Spoke with Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social about the pulsating novel Disco Murder City. Out now at @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. Check the conversation at @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/disco-and-th...

We chat escargot, Pig Destroyer, and smoking demons

I dare say… I think I see… Is that… @calebbethea.bsky.social’s @hexliterary.bsky.social story? FUCK YEAH IT IS!!!!!!! ✨

congrats to Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social on the inclusion of their hex story "Glitter in Your Eyes" in BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4 !!

and the prose is fucking SAD and GORGEOUS as a little treat

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

Hey everyone! We've extended our preorder offer! You can now enter the giveaway until Fri 13th March 😱! Post your order confirmation or email it to [email protected] for a chance to win 1 of 5 paperbacks! Fifteen monstrous tales. Out Friday 13th March! 👻 www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR

Listening to Pig Destroyer in the van today when my 6yo asked if this was “metal or black metal?” And now my baby knows about grindcore.

Very proud and excited to share a new story in X-R-A-Y today This piece started out as a riff about Bono going into the crowd at Live Aid and ended up as a meditation on the asymmetrical love between parents and children thanks to @joshuahebburn.bsky.social for the keen and perceptive edits!

The best editor I know is looking for work! I’m talking gross ass horror. I’m talking butterflies-in-your-stomach romance. My homeboy does it all. Hit me up if you need some help on projects big or small 😈 He’s saved a hopeless story of mine more than once and he’ll save your ass too.

Calling out the boss here: As good as she is at supporting our writers, she is FOR SHIT at self-promoting, so allow me a moment of your time: Tenebrous EIC @alexwoodroe.com has a new book out tomorrow, THE NIGHT SHIP! It fucking rocks. If you dig what Tenebrous does, you’ll dig it. Link to buy ⬇️

will never stop tweeting that Trap Queen is the last great american novel

licking a 9 volt battery just to feel something

long horse sighting, motive unclear

congrats to Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social and Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social for their hex stories on the BNW shortlist !!

Still plenty of healing to do, but there are more and more days where I realize the younger me would be pretty stoked with how I turned out.

Shortlisted, baby! Thank you @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for nominating my @hexliterary.bsky.social story for Brave New Weird Vol. 4. Feels good. Feels WEIRD. 👀✨🔪

Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it

No more, no more.

twerkin for the chicken man.

Find me on shelves in Sioux Falls next to some of the goats!

Happy 2026! This is what I'm #querying this year. Wish me luck!

I don’t want a friendly neighbor. I want a neighbor with crushing social anxiety.

It’s the last 48 hours for Splatterpunk noms🩸If you fuck with my work, it would be eternally chill if you emailed [email protected] to say you nominate DISCO MURDER CITY for Best Novel. Let me know if you did and I’ll owe you one in this life and the next.

Today, @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social published my Springsteen essay on death, manhood, and wondering what your grandparents would think of your queerness. farewelltransmission.net/2025/12/fast...

People ask me why I write horror and it’s this. Horror is your big sister who just lets you talk shit about those who hurt you, and won’t try to correct what you’re feeling. You can just Be. Truly life-affirming shit.

I’m now working through a small stack of home invasion novels and it’s a shockingly underwritten subgenre in modern horror. We’ve got hella haunted houses but hardly any honest to god invasions. This says something about us, but I’m not sure what. Perhaps I’ll find out at the bottom of the stack.

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Absolutely immaculate pairing available at @eveninghouse.bsky.social eveninghousebooks.com?s=Disco&post...

Friday night plans?

If you haven't already traumatized your kids with your spooky shirt collection, Trevor's shit is absolutely the way to go.

PSA: Fellas and other homies with balls, getting a vasectomy is so, so easy (given you have insurance). With reproductive healthcare doing hell's work in America right now, it's a really solid option for you and your partner. Go get snipped! It's honestly such a funny experience.

She’s back! But just for a few days. Order your copy of Nineteen Little Stab Wounds at: dreadstonepress.com/product-cate... Available today through November 30. All sales will be donated to Transgender Law Center. 1/6

Nike should make swords.

Had another summer camp dream. This one was the plot of Dark Knight Rises though.

the fuckin mountain goats quoted my post?!?

Sematary releasing a trans anthem is healing me

Reading through these theses and the kids are alright. Not a pretentious MfA wRiTeR in the room. Lot of talent and energy though 😈

Give us our roses while we're still alive.

Me and my manuscript. I’ll let you guess who’s Debbie and who’s Joey.

perhaps god is inept

Kyle’s a cool ass dude. Read this review and preorder that fucking memoir!

damn.

Drew a Hound of Tindalos from a short story by Frank Belknap Long, released in a short story collection of his work in 1946. The hounds are creatures that exist outside of time and space. They can emerge in the form of smoke from any angle of a certain sharpness, like the corner of a room.

I love number five but may have permanently ruined it by watching on election night 😱

Posting my 2025 eligibility for award season, since we're in thr kiddle of it