Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social 🩸 Folk Horror • Dark Fantasy
📚 Finding dark things you haven't read yet
🌲 Author of IT PIERCES, WILSON & more
👇 Enter the dark woods
www.therealjackfinn.com
Life-long believer that the Tooth Fairy is proof body parts can be traded for cold hard cash.
Lucy A. McLaren @lucyamclaren.bsky.social Dark & gothic fantasy author
Co-host of Introverted Indies.
🩷💜💙🍉
🚫AI
Echoes of the EtherStone - Jack the Ripper inspired - OUT NOW 👇
https://linktr.ee/lucyamclaren
Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social Writer of dark, speculative fiction. Stories in Clarkesworld, Apex, Zooscape and more. kojiadae.ink 
Molly Haniszewski @mollyhaniszewski.bsky.social Website: https://mollyhaniszewski.com/
(she/her, they/them)
📖 Queer, Nonbinary, AuDHD Author living in Montana
📚 BEYOND THE BORDER FOREST
📖 THE SOUL THIEF coming in 2026
https://linktr.ee/mollyhaniszewski
Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Awesome (he/him); patrickbarb.com
Rep: Pam Gruber at High Line Literary Collective
L.L. Madrid @llmadridwrites.bsky.social Leigh (she/her)
Horror writer | Everything reader
Forever daydreaming | Odyssey ‘24
Rep: Ellen Goff at HG Literary
llmadridwrites.com
https://linktr.ee/LLMadrid
MY LIPS, HER VOICE (Out 10/14/25 from Creature Publishing)
💖💜💙
Blair Bidmead @blairbidmead.bsky.social Writer of Wrongs and Sketchy Artist
[Theo Possible, Faction Paradox, The Black Archive, Señor 105, Iris Wildthyme, City of the Saved] Breakbeat Drummer, Senior Raver, Father of Diamonds, Consort To The Northern Queen of South London.
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Bryan Holm @holmbry.bsky.social MN Horror Author - Short stories: Sinister Smile Press, Eerie River Publishing, Strange Wilds Press, Dead Sky Publishing. Satanic Static out now from Anuci Press.
www.bryanholm.com
Linktr.ee/holmbry
Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social Writer and oil painter. "No Excuses for AI Art" in Blood Knife. Fiction in Dark Matter INK, Cosmic Horror Monthly. REEF MIND out now from Tenebrous Press. She/Her hazelzorn.com
S.A. McKenzie @samckenzie.bsky.social Editor and writer. Author of Small Magics for the Traveling Wizard, with Cloaked Press. linktr.ee/samckenzie_writer
Brandon Crilly (Announcements Only) @brandoncrilly.bsky.social he/him. Canadian SFF author: CATALYST (2022), CASTOFF (2025). Games writer: The Expanse RPG, ICONS. Vice chair of Can*Con. 2500-year-old Time Lord and snake parent. Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at DMLA.
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David Corse @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social Hey, weirdos. I'm David, a dark fantasy and horror author from the Midwest. I write stories that will hit you in the feels and make you say WTF.
OUT NOW: CERULEAN SKY
OUT NOW: Split Scream Volume 6
📚 https://linktr.ee/DavidCorse
Emma Wilson @emmawilson.eurosky.social Researcher at University of Edinburgh focusing on information retrieval, open research, research culture & EDI
Speculative fiction writer | neurodivergent | she/they
Views my own
Mylee J. Miller | SFF Author | ✨Updates Only✨ @myleejmiller.bsky.social Fantasy Author
HEART OF BONE (Crooked Lane & Simon Maverick, 9 March 2027)
#PosterPit Creator
Editor & Podcast Host
Book Competition Judge
Seeking new rep!
Website: https://myleejmiller.com/
Amy Orrell @authoramyorrell.bsky.social Multi-genre author from the East of England. Scifi-thriller - Tomorrow Was Beautiful Once. Clifi-fantasy - These Fated Gifts, coming soon!
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/tomorrow-was-beautiful-once/
www.authoramyorrell.com
Arachne 🏳️🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social STATION IN THE SKY available now. Author of queer SFF living & writing in Aotearoa (she/her). SpecFicNZ and Te Pae Tawhiti Awards. Uplifting good books and authors.
