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Madeleine D'Este
@madeleinedeste.bsky.social
Writer. Reviewer. Podcaster.
Dark Mysteries are my thing.
Black Soil White Bread out on 10 June 2025.
Aurealis Award & Shadow Awards nom'd.
https://madeleinedeste.com/
While seriously we didn't need another Frankenstein reboot (new stories ffs), the story is eternally relevant.

GdT's Frankenstein was breathtakingly lush and bleak.

And our old mate Elordi was magnificent.
November 8, 2025 at 4:31 AM
November 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Red bottlebrush on a sunny spring day
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I love red bottlebrush season. 🇦🇺
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Melbourne
October 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I guess I should try to flog my occult mystery/inner city folk horror novel BLACK SOIL WHITE BREAD for Halloween.

Here it is.
Some people like it.
www.amazon.com/Black-Soil-W...
🖤💙📚🎃
October 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The ghost of the last person buried keeps watch over the churchyard until another is buried, to whom he delivers his charge.

#folklorethursday
Source: Encyclopaedia of superstitions, folklore, and the occult sciences of the world - Cora Linn Daniels
Image by sman_5 from Pixabay
October 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
September 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
How to fill interstitial time without doom-scrolling.

from schooloftheunconformed.substack.com/cp/171652508
September 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM
September 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Carpenters will carve a star into their scaffolding to ensure their safety.

#FolkloreThursday
Encyclopedia of superstitions, folklore, and the occult sciences of the world - Cora Linn Daniels and C. M. Stevans
September 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A sick person seeing a shooting star will recover within a month.
'Signs, omens and superstitions' - Astra Cielo

#FolkloreThursday

Image by red-star-dreamy from Pixabay
September 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Heavenly clock ticks
Swelling silver disc tugs tides
Scratches sanity

Image by Patou Ricard from Pixabay
September 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
floribunda heart
Friday licks from nectar'd lips
caressing week's end

Image by Miroslav Kaclík from Pixabay
August 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I think this is my favourite review of all time.

Thank you Lisa S

Black Soil White Bread - 'I would not say this is a happy book...'
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August 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Whoa.
A fab 5 star review for Black Soil White Bread
🖤💙📚😱
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August 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Black Soil White Bread - free until 19-Aug.

Currently #36 Free Book on Kindle Store.

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August 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Superstition. Suspicion. Secrets.

Black Soil White Bread - a supernatural mystery - is FREE until 19-Aug

Grab yourself a slice. 📚💙🖤 #horror

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August 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I got a nice review this week
August 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
FREE BOOK!

Black Soil White Bread is free from Amazon until 19-Aug.

Get yourself a slice of Australian folk-horror.
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August 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Want a slice of Australian folk horror?
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July 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Black Soil White Bread - an occult mystery about urban legends, community and loyalty set in Melbourne.

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July 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Oh how sweet of you!
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July 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
You know what...ART WILL LIVE ON.
Despite everything.
It will continue.

So get on it, get in it, get amongst it.
July 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM