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Malcolm Devlin
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I've been procrastinating on the right moment to share this, but the cover release and opening pre-orders might just be it.

AGENCY by me!

It's a cosmic horror about commercial landlords from nether-hell dimensions. #nonfiction #fnar

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GBYKFTV8
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Agency by George Sandison. The cover of the Tor Original ebook, showing a key in the shape of a key. The book is a cosmic horror short story about landlords predating on human souls. Arguably non-fiction really.
December 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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carrielaben.com
"...Ursula would walk into town each morning because she imagined her sister’s house was pushing her out like a splinter of wood under the skin."

#ghostadvent Night 17: Her Alberta by @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/her-alberta
Two very similarly-colored light-gray red-eyed marten rats. The left, smaller one is Cervantes, nearly a month old, and the right, larger one is his mother Cowen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
One for those 'most anticipated books of next year' lists. Allan on Priest on Ballard and everything in between.
The Illuminated Man. Life, Death and the Worlds of JG Ballard by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan. This book is about J. G. Ballard. This book is also about death, love and time travel. In 2024, Nina Allan's husband, the novelist Christopher Priest died. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, which had metastasised into the bones, the same disease that killed the man whose biography he'd spent his last months working on - the cult author, J. G. Ballard. J. G. Ballard possessed one of the most astonishing imaginations of our age, and he had an intense and turbulent history: a childhood spent in the encroaching shadow of World War II, teenage internment in a Japanese prison camp - an experience famously fictionalised in Empire of the Sun. Ballard's novels are among the finest and most unusual fiction that has ever been published. Whether in the hyper-surrealism of High Rise or the erotic violence of Crash, he upended the morality and reality of our world. Christopher knew many of Ballard's friends and colleagues personally. As a young writer, it had been Ballard's stories, most of all, that had helped cement his passion for science fiction. With much of their early work published in the same magazines, Priest knew about Ballard's world from the inside. He set out to write a biography that would make people understand what he already knew: that J. G. Ballard wasn't just a cult writer - he was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. When Nina and Christopher first met, they bonded over their love for Ballard's writing, rereading his novels and stories together many times. When it became clear that Christopher would not have time to finish this biography, Nina promised him that she would complete it, patching together with her own voice the gaps that remained. If the book began as a tribute from Priest to Ballard, it is now also a love story written by Nina for Christopher. With access to never-before-seen material, The Illuminated Man explores the history and themes of Ballard's life and - with Ballardian strangeness - celebrates and mourns for those that are gone. This is the story of two deaths, three science fiction writers and one attempt to turn back time.
December 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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chloroformtea.bsky.social
A review! By a me! Of a very interesting book indeed.
danhartland.bsky.social Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 24d
You know how this works: I do a Bluesky, it's a review, you click.

This week's first piece is from none other than @chloroformtea.bsky.social, on Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings (@torbooks.bsky.social). What emerges is a discussion of a novel that holds itself back. "Is it a weakness to be so coy?"
Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings
Is it a weakness to be coy about a story’s focal points?
strangehorizons.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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jonathanstrahan.bsky.social
The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 7
Jonathan talks to BSFA Award winner Aliya Whitely about what she's been reading, would recommend and has coming up.

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Episode 695: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 7 - Aliya Whitely
Today Jonathan sits down with British SF Award winner and Arthur C. Clarke Award, BFA, and Tiptree Award nominee Aliya Whiteley to talk about what she's been reading and would recommend as the holiday...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
Half Price Engines Beneath Us and You Will Grow Into Them and other Influx goodies. And a very tangential excuse to repost this picture of my son's Halloween Lego house even though neither it nor the books have anything to do with Black Friday.
You Will Grow Into Them by Malcolm Devlin and Engines Beneath Us by Malcom Devlin. Plus a Lego Halloween house all backlit and spooky, if that's your thing.
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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influxpress.bsky.social
We're running a big #BlackFridaySale!

All Influx titles in paperback and eBook are a full 50% off (+P&P) until November 30th

Just use discount code BFRIDAY25 at checkout.

influxpress.com/shop
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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tashanmehta.bsky.social
MAD SISTERS OF ESI is one of The Washington Post’s 10 best SFF novels of 2025. In the sheer amount of what gets published each year and what gets lost, this feels like a small, precious miracle ❤️
The cover of MAD SISTERS OF ESI with "The Washington Post" written above it and "Best SFF Novel of 2025" written below it. A picture of The Washington Post article. Title reads "10 best sci-fi and fantasy novels of 2025" and the subtitle reads "From an indigenous vampire story to the tale of two sisters living in a cosmic whale, this year's books kept us guessing." The Washington Post review of MAD SISTERS OF ESI. It reads: "Two sisters live inside a cosmic whale, visiting the innumerable worlds within its body, until one of them escapes into the universe outside. There, she uncovers the whale's origin story, which lies with another pair of sisters who lived on a shape-shifting island where everyone goes mad once a century. A poetic, metaphysical epic, "Mad Sisters" feels like it's in conversation with other recent books about people in surreal, liminal spaces questioning what everything means - and it's my absolute favorite book of the year. (Book World review.)"
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
I'm incredibly excited that this is coming out next year. Translated by the brilliant María Pilar San Román and published by @obscuraed.bsky.social.
obscuraed.bsky.social Obscura Editorial @obscuraed.bsky.social · Nov 22
FEBRERO:
Y entonces desperté (And Then I Woke Up) @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
Trad. Mª Pilar San Román
Prólogo @toliol.bsky.social

