Ladies of the Knight #LadiesoftheKnight is queernorm A Knight’s Tale in the style of Mary Blair.

@fionacreates.bsky.social’s #LadiesoftheKnight is queernorm A Knight’s Tale in the style of Mary Blair and one of the best graphic novels I’ve read!

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Orla! #Orla starts a bit too on the nose, but it ends up being a heartwarming little story. Sally Cantirino’s art throughout treads like an adult-rated Robert Munsch.

Orla!

#Orla starts a bit too on the nose, but it ends up being a heartwarming little story. Sally Cantirino’s art throughout treads like an adult-rated Robert Munsch.

Dead Weight I read #DeadWeight right through, on the verge of holding my eyelids open with toothpicks like Odysseus just so I could see what happens next, and next, and next.​ What I lack in sleep I make up for in enthusiasm.

Dead Weight

I read #DeadWeight right through, on the verge of holding my eyelids open with toothpicks like Odysseus just so I could see what happens next, and next, and next.​ What I lack in sleep I make up for in enthusiasm.

Call Off the Dark Call Off the Dark, by Hallie Shepherd Two years ago Helen’s husband died and her life turned upside down. She remarried too soon, running off with her new husband Wade to try and escape her grief living off the land. Helen isn’t made for living off-grid, and Wade is content to leave her to house work and her own deep depression.

Call Off the Dark

Call Off the Dark, by Hallie Shepherd Two years ago Helen’s husband died and her life turned upside down. She remarried too soon, running off with her new husband Wade to try and escape her grief living off the land. Helen isn’t made for living off-grid, and Wade is content to…

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Hey gang, from today until April 30th, Juniper Books is gonna be donating a portion of sales of the fancy Sworn Soldier editions to Trans Lifeline!

Slayers of Old Slayers of Old, by Jim C. Hines Three retired urban fantasy archetypes live together in a sentient house/bookshop. When locals start summoning things that threaten Salem and the world at large, it’s time to get back in the game. In 2007 I was already burned out on high fantasy. There was a lot of sameness and I couldn’t look past how the women were treated.

Slayers of Old

Slayers of Old, by Jim C. Hines Three retired urban fantasy archetypes live together in a sentient house/bookshop. When locals start summoning things that threaten Salem and the world at large, it’s time to get back in the game. In 2007 I was already burned out on high fantasy.…

Kill All Wizards Kill All Wizards, by Jedediah Berry The barbarian Gotichmus sought out the ruling wizards, hoping to enlist their aid in righting a terrible wrong. Instead of a person, they him as a valuable chess piece and set out to use him in their infighting. Now he’s out for revenge. I almost skipped this one. I saw it on NetGalley, but between the title and the cover I assumed it wasn’t something I was interested in.

Kill All Wizards

Kill All Wizards, by Jedediah Berry The barbarian Gotichmus sought out the ruling wizards, hoping to enlist their aid in righting a terrible wrong. Instead of a person, they him as a valuable chess piece and set out to use him in their infighting. Now he’s out for revenge. I…

Gunpowder Prophets Gunpowder Prophets, by Justin Jordan, Patrick Piazzalunga, Roman Stevens, and Taylor Esposito A runaway wife hired Huck and Marley to get her daughter back from an occult-obsessed ex. Nothing is ev…

#GunpowderProhpets from @madcavestudios.com is a blast!

Burn It Down: Rigsby WI Volume 2 Burn It Down: Rigsby WI Volume 2, by S.E. Case Burn It Down is the second collected volume of Case’s Rigsby, WI webcomic, which follows four teenage misfits in a tiny town in rural Wisconsin. This …

@secase.bsky.social’s #BurnitDownRigsbyWIVolume2 is a tough, heartfelt read

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The Price of Fear may be the single best #OTR show just because it treats all the creepy weird stories as personal anecdotes from Vincent Price’s everyday life. How can you beat that?

Badlands is the Fern Gully of the Predator franchise. Loved it!

The worst part of a review to write is always the summary, but the posts look incomplete without them

The Night Ship The Night Ship, by Alex Woodroe This is a beautiful mashup of weird literature and supervillain origins, following a smuggler and her trucker almost-fiancé as they navigate a world of sinking darkn…

#TheNightShip is a gorgeous look at people coming together (and tearing themselves apart) in crisis

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Cropped art by Jimmy Makepeace of the Mongol nomad Goatskin standing at combat ready, a friend at her back, as the disembodied head of a statue spews violet light from its eyes. Overlaid are captions. Along the top reads "Just Launched on Backerkit. New Edge Sword & Sorcery 2026 is live" Along the bottom reads "Share this post to unlock bonus stories".

