#MustRead horror kicks off 2026 like this: The Lineup choose the best indie & small press books of 2025, @bloody-disgusting.com explain the horror references in the #StrangerThings finale (caution: spoilers!), @whatsleepsbeneath.com look back at the most terrifying scenes of 2000 film The Skulls 1/2

Incredibly kind words from @sjshank.bsky.social about Pyres! Thanks so much, man! 🙏🏼🔥 #HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚😱

I was away in France early in the week, so I missed this, so #ICYMI - the last #MustRead horror of 2025 had: @bloody-disgusting.com choose the top 15 horror books of the year, @nighttidemag.bsky.social get into the winter solstice, rituals and the horror of endurance ... 1/2

Who likes audiobooks? Adventure horror? Dark academia? My award-winning novel, Shadow of the Hidden is currently half price over Barnes and Noble's Nook #Audiobook store. Grab it for $2.99 until the end of January! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shadow-of-... Beware the curse! #HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚😱

Even as a humble language teacher, this feels resonant. AI translation is all fine if all you want is a cup of coffee. But if you're looking to convey or receive meaning, it's never going to REALLY get it. Especially not with anything akin to humanity. www.politico.eu/article/when...

Happy 2026. Year of the Denizens.

Just lined up the 1st @thisishorror.bsky.social news of 2026! But, #ICYMI - here's 2025's final one: www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u... Puncture by HP Newquist - out now from Relayer Books, The Denizens by @brennanlafaro.bsky.social - coming 17 February @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social 1/2

Awesome things I've read this year #2: @kevharrison.bsky.social's Pyres Hard to talk about this wonderful spirit-painter social-commentary-horror without things descending into a succession of bad fire-themed puns... so I suggest you just check it out for yourself It's smoking 🔥

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! The new year should bring some lovely news about my novel, Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press), and my play, Waiting for Godínez (University of New Mexico Press). In the meantime, I am re-upping my Lit Hub essay about those books. lithub.com/howling-into...

Thanks Gabino, you're the best! I've got a new BattleTech book called Outfoxed that's a lot of fun and good for readers new to the universe: www.swankmotron.com/shop/outfoxed And a FREE sword and sorcery serial over at Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project! www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fi...

Thanks, Gabino! My latest short piece, "Crushed," is coming in Dark Waters Vol. 3 @darkwaterspodcast.bsky.social, on sale 12/30. Pre-order is live! Get some! a.co/d/0tvmV0x

Thanks Gabino! This festive #FridayReads, how about a dark fantasy riff on a Christmas classic - when Brother Statius must risk it all in one last monastic heist in Old Habits Die Hard?

Thanks, Gabino, and happy holidays to you and yours! I have multiple offerings for your gift cards at Bookshop.org. Haunted houses, alien invasions, cosmic events, freaks of nature, and even my life story (there’s ghosts!). In the House of In Between is your fire waiting to happen… #FridayReads

PSA: Conservatively, $1.5 billion in Amazon Gift Cards goes unspent per year. If you got one or more GCs for the holidays, don't risk it—buy books today! Go! Now! a.co/d/af4ORTO feel free to start with mine, and go nuts from there. As always, thanks @gabino.bsky.social 🙏🖤🙏

Thanks Gabino!! #FridayReads it’s time to read BETWEEN THE LINES…book one of #ThePlanarPages by @dhalerambo.bsky.social Dive into a fantasy mystery adventure across worlds with investigator Fiona Thorne. The fifth & final book is out January 15th. www.dhalerambo.com/the-planar-p...

Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm What if Aurora was Maleficent's daughter? 🌙 Sleeping Beauty retelling ☀️ Epic fantasy adventure with strong dialogue 🌙 Powerful female characters ☀️ Bi/Pan women 🌙 Tele-pathy, - kinesis, & - portation ☀️ Found families www.amazon.com/dp/B08HLVPF7D

Thanks, Gabino. The first two books of the #WalrusTech series make for great reading between the holidays. Plenty of Sci fi thrills and chills. www.amazon.com/Dent-Univers... www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Thanks! Folks can see my bio for books to buy if they like, but this one's FREE. A Ligotti tribute compilation with several brilliant authors! Includes my story JAR OF ARMS. dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

Thanks Gabino. No money necessary for this one. New piece of flash fiction up at Shotgun Honey... shotgunhoney.com/fiction/dead-santas-by-michael-wegener/ #fridayreads #crimefiction

Unfold is a workplace thriller meets creature feature. Instead of giving Amazon money, you can support me better and my publisher (a small business) by buying it through here phoenixvoicespublishing.com/unfold

My new sadboy x sadboy folkloric fantasy novella drops in just a couple more days, so grab a pre-order! bsky.app/profile/tdcl...

Thanks, Gabino! MAKESHIFT FIELDS is about baseball far from the major leagues, while ON COMICS AND GRIEF is a book that combines creative nonfiction about my mother’s life and my grief at her death with a look at the comic books of 1976. Baseball and comics for the new year.

