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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We're so, so proud to be publishing this weird, wonderful Halloween-hammer of a book @drewhuff.bsky.social's really outdone himself with this one Have you preordered yet? There's still time! 🦷🎃💀 a.co/d/09OoGbsm

Promo image of THE EXODONTISTS, showing the book cover against a grim monochrome derelict clinic background

Text reads: Coming October 13th

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's BUY 1 GET 1 FREE on novelettes at the Batcave this week! Grab @tcparker.bsky.social's liminal horror THE TOMMY or @shaunamceleney.bsky.social's anticolonial haunted museum-piece THE HOUSE OF STOLEN OBJECTS - and get the other one thrown in! Happy pre-Halloween! 📚💙🦇🎃 payhip.com/b/Sk5l0

Promo image for THE TOMMY, showing the book against a Backrooms-esque yellow background and text promising:

- LIMINAL SPACE HORROR
- PORTALS TO HELL
- QUICK READ
- COSMIC FEARS

FILE UNDER:
LIMINAL NIGHTMARES

Promo image from THE HOUSE OF STOLEN OBJECTS, showing the cover and text promising:

- SAPPHIC HORROR
- THE REAL MONSTER IS COLONIAL PLUNDER
- CURSED OBJECTS
- HAUNTED DUMMIES

FILE UNDER:
ENGLISH HISTORY IS A HORRORSHOW

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Want a quick horror read with Backrooms vibes this creepy season? Try @tcparker.bsky.social's liminal horror novelette THE TOMMY - 99p/99c everywhere all October amzn.eu/d/0eB9lJc8

Cover of THE TOMMY against a yellow Backrooms background showing deserted yellow corridors

Text reads:

want a quick horror read with backrooms vibes?
try this

99p/99c ALL OCTOBER

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October is here - Halloween season has begun! Which means... it's almost time for @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS! Coming Oct 13th - it's the perfect (toothy) Halloween read... 🦇📚🦷🎃 And there's still time to preorder: a.co/d/00PkymIl

Promo image for Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS, showing the book cover between the teeth of a Rocky Horror-style mouth, with text reading:

it's Halloween
The Exodontists will be with you shortly

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📣 BOOK DEAL NEWS KLAXON! 📣 Absolutely beside ourselves to report that, following on from the amazing launch of @discobooks.bsky.social's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, we've now signed the sequel, THIS IS HOW WE STAY ALIVE, for a late 2027 release!

Promo image for Disco Barrington's THIS IS HOW WE STAY ALIVE, coming September 2027, showing a placeholder cover against a motherboard backdrop

Text reads: NEW BOOK DEAL

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We shouldn't have to keep tapping this sign

Promo image for NBP, showing some of our book titles below trans, LGBTQ+ and lesbian pride flags

Text reads:

Nefarious Bat Press:
Queer Horror, Crime & Darkfic by Human Writers, for Human Readers
"Fingers that touch LLM extruders shall never touch our catalogue"

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Want to squeeze in a horror read before the weekend's over? Try our novelettes: @shaunamceleney.bsky.social's sapphic horror THE HOUSE OF STOLEN OBJECTS & @tcparker.bsky.social's Backrooms-esque liminal nightmare THE TOMMY Both worth curling up with on a Sunday night 🦇📚 payhip.com/NefariousBat...

Promo image for TC Parker's THE TOMMY and Shauna Mc Eleney's THE HOUSE OF STOLEN OBJECTS

Text reads:

NEED A QUICK SUNDAY NIGHT HORROR READ?
TRYOUR NOVELETTES!

www.nefariousbatpress.com

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We love it when people buy their books direct from us So, go on - have a browse of our catalogue. There are some pretty awesome books in there Ebooks here: payhip.com/NefariousBat... And physical books here: nefarious-bat-press.sumupstore.com/products

We're Nefarious Bat Press.
And we love it when you buy books direct from us!

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

4. Small presses will often give you cool free merch with your order when they post it to you. *bookmarks, badges, stickers, fancy postcards... we love to send these out to readers swipe

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3. When you buy the book, publishers get paid right away - without any terrible middlemen taking a cut.

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

2. If you buy an ebook, you own it - DRM-free. Nobody can take it away from you or delete it trom your library. *the Big River does this all the time to ebooks

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1. You're not funding any evil empires, but instead helping to support small businesses *unless the small business is itself an evil empire, obviously

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why should you buy your indie books direct from smaller publishers? We have 4 good reasons: a🧵

4 good reasons to buy your indie books direct from publishers

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We weren't expecting to be posting this quite so soon... but good news: we're reopening to submissions! 🎉

WE'RE REOPENING TO SUBMISSIONS!
WE WEREN'T EXPECTING TO WRITE THIS QUITE YET. BUT OWING TO A BIT OF UNEXPECTED GOOD FORTUNE - WE'RE OPENING BACK UP TO SUBMISIONS!

WE'RE LOOKING FOR QUEER HORROR NOVELS OF AT LEAST 50,000 WORDS FOR A LATE 2027 EARLY 2028 RELEASE
IN EXCHANGE, WE'RE OFFERING A SMALL ($250) ADVANCE AND A LOT OF LOVE, CARE AND ATTENTION

IF YOU KNOW US, THEN YOU KNOW THE SORT OF THING WE LIKE, AND THE SORT OF THING WE DON'T. (IF YOU DON'T KNOW US: WORTH HAVING A QUICK READ AROUND TO MAKE SURE WE'RE THE RIGHT FIT)

PLEASE:
• NO "AI"-GENERATED ANYTHING
• NO RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA OR TRANSPHOBIA, ABLEISM OR MISOGYNY - TRUST US, WE CAN SMELL THEM ALL A MILE AWAY
• NOTHING THAT ISN'T QUEER HORROR

THINK YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR US?
EMAIL IT OVER TO
INFO @NEFARIOUSBATPRESS.COM
WITH A COVER NOTE AND SYNOPSIS, MARKED
"QUEER HORROR SUBMISSIONS"

CHEERS! ~ THE BATS

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're incredibly excited to report that @discobooks.bsky.social's queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ dystopian novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS is out... tomorrow! Hope to see you there, at the end of the world 🌈

Promo image of Disco Barrington's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, showing the cover of the book set against a dingy, decaying room

Text reads: Find us tomorrow, at the end of the world

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Amazing news! @discobooks.bsky.social's queer dystopian novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS is a Kobo Best of the Month for September!! Have you preordered yet? www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Promo image of Disco Barrington's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, showing the book cover superimposed on a purple background

Text reads: One of Kobo's Best of the Month

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Are you ready for the end of the world? 10 days to go until @discobooks.bsky.social's 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ dystopian novella THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS emerges kicking and screaming into a brand-new day... But there's still time to preorder: a.co/d/0cBKY5aR

Promo image for Disco Barrington's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, showing the cover of the book superimposed against a background of flames

Text reads: Are you ready for the end of the world?

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's been another day on the internet We're as baffled as ever by people getting mad about the existence of queer books they *by their own admission* don't/won't read You want nothing but Ayn Rand, "clean" Christian romance & The Big Book of Bible Quotes on your shelf? Knock yourself out!

IT'S ALWAYS OKAY TO HAVE PREFERENCES.

OURS IS THAT HOMOPHOBES AND TRANSPHOBES STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM OUR BOOKS AS IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hummingbird - still 99p/99c at the Batcave and the Bad Place! Batcave: payhip.com/b/Ed5bX Bad Place: a.co/d/0hcOqmLS #booksky

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Flanagan fans! Widow's Bay people! Want something to scratch that smalltown horror itch? The Denizens and Hummingbird are waiting for you payhip.com/NefariousBat...

MIKE FLANAGAN FANS!
WANT A BOOK TO SCRATCH THAT SMALL TOWN HORROR ITCH?

Text: GOOD NEWS: WE'VE GOT 2 OF THEM

Image shows covers of Brennan LaFaro's THE DENIZENS and TC Parker's HUMMINGBIRD set against a creepy dark woodland background

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🦇 Bat Deal of the Week! 🦇 Looking for small-town sapphic horror - with parasites? Hummingbird is 99p/99c all week - at the Big Terrible River, or direct from us at the significantly-less-evil Nefarious Batcave! payhip.com/b/Ed5bX #booksky 📚💙

BAT SALE OF THE WEEK!
Looking for small-town sapphic I horror - with parasites?
Hummingbird is 99p/99c all week!
(At the Big River - or direct from us at the significantly less evil
Batcave!)

"HUMMINGBIRD IS THE KIND OF NOVEL LABYRINTH WHERE THE UNEXPECTED LURKS AROUND EVERY CORNER. PARKER'S MOSAIC HOLDS LAYER UPON LAYER OF GRIPPING CHARACTERS AND SURERNATURAL TRICKS IN A PULP FIGTION-ESQUE HORROR SHOW, WHERE A MONSTER'S ONLY WEAKNESS IS ANOTHER KIND OF MONSTER - IMMEDIATELY ENGROSSING"
~ HAILEY PIPER, AUTHOR OF QUEEN OF TEETH AND AGAME IN YELLOW

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

To avoid any ambiguity. If you use (commercialised LLM-based probabilistic text/image extruders masquerading as) "AI," you are contributing to the destruction of everything we value about the world. You are, to paraphrase someone smarter and better than us, anti-life. Ergo, we hate you.

