Alex Woodroe

@alexwoodroe.com

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Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social‬. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist. she/her WHISPERWOOD out now THE NIGHT SHIP out now TATRATEA coming Oct 2026 https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe

It felt like Disco Elysium under an incomprehensible alien attack. Cosmic Horror in Revachol. - storygraph review
Snarky editor having much too lovely a time outside in the sun with the laptop on her lap. Lots of green grass, a hammock in the background, an improvised table made out of pallets next to her with coffee and apricots on it.
A whiskey bar menu with an item called Crom Cruach
A very haunted abandoned building completely covered in snow and dead grasses. Looks like some old farm building, maybe a barn
Something hungry lurks below. THE NIGHT SHIP (orange and black cover, a truck and radio dials). Unsettling and immersive, readers will be on the edge of their seats - publishers weekly. OUT NOW from flame tree press
A video of the text of the first transmission from the book The Night Ship, narrated by a warm neutral voice
The author holding her book like it's the lion king
Goodreads giveaway, enter for a chance to win a free copy, The Night Ship (book cover orange toned truck & radio panels)
"When the world goes dark in 1980s Romania, Rosi is trapped on the truck she uses as a smuggling vessel along with the driver, Gigi, her arranged-marriage fiancé. The mood of the novel perfectly matches the grim and oppressive descriptions of this newly changed world. As cosmic horrors erupt around them, Rosi gathers the other survivors together to make their way to a hoped-for safety, led only by the radio signals they pick up. Woodroe’s writing is tight and clean, emphasizing the desperation and also the real fear that people would experience in this apocalyptic setting. The novel skillfully mixes celestial terror and off-the-wall weirdness while making good use of tweaked and twisted science, the Communist Romania setting, and believable characters. The ending hopefully paves the way for a sequel. VERDICT: Woodroe (Whisperwood) offers a haunting and propulsive treat in this survival horror story, whose read-alikes include The Mist and The Langoliers, both by Stephen King, and God’s Junk Drawer by Peter Clines."
Fucking freezing ass looking landscape, frankly. It's overcast and the hills are various shades of dead and you can feel the fog and cold in your bones just from looking at this. Person in the foreground is wearing several thermal layers and looks very pleased with herself for someone who is about to throw back two burgers and an order of crepes
A rose trellis that used to be a ladder, and now isn't even a rose trellis anymore
A walnut tree starkly outlined against a foggy background
An edited and annotated document saying: Joint Venture Proposal - Tenebrous Press Inbox 8:32 PM (1 hour ago) to me Hello, I generate concept trash, including sci-fi composite images designed to obliterate the value of games, books, and wall art. My trash combines visual development, narrative design, and AI-supported production. What I offer: • Nothing • Emptiness • A hollow sense that our time on earth is passing • Shame I’d like to explore a JV with you. In the meantime, here’s a document highlighting my abilities and providing samples of my work. Best,
Frosted branches on the side of an empty road, sunset behind them
An editor in the headlights of her car which is decidedly where it shouldn't have been and is categorically not going anywhere
Sunset. A beautiful road across the countryside, fall colors, distant hills.
The Night Ship Alex Woodroe. Flame Tree, $26.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-787589-18-6 Woodroe (Whisperwood) expertly maintains suspense throughout this unsettling and immersive sci-fi thriller about an apocalyptic event in 1987 Romania. Heroine Rosi has “made it a point of survival to think as little as possible about... goings-on beyond what was strictly in front of her.” She’s taken advantage of the logging truck used by her fiancé, Gigi, to facilitate her smuggling business. On a routine excursion in that vehicle, the pair pick up a hitchhiker, Sorin, who claims to be a philosophy student, though Rosi soon comes to suspect that he is a government informant, if not actually a member of the country’s notorious secret police. Before she can test this theory, darkness falls like a physical force from the sky and “swallows the world.” In this new pitch blackness, segments of once solid ground are replaced by an inky substance that drags down all objects that land in it. With the truck’s cabin one of the only safe refuges, this unlikely trio set out to make sense of what’s happened and rescue survivors. Woodroe parcels out reveals about the nature of the dark void gradually but effectively. Readers will be on the edges of their seats. (Jan.)
Punk ass editor in shorts running shoes and a Voidcon t-shirt
Practical programming Sightly reduced performance capacity in Selye's stage 1. Such fatigue is short-lived; an acute variable. Comprehensive recovery processes are the collective repair status of the various organ systems and processes affected by the training bout: endocrine and immune systems, chronic inflammatory processes, and protein synthetic responses. Fatigue and recovery together contribute to adaptation and progress, with supraconpensation...
A shameless editor shamelessly flexing
Bit of a sunset, stretch of road, semi-miserable editor in a beanie and a Jaws shirt
A crude but dare I say brave piece of art of a crashing plane that says "your flight is not boarding (crossed out and replaced with fucked)"
A plate of eggs, burger steak, potatoes, toast, and coffee, and a side of pancake
An open book showing deadlifting position diagrams, an art print in super dark high contrast line work of a man battling a massive worm-like creature, and a box of very colorful and cheerful looking chocolate truffles
A collage of photos including selfies, group shots, food photos, book photos, and a can of spam
A backpack and a little crotch pack. They're not even that stuffed
Author of Whisperwood and editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press Alex Woodroe's TATRATEA in which a lone researcher arrives at an ancient Romanian manor to investigate the source of a virus driving the world insane, but is quickly locked in and caught between local hyperactive flora, invasive cosmic forces, and her own ability to remain lucid, to Christoph Paul at CLASH for publication in fall 2026
As the world goes dark, smuggler Rosi and her crew sail their truck across a murky sea of nothingness. But something hungry lurks below... THE NIGHT SHIP BY ALEX WOODROE PREORDERS OPEN! Coming January 20, 2026 from Flame Tree Press
An incredibly cozy terrier in a very fuzzy bed, a lit fireplace behind him warming his little rump
Deathsport One thousand years into the future, following the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastes and isolated city-states. Lord Zirpola captures the notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz (David Carradine) to fight to the death in his game, Deathsport.
The author making a silly scrunchy face because there's a lot of sun. She's laying back in the grass and her trusted companion the demon dog Charlie is curled up nearby
As the world goes dark, smuggler Rosi and her crew sail their truck across a murky sea of nothingness. But something hungry lurks below... Transmission #0 “...This message is a warning about danger. The center of danger is here. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The danger is to the mind, and it can kill. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited. This danger will touch down in five. Four. Three. Two.” "A high-gear hurtle through the vast of night with a remarkable cast of characters, human and otherwise..." Coming January 20, 2026, from Flame Tree Press
It's the side of a terrace shot from inside, but picture a really shoddy diy one. There's license plates hanging across the lower side of the side wall, and dangerous looking farm tools hanging from the rafters. On one pillar, there's both what looks like a pair of rusty steel shackles, and a "motivational" plaque with a mandala and the scribbled words "you are not ALONE".
A gorgeous looking pinsa with a tail wagging from under it
Dark haired chick looking cute in shorts and a crop top but if you zoom in on the eyes your room inexplicably gets several degrees colder
Toes resting on a ceramic tile used as the side of a small fire pit in which a happy little fire is fwooshing away
Decibel meter showing 112 decibels or "night club" loud
Couple of corn tortillas with Boston steak chunks and veggies, there's a laptop open on clip studio paint in the background and a bright sunny day beyond that
A cute terrier sniffing at a corn stalk in a very, incredibly green hillsy setting
Nightwish Your innermost fears lead you inexorably to a dream of death... your own death! Using sensory deprivation techniques, a doctor of parapsychology provokes his students to examine their own deaths in evermore horrifying circumstances. Roles are exchanged and shuffled as reality and fantasy become indistinguishable and each new dreadful death
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A cute terrier curled up and sleeping on a pink fluffy pillow, set of dumbbells next to him
Myself looking beat up in my little running outfit. It's sunset and the scenery behind me is pastoral and beautiful and peaceful
A terrier lounging in a pink pouffy bed, spilling over every side
Album cover r return to the center of the earth by Rick Wakeman. A Roger Dean abstract of dirt and cliffs and rocks
A smug looking momma dog, scruffy terrier, getting neck scratches. A baby nibbling on my thigh
Non-autistic 14-24 Autistic 24-32 My score: 35
A wild Alex Woodroe in a red crop top and Jean shorts
A video of a dirt road, lots of greenery, some small village houses, and a dog on a leash
Probably the most challenging alt text I've ever written. So. I'm sitting in a gopnik squat dressed head to toe in an Adidas track suit holding a glass of palinka and a big ass fucking drill. I'm just trying to copy the other picture
A stormy sky over golden hills
A paper taped to a Mac laptop so that the center cutout circle is around the apple logo. The title says "circles of hell" and there's concentric circles that go water that tastes funky, workout with a wedgie, overcooked pasta, dating men, pants without pockets, and then it's the Mac logo
Two wee baby goats, one black one white, with their tiny little horns, with their cute little noses
My had, in typical stupid fashion, outstretched to a pack of baby goats. The black goat is only looking, assessing the danger, but the white goat is literally a millisecond away from taking a chomp out of my finger
A post-workout Alex Woodroe in blue shorts and a white tank top, sat on the edge of a couch and looking down at the camera, smirking, a little bedraggled but still looking like she could probably give your girlfriend bi panic
A laptop on a bamboo stand, an open project that looks leafy and planty, some comics, a mug of kombucha, pair of legs and a graphics tablet
Me, Alex Woodroe, out in some fields, overcast sky, wearing a blue and purple rain jacket and a Lumberjack navy shirt
Poster for "attack of the giant leches". Big green leech things hovering over gorgeous women who are for reasons unknown scantily clad, and bless their red bikinis for it
a pouch of capri-sun that says capri-satan, on a magma background
A screenshot of a phone displaying one central and singular warning. Ro alert: extreme alert. There's some Romanian text followed by the English translation that days weather alert, heavy storm with wind gusts of 90 - 110 km/h. Period of manifestation - today, time slot - three to nine pm. Avoid travel, take shelter.