Crooked Spine Press

📢💀Launch day!! 📢💀You can now get Joe Whitlow’s Halloween Ghost in ebook and print. It’s a coming of age ghost story set in 1980s New England, and we can’t wait for you to read it. We are so proud of Joe and this novella. Thank you all for supporting indie horror🖤 link for purchase in bio :)

Got to hold in my hand my story "The Servant of Brass" from @crookedspinepress.com Reading was surreal and I immediately wanted to edit...but it's beyond that now. Be free little horror story! crookedspinepress.com/store?issue=6 #Writingcommunity #Writing #books #horror #booksky #writesky

Hell yes. Thank you, @crookedspinepress.com.

🩸 What do you worship, and what would you sacrifice for it? @crookedspinepress.com wants horror about devotion, obsession, rituals & their price. 📖 1.5k–3.5k ✍️ Poetry: Yes 💰 $20 fiction / $5 poem + copy 📅 Oct. 23 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

Got this book by @crookedspinepress.com yesterday and read it in one sitting last night. Highly recommended. Best three stories: "Route 66" by T. E. Aydelott "The Servant of Brass" by K.A. Hela @jundlife.bsky.social "The Lethe River Casino" by Tom Coombe @calmtomb.bsky.social

I’m very happy to have my story “The Lethe River Casino” included in this issue.

📢💀 Last Exit is out today and available in print and as an ebook! Issue Three includes twelve stories of American horror. Thank you to the writers who trusted us with their work and to everyone supporting the press. You can order a copy through the link in our bio.

I’M BEING PUBLISHED! ✨ I’m excited to announce that my post-apocalyptic desert motel horro story, “The Oasis,” will be featured in the next edition of Crooked Spine! LAST EXIT drops Sept 4 in both physical & ebook! Get your copy here! crookedspinepress.com/store?issue=6 #writersofbsky #horror

Reveal Day! My short story "The Servant of Brass" will be featured in the new Crooked Spine Issue: Last Exit. Excited to be pubbed with brookbwrites.bsky.social Stay Spooky crookedspinepress.com/store #Horror #CrookedSpine #HorrorTree #WritingCommunity #amwriting #Writesky #AuthorSky

🚗 What happens after you take the last exit? @crookedspinepress.com wants your answer in 500 words or fewer. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug. 28 💵 Free entry 🏆 Print copy of Last Exit + social feature Contest details: horrortree.com/contest-afte...

New horror press Crooked Spine has Issue #2 out today, Wet Country. I do love themed issues! Already snagged my copy. @crookedspinepress.com crookedspinepress.com/store

From the muck and the mire, Wet Country rises. Issue Two is out now. A collection of short fiction and poetry about oceans, bogs, baptisms, and what comes crawling back after the rain. Print: $9.99 EPUB: $2.99 Shop now: crookedspinepress.com/store Thanks for supporting indie horror :)

🚗 Last Exit is open! Crooked Spine Issue 3 wants American horror filled with lonely highways, roadside dread, and unsettling small-town nightmares. 📖 1,500–3,500 words 💰 $20 + contributor copy 📅 Closes Aug. 24 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @crookedspinepress.com #AmWriting #Horror

🎃 Have a completed horror novella? Crooked Spine's Halloween Novella Competition is open! 💰 $300 prize + 50% royalties 📖 Up to 40,000 words 📅 Sept. 20 deadline horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @crookedspinepress.com #AmWriting #Horror

SUBS OPEN:Old castle walls and moaning ghosts don’t scare us anymore. We want the dread of the abandoned desert highway. Old gods losing it all at gas station slot machines. That old woman standing in the window beneath the flickering lights of an all-night diner. How long has she been watching you?

Something evil is coming. Barreling down a lonely highway at a breakneck pace. Issue 3 announcement and reading window coming soon

CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: Mike Trippiedi Swipe through for our interview with Mike Trippiedi, whose story "Gravedigger" is in Issue One. Read "Gravedigger" in Issue One — out now in paperback & on Kindle. link in bio. Find Mike → @miketrippiedi.bsky.social

CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT K. Reed Swipe through for our interview with K. Reed, whose story "Rain" is in Issue One. Read "Rain" in Issue One — out now in paperback & on Kindle. link in bio. Find K. Reed → @katy_writes_books (Instagram) ★ Keep the lights flickering. ★

Issue two: Wet Country is now open for submissions. Link in bio. The theme for this issue is folk horror and water. Let’s keep the presses bleeding 🩸 crookedspinepress.com/submissions

CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT K. Reed Swipe through for our interview with K. Reed, whose story "Rain" is in Issue One. Read "Rain" in Issue One — out now in paperback & on Kindle. link in bio. Find K. Reed → @katy_writes_books (Instagram) ★ Keep the lights flickering. ★

The debut issue of Crooked Spine is out of the dark and into the world. Crooked Spine is the publication we always wished existed, and we aren’t chasing profit. Buying the book helps us pay the next round of contributors more and keep the press alive. Grab your copy now! a.co/d/0i71t9Hq