Cayemarsh.com
#ToitūTeTiriti
🚫genAI, fascism, billionaires, guns🚫
Rascal Hartley @rascalhartley.bsky.social I mostly make people cry
dear stupid penpal - out now! 🪐🏳️🌈
The Miniscule Magic of Humans - 🔜 @duckprintspress.com 🐏🏳️⚧️
IWNSUA: querying!🐾🏳️⚧️
WIP: 1K 🧌🏳️🌈
unfortunatelyobsessed on AO3, 2019 Hugo award winner (iykyk), bestselling author (apparently?!)
Chris Campeau @chriscampeau.bsky.social Dark fiction & nonfiction (HWA) | RESISTERS out now from Anuci Press 🧊 👻 | chriscampeau.com
Gemma @gemmasbookshelf.bsky.social 28 / Book blogger / freelance content writer / beta reader
https://gemmasbookshelf.wordpress.com/
Obverse Books @obversebooks.co.uk www.obversebooks.co.uk
www.blackarchive.co.uk
Only publisher ever to publish books on the Radiophonic Workshop, Edinburgh at night, Gurney Slade and that Typhoo Tea Doctor Who book.
Never published a book in Arial or used any form of AI in one.
Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social Publisher of F/SF anthologies and story collections - 29th Year 1997-2026. Based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.aanpress.com www.aanpress.com/artworks
Kate Sibson @shadowcat47.bsky.social Biomedical Scientist. Cat mother. Sci-fi/fantasy reader and reviewer. Lone gamer. SPSFC judge
Strange Currencies @strangecurrencies.org Book Reviewer at Strange Currencies, Freelance Production Editor, Game Designer. Work in Law but don't give Legal Advice(tm) Fray/Ace Queer. #BlackLivesMatter #ActuallyAutistic #OnPoli #CdnPoli 🍉
https://strangecurrencies.org
The Whumpy Printing Press @thewpp.bsky.social We're a micro-press specializing in whump and hurt/comfort.
Steven Patchett @stevenpatchett.bsky.social He/Him. Engineer, Husband, Father. Writer in the Northeast of England. Anti-AI. Kindness matters.
I don't reply to random DMs.
Reader for the Small Spec Book Awards.
Published here and there.
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Jenny Griffiths @historytastic.bsky.social Head of Research and Evaluation. Aerial enthusiast. Views my own. London, UK.
Ricardo Victoria @wingedlion.bsky.social SFF & horror writer (https://ricardovictoria.carrd.co)
SFWA member. I like TTRPG & Theme Parks. Toy collector. Ph.D. Sustainable Design. 🇲🇽 He/Him
No Gen A.I.🚫
Tempest Blades series: https://mybook.to/TempestBlades
Bilingual profile
Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social Environmental justice hermit
beer, bikes, bread, fungi, foraging
THE PALADIN IN THE FOREST OF THORNS, collection, The Fabulist Editions 2027
THE JAGUAR MASK, novel, Stelliform Press 2024
NIGHT ROLL, novella, Stelliform Press 2020
he/him
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Cavar 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️ @cavar.bsky.social transMad & queercrip writer, editor, phd-haver. cooler on goodreads. edits manywor(l)ds.
wrote FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof) + DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS (Northwestern UP)
rep: Noah Grey Rosenzweig.
🕸️ www.cavar.club
📖 goodreads.com/cavar
Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social Writer of LINT, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic etc, and Hyperthick comic. Weird/SF/slipstream/satire. Neurospicy, tall, in Scotland. 🪐📚 www.steveaylett.com
J A Mortimore @jamortimore.bsky.social Hybrid author (Elsewhen Press, self-published) retired and living in Gloucestershire, England, with two other ladies and a number of cats. I write soft space adventures with a touch of romance, and co-author fantasy novels with Penelope Hill.
Penelope Hill @mythichistorian.bsky.social Writer, crafter, and guardian of cats and dragons. Keeper of the Known Kingdoms, Maven of the Esoteric Sciences, and dabbler in textile arts.
