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Jonathan Lees
@jonathanlees.bsky.social
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Writer of horrors and other things feat. in: The Rack (Vol. II), Long Division, Fear of Clowns, Other Terrors, Even in the Grave, & The Hideous Book of Hidden Horrors +++ more
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Director, Video: ex-Complex & ex-Tidal

www.documentiaprojects.com
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Jonathan Lees @jonathanlees.bsky.social · Dec 1
My starter pack needs more space than the 150 allotted so I’ll make a part two of horror folk, creatives, and evil doers. Also, why does Bluesky allow me to change the title of the pack but the graphic still says “horror writers”. Anyways, go celebrate these artists go.bsky.app/QBuj23L
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dimshores.bsky.social
Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!
Cover of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER - a dark but colorful illustration showing a winged creature with a human face, wings, and long trailing tails, in vibrant gold and orange tones, flying upwards towards the top right corner, while dozens of dark serpents with glowing eyes and forked tongues travel in the opposite direction. The book contains 16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name. Table of contents: Nadia Bulkin -- Infested ** Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette ** Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face Alexander Hay -- LEAD ** Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope Laura Mauro -- Ptichka ** David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful ** A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb Clint Smith -- “January Sick” J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector ** Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege ** Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber Pamela Weis -- An Abomination A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert ** Cover art and design by RewX Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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daviddemchuk.com
A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025
Eligible Works 2025 — David Demchuk
www.daviddemchuk.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
The Best Non-Fiction Award Winner is Queer as Folklore: the Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters by Sacha Coward.
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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craigengler.bsky.social
We’re 2 pledges away from $11,000. That’s gonna make a lot of puzzles.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/448...
The Great Halloween Puzzle & Podcast
A Halloween mystery puzzle that changes as you build it, with a podcast that gives you clues and tells you the history of Halloween.
www.kickstarter.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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paultremblay.bsky.social
Mr @johnlangan.bsky.social says I’m a horror hipster. As if.
etchfilm.bsky.social Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social · 16d
Smart horror > dumb decisions.

@paultremblay.bsky.social joins Etch Cast to talk Them! (1954), highbrow fear, and why horror’s range is unmatched.
October 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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raforall.bsky.social
31 Days of Horror: Day 19 -- Why I Love Horror, Pitt Horror Studies Collection Week Edition Featuring An Introduction by Ben Rubin

raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2025/10/31-d...
31 Days of Horror: Day 19 -- Why I Love Horror, Pitt Horror Studies Collection Week Edition Featuring An Introduction by Ben Rubin
This week, I am interrupting your normal Sunday links round up to begin a second full week of features and I need the entire week because so...
raforallhorror.blogspot.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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adamcesare.bsky.social
One of the name gags on last night’s Treehouse of Horrors.

There is no higher honor.
October 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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kkoja.bsky.social
Down in the UK! @deadinkbooks.bsky.social offers the Funhole for your amusement, edification, and emotional dismemberment :) Preorders are live right now. #funhole
A purple book cover with yellow lettering and an uncompromising hole in the center: the Dead Ink edition of THE CIPHER
October 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
jonathanlees.bsky.social
If you missed Westport Library’s STORYFEST this weekend (like I did) they taped all the panels. Just listened to @raforall.bsky.social’s Why I Love Horror and @datlow.bsky.social’s Night & Day panels. Fantastic thoughts from some of the best & brightest in horror fiction. youtube.com/@westportlib...
The Westport Library
The Library is located on the shores of the Saugatuck River on Jesup Green, with ample free parking. WiFi, cafe, exhibits, programs, children services, public computers, reference services, audiovisua...
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October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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stephenking.bsky.social
SALEM'S LOT turns 50 as of today. Didn't know until my pal (and co-writer) Rich Chizmar told me.
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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brezwrites.bsky.social
While making the IT movies, Andy and Barbara Muschietti had a lot of questions about Pennywise's origins.

Even Stephen King admitted ... he didn't know all the answers.

Here's how their new HBO series IT: Welcome to Derry fills in the blanks 🎈
'It: Welcome To Derry' Blows Open the Legend of Pennywise. It'll Shock You.
In the new HBO series, 'It' and 'It: Chapter Two' creators Andy and Barbara Muschietti go deep on the sewer-dwelling entity in Stephen King’s classic book.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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nmamatas.bsky.social
Also, buying direct doubles the royalty and I'd love to send the contributors a holiday check in December hint hint...
ruadanbooks.bsky.social Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social · Oct 15
Thanks to everyone who joined us for today's AMA! We're now closed to questions and @nmamatas.bsky.social has left the building. Metaphorically.

Haven't read 120 Murders yet? We can fix that! Pick it up wherever books are sold, or directly from us:
links.ruadanbooks.com/120M
Photograph looking down on someone's lower legs in jeans, feet in dark-colored sneakers. They're standing on a grey cobblestone road. A paperback copy of 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era, edited by Nick Mamatas, lay in front of them.
October 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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valancourtbooks.bsky.social
Today's $2.99 Kindle deal! A mouth-watering blend of delicious black humor and Kafkaesque horror story, THE COOK (1965) is a dark fable "beginning in a vein of innocent fairy tale and ending with satanic revels" (The Observer). www.amazon.com/Cook-Valanco...
Book cover for THE COOK by Harry Kressing
October 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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badhandbooks.bsky.social
If you've fallen in love with @michaelwehunt.bsky.social's THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT, let me recommend THE INCONSOLABLES.

"Michael Wehunt is one of my favorite, trusted guides navigating stories of grief and loss, sadness and regret." @sadiehartmann.bsky.social

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
The Inconsolables
The Inconsolables - Kindle edition by Wehunt, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Inconsolables.
www.amazon.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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stinasdemons.com
💙📚🩸 It's the 1st & been awhile since I shared so:

Horror #publishers on Bluesky; mostly #indie & active (posting regularly or w/in past 6 mos)

***with confirmed NO AI policies (will not use or accept generated words/images)***

Starter Pack:
go.bsky.app/UwgWqLc

Feed list:
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October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
jonathanlees.bsky.social
Truly iconic.
ruemorguemag.bsky.social Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · Oct 1
On this day in Horror History, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE premiered in Austin, Texas in 1974.
A man wearing a scary mask is dragging a screaming woman into a house.
October 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
jonathanlees.bsky.social
This is why I am no longer allowed to pre-order any books. I almost always ordering twice in that window of time… sometimes three.
On a good note, this means one of my friends is gonna get a copy of Neil McRobert’s highly anticpated debut novella, Good Boy, from @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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jordankurella.com
yes!
i wrote a queer novella about the Death of Mountains coming for mountain in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's out now from @lethepress.bsky.social

you can get it here:

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Death of Mountains
Check out The Death of Mountains - <p>The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories...
bookshop.org
September 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
jonathanlees.bsky.social
The coolest book mail drop I’ve had in a while.
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
@annieneugebauer.bsky.social
@gemmafiles.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
jonathanlees.bsky.social
Shocked at how well-stocked the HORROR section is at Barnes & Noble in Salem, NH. Seeing stuff I’ve never seen in person on bookshelves!
September 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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orringrey.com
New book by me, coming out VERY soon and with some amazing cover art by Matthew Revert - available to pre-order right now!
wordhorde.bsky.social Word Horde @wordhorde.bsky.social · Sep 10
Cover reveal! Here's your first look at Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle, a new collection of linked tales of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness from Orrin Grey (@orringrey.com) coming next month, featuring this creepily chthonic cover art by Matthew Revert!
September 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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margueriteturl2.bsky.social
Happiest of pub days to my favorite guy @claymcleod.bsky.social !
This collection is fkd up beyond words, but that’s what I love about his stories! His are always the first ones I read in every anthology I have and more than likely they are my favorite! Go out and pick this one up today! #books
Acquired Taste book by Clay McLeod Chapman
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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ericlarocca.bsky.social
Today’s the day! Welcome to the world of Burnt Sparrow… 🪶🖤 Now available everywhere books are sold!

Here’s an essay I wrote for Barnes & Noble:

www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/eric-la...
Giving a Voice to the Faceless: A Guest Post by Eric LaRocca - B&N Reads
This is a terrifying (and thrilling) start to a brand-new trilogy from the author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and At Dark, I Become Loathsome. Read on for an exclusive essay from E...
www.barnesandnoble.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
jonathanlees.bsky.social
The most insane horror novel release day evvverrrrrrrr.
sadiehartmann.bsky.social Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · Sep 9
New Books today!! Let's Celebrate! Full list in the alt text, descriptions, discussion, and a shopping list on my Patreon
-Acquired Taste -The Belles -You Weren’t Meant to be Human -The Macabre -Marrow -The Burial Tide -Play Nice -Roots of My Fears -House of Idyll -The Extra -They Fear Not Men in the Woods -The Haunting of William Thorn -We Are Always Tender With Our Dead -Death in the Aviary -Coffin Moon -Reef Mind
September 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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shortwavebooks.bsky.social
The Extra has arrived! 👀

Out today, @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's The Extra is the first in The Outsiders Sequence, standalone stories in a shared universe.

Ten people head out on a backpacking trip, but the first night eleven set up camp. Everyone remembers everyone else. Who is the extra?
A graphic showcasing the book and audiobook covers for The Extra, mostly an uneven green cover with large white text and a linked string of paper people, eleven of them, connected at the hands.
September 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM