Emma E. Murray

I'll be running new interviews on my Substack for Women in Horror Month. Meantime, a rerun of 2025 interviews with Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social, Sapphire Lazuli @sapphicsapphire.bsky.social, Donyae Coles @okokno.bsky.social, Emma E. Murray @emmaemurray.bsky.social, and Mae Murray (thread)

WIP

On sub 🤞🖤

I can you about this one soooon 👀

Okay so I’m way late on this trend, but I just really love it, so here are all my novels (published, upcoming, on sub, and WIP!) as Pantone colors 🖤

Do any of these interest you? You can read them all in The Drowning Machine and Other Obsessions

I was thinking how nothing ever turns out like the fantasy she imagines it to 😂

My “Madame Bovary, c’est moi” tattoo is the only one getting really blurry with time, and you know what, that makes sense lol

🥰 Thank you so much!!!!!

Good Lord @emmaemurray.bsky.social I'm gonna need some time to recover from this collection. Anyone looking for some super dark but truly heartfelt horror should pick this up.

Carson Winter - A Spectre is Haunting Greentree - SSBA Horror Finalist Hello again! Slight schedule change on the SSBA posts. Last time, I promised 1 every Sunday, but instead I got sick and missed one. The curr...

Back with another SSBA Finalist Spotlight!

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Today, it's Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social author of A Spectre is Haunting Greentree!

@specawards.bsky.social

Art featuring a human in unassuming clothing curled in a fetal position, hovering over a barren landscape against a sickly green sky. Cover Copy: One summer afternoon, Santi and Maria's daughter disappears without a trace from a public park. A fruitless investigation passes, the agony only serving to tear Santi’s life and family further apart. Months go by, and Santi finally stumbles upon a clue: it is hardly a name, barely a whisper, but it is enough to reveal a haunting legacy and unleash an entirely new kind of horror upon the despairing young father: “He Who Does Not Speak With Children.”

Back cover art for @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social's ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT by @jennacha.bsky.social, alongside lovely words from our buds @emmaemurray.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social

Preorders are coming later on, but you can subscribe to our 2026 Book Club NOW:

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hello friends & enemies of bsky. could use some extra freelance work if anybody has any good leads. any website or magazine writing, or perhaps developmental and copy editing. I'm experienced in both areas! hit me up. maxboothiii@gmail.com

I really really loved it!!!🖤

Image depicts QR code and the cover of The Writhing, Verdant End, which shows a skeleton clutching binoculars while ghoulish animals writhe in the foreground. Top text says, "Grab your copy of our newest Weird ecohorror nightmare at https://www.cursedmorselspress.com" Bottom text is a five-star review of The Writhing, Verdant End by Emma E. Murray: "Such a wonderful first read of the year! Farrenkopf's weird, emotional journey through a Barkeresque nightmare future is brilliant and I'll certainly be revisiting. The short stories that follow by Morris are equally mesmerizing, with absolutely stunning descriptions and the ability to bond you to characters so quickly before breaking your heart. Raglin's contribution provides some much needed bits of levity while also keeping you on edge and turning pages to find out what will happen. Highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys eco-horror and grotesque but beautiful prose."

Have you checked out our recent release yet? @emmaemurray.bsky.social recommends it "to anyone who enjoys eco-horror and grotesque but beautiful prose." Check it out!

Congrats to our nominees!

@emmaemurray.bsky.social @erikmchatton.bsky.social @chazzaroo.bsky.social @robgrim.bsky.social @chloe-york.bsky.social @leonardolam.bsky.social

Thank you!!

Just signed something EXCITING!!! 👀🎉🖤

100%

Nothing makes me so nervous as getting feedback from a beta reader lol idk why! 😅

Aww thank you Mae 🥹🖤🖤🖤

Distracting myself from the world by making my husband take an early lunch break to make out with me while we watch Cronenberg's Crash 🖤

So living with my parents abruptly became unsafe (mentally/emotionally) and I'm leaving ASAP. I have somewhere to go, but it's out of state. I'm packing now but I have to register my car before I go and that's $500. Anything helps. 🫀

Venmo: probablyharmless
PayPal: theohillwriter at gmail

Yesssssssss🖤🖤🖤

And I could say 🎶ooOOOoooOOOoo
As if everybody here would know what I was talking about
I mean everybody here would know exactly what I was talking about

GUIDELINES (Please read carefully) NOTE: I receive over 2,000 submissions per call. Only writers whose work is selected for the volume will receive a response. Thanks for understanding. This is a reprint fiction anthology, to be published later this year, 2026. I am seeking material first published last year, in 2025. To be clear, only weird fiction FIRST published in 2025 is eligible for inclusion in this volume. I will accept translated work as long as the first English-language publication was 2025. To repeat—this volume is for stories originally first published in 2025. We are not accepting previously unpublished stories, or stories published prior to 2025 in any form. Stories between 500 and 17,499 words are considered. Please check with your publisher if you are uncertain about the reprint rights to your work. Stories created with or assisted by Generative AI, in any way, are ineligible and will not be considered. Audio only stories are also ineligible, unless they also appeared as text. Writers can send in their work using the form below only. Do not e-mail your story. You can send up to three (3) stories, but each must be sent separately. Ensure your byline and e-mail address are on the manuscript. NOTE: The submission form does not like any strange characters—asterisks, parenthesis, hashtags, etc.—in the form fields. Please use text and numbers only. Deadline for all material is February 28. Payment is a small $25 U.S. honorarium and 1 copy each of the print and electronic editions.

Writers! Vol. 2 of 'The Best Weird Fiction of the Year' is open to your submissions. Please adhere to the guidelines.

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Trying to cut 300 more words from a story that is already so short 🥲

Trying to finish reading 3 more books before the new year 🖤

NO!!! 🖤 of course not!

📚😱 INDIE PRESS HORROR BOOKS RELEASED THIS YEAR THAT ARE LEGALLY* REQUIRED READING 😱📚

*My post, my laws

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