‘This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary.’ Could be one answer to the submissions mountain problem.

Thanks to @bookishleels.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social for the image I mention in Part 1.

'In Co-op a ghost lingered by the crisps. Another vomited in the pouring rain on the pavement outside Go Local.' Loved this tale of a woman returning to her home town and finding it both similar to and very different from the place she left. @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com

Finally had a few minutes to sit down and read this. Sad, disorienting, and filled with imagery that's lovely and distressing in equal measure. It's limited edition, so point yourself to @nightjarpress.bsky.social and get it while you can.

We’re delighted that @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social is now stocking Nightjars. Little interview about it here deadinkbookshop.com/blogs/requir...

I loved @ggaffa.bsky.social's previous @nightjarpress.bsky.social story, and this is as good if not better. A flight path signals something much deeper in the narrator's life, darker and more unsettling nightjarpress.weebly.com

Looking forward to getting stuck into these chapbooks from @nightjarpress.bsky.social

Ghosts await a man heading back to his home town for his mother's funeral. Emotions and memories jostle in his mind as he heads inexorably towards his past and his future. Superb sense of gathering dread in this story by @bookishleels.bsky.social pubbed by @nightjarpress.bsky.social

'Shortly after the end of things, the electrical appliances began humming.' I loved this story about a grieving character's disintegration. Stark images: a radio broadcasting a strange message; the corpse of a young girl floating down a river @rlsummerling.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social

A new story by David Gaffney is always something to celebrate. Flight Paths, published by @nightjarpress.bsky.social‬, is one of his most intriguing – tautly edgy, deftly organised. nightjarpress.weebly.com/flight-paths.html

I have a new story out on Nightjar! Its called Flight Paths and its a ghostly tale of aeroplanes and romance fraud...you can use the link below to buy one for £3

Super excited my short story chapbook "Kodavision" has been published by @nightjarpress.bsky.social today! It's paired with "Through Narrowing Veins" by @rlsummerling.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com

Publication day for my Nightjar Press chapbook! Through Narrowing Veins is a story of illness through the lens of cosmic horror. You can buy it now through the @nightjarpress.bsky.social website, alongside many other excellent titles (I've read loads and I love them)

Four new Nightjars now available here nightjarpress.weebly.com by @bookishleels.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch

It's #worldsnakeday! My dad, a herpetologist, didn't read much fiction but I think he would've enjoyed this, the snakes' oral history of their expulsion from Ireland. - from @nightjarpress.bsky.social

Mega excited about this! I love Nightjar Press and can't believe I get to have one of my very own

Not yet on the website, but going out to subscribers.

Busy day here at Northern Publishers Fair.

In Manchester today? Come to Northern Publishers Fair, Central Library.

On our way to Northern Publishers Fair at Manchester Central Library, from 11am today.

Free recipe with recent Nightjar order. You never know what you’re going to get.

It’s time to get ahead of Royal Mail price rises again.

Finished Shadow Lines by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social before the bus to work. Loved it - especially the chapter on Dalby’s illustrations for Thomas, and the final chapter on Auster’s The New York Trilogy, which I own but haven’t read. I’ll be starting it soon. 📚

Four stories from @nightjarpress.bsky.social arrived today (with an extra story for free!) Exceedingly well packaged by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Think I'll start with Removals by @iancritchley.bsky.social

Two great Nightjar authors reading in Manchester @neilcampbellwriter.bsky.social & Jim Gibson. Book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/working-cl...

Spot the nuthatch.

When is World Chapbook Day? That’s what we’d like to know.

Brilliant. Builds its weirdness to a kind of critical mass. Manages to explain nothing while still feeling ‘complete’ - which is my favourite kind of story. Will be checking out more @nightjarpress.bsky.social stuff in the future.

Pylon stories.

Book mail today from @nightjarpress.bsky.social - I shall report back in due course.

Bridge herons are not rare exactly, but they are rarely seen. Which is just as well, because we all know what they portend.

It's Wednesday evening, and so NEARLY the weekend... and A Personal Anthology. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen short stories, is Clare Reddaway, whose selection includes a few love stories, making it perfect for Valentine's Day! Hitting inboxes Friday afternoon. Sign up 👇

Packaging prize to @nightjarpress.bsky.social — the spooky contents haunt the wrapping

Just read two stories that truly creeped me out. “The Removal” is the story of a move which has some odd aspects to it; “The Junction” is an uncomfortable tale about a man who befriends sb in a car accident. Low-key, underrated horror. @iancritchley.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social

Brilliantly done, @meganjstaylor.bsky.social I laughed - darkly, of course - and shivered. Not having children, perhaps I’m safe? Another corker from @nightjarpress.bsky.social

Such a lovely thing, a Nightjar post. Little treasures migrated all the way to Rome, fighting their way through the tempests to arrive safe and sound in my apartment. That’s this weekend’s reading sorted. @nicholasroyle.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social

These were not a pair but how beautifully they go together. Just ordered by a reader in Cheltenham. Design by @johnoakey.bsky.social pics by publisher, stories by Will Eaves & @carolynstock.bsky.social

Fabrication by @imogenreid.bsky.social, a recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social chapbook. A hall of mirrors, an atmosphere, a puzzle you can’t escape from. Experimental, intelligent, shimmering with signification. If you like fiction to feel like film, you’ll love this as much as I do.

We would like to reassure readers that food packaging materials used in dispatching of Nightjar orders have been thoroughly cleaned & dried. Our p&p charge for single Nightjar is now 10p less than 2nd class stamp.

The strange and even stranger world of Nightjar Press: Fabrication by Imogen Reid and Old Tutor, New Tutor by Arthur Mandal @nightjarpress.bsky.social @imogenreid.bsky.social @arthurmandal.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2024/12/26/t...

Extraordinary mini-reviews of recent Nightjar stories can be read & enjoyed chez @mattcolbeck.bsky.social – the concision & intelligence of his reviewing are matched by his boundless enthusiasm. He is a wonderful champion & advocate of the uncanny short story.

And that's it. 16 absolutely staggering, chilling & exquisitely crafted stories. MASSIVE thanks to all the authors for capturing me, intensely, within the momentary experience of reading. But also for the continuing concentric rippling of reflection, (re)interpretation and, of course, cognitive 1/5

#The16DaysOf @nightjarpress.bsky.social #Day15 #Topsoil Night shift. Turfmen. A Sisyphean struggle. The pitch is alive with the sound of torment. But what lurks in the soil? Sings? Infects? What thrives on the toxicity of Matchday? As above, so below. A visceral, extraordinary work of weird fiction.