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Trey Weller
@treyweller.bsky.social
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He/him. Author of Rapscallion. I should probably be writing a book about now… https://treyweller.com/

For way too much info on what I've been reading for the past decade or so, there's always https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/54311497.Trey_Weller
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@rjbarker.bsky.social’s Call of the Bone Ships is an Adventure story with a capital A. Prepare to have your swashes properly buckled in a unique world with characters who grow and change in believable ways between (and during) high-stakes action setpieces. Also more gullaime! Loved it. #Booksky
Cover of Call of the Bone Ships by RJ Barker, depicting turquoise sea serpents and a compass rose against a backdrop designed to look like a nautical map
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Batman: Resurrection is a reminder of why @farawaypress.com is one of the kings of the tie-in novel. Miller is a master at knowing what style works best for whatever sandbox he’s playing in at the time, and he’s given us the extra Burton Bat-flick we’ve been craving. And Clayface! #Booksky
Cover of Batman: Resurrection by John Jackson Miller, depicting the Bat-symbol against a black backdrop
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Finally took the plunge into @dennisetaylor.bsky.social’s Bobiverse and I’m kicking myself for taking this long. The humor and wild ideas remind me of Scalzi at his best, the character work on the Bobs is on point, the worldbuilding is engaging, and I’m salivating at the thought of more #Booksky
Cover of We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor, depicting a spaceship zooming away from an Earth that appears to be on fire
November 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social rocked my world. A story about the power of stories, about how legends and history are manipulated to serve nationalistic ends, and about the purity of lasting love. Prose you want to wrap yourself in like a warm blanket. Transcendent, masterful #Booksky
Cover of The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow, depicting a painted woman’s face seen through the outline of a sword pointing down, surrounded by flowers and vines
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 31: This Halloween I’d like to direct you towards a wild classic from a horror master who’s gone but not forgotten: Floating Dragon by Peter Straub. Vivid generational terror with imagery that will stick with you and characters that can carry a lengthy narrative. 1/2
Cover of Floating Dragon by Peter Straub, depicting a crack running down the street of a town at night, green vapor leaking from it into the air. At the bottom is a green, vaporous skull.
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 30: The Deep by Nick Cutter is the kind of stomach-churning, infectious horror that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page. There’s books that creep you out and books that CREEP YOU OUT, and this is the latter. Read it with the lights on.
Cover for The Deep by Nick Cutter, with the title written in huge blue font against a dark watery background
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 29: Hide is a showcase for why I’ve burned through all @kierstenwhite.bsky.social’s horror novels this year: exciting premises with keen thrills, held up by characters you can root for. And White’s books never forget that they’re ABOUT something. (Also yay, theme park)
Cover for Hide by Kiersten White, depicting a Ferris wheel and other overgrown amusement park attractions giving way to dark soil and roots beneath them, black against a sinister yellow background. There is a red vine with leaves winding down the center, the only other color.
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 28: Reading Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin is a little like drowning, like being pulled beneath the waters of surrealist dread by a malignant ghostly hand. Full of queer rage, it shows that the greatest horror is the suffocating repression of the closet.
Cover of Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin, depicting an unclothed figure with glowing eyes and short dark hair, film stock wrapped around their neck and protruding from their mouth.
October 28, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 27: Road of Bones by @cgolden.bsky.social takes a setting I’ve found fascinating and chilling for years and uses it as the foundation for something even MORE chilling! I love horror rooted in such a specific location. Fair warning: you’ll want to read this in one go.
Cover of Road of Bones by Christopher Golden, depicting a wintry highway curving through snow-covered trees arranged to resemble a skull
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 26: Schrader’s Chord by @scottleeds.bsky.social is one of the best horror debuts I’ve read in years, a perfect blend of haunted object tale and family drama. If you know about the Four Chords and appreciate the sound of vinyl, you’ll love this earworm of a scare.
Cover of Schrader’s Chord by Scott Leeds, depicting a skull that transitions into a vinyl record on a black backdrop. The O in “A Novel” is the hole for the spindle, and it’s dripping red. The placement of the hole on the skull/record image makes it look like the ear is bleeding.
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 25: Girl Dinner, @olivieblake.bsky.social’s new foray into horror fiction, is a deliciously slow burn where the impossibilities of womanhood give way to unthinkable acts. Smart, satirical, and (when the penny drops) chilling.
Cover for Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake, depicting a bloodstained golden fork against a mint green backdrop. The text is in pink.
October 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Frankenstein (dir. @realgdt.bsky.social) is the Mary Shelley adaptation I’ve been waiting for since I read the book at 17: emotionally honest, beautifully designed, thematically resonant, and comprised of one perfectly framed shot after another in a series of remarkable, vast sets. Wonderful!
