⚔️ A Victorian girl living her best life rides high above war-torn Venus in this new piece by @vor-bokor.bsky.social, for a story by @larissaglasser.bsky.social! 🦇 ⚔️Check it out in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #7, our Sword & Planet special issue: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 🪐

wrote a review of YAWNING BALCH - Volume Three One of my top albums of 2025 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

wrote a review of Censor Wasted premise 🌕🌕🌕🌑🌑

Check out this article on a classic Sword & sorcery tale, Fritz Leiber's THIEVES' HOUSE, by @geoliminal.bsky.social : geoliminal.com/2025/12/05/t...

🪓Old friends drop by to visit NESS, brought to us from the pen of @samjroyale.bsky.social for an article by Eric Williams in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #6 - available now! ⚔️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Check out Paula Guran's lovely review of issues three & four of New Edge Sword & Sorcery here 👉 locusmag.com/review/the-d... Then grab'em here 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

"Jirel and the Mirror of Truth", by @mollytanzer.bsky.social, can be found in issue three of New Edge Sword & Sorcery! Cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations for Molly's story by Saprophial. 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈

⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS, our first ever novel, is out now! ⚔️ Featuring gorgeous cover art by @azuremeraki.bsky.social, interior illustrations, calligraphy drop caps, and 🩸crimson spray edges🩸, this traditionally printed paperback is a pleasure to hold! 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate... 👈

⚔️A fine battle in the Sword & Sorcery tradition...but who are those weirdos watching?👹 Art by @thoughtographic.bsky.social, for a brand new story by @minillajovovich.bsky.social in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #5 - available now! newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Happy to say I have in these issues: ⚔️ in #5 a story -- shorter than the NESS usual, it was a crowdfund extra. Meet old Goatskin in 'The Change' ⚔️ a poem you'll find hidden in its pages: an invitation to Sword & Sorcery ⚔️ in #6 a profile: 'Raw: Janrae Frank and Chimquar the Lionhawk'

LB: Issues #5-7 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine are now available! I have a book review in issue #6! https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/new-edge-sword-sorcery-issue-6-digital/ #bookstodon #bookreview #swordandsorcery

⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙‍♀️ Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩 Available in: 💻 Accessible digital 📖 Classic softcover and 📚 Luxurious hardcover formats Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com

Grand Guignol ~ Adrien Barrere

💻Digital copies of NESS 2025, Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes, and Sometime Lofty Towers are all going out later today! ...but only to those who have fulfilled their surveys. Most of you have by this point but if you haven't please check your inbox.📧

They don't do any annual retrospective, but in terms of #bandcamp stuff, my most listened to stuff was Magnum Innominandum (barber beats/vaporwave/plunderphonics; this shit absolutely rocks), Caspro (chill synth), Mortiis (mainly his early dark dungeon music), Quest Master (dungeon synth), and […]

Top albums of 2025: - Yawning Balch: Volume Three (I just need to buy their shit, it's good stuff) - Castle Rat: The Bestiary - The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World - Emil Rottmayer: Deflection - Emil Rottmayer: Descend - Plaindrifter: Echo Therapy - Bonobo: Migration - Acid Mammoth (self-titled) - […]

My top artists according to Apple Music Replay 2025: - Emil Rottmayer (chill synth) - Yawning Balch (desert rock/stoner metal) - Black Sabbath (classic metal) - Acid Mammoth (doom metal) - Castle Rat (doom) - The Cure (no intro necessary) - High on Fire (honorary stoner because Matt Pike was in […]

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Happy Yankee Thanksgiving!

If you're a writer who uses ai for your cover art I assume you let ai write the book too and I have no interest in any of that

It’s here! My first published comics work! In Crom Anthology 1 there is a story with art from Drawnsword and scripted by me called Crom the Courageous. So thrilled it’s hitting the outside world! For preorder details, go to cromthebarbarian.com!

Did you know issue #0 of @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social, cover art by @gileadart.bsky.social, is 🤩FREE🤩 in digital and priced at cost in soft & hardcover? 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Last night I watched the first V/H/S found footage horror anthology. I discussed it with my buddies, and my homies and I are unanimous in that we wouldn’t put up much of a struggle if the nightclub succubus from the “Amateur Night” segment decided to murder us. #horrormovies

*Imagine marrying a gal who wants to truck this Iris Van Herpen fermented-sugarcane wedding-dress down the aisle. Either the worst thing or the best thing you ever did, boyo

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

There's a floor plaque in Shinagawa Station, marking the spot Godzilla is first supposed to have hit land in Japan. You can now buy plaque merchandise. shopping.jreast.co.jp/feature/S008...

To the fellow on Bluesky with the unabridged account asking for a good Lansdale story to begin with, I recommend the novella “On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folk.” Good taste of Lansdale’s style.

JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN (😭), my latest review went up at Grimdark Magazine. Joe R. Lansdale totally is your favorite horror writer’s favorite horror writer, and this is a solid retrospective. (As always, boosts are appreciated!) […]

Just wrote a review of @brynhammond.bsky.social and @draq.bsky.social's recent novellas. Rambling in places, perhaps? But I think these two are genuinely on to something when it comes to writing about steppe nomads and others who've been demeaned and dismissed in mainstream histories.

Folks this is NOT a drill, the big official long-awaited Charles Saunders biography finally has a locked-in title and release date and is open for pre-orders. www.amazon.ca/Leave-Warrio...

In which @stevewestenra.bsky.social gives intriguing answers to excellent questions from @alexpuncekar.bsky.social at @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social about his novella we're releasing next year, THE BARBARIAN AT STAR'S END! www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi...

Please enjoy this CAS reading, part of the run-up to the Clark Aston Smith Conference in January! Details here: thesmithcircle.net youtu.be/Fa156dvQijA?...

In the dead of night New ebook, only in my Payhip store A Visit from the Scythians: Four Shaman Stories Two reprints, two originals payhip.com/b/rzo4b

📣 IF YOU HAVE A LITTLE FREE LIBRARY TURN IT INTO A COMMUNITY PANTRY ASAP IF YOU ARE ABLE

Some early 20th Century Italian advertising posters are simultaneously stunning yet oddly sinister

🤼Please enjoy this delayed, yet no less interesting, interview with @breadsonja.bsky.social about her upcoming novella SUPLEX & SORCERY! 🧙 www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi...

Pedott: The things you need most, I can't supply. Fred Renard: What are they? Pedott: Serenity, peace of mind, humor, the ability to laugh at oneself. Those are the things you need most, but it beyond my power to give them to you. -- Henry Kuttner, CL Moore, What You Need, The Twilight Zone

My latest Bandcamp acquisition. A vaporwave artist does sort of a trip hop album based around dungeon synth samples. It works surprisingly well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNurOMWw39w #bandcamp #vaporwave #dungeonsynth #triphop

Now this is ridiculously catchy. And yes, I bow to my socialist vampire overlords 🙇‍♂️

⚔️Enjoy this pic-heavy update featuring our advance copies of the new issues: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... Pre-Order them here: new-edge-sword-sorcery-2025.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... 📚

I knew about The Hands Resist Him by William Stonehamn, a painting that became part of a 00s-era urban legend about how supposedly haunted it is, but I didn't know about the rest of the Hands series, by the same artists, all of them created post-virality and responding to the original picture in […]

Last night I watched M3GAN 2.0, and while it wasn’t a horrible movie, it definitely leaned into the silliness. Horror elements were completely absent, and all of Megan’s dialogue felt like it was written by a catty drag queen. Felt like it was trying too hard. #cinemastodon

This morning I read an article about the Terrifier movies. In the comments somebody mentioned never seeing the movies, but that they sound horrible. I loved the response left by another commenter: “They’re better than most murder clown movies.” It’s TRUE, but that’s also an amazingly low bar […]

Make-up designs for ‘The Island of Lost Souls’ (1932) by Charles Gemora and Wally Westmore

Dante's Inferno carnival ride Miracle Strip, Panama City, Florida

Vintage magazines - risqué Halloween editions

Part one of my interview with @brynhammond.bsky.social and @draq.bsky.social is live! We're discussing their latest and upcoming sword & sorcery novellas, focusing on how their work intersects with the history of Central Asia and imperial politics on the steppe.

⚔️Want to learn about Elric?⚔️ We're happy to see a certain magazine mentioned in this video primer: youtu.be/VPEGXAzX5JM?...