Brian McAuley

WGA Screenwriter. HWA Author. Film Professor. 🔪🎞️ CURSE OF THE REAPER @TalosPress 🔪🎄 CANDY CAIN KILLS @ShortwaveBooks CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN this Christmas!

[Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter]

🩸NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT🩸

I’m so thrilled that my next novel found the perfect haunted home at @Sourcebooks Poisoned Pen Press! ✒️🖤 I had way too much fun writing this twisty bloody mystery & can’t wait for you to meet my newest slasher in Fall 2025! 🔪🧘🏻‍♀️

[Shortwave Publishing @ShortwaveBooks]

Time for the annual Shortwave Shelfie! 😍

It's been a great 2.5 years. This is one of my favorite shelves in my home library. Just so many fantastic stories by some incredible writers.

I feel like the luckiest little publishing house. ❤️

[C. J. Daley 👻 Horror & Crime Thriller Author @CJDsCurrentRead]

McAuley offers exactly what you’d want from a sequel and it needs to be said (again) that the author is really bringing some new and exciting things to the genre of slasher. @BrianMcWriter @ShortwaveBooks @FearForAllFFA #FanFiAddict

https://t.co/qvOnYjPBoR

[Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter]

@CJDsCurrentRead @ShortwaveBooks @FearForAllFFA 🙏🪓

[The Fandomentals @TheFandomentals]

Our newest writer Abby Wolf looks at @BrianMcWriter's Candy Cain Kills Again, a holiday horror sequel to his earlier Candy Cain Kills and part of @ShortwaveBooks's Killer VHS Series.

https://t.co/cUGBqpkxBM

[Jack Finn @TheRealJackFinn]

Just hear those slay bells jingling, ring tingle tingling too. Come on, it’s lovely weather for a slay ride together with you…

Slay Ride – LA Birchon
The Christmas Morning Massacre – Nasser Rabadi @NasserRabadi13
Christmas Eve Carnage – John Lynch @JohnLynchBooks
Jingle Hell – Holly Jane
Candy Cain Kills – Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter
Christmas Presents – Lisa Unger @lisaunger
I'll Be Alone For Christmas- Kristin Mulligan
He Sees You When You're Sleeping - William Malmborg @wlmalmborg
The Christmas Guest – Peter Swanson
You Better Watch Out – James Murray @jamessmurray / Darren Wearmouth @darrenwearmouth
Silent Night Deadly Night – Armando Munoz
25 Days – Per Jacobsen
All Through the House – Joshua Millican @josh_millican
Black Christmas – Lee Hays

#horror #horrorbooks #HorrorFan #scary #books #bookrecommendations #booktok #booktwt #BookTwitter #HorrorAuthors #Horrorfam #spreadthehorror #NewRelease #NewReleases

[LittleGhosts @LittleGhostsBoo]

One last time for 2024!!

Book fair in Kitchener! Get some libations, meet some pals, grab some holiday reads @HightowerLaurel @MMcSw13 @danielperrysays @c_campeau @zooshka @thebrianasman @BrianMcWriter @ComptonWrites @ChuckTingle @GhoulishBooks & more!

🖤📚👻🍻

[Shortwave Publishing @ShortwaveBooks]

Happy to share that last week, just two weeks after release, @BrianMcWriter's CANDY CAIN KILLS AGAIN crossed the 1,000 sales mark! The vast majority of which were paperback sales!

That's huge for a sequel! Thank you all for supporting this fantastic little holiday slasher. 🙏

[N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky 👻💉💊 @DrSpooky_ER]

Happy Xmas to me!

@BrianMcWriter

[KrLoS 🐗 @Krlos_MG]

Toda una agradable sorpresa este libro de @brianmcwriter editado por @eddimocultas
Mi #142

[Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter]

@Krlos_MG @eddimocultas 🙏⛓️

[Jesús. De las profundidades del libro @kirbyaunqueda]

Va siendo hora, por tanto, ¡empezamos!

[Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter]

@kirbyaunqueda @eddimocultas @m4rtos 🙏⛓️

[Jack Finn @TheRealJackFinn]

It's #NovellaNovember all month...come find your next favorite author:

The Bug Collector - Wrath James White @WrathJW
The Invisible - Steve Stred @stevestred
East End Girls - Rena Mason @RenaMason88
The Devil's Gift - Joshua Robinson
The Long Shalom - Zachary Rosenberg
Our Own Affliction - Scott J. Moses @ScottJ_Moses
Agonys Lodestone - Laura Keating @LoreKeating
Hammer on Bone - Cassandra Khaw @casskhaw
The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor Lavalle @victorlavalle
Lumberjack - Anthony Engebretson
Night of the Mannequins - Stephen Graham Jones
The Atrocities - Jeremy C. Ship @JeremyCShipp
True Crime - Samantha Kolesnik
Candy Cain Kills - Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter
Sister Mary - PJ Blakely-Novis
Moloch - Candace Nola
Commodore - Philip Fracassi @PhilipFracassi
Ghosted - Black Lavish
Road Harvest - Brian Bowyer @BBowyerAuthor
The Other- Robbie Dorman @robbiedorman

#horror #horrorbooks #HorrorFan #scary #books #bookrecommendations #booktok #booktwt #BookTwitter #HorrorAuthors #Horrorfam #spreadthehorror #NewRelease

[Jack Finn @TheRealJackFinn]

It's #NovellaNovember all month...come find your next favorite author:

Cranberry Cove - Hailey Piper
What Moves the Dead - TS Kingfisher @UrsulaV
Crypt of the Moon Spider - Nathan Ballingrud @NBallingrud
And Then I Woke Up - Malcolm Devlin @barquing
Dead Folk - Katherine Silva @KatherineSilva_
Resisters - Chris Campeau @c_campeau
Amelia - AW Rene
Tribesman - Adam Cesare @Adam_Cesare
Ritual - Steve Stred @stevestred
The Lorekeeper - Cat Voleur @Cat_Voleur
Breaking the Habit - Yolanda Sfetsos
Sair back, Sair Banes - Anthony Engebretson
And Then I Killed all the Ghosts - Joe Scipione @JoeScipione0
Teleportasm - Joshua Millican @josh_millican
The Morass - Zachary Ashford
Zephaniah - Adam McVeigh
Candy Cain Kills Again - Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter
The Queen of Stilled Hearts - Deanna Knippling
Reaper - Jonathan Pongratz
His Pain - Wrath James White @WrathJW

#horror #horrorbooks #HorrorFan #scary #books #bookrecommendations #booktok #booktwt #BookTwitter #HorrorAuthors #Horrorfam #spreadthehorror #newreleases #NewReleaseBook

[Adam Cesare @Adam_Cesare]

CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD: in theaters everywhere May 9th, 2025.

[Jeff C. Carter @Carterwroteit]

Snow Dad is Better than no dad

@BrianMcWriter

[Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter]

@Carterwroteit

[Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter]

I ❤️🤍💚 @LittleGhostsBoo

[LittleGhosts @LittleGhostsBoo]

Little Ghosts Book Club: Dec. 20th at 6pm…

We’re reading CANDY CAIN KILLS @BrianMcWriter @ShortwaveBooks ! Come by and talk seasonal slashers with us.

This month also includes a cookie swap, so bake a treat and bring a tin to share holiday sweets with the group. 🖤👻📚🎄

[John Durgin- I Woke Up A Final Girl 6/23/26 @jdurgin1084]

Grabbed this one for my December group read! If anyone wants to join in on the fun let me know. Looking forward to it @BrianMcWriter @ShortwaveBooks

[Brian McAuley @BrianMcWriter]

@jdurgin1084 @ShortwaveBooks Thanks, John! Hope you dig it!