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Antonija Mežnarić
@antonijamezni.bsky.social
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She/her. Croatian writer & editor at Shtriga and Morina kutija. Living and breathing speculative fiction.
Writes queer horror and fantasy.
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antonijamezni.bsky.social
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
The promo image with book mockups for The Last Witch of Lonjsko Polje by Lea Katarina Gobec, published by Shtriga. The mockups are of the paperback and ereader. The cover of the book is of a woman blending into a bark-like background, her face split with a bloody gash over her cheeks and nose, moths crawling out of it all over the woman’s face. The cover is washed in golden hues. The mockup books are on the front right corner of an image of woods from Lonjsko Polje, Croatia’s nature park. The text above the mockups says: Out Now! In ebook and paperback. A witch burdened with pain, a woman cursed with a ravenous inheritance. In the bottom left corner are logos for the retailers: Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple, Vivlio, Everand, and under it is written shtriga.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
The Substance (2024) (dir. Coralie Fargeat)
Pink Godzilla from Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire shedding an older skin
August 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
antonijamezni.bsky.social
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/
The image is a promo pic with the cover of the novella The Last Witch of Lonjsko Polje. The cover of the novella is in soft yellow hues, showing a face of an otherwordly woman whose eyes are black and lensed like the eye of the fly, and through her face is a bloody crack from which fully grown yellowish moths crawl out to, going over the rest of her face and blond hair. The background of the promo pic is a close up of the bark. What to expect question is written above the cover, and the tropes and motifs point toward the cover with the arrows. These are: eco horror, decay, malevolent forests, witches, swampcore, insects, grief. In the bottom right corner is written pre-order and under it are the logos of the Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, Apple and Vivlio.
July 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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narratess.com
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
Banner for the Narratess Indie Book Sale. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Text: Indie Book Sale indiebook.sale Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror August 23 - 25 Banner designed by Arden Powell
July 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
antonijamezni.bsky.social
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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jamesbennett.bsky.social
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.
🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️📚💙
Two red devils entwined makes up the special edition of The Book of Queer Saints Vol I The cover of I Want That Twink Obliterated. A green giant looks over a space magician and warrior on a cratered planet in the foreground. Green tentacles emerge from one crater. A white phallic space station rises in the background. The red flock wallpaper cover of The Dust of the Red Rose Knight. A phallic sword hilt rises on the left of the image. An angel with eviscerated wings and bandages to cover his wounds is the cover for my short story collection Preaching To The Perverted. White feathers drift in the background.
June 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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hauntpublishing.bsky.social
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?
Black background with a rainbow in the middle and three book covers with skulls on.
June 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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bonabooks.bsky.social
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.
A "trope arrows" post, pointing at a mock-up of the cover of Wrath Month, showing a black book with a bright pink sigil. The "tropes" are: Bisexual fury, queer rage, demon hunters, vengeful lesbian witches, antifascist mutant vigilantes, transfem superheroes. A tag line at the bottom reads: Pride Month is OVER.
June 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
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 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦇
The Nefarious Bat logo - a bat, wings spread, silhouetted in flight - set against a rainbow background
June 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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cjsubko.bsky.social
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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clarkesworldmagazine.com
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
Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online science fiction and fantasy magazine known for publishing short stories by authors such as Elizabeth Bear, Kij Johnson, and Caitlín R. Kiernan. The magazine has been praised for its high-quality content and diverse range of stories, but has also faced criticism for publishing AI-generated stories. FALSE
March 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
antonijamezni.bsky.social
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)
stevewestenra.bsky.social Steve Hugh Westenra @stevewestenra.bsky.social · Apr 1
#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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marisca.bsky.social
🔥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 🖤
Photo of EVERY DARK CLOUD standing on scarf with design featuring Van Gogh’s iris painting.
March 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
antonijamezni.bsky.social
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
The cover of the book The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra. The background is red with a shape of a coffin. In the foreground has the title in yellow font with dripping effect and under the title is old tv with an antenna. The tv screen has a no-signal grey snow distortion and the words Click. Like. Subscribe. Under the tv is a blood stain.
March 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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stevewestenra.bsky.social
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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artofmaquenda.bsky.social
Friends of Change

The light is doing me good ☀️

#art #animalart #fox #traditionalart
March 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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eveharms.com
Me when it’s time for the #TransRightsReadathon
A stock photo of a shady character holding his coat open to reveal his illicit wares, edited in are the book I coauthored with Mariah Darling CHASERS and my trans body horror novella TRANSMUTED
March 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
antonijamezni.bsky.social
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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emnays.bsky.social
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
antonijamezni.bsky.social
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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hildur.bsky.social
The Shape of Stones, the first short story I have ever written in English, is out today! 🥳
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Mar 12
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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nefariousbatpress.bsky.social
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
Promo image for feminist horror anthology GOOD FOR HER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S RAGE. Book cover features pink text on a black background with black and white illustrations around the edges
March 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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tcparker.bsky.social
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
Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it, and, B. Blurb from author Sonora Taylor, that reads: "Holy Hell! Tradwife is a fantastic crime novel filled with rage, feminism, heart, and teeth. So much bloody teeth. I was drawn in immediately and held tight until the final, shocking pages - and no, I didn't see the end coming, and I'm usually good at figuring these things out! Let Parker's prescient novel scare you, enrage you, and entertain you. You won't regret it"
March 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM