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Grace Daly

@gracedalyauthor.bsky.social
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(she/her) • Bram Stoker-Nominated Author of The Scald-Crow • Disabled, chronic invisible illness • Easily frightened but writes horror (HWA member) • Also writes fantasy and sci fi • Rep: Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency

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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
'Escapist Fiction', my upcoming interactive novel releasing with @agitapublishing.bsky.social in February 2027, has a trailer! Sound up for this one folks, so you can really appreciate the art. Preorder the book today!
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Kent Priore @kentpriore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Book recommendation: The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly. @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8G7MnEr/ #bookrecommendations #books #horror
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Book recommendation: The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly. #bookrecommendations #booktok #horror
TikTok video by Kent Priore, Author
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Kent Priore @kentpriore.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
My review of The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly. @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social It was a delight meeting Grace at StokerCon, and I was very excited to read her Bram Stoker Award-nominated first novel. And it did NOT disappoint.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
AAAAAAAHHHHHH IT'S OFFICIAL AND I GET TO TALK ABOUT IT NOW
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We Bleed Orange & Black @webobpodcast.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
2026 Horror Novel Panel with… @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social Neena Viel @clayvermulm.bsky.social
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Jeff C. Carter @carterwroteit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
2026 Horror Novel Panel @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I'll be at C2E2 this coming Saturday with the Chicagoland HWA! I'll be on the panel "Fear Not - Publishing Your Horror Story in 2026"
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Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I was so thrilled & honored to put together a roundtable for Women in Horror Month at The Lineup! Featuring @rebecca-rowland.bsky.social, @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social, @jawmccarthy.bsky.social, @candacenola.bsky.social, & Mae Murray! the-line-up.com/women-in-hor...
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Fearsome and Feminine: Celebrating Women in Horror Month
March is Women in Horror Month. More than ever, it’s so important to shine a light on all the fierce stories that women are crafting in horror today.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
My debut novel The Scald-Crow is officially a nominee for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards! And next to so many other fabulous works! Thank you so much to the innumerable people who have supported me and made this possible!
Hooded crows fly against a grey sky, with white textboxes imposed over the image. The white text box on top reads "The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot". The white text box below is labelled "Superior Achievement in a First Novel" and lists the novels up for the award, with "Daly, Grace - The Scald-Crow (Creature Publishing)" highlighted.Hooded crows fly against a grey sky. On top of this image is a picture of the cover of the novel The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly. In the top right corner is a spike red sticker labelled "Bram Stoker Awards Nominee"
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Sydney Bollinger (she/her) @sydboll.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I loved chatting with @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social about her debut, The Scald-Crow. It is necessary reading!
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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
new on DIS/MEMBER: @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social on her debut THE-SCALD CROW, in conversation with fellow excellent author @sydboll.bsky.social! www.dis-member.com/interview-i-...
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[INTERVIEW] "I AM THE MEAT" GRACE DALY ON THE SCALD-CROW • DIS/MEMBER
Sydney Bollinger interviews Grace Daly about her debut The Scald-Crow, a myth-inspired comedy horror novel out from Creature Publishing.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
So honored and delighted to share that my debut novel, The Scald-Crow, is on the Horror Writers Association's 2025 Stoker Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a First Novel alongside a whole cast of crackerjack works! Big congrats to all the preliminary folks! This is so surreal!
Crows fly against a grey sky. On top of this image is a screen grab of the list of books for the 2025 Stoker Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a First Novel, with "The Scald-Crow" by Grace Daly highlighted.Crows fly against a grey sky. On top of that image is a picture of the cover of the novel "The Scald-Crow" by Grace Daly.
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Kindig Blog @kindigblog.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
2025 KINDIG GEMS - PART 2! #SeasonofFear Emily Cooper #TheScaldCrow @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social #TheMurderatWorldsEnd @mossmontmomery.bsky.social #IMedusa @ayanagray.bsky.social #DungeonCrawlerCarl @mattdinniman.bsky.social www.kindig.co.uk/post/kindig-gems-of-2025-part-2 #BookSky 📚💙🩸📚 🪐📚 ⚡️📚
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KINDIG GEMS OF 2025 - Part 2
KINDIG GEMS OF 2025 - PART 2 Season of Fear by Emily Cooper, The Scald Crow by Grace Daly, The Murder at World's End by Ross Montgomery, I, Medusa by Ayana Gray, Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnima...
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
THE SCALD-CROW MADE GWENDOLYN KISTE'S LIST OF THE BEST HORROR BOOKS OF 2025!!! 😁😁😁 What an honor and what a surprise!
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Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A fitting day to start @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social‘s Illinois-based horror novel, The Scald Crow!! 🐦‍⬛ Already the first chapter is starting strong (and spooky) and includes the Fox River!!
