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My first book is coming, cover will be revealed next week. #booksky 💙📚🩸

Cover reveal
October 9th
What do the dead reallyremember?
A haunting new folk horror by
DAMIEN
KELLY

Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In which I open my big mouth: DOORS INTO THE DARK at The Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast Some notes on my recent jaunt up to Belfast to talk scary stuff at Doors Into the Dark in Belfast.

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In which I open my big mouth: DOORS INTO THE DARK at The Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast

Some notes on my recent jaunt up to Belfast to talk scary stuff at Doors Into the Dark in Belfast.

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Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stuff I'll be doing at FantasyCon in Glasgow next month!

Helen's events at FantasyCon:
Reading from STEAL ME, Saturday 6pm
Cursed Objects, Cursed People (panel), Saturday 7pm
Creating new folklore (panel), Sunday 10am

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Absolute fucking cinema 👏🏻

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is literally my life.

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Rory O Kelly @roryisok.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

sffauthors.ie update Featured author of the day: Eddie Lenihan, Irelands last remaining seanachaí Also added David Fitzgerald, Kristina Dowling, Damien Kelly and @ciaraoconnor.bsky.social Started cross posting these updates on instagram too

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SF and Fantasy Authors of Ireland

Explore profiles of Irish speculative fiction writers. Find new authors and classic voices in Irish sci-fi and fantasy.

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is a suitably-qualified engineer from the electricity supply board at my home currently, checking the poles carrying power to our home for signs of rot. He is doing this by the very scientific method of hitting the poles as hard as he can with a very large hammer. For science!

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Canada! Myself and @cornellwriter.bsky.social (and a bunch of others) have sweated forest fears for your benefit, at a bargain price! Go get! UK & Ireland, you can find it everywhere. USA, September 22nd is coming, spread the word! Remain vigilant! #horror

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

13 days to go - Edge-Lit brings a big day of horror, fantasy and science-fiction to QUAD here in Derby, with a lively schedule of panels, interviews and workshops incoming! www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/edg... #Derby #Derbyshire #horror #horrorfiction #fantasy #fantasyfiction #scifi #sciencefiction

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Edge-Lit 12

Edge-Lit makes it a dozen with its return in 2026, once again serving up a wide array of interviews, talks, workshops and more for lovers of genre fiction.

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It’s here! Folklore Horror, in all its sexy, foiled hardback glory is finally out today for the start of spooky season. Huge thanks to Flame Tree Press for making me part of this stellar lineup. 🩸📚💙 #HorrorAuthor

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A great publication and great people. I had a story in Issue 1 and it was a great experience.

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Dublin 2029 @dublin2029.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today (1st September) is the last day before the rate rise of our Friend Support - this is the cheapest way you will ever be able to buy a membership to Dublin 2029! If seated, all levels of Friend Supports will be converted to Dublin 2029 attending memberships (not including WSFS membership) ☘️

A blue image with a drawing of a quarter of a planet on the bottom right corner. The planet is in a lighter blue with craters, outlined in black, with black stars and spots haloing it. There is white text in the middle, outlined in black which reads ‘Friend Support Rate Rise, Wednesday 2nd September, Currently: €150, Post-Rise: €175’.

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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly is gone, but I'll always appreciate her funding and publicly receiving the Moderna vaccine, in addition to her advocacy to wipe out childhood illiteracy.

Picture of Dolly Parton with a mask on with the headline from The New York Times "Dolly parton, who helped fund the moderna vaccine, gets a dose of her own medicine." The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to "get out there and get your shot"

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Things you could do this week to honor the impact Dolly has had: *Donate to the Imagination Library or a local kids reading initiative *Read with a kid you care about *Support and protect LGBTQIA kids *Support a Black owned business *Schedule your vaccine appointments *Show up authentically as you

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Night crowd: ICYMI, I narrated the critically important doozy of a 19th C. tale "The Yellow Wall Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman for @pseudopod.org. Note CWs. If able, I hope you'll take some time to celebrate 20 Years of PseudoPod with this I-wish-it-were-not-timely story about believing women.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ahh! It's out, it's out! Beware! Run for the hills! Protect yourselves! THE CALAMITIES has escaped its prison deep in the void and is now appearing on bookshelves in libraries and bookstores everywhere! Shit! Shit!!

