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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Super excited to have my #flashfiction , "A Thin Whistle Instead of a Scream" on Tales to Terrify! The voice acting is amazing, and I highly recommend checking the podcast out.

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Henry Herz @henryherz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm not saying my anthology, THE BIG BAD BOOK OF KAIJU, is listed in 2026 Horror Book Releases: CinemaChords’ Most Anticipated Anthologies for the Second Half of the Year, but I'm not NOT saying it either. cinemachords.com/2026-most-an...

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Most Anticipated Horror Anthology Books of 2026

With an impressive slate of horror anthology books arriving over the second half of the year, we've narrowed the list to the 10 we're most looking forward to reading.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m rewriting the next one with no contract or editor waiting, so every copy counts. Also, gorgeous hardcover is only $13! Come get haunted. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Very happy to have my #microfiction “Once More into the Light” in the new issue of SciFanSat!

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Super excited to have my drabble, "The Story of a Girl with Turquoise Hair and Skin as Pale as Wax,” published in #ScapegoatReview. You can read it here: www.scapegoatreview.org/summer-2026/... #flashfiction #darkfantasy #fairytale

A still from Giuliano Cenci's 1972 film The Adventures of Pinocchio. Image of a woman with turquoise hair (the blue fairy) holding up a wooden marionette with a long pointed nose (Pinocchio).

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Very happy to have my urban fantasy/cosmic horror drabble, “This Ain’t No Faerie Tale” in the awesome Trembling with Fear! 🩸📚

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

We start our April 2026 “numbers” issue with a countdown—“The Last Eleven Seconds” by David Farrow. Turning 11 seconds into a 5-min read perfectly mimics time lengthening during a scary event. 🚀 #flashfiction #sciencefiction @davidfarrow5734.bsky.social flashfictiononline.com/issues/april...

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April 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’m so excited to have my Weird Western flash piece, “A Bone Deep Ache,” in FFO!

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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Our March 2026 "Transformations" issue is a milestone for us! This is our 150th issue!! 😃 To celebrate all the growth and changes we've made over the years, we've assembled stories that feature visceral transformations. #flashfiction #writingcommunity www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

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Flash Fiction Online March 2026

Flash Fiction Online is releasing our 150th issue! To celebrate our growth and change over the years, we’ve assembled a selection of stories depicting visceral transformations. Stories this m…

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KC Grifant, Author @kcgrifant.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

After many months of planning and designing course materials, I can’t wait to kick off the first semester of my new class this week! The 10-week speculative fiction course for beginners is online at the University of California San Diego Extended Studies.

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Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

As far as I'm concerned, @levato.bsky.social kicked it down. Hard. Kudos--I loved it.

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Excited to see “A Shotgun Named Regret” in Villain Era!

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Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

With only 10 days left, this year's Kickstarter is not trending in a hopeful direction... This funding is what keeps us online. If you can, we would deeply appreciate your support. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fla...

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Flash Point SF 2025

An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words.

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KC Grifant, Author @kcgrifant.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Today!! Hope to see you at this fun event! Horror writers will be at Barnes & Noble in Mira Mesa to chat with readers and discuss the latest in horror, including holiday horror 🦃🎄 Time: Sat Nov 22, from 4-6pm #barnesandnoble #books #horrorbooks #horror #SoCal #SanDiego

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I'm really happy to have my #horror #flashfiction "A Thin Whistle Instead of a Scream" reprinted in metastellar.bsky.social. If you're looking for some bloody arboreal horror, check it out at: www.metastellar.com/fiction/a-th... #booksky #horrorsky #WritingCommunity #HorrorWriters 📚😱 🩸📚

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Excited to have my #horror #flashfiction "Branches Like Bones" in the new issue of #FlashPhantoms. If you're looking for some bite-sized arboreal horror, check it out at: www.flashphantoms.net/september-mi... #booksky #horrorsky #WritingCommunity #HorrorWriters 📚😱 🩸📚

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October Micro Fiction Horror | Flash Phantoms

For the month of October 2025, these are the horror stories of 100 words that intrigue us most.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

10 signed copies left. Kind of the last chance to get The Barre Incidents first edition signed by @renbolger.bsky.social with an original bookmark, copy of Hellarkey 4, and secret spinach pie recipe. malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

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The Barre Incidents, a novel by Lauren Bolger — Malarkey

The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis, she grapples with the old horror stories in their hometown of B...

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Have put a lot of books in the mail in the last week, but also zines. First batch of Hellarkey is out and over 100 copies of King Ludd’s Rag, featuring stories by Tori Rego and @jedwardgregal.bsky.social, have gone out, many just as a bonus with another book that sold. Buy a book, get a zine too!

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Well, I’m not getting anything done today #cats #caturday

Two cats occupying a lap. One orange tabby underneath a black, brown, and white marble tabby—who is quite happy to be curled up on top of the orange cat.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Come down to the Bizarro booth this weekend at Printers Row Lit Fest. @malarkeybooks.bsky.social titles come with a copy of Hellarkey, Malarkey’s annual Halloween zine!

Book haul from the Bizarro table!
Inappropriate Toasts for All Occasions by Michael Allen Rose
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Saying Goodbye by Ben Arzate
Reef Mind by Hazel Zorm
And Jesus Came Back by John Bruni

John Bruno, Ben Arzate, and Michael Allen Rose plus some book shoppers at the Bizarro table at Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago this weekend! Not pictured, Sauda Namir and me

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

If you’re in Chicago go see us at the Bizarro table at Printers Row!

