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Nefarious Bat Press
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We're a women-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, operated by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney

We like intersectional feminism. A lot

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www.nefariousbatpress.com

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 24d
FEATHERS has had a makeover... and we couldn't be happier!

(A quick 🧵)
New cover for TC Parker's A Press of Feathers Cover has a maroon background, with 4 framed central images Clockwise from top left: - Victorian-era portrait of a giant bird - medical illustration of a human head, side-on, skinless with muscle etc visible - Victoria-era white (likely English) woman posing for daguerreotype - a clawed human hand, covered in dirt, breaking the frame to reach out towards the audience
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
Feathers: still completely free to you and yours until Sunday!
December 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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tcparker.bsky.social
Happy holidays Gabino!

If you're after a selection box collection of monstrous, Magnus Archives-style short stories this Boxing Day... The Nine O'Clock Horses may be for you

Get it here: www.amazon.com/Nine-OClock-...

Or here, direct from Nefarious Bat: payhip.com/b/1xHIf
A selection box of chocolates under a Christmas tree. On the left side of the box sits a copy of The Nine O'Clock Horses
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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If you didn’t get a book as a gift, the bats have you covered! And, even if you did, you could always use another. #booksky
December 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Merry Christmas!

Get your free/PWYW copy of A PRESS OF FEATHERS here, if you're not already crushed by the weight of that festive TBR!
A Press of Feathers
Anger... it can eat you alive.Bea's angry - more than ever, since her husband left her.Lou's angry - especially since she lost her job and her flat and had to move back in with her parents.And whoever...
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December 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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When the holidays feel overwhelming... read a book!
December 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Support indie horror this holiday season, please. We need you. We're waiting for you to find us. Click on any of the presses to find rad horror titles now.

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December 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Got my @tcparker.bsky.social "Tradwife" from @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social!

Very unusual and clever setup. Definitely worth a read! 💯📖
A photo of the book "Tradwife" by TC Parker
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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sorkatani.bsky.social
So far, I've liked all of the short story collections by T. C. Parker that I've read, so it just made sense to grab this one as well.

#BookSky
#Horror
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 4d
It's Christmas - and to celebrate, we've made the recently-relaunched A Press of Feathers free/PWYW all this week on the Nefarious Bat webstore

Happy holidays! (if haunted houses, sinister neighbours, Victorian asylum ghosts & grisly serial killings are your thing) 🎄🎅

payhip.com/b/jHS8G
Promo image for A Press of Feathers, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" ~ Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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melissaoauthor.bsky.social
TC Parker? Gimme gimmme gimme
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 4d
It's Christmas - and to celebrate, we've made the recently-relaunched A Press of Feathers free/PWYW all this week on the Nefarious Bat webstore

Happy holidays! (if haunted houses, sinister neighbours, Victorian asylum ghosts & grisly serial killings are your thing) 🎄🎅

payhip.com/b/jHS8G
Promo image for A Press of Feathers, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" ~ Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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cepmurphy.bsky.social
Good gnarly horror stuff, check it out if you like horror (and who doesn't?)
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 4d
It's Christmas - and to celebrate, we've made the recently-relaunched A Press of Feathers free/PWYW all this week on the Nefarious Bat webstore

Happy holidays! (if haunted houses, sinister neighbours, Victorian asylum ghosts & grisly serial killings are your thing) 🎄🎅

payhip.com/b/jHS8G
Promo image for A Press of Feathers, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" ~ Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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lu-pa.bsky.social
Happy holidays indeed! Grab this wonderful gift from the Bat store
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 4d
It's Christmas - and to celebrate, we've made the recently-relaunched A Press of Feathers free/PWYW all this week on the Nefarious Bat webstore

Happy holidays! (if haunted houses, sinister neighbours, Victorian asylum ghosts & grisly serial killings are your thing) 🎄🎅

payhip.com/b/jHS8G
Promo image for A Press of Feathers, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" ~ Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
It's Christmas - and to celebrate, we've made the recently-relaunched A Press of Feathers free/PWYW all this week on the Nefarious Bat webstore

Happy holidays! (if haunted houses, sinister neighbours, Victorian asylum ghosts & grisly serial killings are your thing) 🎄🎅

payhip.com/b/jHS8G
Promo image for A Press of Feathers, reading: "WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU MIX DAVID CRONENBERG, CLIVE BARKER AND ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS... A STUNNING READ" ~ Ross Jeffery, author of Juniper and Only The Stains Remain
December 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Merry Christmas, from us and this guy

May your spirits be bright, and free of monsters! 🎄
Seasons greetings image featuring the Nuckelavee, an Orcadian folkloric monster with a human head and long-armed torso sprouting from the body of a zombie-like horse It is skinless, and its eyes burn red It is wearing two hats: an elf hat on its horse-head, and a Santa hat on its human skull. A scarf is draped around its horse-neck, and tinsel adorns its monstrous human chest Text reads: Merry Christmas, from us and this guy
December 22, 2025 at 10:58 AM
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
It's £1.99/$2.99 at the Bad Place right now*... so here's the sort of thing you can expect to find, if you pick up @tcparker.bsky.social's The Debt

www.amazon.com/Debt-El-Gard...

