Illustrations by Lisl Hummel, made for the book ‘Sally in Her Fur Coat’ by Eliza Orne White, published 1929. Hummel worked in papercuts, providing silhouettes for children’s titles.

BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS: Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs. To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com

My conversation with Emmalea Russo is up now at @xraylitmag.bsky.social. This one visits some pertinent areas. Emmalea talks revealingly about the novel Vivienne, and shares her insights on the significance of synchronicity. Check it! xraylitmag.com/making-conne...

we have an interview with Emmalea Russo about her book 'Vivienne' !! Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world xraylitmag.com/making-conne...

The day has finally arrived, it’s launch time for giallo-autophagised mega project ‘All The Colour Of The Dark’. A horror spiral into surrealism/perversion/even sci-fi at one point. Available as a free PDF on Psycho H [with some sample visuals below] psychoholosuite.com/2025/10/28/n...

we have a list of 11 books for Halloween, by Matthew Kinlin @matthewkinlin.bsky.social ! check it out !! & buy a book to read tonight while teenagers in hockey masks piss on yr front door xraylitmag.com/nightmares-c...

A year ago today Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs scampered into the world to spread chaos. Thank you to all those who have read this little rapscallion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YP...

here are eight books recommended by Darrin Doyle ! the focus is on the liminal - "books that are highly effective at making the reader feel as if they are occupying a space in between..." xraylitmag.com/darrin-doyle...

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

New review for Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs, up at Publishers Weekly! "14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural world" "Inventive concepts and haunting, dreamlike imagery will appeal to horror fans." www.publishersweekly.com/9781445220055

Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social introduces Logan Berry's new book 'Doom is the House Without a Door' !! writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to click the link ! xraylitmag.com/doom-is-the-...

The Hum summoned us to march the electric ley of the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, it called us onwards. Each pylon a portal deeper into its mysteries. To follow The Hum was to be transformed by it. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH #WrydWanderings

Pleasure to speak with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about the probing The Surrender of Man. Out from @incastellated.bsky.social. Check the interview at @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...

That’s my goth lit sister 🥲 love that book so much!

we have a great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview, this time with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about her new book about art, 'The Surrender of Man' it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...

@kaaronwarren.bsky.social says #DarkMatter is "A wild ride" and @rgransden.bsky.social says "accelerating towards a destination unknown" and J. Ashley-Smith says "ecstatic, apocalyptic" and I say THANK YOU 🙏 darkfactory.club/dark-matter-... @meerkatpress.bsky.social #darkfactory #darkmatter

Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou! “it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland” triyou.com/f/figures-cr...

Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou! “it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland” triyou.com/f/figures-cr...

A review of Rebecca Gransden's novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...

Fresh review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group over at the mighty @biblioklept.bsky.social. Many thanks to Edwin Turner for casting his astute eye over the book. “Strange, gnarly, alive” biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...

full thing now posted. READ NOW READ NOW READ NOW

It's my birthday!!! Buy one of my spooky books!

New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/dave-fitzger...

Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group once again spotted out at roam, this time under the watch of Mark Andrew Johnston. Instagrammed as avrelonian.

Thrilled to announce “Nature Cards” - A Naturalist’s Guide, collectable set conceived as an accompaniment to Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Ltd to 30 sets, signed, featuring flora and fauna from the book. Includes exclusive short prose. thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-NC/

Thrilled to announce “Nature Cards” - A Naturalist’s Guide, collectable set conceived as an accompaniment to Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Ltd to 30 sets, signed, featuring flora and fauna from the book. Includes exclusive short prose. thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-NC/

“Eerie strangeness is abroad” - a wonderful review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, up now at The Brazen Head. Many thanks to Derek Turner for such an incisive and revealing examination of the book. brazen-head.org/2025/09/04/a...

Had the pleasure of speaking with Sienna Liu about the musing Specimen, out now at @splitlippress.com. Head over to @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/near-miss-in...

What a great interview with Sienna Liu & @rgransden.bsky.social: "So much of Specimen is about the near-miss: people circling each other, reaching, misunderstanding, saying almost but not quite what they mean. I wanted to write into that space of near-miss, not to resolve it, but to give it form."

we have another great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview ! Rebecca talks with Sienna Liu about her book 'Specimen' -- read it ! xraylitmag.com/near-miss-in...

we have a story by Saul Lemerond ! don’t skip this one !! it’s about a billionaire's son who shoots a hole in his father’s aquarium as revenge for refusing to purchase half a million youtube subscribers & it's batshit & awesome xraylitmag.com/come-and-see...

“Nocturne (Op.1)” by Vincent Starrett, from the poetry collection Ebony Flame, published 1922.

that water

New review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group up at the @od140reads.bsky.social Insta! www.instagram.com/p/DN5BeaDDOQ... For the curious, the book is available here: thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-F...

New review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group up at the @od140reads.bsky.social Insta! www.instagram.com/p/DN5BeaDDOQ... For the curious, the book is available here: thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-F...

we have an interview with Noah Kumin ! Matthew Binder talks to Kumin about his very interesting new book 'Stop All the Clocks' xraylitmag.com/noah-kumin-i...

summer's eve

If you don't know who @rgransden.bsky.social is, you ought to check out her work. Not only does she write wonderful, strange books, but she does a lot of work on various platforms looking at other often obscure writers. Her books are fantastic and her reviews and other work are always interesting.

Many thanks to James de Llis of the wonderful Hermitix podcast for this insightful and illuminating review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tami... and Spotify creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

we have a round up of 'Underground Reads for Freaks Who Can't Wait for The New Toxic Avenger Movie' by Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social & Lor Gislason @lormaggot.ca ! lots of weirdo small press books for u !! xraylitmag.com/underground-...

Many thanks to James de Llis of the wonderful Hermitix podcast for this insightful and illuminating review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tami... and Spotify creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

If you like the idea of blowing your noggin, then follow Left for Dead, Shrewsbury’s lead and read Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. They are over at Instagram under leftfordeadshop.

Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group ethereally Instagrammed by Melodien (melodienaos). A trip to the Melodien bandcamp is a good time melodien.bandcamp.com

Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group ethereally Instagrammed by Melodien (melodienaos). A trip to the Melodien bandcamp is a good time melodien.bandcamp.com

You’ve been waiting. Too long you’ve been waiting. But it’s here, finally. The Grift is back! 11 writers. 65 pages.$5. A much-needed fundraiser for the press; a nice little magazine for you (if you have Adobe, select booklet when you print). Happy reading! malarkeybooks.com/store/grift2

Book post from Tangerine Press - Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group by @rgransden.bsky.social. Looking forward to this one.