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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am honored to contribute two book bundles to this fundraiser: EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com & RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN, SIRENS IN YOUR HAIR @press-android.bsky.social + stickers, bookmarks, & assorted goodies 🦇 Support below & spread the word!

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 28/09/2026

Fascinated by mythology? Ioanna Papadopoulou’s “Winter Harvest” tells the story of Demeter and Persephone with unflinching rawness, while “The Castaway and the Witch” is a dream-like journey into myth and romance.

Covers of Winter Harvest and The Castaway and the Witch with the caption 'If you love... mythology'

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 17/08/2026

Author Event! Come and join Rose Biggin, author of The Belladonna Invitation, in conversation with Sam Beckbessinger, Joseph Eilliott-Coleman and Alex Beaumont at Waterstones London Islington on 17th September. Tickets available here: www.waterstones.com/events/briti...

Author Event! Join Rose Biggin, author of The Belladonna Invitation, at Waterstones London Islington on 17th September.

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 29/05/2026

Huge congratulations to @michelletang.bsky.social on her Shirley Jackson Award nomination! We're incredibly proud to see DuMort nominated for Best Novella. Best of luck to all the nominees!

Image of DuMort book cover with the caption 'Shirley Jackson award nominee: Best novella'

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

As of yesterday, EVERY DARK CLOUD has been in the world for one whole year!!! Bringing you luminous mushrooms, numinous apocalypse, and ruinous relations lit by darkness🩶 Out everywhere from @ghostorchidpress.com

Photo of right hand holding up EVERY DARK CLOUD in front of a bookcase stacked with books and carved mushrooms and dried flowers. Cover art: figure standing in center of teal and black mushrooms with a yellow and white bank of clouds above, through which a minute silhouette is falling.

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 16/03/2026

Do you like your fantasy tinged with darkness? Check out our beginners' guide to the Dark Fantasy subgenre!

What is it? A subgenre of fantasy that includes elements of horror or Gothic, or dark themes.

Genre classics: Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake, The Gunslinger by Stephen King, Hotel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

Further reading: Dark Woods, Deep Water by Jelena Dunato, The Poppy War by RF Kuang, The Girl With A Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean, Where the Dead Brides Gather by Nuzo Onoh, A Forest Darkly by AG Slatter, Lightfall by Ed Crocker

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 09/03/2026

Love some deliciously dark Gothic horror? Find some new or classic reads with our mini-guide to the genre.

What is it? Literature characterised by a dark, forboding atmosphere, a sense of dread, psychological turmoil, and sometimes supernatural elements.

Genre classics: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Monk by Matthew Lewis, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Further reading: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, Ashthorne by April Yates, Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas, Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker, Blood on her Tongue by Johanna van Veen, Woodworm by Layla Martinez

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 02/03/2026

Another favourite genre of ours at Ghost Orchid Press is climate fiction, or cli-fi. What other titles would you add to this list?

What is it? Fiction dealing primarily with climate change and other environmental issues, often with a science fiction or speculative aspect.

Genre classics: The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Orys and Crake by Margaret Atwood, The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver, The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Further reading: Every Dark Cloud by Marisca Pichette, Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley, Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang, Private Rites by Julia Armfield, Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris, Every Version of you by Grace Chan

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Details! maybe this one, with many, many mushrooms. Dense detail in the front, fading to glowing particles and fiery skies at back. Why? read it & find out! :-) Pencil, charcoal and digital colour. A book cover for 'Every Dark Cloud' by @marisca.bsky.social out now from @ghostorchidpress.com

every dark cloud book cover
a woman in a glowing mushroom forest

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Cover reveal time for @comptonwrites.bsky.social's CHIMERA SKIN, a short science-fiction horror novel. First contact. Apocalyptic. A messianic alien. This is unlike anything you've read from Johnny before! Cover design by @alandistro.bsky.social. More info: shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/chim...

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

📚⚫🗣️ New interview! 🗣️⚫📚 I chat with horror author & EiC of Tenebrous Press, the legendary @alexwoodroe.com, about: ⚰️ Her new book, the Weird apocalypse horror The Night Ship ⚰️What really scares her ⚰️Her work with Tenebrous ⚰️The future of horror ⚰️Why her next novel is her weirdest and more!

