Alright, I did the Year in Review thing. Bad year? Or good year with bad expectations? You be the judge. mailchi.mp/b541c2a43694...

Last chance to vote for the 2025 Cummies finalists! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

These Cummies aren't gonna vote for themselves... I was taking a look at the back end and we have a couple of ties that need to be broken. Come on and vote for the dumbest award in horrorlit: forms.gle/J2KVcpWcb8tu...

Reminder that if you can't afford an artist, you can create the cover yourself. @carsonwinter.bsky.social painted his own cover. Not only was it free, but it's also completely unique and representative of him as an artist and author. No AI, no stealing, no excuses, no slop. It's that easy.

We do not support AI generated writing OR art here at the Tower and will accept neither as submissions. The Tower craves souls. AI is a hollow shell. It would be like feeding a dog nothing but pizza crust; sure, they might act like they want it, but it causes nothing but farts and pancreatitis...

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

ICYMI, The Barre Incidents is nominated for a Cummie, and voting is open through the end of December!! If you want to try and help me earn a gorgeous, colorful dick sculpture, this is your *one* chance.

NMH has a song w/ the lyric “Semen stains the mountaintop,” therefore, I’m legally obligated to ask you to vote for the anthology I edited AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE: STRANGE STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL in @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social’s Cummies Awards for Best Anthology. Vote!

Vote for scrote! Errr...the Cummies!

FEEDING THE WHEEL IS UP FOR A CUMMIE AWARD! Yes I realize this probably puts me on several watch lists, but I'll gleefully spend my life waving hello to the plumbing van with the satellite dish on it that'll be parked in front of my house if it means winning a little clay genitals statuette for FtW

The Cummies Final Ballot has been announced! This is the greatest literary prize in horror, because we said so. Please vote through December on the winner here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As is tradition, @authorplm.bsky.social and @carsonwinter.bsky.social are taking December off to regroup for the new year! Our last episode of the season is up today, featuring Luciano Marano talking with us about holiday horror! open.spotify.com/episode/2MOm...

This week on the Dead Languages Podcast we’re talking Final Girls! Grand horror tradition or tired, sexist trope???? open.spotify.com/episode/3J8x...

It's time. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Nom yourself, nom your friends, nom your enemies or whatever

Why the hell not?! Nominate ...And Out Come the Toys for a Cummie! I'm fully on board for this prestigious award and will carry it with me everywhere....

Don't forget to nominate all the good presses out there! We have a press cummie so we will send them a lewd award if they win.

Yall want a lewd award in the mail? Submit yourself and your friends for a Cummie! I'll be making these by hand....again 😅

Please nominate for this, yall. It's so fun and whimsical. You can nominate your own work, work you loved, however you like. (And if you wanted to make "Hammerhead" one of your horniest scene nominations I certainly would not be mad.) 🫀

Locus. Stoker. Nebula. Uhhh...the other big ones, but also the Cummies 👀💦 @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social

Some fan art from spooky coed @addi.social based on our latest DnD adventure !

Part 2 of our annual DnD episode is up! Featuring @ninamiller.bsky.social @kaidelmas.bsky.social and @erikmchatton.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/6gc6...

It's time. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Nom yourself, nom your friends, nom your enemies or whatever

Had a great time doing this episode. My face hurt from laughing and smiling.

Feral, unhinged, corprophagic madness... happy to be a part of it all! D&D with horror authors? What could go wrong? #horrorD&D @carsonwinter.bsky.social @authorplm.bsky.social

Join us for our annual Dead Languages DnD episode (1 of 2). We’re pleased to welcome @ninamiller.bsky.social @kaidelmas.bsky.social @erikmchatton.bsky.social onto the show for some very unhinged antics. @authorplm.bsky.social DMs, Carson plays as a turd weasel. spotify.link/HCVls2pNRXb

Listen to @authorplm.bsky.social read my Bronze winning drabble, "The Problem With Pumpkins" on @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social 🎃 Looking forward to getting some unhinged feral art from the talented @carsonwinter.bsky.social !! Thank you Dead Languages fam! Congratulations to all the winners!!

Carson and company have been in the lab again, brewing up some Ligottian weird fiction.

D. Matthew Urban killed it with his drabble. Check his, and all the other great entries on the latest episode!

I got a story read on this sweet podcast. Check it out.

In Space No One Can Hear You Drabble… unless they’re listening to @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social that is…! So fun to hear my entry and all the others read out for the Halloween season. Thank you for the awesome Drabble contest 👻

CONGRATS!!!!!

Find out who won our second annual Drabble contest right here: spotify.link/y5SAZdkpuXb

We're joined by @kaidelmas.bsky.social this week! Listen in as Kai tears us apart in this Live Editing session! open.spotify.com/episode/2T5I...

Dead Languages Podcast drabble contest! Write us a 100 word story and win some custom art and a bag of goodies to inspire you!

Had a cool moment at a book club last night. TWO people told me they loved SOFT TARGETS and PORTRAITS OF DECAY, respectively. Writing is so, so hard—but having those real life interactions makes it all worth it.

Early start as my wife is away on a craft group trip. Had a great idea for the @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social drabble competition, for the theme "Space Halloween".

Trying to cheer myself up by listening to podcasts (As I do). So thanks to @talkscaredpod.bsky.social @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social Flame Tree Myth and fiction (need a 🟦🌌account, guys) @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social @pseudopod.org @agathaandrews.bsky.social @booksinthefreezer.bsky.social

Want podcast daddy's attention? uwu Now's your chance uwu

I went on the Dead Languages Podcast and all I got was this creeping sense of unease as the world disintegrates around me! Listen to me chat with PLM and Carson about disorientation in horror, fun ways to collapse reality, and NYC's plague of sexy, sexy rats

New. Fucking. Episode. We talk with D. Matthew Urban about reality breakdown in horror. open.spotify.com/episode/1nMZ...

Do it

Submit. Submit to us. Submit.

Are you even talented enough to be a writer???? (Probably.) New episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/2SfI...

We’re doing a Drabble contest. Send us a Drabble. Theme: HALLOWEEN IN SPACE

Time for the DLP DRABBLE CONTEST 100 words Theme: Halloween in space Send to: [email protected] No AI Top 13 will be read on the podcast, 3 will be winners. By submitting, you agree to giving up 1st audio publication rights if selected

Check out our recent appearance on the Dead Languages podcast! A breakdown of our experience with SLUGGER's first submission call.

Back in episode 109, the goblins decided to support @sluggerfiction.bsky.social by writing for their very first submission call, with the intent of having @samlogan52.bsky.social and @arwyns.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about the outcome. The time has now cum. open.spotify.com/episode/2hGV...

Look, none of us want to order from the 'Zon. That's why I made the ebook of my weird horror collection PORTRAITS OF DECAY available on my website. It's $9.99 and just about every cent goes to the author. If you're into that sort of thing, grab it here: carsonwinter.com/product/port...

It’s that time of week again! This week we’re talking about what you can do to help your favorite author… we also talk about lot about pedophilia (CW). open.spotify.com/episode/4jmt...