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V. S. Holmes
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The liminal, the visceral, and characters on the edge of madness. From snarky archaeologists in space to slow-burn gothic fantasy and everything in between.

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V. S. Holmes @vsholmes.com · 2d
Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read!

10/3 - 10/17

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#booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror
A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17
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We just passed 20% of our goal! If you're looking to stock up on LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Books, this is the Bundle for you--you can't beat $10 for 32 titles!

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...

#booksky #writesky #horror #gothic #fantasy
A promo showing 10 books: My Lord - L. B. Shimaira This Is How Immortals Die - Nicole Hidalgo Born of Scourge - S. Jean These Murky Hells - Rosie Forest Confined - Nikki Flynn Lemon Balm - Artemis Quinn Fools Rush In - Sarah Clowder The Fealty of Monsters Volume 1 - Ladz Her Bloody Creature - Samara-Jade Sendek Shadow & Flame - Sylvie Helstaff A promo image showing 11 books: A Sharper, More Lasting Pain - Alex Harvey-Rivas A Flame in the Night - Morgan Dante Flesh and Bone - Arden Powell The Cryptic Parade & A World Unfurling - Dan F. Bispo Woman of Sorrow & Blood - Dianna Gunn Dark Heart of Ilmoure - Cara N. Delaney Blood on the Snow (Argentum in Aqua #1) - Finn McLellan Farewell to Humanity - Stuart Tudor Lantern - Burgundy Athena Pendragon The Devouring - A. M. Shilling The Mistress of Rosehorn Hall - Zack Prince A promo showing 11 books: Reforged - V. S. Holmes The River Devours the Moon - Kaya Skovdatter Bludeye Beach - Eliwood S. Gheist A Haunting at Hartwell Hall - Rachel Bowdler The Backwards Knight - Matthew Siadak Manor of Shadows - Joachim Heijndermans Hotel of Lost Souls - H.S. Kallinger Fear the Wood, Thin the Trees - Jeremy Rayne Yelen & Yelena - C.M. Rosens The White Ribband - Mason Hawthorne Books and Bone - Veo Corva
October 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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Creepy, queer, and just ten bucks! OOooOOooOOO!!!
vsholmes.com V. S. Holmes @vsholmes.com · 2d
Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read!

10/3 - 10/17

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...
#booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror
A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17
October 5, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Looking for something to darken the mood? Come wander blackened, misted wood. Follow shadowed path and footfalls of those surely just ahead, round bend and bracken.

32 books for $10. All suitably seasonal. (And then some.) Including my own The River Devours the Moon:
vsholmes.com V. S. Holmes @vsholmes.com · 2d
Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read!

10/3 - 10/17

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...
#booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror
A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17
October 4, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisoneOverhere I recommend no less than 4 copies of any beloved book. A paperback for margin notes and lending to friends, an eBook for reading with greasy snack fingers, an audio book so you know how character names are pronounced, and a pristine hardcover to be buried with you like a pharaoh.
October 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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'Tis spooky season and this undead soul is thriving.

Check out this itch.io bundle! The LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle has over 30 stories in it for $10!

Only available until the 17th, so make sure to grab it now!

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...

#AQPromo
October 3, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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If you want to get my book, Fear the Wood, Thin the Trees, alongside a frankly silly profusion of other awesome queer books perfect for the season, look no further!

That doesn't say $10 does it?! It does!
itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...
LGBTQ+ Gothic, dark fantasy, and horror bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10. Oct 3-17. The background is a dark, spooky forest with no undergrowth.
October 3, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Today begins the LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle, kindly organised by @vsholmes.bsky.social, where you can get This Is How Immortals Die and 31 other books for only $10! 🔥😈

A great way to celebrate the season! 👻🎃

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...

#Books #BookSky #QueerWriters
Banner for the LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. From October 3 to October 17. A few of the books included in the bundle, including my own, This Is How Immortals Die.
October 3, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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I'm in this awesome bundle along with a ton of other great writers 🎃
vsholmes.com V. S. Holmes @vsholmes.com · 2d
Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read!