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Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The first issue of Hot Flash Literary is live--featuring phenomenal work by Mikki Aronoff, @csquareh.bsky.social Christine H. Chen, @kathyfish.bsky.social, @dianegotauthor.bsky.social, Stella Reed, @chelseastickle.bsky.social, Nancy Stohlman, and Huina Zheng! hotflashliterary.com/current-issue/

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Current Issue - Hot Flash Literary

Issue 1 – Summer 2025 My Body, My Choice

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

We have 42 t-shirts left and we need to turn them into money. Get a t-shirt and two books for $50 bucks right here. Free shipping with code POSTOFFICE. malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...

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Two Books and a T-Shirt — Malarkey

Use code POSTOFFICE to get free shipping. For $50 you get two books and a t-shirt. That’s $16.67 each with free shipping. We tried to price this bundle at $45 but we would have been clearing about $1 ...

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Summer and fall we must be busy selling books to carry us through the lean mean winter. Maybe you need two books and a shirt? malarkeybooks.com/store/twoboo...

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Horror Writers Association, New York Chapter @hwany.org · 01/08/2025

HWA Website Outage & Security Alert. Horror org & Bram Stoker Awards websites are offline. If you attempt to visit either site, you may notice the site prompts you to download a file. DO NOT DOWNLOAD, OPEN OR RUN THAT FILE. It may contain harmful software. We'll advise you when sites are up.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Feel free to order pre, so you can read my hellish story and others in this fine volume

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Surprise! I’ve got a story in this year’s Hellarkey, vol. IV! Hellarkey is one of my favorite annual releases. The variety of voices is top notch. Preorder a copy and see what I and others have cooked up this season!

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KC Grifant, Author @kcgrifant.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Two days left! Get those stories in! #weirdwest #flashfiction

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GHOULISH BOOKS WILL KILL YOUR PARENTS @ghoulish.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

can we do spooky tattoo show & tell?

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KC Grifant, Author @kcgrifant.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Reminder: One more week to submit your weird west flash fic! I can’t wait to read the entries 🤠 Grand prize winner of the “Weird West Quick Draw” gets their story in Apex Magazine and $100 🎉 reachyourapex.com/weird-west-q... #weirdwest #shortstory #flashfiction

Contest details:

✅ 1000 words or less
✅ Anonymous subs
❌ No AI
✅ Simultaneous submissions OK
❌ No reprints
⏰ Deadline July 15, midnight ET

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Nicole Givens Kurtz @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If you support and love #AfroFuturism #Afrofuturist stories, please consider reviewing FABRICATED. The story is set in futuristic DC after the fall of the U.S. Cybil is a PI in The District investigating cases of her choosing. Cover Art by @natania.bsky.social www.netgalley.com/catalog/book... 📚💙

This is a book cover that includes two people dressed in futuristic gear with helmets looking outside at flying cars and a metropolis at night. They are looking through a floor to ceiling glass window. The title is Fabricated: A Cybil Lewis SF Mystery by Nicole Givens Kurtz. The cover was completed by Natania Barron.

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We survived the night. The dead were stacked in piles, according to recognizable features—those with limbs attached, or ones whose lips hadn’t been torn off, or eyes gouged out. I could see them—bathed in the fire of sunrise—through the tangled limbs of the bodies on top of me. #HorrorWritersChat

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and lets us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing the novel that started my career. The first barrio noir! Dark magic. Violence. Santa Muerte. Dogs with human eyes… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/zero...

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Very happy to have my #scifi #horror #flashfiction "Bloodfall" published by @365tomorrows.bsky.social. If you're looking for some postapocalyptic cooking tips, check it out. #booksky #horrorsky #WritingCommunity 📚😱 🪐📚 🩸📚

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It’s too late. They’ve surrounded the cabin, breaking windows, clawing for me—howling a madness in no human language. I crawl backwards, push my back against the far wall, hands bloodied from broken glass. I clutch the note to my chest, hoping next time I find it sooner. #HorrorWritersChat

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Something watching from the woods, splintering, groaning, smelling like raw meat. Asthma crushing my lungs, dropping me to my knees as I try to run. #HorrorWritersChat

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The sour rot on my tongue, the sensation of maggots crawling through my brain the closer I get to the locked closet at the back of my room. #HorrorWritersChat

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hello! I'm originally from Chicago, now living and writing in Southern California. I usually write horror, but the sub-genre lines tend to blur between weird, supernatural, folk, gothic, sci-fi, dark fantasy, and weird western (all horror centered). #HorrorWritersChat

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Excited to be in NECKSNAP Magazine, Issue One, with a host of great writers! #booksky #horrorsky #WritingCommunity 📚😱🩸📚

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Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎 @novellamenagerie.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A great start to our Horror Writers starter pack! There’s still lots of room so please let me know if you’d like to be added 🫶🏽

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Just wanted to give a shout out to the @victoriannightmare.bsky.social podcast. I found it while doing research for my #WIP, a gothic fantasy, and was immediately hooked. If you're looking for a lovely bit of Victorian darkness, check it out.

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

My #horror #flashfiction "Some Would Stuff Them with Rags and Cotton" was just published by the awesome #FlashPhantoms. If you're looking for a quick creepy read, check it out: www.flashphantoms.net/may-flash-fi... #booksky #horrorsky #WritingCommunity 📚😱 🪐📚 🩸📚

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May Flash Fiction Horror | Flash Phantoms

For the month of May, 2025, these are the horror stories of 1,000 words or less that entertain us most.

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Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This afternoon I have the honour & pleasure of facilitating a visual poetry workshop with non-binary and women makers of visual poems. Their poems are full of heart. If you'd like to take part in a group or individual customized visual poetry live editing session, please contact me.

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Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Just realized the only chain mail I own is for scrubbing my cast iron pans #GrownUpSads 😭 #dnd

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