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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
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
I’ve got a thing in the latest Forbidden Futures! Here’s your chance to preorder a copy. Or several copies.

forbiddenfuturesmagazine.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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.
July 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Mark Zuckerberg is a book thief.

#ai #meta #libgen #eattherich
March 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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.
December 14, 2024 at 7:09 PM
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!
December 7, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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
December 5, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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

wordhorde.com/books/glowin...
November 10, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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!

wordhorde.com/books/around...
August 22, 2024 at 6:55 PM
“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
August 3, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Can a book kill a god? DRILL, the new novel from Scott R. Jones drops Tuesday, August 6. Guess we find out then.

wordhorde.com/books/drill/
August 2, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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?
June 20, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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/
June 10, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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.
May 1, 2024 at 7:28 PM
If you see this, post a Frankenstein…

(Trade Paperback Cover Art by Patrick Jones)

wordhorde.com/books/eterna...
March 2, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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
Here you go.
November 16, 2023 at 7:21 PM
It’s that time of year again.
November 11, 2023 at 3:51 AM
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
Why do I feel like Wakko Warner should be singing this list to me?
October 1, 2023 at 4:26 PM
A Bug at the Park (2023). Mixed media. Artist unknown.
September 17, 2023 at 8:13 PM
“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!”

www.kickstarter.com/projects/izz...
September 17, 2023 at 3:24 AM
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.
September 16, 2023 at 3:45 AM
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
September 8, 2023 at 4:58 PM
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