Michael Wehunt

Michael Wehunt

@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

A creature assembled from found footage. Bram Stoker Award Winner, Georgia Author of the Year Award winner, Crawford Award + Shirley Jackson Award Nominee. Author of the novels NIGHTJARS (9/29/26) & THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT.

3.1K followers1K following1.2K posts

Pinned

Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

Here’s a list of events I’m doing over the next couple of months. Not a lot of public appearances, but for me and my bandwidth, this is a huge flood of activity! I hope to see some of you! And starting with Spooktastic Book Fair, I’ll have copies of Nightjars!

Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

My first story collection, GREENER PASTURES, will be reissued in 2027 to mark 10 (!) years with @apexmag.bsky.social. A contemporaneous novelette will be added, new foreword + notes. I’m still so proud of this book, even prouder that readers have never stopped finding it across more than a decade.

Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

NIGHTJARS gets a lovely shout out from the great Leigh Bardugo on the latest episode of the New York Times Book Review podcast: “…I also found it super scary and just really loved the characters.” There’s my weekend made! Needless to say, Paul Tremblay is his usual insightful self, too.

Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

Thank you so much, Stina! ♥️🚨

⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie)@stinasdemons.com

💙📚🩸 Eerie, mysterious, & riveting, NIGHTJARS is a moody vampire novel unlike any other. It's vibrant, thrumming, filled w dread & danger. @michaelwehunt.bsky.social has crafted a superb tale about the power of our past to shape us, and of the Possibility that exists in every moment after. #MSReview

Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

Huge thanks to Jim and the dubiously named "Tom B. Stone" over at Ginger Nuts for this lovely review of Nightjars. 🥰

Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror@gnofhorror.com

Nightjars by Michael Wehunt Review: Blood Is Thicker Than Folklore https://gnofhorror.com/nightjars-by-michael-wehunt-review/

gnofhorror.comNightjars by Michael Wehunt Review: Blood Is Thicker Than Folklore - GNoH.Michael Wehunt’s vampire-tinged serial-killer novel Nightjars gets a four-star Ginger Nuts of Horror review: blood, memory and inherited violence.
Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

This was SUCH a good time! I love Brian's work so much, and Greg and Edward are always insightful and fun. If you want to go into Nightjars blind, though, as some have suggested, you might want to save this.

work.so8.La
Greg Greene@igreggreene.bsky.social

@michaelwehunt.bsky.social and @brianevenson.bsky.social join me to chat about their new novels - Michael's NIGHTJARS (out Tuesday) and Brian's PHANTOM LIMB (Oct 13)! We talk vampirism, hypnotism, and whether Cormac McCarthy should be considered a horror author. All on the new episode of Chthonica!

youtu.beChthonica #20: Michael Wehunt & Brian Evenson on their novels NIGHTJARS and PHANTOM LIMB!YouTube video by Chthonica
Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

Every one of those green tabs is a spike of joy into my heart.

Greg Greene@igreggreene.bsky.social

“Only flag key moments and genuinely brilliant turns of phrase this time,” I tell myself. But it’s a @michaelwehunt.bsky.social novel. 😳 NIGHTJARS alights on bookstore shelves Sep 29.

Michael Wehunt reposted

Premee Mohamed
@premeemohamed.com

AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover. Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩

us.macmillan.comWickhillsIn the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...
Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

Everybody's saying it's one of the best horror novels of the year. Maybe the best. People come to me with tears in their eyes, saying "Oh, Mr. Wehunt, we love Nightjars so much, we couldn't read it at night, it's so scary, it made us cry with emotion, too."

Michael Wehunt reposted

Benjamin Franklinstein
@mitchellg657.bsky.social

BUY THIS BOOK OR GO TO HELL seriously, it's terrific. Wehunt creates a truly nightmarish world and puts a deeply sympathetic family in the middle of it. It's human and loving while also disgusting and actually scary. Best new horror book I've read since The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.

Michael Wehunt@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

One last pre-order sale before the nightjar remembers the night on September 29 🥰🩸

Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

After a long and winding shipping misadventure, my Bram Stoker Award is here. I am even prouder now that I’m looking at it, and finally, the tiny Grim Reaper has a house to live in. Thank you again to everyone who voted for The October Film Haunt. 🖤📼

Michael Wehunt reposted

The Hollywood Reporter
@thr.com

"A market ceases to function when competition disappears. And it’s disappearing," contends writer Mike Schur in a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter

bit.lyMike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for WritersLet’s begin with a statement of fact: mega mergers in Hollywood are bad for writers. They’re also bad for actors and directors, for production designers and caterers, for carpenters and Teamsters and electricians and set decorators. They are bad for consumers, who get fewer choices in entertainment controlled by fewer bosses with narrower worldviews. Mergers are bad for local businesses, who lose paying customers from disappearing productions. They are bad for high level TV and film executives, and entry-level assistants, and everyone in between.
Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

Such a wonderfully kind review of NIGHTJARS. Thank you so much, Michael! I'm a third of the way into the next novel, and sentiments like these are such a huge jolt of inspiration.

This post is unavailable.
Michael Wehunt
@michaelwehunt.bsky.social

Thank you, Chuckabilly! (As I say "Chuckabilly" out loud several times because it's great fun.)

Chuckabilly Clay@chuckabilly.bsky.social

Book 189: Nightjars - Michael Wehunt 🎧📱🧛‍♂️🌃💙📚🩸 An Appalachian nightmare dreamscape of addiction and deeply buried childhood trauma. Thanks #NetGalley #StMartinsPress & #MacMillanAudio & @michaelwehunt.com for the advance review materials in exchange for an honest review, offered freely. #Nightjars