Nichole L. Lightner
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weird writer and managing editor at Violet Lichen
https://nichole-l-lightner.neocities.org/
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John Wiswell
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seems fake
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Marie Vibbert
1 day ago
So, cat out of the bag, I'm a judge for the Philip K. Dick Award. ...Teen me is sooooo jealous of adult me! I'm going to be gorging on paperbacks!
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Dominique Ramsey 𓃥
1 day ago
Statue of a fool made of stone
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Diabolical Plots
1 day ago
generative AI has no place in our schools. It is documented as contributing to cognitive decline, this is just propping up a techbro pyramid scheme with taxpayer money.
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Sasha Brown proving once again to be the folk hero of weird fiction
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Sasha Brown
2 days ago
that will be one million dollars
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Sam Adams
2 days ago
are you saying you can’t find it
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This Is Horror | Michael David Wilson
3 days ago
Long live Max Booth! Long live GHOULISH! You changed my life for the better. Now, everyone go out and buy as many
@ghoulish.bsky.social
titles as you can and don't forget the PMMP titles going out of print.
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Ivy Grimes
4 days ago
If you please, it's a great day to sit under a blooming tree and read The Cellar Below the Cellar, a novella which quickly takes you from rich summer to dead winter.
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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The Cellar Below the Cellar
A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless auroras. Reviews “Grimes conjures a world t...
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the-cellar-below-the-cellar
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Chris Scott
13 days ago
Absolutely loved
@ivygrimes.bsky.social
strange, funny, incredibly creative new novella. One of my favorite writers doing it right now. Get this one:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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Ivy Grimes
17 days ago
Some intriguing words about The Cellar Below the Cellar from one
@seanbirnie.bsky.social
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Ivy Grimes
13 days ago
Check out this kind review from the great
@elianeboey.bsky.social
! And should you wish to read and review The Cellar Below the Cellar, I will include review links below.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
5 days ago
Unlike this month's flash fiction theme, there are NO second chances! ⏱️⌛ Today is the FINAL DAY to submit your flash fiction! The theme for this month was SECOND CHANCE. You have until midnight CST to submit!
www.patreon.com/posts/april-...
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PodCastle
13 days ago
#NarratorCall
: we need a Hawaiian male-presenting narrator for an incredible 4700-word story. $30 paid! If this is you, record a 2min sample MP3 and email it to
[email protected]
so we can check recording quality.
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jonny
7 days ago
These three characteristics come from Zach Gillan btw, one of the best contemporary critics of the Weird. This was mentioned on an episode of A Meal of Thorns as part of a critical discussion of VanderMeer's Authority.
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jonny
7 days ago
I really REALLY want more capital W Weird dark fantasy in the STP Magazine submissions. Dark fantasy that bends and blurs genre boundaries, insists on the inexplicable, and unsettles the world for both the characters and the reader. I yearn for it.
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Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎
8 days ago
BIG NEWS! My story “Ethereal Creatures” will be in Cosmic Horror Monthly’s June issue, so keep an eye out for that! June is going to be such a fun month! So excited to see all of my Stoker Con people, and very excited for this story to finally be out in the world.
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John Wiswell
8 days ago
"He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him." -Fruit Golem 6:56
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Kaleidotrope
10 days ago
Breaking news! Kaleidotrope closes to submissions after April 25!
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor
20 days ago
'sup, sickos — who likes FOUND FOOTAGE???? good, because SO DO I and I am going to spend my tax monies on BRINGING MORE FICTION INTO THE WORLD and editing an anthology this summer. because we need more weird art and I want YOU to help make it. 👀⬇️
mercfennwolfmoor.carrd.co#recordedantho
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Rhiannon Rasmussen
20 days ago
oh heck yeah!!!! by the way, have you read the Archive of the Odd? super fun magazine/micropublisher which I think you'd love:
archiveoftheodd.com
archive-of-the-odd.itch.io
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Archive of the Odd
https://archiveoftheodd.com/
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🏰𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🏰
9 months ago
Art by • Rain Valenzuela
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Cursed Morsels
14 days ago
If you like to sample a book before you read it, check out
@spicycloaca.bsky.social
's story "Aberration," which is told from the perspective of a possessive house interacting with a disabled tenant. If you like it, pick up Gore Poetics from our store!
www.ergot.press/authors/Sami...
