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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Pick up DWELLER IN DARKNESS, the conclusion of the Deadlights Duology from @timberghostpress.bsky.social as well as the first book THE MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING. Two novellas you could devour in an afternoon.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

The plot and all the details would follow suit. Whew, that was a lot more than I thought it would be. I hope it's useful to read about how the story sausage gets made. I know I was obsessed with other authors' processes when I was coming up as I struggled to find my own. Might add more later.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

the reader's brain than first or third can and opens up the story to a deeper interpretation. I've grown enough as a writer by this point that I didn't need to know what that interpretation was going be exactly, just the feeling I wanted and knowing as long as I kept moving toward that feeling then

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

In a story where the unreliable narrator can be deployed. Playing with perspective and getting into the readers heads is a lot of fun of writing for me and that's where I decided on a whim to include bookends in the second person. When second person is used correctly it engages a different part of

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

But I was intrigued by body horror not as a pure exercise in horror but in the New Weird tradition of looking at things through alien lenses, what if body horror accompanied enlightenment or an outgrowth of mold became an outgrowth of empathy? That to me felt like rich narrative terrain, especially

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Is where the idea of a story about moral rot becoming a story about the capital-R Rot and its malign ghostgrass (GRRM stole Carcosa, I'm stealing ghostgrass, and the wheel keeps turning). What's great about body horror is its ability to take the theoretical or philosophical and make it visceral.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

on that spectrum of masculinity, the toxic forms of which are both a thematic and plot concern in the duology. I wrote a lot about the Rot elsewhere recently so I won't reiterate here but the part of the fun of spec fic is getting to literalize or make tactile the metaphorical and impossible which

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Thus was born Cassius, a name deliberately mirroring the antagonist and deuteragonist from PALE KING. In this way, I was able to play a trope fav of mine, the Three Faces of Adam (consisting of the Hunter, the Lord and the Prophet) and invert the ages for thematic effect. My three Cassius are all

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

to change because now I was angry and the story would be too. It would no longer be about building a new world but the end of the old one. To properly tell it, I needed a new POV on the inside so to speak, a character who demonstrated that poisonous ideology and its never-ending ripples of harm.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

The first draft also followed Faron, the MC from Pale King, from the get-go but very soon after I started to draft, the 2024 U.S. presidential election occurred and enraged me that my country was so stupid and selfish. I quickly realized the story I was writing, a vessel for my feelings, needed

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

I attempted to write a more traditional third-person limited POV for DWELLER but within just a few pages I realized the book needed to be an in-universe document as well. The metatextual layer and the inherent dread of a doomed journal, a classic trope, was too essential to the style and structure.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

I became intrigued by the duology format to make the book the other half of a whole, which became a guiding thematic and creative principle I could use to determine what elements to include as well as the overall story's vibe and direction. While MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING was epistolary, early on

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

deepen the previous story. All the great sequels do this: GODFATHER PART 2, EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, WRATH OF KHAN, ALIENS and T2. The last two in particular inspired me because they both succeeded so well that all future sequels were overshadowed by the conclusions provided in those films.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 18h

Today marks two weeks since the release of #DwellerinDarkness. Now that the little eldritch abomination that could has matriculated out into the world, I thought I'd talk a little about the experience writing my second book and first sequel. I think the fun of a sequel is being able to expand and

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Exactly. Like, he could say anything. He could say "We understand your concerns and we're taking every measure to make sure our product is safe and reliable." But he can't be bothered & knows he's insulated from any consequence b/c his constituents are the VCs pouring money down his drain-like mouth

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Things Tyler Kyle shouldn't have done: 💔 Fall for straight co-host 🙃 Make-out with said co-host 🗡️ Follow fake video of dead mom to murder island 🪦 Forget about the stalker who lured him there SALE: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... books2read.com/u/boB9YL #indiehorror #booksky #horrorsky

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pop, lock, and drop by Medina Book Fest at the Medina Public Library! Many great authors and also me

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Timber Ghost Press @timberghostpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Something is moving in the attic. Something that slams doors that aren't there. Something that has followed Alane from her past... Find out what it is in D.A. Jobe's, PALMETTO BOY! Cover by Greg Chapman www.timberghostpress.com/palmetto-boy... @d-a-jobe.bsky.social

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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TTMadden 🏳️‍⚧️ @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One of my coworkers just referred to The Cosmic Color as "the juicy purple robot fighting suit book." So if you want some juicy purple robots fighting (and antifascism, and body horror, and trans mech pilots) head on over to @neonhemlock.bsky.social

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Eliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 01/10/2026

Elliot is a gem for being down to film this in such a chaotic environment

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My specific form of OCD leads me to hyperfixate. When I'm writing, this is actually a boon, because I can fall down rabbit holes and walk out with a story or a book generally feeling good about myself. But when I'm doing social media, it means both my mental health and writing take a nosedive.

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026

Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The tagline for my latest book was "When you learn who you serve is evil, betrayal is a virtue" for this reason.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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A.J. Calvin @ajcalvin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Book review!🚨 With high stakes, excellent worldbuilding, great characters, and found family, Anamnesis by Lyndsie Clark was a fantastic book (and the sort of dystopian sci-fi that I really enjoy.) My full review: fanfiaddict.com/review-anamn... #booksky #bookreview

Book Review: Anamnesis by Lyndsie Clark
checkmark True Humans vs Mechs vs Savants
checkmark Dystopian & cyberpunk
checkmark High stakes & action-packed
checkmark Found family

Read the full review at fanfiaddict.com

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: Cast announced for True Detective Season 5

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Legend of Aon Duine by Jack Moody is an exciting new release and There's No Such Thing as a School for Witches by Laramie Dean comes out in November from Timber Ghost Press, always a publisher to keep an eye on.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'll be speaking in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday Oct 1 with Madeline ffitch at Loganberry Books at 7pm. If you like smalltown antifascists fighting the good fight while all being a bunch of fuckups, you'll love her new book Avalon, Rise. www.loganberrybooks.com/madeline-ffi...

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Madeline ffitch: AVALON, RISE with Margaret Killjoy | Loganberry Books

Join award-winning author Madeline ffitch for a discussion of her uproarious, unabashed new novel of an Appalachian town, the locals who call it home, the fight for a just future, and letterpress prin...

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We're idiots who can't be expected to learn" is a hell of a pitch.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shout outs within to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, @gaycannibalism.bsky.social, Iron Lung, Backrooms, The Substance, ASOIAF, The Sopranos, The Shield, and Breaking Bad

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 29/09/2026

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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Timber Ghost Press @timberghostpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haven't read THE MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING and want to before diving into DWELLER IN DARKNESS? I got you. Grab your copy today and step into a gritty flintlock fantasy. Cover by Greg Chapman www.timberghostpress.com/pale-king.ht... @samflynnwrites.bsky.social

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

...and fellow author Darin Miller for the vibrant author chat, the Athena staff who made the event run like clockwork, my beloved O'Betty's crew who are like a second family, and all those who listened and bought a book. My heart is full!

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grateful. Lucky. Overjoyed. These are all words that describe me after the success of last night's book launch for DWELLER IN DARKNESS at the Athena Cinema. It was a dream come true and I want to thank everyone who attended. Shout out to my friend...

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rot takes takes many forms in the Deadlights Duology, from the dying rotted empire of Yorgos to the literal Rot of ghostgrass spreading across the land. Over on @jamreads.com I dove into the various influences and inspos on my fantasy-horror duology.

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This phenomenon of fanatical self-hatred, particularly this strain of internalized misogyny, became a preoccupation of mine in my latest book DWELLER IN DARKNESS. Below, the MC walks in on his stepfather's abuse of his mother Claudia and his failed intervention results in this scene:

To both of our surprise, Claudia stepped between me and him. “I am his mother. The punishment is mine.”Again, like the fool I am, my hopes rose. Then she looked at me with a disgust I will never forget. “Watch and do not interfere.”I watched. Her eerie serenity throughout unnerved even Vorian. Not that he stopped.

After father abandoned us, Mother held Julia and me in both arms and whispered, “Mother’s the only one you can trust. Only I know what’s good for you.” She’s so good at lying, she believes her own. What worth does the truth have when lying gets you everything?

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Sam Flynn - DWELLER IN DARKNESS Out Now! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In a little over an hour, we're celebrating the little eldritch abomination that could, DWELLER IN DARKNESS, at my favorite local cinema, with one of my best author friends, and a litany of family, friends, and readers. Life is good :)

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