J.A.W. McCarthy
@jawmccarthy.bsky.social
2x Bram Stoker & 2x Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Author of SLEEP ALONE and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Stories: Best Horror of the Year Vol 13, PseudoPod, Vastarien, Split Scream 3, more. Cat & lipstick enthusiast. She/Jen. Rep: Lane Heymont. jawmccarthy.com
Stayed up way too late finishing this one last night. Hell of a ride. Who’s making the movie because we need FEVER HOUSE in our eyeballs in multiple ways. Also @keithrosson.bsky.social how dare you make it necessary that I pick up THE DEVIL BY NAME asap??
August 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Stayed up way too late finishing this one last night. Hell of a ride. Who’s making the movie because we need FEVER HOUSE in our eyeballs in multiple ways. Also @keithrosson.bsky.social how dare you make it necessary that I pick up THE DEVIL BY NAME asap??
Hello, it’s happened, one of my long time writer goals has been achieved: my story “The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” (orig published in The Off-Season) is in the August issue of The Dark!
August 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hello, it’s happened, one of my long time writer goals has been achieved: my story “The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” (orig published in The Off-Season) is in the August issue of The Dark!
Showing off my contributor copy of SILK & SINEW edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and published by @badhandbooks.bsky.social! I’ve been fortunate to have my work included in some truly special publications. Proud that “Guilt is a Little House” can represent the Thai diaspora here.
June 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Showing off my contributor copy of SILK & SINEW edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and published by @badhandbooks.bsky.social! I’ve been fortunate to have my work included in some truly special publications. Proud that “Guilt is a Little House” can represent the Thai diaspora here.
I won’t be at StokerCon this year, but I did participate in two virtual panels:
Unmarked Graves & Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora
Final Girls & the Ferocious Feminine: The Heroines & Female Villains of Horror
Virtual attendees, don’t miss these!
Unmarked Graves & Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora
Final Girls & the Ferocious Feminine: The Heroines & Female Villains of Horror
Virtual attendees, don’t miss these!
June 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I won’t be at StokerCon this year, but I did participate in two virtual panels:
Unmarked Graves & Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora
Final Girls & the Ferocious Feminine: The Heroines & Female Villains of Horror
Virtual attendees, don’t miss these!
Unmarked Graves & Tortured Roots: Defining Folk Horror from the Perspective of the Asian Diaspora
Final Girls & the Ferocious Feminine: The Heroines & Female Villains of Horror
Virtual attendees, don’t miss these!
Off Limits Press officially closes tomorrow. This is your last chance to get their titles in their current editions, incl SLEEP ALONE. Physical & online retailers still have copies, but once they’re gone, that’s it 😢 I love this cover by Evangeline Gallagher so much—last chance to get your own!
May 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Off Limits Press officially closes tomorrow. This is your last chance to get their titles in their current editions, incl SLEEP ALONE. Physical & online retailers still have copies, but once they’re gone, that’s it 😢 I love this cover by Evangeline Gallagher so much—last chance to get your own!
I did some googling. Cosmic Debris? Found what I think is the same artist/designer and look at the price!
May 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I did some googling. Cosmic Debris? Found what I think is the same artist/designer and look at the price!
@anovelescape.bsky.social snapped this pic of SLEEP ALONE at Parallel Worlds in Portland! Thank you, Kelsea! I’m always thrilled to see my books out in the world, and happy to see the band is still on tour. Catch them before they hang up their guitars at the end of May 🎵 🚐 🎸🩸
May 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@anovelescape.bsky.social snapped this pic of SLEEP ALONE at Parallel Worlds in Portland! Thank you, Kelsea! I’m always thrilled to see my books out in the world, and happy to see the band is still on tour. Catch them before they hang up their guitars at the end of May 🎵 🚐 🎸🩸
Absolutely LOVE this beautiful pendant handmade by the multi talented @emilyrverona.bsky.social! Look at the tiny SLEEP ALONE in there! Thank you so much for this delightful surprise, my friend 🖤
April 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Absolutely LOVE this beautiful pendant handmade by the multi talented @emilyrverona.bsky.social! Look at the tiny SLEEP ALONE in there! Thank you so much for this delightful surprise, my friend 🖤
Maria Haskins brings us more proof that Women In Horror is year round and here to stay (and destroy you)! Honored to find my story “The Ecstasy of the Saints” included here among these gems by some of the best writers working today. You can read/listen for free at PseudoPod 🕳️
March 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Maria Haskins brings us more proof that Women In Horror is year round and here to stay (and destroy you)! Honored to find my story “The Ecstasy of the Saints” included here among these gems by some of the best writers working today. You can read/listen for free at PseudoPod 🕳️
Of course we’re getting mugged by the robots. What a bunch of pathetic, soulless fucks
March 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Of course we’re getting mugged by the robots. What a bunch of pathetic, soulless fucks
Thank you so much to @emmaemurray.bsky.social for these lovely gifts! It was an honor to write the introduction to THE DROWNING MACHINE AND OTHER OBSESSIONS, a collection that made me gasp and cry. Book launch is Friday!