Poster for Guillermo del Toro’s film adaptation of Frankenstein, depicting the titular Doctor from behind in his laboratory. Tagline: Only monsters play God.
October 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 24: Cancel culture meets campfire stories in @joshwinning.bsky.social’s Heads Will Roll, a sharp, twisty horror read that I devoured faster than a kid eats a s’more. This is a book completely secure in what it is, and what it is, is scary FUN.
Cover of Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning, depicting two marshmallow skewers and a bloody axe hanging over a red-tinted line of trees. Tagline: No phones. No feeds. No way out.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 23: Feed is the start of @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s engaging and innovative riff on zombie fiction. It’s the first thing I ever read from her, full of exciting twists, and its landscape of a shifting news environment has only gotten more relevant with time.
Cover for Feed by Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire), with the title drawn in blood beneath a bloody illustration of the WiFi signal symbol. Tagline: “The good news: we survived. The bad news: so did they.”
October 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 22: With Mapping the Interior, @sgj.bsky.social has constructed a Frankenstein’s monster of memory and grief and proved that yes, even modular homes can be haunted. It’s a novella that grabs you by the throat and demands to be read in one gulp— excellent.
Cover for Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones, depicting a modular home in shades of red and purple, the image contained within the silhouette of a feather that appears to be dripping.
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 21: Cinder House by @freyamarske.bsky.social is an enticingly gothic take on a classic fairy tale that manages to feel like a full meal in under 150 pages. Lovely prose, careful characterization, and unconventional romance await (along with haunting). Another winner.
Cover of Cinder House by Freya Marske, depicting a ghostly girl whose body is blended with that of a house surrounded by flames against a starry backdrop
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 20: @ericlarocca.bsky.social’s At Dark, I Become Loathsome starts out uncomfortable and goes downhill from there (complimentary). Unflinching, poetic, pitch-black, and full of queer self-loathing, it’s like lifting a rock to study the shadowy forms squirming beneath.
Cover for At Dark, I Become Loathsome by Eric LaRocca, depicting a figure somewhere between a man and a statue being taken apart by monstrous hands, all in red against a black backdrop.
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 19: Grady Hendrix’s My Best Friend’s Exorcism is so good at the coming-of-age-in-the-80s girl friend group thing that when the other penny drops and you’re in a horror novel, it almost catches you off-guard. Sometimes darkly funny, sometimes terrifying. 1/2
Cover of My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, done up in the style of an old VHS tape complete with a Be Kind, Rewind” sticker. The art is an illustration of a teen girl with glowing red eyes whose crucifix necklace is inverted, along with two kids roller skating and holding balloons, a creepy shadow in pursuit, and a girl being attacked by birds.
October 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 18: Black Sheep by @rachelharrison.bsky.social takes the story of a young woman returning home, turns it on its head, and gives you a hell of a ride. Harrison excels at balancing trauma and black humor, and the story has a very human emotional honesty, despite… y’know.
Cover of Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison, depicting a sheep with red eyes and small horns which appears to be dripping black paint down the pink cover. The whole thing has a stenciled graffiti look.
October 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A few early copies of Iconoclast showed up at the Barnes & Noble Citadel in Colorado Springs, so I had to swing by and sign them!
Me holding five copies of Iconoclast in Barnes & Noble
October 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 17: @christinahenry.bsky.social’s Horseman is a delightful and sinister riff on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, replete with the thoughtfulness Henry brings to everything of hers I’ve read. It’s empathetic and gothically atmospheric at once, and utterly unputdownable.
Cover of Horseman by Christina Henry, depicting gnarled dead trees making the shape of a spectral horse on a foggy night with a red moon
October 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 16: rekt by Alex Gonzales is as bleak as it gets, a primal, terminally online scream for help that leaves you wanting a soul-deep scrub after. It’s a little bit Palahniuk and a little bit creepypasta, but wholly itself. Love a book that becomes its own legend.
Cover of rekt by Alex Gonzales, depicting a vaguely human form distorted by digital noise, images of other faces, and the 4Chan “green text”
October 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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#Booksky Spooktacular 2025 Day 15: Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social gives the evil of the Klan am eldritch flair, with thrills, chills, and spills to spare. Read it for Clark’s vibrant, riveting voice (and it’s a novella, so you can read it before bed— if you dare!).
Cover for Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark, depicting a hooded Klansman with mouths for eyes, two dark outstretched hands framing the title
October 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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RIP Drew Struzan, the face of adventure at the movies. One of his posters was the closest thing I had as a kid to a guarantee of a good time.
Poster for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, depicting Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, along with Indy riding a horse into the desert.
October 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The world if everyone preordered Iconoclast (out next week!) #author #Booksky a.co/d/hww4PF2
The “utopian future” meme, with flying cars and futuristic buildings
October 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM