“Genre horror … takes aim at the presuppositions of philosophical inquiry… and makes of those blind spots its central concern.” One demon essay in and I have been introduced to Ulver’s Madrigal and Ildjarn’s Forest Poetry as well as Keijo Haino. Tuesday morning, you have delivered.

We’re one of an elite publishing menagerie coming to Bath on 8th November. Finish your TBRs, smash your piggy banks, bring your big tote bag…

Get a natural high by playing the key stage one ocean song at least once a day m.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BE...

The Shadow Glass (2022) by @joshwinning.bsky.social is the best book I’ve read this year. It’s a wildly underrated, emotionally grounded adventure story for anyone who grew up loving Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, or any Jim Henson-type media, but it also introduces its own wonderful lore and characters.

It's #WeirdBookWednesday AND our Kathryn Davis symposium is tomorrow! It will be a great introduction to her work. The symposium will feature 4 essays about her books AND she'll be in conversation with @kellylink.bsky.social Here's a thread of a few of her books to get you psyched!

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO THE RETREAT by Gemma Fairclough! Order direct from our bookshop or your favourite retailer (worldwide, paperback & ebook) www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/ther...

ooohhh lala... Finished copy sample from the printer arrived. Can't believe this is our final instalment in The Northern Weird Project...Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements Mysterious moors, weird strangers, animal? sounds in the night...Are you ready?!

We caught up with With Bite alum @charlieratpig.bsky.social about her excellent debut novel, The Cat Bride! Charlotte spoke to us about writing long versus short fiction, the emotional journey of publishing and who she'd have at her dream literary party.

Our #JustOneBook appeal is live. If every follower bought just one book today, you’d help us keep publishing the stories and poems you love. Support us now: www.saltpublishing.com 📚 Every book matters. #BookSky #IndiePress #BookCommunity

The Cat Bride is a wild and strange gothic female coming-of-age tale: - shapeshifting - unreliable narrator - "creatures on the moors" - moody, dark and atmospheric! 💙📚🪐

I have a book to sell and a friend who can use a computer, good morning

Always had a soft spot for this picture - the woman (and her coat) were perfectly timed and placed :) Stokksnes #Iceland March 2017

There Is No Meant to Be" is available for preorder! My publisher promised that if I have 250 preorders that I get a case of prosecco left over from last year's Christmas party. 500 preorders before March & they'll go halfsies on a vintage George Foreman! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ther...

🌊🖤 Gothic, ghostly, unforgettable… The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney and The Foreshore by Samantha York are two of the year’s most talked-about books. 📚 This week only – get 20% off both titles with code CWS6ED0C7KCX 🛒 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... Offer ends 31 August.

20% off a hot cat summer…

"Stalker" (1979), Andreï Tarkovski

INTERVIEWER In “A Conversation With My Father” you make a lot of disparaging remarks about plot. PALEY Ever since then, everybody says I have no plot, which gets me really mad. Plot is nothing; plot is simply time, a timeline. YESSSS! www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2...

Weird Horror is still open until filled. I've had 494 submissions. 102 are unread. 6 are being held. 3 have been accepted. It takes 2 minutes to read the guidelines. Please adhere to them: www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/submit

A friend of mine told me the course of the heart @mjohnharrison.bsky.social was the best English novel of the last fifty years. I'm half way through and it may not be hyperbole.

Authors; still too poor to read articles in The Bookseller

If you feel glum just Google ‘monkeys watching magic tricks’

The wonderful @3lobedmag.com is running their annual Kickstarter. They're a fabulous source of weird, dark fiction, so if you can, consider helping them keep doing what they do for another year! www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

This vision of a long hot Devon summer instantly made me think of @charlieratpig.bsky.social 's The Cat Bride @saltpublishing.com www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

Success stories/wins are great, but you know what I enjoy? Top tier writers talking about the grind. This is Gene Wolfe in a 1973 interview w/Malcolm Edwards (reprint in Shadows of the New Sun ed. Peter Wright) when he was on the upswing after writing Fifth Head. Selling a story on a 38th sub damn 🫠

The fuzziest felt fantasy

Now it has started raining, return to the heatwave thirty years ago…

Review of #TheCatBride by @charlieratpig.bsky.social from @betterdragons.bsky.social and #RandomThingsTours everythingisbetterwithdragons.co.uk/2025/08/13/r...

Weird girls, manic pixies, and other myths of girlhood Charlotte Tierney sets the record straight on archetypes bit.ly/4mdSD5C

Morning fedi :comfy: Today I'm reviewing The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney. Read my thoughts on this vivid and highly evocative novel: https://www.draliceviolett.com/blog-tour-the-cat-bride #bookstodon #bookmastodon

My next book for review is The Cat Bride, by Charlotte Tierney, out 13th August. everythingisbetterwithdragons.co.uk/2025/08/04/b...

Hey all! If you've ever enjoyed Romancing the Gothic or believe in the project, now is a great time to support it! We do talks, book groups, skills training and I also add things like audio-readings, intro videos, blogs, the Scare a Day challenge in my free time. www.patreon.com/c/romancingt...

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If you’re looking for a short , grotesque little read for the weekend pick up Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum from Undertow. A vile little gothic body horror novella that made me feel like I had things sprouting out of my skin.

Ben Pester's surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist buff.ly/BAVIVNi

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

1960s primary textbook for training tiny futurists (Illustration by Jill McDonald)

Live tonight at 7pm! No one sees my bleets, so please pass on if you see!

I’ll be live with Pomegranate Book Club on Instagram tomorrow at 7pm GMT for a Q and A.

Currently £1.29 on kindle!

I have melted into the floor

Been buying vintage Fuzzy Felt for the art I’m making & it’s so deeply tender & touching finding some still carry ghost traces of the last owner’s play & since the sets are so old, I wonder if these little scenes were made by a child who’s my age now, with fond middle-aged memories of creating them

I won’t have time to tackle them so I’d particularly love for someone else to review the new omnibus of Eugene Thacker’s Horror of Philosophy books

Excellent blog about a great novelist who was at the forefront of Virago’s rediscovery of women writers fifty years ago but now almost qualifies as ‘neglected’ again.

🚨Launch tonight... Free and online. Please come along and join us to welcome one of the weirdest books of the Summer into the world 🦡🖤🦡

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Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

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Please stop using post natal depression as the evil monster replacement in horror books and movies. It's such a damaging narrative to perpetuate. Many women don't vocalise their pain or discuss their symptoms, which can include intrusive thoughts amongst other awful things, out of shame and stigma