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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day eleven, so please join me in welcoming the final author in this year's volume, Mark Morris, with his story "Confetti". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... In the home stretch, day ten delivers "The Recollection", from author @danacea.bsky.social. SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day nine brings "Seven Encounters with Peculiar Hawkins", from author @emmajgibbon.bsky.social. SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day eight's author is @sarahbrooks.bsky.social, with her tale "Web". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day seven brings @guyadams.bsky.social and his tale "Hollow". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... For day six, please welcome one of the finest writers working today: @johnlangan.bsky.social, and his tale "Acolytes of the Famished Giant". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day five brings @maudmarianw.bsky.social , and her tale "The Way Through the Woods". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day four... please welcome @timjmajor.bsky.social's tale "Urchin Barren". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day three brings @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social, and his tale "Under the Similitude of a Dream". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Today we welcome @alexmilner.bsky.social's"Cemetery Black". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Over the next two weeks we'll be announcing the authors who have contributed peculiar tales to this year's volume. Today we welcome @lifeofholly.bsky.social, and her story "Forest". SOMETHING PECULIAR is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Now available... THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE: Essays on the Art of Being Lost, edited by @capitanofelixio.bsky.social , contains sixteen essays on such diverse films as THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, THE DESCENT, WALKABOUT and more. Available now from Black Shuck Books or your bookseller of choice.

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Tim Major @timjmajor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT! My new story collection contains 16 weird tales of magical and mechanical automatons from history and myth. GREAT ROBOTS OF HISTORY will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social in March, and can be preordered now from the website. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/great-robots... (1/2)

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

If you’re a new follower and interested in archaeology, I have a new collection of archaeology themed horror out from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social, inspired by my time in commercial archaeology. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows-37/ The cover has trowels and the colours are from Munsell Soil Charts.

The cover of Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase.

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Dave Jeffery @davebjeffery.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Have you experienced MOOD SWINGS? Out now from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social

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James Everington @jheverington.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

‘The End’ mini-collection by Kayleigh Dobbs from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social So good I didn’t want it to, uh, end.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Just arrived from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social with my latest story “Until the Wheel Comes around Again” plus more from an amazing lineup! Out next week but available for pre-order! blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Huge thanks to @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social for my contributor copy of this beaut! Featuring my story ‘Versions’ - to get yours… blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Thanks to @runalongwomble.bsky.social for interviewing me about my @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social collection Dirt Upon My Skin

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

New this week from Maxim Jakubowski – THE EXOPOTAMIA MANUSCRIPT. Jeffery Deaver calls it "a rich blend of journey, discovery, myth and lore – modern and ancient – told in Jakubowski's masterful, evocative style" Available now from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/the-exopotam...

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

The final author gracing the pages of SOMETHING PECULIAR, and the 100th author to feature in the GREAT BRITISH HORROR series... please welcome one of the best genre writers working today, Grady Hendrix. SOMETHING PECULIAR can be pre-ordered now from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

The penultimate story in this year's GREAT BRITISH HORROR... join @tiffaniangus.bsky.social "Until the Wheel Spins Round Again". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released at the end of September, and can now be pre-ordered from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Stay you a while, and hear @jonolivereditor.bsky.social's tale "This Song is Not For You"... SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released at the end of September, and can now be pre-ordered from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Come "Apple Howling" with @bunch.bsky.social... it's just wassailing... SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released next month, and can be pre-ordered from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

I may not have mentioned it, but I have a new short story collection out. Archaeology? Check! Horror? Check! Weird fiction? Check. All the good stuff, really. Grab a copy from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social and make your world a little weirder today. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows-37/

Cover of Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Come with @jamesbrogden.bsky.social and meet "The Gwyll"... SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released at the end of September, and can now be pre-ordered from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

Story six... when you want peculiar, you go to the best... @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and "British Wildlife". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released next month, and can now be pre-ordered from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

Delighted to welcome the fifth author to this year's edition of Great British Horror – @paulkane.bsky.social and "Versions". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released next month, and is available now to pre-order at blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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James Everington @jheverington.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

This collection of archeological themed horror from @stevetoase.bsky.social (published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social ) is very cool:

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Join Rosanne Rabinowitz at "The Sky Pool"... the fourth piece in this year's volume of Great British Horror. SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released at the end of September, and is available now to pre-order from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Cameron Johnston @cameronjohnston.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I really enjoyed Dirt Upon My Skin by @stevetoase.bsky.social and @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social From a dig in the enchanted lands of Faerie fraught with unnatural peril, to Neolithic sites that seem to ...change? on recorded film, to abandoned houses with something very old and very creepy in them.