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INTERVIEW: with author Alex Woodroe

Alex Woodroe is a Romanian writer of dark speculative fiction and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press. She’s the author of Whisperwood, The Night Ship, and Tatratea, and...

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 23/02/2026

Are you a fan of gaslamp fantasy? Check out our list of classic genre staples and newer titles in this genre - including a couple of our own publications. Shop our titles at ghostorchidpress.square.site

What is it? A subgenre of fantasy that generally features realistic 19th century settings with magical, occult, or supernatural elements, and often includes Gothic horror tropes.

Genre classics. Covers of: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Further reading. Covers of: DuMort by Michelle Tang, A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab, The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman, The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner, The Extravaganza Eternia by Kristin Osani.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

more! And What Can We Offer You Tonight @premeemohamed.com @neonhemlock.bsky.social Every Dark Cloud @marisca.bsky.social @ghostorchidpress.com The Golden Daughter Dayna Ingram @lethepress.bsky.social Dear Stupid Penpal @rascalhartley.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Go, read them!😊

a woman walks towards a ruined church in a sinking city
there is a giant fishy under her

a woman in a bioluminescent forest with a burning sky

a warrior figure in front of a golden hand

a person by a lit up console in a spaceship

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 06/02/2026

"Part enchanting dreamworld, part blistering nightmare, Every Dark Cloud warns us of humanity's worst impulses, and reminds us of its best." -- Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia Buy now from our store: bit.ly/everydarkcloud Or your preferred bookseller: books2read.com/u/4D5Xak

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 03/02/2026

"Seductive to the core. Hold My Heart is an intriguing thrill, its world tinged with noir atmosphere and a passion for grime on skin and tongues on blades.” -- Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth Buy now from our store: bit.ly/4fClGvK Or your preferred bookseller: books2read.com/u/499pPY

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 29/01/2026

“With gorgeous prose and a heart-stopping conclusion, Tang’s debut novella is absolutely unforgettable.” -- Kelsea Yu, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Bound Feet and Demon Song Buy now from our store: bit.ly/tangdumort Or your preferred retailer: books2read.com/u/mdxMeR

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 27/01/2026

"A haunting and thought-provoking twist on the fairytale narrative." The Castaway and the Witch is out now. Buy from our store: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ Or your preferred retailer: buff.ly/qFC5Dd8

"A haunting and thought-provoking twist on the fairytale narrative. Must we be only what others have foretold and experienced? Or can we make our own stories, flawed and complex as we are..."
-- Shawna Lawless, author of the critically acclaimed Gael Song series

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 20/01/2026

Feast your ears on Transmission zero, and welcome The Night Ship into the world! Released today wherever you can grab it, and ready to be just about the strangest journey into the vast of night you'll ever go through. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 22/12/2025

Congratulations @jelenawrites.bsky.social for reaching the semi final with Ghost Apparent!

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Emmie Christie @emmiechristie33.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

4. Rewired: Divergent Perspectives in Horror by @ghostorchidpress.com The ones that stood out to me in this anthology were: "The Tides of Love" @kojiadae.bsky.social "Fall Preserves" @ronistinger.bsky.social "Russet" @arwyns.bsky.social "The Witches of Christmas Past" by @eeking.bsky.social

Photo of Rewired anthology laying on my orange cat

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Ed Crocker @edcrockerbooks.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

DuMort by @michelletang.bsky.social from @ghostorchidpress.com Gaslamp occult horror of seances, forbidden love, diaspora and hauntings with gorgeous gothic prose and a chilling, beating heart

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 19/12/2025

Convincing you to read our books based on their opening lines, part 2: The Extravaganza Eternia by Kristin Osani. Shop here: bit.ly/4diizZZ

Leathan should’ve known that mystic was scamming her when he promised it’d be easy to break her curse.
The thought pinballs around her head as she sequesters herself in an empty corner of the big top backstage, as far from the other troupers as she can get. Chest heaving from her cross-city dash to the circus, eyes burning from sweat and tears she refuses to shed, she digs into her skirt pocket for her compact. She should’ve known.

