seems fake

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!

Statue of a fool made of stone

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.

Sasha Brown proving once again to be the folk hero of weird fiction

that will be one million dollars

are you saying you can’t find it

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.

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...

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...

Some intriguing words about The Cellar Below the Cellar from one @seanbirnie.bsky.social

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.

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-...

#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.

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.

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.

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.

"He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him." -Fruit Golem 6:56

Breaking news! Kaleidotrope closes to submissions after April 25!

'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

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

Art by • Rain Valenzuela

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...

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.”

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

Kaleidotrope re-opens next week to fiction and poetry submissions. Kaleidotrope is *currently* open to artwork submissions. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

really good images of the model of NYC they made for the hudsucker proxy from an old issue of cinefex

princes with a thousand enemies

Congrats to the shortlisted authors!!

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

The art god commanded me to finish it tonight. I don’t have a title. (Fountain pen on paper.)

'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. www.mvmediaatl.com/product-page...

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) debuts April 14th

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

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??

Alice, blowing out the pilot light, and walking away:

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.

Depluralize a movie: A thing in a place somewhere one time.

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.

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 ✨🌿🖤🌿✨

Art by • Luke Eidenschink

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...

Please support Anathema's return and the revival of a space for queer writers of colour!

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I

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.

What beauty @spicycloaca.bsky.social and @cursedmorsels.bsky.social have wrought

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...

FERAL- 2026

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