Single Author Horror Fiction Collections to Devour A list of six superior, single author collections, from the last 10 years that I think deserve to be moved up to the top of your TBR pile.

Six essential horror collections to lose yourself in.

Tell 'em @paultremblay.bsky.social sent you: "Mesmerizing and unlike anything else you've read, Smoke Season will challenge your notions of what Weird and political fiction can achieve."

Smoke Season Bundle PREORDER NOW – SHIPS IN JUNE! Note: Orders will ship together once all items are available. The Smoke Season trade paperback comes with a bookplate signed by author Carrie-Edmund Laben and a …

Print and ebook copies will be available to preorder from your local indie bookstore (and many online retailers) in the US and Canada soon. Preorder direct from Word Horde today and you'll also get a signed bookplate and a free ebook!

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Big thanks to our friends at Night Worms for an exclusive first look at the cover for Smoke Season, a supernatural tale in the tradition of Arthur Machen from Shirley Jackson Award winner & author of A Hawk in the Woods, Carrie-Edmund Laben (@carrielaben.com), brilliantly designed by Matthew Revert!

The cover of SMOKE SEASON by Carrie-Edmund Laben: Orange and teal design of mountains and curling smoke with a giant femme head and shoulders rising out of the mountains. The figure's face bears the sigil of Botis. She also has curling horns.

Did somebody say COVER REVEAL?

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Thank you @lossrockhart.bsky.social, @sadiehartmann.bsky.social, and Matthew Revert for the fantastic cover art.

Now this? This is the shit I'm waiting for.

Pamela is an amazing writer and friend. Cannot wait for this one

Oh man, this sounds right up my alley.

I'm in.

I met Durgin a couple of times. This sounds very Lynchian!

Word Horde is proud to announce Desert Radio, the debut novel from author Pamela M. Durgin. Get ready for high strangeness, mysterious radio transmissions, government conspiracies, weird rituals, and liminal spaces in the 1990s California desert. Things are about to get very weird this Fall.

It takes a village to make a book, so we’d also like to take this opportunity to give shout-outs to cover artist Matthew Jaffe, cover designer Scott R. Jones, and copyeditor Shannon Page.

Thanks to all the HWA members and Stoker jurors who recommended it and congratulations to all the other Stoker nominees! It’s an outstanding ballot this year.

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Super excited to see that @johnlangan.bsky.social’s Word Horde collection Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Congratulations, John! 🥳

Picture of book, Notes From Underground, by Orrin Grey being held up.

Maybe you aren't necessarily a fan of hollow earth stories (though these aren't what you'd expect), or weird dreamlike fiction. But the final story, Pandora, in @orringrey.com 's new collection from @wordhorde.bsky.social is worth the price of admission alone. Deeply sad, deeply moving...

The cover of my nonfiction collection Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film, art and design by Yves Tourigny.

My most recent nonfiction book is Glowing in the Dark, also from @wordhorde.bsky.social, which nabbed the aforementioned Rondo Award nomination.

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The cover of my collection of linked Hollow Earth stories, Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, art and design by Matthew Revert.

My short stories have been published in dozens of anthologies, including several apperances in @datlow.bsky.social's Best Horror of the Year. My latest collection is Notes from Underground from @wordhorde.bsky.social.

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(Nonfiction Review) Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film by Orrin Grey Summary: Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore! From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade…

"Orrin Grey loves monsters and movies more than anyone. By the time you’re done with this book, so will you."

Another glowing (no pun intended) review, this time of GLOWING IN THE DARK, from a longtime reader and booster.

Notes from Underground: Welcome to the Hollow Earth, Population: Not You Anymore Body Horror Cosmic Horror Cults / Religious Horror Folk Horror Occult Supernatural TL;DR: A linked cycle where cults, beetles, and underworlds elbow each other for the mic, then harmonize into a si…

"This is Grey’s most unified book, a capstone to his museum-of-monsters vibe that threads his obsessions into a single, durable rope."

A vivid, insightful review of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND that says many very nice things and seems to get exactly what I was going for.

"Justin felt untethered, one step outside of time, from the moment the car door slammed behind him to the moment he
stood on his aunt’s front step." - first line of Smoke Season, coming next spring from @wordhorde.bsky.social

Want to wish Orrin Grey a happy birthday? Pick up a copy of his latest collection, Notes from Underground!

Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle at independent booksellers everywhere, and most online retailer…

Order now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social), most online retailers, or direct from Word Horde.

Get ready to travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey!

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Happy Book Birthday to Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, the new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton @orringrey.com! 🥳

I’ll Quit When I’m Dead The Film You Are About to See My Lips Her Voice The Unveiling When We Talk to the Dead The Works of Vermin The Bleeding Woods Our Gifted Hearts The Haunting of Paynes Hollow Notes From the Underground Little Horn The Graceview Patient The Scald Crow Veal The Last Witch Senseless

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The sell sheet for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND.

Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!

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Fantastic! 🤘

Hollow Earth Expeditions: Counting the Cats in Zanzibar “It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some ‘Symmes’ Hole’ by which to …

Every week, from now until the release of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND from @wordhorde.bsky.social, I will be posting a new installment of Hollow Earth Expeditions, where I'll be exploring some of the many influences that shaped the collection, and my own odd conception of the Hollow Earth.

I read an advance of this and found it a great mix of fun and weird and horrible. I know that sounds counterintuitive but it's not. Ordinary folks come in close contact with the inexplicable and are changed by it, unmade and remade.

New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!

Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle coming soon to independent booksellers everywhere, and most onl…

Preorder direct from Word Horde and you'll also get a signed bookplate and a free ebook!

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