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Ross E. Lockhart
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An invisible whistling octopus. Runs Word Horde and the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic. He/Him/They/Them
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The FB algorithm, which is generally 💩 served up these Godzilla posters this morning, and they’re absolutely atomic breath fire! Feel free to pass them along to your friends! 🦖
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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I’ve got a thing in the latest Forbidden Futures! Here’s your chance to preorder a copy. Or several copies.

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The cover of issue #14 of Forbidden Futures, featuring skeletal astronauts floating in space.
July 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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When I was a kid, my cousins locked me in their weed-scented back yard shed decorated with black velvet clowns and played Black Sabbath’s We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll at maximum volume, planning to scare the hell out of me.
The album cover for Black Sabbath’s We Sold Our Soul for Rock ‘n’ Roll. Black with red text, with the letter S as a stylized lightning bolt in Sabbath, Sold, and Soul. Rock ‘n’ Roll!
July 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Mark Zuckerberg is a book thief.

#ai #meta #libgen #eattherich
March 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Our power went out at the Word Horde Emporium about half an hour ago. We’re open for cash only transactions. So if you’ve ever wanted to shop at a spooky bookstore in the dark, here’s your chance.
Power is out, but we’re open anyway.
December 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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I’m vending books until 6 pm tonight at Henhouse Brewing Company’s Palace of Barrels. Why not drop by and say hello? Krampus will be here shortly!
Pictured: Ross E. Lockhart, holding a Squishable Krampus in one hand and a Barrel Aged Donuts stout in the other (16.7% abv). He is surrounded by books.
December 7, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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I was just Wham!-ed by Santa from the back of a fire truck! 🚒 “Once bitten and twice shy…”

Who’s still in the game?

#Whamageddon
A very blurry photo of Santa riding in a vintage red hook-and-ladder fire truck. He’s playing Wham!’s “Last Christmas” and laughing at my misfortune. But I’ll have the last laugh, Santa! Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 5, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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What are your favorite books about horror movies?

Pictured: Skelley Duvall, a mascot at the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic holds a copy of Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film

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Skelley Duvall, a mascot at the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic holds a copy of Orrin Grey’s Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film
November 10, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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Coming September 17 to a bookshelf near you: Around Eldritch Corners, a collection of cosmic horror by Splatterpunk Award-winning author Christine Morgan. Preorder your copy today!

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Coming September 17 to a bookshelf near you: Around Eldritch Corners, a collection of cosmic horror by Splatterpunk Award-winning author Christine Morgan. Preorder your copy today!
August 22, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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“A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.” —John Cowper Powys

Heed the call of the sirens, and visit your favorite weird & fantastic bookshop today!

www.weirdandfantastic.com
A photograph of a chalkboard in front of the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic, an indie bookstore located in Petaluma, CA.
August 3, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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Can a book kill a god? DRILL, the new novel from Scott R. Jones drops Tuesday, August 6. Guess we find out then.

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Two astronauts gaze at the monolithic cover of DRILL, a novel by Scott R. Jones. One says, “Wait. God’s a memetic organism?” The other, pointing a pistol, replies. “Always has been.”
August 2, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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DRILL, forthcoming from Scott R Jones, gets a mention in the latest Publishers Weekly, as part of the Fall 2024 SF, Fantasy & Horror Preview! Have you preordered DRILL yet?
A photo of a page from a magazine. It reads: WORD HORDE Drill by Scott R. Jones (Aug. 6, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-956252-09-5). The latest work of weird fiction from Jones pits a mail carrier with magical powers against the divine.
June 20, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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God's a memetic organism. Find out more in DRILL, the new novel from Scott R Jones. Coming this August from Word Horde.

Order your copy today:
wordhorde.com/books/drill/
Two astronauts look at the cover of Scott R. Jones’ novel Drill, floating in space. The first says, “Wait. God’s a memetic organism?” The second, pointing a pistol, replies, “Always has been.” The image recontextualizes the “It’s all Ohio” meme as a clever bit of book marketing.
June 10, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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ARCs for Scott R Jones’ DRILL are in hand. Magical Mailman Kills God. Coming later this year from Word Horde. Hit me up if you need a review copy.
I am holding a paperback advance reading copy of DRILL, a forthcoming novel by Scott R. Jones. Magical Mailman Kills God.
May 1, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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If you see this, post a Frankenstein…

(Trade Paperback Cover Art by Patrick Jones)

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March 2, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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It’s my double nickel birthday, so here’s a lovely Memento Mori (on a POLST form) that Raymond Lawrason gifted me yesterday when he dropped by the Word Horde Emporium. I’m not expecting to do anything outlandish today, just running errands, and later, catching a movie and some dinner with Jennifer.🍿
November 20, 2023 at 6:14 PM
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Here you go.
November 16, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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It’s that time of year again.
November 11, 2023 at 3:51 AM
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Preorder Jo Nesbø’s new novel The Night House from the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic (link in comments) and then fill out the form on the Penguin Random House link (also in comments), you can score a very creepy/cool pin. But do it quick, since the offer ends tomorrow!
October 1, 2023 at 9:50 PM
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Why do I feel like Wakko Warner should be singing this list to me?
October 1, 2023 at 4:26 PM
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A Bug at the Park (2023). Mixed media. Artist unknown.
A crumpled drawing of a bug with a smiling face lies in the middle of a field of clover. A yellow flower is nearby.
September 17, 2023 at 8:13 PM
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“Hello, Children. Listen to your old friend Meat Friend and go back Izzy Lee’s feature film Kickstarter. You keep saying you want to see more horror flicks made by women. Here’s your chance to make it happen!”

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Meat Friend, a friend made of meat, stands before a meaty background. His opaque white eyes point in the viewer’s direction. He might be smiling.
September 17, 2023 at 3:24 AM
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I’m not one to let a promotional opportunity go to waste, so when I spotted this huge Scholastic banner at a nearby grade school while walking Elinor, I knew we had to get a photo… and give it a Word Horde twist.
Ross, wearing a black hat, stands holding Elinor, a small tricolor Shih-Tzu. Ross points at a tall red sign with white writing. It reads “Visit Our BOOK FAIR!” At the bottom of the sign is the logo for the Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic.
September 16, 2023 at 3:45 AM
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Elinor wants to know what you’re reading right now, and if you’d maybe consider reading her a chapter or two.

And if you aren’t currently reading something, she suggests you visit www.weirdandfantastic.com

#dogsandbooks #booksanddogs #bookstoreblues #indiebookstores
Elinor, a brown, liver, and white shih-tzu sits on a rug looking directly into the camera. She is very patient and deserves a treat for putting up with this.
September 8, 2023 at 4:58 PM
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There’s a “post the first video game you remember playing” thing going around, so here’s Death Race (1976) which was in a bowling alley I’d visit as a kid. You’d drive around, run over pedestrians—er, “gremlins”, which would then turn into tombstones. It was controversial. Explains a lot about me.
September 4, 2023 at 3:18 PM