Elford Alley
@elfordalley.bsky.social
Horror author and disgraced paranormal investigator. Latest: my children's book A Haunted Holiday and my horror novella Never Leaving!
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This from the author who brought us "Ay, Carmela," a dark and satisfying tale of long-overdue retribution against fascists.
Sins of My Sisters is out now.
Dark, folkloric, and feminist horror, available in print + digital through Infested Publishing.
Dark, folkloric, and feminist horror, available in print + digital through Infested Publishing.
November 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This from the author who brought us "Ay, Carmela," a dark and satisfying tale of long-overdue retribution against fascists.
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I feel so embarrassed for Black Friday. Like, it used to be a nice TV so cheap that you would camp outside of the store overnight and kill a man with a toilet plunger, and now it's like, SURPRISE BESTIE, 10% OFF RETURN ADDRESS LABELS IF YOU GIVE US YOUR PHONE NUMBER!!!! Have some dignity.
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I feel so embarrassed for Black Friday. Like, it used to be a nice TV so cheap that you would camp outside of the store overnight and kill a man with a toilet plunger, and now it's like, SURPRISE BESTIE, 10% OFF RETURN ADDRESS LABELS IF YOU GIVE US YOUR PHONE NUMBER!!!! Have some dignity.
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I'm always late to the party since my day starts later, but my first collection could use more readers! I have heard it's a fun time. Thank you! x
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All's Well That Ends Well
Read it now
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November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I'm always late to the party since my day starts later, but my first collection could use more readers! I have heard it's a fun time. Thank you! x
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mybook.to/AllsWell
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Riding THE EL for #FridayReads. Available everywhere across platforms. Great full cast on the audio, too. Thanks, @gabino.bsky.social!
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The El by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.: 9780593686768 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHIRBY AWARD IN FICTION • From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Riding THE EL for #FridayReads. Available everywhere across platforms. Great full cast on the audio, too. Thanks, @gabino.bsky.social!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738830...
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Thanks, Gabino! My weird, Twin Peaks X House of Leaves novel is finally out in the world and wants to take up space in your brain.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thanks, Gabino! My weird, Twin Peaks X House of Leaves novel is finally out in the world and wants to take up space in your brain.
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diachroneitybooks.com/Imperfect-Cr...
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Thanks, Gabino!
“Where’s the briefcase?”
“In the van.”
“Where’s the van?”
“Up your ass.”
“Kind of dumb thing to say for your last words.”
“What?”
Simon shot him in the head.
“That wasn’t much better.”
#Fridsayreads #crimefiction
“Where’s the briefcase?”
“In the van.”
“Where’s the van?”
“Up your ass.”
“Kind of dumb thing to say for your last words.”
“What?”
Simon shot him in the head.
“That wasn’t much better.”
#Fridsayreads #crimefiction
A Briefcase Full Of The End Of The World : Todd Morr (Fahrenheit Pocket Noir)
A heist gone sideways, a briefcase with the power to end everything, and one very unlucky criminal caught in the middle. Carter isn’t exactly the smartest guy in the room, but even he knows he’s in de...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Thanks, Gabino!
“Where’s the briefcase?”
“In the van.”
“Where’s the van?”
“Up your ass.”
“Kind of dumb thing to say for your last words.”
“What?”
Simon shot him in the head.
“That wasn’t much better.”
#Fridsayreads #crimefiction
“Where’s the briefcase?”
“In the van.”
“Where’s the van?”
“Up your ass.”
“Kind of dumb thing to say for your last words.”
“What?”
Simon shot him in the head.
“That wasn’t much better.”
#Fridsayreads #crimefiction
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Today's a great day to support some creators.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Today's a great day to support some creators.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.
Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.
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Happy #FridayReads, hermano Re-upping my recent Literary Hub essay, "Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System," which sadly becomes more relevant each passing day.