Elana Gomel @mor1233.bsky.social I am a writer. I have lived in 5 countries (including one that no longer exists), written 6 novels, and 160 stories (more, actually, but who’s counting?). And when I am not writing fantasy and horror, I am writing about fantasy and horror written by others
Robin CM Duncan @robincmduncan.bsky.social Writer of SF/F stories; pub by Space Wizard SF; mem. BFS, BSFA, GSFWC, RE, eSFF.
*** The Rigel Redemption OUT NOW ***
Kim Novak - The Reading Rx @cfpharmd.bsky.social CF Clinical Pharmacist & PGY2 Pediatric Pharmacy RPD 🦋
Voracious reader 💙📚
Posts on books, lungs, bugs, drugs, & health policy
WVU alum
Just trying to be a good human
Columbus, OH
#PharmSky #MedSky #PedSky #BookSky
Joel Glover (he/him) @joelgloverauthor.bsky.social British Fantasy Award nominee (Lesbians in Space Anthology)
@naturefutures.bsky.social, @aanpress.bsky.social, @epistemiclit.bsky.social, @bulletpoints.bsky.social, @foofarawpress.bsky.social, lots of other places
https://linktr.ee/joelgloverauthor
Robs @rdpires.bsky.social Fiction author and mechanical engineer from California. 🌈Potential fire hazard.
https://linktr.ee/rdpires
Mary Lynne Gibbs @marylgibbs.bsky.social Author. Miniature artist. Geek. Witch. Roller derby boot camper (for now). Arts nonprofit founder. Bi, bi, bi. She/her Beep!
www.marylynnegibbs.com
https://ko-fi.com/rheesminis
Kristin 🆓🆓🇵🇸 @kristinosani.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 fantasy author, SFWA member, freelance JP>EN translator/editor, cat lover, immigrant, neuroピリ辛, willing to be mutually feral about BG3/D20/KPop Demon Hunters/Sailor Moon/BotC
THE EXTRAVAGANZA ETERNIA out now from Ghost Orchid Press
kristinosani.com
M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social Mara can't spell.
🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽 Xicane futurist and horror writer, author of Sundown in San Ojuela. Ignyte finalist, longlister for Stokers. Clarion 22.
Stories at: olivasthewriter.wtf
Sundown available at: https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela
Sheila Jenné @jennelikejennay.bsky.social Science fiction author & copyeditor. BLACK SAILS TO SUNWARD, THE SEA OF CLOUDS, UNDER FALSE COLORS, BISECTION, and INVASIVE out now. Support human creators.
Find my work at https://sheilajenne.com/works
Ben Berman Ghan @inkstainedwreck.ca SSHRC funded PhD in at UCalgary.
THE LIBRARY COSMIC: Stories
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/the-library-cosmic
THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/all/products/the-years-shall-run-like-rabbits
Andie Penn Romine @andiepennromine.bsky.social Writer, Teacher, VFX Artist.
The Mosquito Fleet coming in November, 2024 @ Broken Eye Books
https://linktr.ee/andrewpennromine
Scooby Doo Philosopher (Debut novel MORE BUGS out now)!!! @dayofthemutants.bsky.social that very spirit of negation | writer/researcher | MORE BUGS a novel out now with Knight Errant | videogames/sci-fi/art history | simcopter is my GOTY
emreed.net | I'm in Glasgow B)
Jess JR Creaden @jesscreaden.bsky.social MOON DUST IN MY HAIRNET| linktr.ee/jrcreaden
K.C. Aegis @kcaegis.bsky.social Sci-fi author, teacher, and father of three.
Her Gilded Voice is available now wherever books are sold. 
Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social writer/comedian/game designer | they/them | co-founder @StrongBranchPro | Author of EMPRESS OF DUST | ✍️ Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal | UIC English MA student | Rep: Sara Megibow
R.A. Busby @rabusby.bsky.social 🩸📚Horror writer | Bram Stoker nominee & Shirley Jackson Award winner | I write stuff to make you squirm.
https://linktr.ee/RABusbyauthor
Michael Merriam @mmerriam.bsky.social Blind. Author. Performer. Playwright. Screenwriter. Posts about artist life, disability, cute animals, and living in Minneapolis, MN. He/Him. #SFWA
Mr Alvar @alvartheo.bsky.social Mx Theodore
They/He
I write when I'm well enough to sit up.
Jordan A. Werner @jawerner.bsky.social Author of The Witch and the Ostrich. Hobbyist artist and blacksmith. Banner by me.
J. Alexander Cohen | Design and Fantasy @jalexandercohen.com Clearing 48yr backlog of accumulated ideas. Will be slow. The life unexamined cannot run on your value substrate.
#firstoneinturnonthelights
Looking to trade ideas/effort for money.
https://www.jalexandercohen.com
Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social SFF & horror writer, art historian.
LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE (April 2026, Dark Matter Ink)
SFWA, Codex
https://jelenadunato.com/links/
Words in BCS, The Dark, The Deadlands
Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social Comedy writer & Author. Repped by JFL. Dead Funny History, Horrible Histories & Horrible Science! Loadsa R4 stuff! And more! Buy the Darkwood Trilogy or Rooks Trilogy or Cursed Under London! 🐝 with the 🫖. Avatar by Tealin!
Mary Buchanan @marybuchanan.bsky.social Edits Libre 🤓 MFA Fiction (LSU) 🪄 the third thing in the room 🪼 Words: 3 AM, Bending Genres, Serotonin, Trampoline, Anti-Heroin Chic, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
📖 herghosts.blog
Brain pain. 🧠🥊
Sam Flynn - Preorder DWELLER IN DARKNESS! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social A godforsaken author (He/Him). DWELLER IN DARKNESS out 9/22 via Timber Ghost Press. Preorder: https://www.timberghostpress.com/dweller-landing.html#/
Website: https://sam-flynn.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/samflynn7
Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social Recovering academic (archaeology/evolution).
NEW SCI-FI “Paradox Lost” OUT NOW!
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/author/v-r-ling/
No access to DMs
Classic ghost story writers, Gothic buildings, Old books, Vegan, Classic Who
Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social Author, reviewer, pagan priest and crazy lady from the Midlands, UK. Also yarn, cats and border collies 😊
https://linktr.ee/CatTreadwell
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
Sea Crow Press @seacrowpress.bsky.social Award Winning Independent Press. www.seacrowpress.com
#indiepublishing #Booksky
Indiosyncrasy @indiosyncrasy.bsky.social Hello friends! http://indiosyncrasy.com is now LIVE! Let's find your new favourite indie author.
Scott Gable @slgable.bsky.social RPG Designer/Editor (Zombie Sky Press) and SFF/Horror/Weird Fiction Publisher (Broken Eye Books) | he/him | neurodivergent
Margaret Adelle @margaretadelle.bsky.social Indie Book Reviewer | Celtic Pagan | TTRPG Player | Ren Faire Obsessed Bisexual
Blog: https://margaretadelle.wordpress.com/
Looking for a review? Check out my review policy: https://tinyurl.com/ycycjw7n
Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social Stories that stay with you. Gothic, horror and dark fiction books.
Knight Errant Press @knighterrantpress.bsky.social A queer micro press focused on intersectional, LGBTQIA+ stories and authors. Based in Scotland.
Submissions: closed.
https://www.knighterrantpress.com/
Anuci Press @tonyanuci.bsky.social A tiny indie press dedicated to putting awesomeness into the world 😊
Kriti | Armed with A Book @armedwithabook.bsky.social Everything bookish. Book reviewer, bookstagrammer, blogger.
Sharing my love for books on armedwithabook.com
I love working with authors and reading with readers. I also occasionally make art.
She/Her
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social Imprint of Kensington Books. Publisher of thoughtful, groundbreaking, and unforgettable books that go straight to the reader’s heart. Inclusive and community-oriented, imagine better futures with us, and be welcome.
Wild Ink Publishing LLC @wildinkpublishing.bsky.social Wild Ink Publishing is able to bring you some of the newest, brightest wordsmiths because we are not afraid of breaking a mold or two. If you are looking for something new to read, look no further. https://wild-ink-publishing.com/
Lake Country Press @lakecountrypress.bsky.social Small indie publisher striving to provide imaginative books to readers and elevate the micro press experience✨Also, here for bookish shenanigans and kindness✌🏽
Diversity. Inclusion. Representation🏳️🌈
Genres:
Fiction📖
Romance💕
Fantasy🎆
Conquest Publishing | By Authors for Authors @conquestpublishing.bsky.social Conquest Publishing is a traditional publisher of all things emotional and gritty. Darker Romance is our favorite, but we are open to more!
https://linktr.ee/conquest_publishing
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Listen to "Raising Hell" on CursedMedia.Net
Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA Co-Host
https://jacklaroche.com
jacklaroche.19 on Signal
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. 
