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Author of Milk-Blood, All Smoke Rises Editor of Orphans of Bliss, Lullabies for Suffering, Garden of Fiends. Shirley Jackson Award Finalist New novel: To Those Willing To Drown coming in 2025. linktr.ee/MarkMatthews
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"Ghastly and fabulous!" KALI'S WEB is my new novella from @crystallake.bsky.social /Torrid Waters. Enter to win ONE of FIVE paperback copies. Offer ends 9/30/25. Check it out↓ www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Whether you're looking for a grief filled lake monster, an old school drive-in terror, or horrific supernatural humor, these books have you covered! Featuring @markmatthews.bsky.social @haleynewlin.bsky.social @marktowse.bsky.social and @loogenhausen.bsky.social youtu.be/g3LvjzdxbXs?si…
Thank you so much! really appreciate this. Fascinating to listen to your take on To Those Willing to Drown (and all three books)
the lake speaks most honestly... TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN —a glance at Goodreads reviews Novel is available in Kindle / Audiobook / Paperback And #KindleUnlimited —check it out↓ www.amazon.com/Those-Willin... #Folkhorror #Booksky
Ready for #Kindle deals? Nothing over $2.99 w/ works by @markmatthews.bsky.social, @carlyreagon.bsky.social, @wendywebbauthor.bsky.social, @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social, @kelleyarmstrong.bsky.social, @lairdhunt.bsky.social, @datlow.bsky.social, @tkingfisher.com & more! #ad #booksky amzn.to/3Kj4Uoq
Happy Mary Shelley’s birthday to all who celebrate! 🎉
... All's Well That End's Well by @vivalavivian.bsky.social - out 31 October @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social, Kali's Web by @markmatthews.bsky.social - out now @crystallake.bsky.social, & The Shuddering Breath Before Oblivion by Taylor Grant - coming 29 August! Go Buy some spooky books! 👻 #BookSky
Yay!! Thank you Kev. I’m going to spin my Kali’s Web here … www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
A not so humble brag over a review of KALI'S WEB that gave a 4.5 rather than 5 star. "The one lone flaw is the intensity of the subject might be a bit too deep for some to stomach" www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
CLAIRVIOLENCE by @momoshaty.bsky.social by the cards💀 Card 13. Death💀 "I Wish I Could Grow Plants" I have a black thumb; everything I touch dies. ...I don't just mean the plants, either. Preorder CLAIRVIOLENCE, out October 21st: store.tenebrouspress.com
Great! The Thunderstorm mailer will of course shoot out the news, probably some weeks. Signature sheets are on their way to the printer now.
the lake speaks most honestly... TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN The Lake is so Cold, the Truth is so Deep. Available in Kindle, Paperback, and Audiobook. www.amazon.com/Those-Willin...
Excited to share that TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN is getting the Signed, Limited Edition Hardcover treatment from @thunderstormbooks.bsky.social YAY! Look for it this fall.
Thank you!
Happy book birthday! I read an earlier version of this...y'all wanna read this one!
New Books Today!! Finally, I can let go of Feral & Hysterical and let her run screaming into the void... @isabelcanas.bsky.social Ania Ahlborn, Joe Lansdale @tkingfisher.com @markmatthews.bsky.social (Aug. 15) @cgolden.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social
Thanks Rhonda!
Thank you G!
It’s release day for KALI’S WEB from Crystal Lake! YAY! Imagine if CRONENBERG remade TRAINSPOTTING within the universe of LES MISERABLES while reading CHARLOTTE’S WEB to his daughter - KALI’S WEB - Get Spun! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
"Grabbed my attention from the very first page and never let up" Happy Pub day to KALI'S WEB from @crystallake.bsky.social $4.99 for Kindle $10.99 for Paperback GET SPUN! Check it out here⬇️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK *also on #KindleUnlimited!
KALI'S WEB from @crystallake.bsky.social is live! $4.99 for Kindle $10.99 for Paperback GET SPUN! Check it out here⬇️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK *also on #KindleUnlimited!
Get Spun! Preorder now, wake up to KALI'S WEB in the morning www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
What's it about? Imagine if CRONENBERG remade TRAINSPOTTING within the universe of LES MISERABLES after reading CHARLOTTE'S WEB to his daughter. You'd have KALI'S WEB Order for just $4.99 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
Check it out! KALI'S WEB, my new novella, is releasing tomorrow from @crystallake.bsky.social YAY!! Reviews have been pretty damn great. (but I suggest you buy one to decide for yourself) And I did a Crystal Lake/House of Shadows & Ink interview. Check it out: ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3-...
Hey kids, I'm not going to shut up about my upcoming book OR @ear-a-corn.bsky.social's gorgeous cover for CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT, coming October 21st from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social!!! Many thanks to the amazing author @markmatthews.bsky.social for these wonderful words!