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The Demons! The Demons Are Free! The Calamities Is Out!

The Calamities (Book One of The Fiends) is now out, rampaging through the populace, gamboling about, claws at the ready, teeth sharp, and its countless eyes fixed upon you. So, I do hope you’…

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Pullman! What did you do?!

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Review: The Calamities by Chuck Wendig Chuck Wendig’s new book, The Calamities, is a heady fever dream of demonic powers in collapse. A breakneck story of unlikeable people doing terrible things, it is nonetheless visceral and compelling horror for the committed reader. Recommended.

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Review: The Calamities by Chuck Wendig

Chuck Wendig’s new book, The Calamities, is a heady fever dream of demonic powers in collapse. A breakneck story of unlikeable people doing terrible things, it is nonetheless visceral and compelling horror for the committed reader. Recommended.

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Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We’re doing a thing! Come over to Insta tomorrow night and ask us anything… especially about #MenoftheCloth - almost 2/3 funded! Check out the KS link below: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Another story jsut away; paper planes on any desk with a runway. Keep on keeping on. #amwriting #folkhorror

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you’ve never seen it, or not seen it in a while, and you have five minutes, it’s time to watch The Life of Death. Feel sad, feel connected, feel present, and leave the experience with hope. youtu.be/ofnCdC8P70g?...

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The Life of Death

YouTube video by Marsha Onderstijn

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There’s a cat on my lap. Technically, it’s a kitten, but that doesn’t stop it being a cat. This is not my cat. I did not invite this cat. I am a dog person. A semi-avowed “not-a-cat” person. Am I being coerced or threatened? Is this an appeal for me to change my mind, or a warning to? I don’t know

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Paul Kane @paulkane.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Huge thanks @damosays.bsky.social - to back this: www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

No skin in this game for me, but I’ve backed this and I really want it, and commend it to the house. #horrorwriting Check out Men of the Cloth - Folk Horror Graphic Novel by Hellbound Media on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hel...

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Men of the Cloth - Folk Horror Graphic Novel

Folk Horror Graphic Novel from Award-winning creators Paul Kane & James Gray - 60 pages, full colour, The Wicker Man & Midsommar vibes

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Placed a story with a bucket list market today. I’m proud of myself, but I have to credit amazing editors at my back and publishers who are rooting for you to do well even when you move on—who spot you the cab fare, metaphorically. There are more heroes than villains in publishing. #horrorwriter 🩸📚💙

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Tomorrow is the last day, UK #booksky! Get 25% savings on our great book and others! #WPreorder Scary as fuck! 😈

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I’m in this too, with an Irish story called, “In Fields of Salt.” Colonial asshole getting his comeuppance! Amazing Hag energy! Grab it while the deal stands—Ends Friday.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

You're all going on your summer holidays 🎶 🎵 Need some folk horror for the beach? Old gods and sacrifice on your summer holidays 🎵 Keep SCUTTLER'S COVE within easy reach 🎶 (with apologies to Cliff) www.canelo.co/books/scuttl...

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Scuttler's Cove by David Barnett | Canelo

Paperback and Ebook

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For UK #booksky, you can get this amazing hardback tome of ancient horrors for a steal using the @waterstones.bsky.social app or website and entering SUMMER26 at checkout! We all wrote our hearts out for this, please grab it this week. 🪐📚💙🩸 #WPreorder

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Hey, #booksky, @hgparry.bsky.social’s new book, THE WITCH BELOW THE DREAMING WOOD, is out and I loved it and so will you. If you had any decency, you’d just take my word for it, but if I must plead the case, it is here: damienkellyauthor.com/2026/07/15/r... Thanks again to @orbitbooks.bsky.social

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Review: The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by H.G. Parry

HG Parry’s seventh novel is another amazing exploration of the stories we live with, that shape and traumatise us, and define the times we live in. Adored it.