We hate LLM-based text/image extruders.
If you use them, we hate you too.

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

!!NEW RELEASE!! Excited to let everyone know that THE HOUSE OF STOLEN OBJECTS, the brand-new novelette from the Bat's own @shaunamceleney.bsky.social, is now available to download at the Batcave! payhip.com/b/sh1Mz

Cover of Shauna Mc Eleney's THE HOUSE OF STOLEN OBJECTS: A NOVELETTE

Cover image shows a faceless mannequin in Victorian dress, against a dark background

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

You can take our backrooms... But you'll never take our BATROOMS, AI-loving horror bros Also, you suck

Poster showing an anxious-looking bat against a completely generic yellow background

Text reads:

Batrooms
Starring Drew Huff, TC Parker, Brennan LaFaro, Anna Orridge, Shauna Mc Eleney, Disco Barrington and more

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS by @discobooks.bsky.social - coming this September Preorder now: www.amazon.com/This-World-E...

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Incredible new blurb for @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS from the wonderful Chris Panatier THE EXODONTISTS will see you this October... but you can book your appointment now www.amazon.com/Exodontists-...

"A DISTURBING, DISGUSTING, AND TRAGIC FEAT OF IMAGINATION.
WITHIN THE WORLD OF THE EXODONTISTS, DREW HUFF HAS CREATED A TRULY NEW AND TERRIFYING KIND OF CREATURE. I'LL NEVER SKIP FLOSSING AGAIN"
- Chris Panatier,
Author of DAYTIDE and WORRY BOX

Promo image for Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS, showing the book cover (featuring translucent grey-green monstrous entities with disturbingly long fingers) surrounded by red-tinged teeth

Copy reads: THE EXODONTISTS - coming this October from Nefarious Bat Press

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Continuing our 10 Good Reasons promo series... Here are 10 good reasons to read @tcparker.bsky.social's A PRESS OF FEATHERS (You have to imagine these promo images set to the soundtrack of Jason Donovan's Too Many Broken Hearts) payhip.com/b/jHS8G

10 GOOD REASONS YOU SHOULD READ
A PRESS OF FEATHERS

1. YOU LIKE MONSTER BIRDS
2. YOU LIKE HAUNTED HOUSES
3. YOU LIKE CREEPY COMMUNITIES &
SUBURBAN NIGHTMARES
4. YOU LIKE ABANDONED VICTORIAN
ASYLUMS AND THE HORRORS THEREIN
5. YOU LIKE ANGRY FEMINISM
6. YOU LIKE COSMIC FEARS AND THE GREAT, VAST UNKNOWABLE
7. YOU LIKE BODY HORROR AND M*RDER MYSTERY
8. YOU HAVE STRONG VIEWS ABOUT SOCIAL INEQUALITY
9. YOU LOVED THE SHINING
10. MONSTER BIRDS

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Presenting... 10 good reasons you should read @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS! payhip.com/b/I1rKM

Promo image showing cover of Brennan LaFaro's THE DENIZENS

Text reads: 10 good reasons you should read THE DENIZENS

1. You like zombies
2. You like grief horror
3. You're afraid of the woods
4. You like witches (but also, very sensibly, fear them)
5. You like beautiful prose
6. You like gore and horrific death scenes
7. Rachel Harrison, Clay Mcleod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Cina Pelayo and a lot of other very talented people have said nice things about it
8. You like cats (that survive!)
9. You like women getting even
10. Zombies

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Our Year of Noir has yet to begin... but if you want a preview of the kind of crime fic we've got coming up next year, check out @tcparker.bsky.social's heist trilogy THE LONG CON With a blurb from @laurelhightower.bsky.social, no less! (We love you, Laurel!) payhip.com/b/zWiZv

Promo image for TC Parker's THE LONG CON

Text reads:
Be Gay. Do Crime.
Often.

"FANTASTIC HEIST WITH HEART"
- LAUREL HIGHTOWER, AUTHOR OF CROSSROADS
AND BELOW

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And finally... TC Parker's Tradwife, in what is perhaps its natural habitat payhip.com/b/TDowG

Sheela na gig statue, Hertfordshire

Sheela clutches a copy of Tradwife to her open vagina

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We'd be remiss not to mention @discobooks.bsky.social's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS www.amazon.com/This-World-E...