"Don't you have FOMO—Fear Of Missing Out?" -Dean of Nevermore "No, I have FOBI—Fear Of Being Included." -Wednesday Adams
True Crime I avoid at all costs.
KALI's WEB from @crystallake.bsky.social releases in 10 Days! Order a copy by 8/31/25 & send proof of purchase to WickedRunPress@gmail for a chance at one of FIVE copies of TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN—Paperback or Audiobook/your choice (US only/sorry) KALI'S WEB⬇️ amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
'There are storms we cannot weather' KALI'S WEB⬇️ www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
KALI's WEB from @crystallake.bsky.social releases in 10 Days! Order a copy by 8/31/25 & send proof of purchase to WickedRunPress@gmail for a chance at one of FIVE copies of TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN—Paperback or Audiobook/your choice (US only/sorry) KALI'S WEB⬇️ amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
Who’s got two thumbs and at the Grateful Dead 60th anniversary festival? This guy⬇️
New version?
On my way to San Francisco tomorrow ready to cause big trouble in little China and face down that Tsunami because remember what Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake...
#Booksky! A newly reformed addict. An obsessed parole officer. A special young girl with a secret. Spin them up together and you have Kali's Web, the fantastic new release from Mark Matthews! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Full review here: www.facebook.com/CharsHorrorC... @markmatthews.bsky.social @crystallake.bsky.social
Yay!! Thank you!
Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.
This gorgeous book just released & I absolutely loved narrating it—even as it broke it me multiple times. Thank you, @markmatthews.bsky.social, for once again trusting me with your work. ❤️ “A powerful story that proves impossible to put down.” ~The Midwest Book Review www.audible.com/pd/To-Those-...
I'm doing a beta read of a novel dubbed "psychedelic noir" that takes place on the road, traveling to Grateful Dead shows. Target audience and i'm guilty
It’s a new week, #booksky! What are you reading? I’m starting two: Kali’s Web by @markmatthews.bsky.social and Lucky Day by @chucktingle.bsky.social.
Thank you!
THE LAKE IS SO COLD. THE TRUTH IS SO DEEP The audiobook of TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN is now available and a must-listen beach read this summer. Narrated by the amazint @lindajonesnyc.com www.amazon.com/To-Those-Wil... #booksky
yay!! thank you!
THE LAKE IS SO COLD. THE TRUTH IS SO DEEP The audiobook of TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN is now available and a must-listen beach read this summer. www.amazon.com/To-Those-Wil...
For all your horror needs! Come visit us in the tent between shed 5 and 6. #detroitbookfest #detroitfestivalofbooks #easternmarket #booksky
Don's Horror Reads: Where I talk about Jack Kerouac, chronic nightmares I've had since a child, and Kali's Web Check it out: 👇 donshorrorreads.blogspot.com/2025/07/inte...
Now is your best chance to find my entire ebook collection for a promotional price at @smashwords.bsky.social as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my books at www.smashwords.com/profile/view... all month! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords 🩸📚 💙📚 #booksky #horror #horrorbooks
—Imagine if Cronenberg rewrote Trainspotting within the universe of Les Miserables after reading Charlotte's Web to his daughter—You'd come up with KALI'S WEB. Coming soon! Preorder now 👇👇 amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
It is alive! KALI'S WEB, my new novella from @crystallake.bsky.social /Torrid Waters Press, is now available for preorder. Yay! Coming soon! Go get you some!👇👇 amazon.com/dp/B0FHWCT1GK
haha! sign me up to the 1weirddogmom club
once depleted, you put it aside while the emotions fill back up, then tap into it a year, two years, a decade down the line.
Loving this season of The Bear, both in content and format. And I'm coming to believe that Tina may be the real hero of The Bear. If Carmy is Hong Kong Phooey, then Tina is Spot the Cat.
haha! Heard! same goes with whole albums, sometimes. I bled The Verve's album Urban Hymns until it was a bloodless bag of bones.
When The Bear drops "Haunted When the Minutes Drag" I thought 'Oh shit, that's bold' for this literally haunting song, that deftly drags 8 minutes long, has been used in film in such an unforgettable manner. The Bear did just fine, but won't let me forget Kevin Bacon in She's Having A Baby
I really somehow posted the lowest resolution possible didn’t I
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haha.. how about open casket, lying in state for weeks, until i'm unrecognizable. The put me in a little boat, drifting off to sea (well, or at Torch Lake) and then fire the burning arrows, viking funeral style.
I think I found the shirt I want to be buried in. Also, with an open casket, my eyes pried open, and this same grin on my face (—anyone know a good mortician? )
Being Transgressive creatively and lyrically is its own kind of art. I was listening a playlist of The Essential Janes Addiction, and your works just came to mind.