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innovative + experimental horror
https://www.ergot.press/authors/Samir_Sirk_Morat%C3%B3/Aberration
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ReadJack🇺🇸
15 days ago
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
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Phineas
19 days ago
If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit
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Kaleidotrope
22 days ago
Kaleidotrope re-opens next week to fiction and poetry submissions. Kaleidotrope is *currently* open to artwork submissions.
kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
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bakoon
23 days ago
really good images of the model of NYC they made for the hudsucker proxy from an old issue of cinefex
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Louie Zong
23 days ago
princes with a thousand enemies
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Marissa van Uden
25 days ago
Congrats to the shortlisted authors!!
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
25 days ago
We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by
@marissavu.bsky.social
🌙✨🪐 ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17! Cover Art by
@tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design
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David Bowman
26 days ago
The art god commanded me to finish it tonight. I don’t have a title. (Fountain pen on paper.)
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Milton Davis
26 days ago
'The Queen of the Southern Kingdom had six husbands; a seventh was needed. Aged, ugly, and fatigued with life, the queen would have gladly remained without the seventh.' - The Night Wife by Carole McDonnell. Art by Luke McDonnell.
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Samir Sirk Morató
28 days ago
collection collage 10/19—🦪⛓️👶 "The weight of all my seeded wombs shoved together makes a pressure so heavy that it almost explodes me in half." Gore Poetics (
@cursedmorsels.bsky.social
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Guan Un
29 days ago
Today I get to join the coolest club in flash: people published in Had! A flash about a memory of a family reunion of a recording of a
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf
29 days ago
It's Mailbag Monday! This week we have some top notch novellas, zoology by air and by sea, a long-awaited classic, some highly anticipated short stories, and a fantasy debut set right here in Kentucky! I'm so excited to dig in. What looks good to you??
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Brad in TKPK
29 days ago
Alice, blowing out the pilot light, and walking away:
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about 1 month ago
I just finished Ivy Grimes' THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR and absolutely loved it. Creepy, absurd, and poignant. Recommended for fans of weird fiction with complex themes and lots of voice.
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Cynthia Gómez
about 1 month ago
Depluralize a movie: A thing in a place somewhere one time.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company
about 1 month ago
Violet Lichen Books is excited to announce the acquisition of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by
@raemariz.bsky.social
! 🐦⬛🌳🔪 Richard Powers’ THE OVERSTORY meets the Brothers Grimm in this lush dark fantasy, a masterfully woven love letter to refugees, the natural world, and folklore.
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Press Release - Violet Lichen Acquires They Call the Place Wild by Rae
For Immediate Release 4/3/2026 Lexington, KY: Violet Lichen Books is excited to announce the acquisition of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by Rae Mariz. Pitched as Richard Powers’ THE OVERSTORY meets the Br...
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontpage/press-release-violet-lichen-acquires-they-call-the-place-wild-by-rae-mariz
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Marissa van Uden
about 1 month ago
Been dying to make this Violet Lichen announcement! We have acquired an absolute gem of a novella by the amazing Rae Mariz. It's a stunner - you're gonna love it ✨🌿🖤🌿✨
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🏰𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙🏰
about 1 month ago
Art by • Luke Eidenschink
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Anathema Magazine
about 1 month ago
And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...
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Anathema: Spec from the Margins
Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anathemamagazine/anathema-spec-from-the-margins/creator
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Plangdi Neple
about 1 month ago
Please support Anathema's return and the revival of a space for queer writers of colour!
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District
about 1 month ago
not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.
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Moby Dick
about 1 month ago
The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
about 1 month ago
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
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What beauty
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about 1 month ago
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Cursed Morsels
about 1 month ago
Gore Poetics is less than a month away! Preorder your copy from the Cursed Morsels store and get a bonus free FLESH zine.
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/gore...
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WOLFSKULLJACK
about 1 month ago
FERAL- 2026
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Lilah Sturges
about 1 month ago
I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED
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