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Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Discover "How Beautiful You Are" with the help of the third author in this year's GREAT BRITISH HORROR volume, @ashleystokes.bsky.social SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in September, and is now available to pre-order at blackshuckbooks.co.uk/gbh9/

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

I have books. They were in a box, and in my hand, and now we are both in @glasgow2024.bsky.social . If you want to buy ten tales of archaeology horror, come find me because they won’t all fit in my suitcase. (Thanks to @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social for sorting out getting them to me) #glasgow2024

Dirt Upon My Skin and author Steve Toase

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

If you absolutely can’t wait to read about trying to carry out an excavation in Faery, or strange burials, or strange anomalies in topographic survey data turning sinister, grab an ebook of Dirt Upon My Skin from the @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social website for £1.49. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows-37/

A Kindle showing Dirt Upon My Skin, surrounded by a piece of clay pipe, a hand tape, a piece of green glaze medieval pottery, a leaf trowel, a WHS trowel, a line level, and a bulldog clip.

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

Publication day! You can now get Dirt Upon My Skin, my collection of archaeology themed weird fiction and horror, and Mood Swings by Dave Jeffrey from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social in paperback or ebook blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows/ Grab both books. Spoil yourself!

A hand holding the book Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase

Dave Jeffrey holding his book Mood Swings

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

Archaeology horror is a niche I've been into lately, and @stevetoase.bsky.social 's forthcoming collection Dirt Upon My Skin scratched that itch. It's beautiful, unexpected, and mind-bending. My review is a bit early, but you can pre-order the book from the wonderful @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social

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Book Review: Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase

Black Shuck Books is becoming one of my favorite small presses. In the last year, I've enjoyed Neil Williamson’s novella Charlie Says, a folk horror romp through 1970s British public information films...

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 27/06/2024

I'm v. happy to say my next book will be coming out from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social on the 25th of July. Dirt Upon My Skin is a collection, of my archaeology themed weird fiction & horror stories, inc. two previously unpublished stories Pre-order here blackshuckbooks.co.uk/dirt-upon-my...

Photo shows cover of upcoming book Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase with a circle of archaeological trowels meeting in the middle to form a rosette pattern.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

My debut collection of short stories is published today! Thanks to Steve at @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social for all the work he's put into getting this out into the world. This book is ten years of stories of mine, crossing cities and lives. I hope you enjoy it.

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Polis Loizou 🐺🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Excited to receive my contributor copy of this creepy new anthology by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social, edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social. “For Tomorrow” is out on 28th March, and you can order it through the l-nk in my b-o. Hope you connect with “Hyperlink” (more dad jokes to come, I’m sure)…

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My hand holding up a copy of “For Tomorrow: Wellbrook High Yearbook 1993”, depicting a moody photo of a school taped to the front of a yearbook.

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Cameron Johnston @cameronjohnston.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

This beauty of a book has arrived from @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social - Charlie Says by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social “I don’t know anyone who grew up in the 1970s who wasn’t scarred by the public information safety films on British TV. Those tiny, doom-filled dramas slipped in between the cartoons..."

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

I reviewed @neilwilliamson.bsky.social 's forthcoming novella, Charlie Says, an exciting work of folk horror that mashes up the terror and nostalgia of 1970s British public information films with the modern fears of the post-Brexit, post-COVID landscape. Big thanks to @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social

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Book Review: Charlie Says by Neil Williamson

“It’s a story of social inequality, bigotry and the ways that communities enable the worst things to happen. It’s a story of ritualising risk. Taunting everyday dangers.” Neil Williamson on Ch...

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Beyond delighted that my debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER will be published by @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social in early 2024.

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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Delighted to see my contributor's copy of SOMETHING PECULIAR, the 8th book in @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social's Great British Horror series. How tempting is this design? I have a story about influencers and something horrible from the depths of the internet...

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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

My reading brain seems to have decided to skip ahead to Autumn. It needs the spooky stuff already. Just finished a re-read of Straub's Ghost Story and am now devouring Tim Major's excellent Shade of Stillthorpe. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shade-of-sti...

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