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 16/12/2025

Convincing you to read our books by their opening lines, part one: The Belladonna Invitation by Rose Biggin. Tempted to read more? Shop here: bit.ly/3WaoQ45

Look for me.

It starts with this: a distant
figure, high and away in the finest
private box.

Look for me.

A pull of magnetism, as thin and
strong as filigree wire. It starts at
the woman with the opera glasses,
who sits gazing at the stage from
on high, and ends with the woman
who stands there watching, struck
thunderbolt-still in the stalls.

Search me out. Go on.

Imagine if you were looking for
me with those.

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 12/12/2025

If you love visceral horror with plenty of gore, check out these titles. In Hold My Heart, a woman with severe depression hires a serial murderer to kill her, with unexpected results, while in The Devil's Gift, a twelve-year-old boy discovers a girl with a dark secret. ghostorchidpress.square.site

Covers of Hold My Heart and The Devil's Gift with the caption 'if you love horror'

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 09/12/2025

Two very different books, both with compelling mysteries and hints of the supernatural. In Neverest, a woman scales Everest to discover the truth behind her husband's death, while in The Extravaganza Eternia, a murder investigation unfolds within a magical circus. ghostorchidpress.square.site

Covers of The Extravaganza Eternia and Neverest on a background of night sky with the caption 'if you love mystery'

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Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Publishers, editors, authors, send us your favorite speculative ecofiction published this year. This is going to be another bouquet of truly stellar ecofiction ✨🌿🦋

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

If you see your favourite indies, especially those who are wide or avoid Amazon, raise their prices... We all just had two emails in less than 24h: - Smashwords is cutting down its royalty rates, especially at lower price points - Ingramspark is raising most of its printing costs again

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 05/12/2025

Fill your stocking with The Castaway and the Witch by Ioanna Papadopoulou and get swept away to a magical island where reality and myth combine. Shop here: bit.ly/4mTp7mJ

A copy of The Castaway and the Witch stuffed in a stocking with the quote 'Such is the nature of memory, always creeping onto the edge of fiction.'

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 02/12/2025

Did you know, novellas fit perfectly in a stocking? Why not fill yours with some lavish Gothic horror from Michelle Tang. DuMort is a gaslamp fantasy set in a world where it is forbidden to speak of the dead. Shop here: bit.ly/4j1Q7hP

A copy of DuMort stuffed in a stocking alongside some candy canes, with the quote 'In Mydalla we do not speak of the dead.'

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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Cover reveal time for NEUROTICA! 👀 Neurotica is a new collection of poetry from Pushcart Prize and Bram Stoker Award nominated author @cybergodwrites.bsky.social! Cover design by @alandistro.bsky.social More info and pre-order links here: shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/neur...

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Kristin 🆓🆓🇵🇸 @kristinosani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

holy shit EXTRAVAGANZA is a finalist???!!!! I'm beyond honored and frankly stupefied, thank you thank you thank you!!😭😭😭

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 28/11/2025

Looking for a perfect Christmas gift for a fantasy fan? Why not choose Jelena Dunato's novella, Ghost Apparent? Beautiful and thought-provoking, and the perfect size to fit in a stocking. Shop here: bit.ly/3XEIXbt

A Christmas stocking filled with candy canes and a copy of Ghost Apparent

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 25/11/2025

The nice thing about small books? They fit perfectly into a stocking. What could be a better stocking filler for your horror-loving friend than our mini-anthology of Christmas ghost stories, A Very Ghostly Christmas? Shop here: bit.ly/ghostlyxmas

A christmas stocking filled with candy canes and a copy of A Very Ghostly Christmas

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Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

And for the visual people... here's what I had published this year. The shorts are free on Clarkesworld. If you want more info on the books, check my website and feel free to ping me.

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LCW Allingham @lcwall.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Low-fi, Queer, Weird Fic deep dive into gamer lore and men in black legend with TT Madden's Polybius novella, LOADING...THE MACHINE CHILD. www.kickstarter.com/projects/utt...

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Novella of Utter Speculation by TT Madden

LOADING...THE MACHINE CHILD, our second novella of utter speculation takes us deep into gamer lore, from up and coming author TT Madden

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Again for the morning crowd: Cover and pre-order link for Muñeca, out next June! A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

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Muñeca by Cynthia Gómez: 9798217047574 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process. It is 1968 Oakland, and Nat...

