Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD/New York Times horror columnist. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
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Hey, the ebook of House of Bone and Rain is only $3.99 for a limited time wherever you buy ebooks! A Stoker, Locus, and Goodreads finalist. Glowing reviews in the NYT and NPR. Friendship, grief, magic, vengeance, and monsters. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
New cryptid just dropped. I don’t like it.
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of David Seidman.
Hey, the ebook of House of Bone and Rain is only $3.99 for a limited time wherever you buy ebooks! A Stoker, Locus, and Goodreads finalist. Glowing reviews in the NYT and NPR. Friendship, grief, magic, vengeance, and monsters. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
Good morning. Hope something good happens to you today. Hope you have time create. Turn up the music and do the thing.
Night #6 of nothing but Polyrhythmics.
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Here’s some Ryan Gajda art to make your Sunday a little better. (I need Chief Brody on my wall!)
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Hey @gabino.bsky.social! Picked this up today. The Stand blew my mind 30 years ago and I’m stoked to check out these new takes on King’s fictional post-apocalyptic setting. Getting ready to read your short plus all of the other new fiction in this compilation! #Booksky #fiction #horror
Nice haul and thank you very much! Those hardcovers on the second pic are gonna look awesome together.
This year's BN book haul was a good one. Before today I had two copies of Frankenstein, just not these two. One has sprayed edges, the other doesn't so of course I had to get both of them. I have everything @gabino.bsky.social has published, but this is my first physical copy.
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of James Jean.
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Glowing, perfect review of @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social’s This Is My Body! “Unique, unexpectedly tender, surprisingly sensual and full of queer love.” Thank you @gabino.bsky.social I’m plotzing!!
I can’t wait for the movie, so fingers crossed! Haha. Looking forward to the next one and kudos again.
This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...
It’s a Gorguts kinda morning.
Night #5 of nothing but Polyrhythmics.
Nooooice! One of my favorite movies. Have a blast.
A little poem: Had a friend who had a little turtle in a big tank full of green water The little turtle would swing and bang its hard little shell into the indifferent walls of its nasty green tank Sometimes when I write I think of that turtle I am that little turtle
Entertaining is the best thing! And if they were horribly written, you wouldn’t read them anyway.
Went to @bookpeople.com because Saturday and TEOTWAWKI is top ten for the week there. Long live indie bookstores. @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social
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Happy reader of @gabino.bsky.social 💚💜
Hell yeah. David’s the best.
Hell yeah. One of my favorite movies.
What are y’all reading and watching this weekend?
“Ensuciaré los altares, porque mis ceremonias son negras como gafas de detective polaco, sacaré los ojos de mis fieras, amarillas en el recuerdo, y hundiré mis dedos en esos huequecitos tristes donde ningún explorador había llegado.” — Darío Lemos
It’s a Megalodón kinda morning.
Night #4 of nothing but Polyrhythmics.
It’s so fucking exhausting.
My latest book, Solid Metal Nightmares, is out now. If you are looking for revenge tales, mech battles, lesbians, and body horror, then you won't want to miss out on this one. Solid Metal Nightmares a.co/d/28ECFNR
Dude looks like a bug collector for sure
Hah! Cool. Thanks for the pic!
I scrolled past this post last week, and my 17 yo was sitting behind me on my office couch and said “hey, I recognize that book! I’m looking at it right now.” Your bright colors make it easy to recognize.
Thanks Gabino. Out now: Starlite Pulp Review #6, featuring my Prohibition-era gangster horror mash-up "Black Well Crossing". If you loved Sinners, you should check this out. Just don't expect vampires... starlitepulp.com a.co/d/6gDnSmW #fridayreads #crimefiction #horror #horrorstories
"Some promises don't require magic. The most important ones never do." After stealing a dragon egg, an Oath Keeper is caught between a few contradicting, binding oaths. Paperback, ebook, KU! www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVZRL68W/
Thanks Gabino! For this #FridayReads giving a shout out to my spooky mystery, Bleak Waters, which got its first 5⭐️ review this week! It’s a ghost-filled mystery of family secrets, ghosts, loss… and murder. Check it out here: mybook.to/BleakWaters #booksky #HorrorAuthor #horror 🩸📚💙📚👀📢📚😱📚🩸
Thanks Gabino! You rock! Celebrate this #Halloween season with a dark fantasy tale... rjhuneke.com/ants-waking/ #fantasy #sff #booksky #writingsky #actuallyautistic #autistic #fall #autumn #reading
Thanks Gabino! For the love of horror fiction and weird fiction, I hope you read @3lobedmag.com, and will support us and our awesome authors. kck.st/4mIkEm1
Thanks Gabino! My found poetry collection based on Stephen Graham Jones' MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW is available now from @kithbooks.bsky.social in dead tree or electronic editions! www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/chain...
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Do you like horror? Noir? Magic? The ocean? Righteous violence? Ghosts? Hanging with your friends? I have one for you! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
Here’s some Anthony Ventura art to make your Friday a little better.
“Katabasis” is here, and got a great review from the reliable @gabino.bsky.social for NPR! #Read the review then support our fledgling small business by ordering here: bookshop.org/a/106297/978... #books #shopindie
She’s great.
🖤 Haha. I pitched it! You and Dan Chaon were already taken.
My review of RF Kuang’s Katabasis, from @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social, is now up at @npr.org. www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
Thanks, Gabino! “I ought to cut you…” she began. Chrissi pulled the trigger twice and made those her last words. Last chance weekend to use promo code POCKET25, and get 25% off this one and all the Pocket Noir books. Go get them all.
Fun to see the good stuff in these replies! For any #horror fans who like to cook (or are food curious?), I've been exploring connections between food and horror. This isn't "scary" food -- it's about translation/inspiration. Latest post tracks two memes, one horror and one culinary.
Thank you, Gabino! My #FridayReads is short story anthology The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand! Incl’g @meggardiner.bsky.social @jonathanjanz.bsky.social @gabino.bsky.social @alexsegura.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social
Thanks, Gabino! I just moved “The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College” off Substack: the site still needs work, but if you like the Hollywood pitch of “Torchwood meets Arrested Development,” I’m putting out a new installment today. www.stremedius.com
1 & 2 #GRATIS para todos del 8/29-9/2 El Familiar Axolotl Novela Gráfica Parte 2 Axol no entiende nada del drama adolescente. 🐡 Finn es un tritón. 🧜♂️ Callie, una sirena. 🧜♀️ Él es un axolote…¡y Serina es una bruja del caos! 😱 ¡Problemas asegurados! amazon.com/dp/B0FN13ZHKS #Fantasía #Cómic #BookSky
Thank you! x My first collection is up for pre-order right now! One reviewer said they'd recommend for die hard horror fans as well as fans of Terrifier, The Substance, and Barbarian! Maybe this is you? 😍 mybook.to/AllsWell
Thanks Gabino. My novella Phengaris is a good option if you like arthropods. Or at least being scared sick by arthropods. #FridayReads payhip.com/b/58paC
Thanks, Gabino! Get on THE EL wherever you stop for books. Happy #FridayReads! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738830...
Happy #FridayReads, hermano! My forthcoming book made Alta Journal's 14 New Books for September! Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (University of New Mexico Press), drops Sept. 2. www.altaonline.com/books/g65866...
Thanks, Gabino! If you like what you hear, check out the rest of my story "Rhinology" here: bit.ly/3rLf4bw
Thanks, Gabino! In the House of In Between is out in ONE WEEK! Next Friday, find out why Clay McLeod Chapman says we’ll all be living in this haunted house… #FridayReads #HauntedHouse 👻🏠
Thanks, Gabino! I launched a newsletter this week for my podcast and my horror-centric writing and would love it if people signed up: matthewjacksonwrites.com
Love to see reposts of this (or my pinned post). Have good one, everybody! bsky.app/profile/auth...
"You gotta run. Run toward them." Never Leaving is out now from Infested Publishing! A haunted house story about a family fighting back. Enjoy a tale of love and chainsaws! On Amazon, Bookshop, and KU! bit.ly/3Xu1HJz
Thanks so much Gabino! Our host @shoutingstreet.bsky.social's brand new cryptid novel THE LAST SUMMER was just released as part of the @neoparadoxa.bsky.social series. The book can be ordered from @especbooks.bsky.social directly at the link below! especbooks.square.site/product/the-...
