I think we went over this on the podcast, but whenever you see an author promote their book you should buy ANOTHER copy. If you're plugged in, ideally you should have about 300 copies by launch day.

Not enough room on the shirt. Buy my book.

You should never be canceling anything. The solution is to buy multiple copies. Always.

The Fisherman by @johnlangan.bsky.social, one of my favorite horror books of all time. The definition of a slow burn that rewards big. We made it! Happy Halloween, everybody. If you bought one third of the books I've recommended this month, you are very happy and completely broke.

Any time! Love your books. I just feel like Mainers and Nords would get along. Oh, they wouldn't talk, but maybe they would drink together in mutual silence.

Generation Loss by @elizabethhand.bsky.social, a bleak but brilliant post-punk Nordic folk horror detective novel, if Maine counts as Nordic. It probably does.

Pick up any of @lairdbarron.bsky.social's short story collections for the best cosmic horror written today. For something longer grab The Croning. Like a subversion of literary fiction's darling "divorced academic character study," but one that spirals into completely bonkers horror.

Sounds like somebody's volunteering...

Here's a makeup book: Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud. Collected shorts and a novella from a shared universe, that universe being hell. Incredible prose, endlessly inventive, it's a spiritual successor to Clive Barker in making hell feel like a place you can actually feel beneath your feet.

Ah, shit. I missed a day again. Here's my problem: Whenever it's time for a normal human to go on social media, my brain instead tells me to go to a park or take a lovely fall bike ride. I'm trying to correct this error and be more miserable with you all, but it's hard.

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker, a pandemic immigrant's story about a crime scene cleaner in Chinatown haunted by the death of her sister and also very much actual ghosts. A lot of ghosts. More ghosts than you're picturing.

Incredible work. If these were offered in special editions, I'd own every one.

Yeah it happened, I forgot about social media for a day. But that means you get two today!