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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Winter Haunts takes place on the 14th November, and we'll have a thread of workshops and a thread of author interviews on the day! Check out what's incoming... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #winter #Gothic #Gothicfiction #ghoststory #ghoststories

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Excellent book. You can get me to a lot of things, but I would have said, no, @aptshadow.bsky.social , you cannot get me to SPACE-SPIDERS, and yet:

Cover of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s book CHILDREN OF TIME

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What an unbelievably lovely thing - I had no idea this was happening - the wonderful Adrian Duncan talking about The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies on the Library of Lazy Thinking - blown away lazythinking.substack.com/p/adrian-dun...

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Adrian Duncan on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

Writer and artist Adrian Duncan shares his thoughts on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It is actually very good. Very chill and introspective. Also, nature.

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This week on Story Hour, Charlotte Tierney and Jeffrey Ford read weird horror tales! These stories address relationships, self-respect, and flying heads. Heavy subjects brightened with flecks of the comic. You can still watch! @charlieratpig.bsky.social @jeffreyford8.bsky.social youtu.be/Ru2fJAI88fI

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July 22, 2026 Story Hour: Jeffrey Ford and Charlotte Tierney

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This week, two authors make their terrifying Story Hour debuts*! Join us for spooky stories from @charlieratpig.bsky.social and @jeffreyford8.bsky.social ! Wednesday! 7:00 p.m. PDT! *They’re both reading horror. We have no plans to terrify the guests. www.storyhour2020.com

Color photo of author Charlotte Tierney, a fair-skinned woman with long, dark hair worn straight and parted on the side. She wears a striped crewneck top and gold hoop earring. She poses in front of a bookshelf in a well-lit room and smiles into the camera with warmth and perhaps a touch of mischief.

Color photo of author Jeffrey Ford, a fair-skinned man with graying hair in a receding hairline. He wears metal-framed glasses and a black T-shirt with a design of a wizard (?) printed in green. He sits in a busy restaurant and sips a pale, opaque liquid from a small, stemmed glass. His expression might be alarm, but is probably just surprise or concentration on the beverage. Probably.

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’m reading with Charlotte Tierney, author of The Cat Bride, July 22nd at 7 pm edt West Coast and 10 pm edt East Coast.

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

OK but have you seen Trotsky feeding his rabbit from a tin mug? From www.hoover.org/research/tro...

Trotsky looking at the camera somewhat impishly while feeding a white rabbit from a tin mug

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'll be reading with Charlotte Tierney, author of the fabulous Cat Bride, for Story Hour www.storyhour2020.com, July 22nd at 7pm PST and 10 EST. If you've not read this book, definitely check it out.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

New on the blog today, I've written about some of my favourite COMING-OF-AGE NOVELS from the shelves. Featuring books by Rumer Godden, Jean Rhys, L. P. Hartley and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/c...

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Coming-of-age novels – some favourites from my shelves

This is a post I’ve been meaning to put together for a while, a celebration of some of my favourite novels in which the dark realities of the adult world begin to impinge on the innocence of childh…

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As a reminder, A Personal Anthology is a long-running project celebrating the short story, in which I invite guest editors to pick and introduce their dozen favourite short stories. It exists as a Substack mailout and an archive with over 3,000 short story recommendations: apersonalanthology.com

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A Personal Anthology

Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories

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Ben Pester @benpester.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

So happy to have these two in my house. Both out on 4th June New stories - Sail Away Land new paperback - The Expansion Project. Thank you @grantabooks.bsky.social @jasonarthur.bsky.social

Two paperback books: Sail Away Land and The Expansion Project - both by Ben Pester, photographed on nice dark wooden floorboards.

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Want some good news? New Ben Pester short story collection in June!

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I am still thinking about this novel - here's @jonathangibbs.bsky.social saying interesting things about it

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Help ARB become a paying venue for ruthless criticism of all that doesn’t exist

Principal Skinner, labeled ARB, is rubbing his fingers together and the crowd is saying THE FUNDRAISING! THE FINGER THING MEANS THE FUNDRAISING, while Mrs. Krabappel, labeled “billionaires, squares, people with bad taste” glowers at him

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Happy almost-birthday to The Cat Bride! To celebrate, would anyone like a copy of this weird nineties feline gothic fairytale, reviewed by The Guardian as “A STUNNINGLY EVOCATIVE, BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN GOTHIC NOVEL”? DM if so! First come, first served. Please share!

Charlotte Tierney clutching three copies of her novel The Cat Bride

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Delighted to have a new story, "Rope," published in one of my favourite magazines alongside this powerhouse ToC. It's short and strange, and I hope you'll give it a read. www.bourbonpenn.com @bourbonpenn.bsky.social

Bourbon Penn masthead showing artwork of a goldfinch with a steampunkish helmet/diving bell.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Cannot disagree.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 15/03/2026

Since it's Mothering Sunday: There's a delightfully absurd story by Charlotte Tierney about a new mother haunted by ghost babies in The Best Weird Fiction of The Year, Volume 1, from @undertow.bsky.social. It's called A Woman's Place Is In The Haunted Home.

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Ed Bear Sellek @edbearsellek.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I finally put some films from 2014 and thereabouts in for developing last week. What I love about analogue is the feeling of digging up buried treasure.

My finger obscures an exhibit in The Met

My finger obscures a fountain in Central Park

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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

We have been blown away by the support and kindness we have received since announcing our closure. Thank you all 🖤 Help an indie press out and treat yourself to 50% off ALL paperbacks, ebooks and audiobooks purchased from our website. Use code HAUNT50 at the checkout! www.hauntpublishing.com/books

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Books — Haunt Publishing

Haunt publishes books in the Gothic, horror and dark fiction genres.

