Have you added @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS to your Goodreads TBR yet? If not... we'd love it if you would :) 🦇📚🧟‍♂️

Buy our books, get our politics Yes, it's fucking political. Everything's political

To anyone who might be reviewing awards: can confirm, Plague Daughter is bloody brilliant

It's getting to be that time of year, so just tossing out I have three works that are eligible for award consideration: REAP, SOW, self-published novelette BOTTLING HIS GHOSTS, @rdspress.bsky.social, novella PLAGUE DAUGHTER, @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, short story, pub'd in GOOD FOR HER antho

Hello Lunchtime a tale of horror, grief and insects for you today

Hello Evening Crowd a dark but really interesting take for you today

New Review - it’s a Monday and so let’s have a suitable horror tale with grief and insects in the very interesting Phengaris by Anna Orridige. www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

This looks very exciting 🖤

Thrilled to receive this package this morning. Thank you so much @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social

It's come to my attention that a lot of people enjoy The Magnus Archives as much as I do To those people, I say: get yourself a copy of Prison Cooking, a TMA-inspired bit of body horror nastiness It's 99p, it's a novelette (so won't take you long to read)... and it'll put you off your lunch

You heard the man. Grab the book, let me decimate you. Let me resurrect you. Let me do it again.

What's this? Could it be... the awesome @claymcleod.bsky.social saying lovely things about THE DENIZENS? Promethean grief horror, with zombies. Out February, courtesy of @brennanlafaro.bsky.social

I’d love for people to check out my small-town surrounded by a living cemetery novel, out next February from @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLKN255K/

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions! From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website: www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi... 🖤👻📚

Follow the link, help if you can Nobody should be in this position

I don't really like doing book promo on Bsky (... I'm mostly here for the politics and the Ancient Near East & Discworld trivia...), but suffice to say: Any Bluesky promo I do from now on is going to have to involve a T-Rex. There's no better way

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

I only have time for Luddites now. Good on you, good on Tenebrous, and good on anyone else who wants this shit burned to the ground. And "death-cult parasite technologies" is 😘👌

We're nothing like A24. If anything, we're (one of) the Luddites of indie horror: actively in favour of the destruction of these death-cult parasite "technologies" Big kudos and love to Tenebrous for articulating what we should ALL be saying, loudly

I just finished @tcparker.bsky.social 's scary found footage true crime based on fiction called TRADWIFE yesterday. It was equal parts prescient and terrifying. Definitely worth a read! #horrorwriterschat

20 days until TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS! ARCs are hitting homes of early readers (and Lulu, seen here as @talkscaredpod.bsky.social's book display stand) and I'm overjoyed the stories are already possessing their eyes and souls 😈 out September 16 from Titan! politics-prose.com/book/9781835...

Less than 3 weeks until demons 😈

Now @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social's incredible cover for @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS is out in the world... we're very happy to share what some early readers have to say about it You might recognise some of them :)

#booksky 💙📚🩸 this is on my radar

COVER REVEAL!! We couldn't be more excited about this one - thanks so much to Sadie and Night Worms for helping us share it with you Denizens: coming February

Oooh. Looking forward to the newest offering from Nefarious Bat 🖤🖤🖤

Something exciting and Denizens-related is coming your way next week. Keep your eyes peeled... 👀

Just an FYI, for US readers waiting on anything from us...

Double Release Day! www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/08-21-2...

Thanks Gabino! My Father of Lies: The Complete Series compendium features 3 novellas (one of which was nom'd for a Splatterpunk Award), foreword by Sonora Taylor & a bonus novelette! It's also based on 4 years of real research I did, joining a cult online! mybook.to/fatheroflies

Thanks Gabino! My last novel was Tradwife. But my newest *releases* are these, the first batch of Nefarious Bat Singles: 4 short, one-sitting horror reads modelled on the EPs and singles we used to love... Grab The Nine O'Clock Horses, Flow, Boarders and Prison Cooking here: tinyurl.com/mun8ffa

Please don't send us DMs and comments like this, on any platform. It's rude, but more importantly, it's fucking stupid ⬇️

The dark academia fetishisation of English public schools - especially boarding schools - has always creeped me out. There's something inherently horrific there: in the crumbling Gothic buildings, the hierarchies, the cloistering, the reverence for dead Old Boys/Girls... So, I wrote a story...

Thanks everyone! My last novel was Tradwife. But my newest releases are these, the first batch of Nefarious Bat Singles: 4 short, one-sitting horror reads modelled on the EPs and singles we used to love... payhip.com/NefariousBat... #HorrorWritersChat

Personal Me (C. Lundoff): I write ghost stories, vampire tales and menopausal werewolves. I’ve written several published stories set in the World of Darkness universe, as well as a collection of my own work and 2 novels.

We're reluctant to claim *total* responsibility for this new development, but...

I'm from Leicester. And while we're not rich in folklore, we do boast one particularly horrible urban myth - the Nine O'Clock Horses, best known for dragging insomniac children out of their homes & beds in the dead of night They scared the shit out of me as a kid. So I wrote a story about them...

And... the first batch of Nefarious Bat Singles is live! 4 short, one-sitting horror reads modelled on the EPs and singles we used to love, before streaming turned creative work into an all-you-can-eat buffet We hope you like them 🦇💿

Behold all this horror gorgeousness.

It's the end of the week so it must be #PublisherFriday! If you are an #IndependentPublisher why not let us know a bit about your press, some links, current projects, crowdfunders, submission windows, some of your authors #publisher #SmallPress #publishing #IndiePress alt text in pictures please

We miss EPs and singles So, while we work on the novels we've got coming for you next year (... looking at you, @brennanlafaro.bsky.social & @drewhuff.bsky.social...) - we thought we'd send a few quick reads and extended plays your way The Bat Singles: Coming Soon (Album with us 2026)

Hi. I'm Anna. I mostly write cosmic and eco-horror. I once wrote a story based on a very depressing fusion cuisine all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant in Wimbledon. #HorrorWritersChat

We love a bit of Hailey in the Batcave. If you've not ordered A GAME IN YELLOW already - what are you waiting for?

Good news, queer book-loving ladies! Just heard that Saltblood is one of the entries in @jaeauthor.bsky.social's #SapphicBookBingo this month - so if sapphic suspense, near-future dystopias & horrifying sea monsters are your cup of tea... you know what to do 🏳️‍🌈👿🏝️ tinyurl.com/3948dacy

Doing final edits and formatting today on @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming small town horror THE DENIZENS (out next year with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social)... and all I'm going to say is, you're in for a treat... 🧟🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️

Thanks Ian. It's funny we were talking about zombie chickens, because I read out a story recently that features pretty much exactly that. You can watch it here. It's called Babs and it's in @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social anthology Good For Her. bsky.app/profile/stor... #HorrorWritersChat

It's #FridayReads time, so... here's Hummingbird! A small-town horror in the Salem's Lot/Needful things vein, it features: Obscene body trees! Sardonic demigods! Sapphic werefoxes! Demonic preachers! A cover by the brilliant @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social And much more! tinyurl.com/256adjem

We couldn't agree more! Get your hands on a copy here

Thanks, Matt. Lovely to have you as a host again ❤️ Here's my novella, where nobody is being a good friend to anybody else, really. Apart from maybe the ants. #HorrorWritersChat payhip.com/b/58paC