Speculate Actual Play @speculate.bsky.social Speculate is an award-winning #actualplay TTRPG show starring science fiction & fantasy authors, editors, and more.
Co-hosted by authors Gregory A. Wilson, Brandon O’Brien, and Michael R. Underwood.
www.speculatesf.com
The Skiffy and Fanty Show @skiffyandfanty.com SF/F/H podcast (interviews, discussions, Torture Cinema, etc.)! 4X Hugo Award Finalist!
Live on Twitch: FRIDAY 7 PM Central
twitch.tv/alphabetstreams
Site: skiffyandfanty.com
Patreon: patreon.com/skiffyandfanty
Things: skiffyandfanty.com/skiffythings
Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
@rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com.
Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/
Melody E. McIntyre @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social Canadian writer of short, speculative fiction. Also a Legal Assistant, Martial Artist, Classicist, Pet owner, and Time-traveller. She/They.
https://linktr.ee/melodyemcintyre
L. N. Holmes (Updates, Mostly) @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social Author of SPACE, COLLISIONS (@ghostcitypress.bsky.social) & THE FLOATING CASTLE | @specawards.bsky.social founder | Stories: Newfound, Barren Magazine, Vestal Review, others | Proud momma 🩵| ✝️
https://lnholmeswriter.wordpress.com
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Apocalypse Party @apocalypseparty.bsky.social A heavy metal acid trip via literature. Publishing books for the end of the world.
apocalypse-party.com/books
Grim Oak Press @grimoakpress.bsky.social Grim Oak Press is an award-winning small press specializing in SF&F.
Memento Vivere Press @mementoviverepress.bsky.social Indie books for street punks and strong-willed scholars. Show up in color.
https://linktr.ee/mementoviverepress
Beard of Darkness Book Reviews @beardofdarkness.bsky.social Hey! I’m Matthew and I am a Literature Loving Book Reviewer. I have a passion for Author Interviews. DM’s are always open! Linktree 👇
https://linktr.ee/beardofdarknessbookreviews
Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social DRM-free, AI-free, billionare-free, waitless ebooks from independent presses, sold to you by an actual human being who responds to emails, since 2010. https://weightlessbooks.com
DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social SFF imprint of Astra Publishing. DAW has been publishing science fiction and fantasy since 1971.
https://linktr.ee/dawbooks
Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is a award-winning, San Francisco-based independent publisher specializing in speculative fiction.
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com Lambda, Aurora, Locus, British Fantasy, and Nebula nominated indie press out of Detroit, Michigan ✨ dedicated to the author's authentic voice, thoughtfulness, and community - 🌈 editor @edebell.com
Give us a look! atthisarts.com
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Thinking Ink Press @thinkinginkpress.bsky.social Thinking Ink Press is an independent book publishing company in the San Francisco Bay Area. We primarily publish books relating to disability, writing advice and inspiration, and diverse speculative fiction. https://ThinkingInkPress.com for more info.
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre
https://linktr.ee/augurmag
Grindhouse Press @grindhousepress.bsky.social We're a small press specializing in horror, extreme horror, transgressive fiction, sleaze, and exploitation. Sign up for the newsletter on our website: www.grindhousepress.com 
Sley House Presents @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social Sley House Presents is a podcast about literature, with in-depth reviews, author interviews, and occasional audio fiction. Account managed by Trevor W.
Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social indie publisher of amazing horror
Bleeding Edge Books @bleedingedgepub.bsky.social Fiction that cuts to the bone! A small press that specializes in Horror and Dark Fiction anthologies and novellas. More info: www.BleedingEdgePub.com
Black Hare Press @blackharepress.bsky.social Black Hare Press is a boutique, #inclusive, indie publisher of #speculativefiction and #horror. Champion of #indieauthors and the #WritingCommunity.
Melbourne, Australia
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