*though, if you wanted to buy it direct from us at the Bat store... we wouldn't hate it
A Plot Recipe infographic for The Debt, identifying it as Crime/Heist and showing the various influences on the book, namely: - Ocean's 8 - The Usual Suspects - Now You See Me - Set It Off - Widows - Leverage
December 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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lu-pa.bsky.social
Or you can head to www.nefariousbatpress.com and buy the whole trilogy for a little more.
Bozo doesn't need to become any richer, buy direct from writers and artists to support them.
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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We cannot emphasise enough how much we do not and will never use LLM text/image extruders in any aspect of our business - creative or administrative

The Bat, and its Bats, are an "AI"-free zone
December 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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THE DEBT is $2.99/£1.99 right now - so now is an excellent time to grab yourself a copy! ⤵️
December 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Bookmail pt. 4 of 4: a @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social haul❤️
-Good for Her: An Anthology of Women’s Rage
-Salt Blood by @tcparker.bsky.social (a gift for someone special because I loved that book)
-Phengaris by Anna Orridge

#booksky #horrorbooks
PB copies of Good For Her, Salt Blood by TC Parker, Phengaris by Anna Orridge -all Nefarious Bat titles
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Thanks, Eryn. Music to my ears this evening :)

Honoured to be reading out the prologue to Phengaris for this event at the weekend, amid this stellar bunch.

#HorrorWritersChat
Living the Scream. Charity stream to benefit the ACLU. Saturday December 13th at 7pm EST.
December 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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tcparker.bsky.social
The Nine O'Clock Horses has been out on ebook for a couple of weeks - and is now available in paperback too!

So: can I tempt you to a collection of Magnus Archives-ish horror shorts?

Feat. urban legends, autophagia, folk horror parodies, transflormation... & more!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2CDXML2
Cover of TC Parker's The Nine O'Clock Horses & Other Stories, showing a black horse's eye and muzzle in closeup against a dark background
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
Relaunched Feathers paperbacks have landed in the Batcave... and they're glorious!
A white person's hand - Shauna's, in fact - holding up a copy of TC Parker's A Press of Feathers against a grey bedspread that, now I look at it, seems oddly reminiscent of some of the ones you used to see everywhere in teen boys' bedrooms in the 80s... Book cover itself is deep red, and shows 4 images in a frame: a Natural History Museum-esque illustration of an oversized bird; an illustrated cross section of a human head and neck, minus skin (with tendons etc showing); a daguerreotype of a woman in Victorian-style dress and hat; and a giant, bestial hand that seems to break the frame and reach for you through the cover
December 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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anna-orridge.bsky.social
Ooooh. Nicely done. Check it out.
nefariousbatpress.bsky.social Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 18d
📣 COVER REVEAL! 📣

We're very, very happy to reveal the cover for @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS - out Halloween '26!

(Cover by Drew themselves, because they're multitalented :) )

Add it to your TBR (and your GR) today!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Cover reveal image of Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS - a book cover on a graded green background Cover shows a sketch of 4 tall, translucent humanoids with long, spindly limbs and glowing gold eyes holding pliers and reads: "The Exodontists: A Horror Novel" Background text reads: "Coming October 2026 from Nefarious Bat Press"
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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shaunamceleney.bsky.social
She's a beaut! Drew creating their own wonderful cover for this one. We are so excited to get it out into the world next October!

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nefariousbatpress.bsky.social Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 18d
📣 COVER REVEAL! 📣

We're very, very happy to reveal the cover for @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS - out Halloween '26!

(Cover by Drew themselves, because they're multitalented :) )

Add it to your TBR (and your GR) today!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Cover reveal image of Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS - a book cover on a graded green background Cover shows a sketch of 4 tall, translucent humanoids with long, spindly limbs and glowing gold eyes holding pliers and reads: "The Exodontists: A Horror Novel" Background text reads: "Coming October 2026 from Nefarious Bat Press"
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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📣 COVER REVEAL! 📣

We're very, very happy to reveal the cover for @drewhuff.bsky.social's THE EXODONTISTS - out Halloween '26!

(Cover by Drew themselves, because they're multitalented :) )

Add it to your TBR (and your GR) today!

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Cover reveal image of Drew Huff's THE EXODONTISTS - a book cover on a graded green background Cover shows a sketch of 4 tall, translucent humanoids with long, spindly limbs and glowing gold eyes holding pliers and reads: "The Exodontists: A Horror Novel" Background text reads: "Coming October 2026 from Nefarious Bat Press"
December 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM