Jamie was super-helpful to me as I wrote RED X. Hire Jamie!

beginning my quixotic and privileged campaign to get publishers to pay a per diem rather than asking their touring authors to carry a couple thousand dollars in credit debt and hoard paper receipts, like rats lining their nests for winter 🙏

Why Canadians excel at horror, a thread ⬇️

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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to the absolutely BEAUTIFUL No One To Hold the Distant Dead by @klschroeder.bsky.social!!!! download instantly OR get a print copy and it ships next week 🖤 psychopomp.com/product/no-o...

From THE BONE MOTHER, the first sentence plus a bonus *second* sentence. Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!

Pictured: the members of “IntegrityTO”

If you missed this week's talk on powerful and vulnerable women in supernatural k-dramas... you can find it here youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Musk should just hand the whole of twitter over to Joyce Carol Oates, lock stock and barrel, and walk away like in an old timey poker game.

That’s me I am girlfriend

WE ARE SAVED

The scene in which the kid composes 'Ben' is perhaps one of the greatest fake composition scenes in cinema. Certainly better than Jeremy Allen White dicking around with his 4 track www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfCL...

When the foghorn starts to wail and the mists draw closer to shore, you know it must be time for another Sunday Scaries. buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...

I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy! We appreciate your kind consideration. undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons

Frankenstein is the ultimate cautionary tale against making up a guy to get mad at

Hi everyone, award-winning horror writer here. So here’s the thing: No. Absolutely not. Not a fucking chance.

She smiles and says “I will always love you”

HALIFAX! In just over two hours I will be at Cafe Lara reading and discussing post-traumatic narratives. It is free to attend! I'm looking forward to seeing you! afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Done.

If you enjoy watching talks by experts in Gothic and horror that are free to access and made internationally available... why not support the project so I can keep running it and keep paying people to participate. www.patreon.com/c/romancingt...

Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!

NOPE (2022) on one hand a Speilbergesque thriller-metaphor about how Hollywood literally chews peple up and spits them out and they only way to survive is to be literally indigestible and also the best thing inspired by a treehouse of horror episode

A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025

Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed! www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...

According to our tests all [employees] were 98% more likely to fulfill their contracts after reading helpful literature PERSONA. We're with you every step of the way, until the end.

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(whispers tremulously) Tiffany Morris lesbian cannibal novella

Seeing "book-ish gift guides" coming out. You know what makes a good gift for bookish friends? Books. Or bookstore gift certificates. Full stop.

Do the thing that makes you want to die the most. Go write your book.

Wow.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

New 🩸📚 out in March from Nictitating Books! “Carnalis is a poetic feast, a lean yet satisfying contribution to the cannibal subgenre. This addictive novella hums with a primal energy that reminds you how animalistic and predatory society can be.” -Grant Wamack, author of God’s Leftovers

TIFFANY MORRIS LESBIAN CANNIBAL NOVELLA

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

Siri play Waterloo

Hmmm. Did he do so eating his own liver at gunpoint? No? Well then. www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

the temporal disjunction, the dislocation of finding this only days after hearing the news of his passing. RIP Peter Watkins, a director I wish I had been obsessed with for years. Sn incredible film, formally bold and utopian in a way that nothing else I've seen has matched

Hey everyone! In addition to the previously announced nonfiction workshop and Matthew J. Trafford interview, I will be hosting a lecture at the AfterWords Festival in Halifax on post-traumatic narratives. Hope to see you there! afterwordsliteraryfestival.com/product/refr...

Someone who doesn’t want any attention needs a lot of attention

Watch Read Love 💖

So make your comics ABOUT SOMETHING THAT MATTERS! Scream from your core and your tribe will join the cacophony. Whatever you feel inside, whatever you've experienced, whatever frustrates, hurts or humiliates you, is felt by millions of people who are aching for someone to say it.

In the UK, only 7% of artists make over £20k a year. Higher earning artists make work that is participatory, community-based, or socially-engaged, with moving image artists making the least (my previous career 👻). www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/only-th...

Who doesn't enjoy a lively dinner with unusual meats, special seasonings, and vegetables grown in that garden you can't go near, all in the company of a lovely Large Family? It must be time for another edition of the Sunday Scaries buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...

TCM published an article about @cadenmgardner.bsky.social and I's upcoming program on their website. www.tcm.com/articles/Pro...

WARNING: I have been writing the new book. The new book is well underway.