Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction. We also have a bookshop over on @deadinkbookshop
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
Jan 22
We’re thrilled to see @nesscbsantos's Make a Home of Me on the 2026 Longlist for the @dylanthomprize✨
Keep your eyes peeled for Vanessa's debut novel, In Your Heart a Devil, publishing later this year @DeadInkBooks!
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
2 Dec 2025
New from @DeadInkBooks
'The Leather Boys' by Gillian Freeman
Part of a series of classic novels that foucs on the strange, the silenced, and the outcasts.
available to buy @RedLionBooks #ChooseBookshops
📖 online book sample to peek inside and share
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
14 Nov 2025
Our latest featured #NorthIndieRead publisher...
📖Publisher: Dead Ink (@DeadInkBooks)
📍Location: Liverpool:
📚Focus: Bold, experimental literary fiction
Submit a review and enter our monthly prize draw!
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ALT Three titles from Dead Ink Books, Monstrillo by Gerado Samano Cordova, Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardy and Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin. The covers are on a purple background with The North Indie Read in the lower left corner with a red 'You are Here' symbol and the Lancashire County Council logo in the lower right corner.
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
13 Oct 2025
wow wow wow. just received the news that Gillian Freeman's The Leather Boys, a great forgotten classic of British gay literature, is getting its first reprinting in the UK in over fifty years. The new edition below, resurrected by Dead Ink, along with my own edition.
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
13 Aug 2025
.@DeadInkBooks is launching Outsider Classics, a new list that 'exhumes lost literary voices that were ahead of their time to restore them to the cult status they always deserved'
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
13 Aug 2025
ICYMI: @DeadInkBooks has launched its Outsider Classics list to republish "forgotten masterpieces" and "once-censored provocations" 👇 ebx.sh/Av85kB
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
6 Jun 2025
A gloriously chilling collection centring on haunted houses, UNQUIET GUESTS features sublimely dark stories from 10 moderns masters including Chuck Palahniuk, Grady Hendrix, Irenosen Okojie and Claire Fuller. Pre-order here: waterstones.com/book/unquiet…
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
6 Jun 2025
Next Tuesday 10th, we've got some horror and haunting coming up! Erin E. Adams and Rivers Solomon will be discussing their novels with @JodieRMatthews. Both novels blew me away - the horror of the supernatural and the very real horror of racist small-town America. Can't wait!!
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
3 Jun 2025
.@DeadInkBooks has signed A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing, a 'haunting intergenerational saga' by debut author Alice Evelyn Yang
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
27 May 2025
Don't miss Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal (@DeadInkBooks) in conversation with Zoë Apostolides (@saltpublishing) at @blackwelloxford on Friday 13th June! 📚
"Erin E. Adams makes me proud to be a psychological thriller writer” - @TheGillianFlynn
Tickets:
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
24 May 2025
The Eden Book Society flew past the first stretch goal we set. Each new goal enables us to descend deeper into the archive. Check out our roadmap for rewards.
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#edenbooksociety #horrorbooks
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
20 May 2025
Get spooky! 💀 We are delighted to welcome a fantastic group of writers to discuss the chills & thrills of horror, as Erin E. Adams, Michael J. Malone, and Vanessa Santos join us to discuss their work in a spine-tingling chat chaired by fellow author Neil Williamson.
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
13 May 2025
I LOVED the 1972 set, so am excited to see what Eden were doing in 1993 @DeadInkBooks @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/dea…
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
13 May 2025
Don't miss Erin E. Adams, author Jackal (@DeadInkBooks), in conversation with Zoë Apostolides at @blackwelloxford on Friday 13th June! 📚
"Jackal is truly gut-wrenching and frightening." - @paulGtremblay
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
12 May 2025
The Eden Book Society returns with the 1993 collection featuring Grady Hendrix, John Darnielle, Alison Rumfitt, Nina Allan, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Chikodili Emelumadu.
Join now to unearth 100 years of unseen horror.
kickstarter.com/projects/dea…
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
12 May 2025
Literary hoax Eden Book Society is returning to @DeadInkBooks, with a line-up including Nina Allan and Grady Hendrix
bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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Dead Ink Books retweeted
We just backed The Eden Book Society — 1993 from @DeadInkBooks and you should too! 🖤😈
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