Good morning, Thomas!!!

Aww, thanks! 📚 🧚

Thanks so much! 🐀

Just remember, kids: the next pocket you pick might be cursed. So good luck with that.

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Illustration by Kip Ayers from @inkwellmonster.bsky.social's Cult of the Rat King.

Thank you!!! 🖤

So happy to see that the recipient of the Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social is Sarah Read! Congratulations @inkwellmonster.bsky.social and thanks for all of your hard work! bramstokerawards.horror.org/specialty-pr...

TONIGHT! 6:30 PM ET, the Sinister Six join @csecooney.bsky.social & Carlos Hernandez on Fiction:Impossible!

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Only two more months until the release of my second collection! In these pages, you'll find body horror, vampires, creepy retellings, & more!

Huge thanks to @inkwellmonster.bsky.social for her incredible blurb! I adore her writing, so this means the world to me!

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February 16, 6:30 PM ET, be there.

Awwww, thanks, Thomas!!!

The Atropine Tree Check out The Atropine Tree - <p><b>Bram Stoker Award-winning author Sarah Read returns with a stunning new vision of gothic terror. </b>Aldane Manor is an ancient home of low-beamed ceilings, crumbli...

"Without a doubt, @inkwellmonster.bsky.social is among the very best horror writers working today." - @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and The Haunting of Velkwood

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Thanks so much! I’m so pleased you enjoyed it! Stay warm!

Experimental Files: An anthology of tales inspired by Gemma Files' "Experimental Film". Experimental Files: An anthology of tales inspired by Gemma Files' Experimental Film . [Walker, Sarah, Barrass, Glynn Owen, Buchanan, Rebecca, Cisco, Michael, Couturier, Scott J., Davidson, C. O., Dumars, Denise, Guffey, Robert, Mitchell, Elizabeth] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Experimental Files: An anthology of tales inspired by Gemma Files' Experimental Film .

If you need some good news this weekend, "Experimental Files", an anthology of short stories inspired by @gemmafiles.bsky.social's "Experimental Film" is now available.

Edited by Sarah Walker and Elizabeth Mitchell, all profit generated by this book will be donated to autism research efforts.

I got heartwarming good news today that I can’t share yet, but I am clinging to that good feeling like a life raft.

9 DAYS to our Meet the Editors event!

Are you a short story writer?
Planning to submit to Summer in the City?

Come meet the editors and ask them anything!

📅 January 8, 2026
⏰ 8:30 PM ET
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Thanks so much! Pleased you enjoyed it!

I have been accused of having no filter.

I have one.
I use it a lot.
This is what gets through.

I can be meaner.

a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket says yeah yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied ALT: a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket says yeah yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied

The #1 movie from when you were 10 is how your 2026 is going to go.
Uh oh.

Know what you're doing tonight?

You're hopping onto Zoom for the SINISTER SOCIETIES LAUNCH PARTY!

⏰ 9 PM ET
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With:
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#BookSky

Thanks to @comicazimike.bsky.social for this great photo! Find his novella in SINISTER SOCIETIES, along with tales from:

@cindyoquinn.bsky.social
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I was driving home from work and saw a meteor breaking up as it moved across the sky. One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. It was so big and bright I was worried it was a plane crash until I got home and checked the news.
It was in a lot of pieces. Does that mean I get to make a lot of wishes?

The Rat King rules below; the Coin King rules above. When a pickpocket proves power can be stolen, chaos reigns.

Out 12.9.25: links.ruadanbooks.com/buyS6

Cult of the Rat King by @inkwellmonster.bsky.social is a city crawl remaking one thief's understanding of the world one revelation at a time.

You Have to Let Them Bleed by Annie Neugebauer (Paperback with Signed Bookplate) — Bad Hand Books The collector hunts the darkness for terrible beauty: macabre and marvelous stories worth displaying in their shadow boxes. Tour these horrors with them, but beware: if you’re not careful, you might f...

We've built in a short breather over the holidays, so there won't be any more releases this year. We resume in February with @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's hotly anticipated collection, YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED. Pre-orders are through the roof for this one.

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Photos of Cindy O’Quinn, Errick Nunnally, Mercedes M. Yardley, Michael Burke, Tom Deady, and Sarah Read, the authors of Sinister Societies, a collection of novellas edited by Linda Hartley and published by Ruadán Books.

SIX DAYS to Sinister Societies! Join us for a live reading and Q&A with the SINISTER SIX horror authors, hosted by
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📅 Tuesday, December 9, 2025
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See you at the launch party!

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ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory.

In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities.

"The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

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Gabino speaks truth

LAST DAY to get your pre-order for SPRING IN THE CITY in at a fantastic sale price and get a metal bookmark.

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“Annie Neugebauer gently takes your hand and leads you to a place where the ordinary—a walk in the woods, a trip to the dentist, painting the house, taking the stairs—becomes a poetic nightmare. And you follow willingly, because the words are so lovely. And then, when you realize something is following you, you run.”

Huge thanks to @inkwellmonster.bsky.social for these kind words for YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED by @annieneugebauer.bsky.social.

Pre-orders are LIVE for what is shaping up to be one of 2026's biggest horror collections.

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