Mae Murray
@maeisafraid.bsky.social
“Prose like rusted barbed wire.” | British Fantasy Award Finalist, THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS | Brave New Weird Award Winner | I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU | maemurray.com
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Reminder that this is my NEW new account, and I’m still looking for my folks. ♥️
When the Creature said “You may be my creator, but from this day forward I will be your master,” I came, and so did Victor Frankenstein.
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
When the Creature said “You may be my creator, but from this day forward I will be your master,” I came, and so did Victor Frankenstein.
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I am mentoring kids who are the first person to bring a book into their home, kids with the ability to imagine singing glass on alien worlds, but who can’t ever imagine getting published because being on the bruised economic margins is exclusion, is erasure. It makes me so damn angry and sad.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I am mentoring kids who are the first person to bring a book into their home, kids with the ability to imagine singing glass on alien worlds, but who can’t ever imagine getting published because being on the bruised economic margins is exclusion, is erasure. It makes me so damn angry and sad.
When I look around and see a lot of the same types of people succeeding, it’s not that I think I, or anyone else, necessarily deserves it more than they do. It’s just that I wish I saw more people like me, from my background, succeeding that way too.
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
When I look around and see a lot of the same types of people succeeding, it’s not that I think I, or anyone else, necessarily deserves it more than they do. It’s just that I wish I saw more people like me, from my background, succeeding that way too.
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If you’re a seasonal reader of horror, here is your gentle reminder that I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU takes place over Thanksgiving and Christmas, and there is pie. You can get signed copies via maemurray.com. 🥧
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you’re a seasonal reader of horror, here is your gentle reminder that I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU takes place over Thanksgiving and Christmas, and there is pie. You can get signed copies via maemurray.com. 🥧
If you’re a seasonal reader of horror, here is your gentle reminder that I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU takes place over Thanksgiving and Christmas, and there is pie. You can get signed copies via maemurray.com. 🥧
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you’re a seasonal reader of horror, here is your gentle reminder that I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU takes place over Thanksgiving and Christmas, and there is pie. You can get signed copies via maemurray.com. 🥧
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This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
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In the American South, writes Elizabeth Broadbent, "[t]he past is our wound, and the past is our anchor." Here are five Southern Gothic stories that explore generational trauma and inescapable connections to the past.
Five Southern Gothic Books about Generational Trauma That You (Probably) Haven’t Read - Reactor
Families grappling with ancestral sin and the crimes of the past
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November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In the American South, writes Elizabeth Broadbent, "[t]he past is our wound, and the past is our anchor." Here are five Southern Gothic stories that explore generational trauma and inescapable connections to the past.
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Get you some Southern-fried Lynchian vibes, horror nerds!
I'm Sorry If I Scared You by Mae Murray is an incredible work of Southern queer horror. It's weird, it's gross, it's gay, and it's all too relevant
Also I swear that cover will make perfect sense by the time you finish
Also I swear that cover will make perfect sense by the time you finish
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Get you some Southern-fried Lynchian vibes, horror nerds!
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2025 Awards Eligibility! BLOOD AND OIL, published by @contrarianpublishing.com in BLOOD SWEAT & QUEERS: VAMPIRIC LOVE STORIES on October 7. Oil refinery-worker Darling is obsessed with graphic videos. When her coworker is killed by an ancient Indigenous creature, her obsession finds a new target.
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
2025 Awards Eligibility! BLOOD AND OIL, published by @contrarianpublishing.com in BLOOD SWEAT & QUEERS: VAMPIRIC LOVE STORIES on October 7. Oil refinery-worker Darling is obsessed with graphic videos. When her coworker is killed by an ancient Indigenous creature, her obsession finds a new target.
I recently did a podcast interview where the host described my novel I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU as “Lynchian.” 🥹
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I recently did a podcast interview where the host described my novel I’M SORRY IF I SCARED YOU as “Lynchian.” 🥹
Reminder that this is my NEW new account, and I’m still looking for my folks. ♥️
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Reminder that this is my NEW new account, and I’m still looking for my folks. ♥️
Move over, Guillermo del Toro.
Mae Murray's Frankenstein riff when
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Move over, Guillermo del Toro.
FRANKENSTEIN made some choices I wouldn’t have made. I still had fun with it as its own thing, but I’m still waiting for an adaptation that is as faithful as it is visually stunning. The audacity to end the film with a Byron quote…
November 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
FRANKENSTEIN made some choices I wouldn’t have made. I still had fun with it as its own thing, but I’m still waiting for an adaptation that is as faithful as it is visually stunning. The audacity to end the film with a Byron quote…
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Favorite Stories: “I Love You, Lola!” by @stacywayne.bsky.social, “Hemorrhage,” by @cyrusafisher.bsky.social, “First Feast on Film,” by @superfiend.bsky.social, “Caregiver,” by @amandamblake.bsky.social.