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Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System
Forty-one years ago, I was a 25-year-old third-year student at the UCLA School of Law when I wrote a piece for what was then called the Chicano Law Review in response to factory raids. Dubbed with …
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November 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Happy #FridayReads, hermano Re-upping my recent Literary Hub essay, "Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System," which sadly becomes more relevant each passing day.
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Thank you, Gabino ❤️
My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, released last week. If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys, this one is for you!
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My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, released last week. If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys, this one is for you!
mybook.to/woundedbirds
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Thank you, Gabino ❤️
My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, released last week. If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys, this one is for you!
mybook.to/woundedbirds
My coming-of-age folk horror, The Haunting of Wounded Birds, released last week. If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals, and haunted boys, this one is for you!
mybook.to/woundedbirds
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The very first fiction I ever had accepted for publication was selected/edited by Gordon Lish in 1995. Yes, *that* Gordon Lish. Here's the story/the story behind the story, which includes details about the famous editor's edits and how I learned that an acceptance does not always mean publication.
The story of a story: “The Stacker”
First, the story, then the story behind the story.
The Stacker
by Scott Stein
The stack was developing as a sort of snowflake, with a symmetry as unconventional
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November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The very first fiction I ever had accepted for publication was selected/edited by Gordon Lish in 1995. Yes, *that* Gordon Lish. Here's the story/the story behind the story, which includes details about the famous editor's edits and how I learned that an acceptance does not always mean publication.
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Thanks, Gabino!
Pyres is the searing inferno of a book people need to keep warm as the cold weather draws in.
Come for the grotesque art made manifest, stay for the right wing scumbags being incinerated 🔥🔥
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Pyres is the searing inferno of a book people need to keep warm as the cold weather draws in.
Come for the grotesque art made manifest, stay for the right wing scumbags being incinerated 🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Thanks, Gabino!
Pyres is the searing inferno of a book people need to keep warm as the cold weather draws in.
Come for the grotesque art made manifest, stay for the right wing scumbags being incinerated 🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
Pyres is the searing inferno of a book people need to keep warm as the cold weather draws in.
Come for the grotesque art made manifest, stay for the right wing scumbags being incinerated 🔥🔥
Books2read.com/pyresnovel
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A haunted house!
Five different eras of inhabitants all experiencing the same supernatural event in one house—where no one has died and no violence has filled its halls. Yet, specters lurk in doorways, blood runs down walls, fire climbs stairs, and no one knows why…
Thanks, Gabino for #FridayReads!
Five different eras of inhabitants all experiencing the same supernatural event in one house—where no one has died and no violence has filled its halls. Yet, specters lurk in doorways, blood runs down walls, fire climbs stairs, and no one knows why…
Thanks, Gabino for #FridayReads!
In the House of In Between
Check out In the House of In Between - <p>The Backlund House is haunted, but no one knows why. No violence has taken place there, no one has died inside its walls. Over the course of a century, what-o...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
A haunted house!
Five different eras of inhabitants all experiencing the same supernatural event in one house—where no one has died and no violence has filled its halls. Yet, specters lurk in doorways, blood runs down walls, fire climbs stairs, and no one knows why…
Thanks, Gabino for #FridayReads!
Five different eras of inhabitants all experiencing the same supernatural event in one house—where no one has died and no violence has filled its halls. Yet, specters lurk in doorways, blood runs down walls, fire climbs stairs, and no one knows why…
Thanks, Gabino for #FridayReads!
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Thanks Gabino!
Noise Ordinance is currently #4,336,469 in Books on Kindle.
Let's see if I can't break into the coveted #4,000,000 club! 🖤
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Noise Ordinance is currently #4,336,469 in Books on Kindle.
Let's see if I can't break into the coveted #4,000,000 club! 🖤
www.amazon.com/Noise-Ordina...
Noise Ordinance
Noise Ordinance [Phillips, Kurt] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Noise Ordinance
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November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Thanks Gabino!
Noise Ordinance is currently #4,336,469 in Books on Kindle.
