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Chris Campeau
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Dark fiction & nonfiction (HWA) | RESISTERS out now from Anuci Press 🧊 👻 | chriscampeau.com
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RESISTERS, my debut novella—my single-serving love letter to rural Ontario and the Ice Storm of 1998—is available now!

Ghosts!
Ice!
A rapid descent into madness!

Get it here.👇

✅ Anuci Press
✅ Chapters Indigo
✅ Barnes & Noble
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Resisters by Chris Campeau is a chilling novella set amidst a winter ice storm. What lies in wait within those cold winter winds? #Horror #SSBA2025 semifinals. #BookSky
💙📚 @chriscampeau.bsky.social @tonyanuci.bsky.social @specawards.bsky.social

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October 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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RESISTERS (@tonyanuci.bsky.social) by @chriscampeau.bsky.social is a semifinalist for the 2025 Small Spec Book Awards! Congratulations!

#SSBA #SSBA2025
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Jazzed to see RESISTERS made the cut!
It is time to announce the semifinalists for the Small Spec Book Awards.

Thank you to our readers, who worked diligently to assign ratings to all books. The competition was close.

Authors, we hope you are proud of your stories because we are. Thank you for sharing them with us.
September 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Is growing old just cutting yourself shaving every time because you’re growing too many skin tags? If so, then this friend of mine is really starting to show his age.
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Hi, void.

AFTER DARK VOL 1 is out in under two weeks. I’m so excited to see my story “Anchor Tenant” included in this horror anthology from @rowanprosepub.bsky.social.

I used to think I’d never escape my retail job. I did. But my main character doesn’t. Get it September 2!
August 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME. @natcassidy.bsky.social. A certain undoing of a certain character (that’s vague enough to be spoiler-free, right?). Now that’s a piece of writing. 👏🏼
July 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
What’s up, void? Another story acceptance just came in hot. This one’s personal. Bleak. So excited to be working with the fine folks at @exposedbonemag.bsky.social. More to come!
June 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hello, void. Cool news.

My story "Anchor Tenant"—about a mall that'll swallow you whole—will be featured in this jam-packed horror anthology from the fine folks at @rowanprosepub.bsky.social.

Anyone who's worked retail will want to give this story a read. Coming late summer!
April 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Hi. Another post into the void. (Maybe one day my kid will read these when I’m gone—who knows.) Anyway: got a story accepted today, so that’s cool.
April 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Always exciting hearing your work narrated. Listen to my new short story, “Lizard Brain,” on the Alphanumeric podcast—wherever you get your podcasts, or here: www.zoeticpress.com/alphanumeric...

Thanks, @zoeticpress.bsky.social!
Lizard Brain — Zoetic Press
Carlin knows he’s a goner the second he drops his Slush Puppie—Lemon Lime and an honest mistake. One sip deep, it erupts at his feet in a syrupy-green geyser, showering the back of the driver’s seat. ...
www.zoeticpress.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
A young boy starts to question whether his mother is more predator than parent in my latest short story, “Lizard Brain,” which you can read this very moment (among other stories and poems) in Issue #39 of NonBinary Review from @zoeticpress.bsky.social.

www.zoeticpress.com/issue-39-mis...
March 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
#TheMonkey manages to be hilarious, creepy, and a surprising look at the generational curse of dysfunctional fatherhood. All in 90 minutes.

Also? It’s just fun as hell.
February 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Just got a proof copy of the new issue of NonBinary Review from @zoeticpress.bsky.social. I can’t wait to share my latest story with you all. In the meantime, Google filial cannibalism. Have fun! 🦎
February 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#HeartEyes — the rom-com horror mashup we didn’t know we needed, complete with a bizarre runaway plot and half-baked characters, but if you go into it not taking it seriously, you’ll have a bloody good time. 😍
February 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Congratulations to @chriscampeau.bsky.social! His book, RESISTERS, has been nominated for the 2025 @specawards.bsky.social by @tonyanuci.bsky.social.

#SSBA #BookSky #indiepress #bookawards #horror
February 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If Casper the friendly ghost was a queer teenaged girl trying to save her only friends from a demon impersonator.

Just finished this batshit crazy book by @mmcsw13.bsky.social and loved every hilarious, horrifying page. Read it!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

cc: @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Huge congrats to everyone on the #Stokers prelim ballot. Every category is stacked! 👏🏼
January 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
27 years ago today towns across eastern Ontario declared states of emergency and set up temporary shelters as power grids failed under up to four inches of ice.

Here’s a story about a man who refused to leave his home—and faced his demons as a result.

Chapters! Barnes & Noble! Get it wherever!
January 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Got a surprise story acceptance today from the fine folks at @zoeticpress.bsky.social. Publishing March ‘25. Nice way to end the year!
December 31, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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Some of my favorite #horror #novellas of 2024:

#booksky
December 30, 2024 at 8:22 PM
He sees you when you’re sleeping.

My story “All Alone on Christmas,” about a retiree’s solo holiday getaway spoiled by a severely frost-bitten, sinister Santa Claus, is featured in the super rad WIGHT CHRISTMAS anthology from Toronto-based tdotSpec.

Grab yours 👉 a.co/d/3mKIyLO
December 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Christmas came early!
…and we’re back!

The NEW episode of Talking Scared is the annual, mammoth year-in-review of horror.

With @emilyhughes.bsky.social, @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social and @annarosereads.bsky.social we look back at the highest highs of 2024, and ahead to the books that have us shivering for 2025!
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Can't believe I just discovered She Wore Black. Love the conversation between @agathaandrews.bsky.social and @timmcgregor.bsky.social—and Tim's advice on character (which I struggle with): once you have your premise, think about the person who's least prepared to take that journey. Simple but solid.
December 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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McSweeney’s made trading cards for horror authors. Includes many I adore, old and new, with “complete career stats”!

@tananarivedue.bsky.social @sgj.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @joshmalerman.bsky.social
@brianevenson.bsky.social
And I’m in there, too.
December 14, 2024 at 9:50 PM
It’s been a minute—I’ve been busy promoting the novella and, honestly, just generally fatigued with writing—but I’m starting to feel good about a few short stories I’ve been chipping away at.

No better feeling than breaking through the block. 💪
December 12, 2024 at 8:53 PM