Stephanie Ellis

@stephellis.bsky.social

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Author, Elgin & Rhysling award-nominated poet, and reader. Member BFS https://stephanieellis.org/

Tree carved with image of King Offs pointing into the distance. Surrounded by trees and foliage.
Sunset over countryside with the two books, The Five Turns of the Wheel and Reborn shown against this backdrop. Includes a verse from The Dance: Dance then, wherever you may be I'll. Lead you all in the Dance, said he.I Five times, five turns of the Wheel, said he. This is a Dance for Eternity. Also includes qr code for Brigids Gate Press
Cover of Welcome to Ferrendale by Oli Jacobs Green cover with inset picture in the middle showing four fishermen types with a giant fish type creator in the middle.
Shows book cover of 1876 on green background, with red dragon holding it at bottom. On the right is lettering 'Celebrating Wrexham's Year of Wonder' on white background.
Blue skies, open field and trees, early evening.
Front cover of Foundlings. Two magpies, one pecking into a book on white canvas background Underneath them 'A collection of found poetry based on the work of dark poets, Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti' with author names Cindy O'Quinn and Stephanie Ellis
Image of David Southwell's Hookland Fragments book on bookshelf with a terracotta Green Man beside it.
Two magpies on a book, white canvas background. Title Foundlings at top Author names at bottom Also says 'A collection of found poetry based on the work of dark poets Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti' Blurb: Found poetry is an act of creation in its own right. By taking words already in existence in the works of others, something completely new can be created. This collection was created in tribute to renowned dark poets, Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti. In all instances, we have indicated those poems from which we carved our own.
Cover for book Hookland Fragments, Volume One by David Southwell Picture shows a white-etched bear on its hind legs tossing bones beneath a starry sky.
Cover of As the Wheel Turns showing a feather-hatted figure gazing across an idyllic rural landscape at sunset. An antlered skull appears faintly in the glow of the sun. blurb: The Weald is full of strange folk. A rural idyll on the surface, it is home to many a bloody tradition. The novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel, outlined the most horrific of these - or did it? In these short stories set in that universe, you will find different versions of the Haxey Hood, Plough Monday, the Hobby, and many folk traditions - the thatcher, the blacksmith, the hedgelayer - uniquely their own. The Wheel never stopped turning.
Full print wrap of paperback and hardback cover showing a shadowy figure clad in colourful rags and feathered hat gazing across wheat fields at sunset. A horned skull sits in the sky. (Cover is author creation, no AI) From the back: The Weald is full of strange folk. A rural idyll on the surface, it is home to many a bloody tradition. The novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel, outlined the most horrific of these - or did it? In these short stories set in that universe, you will find different versions of the Haxey Hood, Plough Monday, the Hobby, and many folk traditions - the thatcher, the blacksmith, the hedgelayer - uniquely their own. The Wheel never stopped turning.
Cover of As the Wheel Turns. A shadowy figure clad in ragged jacket and with a top hat looks out over wheat fields glowing beneath a sunset. A faint horned skill is visible on the sky.
Landscape of hills and fields from Moelydd.
Cover of As the Wheel Turns More Tales from the Weald. Shows a figure looking across corn fields into the setting sun. An antlered head is shown in the sky. Back blurb: The Weald is full of strange folk. A rural idyll on the surface, it is home to many a bloody tradition. The novel, The Five Turns of the Wheel, outlined the most horrific of these - or did it? In these short stories set in that universe, you will find different versions of the Haxey Hood, Plough Monday, the Hobby, and many folk traditions - the thatcher, the blacksmith, the hedgelayer - uniquely their own. The Wheel never stopped turning.
A W sits in front of a wheel to create the logo for Wheelborn. Text reads' Wheelborn is born. The desire for greater independence births an imprint.'
Print cover of A Fragile Thing by Stephanie Ellis. Title and name in white font on black background in lower half of front cover. Above, a blurred figure walks away from the viewer towards gothic buildings lit up beneath a night sky. Blurb on back: Victorian London. Isaac Bercow is a man with great aspirations, nothing to lose, and an offer he can't refuse. Determined to make society notice - and believe in - his powers of mesmerism, Isaac finds himself caught in a trap of deceit, danger, and diabolical dealings. The mind is a fragile thing, and fragile things are easily broken.
Shows screenshot of Stephanie Ellis's website with A Fragile Thing cover on left and Harrowfield cover on right showing how sample can be read.
Cover of The Five Turns of the Wheel by Stephanie Ellis. A skull lies on a bed of leaves, surrounded by a wheel frame.
Cover of Harrow field by Stephanie Ellis. Tree sheltering 2 standing stones.
Cover of Harrowfield. A solitary tree standing over 2 smaller standing stones on a green background.
Cover of How to Kill a Witch, A Guide for the Patriarchy by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi
Picture of Harrowfield book with blurbs next to it. Purchase link as in post.
Rat-She book cover against background of rats and cockroaches
Cover of Rat-She novel against background of rats. States 'The body horror you never knew you wanted' at the top. Link to buy at the bottom (same as in main post).
Shows Rat-She book with rats and cockroaches around it. Purchase link https://mybook.to/rat-she at bottom. 'The body horror you never knew you wanted' at top.
Cover of Rat-She with blurbs from Happy Goat Horror, Rich Duncan Jr and Shane Douglas Keene.
Graphic showing Rat-She book and blurbs beside it: 'a fantastically written novella with a compelling story and characters that it’s unbelievably easy to sympathise with and want the best for. The layers of horror run deep!' - Kayleigh Dobbs, Happy Goat Horror 'Rat-She is a wildly original take on the post-apocalyptic genre that's not to be missed!' - Rich Duncan Jr, co-founder of Genre Buzzword and co-host of the Ink Heist Podcast 'Stephanie Ellis has a knack for making the most ruthless of scenarios read like unfolding folklore, and Rat-She is a fine demonstration of that. This tale mesmerized me and creeped me the hell out in equal measure.' - Shane D. Keene, Elgin and Dwarf Stars nominated poet
Images of Discovering Scarfolk and Scarfolk Annual
Cover of Harrowfield. Tree sheltering two standing stones on front. Back features 2 ravens flying over a larger standing stone. Blurb: Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales. On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing. When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge?
The Five Turns of the Wheel book against a backdrop of leaf litter. Blurbs around it and QR code reflecting link in post. 'Haunting folkloric horror' - Laurel Hightower 'A gloriously told folk horror story' - Paul Preston 'wow' - Brennan LaFaro 'a darkly unique experience' - Aiden Merchant Midsommar meets Pan's Labyrinth - Richard Martin 'a glorious take on folk horror customs and rituals, sacrifice and trial, blood and pain' - Heather Daughrity
Shows the Five Turns of the Wheel book cover against a forest backdrop. Jonathan Maberry's comments below 'a superb novel ... a superb piece of writing' QR code to the right takes you to the link in the comment.
Graphic showing the Five Turns of the Wheel cove. QR code beside it taking you to Brigids Gate Press. Praise also included: Haunting folkloric horror- Laurel Hightower Gloriously told folk horror story - Paul Preston Wow - Brennan LaFarro A darkly unique experience - Aiden Merchant Midsommar meets Pan's Labyrinth - Richard Martin A glorious take on folk horror, customs and rituals, sacrifice and trial, blood and pain - Heather Daughrity
Shows 3 books: The Tyrannicide Brief - Geoffrey Robertson, How to Lay an Egg With a Horse Inside - Brian Bilston, Do Not Unlock - CS Jones
Books shown: Geoffrey Robertson's The Tyrannicide Brief, Brian Bilston's How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside, CD Jones Do Not Unlock
Cover of Harrowfield showing a single tree standing over two small standing stones. Sky is a sludgy green, tree and ground, very dark green.
Graphic for newsletter. Showing title 'National Poetry Month - Oops' against purple background and a graphic from #WIHM below
Bluebells in a wood.
Shows books. On the top row, novella Rat-She, novel The Barricade, Novella Paused. The second row shows novelettes Blurred Vision and Transcending Nature (both part of the Darklings Quick Read series)
Book wrap. Right side shows front cover, a woman's face peering out over a swarm of rats. The back holds the blurb: When bombs were dropped across the globe as part of a world-wide agreement to cull the human population, the aftershocks triggered unbelievable horrors. Fallout from radiation and pressure waves caused disfigurements and mutations: inorganic matter melding with flesh, human and animal compressing into one, grotesqueries crawling across the blasted landscape, condemned as outcasts forever. But there is hope. Rumours abound of the Surgeon, the one person who can cure the afflicted, cut out that which has invaded the body. Yet when Orla and her brother, Silas, succeed in tracking him down, they discover he is not exactly what they imagined …
Cover of Harrowfield with back blurb on right: Harrowfield is a tiny village in the Marches, that wild strip of borderland between England and Wales. On the edge of this village lies another field, the Harrow Field, the one from which the settlement takes its name. At its entrance stands the Mother Stone, guarding her Children, the two smaller monoliths at the top of the field. This is the ancient site of the Harrowing. When Derwenna Parry’s brother goes missing whilst surveying farmland, she and his daughters head to the village to track him down. Midsummer approaches and, even though they find him unharmed, they become caught up in strange events which lead them to the Harrowing. An ancient act of penance … or sacrificial revenge? On the right is a tree standing over two small stones.
Cover of Geoffrey Robertson's The Tyrannicide Brief.
Cover of Women of the Weird West. Sharp teeth gape wide over a desert canyon scene.
Cover of Harrowfield shown on the right. Blurb on the left from Corinne Pollard, Catherine McCarthy, and Valerie B. Williams.
Right hand side shows Harrowfield cover. Left hand side is BFS Voting Is Now Open flyer. Voting period 16-3rd May and links given. Link is included in main bsky post.
Blurb by Lee Murray on the left for A Fragile Thing, book cover on the right, together with images of an empty street and a pocket watch.
Blurbs for Harrowfield from Corinne Pollard at Horror Tree, author Catherine McCarthy, and author Valerie B. Williams on the right.
Collection of all the individually shared #wihm found poems posted over March.
3 books shown: The Reformatory, The Good House, and Ghost Summer Found poem above Beloved Divine otherness, touched by the grave, takes the haunt of ghosts, transformed all to beloved. Changes the segregated to the belonged, weaving lives with truth. The history of tragedy, chilling in its knowing.
3 books at the bottom: Monstrous Domesticity Hell Hath No Sorrow Like a Woman Haunted, Into the Forest Found poem above Whisper Witch Monstrous beloved mothers tempests of the dark. A whisper witch beckoning closer, spins life to wild ends.
Found poem: Three books at the bottom: Nightwood, A Tale of Three Cities, The Cryptids Found poem above Slaughtered Faith Protean secrets, flood nightmares rotting identity in a Hell quest of slaughtered faith, shattering the human in the mirror of the sun. One-way epidemic of flayed information colonised by monsters.
Three books at the bottom: God's Vengeance, Hearts & Bones, Season's Creepings Found poem above Twisted Fruit The zombie virus imprisoned interpretations, killed the idea. The fertility of horror, a womb to spread twisted fruit, turn the globe, into a place of bones.
3 books at the bottom: Beulah, Promise, One Eye Opened in That Other Place Found poem above: Gift Underworld portal, affliction of dreams, connect twilight memory to disquieting mirrors, dip hope in the skin of malevolent spaces. Liminal danger making the mind a gift of ghosts.
Two book covers at the bottom: Clairviolence Love the Sinner Found poem above Omens The distorted psyche threatened the justice of a divine monster. Forced the torment of truth into warring existence. A landscape of bloody souls, omens of the end.
Review for A Fragile Thing: Ellis's depictions of Victorian East London in A Fragile Thing are so vivid that you absolutely believe you are there, wandering the gas lamp laden streets with the alarmingly driven, obsessive Isaac Bercow. From the strange, dark theatrics of the book's first scene, through the ways in which Bercow seeks to profit from the strange gifts he is given, it was impossible to put this down.
3 books shown at the bottom: Below, The Day of the Door, Every Woman Knows This Found poem above: Revelations Death forgiven, haunting life with unbearable revelations, storm into being, advances into nightmare. A motherhood of dark decisions dragged to the grave.