Starting to see people make "If you like The Backrooms read..." lists and so many have books on it that are...not anything like the backrooms so heres my list I guess Starting off with the obvious and one of the best Coup De Grâce by @sofiaajram.bsky.social A liminal subway.

Saw Backrooms last night and I loved it! Tight script, gorgeous sets, and so fun. It's a beautiful direction for the genre and I'm already itching to see it again—it was such a visual feast! I can't wait to hear what others think.

I have a short story in this week's episode of the NoSleep Podcast! www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s24...

Really enjoyed Hokum! Solid scares, fun set. That said, what a rotten theatre experience. I had to ask a lady to put her phone away because she was thrashing through 50 apps every few minutes. If you cannot stay off your phone for 1h40m, your brain is fucking cooked. Stay home.

Just finished reading Yesteryear and fuck. Sometimes funny, but often incredibly dark story. Finishing it feels like when I first read Conner Habib’s Hawk Mountain. Both very good works worth reading.

The cover for my next novel, CHIMERA, is here. Skin dancers, cannibals, kinslayers, monsters. The Vargers are many things, but family always comes first. Cover illustration by Xuanwei Su Cover design by Esther S. Kim Pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I am absolutely so fucking seated

PARTIALLY DEVOURED is out on audiobook today!!! The first of my books that I have read myself for audio. Make my destroyed voice box worth it!

Peddling my wares in honour of Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ I’m the first trans man to ever win a Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction for work mentioned here (Coup de Grâce). I’d love if you’d give it a read.

everyone who loves horror should read more @horrorsong.blog Invanginies by Joe Koch is the sort of horror i love seeing in the world. Joe's prosecraft and build of dread and horror is next level.

I am begging audiobook producers to add Author Acknowledgements to the end of audiobook recordings!! I just finished an audiobook that had interesting autobiographical context in the acknowledgements that I'd never known about if I hadn't gone hunting for it because it wasn't part of the recording.

instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options. For example, check out some of these writers:

You can read Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (the anthology I edited with 16 stories by queer authors about queer characters experiencing ecstasy, heartache, and suffering) for FREE as part of Trans Rights Readathon!

Hey horror fans, do you need some extra reading material for this year's #TransRightsReadathon? We got you covered! Here are some free eBooks written & edited by trans authors & published by Ghoulish Books. Please share! buttondown.com/ghoulish/arc...

Oh wait a minute, I also have a book up for preorder at B&N that does have a cover! If you are a The Magnus Archives fan I hope you will consider picking up THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER! It is about a very nice and safe library filled with good people. :) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/from-the-l...

Here are some suggestions for the trans rights readathon that goes until March 31. These are some incredible authors!! @bitterkarella.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @sofiaajram.bsky.social @scumbelievable.bsky.social get reading people!!!

A precise picture of what it felt like to grow up in the early 2000s & be enmeshed in a codependent friendship, using it as a conduit into queerness, and a perfect render of how it felt to be a gay trans man in the 00s w/o the language to express it Recommend if I Saw the TV Glow resonated with you

Today is my birthday! Big year for me, a scary year but a joyous one, too! You have my permission to eat sweet treats and dabble in HRT today (hey, trans rights readathon starts tomorrow, it’s only fair!)

whoever invented the .webp file format should be broken on the rack and i should get to watch

Next issue of my newsletter is about to go out! I talk about new stories (now available to read for free), yell about SLEEP ALONE again, and recommend a bunch of recent favorites. Subscribe to my infrequent updates, please? jaw-unhinged-jaw-mccarthy.beehiiv.com

Books 45 and 46, respectively: @dmihesuah.bsky.social @sofiaajram.bsky.social Follow me at LiteraryLollapalooza.blogspot.com! 💙📚🩸

Max Booth, co-founder of Ghoulish Books, launched a new Patreon earlier this month! Support it if you're interested in literally anything. www.patreon.com/c/interroban... @interrobangbus.bsky.social

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

I have been working on this goddamn story for months now, and SOMETHING today clicked. I have to scrap 90% of the shit I'd written but it's gonna work so much better now and I'm finally actually stoked about what I'm writing. LET'S GOOO.

Optimistic about this! Stoked to see liminal space getting its limelight.

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by: Hermann Hesse Richard Matheson Gretchen Felker-Martin Kathe Koja Hervé Guibert

Writing historical fiction is just a series of repeatedly finding out a tool or patent or industry technology did not exist until oftentimes long after you are setting a story.

Made a little Weird Books for Weird Readers video :) With: @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @sofiaajram.bsky.social Ling Ma @tiffmorris.bsky.social / @ericraglin1992.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social @emnays.bsky.social @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

Found this spectacular interactive exhibit called Thresholds by Michel de Broin at the Arsenal Contemporary Museum this weekend. Utterly giddy to walk through it again and again in what felt like a theatre set of Coup de Grâce.

Hundreds of local elections with upcoming deadlines still boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Oh! Ohhhh! New B.R. Yeager! Time trippin’! Ohhh!!! Get my fainting chair!

COUP DE GRÂCE is an escherian fever dream, a labyrinth of self-loathing, a maze of made of concrete and memories. At times I felt like I might have a panic attack (complimentary). You should check it out. (via @titanbooks.bsky.social) www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...

COUP DE GRÂCE is, to its benefit, a short book, but for a book about being trapped in an inescapable space that all looks the same, it keeps you guessing as to what’s possible and what’s next. A specific structural change near the end had me yelling “fuck you” at the book (complimentary).

Ajram might as well have written COUP DE GRÂCE specifically for me. A main character with suicidal ideation, wandering through a recursive, liminal space made of brutalist architecture, finding cracks in the foundation that lead to—something unimaginable. It’s EXTREMELY my shit.

COUP DE GRÂCE, by @sofiaajram.bsky.social Vicken’s going to kill himself. He has a plan and everything. But when he gets off the subway to finally commit the act, he finds himself in an endlessly looping train station, concrete hallways that go nowhere yet keep unfolding, with no exit to be seen—

The new @shortwavebooks.bsky.social edition of SLEEP ALONE is releasing almost exactly three years after the original (within one day!) and that’s pretty damn magical and you should totally preorder a copy for some of that magic 🌟

Just finished reading Coup de Grâce by @sofiaajram.bsky.social (never skip a @scumbelievable.bsky.social recommendation guys!) and let’s just say it was the perfect read before starting my new job at STM… I am truly in awe and will think about it for a long time!

Sent my recommendations in! HWA members, please take a moment to recommend work you enjoyed in 2025! Let your favourites be heard. If you want to add works to the Stoker recommended reading list, here’s how: horror.org/how-to-recom...

I am quiet on socials still as I catch up on work - but given the deadline this is important. If you read something and enjoyed it, please recommend it - As a member of the Horror Writers Association, you can recommend works, and those recommendations do not close until 1/15.

Some women fujo out with M/M media because they haven’t yet discovered they’re trans men or genderfluid. Something to chew on!

I realized I rarely get to hear Acknowledgements in audiobooks. Is there a reason why they’re omitted? I feel like sometimes they add much needed context or act like a nice airlock between the story and return to reality, but I can’t recall the last time I heard one included.

The audiobook of Coup de Grâce is out today! I got to speak with the production team about how to tackle the last act’s format (no spoilers—IYKYK!) but I haven’t listened to it yet. I think I understand actors who won’t rewatch their work in a movie now.

always thinking about…her (tower of terror ride architecture in japan)

Honoured and overjoyed to learn that Bury Your Gays won a British Fantasy Award!! 🙇‍♂️ I’m so grateful for the opportunity to have worked with @ghoulish.bsky.social and our incredible contributors. Thank you to everyone involved in the British Fantasy Awards!! Kicking my heels in glee.

Back at urgent care (second time this week!) cause of post-op bleeding from hysterectomy. Got to go in a CT scan for the first time. Big xray donut—neat!

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

Gretchen Felker-Martin on Charlie Kirk and violence in a public post on her Patreon an hour ago, link in replies: