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Antonija Mežnarić
@antonijamezni.bsky.social
She/her. Croatian writer & editor at Shtriga and Morina kutija. Living and breathing speculative fiction.
Writes queer horror and fantasy.
hauntednarratives.com
Happy pub day to this #ecohorror bug extravaganza by my dear friend and colleague, Lea Katarina Gobec. Both stories in here remind us that we are so terribly small in the vastness of nature. 🦋 🩸📚

books2read.com/u/m0Lo0P
September 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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The Substance (2024) (dir. Coralie Fargeat)
August 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
We're currently looking for ARC readers who are fans of #ecohorror & would like to learn what kinds of ravenous dangers lurk in a hidden Croatian national park & a primeval forest. This book is brimming with insects, oozing with decay, and hits hard with sadness. 🦋 🩸📚

shtriga.com/arcteamsignup/
July 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The signups for the August sale are open!

Click here to receive your invitation: www.subscribepage.io/NIS

Click here to bookmark the sale page: indiebook.sale
July 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
For fans of: queer horror, found footage, folklore, and nightmarish hiking trips, my folk horror book The Lost Treasure Hunters and Other Tales of Folk Terrors is up for grabs for $/€.99. Today is the last day of the sale!

🌈📚 🩸📚
June 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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It's #Pride2025! To celebrate, may I present you with 4 thoroughly queer anthologies and a thoroughly gay short story collection that I never thought I'd get to write.

To win an eBook copy of the latter, just fave and RT this post.

I'll announce the ✨5✨ winners at the end of June.
🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️📚💙
June 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Did you know that Haunt is a queer-led press?

We publish horror that doesn’t use harmful tropes in the representation of queer people. We want to celebrate horror queerness in all it’s gory glory!

Why not use our current 30% discount (ends 11:59pm 15 June!) to treat yourself to some queer horror?
June 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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There's a lot of reasons to be angry right now, so we're smashing into Pride 2025 with a gang of radical queer writers and a brand new book.

We're channeling our fury into a new collection of biting, blood-splattered stories at the cutting edge of fantasy, horror and science fiction.
June 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Happy #PrideMonth to all our lovely readers, from the heart of the rainbow-strewn Batcave

We (and our books) are pretty gay all year round... but rest assured, we'll be gaying it up extra hard these next 4 weeks

Keep reading. Keep fighting. And above all... keep it queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦇
June 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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My friends are doing a horror anthology about messed up deer.

Get your copy in the kickstarter! 🩸📚

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...
THE DEER IS MESSED UP
An anthology of horror stories about f*cked up deer. Edited by Theodore Hill and Merc Fenn Wolfmoor.
www.kickstarter.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Seriously Google? How does your "AI" get "but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories" from the countless news stories written about us NOT WANTING GENERATED STORIES and actively fighting against them. Oh wait, it's not actually intelligent, is it? Just bullshit all the way down
March 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm dead 😆 we need more promo like this

(also read the book, for the dog and bc it's great and a lot of fun)
#Chaospit #transhorror #indiehorror

Buy this book for the dog in slow motion and the stock model staring at the beach!

books2read.com/u/boB9YL
April 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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🔥OUT NOW 🔥

A very happy book birthday to EVERY DARK CLOUD, an eco-horror novella about the beauty unearthed in the wake of disaster.

Gorgeous cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social. Get it now from @ghostorchidpress.com & anywhere books are sold 🖤
March 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Finished The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra - a weird, fun queer horror comedy that's just the right amount of angsty. And at one point gets super dark. The last 200ish pages were so intense I couldn't stop reading, and the ending is perfect. 🌈📚🩸

That would be book 2 done for #trr25
March 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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If you're looking for some #transhorror that's off the beaten path for the #transrightsreadathon, my queer horror comedy, The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle combines the atmosphere of Twin Peaks with a contemporary story about monstrosity & onlineness that's full of twists and turns!

books2read.com/u/boB9YL
March 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Friends of Change

The light is doing me good ☀️

#art #animalart #fox #traditionalart
March 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Me when it’s time for the #TransRightsReadathon
March 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Just finished The Second Rebel by Linden A. Lewis. In time for #TransRightsReadathon! So one book down for day 1. Not bad 😄
(This book had me on edge! I absolutely recommend this trilogy for fans of space opera, spy shenanigans, rebellions, and women's rage narratives.)
📚🪐
March 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Hello #TransRightsReadathon would you possibly like to read a book created by the two stupid hands of a real life trans man

If so boy do I have an proposal for you

store.tenebrouspress.com/products/fro...
March 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Our ep with @hildur.bsky.social is now out, just in time for women in horror month! We had such a lovely time chatting about Icelandic sffh publishing, her books, translations, and differences in publishing. Thank you so much for your time, Hildur! 💙
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open.spotify.com/episode/1OMn...
S04E15: Books, Iceland, and Horror - a chat with Hildur Knútsdóttir
Mora FM · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The Shape of Stones, the first short story I have ever written in English, is out today! 🥳
As a young scholar sets out on a research project to find the stones where the settlers of Iceland made human sacrifices, a long-dormant volcano rouses...and other, long-sleeping horrors might also be stirring.

"The Shape of Stones" by @hildur.bsky.social is out now!

reactormag.com/the-shape-of...
The Shape of Stones - Reactor
As a young scholar sets out on a research project to find the stones where the settlers of Iceland made human sacrifices, a long dormant volcano rouses...and other, long-sleeping horrors might also be...
reactormag.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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We couldn't wait! In the first of many announcements from the Batcave over the next few weeks, we're beyond excited to reveal the cover for GOOD FOR HER: tales tales of rage, revenge & retribution from some of the best female horror writers out there, with 100% of profits donated to Sisters Uncut
March 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Since it's International Women's Day, and a bunch of white nationalist misogynists seem intent on making life miserable for the rest of us... can I interest anyone in Tradwife?

Could be cathartic. It certainly was for me

payhip.com/b/TDowG
March 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM