Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Black Friday is capitalism gone mad, but you know what IS a great deal? Buying great horror books. Especially SIGNED great horror books direct from the author. Just saying.

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Honestly, aren't we all just partially muscled skeletons standing by a fence screaming?

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

I rarely read anything other than weird horror and SFF, but decided to give crime fiction a go. King of Ashes is the best book I've read this year; it was difficult to put down, perfectly sculpted characters, tense, dark, it made me cry Out of comfort zone often pays off. Ordered more S. A. Cosby

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Find this story in Laird’s collection, NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT!

It's been a while since we visited the weird harbour town of Gulpepper. But now we're going back. The third volume in the Tales From The Gulp is coming in February 2026. Another five tales of horror. Are you ready for The Rise? (Cover art from an original painting by Halinka Orszulok.)

INSAAAANE UK version of COFFIN MOON available now from Black Crow. Gold foil, signed and numbered, limited to 1000, I guess they're halfway gone. www.blackcrowbooks.co.uk/product-page...

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

its the FABULOUS BODIES cover reveal, my latest horror journey arriving next summer. buckaroos are calling it DRIVE MEETS BEETLEJUICE (but COLLATERAL in palm springs with an undead queer icon also works). PREORDER NOW BUCKAROOS LETS TROT us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

2 Fascist 2 Fuhrious -> Nuremberg Drift

the man in the pipe

Read for a while if you can. Watch something. Eat tacos. Turn that music up. Text a friend. Check in with your forever demons. Drink from the skull of your enemies. Take care of yourself. Can’t fight the good fight if you burn out.

I think we need to get weirder. The more these fuckers fascistify everything, the more bonkers the rest of us need to be. Think of the weirdest, most un-conservative shit imaginable and do it with abandon constantly.

MidWorld Press will publish Isaiah Coleridge omnibus Good times

It's been one month since A GAME IN YELLOW released! 💛 But this year also marks 130 years of THE KING IN YELLOW. There have been many stories inspired by it, and it was a pleasure of many kinds to play with this wonderful cursed book myself. May we be telling stories of Carcosa for 130 years more.

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

Sorry for the miserable post.

Live your life in such a way that the world doesn't revel in rumors of your death.

I've said for weeks now that the bruise on the back of the hand is where they pump in embalming fluid to keep down the smell.

Coming early 2026. Are you ready for another five Tales From The Gulp? #WelcomeToTheGulp #GulpepperMythos

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

If you're using ChatGPT or giving money to OpenAI, you're supporting this. Just stop. Cut them off. They're the worst of the worst.

I love Harry Stubbs (the ex-boxer) stories. David/publishers: I think we really need an omnibus edition

Beautiful and thought-provoking. Incredible!

LAIRD BARRON kidney: I just got off the phone with Jessica. If you are interested in donating a kidney to Laird and want to see if you qualify, the quest begins at this link: nkr.donorscreen.org/register/now

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

The best thing you can do right now is spread the word so Laird Barron gets a kidney. The next-best thing you can do is buy Laird’s amazing books. I don’t care if they’re his Bad Hand titles. I don’t care where you get ‘em. Show him all the love.

Unsuccesful(?) family / monster portrait #photography

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

ChatGPT is good only for early dementia. Train your brain by thinking and writing yourself

Downside of buying new awesome beautiful works of art called books is you have to assemble new bookshelves (i hate you ikea)

Agree and agree (would agree even without my librarian wife staring at me)

Vaccines work. Keep sucking down horse wormer all you like, vaccines are a modern wonder, and the people undermining them need to be wiped out of office.

Wanted to practice resin pouring and thought some sort of wargaming terrain with toxic / radioactive pools would look cool. Almost done! Paint the railings, more weathering, and find scifi stairs, as it's a platform with an elevation of about an inch. Does the resin look toxic? 🤔 #terrain

Phone snaps of a small piece of isolated paradise we visit every summer. Lovely place to swim, have picnic, have a walk around the lake, over a ridge, in the woods. You can visit too, located at Taivalkoski, Finland. Msg me for directions, if you're around #photography

Share the Hell out of this !! youtu.be/Q1xR3Xidq84?...

BFF, could you please remove the glass barrier already

Shoutout to Russell of Ticonderoga Publications for sending this limited edition Crow Shine! Some bumps getting the correct book to me, but Russell handled customer service and fixed issues personally. Thanks! This is #93/100, so there might still be some limited versions left for you to order