SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day nine brings "Seven Encounters with Peculiar Hawkins", from author @emmajgibbon.bsky.social. SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

Join us at 6pm ET! @morgansylvia.bsky.social will be on the show today to talk about her Dark Folk Horror collection The Withering Hours: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I58K... @emmajgibbon.bsky.social will be there, too. And the folks behind The Eldritch Episodes. (AND that @aghughes.bsky.social guy. 😀)

Hi friends. I caught up with Laird's partner, Jessica M today and received permission to share this. As some of you may know, Laird is in need of a new kidney. The appropriate donor would have O blood type. If you or anyone you know may be a willing match & donor, please reach out to me.

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

So this is us trusting our communitea to hold us. Anyone who is able to contribute through the link below will get the name of their choice engraved on a plaque of SOS (Save Our Shop) Angels to be permanently installed in the tea house and a photo pinned on the discord. square.link/u/La2AFWmg

Can't believe I called my fictional bar The Black Shuck when Bar Guest was right there!

If you're doing it right, every day is World Dracula Day.

applying for jobs again

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

Lipsnitch is being unleashed into the world summer '26! @stgibbon.bsky.social

Everybody Is in the Place by Emma J. Gibbon is a nightmare wrapped in neon light. In this tale, we follow two characters riding the high of an acid trip while they enter a fairground for an evening of fun (or at least what they thought would be fun). (1/2) @emmajgibbon.bsky.social

Lime Headache

In celebration of #poetrymonth UNDER HER SKIN and UNDER HER EYE (I have a poem in both) is priced at 99c. All proceeds for UNDER HER EYE continue to be donated to The Pixel Project to support advocacy and efforts to end violence against women worldwide.

No cheating. The last saved celebrity pic on your phone is your therapist.

Look at Mr Business Casual here just back from the salon. (Photos by @stgibbon.bsky.social Photo bomb by Odin)

I read an early version of Fake Believe by @highway62.bsky.social and loved it! I'm a big fan of the Hazeland universe. Highly recommended. Take a look at the kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hig...

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. Pretty on brand, gotta say.

The greatest of all openings. Also the one from We Have Always Lived in the Castle is amazing too

TWO conversations on DAVID LYNCH: 1st: @johnlangan.bsky.social, @lairdbarron.bsky.social, @markrainey.bsky.social, and me: www.patreon.com/posts/david-... 2nd: @punktowner.bsky.social, @emmajgibbon.bsky.social, Cody Lakin, @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, and me: www.patreon.com/posts/anothe...

I had 2 years to go. Thing is, I never thought I'd get it forgiven anyway. I knew the rug would be pulled before it got to me.

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

Not me going from getting teary eyed to full-on sobbing when Joan started singing. Also, Thurston Moore is an idiot. youtu.be/sjf1VKZkkBs?...

For his crimes against decency and for being just an ornery little son of a gun, Lipsnitch Snilly is banished from his tribe of fellow goat people. Well, that's fine. He found a talking crow and he's off to learn dark magic in Ohio before the world ends. (COLOR OF MAGIC X DEADWOOD) #pit2025 #F #HA

A reminder about #2025pit -- please share the posts. Likes are for agents and publishers!

I have read this and it is so, so good!

For his crimes against decency and for being just an ornery little son of a gun, Lipsnitch Snilly is banished from his tribe of fellow goat people. Well, that's fine. He found a talking crow and he's off to learn dark magic in Ohio before the world ends. (COLOR OF MAGIC X DEADWOOD) #pit2025 #F #HA

Can confirm. Broke my thumb in 2 places once by not doing this.

Anotherloverholenyohead

So here's what's cool about my job: Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create

no abre la puerta no dice nada sin "quiero mi abogado y mi derecho de no hablar más" y espere ayuda sin hablar.

My final form is day-drinking and wandering around the house in one of these

I've lost count how many times I've read The Cheerleader and The Perfume

My short fiction recs for Oct-Nov are up! With stories from Sagan Lee, @gabbyharry.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @wnwagner.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @emmajgibbon.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social L.M. Guay-- itsajumble.blogspot.com/2024/12/shor...

Me facing 2025

It's that time of year!! "Some of the Best from Reactor: 2024 Edition" is available for free download on your preferred reading device! We hope you love this selection of stories from our award-winning short fiction program featuring your favorite authors ❤️ reactormag.com/download-som...

You can read my story, Everybody is in the Place, along with many more great stories in this FREE ebook you can download from @reactorsff.bsky.social!

2024 was another AMAZING year for Reactor's original fiction! Here's a list of all the incredible short stories, novellas, and novelettes by your favorite authors published this year! What were your favorites? reactormag.com/all-of-react...

I needed this one today. A good read.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Happy 10th birthday to the love of my life, my sidekick, Hamlet

In our quest to bring you the best in contemporary weird fiction, few titles have had the lasting impact and influence of John Langan’s Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, The Fisherman, which Word Horde published in 2016.

Your writing process will change on a daily basis with every project, because every project is different. Whatever gets you to the final product is the way that that book needed to be written. So I need you to stop scrolling and say this aloud right now. "My writing process is not broken."

Here is my 2024 #AwardsEligibility post! If you have enjoyed any of the below works, please consider nominating them. Posting individual links in the thread.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.