THE CORPSE PRIEST is dark, horrific sword and sorcery. Flesh towers, revenants, philosophical pessimism, weird religion, and lots and lots of blood. Get it wherever you like to buy books.

Best part of sending a novel off to betas, is starting a new novel. Inspirations for this one.

Establish a self-care routine. Breathe into your toes. Because we're going to fuck you up with some inflammatory and reductive writing opinions! This week: Hot Takes. open.spotify.com/episode/2qKR...

🖤☠️MEET @calebbethea.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD AWARD WINNER🖤☠️ In "Glitter in Your Eyes", a sleep paralysis demon slits its own throat & bleeds glitter into the eyes of a different patron each night. Y'know, that doesn't sound so bad, actually! Preorder BNW Vol. 4: store.tenebrouspress.com

It’s a self-promo kinda day. This week I’m on the @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social with @erikmchatton.bsky.social talking slashers w/ @carsonwinter.bsky.social & @authorplm.bsky.social for 2+ hours. And believe it or not we stay on topic for at least 50% of the time! 😅

Hey, come listen to me be real unreasonable about the slasher genre.

THE CORPSE PRIEST has been out for one month and I couldn't be happier with how many people picked it up. Sales are kind of a dirty word in the indie book sphere, but I thought it might be fun and informative to be a little transparent about where these sales came from and how. /THREAD

Recording an episode on slashers with the passionate @erikmchatton.bsky.social and @patrickbarb.bsky.social

COVER REVEAL for issue 71! Cover art by Jakub Jagoda and featuring stories by Mary Magagna, Eliott Gish, Akis Linardos, Allison Mulder, Terena Elizabeth Bell, Matthew MacDonald, Nicole Duff, and Leonora Lewis!

This week, Carson talks about everything that went into bringing THE CORPSE PRIEST to life from a publishing and marketing perspective! open.spotify.com/episode/22zq...

my article is up about weird fiction in weird, horrifying times, and the community that forms around people trying to wrestle their fears together! www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...

The reviews are trickling in. Thank you @erikmchatton.bsky.social 💀A death-obsessed hero on a philosophical quest ⚔️Sword and sorcery carnage 🐙Cosmic horror of reality-shattering proportions THE CORPSE PRIEST is out now wherever you buy books. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR5SCNZ6/

The Corpse Priest releases today!Carson really outdid himself with this one. A perfect example of how to bring classic weird horror fantasies to a current audience, while innovating at the same time. Check it out.

One of the big inspirations for Rachael in Crawl Space was myself, or at least my career, but we'll get to that soon. First, I wanted to talk about archaeology. Archaeology is a big tent profession. There are lots of different disciplines that are part of archaeology 1/10

The closing story in Frost Zone Stories book 3 is "Going Last" by SJ Townend @sjtownend.bsky.social books2read.com/u/mvgvoJ www.frostzonestories.com/p/issuesbook...

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!