Back from the grave, I've returned to @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social 😈 With my coming-of-rage short story collection TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS out now, Stephanie and I are here to recommend some of our favorite coming-of-rage horror books & movies 🖤 booksinthefreezer.podbean.com/e/coming-of-...

So thrilled to be the featured author today at the Why I Love Horror series from @raforall.bsky.social! "Keep going. Keep fighting. Keep reading horror. We must." raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-d...

I'm beyond thrilled to announce I have a new novel coming out. A fierce, feminist, and totally queer werewolf novel. This might have been the most fun I've ever had writing a book, and I seriously can't wait for everyone to meet Elsa and Jacey! 🐺🖤🐺

OMG tomorrow. Out tomorrow. It's been years of research, literal blood, sweat & tears went into this. It's full of heart & very personal stuff. And if I do say so myself, I also think it's very smart & unique. Your support of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC will mean the world. Thanks for signal-boosting. 🖤

Definitely worse ways to wake up than seeing I'm mentioned in People magazine with Rachel Harrison and Gwendolyn Kiste 🥰 Thank you @raforall.bsky.social 🖤 brilliant article of you and @almakatsu.bsky.social people.com/why-is-horro...

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS today! 13 coming-of-rage stories including the return to print of "Benny Rose the Cannibal King" about the monstrousness of adolescence and those who will do whatever it takes to get away, or get even. Out now from Titan Books! 😈 tinyurl.com/prhdemons

I'm absolutely over the moon that my Great Gatsby reimagining will be coming soon from Creature Publishing! Think CAROL meets THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE! 🖤👻 This novella has been years in the making, and I'm so excited that it will soon make its way into the world!

Sapphic September but make it horror -- cannibalism and vultures and Luna moths (oh my). To Be Devoured is still going pretty strong and I am always amazed by that 😆 www.apocalypse-party.com/tobedevoured... Drop your sapphic recs and/or self-promo here please! 💗

🛸🛸 new today, from Alexis Dubon 🛸❄️ an arctic dreamworld www.annareser.com/ns-unheard-s...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye is working toward their 2026 run! A bunch of us have pledged to write stories for next year 🖤 it's looking like another stellar one for weird fiction! Check out the Kickstarter here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

One of the things I hate about the Dems who are going anti-trans is that it leans in to the models built by the conservatives about how to win voters, and we are fools if we play by their game.

2025 has brought us top-notch terrors—and it's not over yet. Here are the best forthcoming horror books to look out for 🩸📚 @saratantlinger.bsky.social @nuzo.bsky.social @haleynewlin.bsky.social @amandaheadlee.bsky.social

We are exactly two months away from the launch of my debut collection, Cyanide Constellations & Other Stories! I thought I'd do a little promo today with a mood board and a look into the table of contents! Check out my blog post to find out more about each story. saratantlinger.com/2025/08/21/c...

A GAME IN YELLOW is out today! 💛 Join Carmen, Blanca, and Smoke as the hunt to spice things up in the bedroom takes a maddening turn when the cursed play The King in Yellow becomes a misused toy in my queer erotic cosmic horror, new from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social 🎉 As always, make horror gay AF!

House of Monstrous Women releases today. It's a story of oppression, liberation, sacrifice, and hope that refuses to be extinguished. I am beyond lucky to have written this story and even luckier to share it with all of you. From the bottom of my heart: Thank you.

Guilt and grief and a gold ring. Add a little accidental blood magic and maybe the ocean will answer.

My new story "The Interior" is free to read today in print and in a phenomenal narration by @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social! @3lobedmag.com at www.3lobedmag.com/issue45/

"Separating art from the artist" is always a complicated conversation. But when an artist says they are going to use their art's proceeds to further hurt marginalized people, don't just believe them, SHUN THEM. The Trans community needs your support more than you need ANOTHER fucking Harry Potter.

Looking through the eARC of CYANIDE CONSTELLATIONS and it's feeling more real that my debut fiction collection is coming out in 3 months! This one is for those who find comfort in a bit of gloom (someday I'll write hopeful horror, but not this time *cackles*) darkmattermagazine.shop/products/cya...

Check it out babes! ⬇️ My story features something scary in a basement, don’t you want to know what it is? Don’t you?!?

So thrilled that I got to write the introduction for a new annotated edition of Dracula! Truly, what an honor! Thank you so much to DBS Press for inviting me to be part of this! 🦇🦇🦇 www.dbspress.com/shop-1/p/ann...

Thanks for a great #HorrorWritersChat, Eryn! My interview with award-winning horror writer Gwendolyn Kiste will soon appear in The Horror Zine, probably for the August issue. I have another very exciting interview coming soon. No names. BIG surprise!

Pride Month might be over, but queer horror is worth celebrating all yearlong! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 So here are my five picks for fabulous queer horror from Hollywood's Golden Age! 🎥🎬🖤 the-line-up.com/classic-horr...

That feeling when your government is building concentration camps in Florida and selling merch for it. And you're trying to keep on making art and telling yourself it matters but holy shit it feels bleak out here.

