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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 6h

ICYMI yesterday this book looks like an utter cracker!

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Play Father John Misty For Me 🎃 @marisasandlin.bsky.social · 19h

This book was really good and I need to get more of my pals to read it so we can discuss it at length

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Liz (E.M. Morrissey) @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social · 11h

I am reading this now and it goes so hard. An A+ vampire book

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 20h

THE RED SACRAMENT uses undeath to witness Empire's heartbeat, its cyclical rise & fall, the web of blood that connects history & feeds the undying beast of Capital, bringing old gods & humanity itself to heel. So ambitious yet precise, gorgeously written, deserves a place alongside the classics.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hello, the call is coming from inside the house. That is my house. Because this book sounds so up my street it's in my house making a cup of tea and eating my cereal. YESSSS THIS SOUNDS AMAZING!!!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 12h

Extremely cool to see THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT on the New York Public Library's recommended adult horror list for 2026! My cursed film novel joins an incredible host of horrors by Tananarive Due, Keith Rosson, Laura Cranehill, Caitlin Starling, and more! Love you, NYC! 🖤

New York Public Library recommends Best New Horror for Adults: our expert horror committee read more than 250 titles published since last Halloween to select their 25 favorites. There's something for everyone here, whether you're looking for jeepers, creepers, scares, frights, or dread!

Beneath this description are many titles, along them Mazywood by Tananarive Due, Never Whistle at Night part 2: Back for Blood edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr, Molka by Monika Kim, This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, Carrying by Samantha Josephs, Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer, and many more

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Tom (T.H.) Huddleston @tomhuddleston.bsky.social · 21h

A look at the real horror of British great houses, and how their history inspired my new book THE CRACKS. Find out more about the book at www.tomhuddleston.co.uk @titanbooks.bsky.social @dancarpenter.bsky.social

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

THE CRACKS by @tomhuddleston.bsky.social is a savagely funny and delightfully scary haunted house novel about wealth, privilege and class rebellion. Out now! 🖤 tinyurl.com/y95w5j5v

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For his first original novel for adult audiences, journalist and author @tomhuddleston.bsky.social went back to his own university experiences and found the ghost of a socially-motivated haunted house story drawn from Britain’s cruel aristocratic past. britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...

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Tom (T.H.) Huddleston @tomhuddleston.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

THE CRACKS is out today! Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social, it's a creepy, funny haunted house novel about wealth and privilege Vs community and class solidarity, and a tribute to the enduring power of very loud music. Learn more and find links to purchase via my website: tomhuddleston.co.uk.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not for nothing but the Ishiguro one is surprisingly close to the plot of The Gruffalo's Child.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Better Man (2024). Far better than a biopic of Robbie fucking Williams deserves to be. Mainly because it leans in to the chaotic, problematic life he lived, and as a result, feels way more honest than a lot of music biopics. But really, it's the CGI monkey of it all. Smartest choice in a long time.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think they'll ever recreate what it was like to be on twitter in the 2010s. Soap opera stuff happening constantly. Poster you were vaguely aware of involved in federal fentanyl bust. Poster whose jokes you occasionally liked posed as his aunt (or wife?) for 6 years. Pastor who steals jokes

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fantasycon train booked. Barcon only for me this year, but who's coming?

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are thrilled to see that THE FLESH I WANT by @toddsjordan.bsky.social is currently the most requested horror book on @netgalley.bsky.social! 🩸 Check it out! 👇 tinyurl.com/askm3c2t

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bluesky for the next 31 days

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Had a brilliant time interviewing @danielkraus.com (apart from coughing fit that I had to leave the room to deal with, @dancarpenter.bsky.social hosted for couple of minutes. Daniel is brill, I gave him AT THE CHANGE OF THE MOON and he signed my WHALEFALL poster! Top night, seriously lovely man

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Um ... so looks like a bunch of you bought ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT earlier this year. Like, half as many as when it released 🫪 For a book that didn't do so hot when it came out, that's *huge*. I don't know who said something, but over a book I retraumatized myself to write, sincerely, thank you 💜

cover of All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, depicting a fanged, perhaps even vampire beast emerging from a stormy sea

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

hi ChatGPT can you write me a full album about why the ex won't let me see the kids

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fantasycon train booked. Barcon only for me this year, but who's coming?

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spooky season is almost here! 🎃 What better time to pick up this gorgeous new anthology edited by @datlow.bsky.social and featuring some of your favourite horror writers delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year? Out 8/9 #Horrorsky 🪐📚💙

The cover of the book decorated in white and orange with motifs of bats, spiderwebs, skulls, and reading "stories of halloween and other festivals of the dead, edited by ellen datlow. All hallows eve. Josh malerman, stephen graham jones, alma katsu, lee murray and many more.
That's all that's on the cover, but here's the list of authors from the blurb:
Josh Malerman
Lee Murray
Rich Larson
Clay McLeod Chapman
Livia Llewellyn
Michael Marshall Smith
Stephen Graham Jones
Linda D. Addison
Christopher Golden
Alma Katsu
Brian Evenson
Siobhan Carroll
Chikodili Emelumadu
Theresa DeLucci
Garth Nix
Jeffrey Ford
Richard Kadrey
Nathan Ballingrud
John Langan

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Watch out for this new #horror anthology inspired by ancient ruins: caverns, catacombs, ruined temples and monoliths, authored by a whole host of your favourite horror writers (see alt txt) & edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and @pfracassi.bsky.social. Unearthed is out 15/9! #SFF #Horrorsky 🪐📚💙

The cover of the book. Piles of green and orange rubble with strange distorted statues or faces within, skeletons below. Text reads Unearthed. New horror of ancient ruins. Then lists the editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi, and a selection of the authors, but here's the full list:
Tananarive Due
Christopher Golden
Josh Malerman
Tim Lebbon
Eric LaRocca
A.M. Shine
Jonathan Maberry
Hildur Knutsdottir
Ai Jiang
A. G. Slatter
Mark Chadbourn
Priya Sharma
Benjamin Percy
V. Castro
Gemma Amor
Cavan Scott
Premee Mohamed
Hache Pueyo
Steve Toase

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I also feel like when Buffy (and X Files too, slightly) were bring made, there was no template. Now every genre show has to be a little bit knowing, has to do the gimmicky musical puppet episode and none of it feels particularly surprising. Buffy was unexpected, weekly.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can see why folks would take against it, it's a really nasty, horrible little film when it wants to be, but there's also some of the most moving sequences I think the franchise has ever managed. Perfect use of Radiohead's best album opener too.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fiennes dancing to Iron Maiden is god-tier zombie movie stuff and will never be bettered.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally caught this. A really fascinating follow-up to 28 Years Later. Loses some of the British satire and weirdness of three prior entry, but it's less concerned with that anyway and much much more interested in being a smaller, character focussed entry. Final hour is truly remarkable.

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Flight delays have me stranded at the airport. It’s a good thing I brought Todd S. Jordan’s THE FLESH I WANT. I may end up finishing this before takeoff… On shelves Feb 2027 from @titanbooks.bsky.social @toddsjordan.bsky.social

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the best things I've seen all year man.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I really really enjoyed this. Genuinely incredible vfx, very very silly and extremely funny. Good times.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Caught this whilst off sick. Its alright. Lacks the surprise of the original, but has a similar energy. Hard to find something new to do with the franchise when you play your best card in the closing minutes of the first film, so it keeps going back to the same well over and over again.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I had a fabulous time chatting with Anna about THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT! She had a frog in her throat (perhaps a toad) and she said I should've made that joke on the podcast, so you get it here 😛 Anyway, it was a fantastic chat! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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Hailey Piper on This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want

Podcast Episode · Anna Rose Reads - The Podcast · September 15 · 1h 14m

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh Romeo, Romeo, wouldst thou like to live deliciously, Romeo?

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Robert Eggers's THE VVRAGEDY OF VVOMEO AND VVULIET

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It was lovely getting interviewed by The Nerd Daily for my new book THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, talking about inspiration, writing advice, and more! My cursed film novel is available now from Titan Books 📽️ let's all go to the movies and never come back thenerddaily.com/hailey-piper...

screenshot from The Nerd Daily, Q&A with Hailey Piper, author of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want, interviewed by Elise Dumpleton. Beneath that header is a photo of Hailey and and the cover of her book, art by Julia Lloyd

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Todd S. Jordan @toddsjordan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My debut horror novel THE FLESH I WANT is now available to request on NetGalley and I think that’s rad!

A copy of the book THE FLESH I WANT by Todd S. Jordan. Man, it looks so cool. The text beside it says, “Available now on NetGalley. Titan Books.”

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sara “THE RED SACRAMENT” hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the flesh YOU want, on netgalley, starting now

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The Scares That Shaped Us @scaresshapedus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW EPISODE! @haileypiperfights.bsky.social returns to talk about her new novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, and we dig into @stephengrahamjones.com's story "Broken Record." LISTEN NOW:

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Episode 88: "Broken Record" with Hailey Piper

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lovely seeing THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT in The Lineup with books by Josh Malerman, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Stephen Graham Jones, and more! My cursed film novel is out now from Titan Books 📽️ the-line-up.com/newest-books...

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screenshot from The Lineup showing the cover of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd.
Text shown: A new Hailey Piper novel means guaranteed entertainment, and this one tackles the “cursed film” subgenre with elan. The story centers around Val, a woman haunted by the disappearance of her beloved sister and best friend some thirty years ago, who discovers a fascinating urban legend behind the last film they’d watched together.

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do meryls dream of electric streep?

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 21/09/2026

Just over a week to go before I interview @danielkraus.com at the British Library! An in-person ticket can be bought for £16 and you can also view the interview online - those tickets are from £5. events.bl.uk/events/ameri...

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American Writers’ Week: Daniel Kraus | British Library

A rare chance to hear from one of the most adventurous writers of our time, recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Angel Down. This astonishing cinematic

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This appears to be a sale for all the ebook styles, so Nook, Kobo, etc 13 coming-of-rage stories. If you can't get away, get even 😈

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