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Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!)
@hironennes.bsky.social
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British fantasy award-winning author of LEECH and THE WORKS OF VERMIN

Buy my books you cowards

Represented by Alexander Cochran @acochran.bsky.social
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So I found the man who wrote the Borisch Manual of Catoptric Pest Species
The Schmidt sting pain index is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings. It is mainly the work of Justin O. Schmidt, who was an entomologist at the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Arizona. Feeling only slight pain, Schmidt described the sting of an urban digger bee, categorized into pain level 1, as "almost pleasant, a lover just bit your earlobe a little too hard."[3] Also rated into pain level 1, Schmidt has described the sting of a sweat bee as "light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm."[3] Some ants are also rated at a pain level 3, including the giant bull ant and the Maricopa harvester ant. Schmidt considered the sting of the Maricopa harvester ant to have a pain level of 3, describing it as such: "After eight unrelenting hours of drilling into that ingrown toenail, you find the drill wedged into the toe."[3] Schmidt also later rated the sting of Synoeca septentrionalis as a 4, describing it as "Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?",[3] saying the pain lasts up to two hours.[3]
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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So stoked to share that there is still genuinely, excellently frightening horror out there
Negative space by BR Yeager
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!

"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman

"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear

"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber

Get your copy from your local bookstore!
The WORKS OF VERMIN by hiron ennes surrounded by leaves and plants and shit
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Got my copy of the Best Weird Fiction from @undertow.bsky.social. Amazing collection--not just because it features my all-natural plant-based horror story "Our Best Selves," now nominated for a World Fantasy Award!

Get your filthy hands on a copy here:

undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
Hiron's second attempt at booktography (bibliophotography?): The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol 1, edited by Michael Kelly. A spooky brown iris with a spooky brown malformed face in the pupil, seen through the glass shade of my living room floor lamp
October 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I have been informed that THE WORKS OF VERMIN has infested the USA Today bestseller list!

Someone get me one of those foam #1 fingers but it's a hideous deformity of a glove with 124 fingers instead
Oh my god it's the works of vermin at 124! I'll take it!
October 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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TODAY TODAY TODAY:

My last stop on my Vermin tour will be at A Seat at the Table Books in Elk Grove at 1!! Come say hi and get a signed copy before I have to go back to work on Monday 🥲
AUTHOR TALK AND SIGNING, Oct 19 @ 1, seat at the table bookstore, 9257 Laguna Springs Dr #130
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Portlanders and Vancouverites!

Tomorrow, Oct 18th, I will be stopping by the Vancouver public library to do a horror panel (4 pm), and Always Here Bookstore in convo with @caitlinstarling.com (7 pm), on my tour for VERMIN!!!
WORKS Of VERMIN BY HIRON ENNES, with a little arrow pointing to me, and a bubble with Caitlin Starling, and also one of those old S's that you always used to draw on the desk with an Xacto knife in jr high for some reason??
October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT

OCT 17th, 5:30 PM, lil town of Bend, Oregon, VERMIN will be infesting Roundabout Books!
THE WORKS OF VERMIN BY HIRON ENNES Fri, 10/17/25, 530-630 pm, Roundabout books and cafe 900 NW mt Washington dr. suite 119 Bend, OR 97703 Author event
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT: VERMIN EVENT IN SAN DIEGO

Unfortunately Jonathan Maberry could not attend tonight so I will be hosting with no adult supervision--swing on by if you want to get into all sorts of mischief
Hiron ennes in conversation with Jonathan Maberry, 7 pm, Oct 16 2025
October 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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TONIGHT TONIGHT TONIGHT, OCT 15, 6:30 PM

VERMIN event at Murder by the Book, Houston, Texas! The book has hatched, now watch it twitch its lil antennae!
HIRON ENNES, Murder by the Book, Wednesday, Oct 15, 630 PM
October 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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TONIGHT AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS, 7 PM! We release the Vermin!
Hiron ennes in conversation with chana porter
October 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Look at this Halloween ass book

You want it
WORKS OF VERMIN with sweet ass halloween orange spredges First page of the broken binding special edition of Works of Vermin, with my signature, which is, in fact, almost legible More orange spredges with some linework on the pages Works of Vermin spine without the dust jacket, bright gold with sick gothic font
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Yooo The Works of Vermin on the Amazon Editors' Choice list for October!

(don't buy my book from Amazon though, order it from your local bookstore)
Amazon Editors' picks: Best science fiction and fantasy books of October, including a wee vermin
October 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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COPIES OF VERMIN HAVE ARRIVED! You know what that means: time to play at booktography while spreading my monstera mites to every plant in the apartment.

(never let it be said I cannot multitask)
A frankly BEAUTIFUL shot of a hardback copy of THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes, surrounded by plants and shit
September 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Daily obligatory verminposting: please enjoy this meme that's old enough to drive
The Centipedes in My Vagina meme but instead it's centipedes in my gladiatorial opera house oh god what am I doing with my life. The book comes out oct 14th, buy it.
September 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Booksellers in San Fransisco!! I'm on a panel at the CALIBA 2025 Fall Fest with Serra Swift and Kalyn Josephson. We'll be talking about monsters and how to hunt them, so if your store has an infestation, or even just a couple man-eating spiders (as many do), you'll need this!
Baden B, Sep 17, 2:40 PM, Author Panel: Let's Go Monster Hunting! Featuring Hiron Ennes (the works of Vermin), Serra Swift (Kill the Beast), and Kalyn Josephson (The Library of Amorlin)
September 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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FINALLY cracking open this puppy. Can’t wait
Cover of Deep Dream, edited by Indra das
June 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Look at this beautiful ARC
Behold the aposematic pigments, the insectile linework (credit to @jdebbiel.bsky.social)
The wild text, the verminous prose!

You want this book! (On Oct 14,2025)
Works of vermin cover by Hiron ennes The inside cover, featuring linework by Deb jj Lee Oh god there’s too much text for this…. Help
June 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Just finished @afsulli.bsky.social’s THE MARIGOLD right in time for the ascendancy of the Toronto Sewage Sludge Blob, and lemme say it was a ride. Eerie, funny, required reading for everyone who’s ever lived in an apartment
Cover of af sullivan’s the marigold
March 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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So happy to share the cover of my forthcoming novel THE WORKS OF VERMIN, with art by the insanely talented @jdebbiel.bsky.social

Thank you so much to Deb for the gorgeously verminous cover!
THE WORKS OF VERMIN by Hiron Ennes cover: in the foreground a pale centipede circles the title in gothic script. The background is composed of an asymmetric floral frame featuring bright colors and a kind of broken-down art nouveau aesthetic. The blurb is from Gillian Flynn:”I will follow this author anywhere.”
March 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Upcoming novel mood board

For fun
The body of a giant centipede from a poster for Cronenburg’s Naked Lunch 1991 Hell panel from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights DVD cover(?) of Gankutsuou: the count of monte cristo from like… 2004 Scene from Stefano Poda’s 2016 production of Elisir D’amore (photo by Klara Beck). There is a woman in a red dress sitting on a car completely covered in moss. In the foreground there is a pile of red stilettos and a man on his knees because opera
January 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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The Fraiser connection is also hilariously wild
October 21, 2024 at 11:13 PM
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Publication day of Northern Nights! Good job everyone, so happy to be a part of this collection alongside you all.
Line up for northern nights: Senaa Ahmad, David Demchuck, Hiron ennes, Marc a godin, nayani Jensen, David Neil Lee, premee Mohamed, David Nickle, Rory say, Simon strantzas, Siobhan Carroll, ec dorgan, Richard Gavin, Camilla grudova, Rich Larson, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Silvia Moreno Garcia, maben ruthnum, kl Schroeder, ac wise, and also fuck autocorrect holy shit
October 1, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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The landless land, they call it. When St. Arbuscle passed through Sullen Head on his fifth pilgrimage, he saw a sterile waste, a lifeless swamp of quicksand. When I first came there, I saw a future without thirst. I woke, sore and black-eyed on the back of the wagon, and I thought I had died. Rattling along the causeway, a narrow strip of white gravel, I stared out at water so still and reflective I was sure we had overturned. I blinked at the sky below, the sky above, and the distant white mountains stretched between them like an odd streak of cloud, and felt as if my soul had shaken loose from my body. Only when the sandstone façade of the inn closed over my view, I realized I was still corporeal.
September 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Publication day of Weird Horror 9, people! (I’m in it, folks—deep inside of it, so deep I cannot be excised, no matter the implement)
Two copies of weird horror 9, and plants Our Best Selves, by Hiron Ennes (and a plant)
September 4, 2024 at 1:03 AM