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Cave Grave: Wild West Tales Cave Grave: Wild West Tales, by Shawn Kuruneru In Cave Grave: Wild West Tales Shawn Kuruneru gives us two short comics. In the first a robbery goes wrong, and in the second a bounty hunter runs int…

#CaveGraveWildWestTales is a gritty, art-first piece collecting two western stories

Headlights Headlights, by CJ Leede People are waking up beside the highway covered on blood, naked except for the skin of another person they have no memory of killing.  There’s no apparent connection be…

Great voice but some of the characters fall flat and the plot goes haywire halfway through. The ending makes up for it, but boy was it hard to get there!

The Creeping Below The Creeping Below, by Brian Azzarello, Vanesa Del Rey, and Hilary Jenkins Val follows a metal band into the forest where they sacrifice her to something older than the gods. When she wakes up seve…

#TheCreepingBelow is physically difficult too read but has a great premise and I hope the story isn’t over

Bury the Lede by Gabe Dunn (contemporary journalist) and Saladin Ahmed’s Abbott (like Night Stalker with a Black woman). IIRC both leads are bi/pan but they have sapphic relationships in the stories.

It gets notably stronger as it progresses so here’s hoping! In the meantime I’ve found a couple of comics that hit the spot.

Dear Sylvia, Love Jane Dear Sylvia, Love Jane, by Erin Hall Molly Malone is a private detective in 1943 San Francisco, shortly after the Atherton Report brought the SFPD’s corruption to national attention. When a beautif…

#DearSylviaLoveJane promises a solid historical sapphic mystery series

Forever Stamps Forever Stamps: 250 Years of United States History Writ Small, by Gail Anderson, Brian E. Smith, and the United States Postal Service I’ve never been one to collect stamps, even though they’re ofte…

#ForeverStamps is a great blend of visual and information, arranged around topic rather than value or year

Red and the Wolves Red and the Wolves, by Cherry Zong Red hunts monsters and brings them back to the w9man who raised her in an attempt to save their forest home from the magical blight that has made it all but uninh…

#RedandtheWolves a sort of fantasy dystopia with a heroine that must choose whether family is who raised her or who raises her up

Summer Shadows Summer Shadows, by John Harris Dunning, Ricardo Cabral, Brad Simpson, and Jim Campbell Nick’s ex sends a postcard from the Greek island Avraxos before disappearing altogether. Filled with dread, Ni…

#SummerShadows gives us vampire noir in the Mediterranean

I’ll Make a Spectacle of You I’ll Make a Spectacle of You, by Beatrice Winifred Iker Zora, a queer Black rootworker, is starting grad school at the prestigious Briscksbury Mountain College. She dives into primary sources about…

#IllMakeASpectacleOfYou is a riveting, accessible Black Appalachian queer dark academic folk horror novel.

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So it’s YOUR FAULT I have been given knowledge I cannot be trusted with! I managed not to pet a jaguar once but I don’t think I can control myself a second time!

Wolf Worm Wolf Worm, by T. Kingfisher It’s the 1890s and Sonia Wilson, a scientific illustrator, has been hired to provide the visuals for Dr. Halder’s book on entomology. She travels to his house deep in th…

Finished @tkingfisher.com’s #WolfWorm the other night. I do okay with most bugs but boy am I glad I buzzed my hair a couple weeks ago! Every unexpected touch is a jumpscare.

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Seasonal Rereads: Tam Lin What could be more seasonally appropriate than a man who’s lived in the lap of luxury and now is about to be sacrificed to hell? Especially since he’s set to meet his doom on Halloween, assuming no…

My top four Tam Lin retellings, plus playlist!

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@keithrosson.bsky.social’s #CoffinMoon is out next week!

a cartoon character is buried in a pile of gold coins Alt: Scrooge McDuck doing the backstroke through a pile of gold coins

How it feels when you library holds and #NetGalley ARCs come on at once.

#booksky

I find myself chasing the high of a book that isn’t even out yet 😭 @kjcharleswriter.com