Let's see if I can't break into the coveted #4,000,000 club! 🖤
www.amazon.com/Noise-Ordina...
Noise Ordinance is currently #4,336,469 in Books on Kindle.
Let's see if I can't break into the coveted #4,000,000 club! 🖤
www.amazon.com/Noise-Ordina...
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happy #fridayreads! if one of these wonderful reviews is yours, thank you! Hope to have big new news to share soon, leaving a review or buying What The Dead Can Do probably wouldn’t hurt. Me, anyway, as it already did. It could still very much destroy you. a.co/d/2C80X0H thnx @gabino.bsky.social 🤙 🖤
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
happy #fridayreads! if one of these wonderful reviews is yours, thank you! Hope to have big new news to share soon, leaving a review or buying What The Dead Can Do probably wouldn’t hurt. Me, anyway, as it already did. It could still very much destroy you. a.co/d/2C80X0H thnx @gabino.bsky.social 🤙 🖤
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Thanks, Gabino! My latest story, "Price Is Right Rules" appears in Dark Yonder this month, and is part of a great ToC. If you like what you see below, get yourself a copy today: amzn.to/498eU1s
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Thanks, Gabino! My latest story, "Price Is Right Rules" appears in Dark Yonder this month, and is part of a great ToC. If you like what you see below, get yourself a copy today: amzn.to/498eU1s
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Thanks, Gabino! Four Weddings and a Funeral Director is a very silly, very weird romcom that channels the Barbie X Goth House meme. 💍 🪦
It's currently just 99p on the UK Amazon store: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV.
Also, the print version is half price on the TikTok store!
It's currently just 99p on the UK Amazon store: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV.
Also, the print version is half price on the TikTok store!
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Thanks, Gabino! Four Weddings and a Funeral Director is a very silly, very weird romcom that channels the Barbie X Goth House meme. 💍 🪦
It's currently just 99p on the UK Amazon store: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV.
Also, the print version is half price on the TikTok store!
It's currently just 99p on the UK Amazon store: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK8L8BHV.
Also, the print version is half price on the TikTok store!
Look for a gift that will scare your loved ones AND break them emotionally? Gabino has got ya covered!
It’s #FridayReads time! Books make great gifts and are tastier than turkey. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a (45% off!) novel full of monsters, friendship, love, magic, revenge, ghosts, storms, syncretism, and maybe a bit of violence…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Look for a gift that will scare your loved ones AND break them emotionally? Gabino has got ya covered!
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they fucked up and let movies and tv get so bad that they stopped distracting people from realizing
how fucked up things are
you can’t have nothing to watch AND expensive eggs
how fucked up things are
you can’t have nothing to watch AND expensive eggs
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
they fucked up and let movies and tv get so bad that they stopped distracting people from realizing
how fucked up things are
you can’t have nothing to watch AND expensive eggs
how fucked up things are
you can’t have nothing to watch AND expensive eggs
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I liked the part where she says "Tell your boss that she's a whore!" 😆
Durham NC woman yells at ICE in her neighborhood, tells them to go back and beat your wife’s
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I liked the part where she says "Tell your boss that she's a whore!" 😆
Believe it or not, they just want to help.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Believe it or not, they just want to help.
Murder, madness, and missing people. A paranormal mystery unlike any other! 99 cents on Amazon and the audiobook is on audible!
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Murder, madness, and missing people. A paranormal mystery unlike any other! 99 cents on Amazon and the audiobook is on audible!
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Hey, I reviewed a book today. Go on, review some. It really does help get new eyes on author’s books
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November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hey, I reviewed a book today. Go on, review some. It really does help get new eyes on author’s books
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More humbling praise for THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 (coming in February 2026) this time from the amazing @joanneanderton.bsky.social Thank you!
#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky
#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 AM
More humbling praise for THE RISE: Tales From The Gulp 3 (coming in February 2026) this time from the amazing @joanneanderton.bsky.social Thank you!
#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky
#WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky