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A great mail delivery day! I received my The King in Yellow issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly, featuring my story, “Physical Graffiti,” alongside many more fabulous tales. Check it out!

Wonderful new review of AUTUMN SPRINGS from Mystery and Suspense Magazine. The novel releases in 10 days, and preorders would be lovely. Links to the full review, tour dates, and personalized copies below.

Middle of the night, catching up on jet lag, wide awake after some good sleep…so thought I would catch up with some John Shirley short fiction. Excellent collection. This is the signed, slipcase version. 😁📖

Relaxing this afternoon, jet lag not too bad, listening to this STUNNING live performance on KEXP by BRUIT ≤. You should give it a spin, too. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOe4...

It definitely is! Running around today. Back to the states tomorrow. Letting the novella sit for a few days/week before giving it a final run-through. Onward. Art courtesy of R Crumb.

Fantastic poet! This was a great poem for inspiration, baby!

Perhaps… This quote is from Borges’s “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” an absolute masterpiece. As for me? Writing/editing will happen in 3, 2, 1…

Thanks much @mikethorn.bsky.social 😁

I am so excited for you fear folks to get this in your bloody little claws!

Me, this morning. Running around earlier, more later. These are the calm moments in-between. More novella edits tomorrow. Art by R. Crumb, of course.

I’m always excited for a new @johnlangan.bsky.social collection!! Finally picked up a copy from @ghoulish.bsky.social last night.

If you like the book, remember to rate/review at Goodreads and/or NetGalley and/or any place else online. Your ratings and reviews help more than you know. Cheers! ❤️

Thank you for reposting @spmiskowski.bsky.social

You’re too kind, S.P. Much appreciated! 😁✍️

My second novel. quirky and quite dark. Check it out!

The new @spmiskowski.bsky.social is out soon. You're really going to want to check this one out. See my blurb/review below.

25 weird horror tales, mixing body horror with psychological horror. Are you ready for Autumn in the Abyss Redux? Enjoy!

Have you ordered the latest issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly? The King in Yellow is the theme. Includes my story, "Physical Graffiti."

Thanks to Paste Magazine for including AUTUMN SPRINGS on this list of Fall horror releases. Lots of great stuff to check out here. Full article: www.pastemagazine.com/books/horror...

How about a fascinating overview of a few of my stories via Des Lewis and his Brainwright experiment. The stories come from anthologies/magazines in which I have been published. dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/j...

It's HERE! LONG BEFORE THEY DIE is out NOW! Music, monsters, sex, incomprehensible angles, and MURDER! California noir meets Lovecraftian cosmic horror in the psychedelic sixties with a revelatory ending! Get it in ebook or paperback! books2read.com/u/mYenLP

"You've gone completely off the rails, what a surreal and twisted tale. Not sure which part was more insane, the inner voyage riding the centipede or so called reality with the radioactive nutjob and ultra violence in the physical world." Riding the Centipede www.amazon.com/Riding-Centi...

New Newsletter is out - new post on the Beehiiv site! William Bayer, Garrett Boatman... free audiobook codes and more!

Monday mood? Actually, this cracked me up. Reading before novella revisions. That’s where I am. Art courtedy of R. Crumb.

AVAILABLE NOW! Over 200 pages of 500-word stories featuring the King in Yellow. Includes my tale, "Physical Graffiti." Check it out! ;-) weirdfictionquarterly.com/the-king-in-...

For those looking to preorder signed copies of THE AUTUMN SPRINGS RETIREMENT HOME MASSACRE, you can now do so through my friends at The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. Link follows.

The changes in the new season of The Simpson are definitely a sign of these dark times… 😳😵‍💫 Anyway. Up early. Should read before getting to done writing. Art courtesy of Maxime Taccardi.

The new issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly is coming along. Here's the excellent Kinbg in Yellow cover art by Robert H. Knox. We're almost there. Contains my tale, "Physical Graffiti." :-D

Los Angeles area friends! On 8/19, join Caroline Kepnes, Catriona Ward, Sarah Langan, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, and David J Schow for THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!!! 7pm!

A STARRED Booklist review for THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT! This is my first trade review! “The terrors Wehunt weaves throughout the novel are a cosmic fusion of William Faulkner's gothic with modern sensibilities.” Thanks to A.E. Siraki for the kind words! 📼 www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

A very happy book birthday to John Langan's newest collection, Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions! As always, Langan is an auto-buy author, and I absolutely loved the title piece when I read it years ago in a Datlow anthology.

Yeah! Super happy about this. My first audiobook. My reader Willie Repoley did a fantastic job with the prose and the crazy amounts of accents. I love audiobooks and think they hearken back to a kind of ancient, oral storytelling. Also available on non-Bezos formats. www.audible.com/pd/B0FL84J446

The sudden realization I need to read some Clive Barker Right Now. Excuse me.

Look at these TOCs! So many fantastic writers!

Proud to be included here amongst these fabulous writers with my tale, “Physical Graffiti.”

@jcsmith0919.bsky.social and I are challenging ourselves to write poems. We randomly choose a poem to riff from in turn and write one first thing in the morning. I am loving this process. I hope it may work for others too. #poetrywriting #poems

Indian doom metal, y’all!

Woke up from strange dreams awhile ago. Not of being Kafka, though… Words later. The novella is 2-3 chapters away from first draft completion. Yay!

Lazy Sunday reading suggestion. If you like your fiction dark and strange, well… 📖

"Smith’s prose is gruff noir, never tumbling over into camp, shot through with veins of luminous poetry."--Christopher Slatsky, author of The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature www.amazon.com/Riding-Centi...

With the final Black Sabbath concert happening in a couple days, I thought you might enjoy my BS poem influenced by the lyrics of "Into The Void. thewildernesswithinbyjohnclaudesmith.blogspot.com/2025/07/lets...

The new S.P. Miskowski novel, If You Knew Me, is up for pre-order. Here's a blurb/review I wrote for it... www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

"Surreal, intense and brave, The Wilderness Within is a unique story that delivers on the creep factor and explores deeply the inner lives of the creative and the broken." How about a little love for my quirky novel, The Wilderness Within. www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...

"Surreal, intense and brave, The Wilderness Within is a unique story that delivers on the creep factor and explores deeply the inner lives of the creative and the broken." How about a little love for my quirky novel, The Wilderness Within. www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...

Ian Curtis of Joy Division would have been 69 today. Incredible lyrics, fine voice, and the dark post-punk music was the perfect accompaniment. It was love at first listen.

The full moon at morning, as we were out way too early for a walk. Words? I’ll get to novella edits eventually. 😉✍️😅

The new S.P. Miskowski novel, If You Knew Me, is up for pre-order. Here's a blurb/review I wrote for it... www.goodreads.com/review/show/...