Huge congratulations to John Langan for winning the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection for Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions! 🥳 . . . #wordhorde #indiepress #smallpress #stokers #weirdfiction @johnlangan.bsky.social

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, June 7th (tonight), at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Haïta the Shepherd" by Ambrose Bierce. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/WRmPvZYYT

Ghosts, golf, and butt stuff: please listen to me talk about our only novel from ancient Rome, alongside @reversediorama.bsky.social David Keenan's "Xstabeth," an anti-literary literary novel from 2020 that really wants you to think about the *anal* in *analysis.* www.patreon.com/posts/apulei...

This was a lot of fun!

One of my favorite bits of recent literature is not just *Black Brane,* but specifically the description of Daladara, who sketches all and only the things he spies along a road-bound journey, specifically those ones coincident with the clacking of certain beads. What fun! @michaelcisco.bsky.social

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, May 30th (tonight), at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/WRmPvZYYT

I dislike the equating of slop generation to laziness bc laziness actually has value. Lazy art still expresses the artist, and laziness can often breed cleverness, something not possible with sloppers, though they believe they're clever bc a program told them so. Slop use is a desire to be served.

emre tuna -- i think you'll be fine

New Essay: "Thinking Clearly About Lost Highway (1997)" youtu.be/xwIhcDM3SKg?...

Prometheus, a.k.a. the Fluff

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, May 16th (tonight), at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Strange Design of Master Rignolo" by Thomas Ligotti. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/ECPabXFyQ

We've met before, haven't we? www.patreon.com/posts/thinki...

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, May 9th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "What You Do Not Bring Forth" by John Langan. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/ECPabXFyQ

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, May 2nd, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "A Woman Seldom Found" by William Sansom. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/ECPabXFyQ

A new story from horror great @johnlangan.bsky.social drops next Wednesday on @reactorsff.bsky.social's website! Will likely be here: reactormag.com/fictions/ori... And they've got a new dark fantasy story posted by weird lit legend @michaelcisco.bsky.social - "Tatterdemalion"!

What do you call this? flowingdownward.bandcamp.com/album/no-rit...

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, April 25th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Long Sheet" by William Sansom. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/ECPabXFyQ

Happy Monster Week! youtu.be/WQG_-TBmsD8

"All right chat, thanks for showing up. Got some amazing content for you today" I say from the lectern as the funeral director gives me the dirtiest look ever seen on this earth

enigma of amigara fault #lego

"Black Brane" by @michaelcisco.bsky.social is a masterpiece of weird fiction, unreliable narration, and conceptual play with themes of nothingness and nonbeing. Read it. Read it multiple times! Here's my video essay, which is just now premiering on YouTube. 🦶💥🕳️ youtu.be/VV6_IJTKTQ0?...

My footnotes explode. www.patreon.com/posts/read-b...

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, April 18th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Beast With Two Backs" by Garrett Cook. Please mute yourself! WARNING This story focuses on body horror that dovetails with sexual language. Rated R, NSFW. INVITATION: discord.gg/GcwrgHMV

Why didn't anyone tell me about Veilburner? veilburnerband.bandcamp.com/album/lurker...

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, April 11th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Starving of Saqqara" by Michael Cisco, from *Antisocieties.* Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/HMj2wFqD

Next is 5 Acts: The King in Yellow by Dr. Jason Bowers (@phdnd.bsky.social) and @nilhemothgames.bsky.social. I haven't run this one yet either, but I REALLY want to. I love the vibes and the art, and the idea of the PCs being unreliable narrators themselves is interesting!

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, April 4th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Organist and the Old Man" by Elizabeth Guilt, from CHM #25 (July 2022). Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/eXZg83sp

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, March 28th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Skipped Practice" by Lucy Zhang, from CHM's Ligotti tribute issue. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/eXZg83sp

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, March 21st, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "If The World Cared About You It Would Want Something" by Jason Bowers (that's me). Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/8FHeMKJd

In which I cite my colleagues, including @weirdmurmur.com! youtu.be/_Yx9PlbhEgk

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, March 14th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Professor Cognoscent's Caliginous Charms Carnival" by Christopher Slatsky. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/aHywaNnS

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, March 7th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "Flight 389" by Jon Padgett. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/aHywaNnS

Just finished this for the first time, and it's absolutely amazing stuff.

Does "Phantom of Truth" refer to a spooky monster, like "Phantom of the Opera?" Or is the phrase more similar to "the myth of the given" and "the illusion of depth?" youtu.be/SwXAVSdMjSA?...

This happened a while ago, but we're getting ready to (try to) sell more copies of this game...! youtu.be/7BDdKOQNx-0?...

Can't wait to read this!

Lose your soul to Carcosa for a couple of bucks (or wait a couple of weeks)! www.patreon.com/posts/on-car...

youtu.be/hvSg_Q-6Zck?... Have you ever started to read the 1895 anthology, enjoyed the first few tales, and then become baffled at their successors, which don't even mention the stage play? Have you ever wondered what's going on with that? Well, fear not!

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, February 21st, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "The Indoor Swamp" by Jon Padgett. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/W6T75kNF

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord on Saturday, February 14th, at 7pm Eastern US for a live reading of "To Bite a Dog" by Attila Veres. Be sure to mute yourself upon joining! INVITATION: discord.gg/jy4Pm3qV

Please join me in the PhD&D Discord tomorrow evening--Saturday, February 7th, at 7pm--for a special live reading, by Grant Dowell from the blog *Weird Murmur*, of H.P. Lovecraft's weird tale "The Music of Erich Zann!" Be sure to mute yourself! INVITATION: discord.gg/tdbVMkAr

New video on Chambers' life, the Decadent Movement, and what unites the tales in "The King in Yellow" (1895)! www.patreon.com/posts/what-u...

Please join me on the PhD&D Discord Saturday, January 31st, at 7pm EST for a public reading of "The Colomber" by Dino Buzzati. As usual, I'll read for about twenty minutes and then hang out for discussion. Please be sure to mute yourself! INVITATION: discord.gg/8wPYc4yx

A new, exclusive video about real-world versions of (and inspirations for) "The King in Yellow" (the stage play)! Check it out HERE: www.patreon.com/posts/king-i...

Come check out my lectures on the King in Yellow! youtu.be/9yTlbBQOGNE

Here's why you should read "A Game in Yellow" by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social ! youtu.be/tbwznN5uZ_E

Please join me on the PhD&D Discord Saturday, January 24th, at 7pm EST for a public reading of "The Prohibited Word" by Dino Buzzati. As usual, I'll read for about twenty minutes and then hang out for discussion. INVITATION: discord.gg/NDHkthf9