James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Happy to share that I’ll have a story in the next volume of the Horror Library anthology series! Coming in February, available for preorder now.

Oh, just saw a nice mention for Weird Horror in Best Horror 17, edited by @datlow.bsky.social and out today!!

Ending 2025 with 2 v short pieces at @alwayscrashing.bsky.social, concerning a judgement and a curse. Find ‘Pivot’ & ‘Jinx’ here: alwayscrashing.com/current/2025... Many thanks to the editors for finding a place for these 2 odd bits. Delighted to make my debut in a such an interesting publication.

Another winner. Great nonfic from Strantzas on juxtaposition and from Peak, disguised as fiction, on ontology. Killer stories by Say, Kuryla, Humphrey and excellent bookends from Demchuk and Klausner (both on identity juxtaposed with ontology, actually)

joe koch isn't just one of the finest writers of weird and transgressive literature working, today, but truly is one of the best to ever do it. if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?

This one is indeed rather good.

@nmwhitley.bsky.social thank you for the mention! Some love for my story "Jar of Arms" From the free Ligotti tribute anthology We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

I'm up at HAD today and yet my family is still not showing me any respect seems weird

"When it comes to horror, I’m drawn to the paranoid and the pessimistic. Naturally, Ligotti’s work appeals to me." @jackklausner.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

Coming Spring 2026, issue 12! Art by @marcpotts.bsky.social Design by Vince Haig. Words by @rajivmote.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social and more. Pre-orders will go up early in the new year.

Resharing this because I feel like I've raised my head above water finally. Got to write a piece for this that was probably the most fun I had, trying to pay homage to Ligotti's story-turned-essay format. I could analyse the AMAZING authors in this AS WELL as ramble about random theories--the DREAM

… not to mention the haunting in The Coalface by @jackklausner.bsky.social Get all these and more at fictionable.world/issues_front...

Looking back through our #archive of more than 50 #exclusive #ShortStories and #comics on this #spooky night, there are 'half-things' hovering just out of view in Daisy Johnson's Conference… Image: Intricate Explorer #Halloween #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #blog

Check out the cover to BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) Vol. 4, out June 2026! 🔥And then go grab a copy of this year's Vol. 3 at 20% off from our webstore through the weekend🔥 store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra... Art by @mattblairstone.bsky.social

I am once again asking for your support...

Quite a few downloads of this already, from what I understand. Come and explore the Red Tower - it’s free!

Quite a few downloads of this already, from what I understand. Come and explore the Red Tower - it’s free!

Today sees the release of a project I’ve been involved in. WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a gathering of writing in conversation with Thomas Ligotti’s ‘The Red Tower’ - it’s free to download. I hope you’ll check it out, and I hope you enjoy it (1/5) dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

Tomorrow. Keep your eyes peeled.

My Weird Horror 11 story is now available to read online:

My Weird Horror 11 story is now available to read online:

Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark! I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏 www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/

In 2020 we published @kaychronister.bsky.social's debut THIN PLACES. Our rights expired in April, but it's being reissued by Counterpoint with 4 additional stories. I urge you to grab a copy. Kay is one of our finest writers. bit.ly/42POI7C

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved! horror.org/awards/curre...

New story day at Weird Horror — @andyhumphrey11.bsky.social's beguiling "Dark Water." www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/dark-water

Dropping November 4!

This is so up my street. Really good.

Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

New story day at Weird Horror— @acwise.bsky.social's explosive "We Dwell in Its Many-Chambered Heart." A knock-down, drag-out tale of enduring horrors. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-dwell

Off to see Weapons at the cinema. Quietly optimistic.

@jackklausner.bsky.social's 'We Didn't Used to Be Like This' in @undertow.bsky.social's Weird Horror #11 is a cold, controlled blast of bleak psychological horror. The despair runs deep. I'm a sucker for horror stories about photographs and this has to be one of the best.

Friends, new story day at Weird Horror! It's @junewhitewrites.bsky.social 's divine "Wine-Dark Eyes." The ocean calls. Will you answer? www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/winedark-eyes

Hey, ho, we've just posted "Another Mother Again" by @cyankatz.bsky.social, a fantastic Finnish folk horror to mess with your day. Their second ever published story. Please give it a read. www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/another-moth...

This one is great. I read it when I got my contributor copy, and my mind has just kept returning to it.

Once again, @seanbirnie.bsky.social delivers the goods.

This is where I post from.

Very pleased to share that my horror short story 'Window' appears in issue 122 of The Dark Magazine.

This is going to be excellent.

Impossibly, I've made my selections for The Best Weird Fiction of the Year. Will announce the contents soon. Here, though, are 20 other stories I found quite notable, to be acknowledged in the book. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

Yesterday was release day for Weird Horror #11. Includes a story of mine about class identity, paranoia, and ominous photographs, alongside stories by the likes of @daviddemchuk.com @acwise.bsky.social @cyankatz.bsky.social and more.

Hanging out with my Bluesky buddies

Issue 11 proof in hand. The Fall issue will actually be released early. July. As I have 2 other books due this Fall I want to stagger the releases. If you need to catch up, I have a special bundle deal on issues 9 and 10. Just $22! undertowpublications.com/shop/2-for-2...

Brand new micro joint @nightshadesmag.bsky.social is off to a very cool, weird start; they published a piece by li'l old me just this very morning. I hope you like eyeballs! www.annareser.com/ns-torches-p...

Just a guy sitting in a church. Nothing weird at all is going to happen in my latest piece at @ergot.bsky.social

Profoundly disturbing. And yes, I do mean that as a recommendation.

‘It was a bad year. The seas were on fire. I lost my job. My dad got ill. A minor injury to his groin had gone septic: it wasn’t looking good.’ interzone.digital/circus-skills/ Very pleased to return to @interzone.digital. ‘The next morning I felt really peculiar.’