Caitlin Starling
@caitlinstarling.com
Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.
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Caitlin Starling
@caitlinstarling.com
· Apr 11
periodic reminder that I’ve got two more books out this year. they are both unhinged in different ways. please try to enjoy each book equally.
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ICYMI: my review of THE STARVING SAINTS, one of my favorite books of 2025. It starts grim, offers deliverance, then pivots into delicious madness.
www.horrorxhope.com/review-the-s...
#horror #BookReview #booksky
www.horrorxhope.com/review-the-s...
#horror #BookReview #booksky
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ICYMI: my review of THE STARVING SAINTS, one of my favorite books of 2025. It starts grim, offers deliverance, then pivots into delicious madness.
www.horrorxhope.com/review-the-s...
#horror #BookReview #booksky
www.horrorxhope.com/review-the-s...
#horror #BookReview #booksky
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anyway quote replies are disabled so i can't link it but go look up @spindlypete.bsky.social's incredible thread liveskeeting the incredible ongoing rescue of a beached whale. dozens of people working incredibly hard - random townsfolk to keep her alive until the experts showed up to rescue her.
November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
anyway quote replies are disabled so i can't link it but go look up @spindlypete.bsky.social's incredible thread liveskeeting the incredible ongoing rescue of a beached whale. dozens of people working incredibly hard - random townsfolk to keep her alive until the experts showed up to rescue her.
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Getting manipulated by* a certain Dr Augustine Lawrence
Swooning over a certain Dr Augustine Lawrence
November 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Getting manipulated by* a certain Dr Augustine Lawrence
book’s been out a month! sales have been… existent, at least, so that’s good. highs and lows. but on an artistic level, I think I’m calling this one a full success.
when you’ve got both medical professionals and chronically ill folks going “YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!”, that’s worth so much
when you’ve got both medical professionals and chronically ill folks going “YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!”, that’s worth so much
book’s out! hospital gothic, more claustrophobia and slippage of reality, more medical minutiae than most people need, a sinister whiteboard. get it where you get your books but here’s an option:
www.powells.com/book/gracevi...
www.powells.com/book/gracevi...
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
book’s been out a month! sales have been… existent, at least, so that’s good. highs and lows. but on an artistic level, I think I’m calling this one a full success.
when you’ve got both medical professionals and chronically ill folks going “YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!”, that’s worth so much
when you’ve got both medical professionals and chronically ill folks going “YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!”, that’s worth so much
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For centuries, the "gothic" aesthetic has bled into pop culture and literature, proving the age old adage is true: Goth isn’t just a phase, it’s a lifestyle!
Read more about this artistic movement's influence + get some #audiobookrecs while you're at it in our latest blog 👉 bit.ly/4qDoZd4
#BookSky
Read more about this artistic movement's influence + get some #audiobookrecs while you're at it in our latest blog 👉 bit.ly/4qDoZd4
#BookSky
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
For centuries, the "gothic" aesthetic has bled into pop culture and literature, proving the age old adage is true: Goth isn’t just a phase, it’s a lifestyle!
Read more about this artistic movement's influence + get some #audiobookrecs while you're at it in our latest blog 👉 bit.ly/4qDoZd4
#BookSky
Read more about this artistic movement's influence + get some #audiobookrecs while you're at it in our latest blog 👉 bit.ly/4qDoZd4
#BookSky
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Just finished The Graceview Patient, which I'd pre-ordered bc I loved The Starving Saints so much.
TSS was GORGEOUS and if you liked Groff's Matrix, you'll love this one even more.
TGP was amazing but also a bit too real for me. Some traumas resurfaced. Read if you're ready to pick your scabs. 💙📚
TSS was GORGEOUS and if you liked Groff's Matrix, you'll love this one even more.
TGP was amazing but also a bit too real for me. Some traumas resurfaced. Read if you're ready to pick your scabs. 💙📚
periodic reminder that I’ve got two more books out this year. they are both unhinged in different ways. please try to enjoy each book equally.
November 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Just finished The Graceview Patient, which I'd pre-ordered bc I loved The Starving Saints so much.
TSS was GORGEOUS and if you liked Groff's Matrix, you'll love this one even more.
TGP was amazing but also a bit too real for me. Some traumas resurfaced. Read if you're ready to pick your scabs. 💙📚
TSS was GORGEOUS and if you liked Groff's Matrix, you'll love this one even more.
TGP was amazing but also a bit too real for me. Some traumas resurfaced. Read if you're ready to pick your scabs. 💙📚
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Tonight's the night!!! If you're in Portland, stop by the Rose City Book Pub between 4 and 9 pm to hear nine amazing authors read and to share your own work! Let's gather to raise money for hungry people in Oregon -- and to have a really terrific time.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Tonight's the night!!! If you're in Portland, stop by the Rose City Book Pub between 4 and 9 pm to hear nine amazing authors read and to share your own work! Let's gather to raise money for hungry people in Oregon -- and to have a really terrific time.
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A dark, frightening and visceral read that treats the body as a haunted house that the protagonist can't leave. If you're looking for some truly unsettling horror, I highly recommend The Graceview Patient by @caitlinstarling.com!
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A dark, frightening and visceral read that treats the body as a haunted house that the protagonist can't leave. If you're looking for some truly unsettling horror, I highly recommend The Graceview Patient by @caitlinstarling.com!
full on screaming LOOK AT THEM!!!
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
full on screaming LOOK AT THEM!!!
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Fanart for The Starving Saints 🥀🗡️
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Fanart for The Starving Saints 🥀🗡️
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I was waiting for Maze Mice to come to mobile because I figured it would be a great commute game
I was correct 🐭
I was correct 🐭
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I was waiting for Maze Mice to come to mobile because I figured it would be a great commute game
I was correct 🐭
I was correct 🐭
Okay, kiddo (3.5) really likes to take pictures. We don’t like handing over our phones. Kid-focused cameras have games(????) loaded on them or other features we don’t need.
please recommend your fave easy to use digital cameras. bonus if it’s easy to port photos to a digital frame of some kind
please recommend your fave easy to use digital cameras. bonus if it’s easy to port photos to a digital frame of some kind
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Okay, kiddo (3.5) really likes to take pictures. We don’t like handing over our phones. Kid-focused cameras have games(????) loaded on them or other features we don’t need.
please recommend your fave easy to use digital cameras. bonus if it’s easy to port photos to a digital frame of some kind
please recommend your fave easy to use digital cameras. bonus if it’s easy to port photos to a digital frame of some kind
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Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads
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Tonight (Nov 3) at @powells.bsky.social at Cedar Hills Crossing. At 7 PM PST, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I will delight and entertain you! www.powells.com/events/mary-... Let me know in the comments if you're planning to come by.
November 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Tonight (Nov 3) at @powells.bsky.social at Cedar Hills Crossing. At 7 PM PST, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I will delight and entertain you! www.powells.com/events/mary-... Let me know in the comments if you're planning to come by.
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Holy shit I’m a third of the way into @hironennes.bsky.social WORKS OF VERMIN and they are now one of my favorite writers all the Byzantine feral layered prose of Wolfe or Peake and the modern brutal verve and sensibilities of Mariana Enriquez synthesized into a wholly unique voice all of their own
November 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Holy shit I’m a third of the way into @hironennes.bsky.social WORKS OF VERMIN and they are now one of my favorite writers all the Byzantine feral layered prose of Wolfe or Peake and the modern brutal verve and sensibilities of Mariana Enriquez synthesized into a wholly unique voice all of their own
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2/3
What about some more traditional Horror?
Prepare to be haunted by @caitlinstarling.com and #JenniferThorne.
But it it’s a classic slasher and forest survival horror you’re craving, #DarcyCoates will more than take care of you 👻
What about some more traditional Horror?
Prepare to be haunted by @caitlinstarling.com and #JenniferThorne.
But it it’s a classic slasher and forest survival horror you’re craving, #DarcyCoates will more than take care of you 👻
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 AM
2/3
What about some more traditional Horror?
Prepare to be haunted by @caitlinstarling.com and #JenniferThorne.
But it it’s a classic slasher and forest survival horror you’re craving, #DarcyCoates will more than take care of you 👻
What about some more traditional Horror?
Prepare to be haunted by @caitlinstarling.com and #JenniferThorne.
But it it’s a classic slasher and forest survival horror you’re craving, #DarcyCoates will more than take care of you 👻
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missed that somebody else had picked up on the connections between piranesi and the magician's nephew, which delighted me because that's probably my favorite narnia book
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Tracing the Affinities Between Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and C.S Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew - Reactor
In The Magician’s Nephew (1955) by C.S. Lewis, one of my favourite childhood books, two children, Digory and Polly, are tricked into exploring other worlds. They first alight in a mysterious wood full...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
missed that somebody else had picked up on the connections between piranesi and the magician's nephew, which delighted me because that's probably my favorite narnia book
reactormag.com/tracing-the-...
reactormag.com/tracing-the-...
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most of the last decade of my career was a frantic effort to warn as many people as possible about the dangers i saw coming in the near future
now that all the stuff i saw coming is here, i dunno what to do other than maybe start a Warhammer 40k podcast
now that all the stuff i saw coming is here, i dunno what to do other than maybe start a Warhammer 40k podcast
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
most of the last decade of my career was a frantic effort to warn as many people as possible about the dangers i saw coming in the near future
now that all the stuff i saw coming is here, i dunno what to do other than maybe start a Warhammer 40k podcast
now that all the stuff i saw coming is here, i dunno what to do other than maybe start a Warhammer 40k podcast
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so the process of writing is a process of realizing how imperfect and incomplete that idea was, and actually working out all the rest of it. writing, in other words, is a process of thinking: a particularly disciplined one, that takes you from a warm feeling to a genuine reality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
so the process of writing is a process of realizing how imperfect and incomplete that idea was, and actually working out all the rest of it. writing, in other words, is a process of thinking: a particularly disciplined one, that takes you from a warm feeling to a genuine reality.
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the WHOLE THING about writing is realizing that you don't "already" have "the whole thing" in your head. when it's just an idea that warm feeling smooths over all the gaps. but you've got a germ. a seed. there are *so many choices* left to make--real, hard, meaningful, creative choices.
October 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
the WHOLE THING about writing is realizing that you don't "already" have "the whole thing" in your head. when it's just an idea that warm feeling smooths over all the gaps. but you've got a germ. a seed. there are *so many choices* left to make--real, hard, meaningful, creative choices.
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Book 30: The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com. A fun queer romance-by-way-of-a-deadly-curse—I liked the world of magic-powered tech and I liked the central relationship. (I may be developing a taste for novellas!)
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Book 30: The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com. A fun queer romance-by-way-of-a-deadly-curse—I liked the world of magic-powered tech and I liked the central relationship. (I may be developing a taste for novellas!)
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Toronto Star—"Horror fiction round-up: 4 novels spotlight vampires, serial killers, cultists and more" #BookSky #Horror
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Horror fiction round-up: 4 novels spotlight vampires, serial killers, cultists and more
'Hemo Sapiens,' 'The Graceview Patient,' 'Crafting for Sinners,' and 'The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre' bring fresh blood to spooky tales.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Toronto Star—"Horror fiction round-up: 4 novels spotlight vampires, serial killers, cultists and more" #BookSky #Horror
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
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Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
September 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.
But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!
It's easy! Check your library's website.