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Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer, 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye West—Reanimator.' Managing Editor of LitReactor (2011-2023).
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Official Posters are in!! Come out to the 2nd NYC Indie Horror Book Fair on Nov 7th and join in collecting stamps towards a PRIZE! The 2nd NYC Indie Horror Book Fair 🍻 Gottscheer Hall 📍 657 Fairview Ave Ridgewood NY 11385 🗓 Saturday November 7th, 2026 🕛 12-6PM After Party 🍸Footlight Presents 📍552 Grandview Ave Ridgewood NY 11385 🕛7PM - late 🎟 Tix on Evenbrite or Link in Bio Paulie designed by @druhuf
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Fine times at our 10/10 launch courtesy of @gallery198_brooklyn Word soon on an event in Manhattan… Photo credit mostly to @urgoodpal_andres. Big thanks to all who turned out, & to our readers Robert Frankel, @sublunarellen, @matildalinberke, @diane.mehta, @jaceycockrobin, @comfortartaud, @damondpham, & @cleoaukland + music by @keepingitfolksy 🙏🙏🙏💙💙
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There is no better time than October to be a literary horror lover. Let’s spotlight these latest irresistible book releases: WINDBAG by @chandlerclemence, about a reporter desperate for a big story who gets far more than he bargained for when he travels to a small Oregon town racked by mysterious disappearances. This cover alone instantly pulled me right in. HOW TO ESCAPE A TIGER CULT by @brianamorganbooks, a title that gloriously sells itself as a desperate woman accepts a job at a wildlife park and runs afoul of a blood cult. Let’s be honest: it happens to the best of us. THE MAN IN THE WATCH STILL VISITS ME AT NIGHT by @jaceycockrobin, the irresistibly surrealist follow-up to Joshua Chaplinsky’s innovative, indelible epistolary horror novel LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER. MERCY HOUSE by CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD icon @adamcesare, delves into retirement-home terror and maybe, possibly monsters. Say less. ANGEL COUNTRY by @sfeertheorist, a vivid slice of celestial horror set in an alternate vision of the early 1900s wherein a scientist wakes up in her own grave. And that’s only the beginning. HAPPY HOUR by @manylittlewords, the latest in @shortwavebooks’ “Killer VHS Series,” finds grisly comeuppance and murder within a ‘90s London cocktail bar. Cheers to all of these talented authors, and cheers to us for being so spoiled with great new spooky reads. 📚🎉😱🎃 #books #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #horrorbooks #bookhaul
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Come out to the 2nd NYC Indie Horror Book Fair on Nov 7th and join in collecting stamps towards a PRIZE! Every author / vendor will have a unique stamp for each purchase made. 🐦‍⬛Paulie the Pigeon Enamel Pins (Limited) Once you fill in your gameboard, go back to the Volunteers table for a FREE Paulie pin! (While supplies last). Gameboards will be in the center of the zine you receive upon entry! Additional pins will also be available for purchase ONLY at the book fair! Paulie designed by @druhuf (https://www.instagram.com/druhuf/) The 2nd NYC Indie Horror Book Fair 🍻 Gottscheer Hall 📍 657 Fairview Ave Ridgewood NY 11385 🗓 Saturday November 7th, 2026 🕛 12-6PM After Party 🍸Footlight Presents 📍552 Grandview Ave Ridgewood NY 11385 🕛7PM - late 🎟 Tix on Evenbrite or Link in Bio #Bookfair #horrorbookstagram #spookybooks #nycbookfair #indieauthors
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It's a bit late but here's my September reading wrap-up 📚 Lost Angels by David J. Schow (4.5 stars) The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night by Joshua Chaplinsky (4 stars) Tatratea by Alex Woodroe (4 stars) Marauders by Sawyer Perry (4 stars) Freshman Summer by Linda A. Cooney (4 stars) Freshman Affair by Linda A. Cooney (4 stars) Raw Pain Max by Dean Andersson (3.5 stars) Thank you @clashbooks for ARCs of the books by @jaceycockrobin and @alexwoodroe ! And thank you to @encyclopocalypsepub for Marauders! #readingwrapup #horrorbooks #bookstack
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Having a party. Hope to see you-
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Eighty-five horror books between July and September. Twelve made the Recommended Reads. Seven made the Sinister Selections, which is too many, and we checked. Two are translated. One is self-published, a first around here. One is narrated by a wolf. One has a house that gets pregnant and narrates its own contractions. Q3 2026 Quarterly Creepshow Catchup is up. Link in bio. Bring a coat. #horrorbooks #horrorreads #bookstagram #horrorbookstagram #horrorlit #horrorfiction #smallpresshorror #indiehorror #translatedfiction #weirdhorror #cosmichorror #folkhorror #bookrecommendations #horrorcommunity #horrorreviews #darkfiction #sinisterselections #theblogwithoutaface
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Happy release day to the Watch Man!
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This one asks you to wait for it, and it pays you back in full. Joshua Chaplinsky's The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night (out now from CLASH Books) is a haunted house novel where the real threat isn't the thing in the walls. It's what the family's been quietly pretending not to know for three generations. Three women, one crumbling house, and a structure that deliberately keeps you off balance until the second half clicks into place and refuses to let go. The scene with Mrs Vogel and that letter is one of the best things I've read in horror this year. Patience gets rewarded here. Full review's up at the link in bio. . . . #HorrorBooks #HorrorFiction #HauntedHouseHorror #BookReview #GingerNutsOfHorror #JoshuaChaplinsky #CLASHBooks #HorrorCommunity #Bookstagram #HorrorReads #PsychologicalHorror #IndieHorror #NewHorrorRelease #HorrorNovel #SurrealHorror 📸 via inssist.com
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Up next on my list of most anticipated releases this week: horror! I know I've probably missed a few because there are so many horror books hitting shelves that it's impossible to catch them all. These are the titles currently on my radar, but I'd love to hear what I'm overlooking. Drop any must-read releases I missed in the comments! Once again, I have tagged the authors so follow and give them some love! Demonology for Overachievers by Lily Anderson The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me at Night by Joshua Chaplinsky Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm Incarnate by Alma Katsu #VANDEATH by Brian Asman Mazywood by Tananarive Due Strange Bedfellows by Amanda Mortlock Little Kin by Katya de Becerra In the Woods They Wait by Carrie Lee South Worry Box by Chris Panatier Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi The Henchperson's Guide to Unionizing by Marshall J. Moore The Need by Megan Mostyn-Brown Insatiable by Erica Ridley Roots & Wrath by E.J Wenstrom #horrorbooks #tbr #newreleases #bookstagram #bookrecommendations
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This week on Ginger Nuts of Horror Review, news, interviews and features.
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Joshua Chaplinsky, a writer who knows a LOT about weird, transgressive horror, had some very kind words about FILTHY LAMBS! FILTHY LAMBS is the upcoming @madcavestudios horror comic from @pallieallor, chris_evenhuis and @sjanweijers. Reach out to your comic shop and pre-order now! SYNOPSIS: In the basement of Grimaldi Manor, the family patriarch says a prayer and stabs himself in the throat. Blood falls. The demon watches. A woman tries to scream. Upstairs, three generations of the Grimaldi family and a snapping turtle fill the house with unfulfilled promise and joyful childhood shrieks. These are tremendous, terrible times for the lineage! The Grimaldis hold a contract with Their Lord Below for ten more years of prodigious wealth and glory. But old contracts can sour. Monsters can misbehave. A filthy little lamb can still have teeth.
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