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Megan Taylor

@meganjstaylor.bsky.social
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Author of dark novels and short stories

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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#302 of the fab @interzone.press‬ avail. soon. I review 8 new intriguing & uncanny @nightjarpress.bsky.social stories by: @meganjstaylor.bsky.social, J G Lynas, imogenreid.bsky.social‬, @kirstennorrie.bsky.social, Philip Terry, @arthurmandal.bsky.social, @carolynstock.bsky.social, Alex Older
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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
States of Independence, wkend of 22 March 25, celebrating small publishers! I'm there with @chrisparkerwriter.bsky.social selling our @saltpublishing.com books & @meganjstaylor.bsky.social's new @bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social novel. I'm taking a workshop on the uncanny. Info: tinyurl.com/3vr4d7ua 😀
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States of Independence 2025 – Leicester Centre for Creative Writing
States of Independence is an annual one-day festival that celebrates indie publishing. Now in its 15th year, States 24 will be hosted by the Leicester Centre for Creative Writing at DMU and our…
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Heading off to Derby for this year's Ghost Story Festival!!!
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Fabulous flash from @barbaraccino.bsky.social
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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The spirits will be haunting Derby this weekend with the latest running of the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL, kicking off Friday at the Museum of Making! www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory... #Derby #Derbyshire #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #festivals #events
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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Ten days to go until Derby gets that little bit spookier for three days of the UK Ghost Story Festival! We have a fantastic line-up of talent joining us for three days of talks, panels, interviews, workshops and more... www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Thank you so much, @justineb.bsky.social !!!
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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 26/01/2025
Hey folks we have teamed up with Alex Davis to offer you two complete passes to The UK Ghost Story Festival this February. For a chance to win, just answer the simple question in the article. gnofhorror.com/competition-...
The header image for our competition to win tickets to the UK Ghost Festival featuring a book cover for dracula, a witch in some woods and a spooky ghost
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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
What are we currently featuring? Among our latest #shortstories is Marriage Act by Kerry Hadley-Pryce. If you missed it on Sunday, here's another chance. Please follow the link and enjoy @kerryhp.bsky.social #shortstory #fiction fictivedream.com/2025/01/19/m...
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Another brilliant story from @giselleleeb.bsky.social and the whole magazine looks fabulous!!
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "The Therapist's Daughter" by Megan Taylor
My usual thriller and mystery oeuvre is Nordic noir; apart from that I do love a Golden Age mystery thriller  I usually ignore British crime...
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Just seen this! Thank you so much @mattcolbeck.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Fluffmas!!! xxxx
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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Christmas is a great time for ghost stories - and if you're a fan of a spooky story, then the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL comes to Derby in February! www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory...
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Or if you're looking for a gift for the mysterious writer in your life, my evening course with NTU, Thrills and Chills, Writing Crime, Suspense & Horror, kicks off on January 21st at Nottingham Trent's City Campus
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Annual festive plug - If you like your Christmas as dark as your stockings, you might enjoy The Therapist's Daughter (just £1.99 on Kindle!) or if you prefer a thrilling New Year's Eve, you could check out The Dawning...
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
An amazing novel!! Everybody get excited...
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Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Nightjar Press publishes limited-edition short stories in chapbook format. Uncanny, dark, strange, weird, experimental. But that’s enough about editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & designer @johnoakey.bsky.social. Where can we buy them, you ask? nightjarpress.weebly.com
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Nightjar Press
Nightjar Press publish original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.
A very complex diagram which begins with the question "Do you need a a gift for someone" but, despite many questions and choices, always suggests either giving a book or buying a book for yourself, or gets in a huff and says "I give up!".
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Where Chills Meet Thrills: 7 Eerie Crime Novels
I’ve been a crime fiction addict for years, but my very first love was horror. Luckily for me and so many other grateful readers, there are plenty of fabulously frightening authors, like Hjortsberg…
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Last weekend, my amazing sister, who knows me SO well, took me to the incredible Serial Killers exhibition in Waterloo's vaults and I can't stop thinking about it
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thank you tons, Ian!!!!
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thank you, brilliant Barbara xxxxx
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Celebrating the launch of my latest novel, eerie thriller, The Therapist's Daughter, 12th September at Nottingham's fabulous Five Leaves!! Everybody welcome! (free, but you'll need to book) fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/book-...
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Book launch, The Therapist’s Daughter, with Megan Taylor – Five Leaves Bookshop
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Tim Major @timjmajor.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
There are some fantastically exciting opportunities for #SFF, #horror and #crime writers this month! Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls, inc ancestral fears, northern crime, paranoia and harbingers. timjmajor.com/2024/08/03/o... Please share! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity
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Open submission calls for writers: August 2024
There are some fantastically exciting opportunities for writers this month! The first couple end within the next couple of days, though, so you’ll need to work fast if they’re of interest to you… Sign...
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
We have an infrequent newsletter. Please sign up if you'd like to keep updated on our projects. Important update coming tomorrow. undertowpublications.com/newsletter
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Newsletter — Undertow Publications
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 03/08/2024
So excited!!! My next novel, The Therapist's Daughter, is due out from Bloodhound Books in less than a month - and available for pre-order now (currently just £1.99 on Kindle!) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DBH8MMH...
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The Therapist's Daughter: A brand new totally gripping psychological thriller full of twists eBook : Taylor, Megan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
The Therapist's Daughter: A brand new totally gripping psychological thriller full of twists eBook : Taylor, Megan: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
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Raymond Chandler: The Art of Beginning a Crime Story
There are times in life when you need a good opener. Maybe you’re caught in a rut and need the charge of a new world, new characters, something that carries with it the quiet thrill of possib…
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Happy Pride month! We Wait just 99p on Kindle xx
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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
Good morning. We are open.
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Emerging back into the world after COVID finally got me. Such strange dreams - Anthony Hopkin's head was a metal box I was undoing with a screwdriver, a black vortex that wasn't scary because it was softer than I thought, & a woman with a bucket of blood who was a Living Trailer
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
Congratulations to Undertow author Naben Ruthnum. His novella "Helpmeet" has now sold over 5,000 copies. The little book that could.
Cover of "Helpmeet" by Naben Ruthnum. Artwork by Caspar David Friedrich
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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 14/11/2023
My really quite weird mother-daughter multiverse story, BRIDGE, is up for the first round of the Goodreads Choice 2023 Awards. If you loved the novel (or someone else's) and would love to vote, please do! This kinda thing really makes a difference for writers. www.goodreads.com/choiceawards...
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Instead of “once upon a time,” Korean folk and fairy tales often begin with 호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에. It means “back when tigers smoked (pipes)”
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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Discount code now direct: 14D8BSR85BNY
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Girl with Cat. Ca. 1940 - 1952. portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb...
Highly stylized print of a young girl and cat face to face in profile. The girl's girl is composed of bold black lines in a geometrical bob cut and a dark red leaf-like shape surrounds her eye, pointing up. The space behind her is filled with the same red as the leaf. The cat is black with a huge, round white eye crossed. over with a slim black pupil and a slash of the same red of the leaf and the space behind the girl. Everything about it bold, strong, striking.
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Well-Adjusted Horror Podcast @well-adjusted.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
A brilliant book...
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Nearly Halloween! Time to celebrate ghoulies & ghosties & long-leggedy beasties - and my haunted house novel, We Wait (just 99p on KIndle!!)
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Incredibly excited to announce that my next novel, a thriller, will be out with Bloodhound Books next year!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
I have new story out in 'Come October,' edited by CM Muller, with an amazing ToC. Small teaser from "This Familiar Autumn Hour." Scan the QR Code to get the eBook for just $3. Also available in trade and hardcover. chthonicmatter.wordpress.com
Cover for "Come October" and excerpt:

