My hot take is that the only memorable thing that ANY of the SCREAM films has ever delivered was this song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O34l...
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Publisher/Founder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor. Illustrator of slimy things. Devotee of comic books & guit-fiddle music of every stripe. OPEN for both editing & art gigs. He/him Portland OR
My hot take is that the only memorable thing that ANY of the SCREAM films has ever delivered was this song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O34l...
My βartistβ skills were garbage at 30.
My βtorturedβ side of the ledger, however, was right on point.
Cover art by Jenna Cha, the papery shed skin of a human floats through the yellow-green sky over the Appalachian town of Olyoke. Plus blurbs from Bitter Karella, Hailey Piper, and Briar Ripley Page
We're just over a month away from our trip to OLYOKE, TN!
Home to a Dollywood-style theme park; generations of troubled families; mysterious plagues; & a prophetic cult leader who warns of a fiery cataclysm.
It's "Twin Peaks by way of Appalachia" in OLYOKE by @endwellian.bsky.social out 3/24π€β οΈ
Cover art by Kerisson Wemerson, depicting a lone kayaker navigating a series of islets shaped like the massive jaws of a monster; plus blurbs from Sonora Taylor, Max Booth III, and Laura Cranehill
OUT NOW. GET TO THE WATER.
@kristalstittle.bsky.social's terrifying KAYAK is available everywhere now!
A young man comes of age, alone in the face of an alien invasion, where stepping foot on land=deathπ
Get it from your favorite indie bookstore or direct from usπ€β οΈ
store.tenebrouspress.com
π¨ @sharai.bsky.social pays homage to Marlene Clark, a Blaxploitation era Scream Queen that deserves a well-earned space in horrorβs collective memory. π» π½οΈ #NightTideMag
nighttidemag.com/2026/02/12/m...
She deserved more and is one of the MANY reasons the industry biases are hurting all of us.
Thanks @momoshaty.bsky.social and @nighttidemag.bsky.social for creating a space for this piece to live!
The acclaimed twin-novelette series is back...and it is CURSED.
Preorders are open: store.tenebrouspress.com
HORSU
Art featuring a human in unassuming clothing curled in a fetal position, hovering over a barren landscape against a sickly green sky. Cover Copy: One summer afternoon, Santi and Maria's daughter disappears without a trace from a public park. A fruitless investigation passes, the agony only serving to tear Santiβs life and family further apart. Months go by, and Santi finally stumbles upon a clue: it is hardly a name, barely a whisper, but it is enough to reveal a haunting legacy and unleash an entirely new kind of horror upon the despairing young father: βHe Who Does Not Speak With Children.β
Back cover art for @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social's ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT by @jennacha.bsky.social, alongside lovely words from our buds @emmaemurray.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social
Preorders are coming later on, but you can subscribe to our 2026 Book Club NOW:
store.tenebrouspress.com
BUY THIS DAMN BOOK
Feast your ears on Transmission zero, and welcome The Night Ship into the world!
Released today wherever you can grab it, and ready to be just about the strangest journey into the vast of night you'll ever go through.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
Alex's new book releases *today*! Stick out your thumb & hitch a ride on The Night Ship and get ready for a strange and eerie ride.
She really shouldnβt be as fucking jaw-dropping a writer as she isβon top of being such a badass editor & co-publisherβbut what can ya do? Some people just horde all the word-making skills.
Fβreal though, this book is haunting and weird and magnificent. You owe it to yourself to read itπ€β οΈ
Read Weird.
This week's #HorrorForLibraries giveaway also has a mini review. THE NIGHT SHIP by @alexwoodroe.com coming 1/20/26 from Flame Tree Press. Enter now and you are netered going forward
raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2026/01/horr...
The book that I mentioned on QAA by @alexwoodroe.com is Whisperwood. I can't recommend it enough. It's a solid piece of folk horror, a kind of Romanian Witcher. Alex even has a new book, The Night Ship, out next week. You can follow her here: alexwoodroe.com
I read two books over the weekend and enjoyed both a lot:
Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social is a delirious delight and so gross (complimentary)
The Night Ship by @alexwoodroe.com is a deeply strange tale of 1980s apocalypse and life under fascism (plus weird tendrils)
Cover art of CASUAL by Helen Whistberry, a digital fox against a microchip background rendered in orange and yellow; blurb by BOOKLIST Text: YOUR BODY, YOUR CHOICE. UNTIL IT'S NOT.
2026 PHILIP K. DICK AWARD NOMINEE!
Hails & Congratulations, @kojiadae.bsky.social for your prescient, terrifying, shockingly relevant novel CASUAL.
A sincere Hails to all fellow nominees as well; CASUAL looks awfully fine rubbing shoulders with the lot of youπ€β οΈ
Causal Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award: Iβm a bitΒ Flabbergasted
I woke up this morning to some exciting news: Casual has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. What followed was a few hours of shock and excitement and a whole lot of not working at work. (Sorry, I'll make up for it).β¦
This drops on newsletter at 10am if youβre looking for more info on the DWJ covers and how to get them.
Also, if you order anything else off my webstoβ as part of your order, Iβll be donating that amount as well.
As always, very much appreciate any signal boosting.
Teaming up with Brody King and Daniel Warren Johnson to drop a brand new Tales from the Road variant cover to help families that have been affected by ICE raids in Minnesota.
Feckin' brilliant book. Preorder it from your preferred indie store & tell em to order in a spare copyπ€β οΈ
i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, youβre setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.
Bruh I canβt anymore. I need my lit to be as fucking gay, weird, and non-cisgender as possible. Anything else is fucking false metal.
This is the nightmare scenario that shutters Tenebrous permanently π
Iβm sorry everyone. It needs to be said. If you are one of the accounts on here telling people that they need to obey in advance because you are scared of martial law and elections being canceled, the psychological warfare that authoritarians use is working on you. Fear is psychologically powerful π§΅
I *am* a Bears fan (though I havenβt managed to watch a football game in 10 years π) and fuck yeah π€
βThe most experimental and fucked up thing Iβve written to dateβ
Yes please π€β οΈ
And image of an ice machine brimming with ice and above it the word βFUCKβ
Take and use as you will
I'm having a very "listen to 'Stealing People's Mail' by Dead Kennedys three times in a row" sort of day.