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Awards Eligibility Post: I published a novella, 12 stories, & 5 flash in 2025! Huge thanks to all the publishers, editors, readers, & reviewers who spent their time with my writing this year. 🖤🎈🦇

Graphic displaying cover for EVERY DARK CLOUD, 2025 novella by Marisca Pichette from Ghost Orchid Press.

Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following magazines:
One More Song
Goblins and Galaxies #0
Upon a Vast, Velvet Veil
Fusion Fragment #25
In Her Tower of Scales
Worlds of Possibility, June 2025
The House of Us
DreamForge Magazine #16
Naked They Cling
Cosmic Horror Monthly #58
The Last Harvest
Phano #2

Graphic listing 2025 stories by Marisca Pichette published in the following anthologies:
Where Walls Once Rose
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology
Soft Fire
BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror
The Watercolor Room
The Midnight Labyrinth
How Not to Swallow a Dragon
Behind the Revovling Door
Nature Morte
Hiding Under the Leaves
Appleseed
Spirit of the Wolf

Graphic listing the 2025 flash pieces published by Marisca Pichette:
Nine Acre Corner
Anomaly
Press Release from a Utopia
on the Way Down
Simultaneous Times #84
This is Not a Fiction
Full House Literary, Spring 2025
One, Two, We, Our
Tales & Feathers, Vol. 3
What the Boys Lost
MYRIAD Digital Zines: Nocturnal

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 21/11/2025

If folk horror is your favourite genre, we've got plenty for you. Something mysterious lurks in a Scottish loch in Anthony Engebretson's Sair Back, Sair Banes, while in Mazi by Koji A. Dae, eyes watch from the walls of a rural Bulgarian cabin. Shop here: ghostorchidpress.square.site

Covers of Mazi and Sair Back, Sair Banes with the caption 'if you love folk horror'

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 18/11/2025

If you love intelligent dark fantasy with strong characters and fully developed worlds, you can't go wrong with Jelena Dunato's two standalone stories from the same fictional universe, inspired by Slavic folklore. Shop here: ghostorchidpress.square.site

Covers of Dark Woods, Deep Water and Ghost Apparent with the caption 'If you love Dark Fantasy'

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 14/11/2025

Looking for Gothic gifts? Look no further. Michelle Tang's DuMort, Rose Biggin's The Belladonna Invitation, and April Yates's Ashthorne make a deliciously indulgent trio of sumptuous settings and creeping horror. Shop here: ghostorchidpress.square.site

Covers of Ashthorne, DuMort and The Belladonna Invitation with the caption 'If you love Gothic'

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 11/11/2025

Looking for unique stocking fillers for the mythology lover in your life? Ioanna Papadopoulou's "Winter Harvest" tells the story of Demeter and Persephone with unflinching rawness, while "The Castaway and the Witch" is a dream-like journey into myth and romance. Shop: ghostorchidpress.square.site

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T.L. Bodine @tlbodine.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Just a reminder to local peeps that my books are available at Enchanted Books and Books on the Bosque. You can also read all of them free at Loma Colorado Library. #albuquerque

New arrivals to enchanted books including Neverest by TL Bodine

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Indie Press Network @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Delighted to mark the end of #blackhistorymonth❤️🖤💚 by rounding up some of the finest books the indie press scene has to offer to celebrate Black History Month this year… indiepressnetwork.com/black-histor... #booksky #bhm2025

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween ghosts and ghouls! Wishing you a fabulously spooky day. 👻

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Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com · 28/10/2025

Make a date with Morana, Goddess of Death in Jelena Dunato's Slavic folklore inspired Dark Woods, Deep Water. Shop here: ghostorchidpress.square.site

Cover of Dark Woods, Deep Water with the caption 'Make a date with the goddess off death'. Background is a witchy-looking woman holding a glowing crystal ball.

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🧑🏻‍🦽‍➡️🦄 Eva Roslin (they/them) ⚨ 🍁 @evavroslin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Definitely get yourself a copy of "The Castaway and the Witch" by @ioannapauthor.bsky.social and find out why she's one of the most sublime and amazing writers out there!

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