Statue: Apollo and Daphne, from Ovid's Metamorphosis

A copy of THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS falls from Apollo's fingers

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And @anna-orridge.bsky.social's PHENGARIS! payhip.com/b/58paC

Statue: locust fountain, Chapultepec

The locust holds a copy of PHENGARIS

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A two-hander: @shaunamceleney.bsky.social's AWAKE IN THE NIGHT and TC Parker's HUMMINGBIRD! payhip.com/b/tWUlI & payhip.com/b/Ed5bX

Statue: Christ The Redeemer, Rio

Christ holds copies of Awake In The Night and Hummingbird on the open palms of his outstretched hands

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

And... @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS! www.amazon.com/Exodontists-...

Statue: Rodin's The Kiss

An open copy of Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS rests on the thigh of one of the kissers

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Next: @tcparker.bsky.social's SALTBLOOD! payhip.com/b/wm14g

Statue: The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen

A copy of TC Parker's SALTBLOOD sits beside the mermaid on the rock

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We've heard the call! Behold, therefore: a 🧵 of (some of) our books in unexpected contexts! Beginning with... @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS! payhip.com/b/I1rKM

Statue: Perseus With The Head of Medusa

Instead of a decapitated gorgon head, Perseus holds aloft a copy of Brennan LaFaro's THE DENIZENZ

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

📣 We're opening to QUEER CRIME NOVEL SUBMISSIONS in August! 📣 Details in screenshots - and the🧵 below:

WE'RE OPENING TO SUBMISSIONS!

OUR YEAR OF NOIR
OPENS
1ST TO 31ST AUGUST 2026

2027 is our Year of Noir.
We've got hardboiled supernatural crime fic coming up trom Brennan
LaFaro, T Parker working on a near-future dystopia procedural, and Shauna MC Eleney's Where The Bluebells Lie set to finally hit the shelves.
But we want more.
Between 1st and 31st August, we're opening to QUEER CRIME NOVEL SUBMISSIONS of 50,000 words or more.

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A reminder, if ever one were needed 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👻📚

Keep Reading Queer!
(because queer horror is for life, not just for Pride Month)

NEFARIOUS BAT:
SHOVING QUEERNESS IN THE FACE OF
CISHETERONORMATIVITY
SINCE 2023

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Need something to take your mind off the heat? Here - have some zombies, courtesy of our own @brennanlafaro.bsky.social... payhip.com/b/I1rKM

READ. MORE. ZOMBIES.

THE DENIZENS

"THE DENIZENS DESTROYS YOU FROM THE GET -GO, THEN HAS THE AUDACITY TO RESUSCITATE YOU WITH A SIMPLE FLIP OF THE PAGE" - CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN, AUTHOR OF WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Still searching for queer reads for this year's Pride Month? Look no further!

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

NEW BOOK DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT!! We're very excited to reveal our latest signing: @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's CHAMBER THE ROUND, a supernatural noir crime story that reads like Fever House meets Don Winslow, coming summer 2027... You're going to love it 🦇📚

NEW BOOK DEAL

BRENNAN LAFARO
CHAMBER THE ROUND

SUMMER 2027

COVER TO BE REVEALED

KEITH ROSSON'S FEVER
HOUSE MEETS DON
WINSLOW'S CITY ON FIRE IN CHAMBER THE ROUND: A SUPERNATURAL NOIR STORY WHERE A MOB ENFORCER AND HIS PROTEGE COMB THE DEPTHS OF PROVIDENCE IN SEARCH OF A TRAITOR, AND INSTEAD DISCOVER SOMETHING MUCH MORE ANCIENT AND EVIL HAS BEEN PULLING THEIR STRINGS ALL ALONG...

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Wonderful blurb for @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS from the ever-talented Steve Stred (We love you, Steve!) THE EXODONTISTS will be with you this October - but you can preorder now... www.amazon.com/Exodontists-...

"HUFF'S THE EXODONTISTS ANSWERS THE QUESTION: HOW WOULD SHAKESPEARE WRITE FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S?
VISCERAL, COMPULSIVE AND EMOTIONALLY BRUTAL, THIS ONE'S GOING TO CATCH A LOT OF READERS OFF GUARD!" -
Steve Stred, author of MASTODON and
CHURN THE SOIL

Promo image showing front cover of Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS, surrounded by images of human teeth

Text reads: THE EXODONTISTS - coming this October from Nefarious Bat Press

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