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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 5h

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 17: No book conveys that all-consuming, mind-numbing sense of COLD quite like The Terror by Dan Simmons. Blending historical novel, psychological thriller, and supernatural creature feature, it’ll make you want a nice blanket and a hot cup of tea.

Cover of The Terror by Dan Simmons, depicting a few frozen corpses against a picturesque icy landscape.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

…bench-press me,” a frisson of potent body horror, and blend it all together with Dawson’s keen ear for character, and you know you’re in for a grisly good time. A read that’ll make you feel queasy and want to say, “Good for her!” at the same time. As delicious as (non-burnt) cornbread. 2/2

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 16: @delilahsdawson.bsky.social has become a go-to horror writer for me, and her latest, Monstera, is another winner. Take the sapphic-yearning-meets-Bluebeard’s-ghost-with-plants appeal of Bloom, add a touch of Love Lies Bleeding’s “I want a girlfriend who can… 1/2

Cover of Monstera by Delilah S. Dawson, depicting a bloody hand clutching a fork in front of a lush plant.

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How about a little Midlist Author Truths post? A few Launch Week Thoughts? Because when I was early in my career, launch week felt very different. There was a level of hope and possibility and energy, and it was so much easier to get in the Top 20 on Amazon. But now? Oof. 1/

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 15: Following up a long read with a short read, Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing but Blackened Teeth is a gnarly East-meets-West horror novella. You’ll hate some of these characters (complimentary!) and be on the edge of your seat waiting for their fates.

Cover of Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw, depicting an almost feminine creature with no face save for a red-rimmed, too wide mouth and claw like fingers in a white kimono.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 14/10/2026

Marketing every new fantasy with a romantic element as romantasy does a disservice to readers and writers. Romance & fantasy have different expectations (no shade to either), so a romance in a fantasy setting is NOT THE SAME as a fantasy with romantic subplots. Everyone just ends up annoyed

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Absolutely what this student says. One of the most profoundly sad things about AI boosters is that they seem not to understand that the journey is more important than the destination, the thinking, the understanding, the revelation that comes along the journey is what matters, not the end product.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

…make the CHARACTERS the center of the story. The Hive is full of great ones, and they’re who I’ll remember long after the pages have stopped turning. A towering work (pun intended) reminiscent of early King at his best. 2/2

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 14: I love an epic horror novel, but there are precious few authors who can pull one off. With The Hive, @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social joins that elite number. Wild concepts, big scares, grisly bits to make you wince, but Ronald Malfi knows that the best horror writers… 1/2

Cover of The Hive by Ronald Malfi, depicting a boy peering out through the shadowy hexagonal combs of (you guessed it) a hive.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

…after the fact) lends events extra weight and gives the early portions of the novel a sense of onrushing doom. Between this and Come Knocking, Mike Bockoven has carved out a nasty little niche for him in the “found footage horror novel” space. No one else is doing quite what he’s doing. 2/2

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 13: The closest thing we have to a found footage horror novel is @mikebockoven.bsky.social’s excellent FantasticLand. A theme park beset by a storm descends into Lord of the Flies-esque anarchy in chilling fashion. The novel’s structure (being compiled of interviews 1/

Cover for FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven, depicting an old wooden coaster and palms against a white backdrop like an oncoming storm.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 12: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito is a darkly humorous and chilling exercise in narrative voice. Feito accomplishes the tightrope act of balancing manners and period tropes with grisly violence in a one of a kind reading experience that made me laugh and shudder.

Cover of Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito, depicting a waifish girl in a frock with leaves and berries in her hair.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

…the last page has been turned. It’s also a great example of Book as an Art Piece, where the experience of reading House of Leaves can’t be separated from the substance of the book itself. There’s nothing else like it (which is probably good for my fraying nerves)!

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 11: Reading House of Leaves by @markzdanielewski.bsky.social feels like going insane in the best possible way. A creepy house story serves as the foundation for deeper, darker, and more personal storytelling and resonant thematic material that lingers long after… 1/2

Cover of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, with a compass rose against a black backdrop with a labyrinth embossed on the surface. Papers and other paraphernalia peek out from the right side.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 10: If you’ve ever felt lost in an IKEA, like metaphysically lost in the darkest parts of your soul, Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix is for you! Alternating between funny and genuinely creepy, it’s also one of those books that benefits from a physical copy. Spookÿ!