“Show me everybody naked and disfigured, nothing shocking,” -Jane’s Addiction (Ted Just Admit It) “I’m on it, how about this?” - @ericlarocca.bsky.social “Oh shit, too much. Too much” -Jane’s Addiction (probably)
#BadAss!
Going nuclear on my malfunctioning MacBook with a factory restore. All that aggressive manic horror writing, spilling coffee on the keyboard and filling up the hard drive with all kinds of dark, bizarreness. Apple products are no match
One letter typo changes everything. Nobody noticed, it seems, that I wrote: "The Gratefuk Dead"
I spent most of yesterday and this morning being torn to shreds by TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN by @markmatthews.bsky.social This book is a masterclass of grief horror. Deep introspection does nothing to slow the breakneck speed or interrupt the action. A Greek tragedy of well-researched folklore.
Thank you Hilary!
African Black Soap in the eye. 0 Stars. Do not recommend (but for skin, it's great) It hurts, it burns, and feels like ↓ ↓ ↓
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
Fantastic book! My current POV👇
haha.. well the big push was Sunday and Bookbub promo, just riding on momentum. Now, if Owen or Joe or The Kind would promote it! (not happenin, not happen)
TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN is a fantastic bit of grief horror, and for only 99c not to be missed. Unrelentingly bleak, but never less than fully satisfying and engaging. Go grab a copy now!
Thanks Mike! Gonna drop a link right about here↓ www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNK5BRGM
There’s no reason to pull a Mark Zuckerberg and pirate all my books when they’re this cheap! Check out the #Smashwords Summer Sale below! ⬇️🩸📚 📚💙
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNK5BRGM
Surrounded by Stephen King Spawn
Had my first full body cancer screening from a dermatologist this morning, and happy to report not a single cancer concern. (The Doc did find a cute little '666' on my scalp, but I've had that since birth, so no worries)
"Well look at that, Joe Hill. Now who's your Daddy?" www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNK5BRGM
Creeping up on Joe Hill, tapping his shoulder, and then asking him: "Who's your Daddy?" www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNK5BRGM
I read this early and can heartily endorse Mark's book. Great book by a great writer! As the late, great Jack Ketchum used say, "Pounce!"
Thanks John! Yes! Pounce early and pounce often.
How about some #kindle deals? Probably would have been here sooner if Steve didn't disappear to @horroronmain.bsky.social. Nothing over $2.99! Works by @markmatthews.bsky.social, @caitlinstarling.com, @catrionaward.bsky.social, @timwaggoner.bsky.social, and many more! #booksky #ad amzn.to/3wZhypJ
It’s Bookbub promo day! TO THOSE WILLING TO DROWN is 0.99 Cents all week. Check it out! ↓ ↓ amazon.com/dp/B0DNK5BRGM #FolkHorror #BookSky #PureMichigan #addiction #TorchLake
According to an A.I. summary of an email from amazon and a royalty payment pending, I am about to be paid $338,603.60 for one month of book sales. If you're writing a check, that's 'Three Hundred and Thirty Eight Thousand, Six hundred three dollars, and sixty cents'. (Fuck AI)
This win means a lot to me for a lot of reasons, but most notably: I am the first trans man to ever win in this category!!! 🏳️⚧️ I hope this gives my queer & trans writer siblings heart—your work is important!
this song comes to mind youtu.be/etSbOs3aUqI
"Goidreads" is the french pronunciation
actually 5,631 signed up. (Now if just 10% of them decided to purchase a copy)
Goodreads Giveaway signed paperbacks of To Those Willing To Drown out the door to the care of USPS. 5,500 signed up to win on Goidreads, a new me record
To Those Willing To Drown paperback giveaway over on Goodreads ends in 36 hours. Enter to win one of 5 signed copies. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Two of my longest-running friends and colleagues back from our Books of the Dead days. Left, @brackenmacleod.bsky.social, middle, me, right @markmatthews.bsky.social. Photobombing us is the great @inkwellmonster.bsky.social! And the fantastic @timwaggoner.bsky.social lurks in the background.
haha... love and cherish this picture.
Yes! Thanks to them for carrying the rebellion torch while we talked horror. And great meeting you today.
Rando shots from #stokercon
Watch out! It's the three headed Matthews monster: Brian W. Matthews & Sue Simonte Matthews, & me
There's something wrong with my face during the #Stokercon panel on Loneliness in the Writing Profession -moderated by the warmest human alive, Jamal Hodge
No Sleep ‘Til Stamford If this social work- counselor - writer thing doesn’t work out for me I want to be a truck driver when I grow up #Stokercon.
Thank you, @casskhaw.bsky.social for keeping me company on the Ten Hour drive to Stamford.
Tat Touchup. Taking this fellow with me to San Francisco for the 60th Anniversary of The Gratefuk Dead
Happy Birthday!