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It is here! Huge thanks to @influxpress.bsky.social @dan.coxon.belly.social @charlotteseymour.bsky.social, Luke Bird and Vince Haig, and profound gratitude to the blurbers: @aetwigg.bsky.social @charlieratpig.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, James Miller and Aliya Whiteley In bookshops now!

The cover of ‘Paradise’ by Ben Tufnell, depicting a dense forest

'An unsettling novel of juxtapositions and surprises, Paradise moves between city and forest, bringing both to teeming, violent life. Tufnell creates landscapes that work upon us on the deepest level.'
- Aliya Whiteley,
author of The Beauty and Skyward Inn

'A powerful novel of psychogeography set between two landscapes, urban and rural, in a world palpably on the brink of collapse.
Febrile with paranoia and alienation, Paradise confronts the crucial, intimate matter of our time: how 'to be' at the end of all things.'
- Charlotte Tierney, author of The Cat Bride

'Paradise begins as an engrossing neo-noir before pivoting into something considerably stranger, in a manner that recalls a peculiar array of other works: Ben Wheatley's Kill List, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, Michael Ende's children's novel Momo. A Kafkaeseque end-times parable of acceleration and collapse, violence and repair, it is a resonant page-turner fit for the Capitaloscene. '
- Séan Padraic Birnie, author of I Would
Haunt You If I Could

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Out now! In paperback, hardback, ebook and audio!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Congratulations to all nominees on the ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards®, especially to @thomasha.bsky.social for his novelette "Uncertain Sons" in the Long Fiction category, and to Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece for her "St. Dymphna's School for Borderland Girls" in Short Fiction. Well done!

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Made up with a lovely review of The Cat Bride in Fortean Times!!

Screenshot of The Cat Bride review in Fortean Times

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 20/02/2026

New review of The Cat Bride in the Fortean Times! “The novel is often claustrophobic, but it keeps you turning the pages.” In Charlotte Tierney’s The Cat Bride, a “tynx” roams the moors—or is it all “folklore-fuelled delusions”? A haunting tale of unreliable memories. #BookSky

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Made up with a lovely review of The Cat Bride in Fortean Times!!

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Profane Illuminations III: More of my thoughts on weird fiction collections! Sophia J. Unsworth’s The Silent House and Other Strange Stories! Corey Farrenkopf’s Haunted Ecologies! Ysabelle Cheung’s Patchwork Dolls! We've got fragments and grief, italics, recordings, birds, liminal houses...

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Profane Illuminations III: Sophia J. Unsworth’s The Silent House and Other Strange Stories, Corey Farrenkopf’s Haunted Ecologies, and Ysabelle Cheung’s Patchwork Dolls

Zachary Gillan In 2020, following protests in Hong Kong and the beginning of the epidemic, Ysabelle Cheung wrote an essay called “What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sens…

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK is coming to Edinburgh! On 23rd April, I'll be at the Topping & Co bookshop for a special event. Tickets available here: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb... Please come if you're nearby, and let your Spark-loving pals know about it, too 🐈‍⬛

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James Bailey for Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark at Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Just a girl, standing in front of Bluesky asking is anyone out there wildly interested in the 'BOOM OF RADIOACTIVE PIG-BOAR HYBRIDS' www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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Boom of radioactive pig-boar hybrids in Fukushima finally explained

Domestic pig genes got diluted across generations but their rapid reproductive capacity persisted in hybrid hogs

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

MY BIG CLEAR OUT! Here are 3 shelves of my books in A-Z order by author. You can have any 2 for £10 (free P+P). Please share (and buy). UK only.

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Any voting members of the HWA who wishes to read my domestic thriller WHO KILLS A SPIDER to consider it for the Bram Stoker Award for short fic, can message me! You will be amazed to hear I actually created this astonishing original artwork myself and it took me many, many seconds.

A picture I drew of a spider on his favourite armchair with the remote and a drink to represent my short story WHO KILLS A SPIDER

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Going into the big scary cancer surgery tomorrow. Would be lovely if I came out of it and you've all pre-ordered Scratch Moss. www.canelo.co/books/scratc...

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Scratch Moss by David Barnett | Canelo

Paperback and Ebook

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Although not a notable anything, I have a short work on this years' preliminary ballot and anyone eligible to vote is very welcome to get in touch if they'd like to read it!

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Wowed to make preliminary ballot for 2025 Bram Stoker Awards! Please read via @extrateethmag.bsky.social ‘s Extra Bite! Please share, US pals!!

Preliminary ballot for Bram Stoker Awards short fiction achievement 2025

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

keep going

sketchbook spread with ink drawings. On the left, a rocky landscape. On the right, gentle waves on a beach

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

For local friends ( #Devon, #Dartmoor, #WestCountry UK), Chagford's annual Wassail takes place on Saturday. It's a free, folkloric, family-friendly event and all are welcome. The beautiful art on the poster is by @matpringle.bsky.social.

Celebrating the Earth presents: The Chagford Wassail! Join us on Ore Hill in Chagford on Saturday, 7 February -- gahering just inside the gate (off New Street) at 2:30 pm. Help us 'wake up' the apple trees in the traditional way with music, song, folklore and frolics! Bring drums or pots & pans to bang, and a cup for apple juice or cider. Everyone is welcome, young and old! (But strictly no dogs please, due to sheep with lambs in the field.)

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A madcap rambunctious Jill McDonald illustration from Puffin Post. Come spring, a puffin picnic must be the first order of business

A black and white illustration of a rambunctious group of puffins picnicking amongst zoo animals: a monkey, crocodile, parrot, elephant, tiger and pelican who seem quite jolly about the interlopers including puffins with a parasol and picnic basket set up on the crocodile’s back

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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This is v helpful if you, like me, don’t know these things!

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