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Thank you for taking the time to read my book and write this gorgeous blurb @nino_maraschino and for coming to @creaturepublishing event held at @qedastoria. I had the best time getting to finally meet in person!!!

Nino you are a fantastic teacher, and I’d repeat the horror writing course I took with you any day! I can’t wait to read EVERY ROOM A HUNGER.

I hope we meet again soon. Thanks for supporting my work. I appreciate you!

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𝕮𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝕻𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌
Indie Spotlight
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"Based in Virginia with roots in New York, @creaturepublishing specializes in feminist horror, dark speculative fiction, women-driven thrillers, spooky fantastical fiction, literary fiction, and the like.
Founded in 2019, Creature has served as a platform for stories which challenge the status quo, offering titles with a broad and inclusive, transgressive and intersectional, understanding of what horror is and who can make it."
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Still Life with Shells and Coral (1640)
by Jacques Linard
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Mine: An Anthology of Body Autonomy Horror
Edited by Roxie Voorhees and Nico Bell

Back Cover:
Bodily transformation. Possession of the body. Forced disembodiment. A baby consumes its mother in utero. Unrealistic postpartum expectations turn deadly. A witch avenges the voiceless. These 16 original horror stories explore the ownership and control—or lack thereof—that we have over our bodies.

Necrology (the Dirty, #1)
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Woodfeast (the Dirty, #2)
by Meg Ripley

Necrology Back Cover:
It’s amazing what the spirit can cope with to preserve the body. My spirit is a mighty oak that just won’t fall.

In a fantastical aftermath of the Salem witch trials, magical women known as the Dirty have signed a contract swearing off their innate magic in exchange for freedom from violence by non-magical Freemen. Two hundred years later, in a Catskills orphanage, headmistress Whitetail has sprouted antlers—proof of a violated contract. When her wealthy benefactor visits, proposing marriage, her appearance sparks abuse. Rushing to her teacher’s defense, eight-year-old Rabbit curses the Beard dead, and Whitetail’s arrested on trumped-up charges.

As Whitetail awaits her trial and execution, Rabbit is groomed as the Freemen’s star witness and learns of the terrifying reality to which they aspire. With her magic at stake and a loose tooth in her mouth, Rabbit has little left to lose. And a revolution to gain.

The Blood Year Daughter
G.G. Silverman

Back Cover:
In G.G. Silverman’s debut fairytale-horror collection The Blood Year Daughter, a woman builds husbands out of gravel and slaughterhouse feathers, two sisters eat cin

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Happiness is receiving a mysterious package from @sobelobooks and thinking “Did I order something?”

In fact I PRE-ordered Meg Ripley’s Woodfeast @what.the.horror , the second part of her witchy duology that started with Necrology. Can’t wait to dive in! Beautiful design as always from @creaturepublishing

pre-orders are the gift you give yourself and then forget about! Go pre-order a book from an Indy author! #horrorreadersofinstagram #creaturepublishing #salemwitchtrials

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Tomorrow at 7pm! Lindsay Merbaum is back at Fabulosa Books, in conversation with G.G. Silverman. Come get into the spooky spirit 👻

#FabulosaBooks #SanFrancisco #Castro #IndieBookstore #QueerBooks

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INTERVIEW: @brendalatorrewrites discusses her debut horror novel, BRUJA’S NEST, with Priya Dames over at Debutiful.net!

The two chat about taboo spiritual practices, her research process, and the underappreciation of telenovelas.

BRUJA’S NEST follows Yolanda, a teenager growing up in a household of abuse and disorder. When her mother sends her to work as a servant at the Fernández De la Rosa estate, she plots to become the woman of the house. The book draws on horror, telenovelas, feminism, class politics, and Indigenous spiritual practices to explore her story. It is available now from @creaturepublishing now.

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Thank you Library Journal, and Becky Spratford for the lovely review of Bruja’s Nest!!!!!! 🪺

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With Halloween getting closer, I wanted to count down the final two weeks by sharing books that feel perfect for the season. Starting off the countdown with a recommendation that brings witchcraft, body horror, Mexican folklore, family, and plenty of darkness to the table: Bruja’s Nest by @brendalatorrewrites

If you’re looking for something completely unhinged, visceral, strange, and unapologetically gruesome for your October reading, this one deserves a spot on your list.

Bruja’s Nest delivers a story where the supernatural and deeply human collide. It explores complicated relationships, motherhood, class, survival, cultural traditions, and the lengths people may go when desperation begins influencing their choices. Mexican folklore and witchcraft give the story its own identity, while the darker elements become increasingly disturbing as everything unfolds.

And yes, there is GORE.

The body horror is graphic, grotesque, bloody, and sometimes completely outrageous. This is definitely not a quiet little witchy autumn read. There is an almost chaotic energy running through the story that makes it difficult to predict exactly where it will take you next.

What also makes this such an interesting Halloween recommendation is how many different flavors of horror are packed into one book. You get supernatural elements, disturbing imagery, uncomfortable situations, dark humor, family drama, social commentary, and moments that lean into the bizarre and macabre.

It’s witchy. It’s messy. It’s bloody. It’s dramatic. And it certainly isn't afraid to get weird.

If your Halloween TBR needs something that embraces the darker, stranger, and more gruesome side of spooky season, add Bruja’s Nest to the nest.

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A horror book I read & loved this year: Bruja's Nest by Brenda LaTorre 🇲🇽

Is this on your tbr?

Def a good one to squeeze in for Halloween 🎃 Highly recommend for fans of Monstrilio. Similar vibes but found Bruja's Nest a little more sinister with more body horror and class war aspects. Love the folklore, focus on womanhood and the Mexico setting. Also the MC is named Yolanda and that was my Grandma's name soooo 💞

#newbook #mexico #bookrecs #horrorbooks #horrorfiction

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October's indie press spotlight falls on the spine-chilling works of @creaturepublishing 🩻

Based in Virginia with roots in New York, Creature Publishing specializes in feminist horror, dark speculative fiction, women-driven thrillers, spooky fantastical fiction, literary fiction, and the like.
Founded in 2019, Creature has served as a platform for stories which challenge the status quo, offering titles with a broad and inclusive, transgressive and intersectional, understanding of what horror is and who can make it.

And check out those literal spine bookspines! 💀

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Book Events! ❤️

1, 2, & 3: Last night's fabulous event at @monkeywrenchbookswv in Morgantown for Rachel Kitch's The Forest Bleeds. If you like sapphic romance, taking down billionaires, and spotting cool cryptids, this is the book for you!

4, 5, 6, 7, & 8: The launch party for Villainess Press and the Welcome to the Show chapbook, which includes one of my short stories! These little books are so incredibly beautiful! Jess is awesome to work with, and I am very sure that Villainess Press is going to make a big splash in the horror and dark fantasy communities! Plus, this event in Pittsburgh was just so much fun! 🥰

9: Wednesday's lovely virtual event at Charis Books! It was so great to talk about GILDED, especially in conversation with Quinn Connor's YOUR BELOVED REMAINS. Obsession, dark academia, and doomed queer romance! Yes, please!

10: At the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown for @tghuguenin and his fantastic reading! It was so cool to attend two events in Morgantown in just over a week! Such a neat town! ❤️

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October 15th marks the end of Latiné Heritage Month but we’re in the middle of the SPOOKIEST month of the year so the party just keeps going!
I made this list for myself on @juleyreads app so I don’t let any 2026 books fly under the radar and thought you’d like to see it too. A put a link in my stories so you can visit the collection and get all the information and details for each book too—link in my stories.
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Read Latiné dark fiction and horror all year long! 🙌🏼💀🖤🎃👻

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So excited to share the cover of @outofloveinspring’s upcoming book EPIPHYTE! @jayafish did an amazing job on the design. 🐇💐

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