"The Devil Takes You Home” is fucking my brain the good way. I need to keep remembering myself to stop because I have things to do. Haven’t read anything like this in a really long time.

Primera peça de premsa en la llengua de Zenòdot. «El català, entre les onze primeres llengües d'un catàleg mundial de 62 milions d'edicions». Gràcies a @naciodigital.bsky.social per explicar tan bé per què una edició en occità o en amazic mereix el mateix tractament documental que una en anglés.

In March I launched a tool to answer one question: has this book been translated into my language? Back then it crossed four databases. Four months later, Zenòdot correlates 50+ sources: 61.9M editions, 12.9M works, 638 languages documented, 70M+ author name variants. Zenodot.app

In March I launched a tool to answer one question: has this book been translated into my language? Back then it crossed four databases. Four months later, Zenòdot correlates 50+ sources: 61.9M editions, 12.9M works, 638 languages documented, 70M+ author name variants. Zenodot.app

...her hand lifts, two fingers separating as if they remember the path: forehead, chest. The small private choreography that once meant: keep us safe. Her hand drops to her side. She sees me watching and her face closes, polite and empty. READ @ausiastsel.com in @pitheadchapel.bsky.social

The Tribunal de les Aigües has met outside the cathedral of València every Thursday since the Middle Ages. Fines counted in a currency dead everywhere else. In 1974 it fined a plot of land that no longer existed. open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...

Fellow writer types, without context, 1st line of a current work-in-progress? "L’olor d’encens li saturava els narius i li impedia olorar la seua pròpia sang, barrejada amb restes de femta i pixum que s’escolaven pels camals d’uns texans bruts i mig esguerrats."

Hope yesterday was fun for everyone! Today? Maybe read a novel about the disease known as colonialism. Sincerely, An author born and raised in a US colony

Novedades programadas por el sello Obscura Editorial @obscuraed.bsky.social para el segundo semestre de 2026 (y algo de 2027): distopolis.com/novedades-pr...

“Harvest of Bone” is forthcoming in Chthonic Matter Quarterly, 2027. Another Mediterranean Gothic. Chthonic works the seam between Shirley Jackson and Ligotti, which is the right ground for this one. More when it’s out.

Els llibres sobre la condició col·lectiva dels valencians han estat una constant des de "Nosaltres, els valencians" (1962). Tanmateix... COLP CULTURAL | La crisi de l’assaig social valencià, per Vicent Flor #anàlisi www.eldiario.es/129_cba49c?u... #colpcultural

Avui, per fi, he enviat l'assaig a una editorial. Parla de gent obligada a callar i d'un país que ha preferit oblidar-los. Encara no en puc dir el nom. Però no el podia callar. Em temo que se m'havia encomanat.

Every answer I gave today circled one idea: the servants God left behind when He turned His face away. Patient. Owed entry. Waiting longer than we live. I wrote a story where a man walks straight into it. The Hermitage, in Neon & Smoke. #HorrorWritersChat www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...

Invitations. Usually a one-time threshold. I’d make it permanent and unknowing; a four-year-old tells the thing in the hedge it can come to her party. Fifty years on, it’s still owed entry. Patient. Lawful. Waiting at a door she forgot she ever left open. #Horrorwriterschat

The fairy returned the child exactly as promised. We had begged for all of him. We keep finding the rest. In the bread, behind the skirting, under the dog’s tongue. Every part accounted for. As promised. #HorrorWritersChat

My twist folk belief: fairies are angels who fell, not wicked enough for hell, not good enough to keep their place. I took it at its word. In The Hermitage the saint behind the altar is one of them, still standing where the orders ran out. The paint is shedding. #HorrorWritersChat

Ausiàs Tsel, Valencian Country. I write Mediterranean Gothic, the horror of a God who turns away. Here we don't have fairies. We didn't lost them. We found a Virgin at the spring where each one lived and built a hermitage over the water. They’re still there, drinking. #Horrorwriterschat

Guillem Mascaró has been waiting since 1707, the year Felip V’s soldiers burned Xàtiva. Now he kneels in the Cathedral of València, certain of everything except whether anyone is listening. Yous truly is out today in Flash Fiction Magazine. An honor. #HorrorWritersChat

Guillem Mascaró has been waiting since 1707, the year Felip V’s soldiers burned Xàtiva. Now he kneels in the Cathedral of València, certain of everything except whether anyone is listening. Yous truly is out today in Flash Fiction Magazine. An honor. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi @proton.me, is the web down?

Segueixo actualitzant Zenodot.app amb bases de dades internacionals i fent créixer el corpus (en breu espero poder explicar les noves xifres). Avui, per exemple, m’ha dit que "La pesanteur et la grâce” no existia en català/valencià; fals negatiu. Una vegada més, @fragmentaed.bsky.social no falla.

Neon & Smoke's Tips for Getting Published. (Please note: these statements have not been evaluated by a professional.)

‘First Communion’ is out in miniMAG issue 205. The one editors kept turning down with the same line: we’d never run this, send us something else. @minimagpress.bsky.social read it and printed it as written. A boy, a voice after communion, his mother’s kitchen scissors. minimag.press

The call came while he was in the queue. He bought the bear anyway, and kept the bag, and never opened it. New story, the darkest I’ve written. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/its-a-girl #Horrorwriterschat

🗝️⏳El retorn d’un CLÀSSIC: “Set contes gòtics”, de l’escriptora danesa Karen Blixen (que signava com a Isak Dinesen). Contes sobre allò que amaguem sota la màscara: les deformitats, pors, obsessions i desitjos de cadascú.

Ooo. This is awesome. If you ever wanted to know of a book was translated into your language, a new resource:

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.