The cover for “The Howling Dark” by Brittany M. Willows, designed and drawn by the author, set against a blurred image and framed by flowers. Text at the top reads “cover reveal” with the book’s release date of November 9th 2026 at the bottom. Cover illustration features the book’s fair-skinned protagonist crouching amidst snow-covered branches, a spear in hand, dressed for winter.

Book description text for “The Howling Dark” by Brittany M. Willows set against a drawing of a hand touching flowers (art by demon.vinegar). Text reads: Sylvain is an eclipse-born werewolf who knows neither his bestial form nor the post-nuclear wilds his kind hail from. Raised on the orbital research station Zodiac, he’s grown accustomed to a life of peaceful predictability. Though fantasies of visiting his birthplace may be out of reach due to medical restrictions, he has a loving boyfriend and all of his essential needs are met. What more could he want? In the opinion of his elder brother, the answer is: everything. Believing them abducted as children, Illia has always sworn to someday return with his brother to the mountains they were taken from. And when a peculiar turn in Sylvain’s health brings to light an ugly truth, someday becomes now—whether Sylvain is ready for it or not. Soon enough, the brothers find themselves fugitives on the planet’s surface, pursued by the government and bloodthirsty huntsmen, and under the unexpected guidance of the rebel Sundogs. All that lies between them and home is miles of unfamiliar countryside, toxic wastelands, a parasitic garden of death . . . and the question of how much they’re willing to risk in order to get there.

🌘 COVER REVEAL 🌒

So excited to finally unveil the finished cover art for THE HOWLING DARK, my post-apocalyptic scifi fantasy novel about fugitive werewolf brothers on the run from humans hunting them for their silverblood! (with @lgbtqreads.bsky.social)

thehowlingdark.carrd.co #BookSky #WriteSky

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Happy 1 year of A Ballad for Slayers & Monsters!

"To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love" #frankestein 🍁

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated:

More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector
$925 million for AI
$81.8 billion over 5 years for military

However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

✨🫵🏻😡

#dndart #dndoc #dnd #ttrpg

Stop Skipping Prologues. You're Reading The Book Wrong. - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website Readers who skip prologues and epilogues think they're saving time. They're missing the point. Here's why every word in a book matters, including the ones before Chapter One.

Why Skipping Prologues and Epilogues Doesn’t Make You a Clever Reader; It Makes You an Incomplete One

"In the words of the great William Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about storytelling and also about tights: “What’s past is prologue.”

gnofhorror.com/stop-skippin...

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

Book covers, from top left to bottom right: A Pinch of Luck by Hannah Phillips. As Old as Thyme by Alix Nicloud. The Awakening of Lora Abernathy by MJ Anthony. Best Cat in Show by Sage Evergreen. Bringing Forth Belial by Riley Daemon. Cat’s Got Your Heart by jem zero. Conflict Mediation by D.C. Emerson. Empress of Dust by Alex Kingsley. For Luck’s Sake by Cozy Dubois. Forest of the Stars by J.T. Adria. The Full Moon Problem by Kay Claire. Hi-Voltage by Raz Fox.

Book covers, from top left to bottom right: Breeze Spells and Bridegrooms by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan. Fire Spells Between Friends by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan. Devil’s Pack by Arsyn Quinn. Double Exposure by Rien Gray. Fan Service by Robin Jo Margaret. Feed by Aveda Vice. Insolence by Gwin Savage. The Last Contender by Liv Savell & Sterling D’Este. Lucas by MJ James. To Surrender by E.N. Laurier. Mara and the Bad Wolf by Ké Kampeas. Merman’s Delight by Skyler Nightshade.

Book covers, from top left to bottom right: Nightlife by Alba V. Sarria. Pretty Dogs by Riley Nash. Skeletons in Our Closet by Sinclair A. Macabre. The Tale of the Hidden Village by K.C. Norton and Riley Rookhouse. Tethered by TJ Williams. The Key by Jo Morgan Sloan. Sunset Year by C.J. Ellison. The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra. Veil Us In Gold by Shepard DiStasio. Warrior of Hearts: Online by Beau Van Dalen. The Voice of Wild Places by Noah Hawthorne. You and I Collide by E.A.M. Trofimenkoff.

The #transrightsreadathon #stuffyourereader is here!

The sheet with links can be found on our website. Please check prices before you click! Some books are not free on Amazon but ARE free from other retailers in an author’s Books2Read link.

#trr26 #stuffyourkindle #booksky

A collage of 40-ish badasses

Both of us at Tenebrous are deeply honored to present the 40+ badass 🏳️‍⚧️creators🏳️‍⚧️ who will comprise the Table of Contents for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, a New Weird Cosmic Horror anthology due out 10.06.26!

Full deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/3/...

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

illustration inspired by Charlotte Perkins-Gilman's 1891 short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" depicting a woman touching sickly yellow torn wallpaper on a wall while shadowy hands reach toward her. There is another tall shadow of a figure on the wall and both figures look toward the viewer.

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight."

I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

I love not using AI. I love making things by hand, writing, chatting, petting my cats, looking at ducks, making friends with crows. Not using AI is very fun.

Shoutout to everyone who writes their own shit. You rock.

Infection #oc

Fanart for Clara & The Below, a kickstarter you should go support!!!

Fanart of @radrappy.bsky.social 's newly launched Kickstarter project, 'Clara & The Below'- if you love the sound of an animated gothic horror retelling of The Nutcracker go back it right now! Congrats, Matt! ❄️⚔

Happy birthday!! 🎂

defending art's right to exist, especially nsfw art, inherenetly involves you having to allow art you don't like or even think is abhorrent or reprehensible to exist. you do not have to pretend to like it or engage with it, but you need to let it exist. you give fascists an inch they take a mile.

"Give us stories of satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars.

Give us gossip wicked and vital, dinner parties salacious and droll, debutantes vile and intrepid.

Give us unforgivable rudeness and oppressive etiquette, scathing asides and dire gaffes."

Under 6K words

--HEADACHE--

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

The Traitor & The Wretch by Jasmine Walls is probably my favourite read in a *long* while that I’ve been reccing to anyone I can!

Hope you have an awesome birthday! 🎂🎉

Illustration of a knight with their visor raised and blood splattered on their armor The text reads "Slay"

Slay thine enemies

anyways we need more trans stories, more trans love, more trans knights, elves, heroes, villains, scoundrels, and damsels. more trans art now! 🏳️‍⚧️

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

get weirder 🫵

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

Read this thread. This is why that taboo art you don't like needs to exist. Block it if it upsets you. Move on with your life. But dont destroy the safety nets and frameworks for actual victims that would come about by forcing everything right back into another Hays Code cuz you can't press a button

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A dimmed photo of a blue-tinted skull and the following text: Send us your short fiction (flash fiction, short stories, and novelettes), poetry, and art (illustrations and short comics) as there is... One (1) week until the submission window closes! For more information, see www.letterstothegods.com

With one week left until the March 1st, 2026 deadline, we're achingly close to the finish line of accepting art, prose, and poetry submissions for the "monsters and eroguro" issue of Letters to the Gods Left in Fireplaces!

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