"There really was a very big preserved tapeworm in a jar with ‘YUM’ written on it." hey, it's @nicasio.bsky.social interviewing @klschroeder.bsky.social about their forthcoming novella NO ONE TO HOLD THE DISTANT DEAD read on (YUM) and preorder too! psychopomp.com/no-one-to-ho...

Reposting for signal boost! 😱📚🩸💙📚 Image shows the novels named in the post, and the image text reads: 100% of the proceeds from book sales will be donated 50% to [her] local food bank 50% to Feed America Get a book Feed a family KimberlyDavisBasso.com

Did you know? In the Victorian era, cities were so choked with horse manure that pedestrians could barely cross the street. This led to the crossing sweepers: poor men, women, and even children who earned their living by clearing small patches of road with handmade brooms. #Victorian #history

Mohammed Jameel needs some help, his donations have stopped and his daughter needs treatment. This is still their only means of income. Sharing for anyone who can assist! gofund.me/a8c93412f

Suffering has not ceased for this family and many others. Every penny, every share helps. gofund.me/041e8a387

Always fun to discover a new #badass artist.

time to step away from the starbucks drinks, y’all. do not cross the picket line. unions are how we fight back. corporate monopolies are heavily consolidated right now. it’s a large part of why prices are high and wages are low.

Surely the people of Halloween can rally together to support a bookstore called THE TWISTED SPINE that sells HORROR books? gofund.me/96586c695

In which the first Mrs. Shelley gets 186 lines to scream. Have a taste. First part's free. #ReadingCommunity #SpecLit #HorrorSky #PoetryCommunity #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #Frankenstein www.patreon.com/posts/harrie...

Wow! What a hard hitting story by @celestewakefield.bsky.social! That feeling of wanting to nourish your child no matter their level of… let’s say aliveness, is really universal. Loved it. Gave me chills! Please give it a read! www.penumbric.com/archives/Jun...

The 23 yo daughter of a friend and former coworker of mine received an unexpected diagnosis of stage 4 colon cancer. It's metastasized to her brain and lungs. She has two young girls herself. Please consider donating if you can. 💙 gofund.me/ece7d7dfb

That’s my dude!

Apparently Renfield working his way up the evolutionary ladder in his cell (flies, spiders, sparrows) and going crazy in the process reflects a wider anxiety about Darwinism taking place in England at the time

🎃 This year's Halloween sketch. Half man, half moonlight. Or maybe half shadow. Definitely all trouble. 🐺 🌕 🖤 #Halloween #Sketchbook #RCastelli #Wolfman #Chiaroscuro #Feral

A new 186-line persona poem just dropped for my patrons. Check over your shoulder. Harriet is not f*#$ing around. #History #Poetry #HorrorSky #Halloween #AmWriting #SpecLit #Frankenstein #Ghosts www.patreon.com/posts/harrie...

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Caturday meets No Kings day.

UK friends! Waterstones is running a 25% off promo on 2026 preorders which includes my short story collection SEASONS OF GLASS & IRON! Only til Friday, October 17. Enjoy! www.waterstones.com/book/seasons...

This is a dilute tortie, I think, and she is awesome. I love her. And I love the alt text.

Reposting for Mostafa: gofund.me/0fa0750c

Art from August's #Penumbric: "Raveled Lovers" by Ashley Abigail Gruezo Resurreccion, at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #art #artwork #fantasy #myth

Horror readers in Washington state! RAIN SHADOWS "SPOOKY SEASON" BOOK TOUR is happening now in selected locations! Meet the authors, learn about the inspiration for this pod-to-pub collection, and get your signed copies! For details on dates and times: rainshadowstories.com

This is The Death by Gustave Doré (1883). It depicts Death sitting atop of globe...waiting. This illustration is pretty cold, but does it elicit any sort of feelings within you? #Victorian #art #illustrations #history #1800s #Halloween #October

If it doesn't scare you, you're already dead! #OnThisDay in 1968, George A. Romero's original masterpiece, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, rose from the grave and ambled into theaters. 🧟 #nowstreaming

The moth hadn’t moved much. Its still alive. I moved it to a better spot where it might get food or mate or spend its last days in peace.

Spent some time developing one of my characters yesterday, her goals and fears. She’s pretty tragic. #AmWriting

My friends at @awwlitmag.bsky.social are close to 50% funded for their Into the Dark Anthology! 🌑 If we reach that milestone by the end of the day, I’ll donate a free article on one of my favorite eerie topics: The Danse Macabre & the Dancing Plague. 💀🕯️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

Character design process: Zoranda #ArtProcess #SketchToPainting #RCastelliArt #FantasyPortrait #CharacterDesign

“I won, Mama!” Looking forward to hours of scream time thanks to @screamfactory.bsky.social

Outlining episodes I’ve already written in Scrivener and wow is it challenging to take a step back, go for the plot points not summarize every damn bit of dialogue. #FML but at least I #AmWriting.

Yoda Stitch: wrinkly guy

Yesterday a bust. Today, redownloaded Scrivener after a looooong hiatus and am remembering all the reasons I used to use it. The cork board chief among them. #AmWriting #HorrorNovel

#Horror #ScareYouToSleep Time for another narrator shout-out. Here we have the immensely talented Shelby Novak of @scareyoutosleep.bsky.social I just finished speed binging like 400 episodes. I have no clue what year it is, but regardless, support what she does. open.spotify.com/show/2sNFsS8...

Starting a new habit: post every day about how writing went. Today, I went back and fixed the epub for my latest episode after finding a couple copyedits and typos recording the audio. #AmWriting #Fiction

Just a few hours to go! But you can still reserve a seat at our FREE online reading by 6 women & nonbinary authors! Chat with authors and other readers! Giveaways! All from the comfort of your own home. We're great dinner companions! 😉 #SWSWQR share.google/7kvhvPccrrvX...

Enjoy part 11 of The Kitten Stitch. (Audio preview here, for the #speclit curious). #HorrorSky www.patreon.com/posts/139183...

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

Due to time limitation, in my acceptance speech I had to only thank people who had physically touched the drafts of the story & my dissertation. So my biggest regret was to not have a line there dedicated to Jeanne Cavelos & the Odyssey workshop, who taught me everything I know about writing! 💜

If you’re gonna write about a genocide, this is how you do it. Trying to save your spirit through trying to save your people’s sprit and failing at both. What I felt most was the slippery feel of all this history disappearing with each page I turned. Incredible. @sgj.bsky.social thank you for this.

Washington State friends, have you voted? Ballots are due TODAY by 8pm. King County has a map/list of ballot drop boxes here: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

At no time, EVER, in your history ... in our history ... has this been more true. It is not about him. It is about us ... you and I. 💙 #SaturdayMood 🏳️‍🌈 #FBR #FBPE #Resistance #StrongerTogether #KindnessMatters #Motivation #Bluecrew

We have just four days to make the stretch goals happen, Space Unicorns! Three original covers! Staff raises! Keeping the flash fiction and novella! WE CAN DO IT!!!

Nature is always, always more inventive than anything we can dream up. Case in point: meet the Telescopefish. #nature #fish #oceanlife en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesco...

HWA Website Outage & Security Alert. Horror org & Bram Stoker Awards websites are offline. If you attempt to visit either site, you may notice the site prompts you to download a file. DO NOT DOWNLOAD, OPEN OR RUN THAT FILE. It may contain harmful software. We'll advise you when sites are up.

#AnnabelleLeeAudio carries on as #ReadByAnnabelle, this time reading #SheridanLeFanu. #Audiobook #Carmilla #Vampire #Vampires #Vampirism #HorrorLiterature #WeirdFiction #ASMR #ASMRRP youtu.be/bIICb-BlFwY?...

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Downstairs, the one that scratched you rots where I left it ... -from "When the Flesh Opens" by Celeste Wakefield (@celestewakefield.bsky.social), in #Penumbric's June issue at www.penumbric.com/currentissue... and pdf www.penumbric.com/currentissue... #shortstories #flash #horror

@khoreo.bsky.social is an incredible mag that’s needed now more than ever. I’m so happy I got to celebrate this milestone by geeking out about story and diaspora with @jdridges.bsky.social 🩵 I truly hope this is just the beginning for khōréō!