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The Book of Queer Saints: Volume II
The Book of Queer Saints: Volume II [Murray, Mae, Rumfitt, Alison, Ashe, Paula D., Richard, Sam, Piper, Hailey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Book of Queer Saints: Volume II
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November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Favorite Stories: “I Love You, Lola!” by @stacywayne.bsky.social, “Hemorrhage,” by @cyrusafisher.bsky.social, “First Feast on Film,” by @superfiend.bsky.social, “Caregiver,” by @amandamblake.bsky.social.
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THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS VOL. 2, ed. By @maeisafraid.bsky.social
TBOQS2 has: a demonic anglerfish using a pop star as a lure; righteous revenge against family vloggers (it’s just a prank!); combat magicians breaking kayfabe to find missing organs; a concerning amount of cannibalism—
TBOQS2 has: a demonic anglerfish using a pop star as a lure; righteous revenge against family vloggers (it’s just a prank!); combat magicians breaking kayfabe to find missing organs; a concerning amount of cannibalism—
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS VOL. 2, ed. By @maeisafraid.bsky.social
TBOQS2 has: a demonic anglerfish using a pop star as a lure; righteous revenge against family vloggers (it’s just a prank!); combat magicians breaking kayfabe to find missing organs; a concerning amount of cannibalism—
TBOQS2 has: a demonic anglerfish using a pop star as a lure; righteous revenge against family vloggers (it’s just a prank!); combat magicians breaking kayfabe to find missing organs; a concerning amount of cannibalism—
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I have a short story in the anthology The Book Of Queer Saints Vol II, edited by the great @maeisafraid.bsky.social
This is a fantastic antho and it was an honor to be included
This is a fantastic antho and it was an honor to be included
The Book of Queer Saints: Volume II — Mae Murray
The award-nominated anthology series returns with The Book of Queer Saints Volume II. Featuring 19 new stories by some of the best queer horror writers working today, it includes works by Shirley J...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I have a short story in the anthology The Book Of Queer Saints Vol II, edited by the great @maeisafraid.bsky.social
This is a fantastic antho and it was an honor to be included
This is a fantastic antho and it was an honor to be included
My mother and both my siblings have been incarcerated, my sister for most of her adult life. I can’t understate the importance of letters to an inmate, a thread to the outside world. I recently found this resource that helps you find a prison penpal, esp important around the holidays: wireofhope.com
Wire of Hope's Prison Pen Pal Program - Inmate Penpals Online
Take part in Wire of Hope's Prison Pen Pal Program: write to inmates and begin a prison correspondence today or sign up and find penpals for inmates!
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November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My mother and both my siblings have been incarcerated, my sister for most of her adult life. I can’t understate the importance of letters to an inmate, a thread to the outside world. I recently found this resource that helps you find a prison penpal, esp important around the holidays: wireofhope.com
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
The reason radio is dying is because every time I tune in I’m forced to listen to Don’t Stop Believin’.
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The reason radio is dying is because every time I tune in I’m forced to listen to Don’t Stop Believin’.
At an antique mall in Rhode Island:
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
At an antique mall in Rhode Island:
Only Southerners know why this gumbo I ate in a Massachusetts restaurant today made me cry. No shrimp or crawfish?? No okra?? 99.9% roux???
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Only Southerners know why this gumbo I ate in a Massachusetts restaurant today made me cry. No shrimp or crawfish?? No okra?? 99.9% roux???
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For Trans Awareness Month, I invite you to be aware of trans authors
That's more than just clever wordplay! There are so many amazing trans authors who are unknown outside their small corners of the community. Readers are missing out on some of the best work on the virtual stands today!
That's more than just clever wordplay! There are so many amazing trans authors who are unknown outside their small corners of the community. Readers are missing out on some of the best work on the virtual stands today!
On that note:
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.
Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.
Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For Trans Awareness Month, I invite you to be aware of trans authors
That's more than just clever wordplay! There are so many amazing trans authors who are unknown outside their small corners of the community. Readers are missing out on some of the best work on the virtual stands today!
That's more than just clever wordplay! There are so many amazing trans authors who are unknown outside their small corners of the community. Readers are missing out on some of the best work on the virtual stands today!
Probably the single most important thing when working with children and teens: Don’t promise something you can’t or won’t deliver. Ever. But if you can’t follow through for some reason, apologize, and be sincere. It teaches them more than trust; it teaches them to show up when they make a promise.
November 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Probably the single most important thing when working with children and teens: Don’t promise something you can’t or won’t deliver. Ever. But if you can’t follow through for some reason, apologize, and be sincere. It teaches them more than trust; it teaches them to show up when they make a promise.
Hubs took me to celebrate signing the contract for my second book. A little girl in Arkansas, living in poverty with an alcoholic, who told everyone she would grow up to be a writer, grew into a teenager who thought she couldn’t afford to dream. But dreams are free, and sometimes they come true. ♥️
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hubs took me to celebrate signing the contract for my second book. A little girl in Arkansas, living in poverty with an alcoholic, who told everyone she would grow up to be a writer, grew into a teenager who thought she couldn’t afford to dream. But dreams are free, and sometimes they come true. ♥️