finished the rough draft at ~3,700 words. will need serious editing because it turned sci-fi horror on me, but I’m very happy with it. yay

uh oh is this what gets me into birding, is this the gateway

Ghosts on a Tree 🌙 Franz Sedlacek

Due to the sudden closure of the small press publishing our anthology, we're looking for a new home! "Silk and Foxglove" is a BIPOC anthology of 13 stories of erotic-eco-horror! It's weird, gorgeous, evocative, & unnerving as hell! Please boost! If any small presses are interested, let me know!

COVER REVEAL! Our March issue is lurking around the corner. Check out that gorgeous art by Krista-Maria Holopainen! Includes stories by Sasha Brown, Kris Schokrowsky, Joule K. Zelman, Mike J Watson, and more! https://bit.ly/3WmVbRP

congratulations, Stoker finalists!

*saying affirmations in the mirror* I am a big horse. I am a beautiful horse with powerful legs. I am fifteen hands tall. No one can catch me because of my powerful horse legs and wild nature. I have all the apples I want

People in sci-fi novels are always naming their exploratory vessels shit like ICARUS and IXION and while I am not superstitious, I would maybe go with the USS GOT-THERE-SAFELY.

Srry

Safe in here. Photo from my collection, no date.

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

I created a monster

logging on

Massive wholesale warehouses, data centers, and detention centers feel like the defining architectural development of the last few years, like enormous sickly monochromatic scabs built on the barren remnants of clearcut forestland that articulate the festering wounds of our sociohistorical moment.

belated research on animal behavior has confirmed that this idea “has the juice” stay tuned

I'm Starting To Have Some Questions About This Experiment

wear sunscreen

so cool!

Ask not for whom the yee haws—it haws for yee

I recently went on a very long rant about how we should have new horror films like *this* instead of remakes. this particular story GOT me on so many levels

Nine days and counting before Plott Hound opens to submissions! One of our submissions editors would love to see more stories about • parasites • giant ground sloths • terror birds • bugs (the extincter the betterer) • ordovician invertebrates Check us out!

Having All Your Laundry Done voted one of the best feelings of all time for the 100th year in a row. unfortunately Actually Doing Laundry voted one of the worst, yet again

So, I wrote this book, and I’m pretty proud of it. It’s an interactive horror story called Hare-Raising Summer. It’s a little creepy, a little scary, a little cheesy, and hopefully a lot of fun. I hope you’ll check it because I totally want to write more of them. www.cateyepress.com/store/p/hare...

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

nooooooooo

current WIP is for the Plott Hound call in March, and of course features neither of the two animals I originally had ideas for. but this one was too fun to pass up. must explore

MupPet Sematary

👀February 2026 Fiction👀 "We are the Giants We Fear" is a short story by @lima-zulu.bsky.social about disaster and innocence and what we owe to each other. Also giants. Subscribe and read it now! havenspec.com/issues/issue...

"I demand trial by combat!" - repeat 16th century criminal

A grieving widow. A man drowning at the bottom of a bottle. A house never haunted now held captive by the supernatural. BOTTLING HIS GHOSTS, a Victorian gothic horror novella. #booksky www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Free fiction on the CHM website! Check out "Along the Way to Shaft 13" by Eugen Bacon right here: https://bit.ly/3OsMUgy

just listened to this on the NIGHTMARE podcast and OH. MY. GOD. my heart

oh hell yeah

roses are red violets are blue hi, David Caruso!

I should call her

That hard little slap was an awakening I tell you what

get your yummy weird goodness here

Your Lunar New Year TBR is specifically missing SEAsian noir set in Sino-centric space, replete with dumplings, dim sum, Chinese street food, and old Shanghai jazz. And ruled by Wengzai, the dai-est Dai Lou of them all. 🚀🎲📉🔥

on tonights crevices, crannies and crevasses - guy fieri terrifyingly emerges from a series of progressively smaller hiding places

Ta dah!

My story "A Witch's Envy" is in this, a dark, weird fairy tale. Go forth and read!

Musk: mama mia da anglo-irish-scot culture offa america, now datsa spicy meataball! [chef's kiss] Joyce carol Oates: [rolling up sleeves] well well well Oates: looks like someone's come back for a second helping Oates: of pain

the thunder last night was epic. more hail and rain today, so you know what that means: SOUP AND NOODS

OUT NOW. GET TO THE WATER. @kristalstittle.bsky.social's terrifying KAYAK is available everywhere now! A young man comes of age, alone in the face of an alien invasion, where stepping foot on land=death💀 Get it from your favorite indie bookstore or direct from us🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

My balance is negative due to unexpected cat surgery, if anyone could help?

I don’t want help writing my email, I want to agonize over these 4-5 simple sentences, rereading them for the seventh time to check for errors while I guess at the appropriate number of exclamation points to include to come across as excited and enthusiastic, not unhinged

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

me: I sure would like to clip your nails my 34 lb dog: you gon die, boy

So excited to be at this!