEEEEEEE @twistedspinebooks.bsky.social

Nice to see LONG DIVISION out on shelves at ROUGH DRAFT in Kingston, NY. They get why it’s good to have a Bad Hand. @badhandbooks.bsky.social

Everything she wrote was worth it, but the one that I'm pulling out next is A Mortal Glamor, her stand-alone reframing of The Devils during the Black Death. So rich, so strange, so vicious.

Top reasons to get the ebook of House of Bone and Rain today: - Only $3.99 everywhere!!! - Creatures from beyond the reef - Friendship - Magic and monsters - Violence - Every copy pushes me closer to a new contract 😬 - It hates fascism and colonialism www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...

"I never forget that while the world is a dark place, we horror fans have never shied away from looking at dark things—and that gives me a great deal of hope." -- From the Editorial: September 2025, Nightmare Magazine www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

A spectacular collection of stories in a beautiful edition.

Another banger from editor @datlow.bsky.social. Hint: It’s really fun to read each story during the time it’s set. Featuring so many of the greatest practitioners of the darkest art in literature. DAY & NIGHT out today: bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...

Staying in the shadows. Thanks for the tip @brianevenson.bsky.social

If it is the end of the world as we know it then I better get hustling because this book is a BEAST. Cheers to @cgolden.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social and all the authors involved for sending me back into this world and beyond.

Even Obama knows Stephen Graham Jones and S.A. Cosby are the shit.

It’s already been an insane year for horror fiction and like any great fiend it just keeps on coming. What are you reading?

Remembering when I posted this as an example of some of the nonsense that comes out of my daily pages practice. Normally it’s just complaining about the day before, but sometimes weird stuff comes up. I use it as sprinting practice for stories - start with a sentence or image and just play it out.