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Nefarious Bat Press
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We're a women-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, operated by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney

We like intersectional feminism. A lot

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2-for-1 weekend sale on intersectional feminist rage!

Buy the TRADWIFE ebook direct from the Nefarious Bat store - and get THE DEBT completely free, today and tomorrow!

payhip.com/b/TDowG
Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry" Venn diagram, featuring cover of TC Parker's The Debt at the centre, with overlapping circles promising: - Cons, heists and hustles - Vengeance is sweet - All-female crime caper, Ocean's 8-style Book cover itself shows a shadowy figure in a hooded top walking down a nighttime street, while an eye watches from overhead
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Next: the upcoming The Denizens, by @brennanlafaro.bsky.social!

(Preorder here: www.amazon.com/Denizens-Bre...)
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Next: Tradwife by @tcparker.bsky.social!

(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/TDowG)
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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It's Sunday, so we thought we'd share a 🧵 of some of our promo videos - and see if they can persuade you to grab a copy of one of our titles...

First up: Phengaris, by @anna-orridge.bsky.social!

(Buy it here: payhip.com/b/58paC)
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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3 Image Book Challenge for your Saturday:

Show your book (or the book you're reading) in 3 images

We'll start, with @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's upcoming The Denizens...
October 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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What's this? Could it be... the awesome @claymcleod.bsky.social saying lovely things about THE DENIZENS?

Promethean grief horror, with zombies. Out February, courtesy of @brennanlafaro.bsky.social
"The Denizens destroys you from the get-go, then has the audacity to resuscitate you with a simple flip of the page. LaFaro has the uncanny knack to equally decimate and resurrect his readers, chapter after chapter, a grief-stricken Prometheus, weighing his writing down with an ache that just keeps us coming back for more." -- Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes Promo image for THE DENIZENS, showing the cover art - a dense forest containing a settlement of houses, a tunnel and a quarry seen from overhead, the aerial effect creating the appearance of a human skull Text reads: COMING FEBRUARY 2026
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Now @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social's incredible cover for @brennanlafaro.bsky.social's THE DENIZENS is out in the world... we're very happy to share what some early readers have to say about it

You might recognise some of them :)
"Mesmerizing, with a quiet but profound sense of dread" Rachel Harrison, USA Today Bestselling author of PLAY NICE and SO THIRSTY "Brennan LaFaro builds dread with the best of them, and The Denizens is a creeping and macabre passage through grief and regret, terror and devotion, hope and pain. What lurks on the outskirts of Maylene's Hollow will come for you no matter how prepared you think you might be." Christa Carmen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND and HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING "Brennan LaFaro delivers a haunting Southern Gothic where grief, small-town secrets, and ancient horrors converge. In Maylene's Hollow, the living and the damned walk side by side-and once you enter, the denizens never let you leave. Exceptionally terrifying!" Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Shoemaker's Magician Promo image for THE DENIZENS, showing the cover art - a dense forest containing a settlement of houses, a tunnel and a quarry seen from overhead, the aerial effect creating the appearance of a human skull Text reads: COMING FEBRUARY 2026
August 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Something exciting and Denizens-related is coming your way next week. Keep your eyes peeled... 👀
Promo graphic for Brennan LaFaro's THE DENIZENS Strapline reads: Welcome Home. We've Been Waiting For You Image shows blank black book cover against a green background. Cover reads: THE DENIZENS Brennan LaFaro Coming 2026
August 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ta! We're a queer-owned, intersectional feminist indie specialising in horror, crime & dark fic

Recent titles include @anna-orridge.bsky.social's amazing PHENGARIS, & TRADWIFE by @tcparker.bsky.social - with THE DENIZENS, a Salem's Lot-esque horror from @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, out Q1 2026...
Promo image for Phengaris, featuring: 1. Book cover, with a central design showing a butterfly constructed out of scrap metal 2. Blurb from the BFS' Lauren McMenemy that reads: "Gorgeously dark and dreamy in the best way, Phengaris twists folklore and magic into a tale of the very real impact loss can have on us at formative ages. Definitely not one for the faint of heart, nor those with entomophobia. I'll never look at a bug the same way again" Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"
August 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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We miss EPs and singles

So, while we work on the novels we've got coming for you next year (... looking at you, @brennanlafaro.bsky.social & @drewhuff.bsky.social...) - we thought we'd send a few quick reads and extended plays your way

The Bat Singles: Coming Soon

(Album with us 2026)
Promo images, with the strapline: 4 Singles. Coming Soon Image shows 4 vinyl records against coloured paper backgrounds, each with the name TC Parker, the description "A Nefarious Bat Single" and the title of the story in question These are: Boarders Prison Cooking The Nine O'Clock Horses Flow
August 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Early weekend deal, direct from the Batcave!

Buy @tcparker.bsky.social's Tradwife from our ebook store... and get heist novel The Debt COMPLETELY FREE!

(Just add Tradwife to your cart and let Payhip do the rest :) )

payhip.com/b/TDowG
Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry" Promo image for The Debt, showing the book cover (a shadowy figure against a dark city backdrop) and promises of: Grifts and hustles Takedowns of the rich and powerful Smart, capable women getting even Ocean's 8, Leverage and Hustle vibes Unexpected twists 90s London setting
July 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Wrath Month, you say?

Well, in that case...

payhip.com/NefariousBat...
Image of Good For Her's book cover (with pink text against a black backdrop, and black and white illustrations framing the text) with table of contents: GOOD FOR HER introduction - Sonora Taylor babs - Anna Orridge a change in universal flavor - Hailey Piper phoenix rising - R. J. Joseph to love and obey - Sarah Jules roses for his garden - Ai Jiang a suitable punishment - Lisa Hutchinson patient - M J Mars defensive architecture - TC Parker plague daughter - S. H. Cooper my pretty little psycho - Elizabeth J. Brown picking up the pieces - Candace Nola the savage other - Leigh Kenny the hunt - Emerald O Brien boss bitch - Megan Stockton mandragora - TC Parker teacups - Candace Nola return to sender - Shauna Me Eleney Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from The Irish Times, reading: "TRADWIFE UNAMBIGUOUSLY PLANTS ITS FLAG AGAINST THE MOST VIRULENTLY PATRIARCHAL RIGHT-WING CURRENTS ... WITH REAL CARE AND MORAL CLARITY" Promo image for Phengaris, featuring: 1. Book cover, with a central design showing a butterfly constructed out of scrap metal 2. Blurb from Alex Davis, reading: "A startling original and wonderfully bleak urban fairy tale"
July 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Good For Her: An Anthology of Women's Rage is out Monday - and some fantastic early reviews are already rolling in!

Check it out for yourself: mybook.to/goodforher
Promo image for Good For Her, showing reader quotes that read: "I needed this book. With everything going on in the world, I needed this book" "Sensational showcase of female rage from the best women authors in indie horror" "A standout read for anyone who loves stories about women taking back their power"
June 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Less than 2 weeks to go until the launch of our charity anthology GOOD FOR HER - feat. feminist rage-filled stories from the likes of @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, @leighkenny.bsky.social and our very own @anna-orridge.bsky.social

Preorder now!

tinyurl.com/y7hd9mkh
Cover of charity anthology Good For Her, edited by Sarah Jules, Shauna Mc Eleney and TC Parker Cover - designed by Ruth Anna Evans - features bold pink fonts and a black and white illustrated border
June 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Pride Giveaway 2: The Text-Based Microblogging Batch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Since the TT giveaway went... not so well: who (in the UK 🇬🇧) fancies winning a signed copy of @tcparker.bsky.social's angrily sapphic, queer-tastic Hummingbird?

If you do: like, share, follow us... and we'll pick a winner sometime Wednesday!
Shauna's hand, holding up a copy of Hummingbird against a blurred bookshelf background Hummingbird cover shows a skull with branch-like antlers jutting from a humanoid body apparently made of tangled tree roots
June 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Happy #PrideMonth to all our lovely readers, from the heart of the rainbow-strewn Batcave

We (and our books) are pretty gay all year round... but rest assured, we'll be gaying it up extra hard these next 4 weeks

Keep reading. Keep fighting. And above all... keep it queer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦇
The Nefarious Bat logo - a bat, wings spread, silhouetted in flight - set against a rainbow background
June 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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More copies of @anna-orridge.bsky.social's Phengaris have landed in the Batcave!

To celebrate the launch of this eco-horror fever-dream... we're giving away plantable-seed bookmarks with any paperbacks bought direct

Just plant it in the garden with some water... & watch the nightmares grow!*
Paperback copies of Anna Orridge's novella Phengaris Phengaris bookmarks, in a wild garden surrounded by yellow flowers and tall grass
May 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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🪲 @anna-orridge.bsky.social's PHENGARIS is out next week!! 🪲

Should you preorder? Let's see what the UK Ghost Story Festival's @alexdavis1981.bsky.social has to say...

tinyurl.com/zn9v4a9k
Promo image for Phengaris, featuring: 1. Book cover, with a central design showing a butterfly constructed out of scrap metal 2. Blurb from Alex Davis that reads: "A startlingly original and wonderfully bleak urban fairy tale"
May 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Less than 2 weeks to go now until @anna-orridge.bsky.social's bug-laden grief-horror PHENGARIS emerges from its chrysalis...

