Ross E. Lockhart
@lossrockhart.bsky.social
An invisible whistling octopus. Runs Word Horde and the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic. He/Him/They/Them
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
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Did I make it into @reactorsff.bsky.social's Reading the Weird? Well, not directly. But my mention in @johnlangan.bsky.social's "Errata" did.
Reader Beware: John Langan’s “Errata” - Reactor
A glimpse inside the dark and twisted horror of modern publishing...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Did I make it into @reactorsff.bsky.social's Reading the Weird? Well, not directly. But my mention in @johnlangan.bsky.social's "Errata" did.
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Today is my birthday, and the best present you could get me would be to buy yourself a little something from among my @wordhorde.bsky.social books!
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October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Today is my birthday, and the best present you could get me would be to buy yourself a little something from among my @wordhorde.bsky.social books!
wordhorde.com/authors/orri...
wordhorde.com/authors/orri...
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Tomorrow is my birthday, and you'll likely see a post similar to this then, but if you want to get me a present AND get yourself a little something, it's a perfect time to buy my latest book (or any of my other books):
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October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tomorrow is my birthday, and you'll likely see a post similar to this then, but if you want to get me a present AND get yourself a little something, it's a perfect time to buy my latest book (or any of my other books):
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
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California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.
October 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.
We at the @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social approve of this message!
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We at the @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social approve of this message!
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Today is publication day for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from @wordhorde.bsky.social, so it seems serendipitous that I also got my author copies today!
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Today is publication day for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from @wordhorde.bsky.social, so it seems serendipitous that I also got my author copies today!
The FB algorithm, which is generally 💩 served up these Godzilla posters this morning, and they’re absolutely atomic breath fire! Feel free to pass them along to your friends! 🦖
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The FB algorithm, which is generally 💩 served up these Godzilla posters this morning, and they’re absolutely atomic breath fire! Feel free to pass them along to your friends! 🦖
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Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!
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wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
October 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today is the official book birthday of NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, my latest book from Word Horde!
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
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Order now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social), most online retailers, or direct from Word Horde.
Get ready to travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey!
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Get ready to travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey!
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Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle
Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle at independent booksellers everywhere, and most online retailer…
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October 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Order now from local independent booksellers everywhere (including @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social), most online retailers, or direct from Word Horde.
Get ready to travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey!
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
Get ready to travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey!
wordhorde.com/books/notes-...
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Happy Book Birthday to Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, the new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton @orringrey.com! 🥳
October 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Happy Book Birthday to Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, the new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton @orringrey.com! 🥳
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31 Days of Horror. One horror book per day until Halloween…though I’m doing two today since i missed yesterday
Days 11 and 12: The Fisherman by John Langan and The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper.
Days 11 and 12: The Fisherman by John Langan and The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper.
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
31 Days of Horror. One horror book per day until Halloween…though I’m doing two today since i missed yesterday
Days 11 and 12: The Fisherman by John Langan and The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper.
Days 11 and 12: The Fisherman by John Langan and The Worm and His Kings by Hailey Piper.
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Hey, Northern California — my debut storybook is back in stock right now at @wordhorde.bsky.social. Thank you, @lossrockhart.bsky.social! And for those who live in the #BayArea — lemme know if I should come do a book signing in your region. It’s being considered, so let’s hear from you. 👀 #goth
October 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hey, Northern California — my debut storybook is back in stock right now at @wordhorde.bsky.social. Thank you, @lossrockhart.bsky.social! And for those who live in the #BayArea — lemme know if I should come do a book signing in your region. It’s being considered, so let’s hear from you. 👀 #goth
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Book 2 for #SpookyBookSeason: Orrin Grey's Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts! Orrin's work manages to capture the "fun" of classic old horror movies while still being good creepy horror. bookshop.org/p/books/pain...
Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts
Check out Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts - ORRIN GREY LOVES MONSTERS. That is abundantly clear in the stories he spins. No matter where he draws inspiration from, whether the weird tales of L...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Book 2 for #SpookyBookSeason: Orrin Grey's Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts! Orrin's work manages to capture the "fun" of classic old horror movies while still being good creepy horror. bookshop.org/p/books/pain...
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A must-read of contemporary horror letters
Book 2 for #SpookyBookSeason: Orrin Grey's Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts! Orrin's work manages to capture the "fun" of classic old horror movies while still being good creepy horror. bookshop.org/p/books/pain...
Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts
Check out Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts - ORRIN GREY LOVES MONSTERS. That is abundantly clear in the stories he spins. No matter where he draws inspiration from, whether the weird tales of L...
bookshop.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A must-read of contemporary horror letters
To paraphrase James Carville:
It’s the guns, you absolute bell ends.
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It’s the guns, you absolute bell ends.
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September 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
To paraphrase James Carville:
It’s the guns, you absolute bell ends.
🔫
It’s the guns, you absolute bell ends.
🔫
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This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
A Tale of Demonic Possession in the Vein of ‘The Exorcist’
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August 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
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My conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social on his new collection LOST IN THE DARK turns to the numinous as he describes a ghostly encounter. Plus: we compare John's view of the dif between horror & the weird with @lairdbarron.bsky.social's & @michaelcisco.bsky.social's!
youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
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CHTHONICA #11: Lost in the Dark with John Langan
YouTube video by Chthonica
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August 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social on his new collection LOST IN THE DARK turns to the numinous as he describes a ghostly encounter. Plus: we compare John's view of the dif between horror & the weird with @lairdbarron.bsky.social's & @michaelcisco.bsky.social's!
youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
youtu.be/6j6suOg1lBc?...
International scams, bookstore events, the labor movement, and all the hottest books in Petaluma, CA.
www.petaluma360.com/article/ente...
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Rebounding from a book-buying scam, local bookseller looks ahead
After a busy July, with an even busier August ahead, here’s what Petaluma readers are reading right now, plus a sidewalk rally to save Copperfield’s.
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August 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
International scams, bookstore events, the labor movement, and all the hottest books in Petaluma, CA.
www.petaluma360.com/article/ente...
www.petaluma360.com/article/ente...
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John Langan, the author of THE FISHERMAN, returns with 13 new tales of cosmic horror: www.amazon.com/Lost-Dark-Ot...
Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by @victorlavalle.bsky.social.
Join me Sunday for a conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrC...
Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by @victorlavalle.bsky.social.
Join me Sunday for a conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrC...
August 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
John Langan, the author of THE FISHERMAN, returns with 13 new tales of cosmic horror: www.amazon.com/Lost-Dark-Ot...
Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by @victorlavalle.bsky.social.
Join me Sunday for a conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrC...
Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by @victorlavalle.bsky.social.
Join me Sunday for a conversation with @johnlangan.bsky.social!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKrC...
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All month long, we’ve been celebrating INDEPENDENTS—publishers who keep the indie spirit alive by bringing you the best in horror, fantasy, and sci-fi (plus LGBTQIA+ fiction, weird fiction, Bizarro & more!).
August 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
All month long, we’ve been celebrating INDEPENDENTS—publishers who keep the indie spirit alive by bringing you the best in horror, fantasy, and sci-fi (plus LGBTQIA+ fiction, weird fiction, Bizarro & more!).
I’ve got a thing in the latest Forbidden Futures! Here’s your chance to preorder a copy. Or several copies.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’ve got a thing in the latest Forbidden Futures! Here’s your chance to preorder a copy. Or several copies.
forbiddenfuturesmagazine.com
forbiddenfuturesmagazine.com
I don’t believe in an afterlife, except as literary metaphor, let alone the image of an escalator leading there, but I do chuckle at the idea of Shunsaku Tamiya and Ozzy Osbourne having an awkward escalator conversation about model airplane glue while en route to their destinations.
July 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I don’t believe in an afterlife, except as literary metaphor, let alone the image of an escalator leading there, but I do chuckle at the idea of Shunsaku Tamiya and Ozzy Osbourne having an awkward escalator conversation about model airplane glue while en route to their destinations.
It’s telling that rock ‘n’ roll’s Dark Prince, in his final public act, raised $200 million for charity, while across the world, so-called Christians build prisons, spread hatred, and worship money.
July 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It’s telling that rock ‘n’ roll’s Dark Prince, in his final public act, raised $200 million for charity, while across the world, so-called Christians build prisons, spread hatred, and worship money.
When I was a kid, my cousins locked me in their weed-scented back yard shed decorated with black velvet clowns and played Black Sabbath’s We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll at maximum volume, planning to scare the hell out of me.
July 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
When I was a kid, my cousins locked me in their weed-scented back yard shed decorated with black velvet clowns and played Black Sabbath’s We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll at maximum volume, planning to scare the hell out of me.