Cover of Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix, which is designed to look like a glossy IKEA catalog. In the framed pictures on the wall is a spectral figure trying to escape.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 9: Pound for pound, one of @stephenking.bsky.social’s most chilling novels is Revival. Careful character work draws you into a slow burn that escalates to downright cosmic terror, and it’s stuck with me for a decade.

Cover of Revival by Stephen King, depicting a bolt of lightning striking in a valley

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 8: Peter Straub was one of the great masters of marrying lovely prose and deep characterization with unnerving horror. Lost Boy, Lost Girl may be less remembered, but it’s a showcase of these talents, blending mundane suburban fears with the supernatural. Engrossing.

Cover of Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub, depicting shadowy figures leaning out of orangey windows.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 7: more people should read @saratogaishere.bsky.social’s Trad Wife, because I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. Chilling, grotesque, and eerily sweet, it transcends the Rosemary’s Baby comparisons to become something altogether new. A book for the gruesome times in which we live.

Cover of Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer, depicting a red photo negative of a pregnant woman in a dress, her hands on her stomach. A shadowy hand with clawed fingers joins her own.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular Day 6: It took me a disturbingly long time to read a @paultremblay.bsky.social novel, but Horror Movie ensured I’ll read more! I’m a sucker for cursed media stories, and Tremblay infuses his with an addictive mix of lingering guilt & looming dread. Read with the lights on!

The cover of Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay, depicting an old damaged VHS tape against a black backdrop.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Looking forward to grabbing a copy of [Unannounced Project] when it comes out [TBD]!

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular 2026 Day 5: For anyone who thought the relationship in Wuthering Heights wasn’t toxic enough, here’s @claymcleod.bsky.social’s Devil Inside, a true horrormance about the most possessive duo you’ll ever know. Chapman knows how to make your heart pound in every sense. Soulful.

Cover of Devil Inside by Clay McLeod Chapman, depicting the silhouettes of a man and a woman, the woman with bright green horns, against a purple background. They are encircled by a bike chain and surrounded by green symbols: a skull? A meat tenderizer, an eye with a swirl in the pupil, a drill, a busted bike, a star, among others.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular Day 4: If you prefer your horror blended with epic fantasy, Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire trilogy will scratch that itch. Compelling first person narration meets deep worldbuilding and pretty wild levels of gore for a singular reading experience, and the pages fly by.

Cover of Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff, depicting a pale shirtless man with a sword against a backdrop of bloody, snarling animals.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

…writers, directors, and studio execs (surprise, the Weinsteins are bad guys!), and even giving insight into the novelizations, the book focuses on the stories of Halloween and how they developed. With tons of interviews, it’s a must-read for any slasher fan. 2/3

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular Day 3: For anyone who believes horror movies, even compromised ones, have staying power, Taking Shape by Dustin McNeill and Travis Mullins is the book for you. Tracking every Halloween film (through 2018) from the idea stage to completion, chronicling warfare between… 1/2

Cover of Taking Shape, depicting a Jack-o-lantern and a kitchen knife against the silhouetted starry background of a quiet neighborhood.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@rachelharrison.bsky.social’s newest, Kiss Slay Replay, is maybe my favorite book of hers yet. It’s a time loop story for the ages where it’s not enough for you to have INTERNALIZED anxiety. Funny, scary, gory, and like the best time loop stories, makes you want to live each day to the fullest. 2/2

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Booksky Spooktacular Day 2: Imagine the anxiety of going to a friend’s wedding where your ex will be a guest (along with his new partner). Now imagine you’re stuck in a loop, repeating that day. Oh, and each time, you and everyone else dies in increasingly bizarre ways… 1/2

Cover for Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison, depicting a knife stabbing into a wedding cake, which drips blood. There are weird “echo images” of this radiating off to one side.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s time for the #Booksky 2026 Spooktacular! Day 1 belongs to @craigdilouie.bsky.social’s The Summer Fun Massacre, where a detective story meets a slasher for a killer thriller that still has space for explorations of grief, trauma, and old loves. (Plus it’s getting a sequel soon!)

Cover of The Summet Fun Massacre by Craig DiLouie, designed to look like an old VHS cover bearing the image of a cabin in the woods and a bloodstained wooden sign bearing the novel’s title.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...

A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's search results reflect who paid the biggest bribe, not who has the best product. To pay for those bribes, platform sellers have to raise prices. 23/

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hey, sometimes he doesn’t see people to say hi to them, but he’s got that covered too.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mogo. Mo’ go, mo’ problems.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Let me guess, Kyle Rayner book? Revenge of the Fridge?

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We need to start writing near-future science fiction that refers back to a period in the past known only as 'The Last Days of the Billionaires'. There'd be no obligation to explain what happened to them, just that it was historically inevitable. Let us create the expectation of world without them.

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Honestly heartbroken and shocked -- I'm sorry if you're hearing it from me the Parton family just announced Dolly Parton's passing. No I'm not making this up, but I am an extremely hot mess. www.instagram.com/reels/DceNXg...

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Dolly Parton on Instagram: "A message from the family of Dolly Parton."

38K likes, 3,435 comments - dollyparton on August 25, 2026: "A message from the family of Dolly Parton.".

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hey Colorado Springs #Booksky peeps: the Basecamp Book Bash is ON! I’ll be saying hi and signing books until 6 or when I run out. Basecamp Books and Adventure— see you there!

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Preaching to the Choir, the new @aptshadow.bsky.social novella, is for anyone who’s seen that the richest people are Not Like Us. It’s got the creeping dread of a great horror movie, one Tchaikovsky’s Big Ideas at its center, and is paced beautifully. I read it in two greedy sittings. #Booksky

Cover for Preaching to the Choir by Adrian Tchaikovsky, depicting a white silhouette of a woman against a blue-tinted backdrop of an old mansion, a skull superimposed on the woman’s silhouette.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

"Eugène Delacroix's painting 'La Liberté guidant le peuple' ('Liberty Leading the People'), depicting the French revolution as a ragtag group of peasants led by a flag-waving, bare-breasted incarnation of 'Liberty.' The painting has been altered: the scene is now being observed with a giant, smoke-shrouded CCTV dome, and the distant building have been replaced with a mainframe computer.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Victoria Goddard’s The Hands of the Emperor Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree K. Arsenault Rivera’s The Tiger’s Daughter Robin Hobb’s Ship of Magic Becky Chambers’s The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

As always, @doctorow.pluralistic.net meets the moment with a scathing takedown of Zuckerberg in the midst of what feels like Facebook’s prolonged death spiral.

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hey #Booksky, Vow of Ashes just might be @ddalglish.com’s best work yet, an emotionally raw and deeply moving story about dignity in death and the nature of commitment. It’s remarkable how much of a punch it packs into so small a page count. Read it, and have some tissues handy. 100% recommended!

Cover of Vow of Ashes by David Dalglish, with the title in a handwritten, glowing style against a black backdrop with embers and white feathers drifting around the border

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

POV: You’re an #author at a signing (It’s me. It’s my signing. Swing by the Barnes & Noble First and Main in Colorado Springs!) #Booksky

Picture from behind a signing table at a bookstore

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Spoken like someone who has such sights to show you

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Stoppe callinge them Data Centers and starte callinge them slop hellmouths

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Signing starts at 2! Barnes & Noble Citadel Colorado Springs, CO #author #indie #signing #Booksky

Picture of me (Trey Weller) peeking over a copy of Knight of the Chalice. I’m wearing a hat.

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Dr. Bones @directorbones.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The last 50 years of deregulation have been a long line of people getting mad the bungee cord pulls them back right before their sick swan dive gets to the good part

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Trey Weller @treyweller.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Psst… there’s still some signed copies of Rapscallion and Knight of the Chalice left at Barnes & Noble 1st and Main in Colorado Springs. Get them while they last! #Booksky #author #indie #signed

Copies of Knight of the Chalice and Rapscallion (my books) on a shelf in a bookstore with “Signed Edition” stickers on them

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