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 17/07/2026

“Listen, I could still stretch half you pups if I felt like it.” Red Ripper by Gordon Grice Narrator: Tony Sarrecchia Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2026/07/17/p... C/W: reference to alcohol and drug abuse This story is a PseudoPod original

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PseudoPod 1038: Red Ripper

Listen, I could still stretch half you pups if I felt like it. Sit down and learn something about the business. Did I ever tell you about the Red Ripper? I got a special reason for telling about him…

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

APP Always Preorder Premee ... I mean, preorder Premee's books, I don't think you can actually preorder Premee

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 17/07/2026

AV Wilkes made her name in the ice. Old Gods proves she can chill you anywhere: a whaling ship, a dying hotel, a wood on the shortest day. Five stories, one cold current, old gods who don't care about us. gnofhorror.com/old-gods-by-...

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Great chat between the latest Absinthe authors, @splinister.bsky.social, @helengrantsays.bsky.social and @tommeadauthor.bsky.social. Their books will release from PS Publishing this month. open.substack.com/pub/helengra... (Also becoming something of an open secret that I’m one of the next). 🪐📚💙🩸

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Live with writers Maura McHugh, Helen Grant, and Tom Mead: the magic of novellas.

A recording from Helen Grant and Maura McHugh's live video

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🪐📚💙 Also on my website now you’ll get my review of HG Parry’s upcoming book, “The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood” and it’s safe to say I absolutely loved it. It comes out on July 21st and I cannot it enough. damienkellyauthor.com/2026/07/15/r... #bookreviews

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Review: The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by H.G. Parry

HG Parry’s seventh novel is another amazing exploration of the stories we live with, that shape and traumatise us, and define the times we live in. Adored it.

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Okay, free book time, #booksky. With new stories now out (or just about to come out) in new anthologies—and ahead of a book announcement later in the year—I’ve put a bunch of the old stories into a free ebook on my site when you sign up for updates: damienkellyauthor.com 🩸📚💙

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Cavan Scott @cavan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I ask the big question talking to writer @paulkane.bsky.social about his new scarecrow-themed graphic novel from @hellboundmedia.bsky.social, MEN OF THE CLOTH… Worzel Gummidge: Folk hero or folk horror? (Link in thread)

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Review: The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by H.G. Parry HG Parry’s seventh novel is another amazing exploration of the stories we live with, that shape and traumatise us, and define the times we live in. Adored it.

damienkellyauthor.com

Review: The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood by H.G. Parry

HG Parry’s seventh novel is another amazing exploration of the stories we live with, that shape and traumatise us, and define the times we live in. Adored it.

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Maura McHugh @splinister.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Thank you to @gnofhorror.com for this amazing review of my new novella from @pspublish.bsky.social - edited by @marieoregan.bsky.social with cover art by Lisa Laughy. There are a lot of details in this review, so proceed cautiously. 😀The path awaits. 🃏

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 07/07/2026

Hey! My webcomic Terran Omega: The Ghosts of War has been nominated for a Harvey Award! You can read the comic for free from www.pauljholden.com/patreon/?via=harvey www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

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Harvey Awards Announce 2026 Nominees For Top Comics And Related Projects

For nearly 40 years, the Harvey Awards have recognized some of the best comics and comic-related projects in the industry. This year's list may surprise you.

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Damo Says @damosays.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

So, I’m reading MR Carey’s upcoming release, The Tinder Box, and it’s fantastic, and I’m going on to HG Parry’s next book, The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood, after that, which I’m beyond excited about, but NOW I’ve been sent, The Calamities by Chuck Wendig as well: when am I to sleep??? #Booksky

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