Cover of Grace Daly’s novel, The Scald Crow, which depicts a cat biting into the neck of a crow. The title and author name are in a bold red color.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I'm in this article too - and what a coincidence, I recommend The Barre Incidents by @renbolger.bsky.social which is an incredible blend of various folklores in an emotionally resonant horror page-turner!
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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Its #samhain, so carve your turnips & settle down for some good #Irish #folkhorror @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social @emmcconnell.bsky.social @shaunamceleney.bsky.social @unshavedmouse.bsky.social @thecallya.bsky.social
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Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
31 Days of Horror: Day 15-- Why I Love Horror, Creature Publishing Week Edition Featuring Grace Daly. Happy Book Release Week Grace! raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-d...
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31 Days of Horror: Day 15-- Why I Love Horror, Creature Publishing Week Edition Featuring Grace Daly
This week I  have a special 6 day feature centered around  Creature Publishing .  From their " About " page: Based in Virginia with roots...
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Kindig Blog @kindigblog.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
#TheScaldCrow by @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social is out NOW! 'A masterclass is horror story-telling' if you missed it, read my 5⭐️review of this KINDIG GEM: www.kindig.co.uk/post/the-sca... #BookSky 🩸📚 #books 📚💙
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The Scald Crow - Grace Daly
THE SCALD CROW - GRACE DALY *****
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My debut horror/comedy novel, The Scald-Crow, is out today! It's about chronic pain, invisible disability, childhood trauma, and medical trauma, but it's funny, I promise! It's also about Irish folklore, a heroic rescue cat, and a really irritating bird. There's something for everyone! 🐦‍⬛♿☘️
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Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Your 2025 #Folkhorror recs: @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social @beverleylee.bsky.social @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social @paperbacksandpugs.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social @davidmbarnett.bsky.social @jenjulian.bsky.social @jackalopehouse.com
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Thank you so much for such a kind and detailed review!!! 🐦‍⬛☘️♿
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
YA GIRL GOT A POSITIVE PUBLISHERS WEEKLY REVIEW FOR HER DEBUT HORROR/COMEDY. www.publishersweekly.com/9781951971311
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The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly
Daly’s strong debut uses a classic haunted house story to probe themes of chronic illness, religious trauma, and queer desire. B...
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Just in time for Disability Pride: I had a great time talking to Corey and Kendall on the Horror Heals podcast about my experiences with disability and my debut horror/comedy The Scald-Crow! You can find Horror Heals on iTunes, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts! Links below.
A spooky hand reaches out of a lake next to the logo for the horror heals podcast ane the cover of The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly. White text reads "Grace Daly Interview Horror Heals Podcast available now on itunes, spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts"
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Such an honor to have my debut The Scald-Crow included as a highly anticipated book for 2025!!!
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Such an honor to be part of this super fun and super spooky panel! Thank you @patrickbarb.bsky.social for organizing!
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'm thrilled to announce a whole new world of accessibility for my debut horror/comedy novel The Scald-Crow: The Scald-Crow is going to be available in audiobook format!
A screenshot of a deal announcement from Publisher's Marketplace that reads "Category: Audio Rights, May 14, 2025, The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly, Imprint: Dreamscape Media, Grace Daly's The Scald-Crow to Tara Carberry at Dreamscape Media, in a nice deal, by Amanda Manns at Creature Publishing." In the background there are several dark-colored birds flying through a pale sky. There is also a clipart photo of headphones in the bottom-left corner and a picture of the cover of The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly in the upper right-hand corner.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Greetings, peasants: I got a FIRST TRY WORDLE GUESS TODAY. I suppose it's time to pick a new word.
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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 10/05/2025
It was an absolute joy talking Greek mythology with the cast of #Hadestown at the National Hellenic Museum this past Thursday! 🏺🎶 With thanks to @broadwayinchicago.bsky.social for partnering with us and @emilymcclanathan.bsky.social for this great @chicagotribune.com story.
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Talking about mythology in the musical ‘Hadestown’: ‘It’s a sad song / But we sing it anyway’
In a panel discussion at Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum, cast members share what’s on their minds as they tell the story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Horror-Reads @horrorreads.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The Scald-Crow by @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social is a horror/comedy with Irish folklore, a creepy bird, a painting of Jesus with a mind of its own, and a chronically ill protagonist who you'll love. Highly recommend you pre-order!
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Anyone on NetGalley is gonna want to get on this. I love this book. I laughed and had a great time and was thoroughly grossed out. I don’t know what more you can ask for.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
My debit horror comedy, The Scald-Crow, is now available for request on NetGalley! Please request it if you like spooks, jokes, Irish folklore, discount representation, and/or a good time!
Spooky hands in grayscale hold up a ratty piece of white parchment which reads "The Scald-Crow by Grace Daly is now available on NetGalley". In the corner there is a picture of the cover of the book.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I LOVE Spoonie Reads and am so excited they've got an ARC of The Scald-Crow!!!
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
You love horror comedy, disability representation, and/or supporting debut authors. I love horror comedy, disability representation, and/or being supported as a debut author. I know how to make both of us very, very happy.
A red background featuring the Barnes and Noble logo and a picture of the cover of the book "The Scald-Crow" by Grace Daly. Gold text on the red background reads: "Pre-order Sale! 25% off! What a deal! You can't afford not to! Use code PREORDER25 at checkout on www.barnesandnoble.com"
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
My work in progress asks this very question (is my calculator horny?). Spoiler alert: the answer is no!
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
If you weren’t raised in an evangelical church, you might not know that those “Christians” think the Pope is burning in hell…
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Today I am mourning Pope Frankie, subjectively my favorite pope and objectively the dopest pope.
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Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
You should scroll through and find Grace's upcoming novel's cover in there. It's mesmerizing.
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Ridley @rid-ley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thrilled to share that the cover of my upcoming horror comedy novel "The Scald-Crow" was featured in Print Magazine's lineup of 20 of the best book covers in March 2025! Luisa Dias did a fabulous job! www.printmag.com/book-covers/...
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20 of the Best Book Covers for March 2025 – PRINT Magazine
March brought copious book cover design riches, starting with freelance designer Kishan Rajani’s take on Helen Oyeyemi’s "A New New Me."
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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Was lucky to get to read this early. Funny, inventive, gross, and charming. Hard to put down once you get started. Do yourself a favor and preorder!
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I went to www.IWantMyHairShirt.com and all I got was this Hair Shirt. My copy of Hair Shirt by @yoadrianididit.bsky.social and published by @malarkeybooks.bsky.social arrived today. Adrian is a fabulous poet - funny, insightful, and lyrical - and you should get your own Hair Shirt today!
A light blue button down shirt rests on a cream rug with a floral pattern. There is a red curly wig on top of the shirt, as well as a copy of the poetry collection "Hair Shirt" by Adrian Sobol.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Someone was like "Hey, you should post pre-order links for your book so people can, you know, pre-order it" and I was like "wow, why didn't I think of that?" So anyways, pre-order my debut horror comedy novel here! It's about chronic illness and disability and spooks. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Scald-Crow
Check out The Scald-Crow - <p><strong>This self-deprecating horror novel shot through with gallows humor explores medical trauma through Irish folklore, asking "Can a sick woman <em>ever</em> be trust...
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sometimes when I watch myself make choices, I feel like Jane Goodall except I am both, simultaneously, the scientist and the gorilla.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Making my weekend plans: anybody see Death of a Unicorn? Worth a watch in the theater, or should I go for Novocaine?
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'm so sad that I only have the ability to watch this for the first time once 😆
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The Scald-Crow, a horror comedy and my debut novel, has a cover and is available for pre-order! Releasing Oct. 14, 2025, The Scald-Crow explores medical trauma and invisible disability by asking "Can a sick woman ever be trusted?" Cover done by Luisa Dias, and crow illustration by Jaya Nicely.
A deep red background has an image of a book cover centered in it. On the book cover it reads "The Scald-Crow" by the author Grace Daly. The cover is black, with a large black and white tomcat with green dilated eyes. The cat is biting a large hooded crow on the neck and holding the bird down with a white paw. The cat's mouth and the crow's neck are covered in blood.
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Grace Daly @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Post you from a different era
A white woman with blonde hair wearing black shorts, a blue bra, and very high heels is posing upside down on a pole fitness pole.
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the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"what I'll remember as I stand there is the hundred clever tricks I taught myself to please him, and for how long I mistakenly believed that it was love he held concealed in his closed hand." Tony Hoagland
Benevolence

When my father dies and comes back as a dog,
I already know what his favorite sound will be: 
the soft, almost inaudible gasp
as the rubber lips of the refrigerator door
unstick, followed by that arctic

exhalation of cold air;
then the cracking of the ice-cube tray above the sink
and the quiet ching the cubes make
when dropped into a glass.

Unable to pronounce the name of his favorite drink, or to express
his preference for single malt,
he will utter one sharp bark
and point the wet black arrow of his nose
imperatively up at the bottle on the shelf,

then seat himself before me,
trembling, expectant, water pouring
down the long pink dangle of his tongue
as the memory of pleasure from his former life
shakes him like a tail.

What I'll remember as I tower over him, holding a dripping, whiskey-flavored cube
above his open mouth, relishing the power rushing through my veins
the way it rushed through his,

what I'll remember as I stand there
is the hundred clever tricks
I taught myself to please him,
and for how long I mistakenly believed
that it was love he held concealed in his closed hand.
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