Los monstruos gobiernan las calles. O puede que lo que ocurra sea algo diferente.
Cuando un virus afecta a cómo se percibe la realidad es difícil estar seguro de nada.
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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leighloveday.bsky.social
Bookmail! October sale pickups! From Influx Press! They arrived over a week ago but the cats liked sitting on the parcel and it is illegal to move them!
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand, Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin, and Fizz the cat who is about 13 years old and has still not written a single book
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Groke AI
Boy cocking his head watching The Groke show up in the 90s Moomin cartoon.
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
Fantastic news, this. Nina Allan wins the Prix Médicis étranger for The Good Neighbours.
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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niallharrison.bsky.social
As if by magic, this review (the Swift one, aka read this everyone) is now online. locusmag.com/review/when-...
October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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solarisbooks.bsky.social
Feb 2026 brings a new standalone novel from the Queen of Speculative Fiction: Arthur C. Clarke award-nominated Aliya Whiteley!

Here's what @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @manuscriptgal.bsky.social @timjmajor.bsky.social & @catamaroon.bsky.social thought of it!

Preorder geni.us/misheardw
Preorder Now! February 2026 “Riveting, weird, unpredictable, and magnificent.” - Oliver K. Langmead “Whiteley never puts a foot wrong... another triumph to add to her list of many.” - Tim Major “Taut and surprising...A stunning achievement.” - Helen Marshall “Artfully woven and humming with the power and possibilities of the spoken word.” - E. J. Swift Against a black sandy background white and lilac text surrounding a 3D Hardback of THE MISHEARD WORLD by Aliya Whiteley.
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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15% off all Cloisterfox zines from now until Halloween! We've got stories by Robert Shearman, Ally Wilkes, Malcolm Devlin, and many more. Give one to a child instead of sweets and completely derail their psychological development.

www.etsy.com/shop/cloiste...
Sale graphic featuring a sassy skeleton
October 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Half price for Halloween. You Will Grow Into Them, Engines Beneath Us and a whole lot of other excellent Influx paperbacks including Joel Lane, Elizabeth Hand and more.
You Will Grow Into Them and Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin and a Lego haunted house. Oooooooooh.
October 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
Half price for Halloween. You Will Grow Into Them, Engines Beneath Us and a whole lot of other excellent Influx paperbacks including Joel Lane, Elizabeth Hand and more.
You Will Grow Into Them and Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin and a Lego haunted house. Oooooooooh.
October 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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influxpress.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-p...
Indie presses in ‘existential crisis’ call for trade support
More than 20 independent publishing houses – including Bluemoose Books, Tilted Axis Press and Influx Press – have written an open letter calling for the trade to “work together to ensure the longevity...
www.thebookseller.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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catamaroon.bsky.social
When There Are Wolves Again is out in the UK today! I wrote something about the book, and keeping going, and some personal stuff I dithered over but, well, it's been A Year.

I'm so glad the book is out there and thank you so much to everyone who has supported it 🐺🤍

ejswift.co.uk/2025/10/09/w...
Hardback edition of When There Are Wolves Again by E. J. Swift, with cover featuring a wolf and branch/leaf/flower design, photographed in the garden with the author's cat in the background being dramatic
October 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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manuscriptgal.bsky.social
Like Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita? The Lady, The Tiger, and the Girl Who Loved Death weaves together magic, political spectacle, and the power of storytelling in a world where reality and illusion blur dangerously together. Out from @titanbooks.bsky.social now!

#DarkFantasy #CircusBooks
October 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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mkhardywrites.com
Thanks to @argonautbooks.bsky.social for sending M home with this one last month; she inhaled it this evening in the pub with a soundtrack of 90s and 00s Britpop, which was apparently "A++ vibes" for this unsettling little read.
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · Sep 24
Gottle of gears. Very happy that this one has had a new lease of life.
Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin (published by Influx Press). Folk horror! (Ish) But in a housing estate with a weird bit in a cellar.
September 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
This is absolutely wonderful news.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
Gottle of gears. Very happy that this one has had a new lease of life.
Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin (published by Influx Press). Folk horror! (Ish) But in a housing estate with a weird bit in a cellar.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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stinasdemons.com
💙📚🩸 You will start & finish this in a day. It's equally chilling and heartfelt, immediately grabs you, and has much to say on reality and perception. An incredibly relevant, compelling, and scary book ⬇️
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social · Sep 18
Just putting this here. Again.
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin. Frustratingly still topical. I mean, really. Come on. Seriously though.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
malcolmdevlin.bsky.social
Just putting this here. Again.
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin. Frustratingly still topical. I mean, really. Come on. Seriously though.
September 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM