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Parent/Husband/Writer/Layabout. He/Him. Email:
[email protected]
https://linktr.ee/erikmchatton
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Brave New Weird, Vol. 3 releases today from
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
, featuring 25 examples of today's best new weird horror fiction. My story, "The Man Who Collected Ligotti," was chosen to be a part of it, and I couldn't be prouder. Pick it up today!
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BRAVE NEW WEIRD Volume Three (softcover; includes eBook)
The Most Important Meal of the Day…is Weird. Why so glum, friend? Are you feeling fatigued? Logy? Knackered? Do you require sustenance? A boost of energy to reinvigorate your existence? We have good n...
https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/brave-new-weird-volume-three-print
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There’s no better artist than nature and these fuckers gotta bastardize it with the computer.
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PseudoPod
4 days ago
🦑 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’
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PseudoPod 1007: The Children of the Event
The first person to see the wave was a fisherman. Like most of his kind, he was strong, fond of water, and a heavy drinker; he wore rubber boots and a yellow coat slicked with salmon guts.
https://pseudopod.org/2025/12/12/pseudopod-1007-the-children-of-the-event
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Grimdark Magazine
7 days ago
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/
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10 days ago
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.
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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱
17 days ago
I think guy might be my favorite thing I’ve drawn this year
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12 days ago
Nother cool commission today (For Astralscholar1811 on Tumblr)
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Patrick Barb
11 days ago
#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.
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11 days ago
CHM will be open for submissions at the beginning of the new year! Read our guidelines here:
https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA
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Patrick Barb
12 days ago
#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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Pre-Approved for Haunting: And Other Stories
A collection of weird, dark stories and millennial anxieties. In this new collection, Patrick Barb explores themes of family found and lost, media consumption and the dangers of runaway nostalgia, t...
https://turnerpublishing.com/products/pre-approved-for-haunting?srsltid=AfmBOoo5-JG8g_5036-zNL5CCueWd7Q4_mwhqNdN14WpWe31EbLeZ2T7
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🔥💀LA MANTIA!💀🔥
about 1 month ago
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Pierce King
about 1 month ago
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...
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Straw World and Other Echoes from the Void: Short Story Collection Review
The Author Erik McHatton’s passion for horror literature began in grade school and can be credited to an early fascination with the “Terrific Triples” horror collections of Helen Hoke. He began wri…
https://pierceking.com/2025/11/11/straw-world-and-other-echoes-from-the-void-short-story-collection-review/
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Dead Languages Podcast
about 1 month ago
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...
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Episode 134: The Annual Dead Languages DnD Extravaganza (Part 2)
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6gc6F6INdx5oy10UyZSHIK?si=55hJTzrZSPqo2A6ypJvsVw
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Ivy Grimes
about 1 month ago
"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-...
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Interview with Ben Lockwood
eco-horrific, eco-surrealist, eco-weird
https://ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-with-ben-lockwood
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Gwendolyn Kiste
about 1 month ago
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! 🖤🖤🖤
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Richard Shifman/ RB Shifman
about 1 month ago
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/...
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R.B. Shifman's review of Straw World and Other Echoes from the Void
5/5: It's clear from start to finish why this collection has been submitted to be considered for a Shirley Jackson Award. I greedily devoured every bite in this meaty set of stories, which are brillia...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8041856306?fbclid=IwY2xjawN1z5lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgO35vwclkhdGlvCv2bnagF9hyRrcYk3Et5BmWO93gAzrPvF-FyyhsOMuaDV_aem_ad7EnUX56W_em5Hd0_sP3Q
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about 2 months ago
Found a cute scratch art notepad to play with :)
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ergot.
about 2 months ago
Tomorrow on ergot.: getting bog eyed with some mutants and RSL
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Had a great time doing this episode. My face hurt from laughing and smiling.
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Carson Winter
about 2 months ago
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.
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Gabino Iglesias
about 2 months ago
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.
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Ellen Datlow
about 2 months ago
Happy book birthday to Nathan Ballingrud for the second volume of his marvelous trilogy:
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Cathedral of the Drowned
The sequel to Crypt of the Moon Spider, Cathedral of the Drowned is an oozing, squirming, scuttling tale of altered bodies and minds.There are two halves of ...
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250347688/cathedralofthedrowned/
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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱
about 2 months ago
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.
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🪱𝔼𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕙🪱
3 months ago
Pay me to draw pictures. Thank u.
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about 2 months ago
Agony
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Carson Winter
2 months ago
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
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Carson Winter
2 months ago
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!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦
2 months ago
A remarkably assured and simply incredible debut. Hope you pick up a copy.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
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Carson Winter
3 months ago
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...
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Portraits of Decay (ebook) - The Official Page of Author Carson Winter
Under your mask, there is only decay. In Carson Winter’s debut collection of social horror, characters reveal their darkest selves in the face of the insane and inexplicable. A couple finds themselve...
https://carsonwinter.com/product/portraits-of-decay-ebook/
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Carson Winter
3 months ago
Writing services here:
wintergreen.my.canva.site
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Wintergreen—Writing Coach and Editorial Services
https://wintergreen.my.canva.site/
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Carson Winter
3 months ago
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)
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3 months ago
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We Bleed Orange & Black
3 months ago
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
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Méabh de Brún
3 months ago
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!
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Joshua Ladd
3 months ago
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
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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!
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3 months ago
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Hippocampus Magazine & Books
3 months ago
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/
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REVIEW: Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery by Mallary Tenore Tarpley | Hippocampus Magazine
In Slip, Mallary Tenore Tarpley seamlessly connects her lived experience to past and present scientific research.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-slip-life-in-the-middle-of-eating-disorder-recovery-by-mallary-tenore-tarpley/
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betta | saw ghost
3 months ago
the uncle who published a book has a bsky! go look!
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3 months ago
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
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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
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Straw World: A Love Letter to the Void
Welcome back, you twisted fucks. This time around, we’re here to dissect Straw World and Other Echoes From the Void by Erik McHatton. It’s a fever dream that’ll leave you gasping, grinn…
https://wp.me/pe60cO-30s
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P.L. McMillan
3 months ago
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...
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The Echoes Never Cease | Straw World Book Launch
A FREE book launch event for STRAW WORLD AND OTHER ECHOES by Erik McHatton ||| Friday, Sept 5th||| 5pm PST, 6pm MST, 7pm CST, 8pm EST
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-echoes-never-cease-straw-world-book-launch-tickets-1657932403449?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Ivy Grimes
3 months ago
"...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-...
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Interview with Erik McHatton
weird heroes, horror roots, grand grotesque
https://ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-with-erik-mchatton
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The always wonderful
@ivygrimes.bsky.social
was kind enough to interview me for her newsletter. Check it out.
open.substack.com/pub/ivygrime...
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Interview with Erik McHatton
weird heroes, horror roots, grand grotesque
https://open.substack.com/pub/ivygrimes/p/interview-with-erik-mchatton?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 months ago
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P.L. McMillan
3 months ago
Tomorrow is a day to celebrate. A day to fear. Join me and
@erikmchatton.bsky.social
for an online book event. Erik's voice: amazing Erik's writing: even better
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-echoes...
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Steve Toase
3 months ago
Really enjoying listening to the Lovecraft ezine podcast while working, and this one is particularly good.
@gemmafiles.bsky.social
,
@datlow.bsky.social
@michaeldylandavis.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnbH...
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Ellen Datlow, Jeffrey Ford, Gemma Files, Nathan Ballingrud: NIGHT & DAY: Day and Night Horror!
YouTube video by Lovecraft eZine: a podcast of the Weird and Cosmic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnbHDy7DjS4
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Premee Mohamed
3 months ago
Also the hustle* never stops so: REVOLUTION IN THE HEART, an Ursula K. Le Guin tribute anthology, is coming out, I now notice, September 22, 2026, so preorder it now for a gift to future you! *15 emails a week saying "Can you ensure that you post this to your author social media, thanks"
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Revolution in the Heart
Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and awa...
https://titanbooks.com/72469-revolution-in-the-heart/#:~:text=Description-,Revolution%20in%20the%20Heart%20is%20a%20collection%20of%2015%20brand,Le%20Guin
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Jack Finn
3 months ago
Build your TBR with these new horror releases
@manylittlewords.bsky.social
@hazelzorn.bsky.social
@rhaven.bsky.social
@adamszym.bsky.social
@ryan-leslie.bsky.social
@kosokojackson.bsky.social
@erikmchatton.bsky.social
@taylorlgrothe.bsky.social
@diannalgunn.bsky.social
@sonorataylor.bsky.social
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Happy book bday to Erik McHatton! Erik is a student of the Weird and frequent CHM collaborator. His debut collection STRAW WORLD AND OTHER ECHOES FROM THE VOID is out today and it's fantastic! Celebrate the release on Friday with a reading and prizes:
https://bit.ly/480DUa9
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