Added Ghost Orchid Press to the list of DRM-free bookshops.
Founded by horror author Antonia Rachel Ward in January 2021, Ghost Orchid Press is an independent publisher of horror, Gothic, and supernatural fiction based in the UK.
#BOTD Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, award-winning author of ghost & horror stories. The ‘King of Chill’ authored 10 novels & over 35 collections. He was known for finding fresh takes on established tropes. His work appeared on screen in the films The Monster Club & From Beyond the Grave. #books#horror#ghosts
Can you find what you're looking for at the bottom of a bottle? I suppose it depends on what you put in there.... Time to start your education on brews and distillation!
looking for horror book recommendations, ideally from women and/or queer authors. starting by listing every horror book and deleting everything on any r/horrorlit recommendation thread because holy fuck how is anyone still stuck on Stephen King in 2024.
okay but seriously though. i don't know what's out there because i've been reading mostly short web fiction for a year. the last few formal horror books i've read were:
gonna throw out some keywords and generalities: i'm about to read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58830202-from-below. i vibe with Empty Spaces, some Cthulhu Mythos stuff, i love the sci-fi horror in the Southern Reach trilogy and Roadside Picnic and The Descent and pretty much everything by Peter Watts. i like Seanan McGuire and i liked the one book i've read by Seanan McGuire as Mira Grant (but it was the magical girl one so idk how much it applies to her actual horror stuff). i've read Ada Hoffmann but i only liked the first one. i think China Miéville is pretty good and Clive Barker is kinda mid. i think anything as trope-frozen as vampires and werewolves and ghosts is for children and yes i realize i said i liked Mythos stuff earlier. anything marketed as a "thriller" or "psychological horror" i will probably hate.
@vyr If you liked Mexican Gothic you may like Roses of Pieria. It's kind of a supernatural-mishmash but it's a lot of fun (and sapphic).
Under the Pendulum Sun (Jeannette Ng) is brilliant, described as "Anglican Missionaries go to the fairylands, it doesn't go well." It's a very specific flavor of horror, but it's one I like a lot and don't see often
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher is a creepy-as-hell retelling of Manhen's White People, while Hollow Places is based on Blackwood's Willows.
Day 1 #Bookstadon challenge: Choose 20 #books that greatly influenced you. One #book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers
(I've already been doing this over on Bluesky and am several days in, so I'm going to do my best to not get mixed up on the days I'm on 😆) #horror@horrorbooks@bookstadon
Mein Genrebrüller "Burg Irrfaust" nähert sich der Vollendung, und ich mache daraus eine Reihe von #zines Ihr könnt mir sehr gerne auf allen Kanälen kurze Texte (von Witzlänge an) schicken, aber auch Krickelzeichnungen, Rollenspielmaterial, BASIC-Listings, Noten für Mittelaltermetal, keine Ahnung, halt alles. Ich prüfe es und nehme es ggf mit rein (aber ehrlich gesagt nehme ich alles). Bezahlt werdet ihr mit Abenteuerpunkten. #literatur#diy#pnpde#fantasy#sf#horror#queer
This week on #MONSTERDON, the weekly monster movie watch party, we've got STRANGER FROM VENUS (1954)! It's apparently so similar to The Day the Earth Stood Still that it wasn't released in the US until years later for fear of legal action. Fun!