Summer in the House of the Departed Available now!!! “The quiet horror of loss, caught in a beautifully written summer of ghosts.” — Hailey Piper psychopomp.com/product/summ...
www.amazon.com/Shadow-Your-...
I published a wholeass werewolf trilogy last year!
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Vergvoktre.
What The Dead Can Do is out in the world and The Mysterious Bookshop’s pick for September!!! I signed a book last night for Michael Connelly 😳 I’m in Troy, NY Sunday night at Paper Moon. Come out! Or grab it from your local bookstore. 🖤🙏🖤🖤 thnx @gabino.bsky.social
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House of Bone and Rain is one of the best things I read this year.
Thanks, Gabino! I just dropped a little non-fiction overnight! Real estate staging and photography for absolute beginners (real estate agents, FSBO, etc). How to take better quality photos, even if all you have is your cell phone.
Thanks, Gabino! New short story in the latest Dark Yonder, just out. "Imagine what it takes for a human heart to beat for ninety years straight." "Grampy Dargle," I hope, does what I do best: Twisted, ugly, and wtf. www.amazon.com/Dark-Yonder-...
Thanks Gabino! Incoming 10/7 I’m looking to boost my preorder for Tales From Cemetery, my horror short story collection that’s been over three years in the making! 10 stories, 1 bonus novelette. All bloody fun! books2read.com/u/br8AgE Or eARC: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Thanks, Gabino! THE LITTLE COFFEE SHOP OF TERRORS is just 99p on Amazon UK! ☕ And the follow up, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL DIRECTOR, launches in two weeks! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CZT8XFQQ
I also recently wrote this dumb thing, featuring The Trial, The Awakening, Hamlet, Moby Dick, Waiting for Godot whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2025/08/25/i...
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Thanks Gabino!! An abandoned mansion. A ghost frozen in death. An insatiable desire to crawl into something warm... My latest story appears in ABSOLUTE ZERO, a new anthology from Dead Sky Publishing! Out on October 7th, pre-order today: a.co/d/40uoZmH
It’s a Chelsea Grin kinda morning.
Thanks, Gabino! I and 12 other writers have tales in "Silk and Foxglove: A BIPOC Erotic Eco-horror Anthology", curated & edited by the awesome @pegasusunder.bsky.social, and available Sept 9! Explore folk tales, modern dating woes, body horror, magic, psychological torment and nature's revenge!
Thanks Gabino! For fans of grief horror, haunted houses, rural settings, multi-povs, and eerie goings on, my novella, This House Isn’t Haunted But We Are, is for you. Linghun X Starve Acre https://books2read.com/ThisHouse
I want to share this humor piece I posted on my multi-writer blog and let you all know that the site is redesigned and open to new writers. Also, maybe buy my novels. Thanks. whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2025/08/15/w...
It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Do you like horror? Noir? Magic? The ocean? Righteous violence? Ghosts? Hanging with your friends? I have one for you! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316... bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
Night #3 of nothing but Polyrhythmics.
After a summer of no new words, I’ve been putting down about 300 words per day this week and it might not look like a huge number, but it feels like a huge win.
Here’s some Nicolás Menay art to make your Thursday a little better.
Out in Spain on September 8th via @bibliocarfax! Preorders open until the day before. ¡Si estás en España, ya sabes! labibliotecadecarfax.com/producto/el-...
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In case AI “writers” needed one more reminder that the whole thing is based on theft of intellectual property. Now fuck you and pay us. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Javier Mayoral.
Night #2 of nothing but Polyrhythmics.
Here some Sanjo Lawal art to make your Wednesday a little better.
This is my writing process sometimes… (Art by Reza Farazmand)
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Ah, true.
Wait…does this mean we’re all New York Times bestsellers? Hah. Again, massive congrats to @briankeene.bsky.social and @cgolden.bsky.social!
So…thought and prayers again, right?
Yesterday I wanted to write but had to turn in my edits for the NYT column. Today I wanted to write but had to turn in a review for NPR. Now I have to read. These are all great “problems” to have and I love writing about books, but tomorrow? Tomorrow I’m going to write all day.
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Miles Johnston.
