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August, like the month
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Came for the books and sciency stuff.
Stayed for the doomscrolling.
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@qntm.org The word "bedraggled" didn't exist in my origin timeline but it's everywhere here. I don't want to go home, just wanted everyone to know I read it again in your book.

You've written the darkest #horror story I've read this year.

#booksky #scp
The cover of QNTM's novel "There is No Antimemetics Division" features a wooded hillside obscured in mist at either dusk or dawn. Towering taller than the trees is an enormous carved stone structure.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Last week, I wrongfully accused my coworker of making up the word "bedraggled." Now I've read it twice in @travisbaldree.bsky.social's "Brigands & Breadknives." What universe did I fall into #booksky?
#fantasy #cozy
The cover of Travis Baldree's novel "Brigands & Breadknives" features travelers in a forest with a mountain in the background around a pot above a campfire at night. A short gray & brown rattkin in a red cloak sits on the back of a horse drawn cart with books, parchment, and quill. A short green goblin stands behind the fire, with a wide shark-toothed smile, shockingly red hair, wearing an oversized coat made out of men's other garments pockets. Atop the goblin's head sits an evil looking chicken with green eyes, razor sharp spikes in its comb, and luminous vapor escaping its break, staring at the tall, one-eared elf holding a long blade to her chest. Behind them is a large horse.
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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New #books in the mail from @bookshop.org
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"The Door on the Sea" by Caskey Russell, Solaris Books "There is no anti-memetics division" by QNTM, Ballantine Books "Brigands & Breadknives" by Travis Baldree, Tor
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Vern, the last dragon, spends his days smoking cigs, binging TV, and downing vodka from the comfort of his La-z-boy in a Louisiana swamp until a crooked constable tries to off a teenage witness with grenades.

Check out Eoin Colfer's entertaining adult #fantasy novel "Highfire".
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#booksky
The cover of Eoin Colfer's novel "Highfire" is a picture of a green swamp mostly covered by a tattered paper with the title quickly handwritten across the top, three tears from talons in the middle, and the author's name printed at the bottom.
November 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Daniel H. Wilson has blended cosmic horror with indigenous folklore into a unique novel of first contact with extraterrestrials. The unknown within us is just as scary as the unknown in outer space. Highly recommend Hole in the Sky.
#booksky #scifi #horror #aliens
The cover of Daniel H. Wilson's novel "Hole in the Sky" shows green hills underneath a partially cloudy blue sky with a dark oval void at the center containing stars, with one particularly bright star giving the impression it is the pupil of an eye.
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Don't.
A bewildered black and white owl puppet stares vacantly out against an orange background on this poster. Scarfolk Council Public Information From 12nd January 1973 it will be no longer legal. Whatever you do Don't Don't be one of those people who mistakes doing for not doing it you could face a fine. For more information please reread this poster. The Don't Campaign
October 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Musically inclined friends get an alternate symbol.
Wu-Tang Clan logo in yellow on a black background.
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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It's a legit magic symbol. See @florkofcows.bsky.social
4 panel comic of two stick puppets drawn in MS Paint. The right one has a cone wizard hat and a blue zigzag on shirt. Panel 1 Left: 90's mage show them an ancient rune. Panel 2 Right draws two rows of vertical lines in the air. Left: No no no not that one! Panel 3 Right raised arms, the "Cool S" floats in the air. Left is behind black and white lines. Panel 4 Right mage left alone, dust floats where left was.
October 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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I CAN SEE...

... a mistake on the In The Mouth of Madness's book jacket.

#booksky #horror
The back of the book jacket to the novelization of In the Mouth of Madness. Across the top in bold capital blood red letters is Sutter Cane. Remaining text is white. At the bottom is the Arcane logo: a red right isosceles triangle riding to the right, bisected vertically more than halfway across. SUTTER CANE TAKES US HOME TO HOBB'S END FOR THE FINAL CONFRONTATION THIS TIME NO ONE GETS OUT OF HERE ALIVE AND THAT INCLUDES YOU!... IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS "I CAN SEE" - Jackson Harglow "I CAN SEE" - Linda Styles "I CAN SEE" - John Trent There was a man come unto the earth with tales of terror and madness. But he was more than a teller of stories. He was a prophet. And his words would herald the coming of the apocalypse. This is the last book written by horror king Sutter Cane, before his mysterious disappearance. It is his book of revelations, the behinning [sic] of the end. And after this book, nothing will ever be the same again... Watch out for John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness", coming to a theatres near you soon. ARCANE
October 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Anti-Prime Free Shipping from @bookshop.org.
Caved in and bought Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea from @solarisbooks.bsky.social.
A screenshot of a bookshop.org purchase of Caskey Russell's The Door on the Sea. 41,601,663.58 USD raised for local bookstores. This order raised 2.70 USD.
October 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Kristi DeMeester writes surreal prose that guides you through chambers of your heart, hollow in your throat, pit in your stomach... Everything That's Underneath is a map of your interior darkness you wish you didn't want.
#booksky #horror
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The cover of Kristi DeMeester's collection of short horror stories "Everything That's Underneath" is black and white of a woman facing left but transitions into a central verizon of a forest. Paul Tremblay called it "a dark, intelligent, relentless collection."
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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My coworker *hated* me after I sent him this short film.
An emoji kitchen combination of 💀 (skull) and 🧑‍🎨 (painter). A skeleton holds a paint brush in one hand and a wooden palette in the other.
October 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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I really wish I was making this up.
www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...
Other supposed med bed companies make even loftier claims. A Swiss company called 90.10, which scored the coveted URL “medbed.com,” claims to allow users to access “infinite energy” and “reprogram your DNA”—all without side effects. Unlike Tesla BioHealing, 90.10 doesn’t even offer users the tangibility of a metal can. Instead, it purports to convert users’ regular beds into the fabled med beds, using “Faster than Light Technology®” to “teleport or beam quantum energy and frequencies into the human body without time delay.” From Daily Beast, reposted on Yahoo. https://www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-conspiracy-involves-magical-bed-084947430.html Captured on 2025-09-28 11:43 CST.
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Much excite.
#booksky #horror #kids
An excited yellow emoji gritting teeth with red five-pointed stars for eyes.
September 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Feeling lost? There's this great mystery play called The King In Yellow. Follow The Yellow Sign to discover who is The King in Yellow. Who wears the Pallid Mask? Are you in the Court of the Dragon?
#booksky #horror
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A figure covered in yellow moss with antlers protruding from the chest and branches from the head in the shape of a crown holds a copy of The King in Yellow whilst sitting atop a mound of books in a dark brick-lined lair.
September 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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@horrorsong.blog has written a hallucination about a cosmic play, with characters that reveal terrible truths about the fragility of humanity's island of certainty, and the tide is coming in. PICK THIS UP TODAY FROM @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
#booksky #horror
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September 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Rebleet with your mental state
Yep hideous red-faced humanoid monsters splattered in red say, "Let us in." "We just want to talk." Watercolor illustration from Kyle Beaudette.
September 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Two cousins at a dead end in life wait out a hurricane and wonder where and when the end truly happens (or happened) in Kelby Losack's Hurricane Season. #booksky #horror 🌀🙀👻🦝💊🐎☠️
Black and blue-green shards melt around an eye on the cover of Kelby Losack's novella Hurricane Season.
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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From Flork of Cows. A sock puppet drawn in MS Paint says "thank you, I will continue life with the burden of this terrible truth."
September 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I award you First Place in Internet'ing.

+1 Contact reference

+1 Legally Blonde reference
A golden first place emoji engraved with a first place emoji.
September 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Katy Michelle Quinn, Jo Quenell, and @sammytotep.bsky.social wrote some bonkers splatter horror stories with the vividness of Street Trash. Highly recommend Lazer Mall, #booksky.
The cover of "Lazer Mall", a bonkers collection of 3 short stories by Katy Michelle Quinn, Jo Quenell, and Sam Richard contains a hidden face with red lasers shooting from the eyes, text like red neon, and sky blue lights extending from the vanishing point.
September 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Hells I needed this story of perseverance, found family, and community. Automatic Noodle captures the struggle of making space in places not made for (allowing) you to be. Also @annaleen.bsky.social is 💯 correct about Friends.
#booksky
The cover of Annalee Newitz's novella Automatic Noodle features a robotic hand holding biang biang noodles with chopsticks over a steaming bowl. In the foreground is San Francisco with multiple robots.
September 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Josh Malerman's A House at the Bottom of a Lake dives into the thrills and terror is being 17 and in love and obsessed with a house beneath the water of an abandoned lake.

Just the #horror palette cleanser I needed #booksky
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Dark blue green shades color the facade of a house underwater in the cover of Josh Malerman's A HOUSE AT THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE
September 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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@elienyc.bsky.social book Bad Law in an inoculation against lip service from your representatives so that you can demand they make real changes to turn US back toward democracy.

I seriously needed a shot of his anger and wit. Writing my congresspeople felt as useless as bleeting on Bluesky.
The cover of Elie Mystal's second book "Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws that are Running America" has a blue background with sections of constitutional law in black text scattered over it. The title and his name are black letters inside white boxes. Mystal gives a speckled side eye, head only half above the bottom edge of the cover.
September 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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His story involves an all to real conspiracy: COINTELPRO. Jeffrey Haas's book "The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther" outlines the US government targeting progressive leaders, particularly Black, to discredit them.
A black-and-white photograph of Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader in Chicago, speaking in front of a crowd. THE ASSASSINATION OF FRED HAMPTON UPDATED EDITION JEFFREY HAAS HOW THE FBI AND THE CHICAGO POLICE MURDERED A BLACK PANTHER
August 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM