Back with another SSBA Finalist Spotlight! www.blog.melodyemcintyre.com/2026/01/cars... Today, it's Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social author of A Spectre is Haunting Greentree! @specawards.bsky.social

Congrats to our nominees! @emmaemurray.bsky.social @erikmchatton.bsky.social @chazzaroo.bsky.social @robgrim.bsky.social @chloe-york.bsky.social @leonardolam.bsky.social

Can any of you name the band who's song this story is named after? Start the week with some free fiction from frequent CHM collaborator Erik McHatton: https://bit.ly/49vrc2y

Alright, I did the Year in Review thing. Bad year? Or good year with bad expectations? You be the judge. mailchi.mp/b541c2a43694...

Our next submission call is right around the corner. Check out our guidelines to learn more: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA

A collection.

There’s no better artist than nature and these fuckers gotta bastardize it with the computer.

🦑 Episode 1007… “The first person to see the wave was a fisherman.” The Children of the Event, by Carson Winter Narrator: Matt Arnold Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2025/12/12/p... This story was first published in the collection ‘Portraits of Decay’

There are now three ways you can subscribe to Grimdark Magazine! 👉 Print subscription through Grimdark Magazine 👉 Add a print copy to your @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social subscription 👉 e-zine subscription through our Patreon Find out more: grimdarkmagazine.com/subscriptions/

What's on your holiday wish list this year for cosmic horror and weird fiction themed stuff? I'm on the lookout for Joel Lane books and Keith Rosson's COFFIN MOON.

I think guy might be my favorite thing I’ve drawn this year

Nother cool commission today (For Astralscholar1811 on Tumblr)

#recentlywatched (recently is doing a heavy lift here but bear w/ me it’s been quite a month) The Burning (in 4K). Come see Jason Alexander as the most 30-something teenager. The raft scene remains an all-timer though.

CHM will be open for submissions at the beginning of the new year! Read our guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA

#buymybooks working on edits and author notes (yes this’ll have author notes) for what I hope’ll be my next collection, got me thinking about my debut collection PRE-APPROVED FOR HAUNTING. People who’ve read it dig it. I only wish MORE people would read it…and dig it. (Also in PB, ebook, & audio)

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Finally wrote my review for @erikmchatton.bsky.social 's Straw World and Other Echoes from the Void. A great weird fiction collection! pierceking.com/2025/11/11/s...

Part 2 of our annual DnD episode is up! Featuring @ninamiller.bsky.social @kaidelmas.bsky.social and @erikmchatton.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/6gc6...

"Something I’ve learned is to be relentless about only writing things I want to write and not worrying about what someone else may or may not want to read. There’s no other way to write honestly." -interview with @benlockwood.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

What debut horror novels were your favorite this year? Also, if you're a debut horror writer, feel free to share your book below! I want to be sure I'm reading all the horror! 🖤🖤🖤

My 5-Star review of STRAW WORLD AND OTHER ECHOES FROM THE VOID! A brilliant collection of existential horror by the inimitable @erikmchatton.bsky.social -submitted for Shirley Jackson Award consideration This is how it's done. Fantastic in every sense of the word! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Found a cute scratch art notepad to play with :)

Tomorrow on ergot.: getting bog eyed with some mutants and RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social

Had a great time doing this episode. My face hurt from laughing and smiling.

We always get a little ambitious around Halloween. This year, my wife and I have done all the usuals—movies, board games, haunted houses, etc. But one project has eclipsed them all.

Accompanied a friend to Target and saw the paperback of @stephenking.bsky.social’s You Like It Darker at the checkout. Then I read the top quote. My words on the cover of a King book. Kid me had a moment, y’all. Hah.

Happy book birthday to Nathan Ballingrud for the second volume of his marvelous trilogy: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Don’t put down that pencil and for the love of god never listen to anyone who tells you to draw something “nicer.” Find your niche and fill it. You’re the only you, and you’re indispensable.

Pay me to draw pictures. Thank u.

Agony

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

I’m going to do a 7 stories in 7 days challenge starting this Saturday, inspired by my cohost @authorplm.bsky.social. Anything you’d like to see me write in this Grueling Experience of Pure Terror? Send me a prompt!

A remarkably assured and simply incredible debut. Hope you pick up a copy. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...

In honor of spooky season, I'm discounting the ebook of PORTRAITS OF DECAY down to 5 bucks if you buy it from my website! Get it here: carsonwinter.com/product/port...

Writing services here: wintergreen.my.canva.site

I’ll cut to the chase: just like all your favorite authors, I’m offering editing and writing coach services. So yeah, pitch incoming! But first I wanted to talk a bit about my writing journey and WHY these services can help. (THREAD)

EPISODE 149 – STRAW WORLD – Metafiction with Erik McHatton We chat with Erik McHatton about Metafiction, attacking the reader, mind puppets, cosmic horror and his new collection STRAW WORLD! @erikmchatton.bsky.social

Finished POSTHASTE MANOR by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social last night, and it hit all my buttons. From the actual story content to the structure - mosaic narratives, smashing together genres, scrapbook media, wild tonal shifts. Its all there!

Brave New Weird - The Best New Weird Horror, Volume Three from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Some really creative and definitely WEIRD stories here. And who can resist this cover by @mattblairstone.bsky.social? I sure couldn't! #booksky #publishing

I recently had the honor of sitting down with Jeff Carter for the We Bleed Orange and Black podcast, and had a great chat. Check it out!

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Marissa Gallerani reviews "Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery" by Mallary Tenore Tarpley. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-slip-life-in-the-middle-of-eating-disorder-recovery-by-mallary-tenore-tarpley/

the uncle who published a book has a bsky! go look!

Free tonight? Why not visit the void with @authorplm.bsky.social, @erikmchatton.bsky.social, and @tjprice.bsky.social?? There will be book giveaways and more! #bookrelease #releaseparty #booklaunch #newhorror

The Blog Without a Face, a really cool, fascinating reviewer, was good enough to read "Straw World" and gave it a glowing review! I'm really quite shocked at the score. Check it out. wp.me/pe60cO-30s

This is tonight! Why not cozy in with me and @erikmchatton.bsky.social for some spooky tales from the void? Completely free, online, and you'll have a chance to win your own copy of his debut collection of weird horror! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-echoes...

"...there is at least one story of mine...that I do believe is truly evil. It honestly feels like it was placed in my mind and willed itself to life." -interview with @erikmchatton.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

The always wonderful @ivygrimes.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me for her newsletter. Check it out. open.substack.com/pub/ivygrime...