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ergot @ergot.bsky.social is publishing some of the best writing anywhere, had somehow missed the incredible story "Bird Bones" from Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social

This by @rsljnr is just beautiful in its chaos. 'I rang mother. I never ever wanted to. Her thought bubbles betrayed the cinema of her wants'

last week I was able to have one of my fave stories appear in one of my fave publications -- I can't wait to see the next piece they release :)

strange subterranean commotions

For writers I feel the deepest connection with, I usually ration out their books. One every couple of years. In a perfect world, I could save my favorite of their books for last, but it usually works the opposite way.

surprise! i'm in this issue of The Dark with a reprint of my coastal new weird story "Twilight Tide," which features undead marine creatures, love letters, neurodivergency, and estranged hornysad monsterfucking 🐠💍🦷 i am delighted this was the story they liked

This newest bit of beautiful word noise from @rsljnr.bsky.social just ripped open my mind. You should let it rip yours open too. Join us.

Finally another from @ergot.bsky.social: "A Haunting," inspired not so much by the movie Ghosthouse (though I love the movie Ghosthouse) as by the experience of having watched the movie Ghosthouse too many times www.ergot.press/authors/Jame...

You're all sleeping on @rsljnr.bsky.social. Check out their new story, "Bog Eye", on @ergot.bsky.social. Reads like a Ligottian eulogy with some fantastic prose. www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...

the comeuppance has arrived (or has always been arriving?) -- do yourselves a favour and check out the other awesome stories ergot. has, too. truly an amazing publication <3

"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse." Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...

In honor of the day, I'm posting scary stories: Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989) "In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."

Had an interesting thought which is, you know it's Halloween today but in a lot of ways the really scary thing is the state of the world right now

Happy halloween everyone bsky.app/profile/tomb...

to all mutant kin: there is to be an occasioning of something momentous. act accordingly. 🕳️

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

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about Burial Ground, a lurid Italian zombie movie which achieves a kind of grotesque sublimity through its ultra-minimal plotting and blunt, almost artless images of maggot-infested undead mayhem. check it out

We published some bangers this year. Hope you got your weird on. Well, I'm sure you did. Thanks to everyone for your support. undertowpublications.com

Bothayna Al-Essa @noonanerik.bsky.social Dimitris Lyacos, Toti O’Brien, @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social + more — goes out Friday (2/2) sign up here: minorlits.substack.com

Monthly Dispatch #28—ft. @robmclennan.bsky.social @gabrielflynn.bsky.social @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Mikra Namani @eoghancarrick.bsky.social @dluntz.bsky.social @evawyles.bsky.social ... (1/2)

ergot. work of the day: 'Shahed Overture' by The Kyiv Harmonia Orchestra www.facebook.com/alexander.kh...

forgot to post this year's setup

"It seemed to you the answer had to be found in more than the sum of music’s parts ..." Things That Break You — @dluntz.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/10/28/t...

for today's Minor Horror, i wrote about Almost Invisible, a straight-to-dvd haunted house movie inexplicably pitched somewhere between a mid-aughts teen sex comedy and Inland Empire, both wildly inventive and stiflingly generic, a truly confounding cultural artifact. check it out

ergot. work of the day: "XV XXVII III XXI IX: Variations & Coda" by Luka Aron luka-aron.bandcamp.com/album/xv-xxv...

"I don’t think of myself as a Writer. I like to write. I love to write. It’s fun. I’m actually a bit disappointed that it’s so fun. I wish I found other, less sedentary, isolated, and self-involved things more fun. But I read a lot as a kid and here we are." ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

Hey, I wrote a book and you can read it now

Monster Mash would turn this world upside down if it came out today. People would not be able to handle it. There would be rioting in the streets.

Some of us have neither followers nor education, just a bullheaded dedication to reading through writing

two new releases that i didn't expect to love but they delivered

ergot. work of the day 'Nosferatu' (1922) tubitv.com/movies/64341...

"We are watching a slasher movie. The windows are all boarded up. It’s been dusk for a couple days now. We check the time but the kitchen clock is smashed to shit and our phones all just read twelve midnight forever." Today on ergot.: 'Slasher' by Samantha Barrett www.ergot.press/authors/Sama...

"We are watching a slasher movie...We are young and drunk and animated by indiscriminate libidos. We are laughing at the kills. We are scrolling on our phones. We are discreetly touching each other beneath our clothes." Today on ergot.: "Slasher" by Samantha Barrett www.ergot.press/authors/Sama...

ergot. work of the day: 'Convex Umbra' by C. Lavender old-technology.bandcamp.com/album/convex...

Tomorrow on ergot.: watching some new slasher flicks with Samantha Barrett.

Perhaps surprisingly, I don’t watch a lot of horror movies. Lately, though, I have been enjoying some indie/offbeat films including: Weapons and Barbarian from Zach Cregger; We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow from Jane Schoenbrun; and Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made.

I also feel like shouting out @ivygrimes.bsky.social ! Her Glass Stories, published last year, is one of the strangest and finest collections I've ever read. grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/

my vampire pen name is Thasmo

Up now at the Los Angeles Review of Books, my review of Samanta Schweblin’s excellent Good and Evil and Other Stories! The affect of art-dread! Genre haunting literature! Hauntings without ghosts! Doublings without doppelgängers! lareviewofbooks.org/article/para...

do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...

ICYMI, I’m writing a quarterly column on collections of weird fiction. So far we’ve got an intro, one on Steve Rasnic Tem, Ananda Lima, and Christi Nogle, and another on John Langan, Rebecca Campbell, and B. Catling. There’s a lot of weird theorizing and words like “apophatic” and “genric”.

Happy pub day for BASFF '25! 🥳

Benign writing reflections o' mine: ivygrimes.substack.com/p/prayer-v-p...

The ragged edge of the salt marsh is a place of rumour. Mud is scoured for monstrous prints. Augury murmurs from a hundred tidal pools where the sky is trapped as well water. This is a place where folklore not only resides, but reigns. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #LandscapePunk

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“Every Good Boy Does Fine” was the beginning of toxic masculinity in our society. Not really interested in debating this so if you don’t agree, just move along.

An AWS outage taking out half the internet really crystallizes the need for a free, open, and decentralized web