it's about that time!! 🥩 in October, please send us writing with transcendance through obliteration, emotional / physical splash zones, experimental prose, compassion, cruelty, kink, brand new man-made horrors of the viscera, & excruciating earnesty. get weird with it.

Noroi: The Curse (Koji Shiraishi, 2005) letterboxd.com/caycecayce/f...

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

Hell yeah FLESH! Get your fleshiest work ready 👇

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

sittin on the dock of the bay

surprise - every story in this collection will have a collage made by yours truly! some are remixed, revamped versions of past promo art; most is brand new. none of it has ever been collected & printed before.

It's officially fall, which means you're now legally required to purchase THE WHOLE SHEBANG (every horror/Weird fiction ebook and digital zine we've published as of August 2025) for yourself and your morbid friend/family member. #booksky www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

My lovely friends at NESS are less that $2k away from funding this incredible set of four books! Check them out and throw a few dollars their way: it all supports a publisher who's actively making space in the genre for marginalized authors, and making sure they get paid well for their work!

20/9/25 - nocturn

whoa somehow a whole-ass fortnight has gone by and i still havent shared the August newsletter here where i talk about stuff from @kayv.bsky.social, @spicycloaca.bsky.social, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social and more buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

Some thoughts on the reading of weird fiction as a metaphor for radical awakening in an era of morbid symptoms

GENTLENESS (1997) Acrylic on Canvas - 11" x 13" Not a classical Virtue, but based on observing my young son with our aging family cat. It's how I hope we'll care for all the earth's creatures. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ge...

although i cannot recommend anything (and urge the people who can to do so!) i'm happy to see my NIGHTMARE Magazine flash piece, "sharp house," on the recommended reading list 🪡 if you enjoy sad, melodramatic gore, you might enjoy this

Issue 5.3 is out now! ❤️‍🔥 A special themed issue on Symbiosis—close relationships between species. The stories creatively explore their own take on this theme. Head over to our website to buy a copy & read the latest issue: www.khoreomag.com This incredible cover is by @jocelynshort.bsky.social 🧡

The Nightmare Box and Other Stories is populated with morally conflicted witches, fed-up working-class vampires, mysterious hitchhikers, paranoid ICE agents, malevolent foster parents, and more. Grab this #horror ebook here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

Hey everyone, the secret's out: I'm a part of this and truly had fun writing about the Concepción Sisters and their botánica

Write about THE FLESH

Alice Notley, you were so honest and real

Nichole's decommissioning was done with a heavy heart, but we are so excited to see what's growing over at Violet Lichen and Apex.

excited that this submission window is almost upon us!! i hope that y'all send us your nastiest, slimiest, and sincerest micro pieces this October 🎃🫀

I'll post this more formally on our website soon (still under construction at the moment), but this is your early notice!

Necrodryad

The ebook for Lupus in Fabula is only 99 cents today on our website! Perfect for fans of horror that melds the grotesque with the strange, the transgressive with the melancholic. Support queer horror! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...

REEF MIND readers: 🪸gain favored status in the New Coral Order 🪸have an indiscernable yet wildly alluring musk 🪸will survive the shark-pocalypse🦈 REEF MIND non-readers: 💀find flying jellyfish "not hot" 💀don't really "get" the ocean 💀kinda a bummer, really Read REEF MIND. store.tenebrouspress.com

⚔️📚NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY NOVELLAS is live!📚⚔️ This crowdfund is the best possible time to get four exciting new books by @draq.bsky.social, @brynhammond.bsky.social, @breadsonja.bsky.social, and @stevewestenra.bsky.social, featuring killer art inside and out! 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

forever grateful that this story found a lovely home with khōréō. if you're into time travel, exploring cycles of violence, retrofuturist dystopias, and hard-won healing, this one may be for you

The grave of Dicky Pearce, 1665 to 1728 – supposedly the last court jester to die in England. What an astonishing thing to find on a morning walk.

psyched to have a shoutout in @nmwhitley.bsky.social's August 2025 Short Story Rex, and - more importantly - to be alongside @kayv.bsky.social in it (whose ergot. story discussed here absolutely rules)

the gift of tears

(OC) First blood

If you'd like to give us a birthday gift, here's 3 ideas 🎁 1) Share a story from our latest issue & tell us why you love it ❤️ 2) Pick up a couple of past issues in epub or pdf 📚 3) Become a subscriber, and help us keep this whole glorious show on the road! ⭐️ inner-worlds.ghost.io/support-inne...

happy Labor Day! i am once again sharing my angry pro union redux of The Legend of the Hounds published in @archiveoftheodd.bsky.social 🐶❤️‍🔥 (heed the animal harm content tag - this one is rough)

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

Nighttime version

These [redacted] are gonna go so hard.

This $20 bundle includes 8 horror/Weird fic ebooks and 18 digital zines. Among them: -Lots of Nazi killing -Messy queer horrors -Strange encounters with incomprehensible forces -A Shirley Jackson Award-winning ghost story anthology -Football Saturday terror www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

elated beyond words that @cursedmorsels.bsky.social is letting me [redacted] my whole collection, because they're cool like that 💝✍️ none of you are prepared

Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe by Harry Clarke

Very late for a meeting 🍄

We only want Sword & Sorcery for now. But if issue 7 really flies off the stands, we may have to consider some kind of New Edge Sword & Planet publication in the future...

Issue 7 (and 5 & 6) being available for pre-order now, likely to ship in November, wink wink? new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

For a limited time, we're having a BRAVE NEW WEIRD eBook SALE! Get all 3 Volumes of the Best New Weird Horror (+ More) of 2022, 2023 & 2024; for just $9.99. That's 70+ stories, & some of the finest independently published Weird Horror you'll find anywhere: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...

26/8/25 - nocturn

Cover reveal! We worked with the incredibly talented @louceph.com for this illustration and @alandistro.bsky.social for the typography. THE WRITHING, VERDANT END features weird eco-horror stories by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, @tiffmorris.bsky.social, and @ericraglin1992.bsky.social. (1/4)

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Folks who read #horror and #weirdfiction ebooks: boy, have we got a deal for you! THE WHOLE SHEBANG includes every ebook and digital zine we've released as of August 2025. That's 8 full-length books and 18 zines for only $20. Order here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...

NO REVENGE

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible. ⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social

progress!! #workingwounds #fiberart #WIP