GOOD NEWS: -My birthday is next Friday. Aiming to be at Flying Fox Tavern from 7 to 10ish and then Talon Bar to check out Svmmon (which I've heard mixed reviews of but it's free so no loss if I decide to bounce) -It looks like I'll be going to NecronomiCon in August after all 🤞

So if you want to do something nice for my birthday, consider donating to the Cat Fund:

A very special call: Over our 20 (!) years we’ve published stories from all the continents of the world, except Antarctica. We want to remedy that. We’re looking for stories between 2000–6000 words from writers who are in, have recently been to, or have plans to visit Antarctica in the near future.

Good story that makes you feel grimy.

For the Devil is braided into our culture. He infects our imaginings. Claims a place in language. In Hookland his most common nickname is Old Clip. Under this guise he leers from pub signs, stares lasciviously at congregations from church alcoves. The Devil is everywhere. – Dr. M. Benn

in an empty office the size of a city block. I will now recreate the climactic audition scene from FLASHDANCE

HARUSPEX PRESENTS: Sabbath of the Fox-Devils by @sammytotep.bsky.social ! Part homage to 80s small-creature horror films, part Splatterpunk take on Goosebumps, Sabbath is a weird, diabolical coming-of-age horror story of liberation in an oppressive religious environment set during the Satanic Panic.

I can't stop thinking about her

Everyone upset about the octopus penis arm does not understand beauty. Reconsider your life choices. Look at the world with new eyes. There are wonders for those with souls to receive them.

For this I wrote about surveillance as an infection.

Oops, he did it again

Good point! I don't use AI because I'm not a fucking idiot.

Beep boop I am a promotional post beep boop please click my link and empty your wallet in my direction

Found a note I wrote that just says "BONE VISION" with no context ..but i mean. that is very me

Horse terror

Cover reveal for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology. Coming April 14 with 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and many more, with 29 new illustrations. Pre-order now! 3lobedmag.com/store.html

could a depressed person make THIS?

I have long felt that my body is fact a fever dream; as such I am honoured and delighted to have one of my stories included in this 🔥🔥🔥 TOC. Proceeds from the anthology will support a pair of organizations that really matter right now, so I highly recommend preordering a copy or six if you're able 🖤

On this new episode of Writing The Rapids I'm joined by @shelleylavigne.bsky.social to talk about the ephemeral nature of indie lit, community vs friendship, body horror, smut and erotica, and more.

On this #TDOV Trans Day of Visibility: Hello, I was born #intersex I was surgically “normalized“ as an infant Yes, that is as awful as you could imagine While not all intersex people identify as trans, we each struggle against the same cultural biases seeking to erase us from the public eye 🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🏳️‍🌈

happy #transdayofvisibility. here's some of my trans art <3 prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/swea... stickers + zines: sweatermuppet.bigcartel.com

Peddling my wares in honour of Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ I’m the first trans man to ever win a Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction for work mentioned here (Coup de Grâce). I’d love if you’d give it a read.

Do it bsky.app/profile/momm...

I feel guilty having a birthday on Trans Day of Visibility. Anyway, please buy books by @horrorsong.blog and @mommywiseau.bsky.social and other trans authors

Look at all of this hotness

For the nighttime crowd. Ltd to 150. I'll have like 80 at most to sell and there are already a good number of orders.

The Taking of Deborah Logan

Baudelaire by way of Clark Ashton Smith’s sorcerous translation.

Gwendolyn Kiste asked for examples of a resilient female character in horror -- of which of course there are many. I picked the protagonist of A Dark Song, one of my favorite movies, and enjoyed reading the other responses! www.gwendolynkiste.com/Blog/good-fo...

[smashing through your wall like the Kool-Aid man] look you have to start with the understanding that Carol Clover is a Freudian or you'll never grok that the Final Girl isn't about punishing women for having sex but about offering male viewers vicarious catharsis via penetration

we all know the chain saw is a dick. but what you baby brains fail to understand is that wherever it goes in? that's a butt. a dude's butt

what Clover failed to account for in her analysis was the female slasher fan, aka the fujoshi. in this essay I absolutely will not

Very late to updating the blog. Busy writing is my only excuse! (You can subscribe if you want to stay apprised of new releases & the occasional rare live event.) horrorsong.blog/2026/03/28/a...

this story was like drowning, loved it.

But kings and mightiest potentates must die, For that’s the end of human misery.

Making me verklempt

Very late to updating the blog. Busy writing is my only excuse! (You can subscribe if you want to stay apprised of new releases & the occasional rare live event.) horrorsong.blog/2026/03/28/a...

A friend asked me to make her a placard for the #NoKings march today, and gave me specific directions re: imagery and phrasing. How did I do?

Trying to explain to Anubis why my last post was about "Moby Ass, the sequel to Moby Dick" as the feather on the scale sways ominously

This is what I mean when I tell people my books are not a message/moral but an invitation to conversation. The book is my side of that conversation. How you interact with it and talk and think about it is yours.

I think after a president's term is up we should do a wicker man ceremony on them. It could help, we won't know unless we try

Making me verklempt

my brilliant friend @cjsubko.bsky.social is on the sunday panel—if you'll be at C2E2, please go!

Hey! If you like sapphic historical fiction, BACKMASK is a spooky story about a conspiracy to control the minds of teenagers in the 1960s.

Great news today!

If I take the rest of the day off, what are some really great gay films to watch? For reference I'm crazy about "Four Days in France" and "Stranger by the Lake" or maybe I'm feeling french.

Tagged back into existence and

Hi, everyone. Heard the phrase “emerald blue water.” Canceling all plans & retreating to The Weeping Closet.