10/3 - 10/17

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...
#booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror
A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17
October 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Getting a little misty eyed over humans and connections and the stories we tell ourselves and each other. How we've all had the same fears and desires across the eons of human history.
October 4, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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make it weirder
October 2, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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The LGBTQ Gothic, Dark Fantasy and Horror bundle is live, with 30 books for $10 over on Itch. So much great work, including my own Manor of Shadows, My Lord by @shimaira.com and Shadow and Flame by @sylviehelstaff.bsky.social and many more.

Find it here

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...
Banner for the LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. From October 3 to October 17. Several of the books included in the bundle, including Woman of Sorrow and Blood by Dianna Gunn A slew of books in the bundle, including Manor of Shadows by me. More books in the bundle, including Shadow and Flame and My Lord.
October 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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vsholmes.com
Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read!

10/3 - 10/17

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...
#booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror
A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17
October 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM
vsholmes.com
Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read!

10/3 - 10/17

itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq...
#booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror
A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17
October 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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Name a TV Show that stars a Woman.
September 30, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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I think every trans person on this website should drop everything and read this immediately.

Some of the worst social media backlash I've had lately has come from trans people who are mad at me for telling trans people not to panic over the current political situation.
quinnae.com Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 5d
Recently, I did a wonderful interview with the indefatigable @emilystjams.bsky.social about trans people's online information environment and why there are very strong incentives to spread panic.

It was a wide-ranging discussion that I think is more relevant than ever.
What's the matter with trans panic media?
Scholar Katherine Alejandra Cross on why it's so profitable to "sell panic to trans people."
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September 30, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Today's word for #WIPSnips is "well."

From my messy contemporary horrormance, THE DEVIL, HE KNOCKS.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #horror #booksky
An excerpt from THE DEVIL, HE KNOCKS written in black on white with the word "well" highlighted in grey. Excerpt reads: “Where were you?” he looks at the rifle over the man’s shoulder. Hunting. “It’s not hunting season.” So, he wasn’t hunting out there, at least not any doe. Asher thinks back. Elias driving the Boisverts away, his traps and cameras. Did he know the body was there? This whole time? Was he the one who buried it? Was he the one responsible for the death? How well, truly does Asher know him? Does he know him at all, at the end of the day? There’s no tone nor inflection to hear in his voice, though Asher would like to think he’d become intimate with the flickers of expression, that they were more honest than any tone. Is that why Elias brought him here? Crippled him? But he could leave at any time, technically. He could whistle for Oakley and limp down the long, long winding two-track that served as Elias’s driveway and see where it joined a proper road and then keep limping until he found his way to the center of Grenmont. He watches Elias’s hands, gentle and sure and scarred. So capable of violence. He can tell, in the easy way the man handles the knife, how he handles the gun.
September 29, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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i hate gen ai so much it sneaks into everything
September 17, 2026 at 1:35 AM
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September 8, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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YOU MUST READ THIS by journalist and author Sarah Kendzior‼️🤬😱👇
September 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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Writing is hard sometimes. What parts of it always feel easy to you? #WritingPrompt
September 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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There’s a boy I talk about, when others share stories of childhoods, or of teenage escapades. Except he, technically, never existed.

An essay on transness, alienation from past iterations, and the stories we create about ourselves.

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#writesky #booksky #lgbtq
September 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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You really just have to be scared and do shit anyway.

That’s the only way you will ever grow.
September 18, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Continuing my literary emotional destruction, I started listening to WE BURNED SO BRIGHT yesterday.
September 18, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Indie fantasy readers, your time has come! You can vote for your top indie fantasy/sci-fi books/series. Let's shake things up :)

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September 17, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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My latest prehistoric tale

book art by @korybing.bsky.social

poster by @emmalerae.bsky.social

10.27.26

Tyrant Lizard Queen

She’ll eat your heart out.

Pre-order now

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Alt text by Emma LeRae - A fake 80s style horror movie poster for the book Tyrant Lizard Queen by Riley Black. It features a Tyrannosaurus rex named Snaggletooth stalking through the cretaceous forests just as the evening sets in. The sky is reddish orange and the forest and the rex lie in blue shadows. The forest floor is moss covered and there is a Torosaurus skull from a previous kill soon to be swallowed up by the moss at the rex's feet.
May 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM