Sarah Read
@inkwellmonster.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the Bone Weaver's Orchard, Out of Water, Root Rot, The Atropine Tree. Librarian, stationery addict, and crafter. She/her. 🏳️🌈
It’s Little Bookshop of Horrors day at Caramel Crisp Corner! Cookies, books, coffee, and all the Halloween vibes!
October 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It’s Little Bookshop of Horrors day at Caramel Crisp Corner! Cookies, books, coffee, and all the Halloween vibes!
I was so good at the doctors this morning, so I get tea, a cookie, a book, and a plush. Them’s the rules. Also, I need @sgj.bsky.social to release a new book every time I have a scary appointment. I’ll have my doc write the prescription.
March 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I was so good at the doctors this morning, so I get tea, a cookie, a book, and a plush. Them’s the rules. Also, I need @sgj.bsky.social to release a new book every time I have a scary appointment. I’ll have my doc write the prescription.
A spot of good news!
Andy Cox, editor of Black Static magazine, has a new horror magazine! It's called Remains. Issue one is available now, and issue two, out in April, contains a new story from yours truly. I love Andy's publications, so I'm very excited to be a part of this new one!
remains.uk
Andy Cox, editor of Black Static magazine, has a new horror magazine! It's called Remains. Issue one is available now, and issue two, out in April, contains a new story from yours truly. I love Andy's publications, so I'm very excited to be a part of this new one!
remains.uk
January 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A spot of good news!
Andy Cox, editor of Black Static magazine, has a new horror magazine! It's called Remains. Issue one is available now, and issue two, out in April, contains a new story from yours truly. I love Andy's publications, so I'm very excited to be a part of this new one!
remains.uk
Andy Cox, editor of Black Static magazine, has a new horror magazine! It's called Remains. Issue one is available now, and issue two, out in April, contains a new story from yours truly. I love Andy's publications, so I'm very excited to be a part of this new one!
remains.uk
Need a Victorian ghost story for your holiday reading?
THE ATROPINE TREE has all your favorite festive ingredients. It’s like Downton Abbey set in Hell House, directed by Charles Dickens, after someone slipped some Datura into his cocoa. 🌱
Available from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
THE ATROPINE TREE has all your favorite festive ingredients. It’s like Downton Abbey set in Hell House, directed by Charles Dickens, after someone slipped some Datura into his cocoa. 🌱
Available from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Need a Victorian ghost story for your holiday reading?
THE ATROPINE TREE has all your favorite festive ingredients. It’s like Downton Abbey set in Hell House, directed by Charles Dickens, after someone slipped some Datura into his cocoa. 🌱
Available from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
THE ATROPINE TREE has all your favorite festive ingredients. It’s like Downton Abbey set in Hell House, directed by Charles Dickens, after someone slipped some Datura into his cocoa. 🌱
Available from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
The annual writing retreat has begun with the traditional tribute paid to The Lady Lake, so that she might bless my wordcount. 🌊
November 29, 2024 at 6:28 PM
The annual writing retreat has begun with the traditional tribute paid to The Lady Lake, so that she might bless my wordcount. 🌊
One of the books I look forward to every year. I’ve found so many new-to-me favorite authors in these volumes. And I’m extra delighted this year to see my work listed in the honorable mentions! Day made!
November 27, 2024 at 6:16 PM
One of the books I look forward to every year. I’ve found so many new-to-me favorite authors in these volumes. And I’m extra delighted this year to see my work listed in the honorable mentions! Day made!
Exciting news today! So honored to be sharing this ballot with such amazing folks!
February 22, 2024 at 1:44 AM
Exciting news today! So honored to be sharing this ballot with such amazing folks!
Mood board for my new novel THE ATROPINE TREE out this summer from @badhandbooks.bsky.social !!!
January 21, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Mood board for my new novel THE ATROPINE TREE out this summer from @badhandbooks.bsky.social !!!
My first time as the #saturdaylibrarian at my new library! Eight straight hours on the reference desk. Deep breaths. I can do this. @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social are you on this weekend, too? Solidarity!
December 30, 2023 at 2:25 PM
My first time as the #saturdaylibrarian at my new library! Eight straight hours on the reference desk. Deep breaths. I can do this. @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social are you on this weekend, too? Solidarity!
