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👻 Dive into the chilling world of nightmares!
Experience all 37 stories in one eerie collection - The Ethereal Nightmares Trilogy: Collector’s Edition. Uncover unpublished tales and exclusive author interviews here:
📖Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
📚Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #indieauthors #halloweenreads #etherealnightmares
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💀 Ready to explore the spooky realm of nightmares?
Immerse yourself in thirty-seven eerie tales with Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy (Collector’s Edition), packed with fresh stories and author interviews.
📖 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
🖤 Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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🕯️ Ready to plunge into the shadows?
Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond brings you short chilling stories, creepy artwork, and unique indie horrors every month.
Subscribers get all previous editions + exclusive entry to the Dark Holme Writers Workshop — where horror writing meets a supportive community.
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💀 https://www.patreon.com/c/DarkHolmePublishing#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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👻 Dive into the chilling world of nightmares!
Experience all 37 stories in one eerie collection - The Ethereal Nightmares Trilogy: Collector’s Edition. Uncover unpublished tales and exclusive author interviews here:
📖Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
📚Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #indieauthors #halloweenreads #etherealnightmares
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👀🎄 If they love a good scare, this is the easiest gift you’ll buy all year.
This anthology brings together 100+ short, atmospheric horrors ideal for those quiet pauses in a full season — small, intense reads that fit the rhythm of real life.
Gift it, keep it, or do both — it’s that tempting.
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
📚 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent-whispers-from-beyond-anthologies#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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Why do you need this? Because no one else is delivering new nightmares to your inbox every month—before print, before the crowd.
Give yourself the gift of escape, surprise, and community: £2.99/mo (7-day free trial), £15.99/6mo, £29.99/year.
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💀 https://www.patreon.com/c/DarkHolmePublishing#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #HalloweenReads #HalloweenHorror
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💀 The nightmares are here.
Thirty-seven stories bound in darkness.
Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy (Collector’s Edition) brings them all together — with a new story and author interviews.🎃 Released Halloween night — available now.
📖 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
🖤 Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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💀 The nightmares have arrived.
Thirty-seven stories. One haunting collector’s edition.
A new story and exclusive author interviews wait within.🎃 Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy — available now.
📖 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
🖤 Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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🎃🤡 DOOMDEL WANTS THE BABY. AND HE’S HUNGRY. 🤡🎃
All Anna wanted was a new paintball gun. Instead, she’s babysitting while something from the graveyard comes calling.
Doomdel, The Creepy Clown by Angelique Fawns — one of thirty-seven stories from Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy (collector’s edition).
🎃 Out October 31 — perfect for Halloween reading.
📖 Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1📚 Paperback: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy
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Dark shadows, hidden faces, and silent dread. For #SpookySeason, GODS MAN (1929) is a wordless descent into temptation and consequence, perfect for #Halloween week. 🕯️🖤
👀 Check out this video of the opening chapter.
Then read the full story in our Spooky Season 2025 collection ⤵️
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🕯️ Dare to descend into darkness?
Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond delivers flash fiction, eerie art, and indie nightmares each month.
Subscribers unlock all back issues + free access to the Dark Holme Writers Workshop — where horror craft meets community.
🕯️ https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
💀 https://www.patreon.com/c/DarkHolmePublishing
When Halloween fades, will you still follow the whispers?
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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💀 The nightmares are gathering.
Thirty-seven stories. One haunting volume.
The Ethereal Nightmares Trilogy: Collector’s Edition combines all three volumes — including a new, unpublished story and author interviews.🎃 Out October 31 — perfect for Halloween nights.
📖 Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
📚 Paperback: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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🕯️ Perfect for Halloween chills...
Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond delivers flash horror, eerie art, and indie nightmares every month.
Subscribers gain all back issues plus free access to the Dark Holme Writers Workshop — where horror writers learn and grow together.
🕯️ https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
💀 https://www.patreon.com/c/DarkHolmePublishing
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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Get in the #Halloween spirit with some very bad ladies in #WomenWhoMurder! #books #truecrime #halloweenreads #bookstagram #booktok #ebooks #BookRecommendation #readerscommunity #readingcommunity #serialkillers
https://mitziszereto.com/women-who-murder-an-international-collection-of-deadly-true-crime-tales -
🎃💀 Halloween’s perfect companion isn’t sweet—it’s sinister.
Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond collects 12 months of our webzine—100+ short horror stories built for October nights. Small stories. Big nightmares.
📖 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CY9QZH5K
🏚 Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent-whispers-from-beyond-anthologies
Would you dare read it with the lights out?
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #horrorlit #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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🔥 The skin was burning away from his fingers. Bone glistened. Blood boiled.
Lampwick by CJ Hooper — not everything trapped inside this house is dead.
One of thirty-seven nightmares from Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy, the collector’s edition combining all three volumes.
🎃 Releasing October 31 — perfect for Halloween reading.
📖 Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
📚 Paperback: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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🎃 The stillness before Halloween feels electric — like the dark knows what’s next.
That’s where Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond lives.
Flash horror. Microhorror. Indie nightmares made for nights like these.🕯️ Subscribe: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
🕯️ Also on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DarkHolmePublishing
Because sometimes, the best way to celebrate Halloween is to read it.
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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The candle gutters. The page turns itself. 🎃
Thirty-seven stories bound in one collector’s edition — with a new tale and author interviews from the dark.
Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy is the book Halloween was made for.📖 Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
🖤 Paperback: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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🎃 Halloween is the season for stories best read in the dark
Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond is a monthly horror magazine featuring flash fiction, eerie art, and indie nightmares.
🕯️ Subscribe: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
🕯️ Also on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DarkHolmePublishing
Perfect for long October nights.
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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Perfect for #Halloween! What can be better than #reading about #WomenWhoMurder? #truecrime #books #halloweenreads
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Murder-International-Collection-ebook/dp/B0D7Q132YS -
Need Cozy Mysteries for Fall? Nearly all Tule Publishing mysteries (except new releases) are on sale for $1.99! (And The Accidental Detective 1 is free everywhere!)
Mine: https://amzn.to/4h27caR
All: https://tulepublishing.com/mystery/
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🎃 This Halloween, the fog settles over a convent where faith is thin and the soup is screaming.
Mother Mercy by Dan LoBrace — one of 100 + short horror stories from Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond (2025 Anthology) — is a slow-burn nightmare of obedience, sin, and whatever’s bubbling beneath the surface.
📖 Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CY9QZH5K
📚 Dark Holme: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent-whispers-from-beyond-anthologies
Would you stay for supper—or flee before grace?
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The nights are creeping in, and so are the nightmares. 🎃
Three volumes of horror—one haunting collector’s edition.
A new story and author confessions from the dark.
Ethereal Nightmares: The Complete Trilogy is the perfect Halloween read.📖 Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FMPHJQD1
🖤 Paperback: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/product-page/ethereal-nightmares-the-complete-trilogy
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #darkfiction #halloweenreads
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🎃 The Halloween Spectacular is coming soon…
But the shadows are already waiting.
Subscribe to Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond and get instant access to all 16 back issues — flash horror, microhorror, and indie nightmares made for Halloween nights.
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#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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🎃 Halloween was made for stories like this.
A feast deep in the forest. A table set with secrets.
In “Banquet” by Khala Grace, hunger meets horror in a tale perfect for Halloween chills.
🕯️ Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond — where every nightmare is served fresh.
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
📚 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent-whispers-from-beyond-anthologies
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason #darkfiction
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🕯️ Halloween isn’t when the dark begins. It’s when it answers back.
Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond is a monthly horror magazine of flash fiction, microhorror, and indie nightmares that outlast the season.
💀 Start your 7-day free trial.
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#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #halloweenreads #spookyseason
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Another spooky Halloween read brought to you by me!
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🕯️ Perfect for Halloween chills…
Dark Descent Vol. 16 is here. A monthly horror magazine of flash fiction, microhorror, and indie nightmares sharpened to the bone.
The home of our Dark Descent anthology.
👁️ Subscribe: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
💀 Buy standalone: https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/category/dark-descent
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #indieauthors #HalloweenReads
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🕯️ Perfect for Halloween chills…
The scarecrow doesn’t blink. The fields are hushed, the moon swollen, and the silence feels stitched too tightly to trust.
This is Dark Descent: Whispers From Beyond—the home of our Dark Descent anthology. Flash nightmares. Microhorror. Whispers sharpened into stories that don’t let go.
📖 https://www.darkholmepublishing.uk/darkdescentsubscribe
#readingcommunity #horrorcommunity #writingcommunity #HalloweenReads #HalloweenHorror
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🏳️🌈 📖 October Queer Romance Club - seeking suggestions 📖 🏳️🌈
October’s theme is paranormal/Halloween reads. I’ll put the vote out over the weekend.
I have a few ideas already:
All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles (m/m, historical, Gothic, something unnatural lurks…)
The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish (transmasc they/cis he, ghosts, cosy)
Feast While You Can by Julia Armfield and Eliza Clark (f/f, sounds like actual horror though, so might not be to everyone’s tastes)
But Not Too Bold By Hache Pueyo (sapphic gothic fantasy monster romance novella, possibly still more down the horror end)
The Lavender Blade by EL Deards (I’m not sure if this is a romance actually, but it sounds great ;) established m/m relationship, a case of possession)
Other suggestions much appreciated!
(We’ve already had two ghost stories this year, Roland Rogers Isn’t Dead Yet by Samantha Allen and The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by EM Anderson. Must be something in the air 😊)
ETA: more info about QRC:
https://mastodon.au/@wendypalmer/113144943004145104
@queerromanceclub #QueerRomanceClub #books #bookClub #reading #bookstodon #paranormal #queerReads #HalloweenReads -
Last chance to grab SONOFAWITCH! in time for Halloween! This is a collection of cozy fantasy stories about magic spells gone awry.
Here's an excerpt from one of the stories, "Good Spell Gone Bug" by Laura VanArendonk Baugh.
https://www.worldweaverpress.com/blog/excerpt-from-sonofawitch-good-spell-gone-bug
Get $1 off the SONOFAWITCH! ebook direct from the World Weaver Press store by using the coupon code BANNED (because Amazon decided the title was a profanity, and banned our ads 🙄).
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To celebrate the paperback release of UNDER THE WOLF MOON on Halloween, the eBook version of INTO THE FORGOTTEN FOREST is on sale for $1.99 from now until November 4th!
https://www.books2read.com/ItFF
#DarkFantasy #IntoTheForgottenForest #TheOutcrossed #TheOutcrossedSeries #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #HalloweenRead #HalloweenReads #eBookSale #HalloweenSale
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And I am done with #IAmLegend... Brilliant book
Makes me think a little of my favourite zombie show - In The Flesh... The dead rise, do the normal zombie stuff but then get cured and returned to society. There are only nine episodes so do yourself a favour...
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Robert Neville asking the important questions - what's worse, a Vampire-Zombie apocalypse or second Trump term?
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Ahhh... The cosy Zombie Apocalypse... Where cigarettes, glass panes for greenhouses and (fuel for) air conditioning units (three - to clean out the garlic smell?), freezers and stoves are still readily available
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Lovely introduction by Joe Hill quoting Tony Kushner - " the smallest individual human unit is two, not one; one is a fiction" (not meant in a coupley way, but a interaction way)
Also confirming strong zombie links and clear influence on Day of the Dead etc.
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This is another re-read for me, and another beautiful Folio Society edition. It's an odd form factor (like wide-screen is when you're used to 4:3 - except height rather than width) and features illustrations by Dave McKean (ooooh yeah).
It's short so finishing today is entirely likely...
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I am awake, up, dressed and have porridge soaking... It's time to start book four of five on my #HalloweenReads challenge...
So far we've had Creature (Frankenstein), Immortal/demon (twinkle) (Dorian Gray) and Vampire (Dracula)... #IAmLegend purports to be another Vampire novel, but I place it more in the Zombie genre... Vampires are solitary whereas Zombies are overwhelming in their power...
Sure, these ain't mindless analogues for capitalist brainrot, but still, Zombies
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Finished my #HalloweenReads read of #DorianGray. I've mentioned earlier, this is the manuscript version which was edited for Lippincott's before the later novel version. This means more homosexual undercurrents than even the original publication, but a shorter narrative (including no James Vane).
And annotations.
Now I have to have a short interlude for #mcrsf reading of Winter keep by Kristin Cashore
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I ran out of print copies of SONOFAWITCH! (thank you!) but they are back in stock. Use the coupon code BANNED to get a dollar off either ebook or paperback direct from the WWP store. (Because Amazon banned our ads and suppressed the book in their search algorithm.)
#SmallPress #HalloweenReads #HalloweenBooks #AmazonSucks #CozyFantasy #FantasyBookshttps://www.worldweaverpress.com/store/p134/SonofaWitch%21.html
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CW: Antisemitism in Dorian Gray
Ooof... Just gotta read past that antisemitism. It's just *bam* the theatre owner is just straight up described as a "horrible Jew" - very seedy and solicitous...
It is odd seeing something this blatantly normalised, not a poorly realised stereotype or villain, just flat out /that/
This is contrasted to the lovely, the beautiful, Sybil Vane (who is merely a blank canvas for her characters with no self in Dorian's eyes)
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Basil is infatuated with Dorian's "personality" and position as muse. He thinks he's hidden that romance from Gray (has he?)... But it is Basil who is forced to introduce him to Henry
The musical I went to see reverses the order of meeting - Henry Wooton is agent/manager of Gray with Basil being bought on to produce (photographic) portraiture and becoming infatuated that way...
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Anyway Chapter 1 - Henry Wooten's quips on fine form here including "there is only thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
Lots of discussion of the beautiful subject of the portrait and Basil's fear he has put too much of himself into it and a desire that Henry keep his hands off Dorian...
Only to be interrupted by the arrival of the young beauty himself...
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For reference, this edition is the original typescript and handwritten amendments made by Wilde *prior to* Lippincroft's edits and first publication...
The magazine took out some queer references and even that wasn't enough for Victorian society. Wilde further revised based on those reviews for book publication and added more "moral" details to the ending.
And modern TV wants to make Basil and Dorian brothers... *Rolls eyes*
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Twenty five minutes to kill so let's start on my #HalloweenReads read of The Picture of #DorianGray
This is an Uncensored and Annotated version, meaning the contents look a little like this...
Table of Contents:
1 General Introduction
38 Textual Introduction
65 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Looking for a fun Halloween 🎃 or autumn 🍂 gift for a friend?
Why not consider one of the companions edited by Simon Bacon!
I contributed to "For The Undead in the 21st Century" with a chapter on the Zombie Mermaid 🧟♀️🧜♀️, and to "The Deep" with a piece on Posidaeja 🌊.
Both books are published by Peter Lang and are available on their website. Perfect for anyone who loves a spooky read or a dive into dark fantasy! 👻📚
#HalloweenReads #AutumnVibes #ZombieMermaid #Posidaeja #PeterLang
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Looking for a fun Halloween 🎃 or autumn 🍂 gift for a friend?
Why not consider one of the companions edited by Simon Bacon!
I contributed to "For The Undead in the 21st Century" with a chapter on the Zombie Mermaid 🧟♀️🧜♀️, and to "The Deep" with a piece on Posidaeja 🌊.
Both books are published by Peter Lang and are available on their website. Perfect for anyone who loves a spooky read or a dive into dark fantasy! 👻📚
#HalloweenReads #AutumnVibes #ZombieMermaid #Posidaeja #PeterLang
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Looking for a fun Halloween 🎃 or autumn 🍂 gift for a friend?
Why not consider one of the companions edited by Simon Bacon!
I contributed to "For The Undead in the 21st Century" with a chapter on the Zombie Mermaid 🧟♀️🧜♀️, and to "The Deep" with a piece on Posidaeja 🌊.
Both books are published by Peter Lang and are available on their website. Perfect for anyone who loves a spooky read or a dive into dark fantasy! 👻📚
#HalloweenReads #AutumnVibes #ZombieMermaid #Posidaeja #PeterLang
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Looking for a fun Halloween 🎃 or autumn 🍂 gift for a friend?
Why not consider one of the companions edited by Simon Bacon!
I contributed to "For The Undead in the 21st Century" with a chapter on the Zombie Mermaid 🧟♀️🧜♀️, and to "The Deep" with a piece on Posidaeja 🌊.
Both books are published by Peter Lang and are available on their website. Perfect for anyone who loves a spooky read or a dive into dark fantasy! 👻📚
#HalloweenReads #AutumnVibes #ZombieMermaid #Posidaeja #PeterLang