It's GOOD FOR HER release day! New from Nefarious Bat Press, an anthology of women's rage, all proceeds go to the Sisters Uncut charity. I'm proud to have my story "A Change in Universal Flavor" return to print here after years of being unavailable alongside these necessary tales 🖤

New Deal Report: the Bram Stoker Award nominated SLEEP ALONE by @jawmccarthy.bsky.social is coming to Shortwave in January! Merch girl Ronnie is trapped cleaning up after a band of hungry succubi, leaving bodies in the wake of their shows, until a mysterious disease starts infecting its members…

Wrote a thing. Long live horror. gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

new NO GODS FOR DROWNING cover art just dropped, alongside my jaw 🤩 ahhhh So grateful to @badhandbooks.bsky.social for bringing this back into print next year, and the new art is gorgeous while capturing the feel of the book. I'm so excited! 🔪🌊 Limited signed bookplates at Bad Hand:

I really appreciate this! My collection is still in print and would love to go home with new readers. Body horror. Doppelgängers. Haunted body parts. Women doing terrible and wondrous things. Half the stories are exclusive to this collection. Let’s body swap and dance!

So many amazing pictures from the Stokers, but this one's probably my favorite. Female horror writers taking over the world! 🖤🔥🖤

Guess what?!? My Bram Stoker Award nominated collection, THE DEAD SPOT: STORIES OF LOST GIRLS, is now available as an audiobook, narrated by the incredible Bridie Jurasevich😃 Check it out on Audible or click the link below! It’ll break your heart🖤 www.audible.com/pd/B0FCYYPHP...

My debut novel has officially been acquired by @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social, an imprint of Macmillan. It’s such an honor to finally announce the news, especially at #stokercon on Friday the 13th of Pride Month. 🌈🔪

I look forward to the inevitable glut of "liminal hotel backroom" and "lamp room" stories in the near future. A year from now, submission guidelines will read "No creepy hotel stories, please."

The VERY surreal moment of Joyce Carol Oates asking to take a photo of us for her social media 😆 and so graciously taking a photo with us, too. StokerCon 2025 was full of such amazing energy! @maywalker.bsky.social @jessiannyork.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the Stoker Award winners! Including @sofiaajram.bsky.social, @edenroyce.bsky.social, @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, @pedroiniguez.bsky.social, and @coraliefargeat.bsky.social!

This win means a lot to me for a lot of reasons, but most notably: I am the first trans man to ever win in this category!!! 🏳️‍⚧️ I hope this gives my queer & trans writer siblings heart—your work is important!

So this happened last night. The Haunting of Velkwood won the Stoker!!! It's twelve hours later, and this still feels like a dream! So many congrats to all the winners and the nominees! ❤️

I won’t be at StokerCon this year, but I did participate in two virtual panels: Unmarked Graves & Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora Final Girls & the Ferocious Feminine: The Heroines & Female Villains of Horror Virtual attendees, don’t miss these!

The Haunting of Velkwood is a Shirley Jackson Award nominee! WHAT?!?! Seriously, this is such a huge honor. Congrats to all the nominees! I feel so lucky to be in your company! ❤️

#Pride2025 book post 7 "Don't Ask, Ghosts Tell" (which I haven't read and am not in!) anthology in support of queer vets. Contributors inc. @chrstnabergling.bsky.social @saratantlinger.bsky.social @sumikoska.bsky.social @rjklee.bsky.social & many others tundraswanpress.com/shop

My StokerCon schedule for next week! Looking so forward to seeing everyone there! 🖤🔥☠️ www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/my-sche...

I'm beyond honored & thrilled to announce The Haunting of Velkwood is a finalist for the Ohio Book Awards! Truly, to be recognized in the state where I grew up means the world to me! Thank you to everyone at the Ohio Book Awards, & congrats to the other finalists! www.ohioana.org/announcing-t...

Excellent essay that really resonated with me. I was raised Catholic and spent my teen years in a small farm town. I remember the slurs in catholic school and the shame and how it helped shape me into high school. And I had it easy compared to a lot of kids. Anyway, PRIDE 🌈 and read this 🖤

Would love to have you stock our new release, came out today. Don’t Ask, Ghosts Tell: An LGBTQ+ Horror Anthology - and it supports charity.

Phengaris is out today! 17yo Mark is doing home hospice for his mother, and seeks respite (often of the chemical sort) in Thurstrop Wood. But this suburban nature reserve is not the peaceful haven it seems. payhip.com/b/58paC

NEXT WEEK: @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social joins the show to talk about her incredible novel, THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD, and to dig into a classic TWILIGHT ZONE episode, "The Masks"! Available 5/28 at Noon Central!

I'm beyond thrilled to announce my brand-new novella, WHEN WE WERE BRUTAL! This is my homage to Jennifer's Body, Carrie, and Ginger Snaps, and it's got toxic best friends & plenty of well-earned supernatural rage! So excited to be working with the amazing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social on this! ❤️☠️🔥

New Deal Announcement! 🎉 @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social is joining the Killer VHS Series with WHEN WE WERE BRUTAL, in which two best friends reckon with toxic bonds, growing up and growing older, and what it means to be the so-called monster lurking in your own town.

Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia! One awesome way to commemorate this day in our community is to read more queer books & spread the word about them! There are so many amazing books by LGBTQ+ authors out there & we need the signal boost, now more than ever! 🏳️‍🌈

🎃 @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social has accepted our invitation to be a spooky storyteller in our upcoming anthology. 🎃 TODAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR SUBMISSIONS! #halloweenhorror #horrorstories #halloweenobsessed #HorrorWriters #CallForSubmissions #IndieHorror #ScaryStories #90shorror #indieauthors