If you have to work Halloween night, best case scenario is getting to work in a haunted library!
November 1, 2023 at 1:37 AM
If you have to work Halloween night, best case scenario is getting to work in a haunted library!
Happy Saturday at the #library! I am also at the library Saturday!
October 7, 2023 at 1:27 PM
Happy Saturday at the #library! I am also at the library Saturday!
Oh gosh, and now this! Gah! 🫠🫠🫠 My librarian heart is so happy!
September 12, 2023 at 6:03 PM
Oh gosh, and now this! Gah! 🫠🫠🫠 My librarian heart is so happy!
Another amazing blurb for ROOT ROT from the wonderful Laird Barron! 🖤🖤🖤 🦉🦉🦉
September 12, 2023 at 2:38 PM
Another amazing blurb for ROOT ROT from the wonderful Laird Barron! 🖤🖤🖤 🦉🦉🦉
I got my first blurb for my forthcoming collection and it totally made my knees weak. 🖤🥰🖤
August 31, 2023 at 1:02 AM
I got my first blurb for my forthcoming collection and it totally made my knees weak. 🖤🥰🖤
I love doing community collaborations for the library. Today I was at a nature center for a program on identifying bumblebees. Which ultimately resulted in me and two naturalists sitting in a copse of coneflowers discussing the exquisite roundness of bee bums. Best job.
August 3, 2023 at 8:35 PM
I love doing community collaborations for the library. Today I was at a nature center for a program on identifying bumblebees. Which ultimately resulted in me and two naturalists sitting in a copse of coneflowers discussing the exquisite roundness of bee bums. Best job.
Fabulous new ink from Chris Deleski at WeMeraki! I love it so much. A beautiful Victorian house. I’m sure it’s very lovely inside and not dangerous or sinister at all. 👀👻 #newtattoo #hauntedhouse
July 25, 2023 at 2:20 PM
Fabulous new ink from Chris Deleski at WeMeraki! I love it so much. A beautiful Victorian house. I’m sure it’s very lovely inside and not dangerous or sinister at all. 👀👻 #newtattoo #hauntedhouse
It’s raining. I have tea, a book, a sleeping cat. And a sword, in case anyone interrupts me, I guess.
(Starting Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. First ten pages are excellent!)
(Starting Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. First ten pages are excellent!)
July 12, 2023 at 10:02 PM
It’s raining. I have tea, a book, a sleeping cat. And a sword, in case anyone interrupts me, I guess.
(Starting Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. First ten pages are excellent!)
(Starting Whalefall by Daniel Kraus. First ten pages are excellent!)
Thomas Brown did this amazing cover art for my collection coming in October from Bad Hand Books. I will never get tired of seeing art created in response to my stories. That meeting of creativities feels spiritual. I get the same feeling when a song or painting inspires a story. Anyway, fuck AI.
July 8, 2023 at 2:50 AM
Thomas Brown did this amazing cover art for my collection coming in October from Bad Hand Books. I will never get tired of seeing art created in response to my stories. That meeting of creativities feels spiritual. I get the same feeling when a song or painting inspires a story. Anyway, fuck AI.
And this is Ursula K. FeLine and if she loves you, she will rub her teeth on you. If she doesn’t, she will ponch you with her spicy beans. She loves me. I love her.
July 7, 2023 at 10:35 PM
And this is Ursula K. FeLine and if she loves you, she will rub her teeth on you. If she doesn’t, she will ponch you with her spicy beans. She loves me. I love her.
This is Merricat Hecate Laveau. She is made of pure nightmare and I love her more than I love oxygen.
July 7, 2023 at 10:31 PM
This is Merricat Hecate Laveau. She is made of pure nightmare and I love her more than I love oxygen.
In-progress list has been narrowed down to four stories, two novellas, and two novels.
Diving in with this beauty from Peyton Street Pens.
Diving in with this beauty from Peyton Street Pens.
July 5, 2023 at 9:22 PM
In-progress list has been narrowed down to four stories, two novellas, and two novels.
Diving in with this beauty from Peyton Street Pens.
Diving in with this beauty from Peyton Street Pens.
WHY do my cats always try to eat the house wasps.
July 5, 2023 at 12:19 AM
WHY do my cats always try to eat the house wasps.