A man dictates a love letter to his wife. His grandson writes it down, and keeps correcting him. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Actualitzada la pàgina amb totes les obres guanyadores dels Premis Ictineu 2026:

OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

"What the Bell Requires" airs on Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales, 24 July 2026. First time a story of mine gets read aloud, and I'm glad it's them. @frighteningtales.com

With times being as dark as they are, the need for commentary, criticism, and critique surrounding the horror genre has never been more needed. And here we are, ready to speak. Darker Times is a new worker-owned horror magazine, follow us into the dark… darkertimes.com

'Every window is a mouth, and every mouth reports.' Beautifully written and painfully relatable.

The @europeanspod.bsky.social recommended Zenòdot in their "Inspiration Station" segment: a way to find whether a book has been translated into your language. It reached them via a listener here on Bluesky. That's the whole point. The mention is around minute 52.

He de dir que a la meua primera novel·la aquest senyor fa un cameo www.eldiario.es/comunitat-va...

A Rulebook for Ghosts” in Dark Horses No. 52 (out now). June: “First Communion” at miniMAG, vampire story at Flash Fiction Magazine. Serialized “The Inevitable Encounter” on Substack. Mediterranean Gothic. ausiastsel.substack.com #HorrorWritersChat

RNE Radio 1, Sundays at 1 a.m. Radio drama in Spanish, Poe among the authors. Transistor under my pillow so my parents wouldn’t hear. I was 11 or 12. Years later I finally read him in my own language. The first time, though, was Spanish through static. I’d take that back. #HorrorWritersChat

The spiritual successor’s already written: El Cant de la Sibil·la. 82,000 words of Mediterranean Gothic. Sent to an editor, still no answer. The references survive, the pulp is gone, the Nazis aren’t there. God doesn’t answer either. The reaching continues. There was no other way. #HorrorWritersChat

Calling all horror writers-- join us in a few hours for another session of #HorrorWritersChat! I have the pleasure of guest hosting this week, so please tune in at 7PM BST / 2PM EDT! #writingcommunity #amwriting #horror

Wow, this one it's hard. I'll try. Going deeper: the Catholic imagery in my stories comes from stripping the Indiana Jones pulp down to the bone. What’s left is people reaching for transcendence, and a god alive but turning his face from us. Worse than absence. #HorrorWritersChat

Ausiàs Tsel, Valencian Country. Mediterranean Gothic: quiet horror in Catholic villages, what doesn’t get said. The thing that marked me as a kid wasn’t a horror text, I'll go with a game: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. Nazis, occult, a sunken civilisation. Close enough. #HorrorWritersChat

Doncs @laerteseditorial.bsky.social m'ha fet followback, estic per apagar l’ordinador i call it a day.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, "La casa i el cervell". Traducció Jordi Llavoré. Coberta Oriol Malet. L'Arcà 97.

A man in house slippers, a man hanging from a pulley, a polite chat about migraines. Share the word: it's important to know how to lift a body. "Tramadol.” #HorrorWritersChat substack.com/home/post/p-...

Some red illustrations I have done for Adam Nevill's "The Reddening".

Segons The Guardian, «Beloved», de Toni Morrison, és la segona millor novel·la DE TOTS ELS TEMPS. Aviat és dit. Nosaltres la podem llegir en català amb traducció d' @etallada.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

De vegades, quan la migranya no deixa escriure ficció, escric sobre escriure. www.ausiastsel.com/va/blog/vale...

The migraine drains me to write fiction, so I do the only think that I know what to do in this case, I write about writing. Valencian Gothic: Horror Fiction from the Valencian Country. www.ausiastsel.com/blog/valenci...

New one up. Oxygen, a cannula, the sénia, an eye that's been half-closed since last summer. substack.com/home/post/p-...

I’m reading submissions now, I guess! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35598...

Fa mota més por i molt més vertigen enviar una novel·la en valencià a una editorial que has llegit moltes vegades que un text en anglés a una revista literària. Hi ha alguna cosa atàvica que et despulla d’una altra manera en la teua llengua mare. 82000 paraules de gòtic mediterrani. Ara, a esperar.

🗣️"If a translation is not in a database, it is functionally invisible. For smaller languages, this is not a technical inconvenience. It is a form of cultural erasure." #Translation #Bibliodiversity

RELEASE DAY! THE SHADOWS THAT WE CARRY is out now! This horror anthology features 20 unique voices in horror from #HorrorWritersChat All profits will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. ebook & paperback: amzn.eu/d/098CFL12 paperback: ko-fi.com/s/c24c7af3a0 💙📚 🩸📚

The Albufera has been farmed for rice since the Moors. The bird counts have been falling for thirty years. New flash. The combine missed nothing. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The monsters that follow us into adulthood become THE SHADOWS THAT WE CARRY A Charity Anthology from members of #HorrorWritersChat Available to purchase from 7th May 2026 ebook: tinyurl.com/2bz4fess paperback: tinyurl.com/56pad25b #HorrorSky 🩸📚 💙📚

Ex-Voto. You are welcome to read. Or to pray. Not like it would make a difference. open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...

25 April 1707. The Bourbons win at Almansa. Within months they dissolve the Kingdom of València — parliament, laws, courts — and begin three centuries of taking our language out of schools, churches, records. I'm writing this in English. The other one I'd use is the one they tried to bury.

I exist on Goodreads as an author now, which is a category that still feels borrowed. Mediterranean Gothic — domestic horror under hard light. Follows welcome. www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

Avui és sant Jordi i surto a Amazon authors. No està malament www.amazon.com/author/ausia...

La facilitat amb la que a tot arreu del món anglosaxó (des de revistes literàries a la London School of Economics) m’han publicat "Catalan/Valencian" sense cap problema ni arrufar les celles és la prova empírica que la doble denominació s’entén perfectament fora (i, sospito, quasi a tot arreu dins).

📖 L'AVL convoca el IV Premi Carme Miquel per a fomentar l'ús del valencià en els centres escolars. 📅 El termini per a presentar la sol·licitud finalitza el 30 de setembre del 2026. Tota la informació en el següent enllaç: www.avl.gva.es/wp-content/u...

I’m on paper. Dark Horses Magazine #51. One of mine is inside. It’s on Amazon.

👀ICYMI | "Le Petit Prince is one of the most translated books ever published. It exists in well over a hundred languages. But if you tried to find all those translations in a single database, you would fail" @ausiastsel.com #Books #Translation #Bibliodiversity

Avui publico un article a @lseimpactblog.bsky.social sobre una obsessió: per què trobar traduccions és tan difícil. Un exemple: el valencià/català ocupa el vuité lloc a Zenòdot per nombre d'edicions, per davant del xinés i el rus. No perquè tinguem més producció, sinó perquè he connectat les fonts.

New piece on the LSE Impact Blog on why finding books in translation is still so hard — and why the problem isn't content but infrastructure. Nearly 90% of the ISBN-verified editions in Zenòdot appear in only one of its 23 sources.

A man develops a wound where you’d expect a nail. He doesn’t pray. He gets a filleting knife. “Stigmata” — new story, up now. When did you stop expecting miracles? #Horrorwriterschat

It happens to be Good Friday, and some timing you don't argue with. A man who doesn't believe in God but needs to know why his wrist bleeds on Fridays. "Stigmata" — new on Mediterranean Gothic. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/stigmata

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. This beauty is 51% off! Need more reasons? - Stoker/Locus nominee - Great NYT and NPR reviews - Finally some adaptation interest(?!) - Magic! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Mediterranean Gothic fiction and essays at ausiastsel.substack.com — horror under bright sun, Catholic ritual, villages that keep secrets in plain sight. Work in Flash Fiction Magazine, Neon & Smoke, Pithead Chapel. #HorrorWritersChat

Working on Mediterranean Gothic flash — Catholic ritual, village silence, things that stay buried under civic politeness. Just had a piece in Pithead Chapel and another forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine. Spring is for processions and submission deadlines. #HorrorWritersChat

By the third day of spring, the garden had started asking for names. The old woman next door said that was normal. “Give it the names of people who owe you something,” she said, pulling weeds bare-handed. “It settles faster that way.” #HorrorWritersChat

Flowers on graves. In València, spring means cemetery visits, fresh paint on niches, families arguing over lunch while the dead listen. Everything blooms and everything rots at the same pace. #HorrorWritersChat

Ausiàs Tsel, from the Valencian Country. Mediterranean Gothic: horror under bright sun, Catholic guilt as architecture, villages that remember everything. I love writing the moment before someone understands what they’ve seen. #HorrorWritersChat

Apparently I'll be published in the London School of Economics Impact Blog in a couple of weeks. So much for not changing careers at forty.

New story up. "Inventory." The coldest thing I've written in a while.

Ja ens han arribat les 25 còpies de la segona tirada de “Per un grapat de joies”, la traducció en català d’un parell de contes de Lord Dunsany, feta a base de vi i amor. 🍇 Podeu encarregar-lo per DM o a [email protected] (12€), i llegir-ne el text (gratuït, creative commons!) a www.pegana.cat

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