Come October, in the strange gloom and gleam of a late autumn day, late in this life, she finds herself once again back on the sidewalks of her old hometown. There is a peculiar hazy murk to the air, an October fugue, somehow both despairingly dim and tediously bright; so that she is forced to squint into the distance. There, in this familiar autumn light, at this familiar autumn hour, she spies the main street, leaf-wet and rust-burnished, snaking away and up the road, past the red-brick houses with dark chimneys huffing dragon-smoke; and up the slight incline at the end of town, toward her old home.
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Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
A slim young girl wakes from cryopreservation to find that she is too fat for her new world. Read an excerpt from 'Thin', #6 in my collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (Salt) tinyurl.com/yc5s9f4w
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Simon Okotie @simonokotie.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Cõnfingō 20 is guest-edited by the mighty @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and includes my 'CHAPTER FROM AN ABANDONED COLLABORATIVE NOVEL'. Pre-order here: www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...
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Cõnfingō 20 | confingo
Confingo 20 - Guest Edited by Nicholas Royle fiction1. CHAPTER FROM AN ABANDONED COLLABORATIVE NOVEL Simon Okotie2. THE BLACK SWAN Geeta Roopnarine3. CLEARANCE Josephine Galvin4. ST FRANCIS TREADS THE...
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Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
Hello!!!
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