Thanks, Gabino! A family of royals aims for perfection and tradition, but a series of whirlwind romances could send the veneer of perfection and desire for tradition up in flames. 🌼cozy vibes 🌈queer rep 💕3 couples 😌a cast to root for 2 spice levels! Choose your retailer: linktr.ee/sagetgreene

Remember my stroke? Me neither. Grab my most popular book for $1.99 today. “I got as far as the dedication and peed myself” (author not responsible for dry cleaning). Thanks for a great year Gabino & #FridayReads 🖤 a.co/d/3JShBeF

Released this year, my best collection to date! It’s weird and horrifying. And illustrated! Mad Days: Stories and Curses is available on Amazon and Bookshop, ebook is only $1.99! Amazon bit.ly/4lZImtq Bookshop bit.ly/41USpIQ

Happy holidays Gabino! If you're after a selection box collection of monstrous, Magnus Archives-style short stories this Boxing Day... The Nine O'Clock Horses may be for you Get it here: www.amazon.com/Nine-OClock-... Or here, direct from Nefarious Bat: payhip.com/b/1xHIf

Why not use some of that Christmas money on a viscerally cinematic and deeply thoughtful dark fantasy/horror novel packed with neurodivergent representation? Firebird Book Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award nominee, The Monsters Among Us. a.co/d/fhqSb7U

Here’s THE EL. available everywhere across platforms. Thanks, Gabino! Happy #FridayReads www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738830...

It’s the last #FridayReads of 2025 AND folks have book money, so let’s share some books! Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a festive little monster full of magic, violence, friendship, revenge, and ghosts. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...

On episode 69 of Weird Reads, I welcome @authorglennrolfe.bsky.social on to discuss his latest collection of short stories, Unusual Occurrences, those old Leisure horror paperbacks, his struggles with alcohol, how the pandemic changed his life, and so much more! Links in the comments:

Everything I read in 2025…. Including books from @claymcleod.bsky.social @kevharrison.bsky.social @timmcgregor.bsky.social @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social @craigwallwork.bsky.social @ljdougherty.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @beverleylee.bsky.social here’s to 2026!

Horror writers chat is such a great event. Since I started working on Wednesday evenings, I've really missed it. Great way to connect with other horror creators 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Some horror authors I recommend: SP Miskowski Polly Schattel Paula Ashe Jeffrey Thomas Charlene Elsby Gwendoline Kiste John Langan

FYI: All classic episodes of BBC's A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS are streaming on Shudder! Not sure where to start? We've got you covered.

The boxing day @thisishorror.bsky.social news is ready to go for tomorrow. But, #ICYMI, here's last week's new & forthcoming: www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-u... Poisoned Soup Ed. Wendy Dalrymple and Grace R. Reynolds - out now @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social ... 1/2

Want more Beckett Coven content? Head to my website. BeckettCoven.com Shall we begin? 🕯

It's always nice to feature in @thisishorror.bsky.social 5 MUST READ HORROR ARTICLES, lovingly curated weekly by @kevharrison.bsky.social. This time out my @gnofhorror.com 'Best of 2025 YA Horror' is included along with 4 other cool features. www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...

Books I’ve read (and loved) in 2025. An ongoing post and in no particular order … @kevharrison.bsky.social

Combined the six novellas which make up the NORTHERN WEIRD PROJECT were undoubtedly one of the literary highlights of 2025. If you've never visited the North of England, this is the next best thing. This Horror DNA feature breaks the series down. www.horrordna.com/features/the...

Penultimate #MustRead horror of the year! This week: @bloody-disgusting.com talk up how Rob Reiner always found the heart in the @stephenking.bsky.social stories he adapted, @gnofhorror.com's @jonezyboy.bsky.social picks out the very best YA horror releases of the year ... 1/2

Cracking read this, folks.

It's ALIVE! bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

My collection of short stories, AMERICAN ANIMISM, was published in March. It means a hell of a lot to me. I appreciate anyone who's read a word of it. bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

Thanks so much, Gabino! FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR is a bonkers romcom about a funeral parlour and a bridal parlour that undergo a Freaky Friday switcheroo! It's available in print, ebook and audio. (US print release is April) :) harpercollins.co.uk/products/fou...

My debut won't be out till next summer, but if dark fantasy with a "The Dark Crystal" meets "World War Z" vibe sounds like your thing, pre-orders are available now from @badhandbooks.bsky.social. badhandbooks.com/preorders/6y...

Thanks Gabino! Reasons to check out my novel THE MIDNIGHT PROJECT: - one of The Seaboard Review of Books’ “Best of 2025” - “clever pre-apocalyptic cli-fi with a side of hope” - about friendship, science and octopus people - my mom says it’s very good bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the...

Thank you #FridayReads Gone but not forgotten, MG Mason lives on in his work and our hearts. Treat yourself to one of his stories. #MGMasonRocked 🕯️🤍