Have you preordered yours yet?

@kevharrison.bsky.social has...

tinyurl.com/srf42nuu
Promo image for Phengaris, featuring: 1. Book cover, with a central design showing a butterfly constructed out of scrap metal 2. Blurb from Kev Harrison, reading: "Phengaris is a grief-stricken, drug-addled fever dream of a book. Real or hallucinatory, it's a wild ride which showcases Orridge's talent for framing the weird and grotesque in beguilingly beautiful prose"
May 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Thanks so much Gabino - we appreciate it

Just a couple of weeks to go now until the release of @anna-orridge.bsky.social's bug-fuelled eco-horror fever-dream novella PHENGARIS... and we can't wait for you to read it

Preorders here tinyurl.com/srf42nuu

& here www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Promo image for Phengaris, featuring: 1. Book cover, with a central design showing a butterfly constructed out of scrap metal 2. Blurb from the BFS' Lauren McMenemy that reads: "Gorgeously dark and dreamy in the best way, Phengaris twists folklore and magic into a tale of the very real impact loss can have on us at formative ages. Definitely not one for the faint of heart, nor those with entomophobia. I'll never look at a bug the same way again"
May 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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We're very, very happy to finally reveal the full TOC for GOOD FOR HER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S RAGE, out June 30th - featuring more amazing feminist horror than you can shake a stick at, and a foreword from the wonderful @sonorataylor.bsky.social!
Promo image for GOOD FOR HER, showing: A. Book cover - title in pink text on black background B. Text reading: Unleashing the rage June 2025 Sarah Jules Shauna Mc Eleney T.C. Parker Good For Hor Hailey Piper Anna Orridge S.H. Cooper Ai Jiang MJ Mars Leigh Kenny Emerald O'Brien R.J. Joseph Candace Nola Megan Stockton Elizabeth J. Brown Lisa Hutchinson With foreword from Sonora Taylor
May 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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And, if you're interested in what we've got coming up for you next year...

Get ready for THE DENIZENS from @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, out early 2026

It's Salem's Lot meets The Walking Dead. And you're going to love it

(all the thanks to @drewhuff.bsky.social for the beautiful graphic!)
Promo graphic for THE DENIZENS by Brennan LaFaro, featuring: A. A plain white book cover, reading "Final Cover To Be Revealed" B. Strapline: "Just because it's dead doesn't mean it's allowed to rest. Welcome to Maylene's Hollow"
May 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Or perhaps it's angry *queer* horror you're into?

In which case... here's HUMMINGBIRD - a feast of small town malfeasance, Barker-esque body horror & queer vengeance!

Ebook: payhip.com/b/Ed5bX

Signed paperback: tinyurl.com/3cjsxrx2

Or order from your local indie store!
Promo image for Hummingbird showing: A. Book cover - a humanoid skeleton with antlers and a body taken over by tree roots and branches B. Strapline: "Small Town. Big Evil" C. Blurb from Hailey Piper, calling Hummingbird "a Pulp Fiction-esque horror show"
May 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Now on to... AWAKE IN THE NIGHT from @shaunamceleney.bsky.social!

If you like haunted houses, sapphic grief horror, neo-gothic vibes & Irish feminist history... this could be for you

Paperback here (from us): tinyurl.com/2acpsp2y
Ebook: tinyurl.com/5aac6n9u

... or order it from your local store!
Promo image for Awake In The Night, showing: A. Book cover: a white woman with a neck wound hovering in a cloud of blue smoke above an illustration of a house that appears to be bleeding B. Strapline, "Sleep may never come easily again" C. Blurb from Baker Reads: "manages to perfectly balance the dark and the light. A new favourite ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"
May 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Next up: TRADWIFE from @tcparker.bsky.social!

Like bloody, cathartic feminist vengeance & angry social commentary? Of course you do

Grab it:

As an ebook, direct from us: payhip.com/b/TDowG
As a signed paperback: nefarious-bat-press.sumupstore.com/product/trad...
On Bookshop: tinyurl.com/y3s2veyh
Promo image for TRADWIFE by TC Parker, with: A. TRADWIFE book cover, showing a young white woman in 1950s-style housewife garb in a midcentury modern kitchen, holding a bleeding human heart on a plate... and looking pretty happy about it B. Blurb for TC Parker's Tradwife from MJ Mars, author of The Suffering Blurb reads: "In Cold Blood crossed with Stepford Wives [....], this is one you can’t afford to miss. Be afraid, and be angry. Very, very angry"
May 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM