May Walker
@maywalker.bsky.social
Horror Author and Colored Pencil Artist
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May Walker
@maywalker.bsky.social
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This Saturday! Come and hang out with me and some super cool horror authors at The Vampire's Library event at Vampa, the Vampire Museum!
Doylestown, PA from 11am to 4pm! A very spooky way to kick off the fall season! 🦇🍂🖤
Doylestown, PA from 11am to 4pm! A very spooky way to kick off the fall season! 🦇🍂🖤
September 22, 2026 at 4:28 PM
This Saturday! Come and hang out with me and some super cool horror authors at The Vampire's Library event at Vampa, the Vampire Museum!
Doylestown, PA from 11am to 4pm! A very spooky way to kick off the fall season! 🦇🍂🖤
Doylestown, PA from 11am to 4pm! A very spooky way to kick off the fall season! 🦇🍂🖤
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Pre-orders for Crossroads Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes are now open! Over the next few days and weeks, we will be sharing more information about our amazing contributors. We are so excited to get this issue in your hands:
Products
Browse all products from Crossroads: Folk Horror in America.
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September 18, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Pre-orders for Crossroads Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes are now open! Over the next few days and weeks, we will be sharing more information about our amazing contributors. We are so excited to get this issue in your hands:
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THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT is out today!
In 1994, three girls go to the movies to see an obscure film. Only one comes out.
30 years later, the survivor learns the movie isn't done with her yet.
Now playing in a bookstore near you 😈📽️
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827994...
In 1994, three girls go to the movies to see an obscure film. Only one comes out.
30 years later, the survivor learns the movie isn't done with her yet.
Now playing in a bookstore near you 😈📽️
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827994...
September 15, 2026 at 12:14 PM
THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT is out today!
In 1994, three girls go to the movies to see an obscure film. Only one comes out.
30 years later, the survivor learns the movie isn't done with her yet.
Now playing in a bookstore near you 😈📽️
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827994...
In 1994, three girls go to the movies to see an obscure film. Only one comes out.
30 years later, the survivor learns the movie isn't done with her yet.
Now playing in a bookstore near you 😈📽️
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827994...
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Cover reveal! 🐺🐺🐺
Everything Looks Better in Red, due out on 4.20.27 from Union Square & Co, an imprint of Hachette!
So excited for my sapphic werewolf novel to make its way into the world! 😍🐺 bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
Everything Looks Better in Red, due out on 4.20.27 from Union Square & Co, an imprint of Hachette!
So excited for my sapphic werewolf novel to make its way into the world! 😍🐺 bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
September 10, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Cover reveal! 🐺🐺🐺
Everything Looks Better in Red, due out on 4.20.27 from Union Square & Co, an imprint of Hachette!
So excited for my sapphic werewolf novel to make its way into the world! 😍🐺 bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
Everything Looks Better in Red, due out on 4.20.27 from Union Square & Co, an imprint of Hachette!
So excited for my sapphic werewolf novel to make its way into the world! 😍🐺 bookshop.org/p/books/ever...
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I'll be the guest author on tonight's episode of In Goth We Trust!
Tune in from anywhere at wioxradio.org to hear us discuss ghosts, Gatsby, and more!
Tune in from anywhere at wioxradio.org to hear us discuss ghosts, Gatsby, and more!
September 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I'll be the guest author on tonight's episode of In Goth We Trust!
Tune in from anywhere at wioxradio.org to hear us discuss ghosts, Gatsby, and more!
Tune in from anywhere at wioxradio.org to hear us discuss ghosts, Gatsby, and more!
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HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON!
October 16th (EST evening time TBD)
A fundraiser in support of refugee services provided by the International Institute of Akron
Enjoy a cult classic film alongside some of some your favorite horror creatives
Stay tuned for guest announcements!
(Registration opens soon)
October 16th (EST evening time TBD)
A fundraiser in support of refugee services provided by the International Institute of Akron
Enjoy a cult classic film alongside some of some your favorite horror creatives
Stay tuned for guest announcements!
(Registration opens soon)
September 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON!
October 16th (EST evening time TBD)
A fundraiser in support of refugee services provided by the International Institute of Akron
Enjoy a cult classic film alongside some of some your favorite horror creatives
Stay tuned for guest announcements!
(Registration opens soon)
October 16th (EST evening time TBD)
A fundraiser in support of refugee services provided by the International Institute of Akron
Enjoy a cult classic film alongside some of some your favorite horror creatives
Stay tuned for guest announcements!
(Registration opens soon)
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One week from today!
Come join us for the launch party for In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts! September 15th at 7pm at the Squirrel Hill location of Riverstone Books!
My Gatsby ghosts & I are eager to see you! ❤️😊👻
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-lau...
Come join us for the launch party for In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts! September 15th at 7pm at the Squirrel Hill location of Riverstone Books!
My Gatsby ghosts & I are eager to see you! ❤️😊👻
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-lau...
September 8, 2026 at 11:39 PM
One week from today!
Come join us for the launch party for In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts! September 15th at 7pm at the Squirrel Hill location of Riverstone Books!
My Gatsby ghosts & I are eager to see you! ❤️😊👻
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-lau...
Come join us for the launch party for In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts! September 15th at 7pm at the Squirrel Hill location of Riverstone Books!
My Gatsby ghosts & I are eager to see you! ❤️😊👻
www.eventbrite.com/e/a-book-lau...
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Join me today for a conversation with @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social and Rebecca Baum:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eze7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eze7...
August 30, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Join me today for a conversation with @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social and Rebecca Baum:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eze7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eze7...
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I'm a long-time HWA member. I've won 4 Stokers. I've been nominated 7 times. I've believed in this organization.
But after reading the statements from Creepaway Camp & Angela Yuriko Smith, I will leave HWA unless we get a new executive director.
But after reading the statements from Creepaway Camp & Angela Yuriko Smith, I will leave HWA unless we get a new executive director.
August 29, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I'm a long-time HWA member. I've won 4 Stokers. I've been nominated 7 times. I've believed in this organization.
But after reading the statements from Creepaway Camp & Angela Yuriko Smith, I will leave HWA unless we get a new executive director.
But after reading the statements from Creepaway Camp & Angela Yuriko Smith, I will leave HWA unless we get a new executive director.
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Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
August 25, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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You know you want to be part of the next issue of Crossroads. The theme is the folk horror of landscape (US-specific). Now taking proposals for issue 3(both art and writing)! See the call:
Crossroads - Issue 3 - Proposal
The issue theme is "This Haunted Landscape" and will focus on the folk horror of place in the USA. Think haunted places, sacred spaces, and regional cryptids.
All contributors will receive a $50 paym...
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August 4, 2026 at 3:05 AM
You know you want to be part of the next issue of Crossroads. The theme is the folk horror of landscape (US-specific). Now taking proposals for issue 3(both art and writing)! See the call:
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Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time.
short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
August 4, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time.
short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
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September 17th at The Twisted Spine (Brooklyn, NYC bay-bee) we're having the launch for THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT!
There will be a sign-up link, in-conversation partner info, and more later this month, but I wanted to give a heads-up 🤩📽️
There will be a sign-up link, in-conversation partner info, and more later this month, but I wanted to give a heads-up 🤩📽️
August 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
September 17th at The Twisted Spine (Brooklyn, NYC bay-bee) we're having the launch for THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT!
There will be a sign-up link, in-conversation partner info, and more later this month, but I wanted to give a heads-up 🤩📽️
There will be a sign-up link, in-conversation partner info, and more later this month, but I wanted to give a heads-up 🤩📽️
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Happy Saturday! Are you interested in submitting to Crossroads? We are now accepting proposals for our third issue, "This Haunted Landscape." Think sacred places, hauntings, and regional cryptids. We close submissions on September 1st.
Crossroads - Issue 3 - Proposal
The issue theme is "This Haunted Landscape" and will focus on the folk horror of place in the USA. Think haunted places, sacred spaces, and regional cryptids.
All contributors will receive a $50 paym...
forms.gle
August 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Happy Saturday! Are you interested in submitting to Crossroads? We are now accepting proposals for our third issue, "This Haunted Landscape." Think sacred places, hauntings, and regional cryptids. We close submissions on September 1st.
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Exclusive Interview: Great Gatsby’s Ghost! GWENDOLYN KISTE delivers a haunting twist on a literary classic in “IN THESE GILDED, GHOSTLY HEARTS.” https://ow.ly/tpAe50ZtwVe
Exclusive Interview: Great Gatsby's Ghost! Gwendolyn Kiste Delivers a Haunting Twist On A Literary Classic In "IN THESE GILDED, GHOSTLY HEARTS." - Rue Morgue
The forgotten women of "THE GREAT GATSBY" take center stage beneath the glittering, rotting façade of the American Dream in the upcoming novella from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of "THE HAUNTING OF VELKWOOD."
ow.ly
July 27, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Exclusive Interview: Great Gatsby’s Ghost! GWENDOLYN KISTE delivers a haunting twist on a literary classic in “IN THESE GILDED, GHOSTLY HEARTS.” https://ow.ly/tpAe50ZtwVe
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It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art.
You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
July 15, 2026 at 2:30 PM
It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art.
You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.
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I’m extremely honored to be participating in The Pixel Project 12th annual Fall Edition of the Read For Pixels campaign! Join me for a live YouTube reading and Q&A at 6.00pm PT, Saturday September 5th 2026 (YT 🔗 in bio).
It’s time to stop violence against women together!
It’s time to stop violence against women together!
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY: The Pixel Project will be kicking off the 12th annual Fall Edition of the Read For Pixels campaign on 4 September 2026 with Horror author Angela Sylvaine doing a livestream with us at 6.00pm PT, 5th Sep 2026.
For more details: tinyurl.com/ASylvaineR4P
For more details: tinyurl.com/ASylvaineR4P
July 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I’m extremely honored to be participating in The Pixel Project 12th annual Fall Edition of the Read For Pixels campaign! Join me for a live YouTube reading and Q&A at 6.00pm PT, Saturday September 5th 2026 (YT 🔗 in bio).
It’s time to stop violence against women together!
It’s time to stop violence against women together!
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My surgery ended up being A LOT more expensive than I was quoted. I also have all the books I intended to sell at StokerCon this year before my plans were dashed. So I’m selling signed copies of SLEEP ALONE (new and old editions) and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Details in thread. Please share!
July 1, 2026 at 1:03 AM
My surgery ended up being A LOT more expensive than I was quoted. I also have all the books I intended to sell at StokerCon this year before my plans were dashed. So I’m selling signed copies of SLEEP ALONE (new and old editions) and SOMETIMES WE’RE CRUEL. Details in thread. Please share!
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Thank you @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social for putting together these delightful spotlights of favorite queer characters! I had a blast reading through the responses. This was so fun to participate in!
Happy Pride Month! 🩷💜💙🏳️🌈
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/queer-h...
Happy Pride Month! 🩷💜💙🏳️🌈
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/queer-h...
June 29, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Thank you @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social for putting together these delightful spotlights of favorite queer characters! I had a blast reading through the responses. This was so fun to participate in!
Happy Pride Month! 🩷💜💙🏳️🌈
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/queer-h...
Happy Pride Month! 🩷💜💙🏳️🌈
www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/queer-h...
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Huge happy Pub Day to our wonderful instructor @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social -- her new novel, It Came From Neverland is out today!
Grab your copy now! bookshop.org/a/318/979889...
#books
#booksky
Grab your copy now! bookshop.org/a/318/979889...
#books
#booksky
It Came From Neverland: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
June 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Huge happy Pub Day to our wonderful instructor @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social -- her new novel, It Came From Neverland is out today!
Grab your copy now! bookshop.org/a/318/979889...
#books
#booksky
Grab your copy now! bookshop.org/a/318/979889...
#books
#booksky
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Horror and dark fantasy authors convene in Pittsburgh for the 10th anniversary of StokerCon...
StokerCon sinks its teeth into Pittsburgh
Horror and dark fantasy authors convene in Pittsburgh for the 10th anniversary of StokerCon.
www.pghcitypaper.com
June 2, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Horror and dark fantasy authors convene in Pittsburgh for the 10th anniversary of StokerCon...
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1.) Don’t comply in advance
2.) Support* indie and queer publishing, bookstores, authors, editors, and scholarship
3.) Make your work gayer
*With actual money and publicity**
** If you are doing the second on this list already but it’s just white people, you’re doing it wrong.
2.) Support* indie and queer publishing, bookstores, authors, editors, and scholarship
3.) Make your work gayer
*With actual money and publicity**
** If you are doing the second on this list already but it’s just white people, you’re doing it wrong.
What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers
bookriot.com/queer-books-...
bookriot.com/queer-books-...
Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point
Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.
bookriot.com
May 29, 2026 at 7:33 PM
1.) Don’t comply in advance
2.) Support* indie and queer publishing, bookstores, authors, editors, and scholarship
3.) Make your work gayer
*With actual money and publicity**
** If you are doing the second on this list already but it’s just white people, you’re doing it wrong.
2.) Support* indie and queer publishing, bookstores, authors, editors, and scholarship
3.) Make your work gayer
*With actual money and publicity**
** If you are doing the second on this list already but it’s just white people, you’re doing it wrong.
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This. The closet was nearly my casket.
We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.
We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.
"Authors and editors also described self-censoring—some have stopped writing or editing queer books in anticipation of them being challenged."
I don't even know how to do this. I censored myself my whole life. I cannot go back in a closet. That will be a violence done to myself.
I don't even know how to do this. I censored myself my whole life. I cannot go back in a closet. That will be a violence done to myself.
May 29, 2026 at 6:51 PM
This. The closet was nearly my casket.
We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.
We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.
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Tomorrow night! 🦇🖤☠️
Please join us for the last stop on my HAUNTED HOUSES book tour! I'll be in conversation with @kcgrifant.bsky.social at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego!
Please join us for the last stop on my HAUNTED HOUSES book tour! I'll be in conversation with @kcgrifant.bsky.social at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego!
May 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Tomorrow night! 🦇🖤☠️
Please join us for the last stop on my HAUNTED HOUSES book tour! I'll be in conversation with @kcgrifant.bsky.social at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego!
Please join us for the last stop on my HAUNTED HOUSES book tour! I'll be in conversation with @kcgrifant.bsky.social at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego!
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I'm so thrilled to be joining @saratantlinger.bsky.social on tonight's Story Hour!
Tune in at 7pm PT/ 10pm ET to hear our horror tales! 🦇🦇🦇
Tune in at 7pm PT/ 10pm ET to hear our horror tales! 🦇🦇🦇
April 15, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I'm so thrilled to be joining @saratantlinger.bsky.social on tonight's Story Hour!
Tune in at 7pm PT/ 10pm ET to hear our horror tales! 🦇🦇🦇
Tune in at 7pm PT/ 10pm ET to hear our horror tales! 🦇🦇🦇