February 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Thank you so much to @emmaemurray.bsky.social for these lovely gifts! It was an honor to write the introduction to THE DROWNING MACHINE AND OTHER OBSESSIONS, a collection that made me gasp and cry. Book launch is Friday!
Excited to be the head judge for Feb’s @elegantliterature.bsky.social $3000 award! The theme is close to my merch girl heart: Loud Music & Dark Places. Any genre. New writers only. More info and links in 🧵
Read to the end—I promise it’s worth it 🖤
Help me spread the word!
Read to the end—I promise it’s worth it 🖤
Help me spread the word!
February 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Excited to be the head judge for Feb’s @elegantliterature.bsky.social $3000 award! The theme is close to my merch girl heart: Loud Music & Dark Places. Any genre. New writers only. More info and links in 🧵
Read to the end—I promise it’s worth it 🖤
Help me spread the word!
Read to the end—I promise it’s worth it 🖤
Help me spread the word!
This Saturday Feb 1 at 1 pm est/ 10 am pst
Employing the Five Senses to Engage Readers
@elegantliterature.bsky.social
Join me in discussion & fun exercises where we’ll stretch the use of senses to enrich our work.
Smells! Textures! Tasty things!
See you there!
Employing the Five Senses to Engage Readers
@elegantliterature.bsky.social
Join me in discussion & fun exercises where we’ll stretch the use of senses to enrich our work.
Smells! Textures! Tasty things!
See you there!
January 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This Saturday Feb 1 at 1 pm est/ 10 am pst
Employing the Five Senses to Engage Readers
@elegantliterature.bsky.social
Join me in discussion & fun exercises where we’ll stretch the use of senses to enrich our work.
Smells! Textures! Tasty things!
See you there!
Employing the Five Senses to Engage Readers
@elegantliterature.bsky.social
Join me in discussion & fun exercises where we’ll stretch the use of senses to enrich our work.
Smells! Textures! Tasty things!
See you there!
My final reads of 2024. I’ll still be reading them in the early days of 2025.
This Wretched Valley @jennykiefer.com
I Contain Multitudes @christopherhawkins.bsky.social
Both involve people trapped in ever-shifting, frightening places. Oh shit 😱
(Both are excellent! Im fascinated!I’m upset!)
This Wretched Valley @jennykiefer.com
I Contain Multitudes @christopherhawkins.bsky.social
Both involve people trapped in ever-shifting, frightening places. Oh shit 😱
(Both are excellent! Im fascinated!I’m upset!)
December 31, 2024 at 11:35 PM
My final reads of 2024. I’ll still be reading them in the early days of 2025.
This Wretched Valley @jennykiefer.com
I Contain Multitudes @christopherhawkins.bsky.social
Both involve people trapped in ever-shifting, frightening places. Oh shit 😱
(Both are excellent! Im fascinated!I’m upset!)
This Wretched Valley @jennykiefer.com
I Contain Multitudes @christopherhawkins.bsky.social
Both involve people trapped in ever-shifting, frightening places. Oh shit 😱
(Both are excellent! Im fascinated!I’m upset!)
We don’t have a xmas tree because of these little beasts who own my heart, but maybe they’ll mellow out one day. I kinda hope not, though. Anyway, here they are plotting destruction 😈
December 24, 2024 at 10:17 PM
We don’t have a xmas tree because of these little beasts who own my heart, but maybe they’ll mellow out one day. I kinda hope not, though. Anyway, here they are plotting destruction 😈
Late posting these gorgeous author copies of DEATH IN THE MOUTH Vol 2 and THE OFF-SEASON, but look 🤩 Thrilled to see my final stories of the year, “Yellow Girls” and “The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” included. Thanks @sloanesloane.bsky.social, Cassie Hart, @marissavu.bsky.social & Dark Matter Ink 🌊
December 19, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Late posting these gorgeous author copies of DEATH IN THE MOUTH Vol 2 and THE OFF-SEASON, but look 🤩 Thrilled to see my final stories of the year, “Yellow Girls” and “The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” included. Thanks @sloanesloane.bsky.social, Cassie Hart, @marissavu.bsky.social & Dark Matter Ink 🌊
Aahh I love them! I have to show you my doll
December 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM
Aahh I love them! I have to show you my doll
Time for some self-promo! I work hard on my books & stories and they want to be read. How about a touring band of starving queer succubi? Short stories about obsession and doppelgängers? Some decadently deranged art horror? Find them all at www.jawmccarthy.com/books
December 11, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Time for some self-promo! I work hard on my books & stories and they want to be read. How about a touring band of starving queer succubi? Short stories about obsession and doppelgängers? Some decadently deranged art horror? Find them all at www.jawmccarthy.com/books
Another favorite recent read: RED SKIES IN THE MORNING by @nadiabulkin.bsky.social
Paracontagions, ticking clocks, a pathing agent and her missing sister. This explores the visceral how and why of a unique plague, digging into the depths of regret and loneliness. Absolutely loved it.
Paracontagions, ticking clocks, a pathing agent and her missing sister. This explores the visceral how and why of a unique plague, digging into the depths of regret and loneliness. Absolutely loved it.
November 26, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Another favorite recent read: RED SKIES IN THE MORNING by @nadiabulkin.bsky.social
Paracontagions, ticking clocks, a pathing agent and her missing sister. This explores the visceral how and why of a unique plague, digging into the depths of regret and loneliness. Absolutely loved it.
Paracontagions, ticking clocks, a pathing agent and her missing sister. This explores the visceral how and why of a unique plague, digging into the depths of regret and loneliness. Absolutely loved it.
I’m long past due sharing recent book mail. Let’s start with COME AND ADMIRE HIM by @horrorsong.blog
Brutal, lyrical, visceral, unapologetically psychosexual. This is exactly what I love to read. Words that chew, sweat, bleed.
I hear there’s not many copies left, so visit his blog to get yours.
Brutal, lyrical, visceral, unapologetically psychosexual. This is exactly what I love to read. Words that chew, sweat, bleed.
I hear there’s not many copies left, so visit his blog to get yours.
November 25, 2024 at 9:56 PM
I’m long past due sharing recent book mail. Let’s start with COME AND ADMIRE HIM by @horrorsong.blog
Brutal, lyrical, visceral, unapologetically psychosexual. This is exactly what I love to read. Words that chew, sweat, bleed.
I hear there’s not many copies left, so visit his blog to get yours.
Brutal, lyrical, visceral, unapologetically psychosexual. This is exactly what I love to read. Words that chew, sweat, bleed.
I hear there’s not many copies left, so visit his blog to get yours.
Reunited with @tmbwrites.bsky.social 🥳🥳
November 24, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Reunited with @tmbwrites.bsky.social 🥳🥳
Hello! I write sad, weird short and long horror fiction. I love deranged characters, decadent prose, and body horror. 2x Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award finalist. I have a collection, SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, and a sex drugs rock&roll queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE.
November 17, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Hello! I write sad, weird short and long horror fiction. I love deranged characters, decadent prose, and body horror. 2x Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award finalist. I have a collection, SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, and a sex drugs rock&roll queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE.
I’m gonna leave this here…
November 15, 2024 at 12:03 AM
I’m gonna leave this here…
Hey, new friends, about me:
I’m the author of the sex, drugs & rock & roll, queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE, the collection SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, & numerous horror stories involving monstrous women and Thai folklore. I like it dark, sad, & decadently deranged. Prose 🖤er. Beauty in the grotesque.
I’m the author of the sex, drugs & rock & roll, queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE, the collection SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, & numerous horror stories involving monstrous women and Thai folklore. I like it dark, sad, & decadently deranged. Prose 🖤er. Beauty in the grotesque.
November 8, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Hey, new friends, about me:
I’m the author of the sex, drugs & rock & roll, queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE, the collection SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, & numerous horror stories involving monstrous women and Thai folklore. I like it dark, sad, & decadently deranged. Prose 🖤er. Beauty in the grotesque.
I’m the author of the sex, drugs & rock & roll, queer succubi novella SLEEP ALONE, the collection SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL, & numerous horror stories involving monstrous women and Thai folklore. I like it dark, sad, & decadently deranged. Prose 🖤er. Beauty in the grotesque.
SLEEP ALONE is 1 yr old today! What a year it’s been. I never could’ve guessed where my succubi would lead me. Stoker finalist! And some other behind the scenes things I can’t mention yet! Thanks to everyone who read, supported, boosted this book. Thanks for sticking with me 🖤🎸
March 18, 2024 at 5:54 PM
SLEEP ALONE is 1 yr old today! What a year it’s been. I never could’ve guessed where my succubi would lead me. Stoker finalist! And some other behind the scenes things I can’t mention yet! Thanks to everyone who read, supported, boosted this book. Thanks for sticking with me 🖤🎸