Rex Stephens

EARTH FILLED WITH BLOOD is me doing my best to make some Canadian NEAR DARK so hope you check it out. June 2027.

Hey, NYC, big favor: Reverend Micah Bucey invited Nat Cassidy and myself to be his guests for this week’s Sunday sermon to discuss hope within horror with his congregation at the Judson Memorial Church. I feel like this will be a special conversation, so if you’re not too-too worn out by Halloween…

True 👇🫡

Doing my best to keep them distracted with football 🏈

Have you read the Tales From The Gulp yet? No? Why, are you too scared? I dare ya! #WelcomeToTheGulp #HappyHalloween

Read the book where no reviewer has said: - “it’s boring and repetitive” - “the characters are flat and lifeless” - “it’s like no one edited it.” - “I don’t understand all the hype.” - “brings nothing to the zombie genre”

Quote of the Day:

“Like and subscribe to this.”

Had a great chat with Daniel Kraus and Brian Duffield about the majesty of WHALEFALL (and how it came closer to giving me a real human emotion than anything in a while). Off Book episode coming soon.

Going to disconnect for a bit to focus on reading and writing. If you seen yesterday’s releases, my TBR just took a battering 🫪

A free book with three exceptional authors and moderated by a top Horror fiction cheerleader? Anyone in New York must not miss this!

Paramount has snapped up the rights to Keith Rosson's vampire novel COFFIN MOON, which it's now adapting into a series.

After being unceremoniously dumped to digital, the M3GAN spinoff SOULM8TE is coming to streaming next month.

As a special Easter egg to celebrate, check out what the high school students are reading at the library in Episode 2 😉

This week's episode transports the Gothic to Palestine, for a story of oppression, claustrophobia, fractured selves and haunted, homicidal houses. It's Deena Helm and OUR CUT OF SALT All podcast platforms

So happy for him. COFFIN MOON & CRONE are superb books, so check them out!

Impassioned plea, everyone! AN IMPASSIONED PLEA! But seriously, Clay loves booooooooks so he may know a thing or two about the good and fun ones! Check them out!

Austin Abrams swam with actual sperm whales to prepare for being swallowed by one in WHALEFALL. "It was amazing to be in the water with these mythic creatures," Abrams says in a new featurette today. In Theaters October 16.

That means this book was 10 when Stephen was born. Happy birthday to both Stephen King & THE HOBBIT

Confession of a frustrated writer

TOMORROW www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

How would you describe your social media reach? Mine:

My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR 🤖🇳🇬🇺🇸🦿✍🏾💨 🏆 Winner of an NAACP Image Award, Locus Award and Libby Award. Finalist for a Hugo, Nebula, Ohio Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Glass Bell Award. It's good to pause and note these things at once. Onward.

In case you haven't heard, I am Joe Zagets (and Joe Zagets is me), and "our" satire/thriller about the publishing industry officially goes on sale 9/22! (It seems to already be available on Bookshop and Amazon, if you don't feel like waiting.) 😁

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you’ve seen it “He knows doctor. He knows…”

NEW EPISODE! @haileypiperfights.bsky.social returns to talk about her new novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, and we dig into @stephengrahamjones.com's story "Broken Record." LISTEN NOW:

Squidward Tentacles will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Haunting new poster for OTHER MOMMY. Jessica Chastain stars. In theaters October 9.

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To hurt this father’s feelings whenever his son uses it and celebrates.

I always start Hispanic Heritage Month with a HUGE fuck you to everyone who has given me a 1-star review for the Spanish in my novels and/or called me a slur. I’m still here and doing what I want. Me pueden besar el culo. Anyway, this is only $1.99!!! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B09N...

Bowlful of cute

The would-be Blade duo of actor Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq team up for the vivid, rural crime drama Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother, following a devout Muslim hit man wrestling with his violent code. Our review: https://bit.ly/4gZHpk5

Coming 9/22. Looks pretty in stacks

Getting racists’ panties in a knot is always a good thing, and COYOTE SONGS is on sale, everyone! Check it out!

Recorded a proper old chinwag with my mate @scribeofhades.bsky.social We talk about sentient houses and intrusive thoughts in his fantastic WORRY BOX - and the scary basement in his own house. Tomorrow’s episode (if I can produce it in time)

Pretty much gonna be touring up to and after pub date, so I just wanna say now, CRONE IS OUT IN ONE WEEK, 9/22! YOU CAN STILL PREORDER NOW, AND GET SIGNED PREORDERS FROM BROADWAY BOOKS IN PORTLAND, OR! Thanks so much, everyone.

Guard cat. Riddle passcode for safe passage

When you’re down in life, just remember: 🍗

The people of Ireland give our #ConMan-In-Chief the welcome he so richly deserves! 🇮🇪 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 ☘️

Poor guy always looks like he’s seen a ghost

World of Jazz Festival, Brampton, Ontario 🎷