Stephanie Ellis

It was nice to be able to do this for you, Viv! Looking forward to seeing more books in such graphics in future :)

Thank you! Her stories are great too!

Graphic showing cover of Vivian Kasley's All's Well That Ends Well and a found poem beside it: Beneath Sleep Beneath sleep is the haunt born of cold, whipped by nightmares. Peace consumed in the mirror of motionless life, the sigh of hated dark.

Today's #WIHM author is someone who's not long published her debut collection (via Brigids Gate Press).

This found poem for Vivian R Kasley, used the blurb and first lines from her stories.

#WIHM #booksky #poetry #foundpoetry #horrorwriting

Not long now!

Kind words from @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social, author of Mosaic & Immortelle.

Oozing with Victorian Gothic, A Fragile Thing toys with the Faustian bargain and leaves you asking, Who is monster, and who is man? Mesmerism, hypnotism, mind control—this one has it all!

#booksky #gothic

Graphic showing 3 books at the bottom by Heather Daughrity: Echoes of the Dead, Tales my Grandmother Told Me, and Knock, Knock. Found poem above this created from the blurbs reads: Life Caught A dead word forgotten thieves attention, leaves a strange distance. Haunting and hellish, the lies gather echoes, awoke a demon of darkness and isolation. Life caught in horrific night.

Today's #WIHM found poem celebrates Heather Daughrity @watertowerhill.bsky.social

#booksky #poetry #horror #foundpoetry

Three book covers at the bottom: The House of Lacelean Street, Mosaic, Immortelle. Above that is the found poem created from their blurbs: A Wicked Reawakening Midnight poisoned sanity. Its sordid magic immersed the luggage of memory in a forever grave, undoing the coat of the past to dance with the spirit of a wicked reawakening.

Today's #WIHM found poem features @catherinemccarthy.bsky.social 😊

Supportive, kind and a real Welsh talent.

#booksky #foundpoetry #horrorwriting #horror

Graphic showing covers of three books at the bottom: Shadow Manor, Bishop, and Breach. All by Candace Nola. Above is a found poem based on the blurbs: Storm Mother The violent balance of reality depends on the Storm Mother, ancient hope of nightmares. She is Time and Fate, shakes secrets to life for the lost to find. In her intent, she is her own.

#WiHM Found poem for Candace Nola! I think that last line actually sums her up 😊.

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Husband and son currently growling as Wrexham were leading against Chelsea but are now back to a draw. 😅

I've just finished. Will be keeping an eye out for the next one :)

Cover of A Fragile Thing. A caped figure walks away from the viewer, silhouetted against gothic buildings lit with a golden light, set against night sky.

A Fragile Thing

Victorian gothic with the Ripper lurking in the background. But he is not the story.

Out March 17th

Pre-order available www.watertowerhill.com

A found poem created from the blurbs of three books: Despatches, Grotesque: Monster Stories, Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud. Beloved The cleaver of skulls tell of an ancient diaspora, breathes newborn war in serpent shadowlands, stitching bone and mists to silence the truth. Beloved are the dead who inhabit the trenches of history.

For #WiHM I'll be creating some of these, something a little different to lists and things.

First up is this as a thank you to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for all her support and her genuine friendship.

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I'm loving it, clever satire too.

Venture into the Abyss alongside Seth and experience the beautiful, illuminating horror within.

“A stunning debut.”
“This is an excellent novel.”
“Has filled the gap left by Neil Gaiman in this genre of writing.”

THE MONSTERS AMONG US, a cinematic dark fantasy novel: books2read.com/u/m27rzr

The silhouette of a soldier against a backdrop of red flames. Ad for Kurt Phillips’ short story Chalk Marks.

Coming Tuesday 3/10/26
From A Midnight Kind of Place
- Four Army rangers meet their match in the form of an old woman tied to a bed.
Chalk Marks

www.amidnightkindofplace.com

Thanks Gabino!

This week my debut crime thriller, Welcome to Cemetery, turned 1.

Decided to make the ebook and the follow up short story collection just $0.99 for the week!

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Thanks Gabino! Hop on THE EL for 26% off.

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SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 8: CURSED PLACES - Two Novelettes (print + eBook) *p This a preorder. This book is expected to ship on or before April 21st, 2026. “Evocative and evil, a powerful one-two punch of horror” Tamika Thompson, THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS This is not a place ...

Thanks Gabino! We’re less than 2 months away from the release of SPLIT SCREAM VOL. 8: CURSED PLACES, featuring novelettes from myself and @matthewtpritt.bsky.social! Preorders are open with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. #FridayReads

Happy #FridayReads, hermano! Join us at the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday, March 14, for our panel, "Carrying Home: Migration Memories." I will discuss my latest book, Waiting for Godínez, an immigration play published by the University of New Mexico Press. #playwriting

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Fruitless Bodies: A Collection By J.D. Buffington A Collection By J.D. Buffington

Thank you, Gabino! I’d like to point to my collection of the good, the bad, and the ugly: Fruitless Bodies Annotated. I take my reader along a bumpy ride of my first publications in small press rags to finding my voice through experiments in genre and form, each with personal insights.
#FridayReads

Thank you, Gabino. There are some ARC spots remaining for my debut novel, 'Trapped in Amber.' If anyone is in the mood for a ghost story, you can find it for free in this promo, along with other indie novels looking for a little love
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A copy of LITTLE RED FLAGS: STORIES OF CULTS, CONS, AND CONTROL edited by Noelle W. Ihli and Steph Nelson. Cover features a sinister-looking man holding a puppet of a woman in a red dress on his palm, while his other hand holds the strings. MWA-HA-HA!

Thanks Gabino!

I got my copy of this anthology, which contains not only a cool story by me, but cool stories by others. Check it out!
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Hare-Raising Summer (Paperback) — Cat Eye Press LLC Shop the first installment in the Navigating Nightmares series!

Thanks Gabino for doing this! Would love to share my wild and just a little whacky interactive horror book Hare-Raising Summer. It’s my love letter to the Give Yourself Goosebumps series. Preorders are available now. www.cateyepress.com/store/p/hare...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover and a cover blurb on it: book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing. Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom. cover blurb: Riley's best friend Tara went missing last October from the shitty amusement park where she worked. By spring, the police are no closer to having any answers, so Riley's taking it in her own hands. She just knows Tara's still at the park somewhere, and an uncanny phone call on Riley's first day as a park employee only confirms that. The quest to bring Tara or her body home draws Riley further from her family and her boyfriend as she spends more time in the park's liminal spaces and opening day looms large. coming July 15, 2026

thanks Gabino!

my new novella is available for ebook preorder! Amusement Park Arcana comes July 15, 2026

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A FREE horror collection! Twisted tales featuring zombies, cryptids, ghosts, haunted forests, and more:

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“I enjoyed it thoroughly … the style here screamed fresh, new, original.”--Well Read Beard

Tradwife Family. Community. Tradition.Annihilation.Everyone remembers the Heart of Solomon murders: three young married couples slaughtered around the dinner table, their bodies desecrated, in the UK's first a...

Thanks Gabino!

I'm especially mad about the horrors of white Christian Nationalism today, so would love it if more people read Tradwife and got (constructively) angry with me

(*possibly I mean "destructively," but why split hairs...?)

On the right is image of misty lamplit street, a hanging pocket watch and the cover of A Fragile Thing. On the left is the review given by Lee Murray: One of the most versatile and talented horror writers of our day, Stephanie Ellis shines again, this time with A Fragile Thing, a darkly chilling novel of madness, mind games, and manipulation. Channelling Jekyll and Hyde in Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel, where science and spiritualism seduce the upper classes and the streets stink of nightwalkers and nightcrawlers, ambitious Isaac Bercow attempts to root out the shadowy manifestations that plague his own psyche. Blurring the lines between illusion and reality, one thing is clear, Ellis dangles our darkest fears before us with mesmerising skill.”—Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of Grotesque: Monster Stories

Thanks, Gabino!

Gothic horror, A Fragile Thing, is out March 17th.

Isaac Bercow is a man with great aspirations, nothing to lose, and an offer he can't refuse. But the mind is a fragile thing, and fragile things are easily broken.

Pre-order is here www.watertowerhill.com

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It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Almost done with the novel, so I’m thinking/hoping/dreaming about my next contract. Know what helps? Selling books! Seriously. Anyway, it’s almost half off! Go ahead, share what you love.

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Thank you! (You sound just like me when I'm looking at books and assessing my budget! )

Blocked out black outline of urban setting with two small figures silhouetted in white. Title Pagans in white at bottom with tag line 'Two Cops. One Killer. Hundreds of Gods.'

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#CurrentlyReading

This is great fun, Celtic and Saxon tribes in a modern setting.