@johnlangan.bsky.social ‘s “This Flesh Side of the Bone” is up on @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/this-fleshy-...

Really digging this @johnlangan.bsky.social story, which contains the most intense depiction of fishing for catfish I've encountered since I watched the documentary Okie Noodling. reactormag.com/this-fleshy-...

NYC friends! 7/21 @natcassidy.bsky.social @claymcleod.bsky.social @nickygee.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @briankeene.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social @victorlavalle.bsky.social @ceejthemoment.bsky.social @tanyapell.bsky.social @marysangiovanni.bsky.social @tonytremblay.bsky.social

S.A. Barnes went from space horror to a dark academia romantasy about Death's daughter. We asked her why. The answer involves Buffy, legacy, and a love of genre collisions. @authorstaceykade.bsky.social @headlinebooks.bsky.social @isabellewilsonpr.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social

While mourning the death of his family's first dog, a college student recounts the tale of a harrowing encounter he and his dog had several years earlier. "This Fleshy Side of the Bone" by @johnlangan.bsky.social is out now at Reactor! Art by @galactixy.bsky.social Edited by @datlow.bsky.social

Alert! New @johnlangan.bsky.social short story! I'm sure it's a simple little happy tale of nice people doing nice things nicely.

The new @johnlangan.bsky.social story is up on @reactorsff.bsky.social! ⭐

@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social's THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY is a generation ship drama packed to the brim w/a revolutionary heist, family tiffs, fab worldbuilding, & the best invented argot I've read in decades. A polyphonic & clear-eyed imagining of the possibilities and pitfalls of revolution. Out 5/5

I found it. Man CONGRATS @danielkraus.com !

whoah! @danielkraus.com just won the Pulitzer!

The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?

YOU REMIND ME OF ME is a serialized story available to read only at my Substack account. Two posts per week, and the first two posts are free to read. If you enjoy those and want to keep reading, subscribe for only $5 per month. I'll also occasionally post free-to-read flash fiction.

Special Agent Stansfield knows it's happening again. Skin and hair and distant highways have more in common with his past than he'd care to admit. We're thrilled to share an excerpt from Headlights by @ceejthemoment.bsky.social!

HELP MAX MOVE

While mourning the sudden death of his family's first dog, a college student recounts the tale of a harrowing encounter he and his dog had several years earlier. Next Wednesday. "This Fleshy Side of the Bone" by @johnlangan.bsky.social Art by @galactixy.bsky.social Edited by @datlow.bsky.social

Still available -- a prime example of Alak folklore -- "I'm all rips and rags, I hang in shreds, Salt on my tail, and cracks in my head, I've got a hunger that can't be fed, Salt on my tail, and cracks in my head, There's not one day I don't wake up dead, Salt on my tail, and cracks in my head ..."

Coming up on 70 Goodreads ratings for THE BOATMAN by @alexgrecian.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who has helped make this novella another huge success for Bad Hand. Available in paperback, eBook and audio! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

If you want to listen to me talk about The Night Guest and how I have managed to monetise my anxiety by writing horror, you can do so here!

I'm so happy she's back!

Quick newsletter ahead of this weekend's Rewind Book Fair at the MN State Fairground Grandstand where I am tabling (#508) from 11 am to 5 pm Central Saturday and Sunday. Plus a little more on YFAFA with @johnlangan.bsky.social talking Salman Rushdie.

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians. You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did. 👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

I'm jealous too. Also jealous of Mexico. Hell, I've been jealous of a lot of other countries lately. novaramedia.com/2026/04/10/m...

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

Powerful people in the US are working day and night to convince us that Trump is unstoppable and he’s never even cracked 50% at the polls. This can absolutely happen here. Granted it would help if Democrats got on board instead of being in the way.

let the old man alone; never speak to him, whatever he says

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

RIP the lovely, kind Thomas Tessier, who was a great, great writer. His The Nightwalker, Finishing Touches, and Fog Heart are great novels; World of Hurt, his collected stories, for which I was honored to write the introduction, is full of terrific stuff.

Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye

Whether it's Trump threatening a nuclear war on Truth Social or Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes by email, both leaders made controversial use of digital communication.

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

7. MR. GAUNT AND OTHER UNEASY ENCOUNTERS - @johnlangan.bsky.social A stellar collection from one of my favorite authors. The story notes in the back are almost as enjoyable as the stories themselves.

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author is back today with @johnlangan.bsky.social on Salman Rushdie. Read @patrickbarb.bsky.social's interview with John for free in Shortwave Magazine: shortwavepublishing.com/magazine/you...

When I read @johnlangan.bsky.social I come away inspired to write, create, & tell stories. So having John as a guest for YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR’S FAVORITE AUTHOR was a no-brainer. Come learn about one of his favorites: Salman Rushdie. It’s a fun, charming, story-filled discussion—Langan all the way.

Nightmare shit. A prisoner from the George Floyd Uprising has just disappeared from state DOC records after weeks of being held in solitary and having no access to communications.

🎈Happy birthday to @gemmafiles.bsky.social, writer of exquisitely Weird & Canadian folk horror brimming w horny fairies, cursed films, & determined women. Also a banger about archaeology & cursed grave goods. Celebrate accordingly by summoning an ancient god! Or just read a book. That seems safer.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/... #April #poetry from The Waste Land T.S. Eliot

‘Bout sums it up.

I also have this thing I sometimes use to to brainstorm with and bounce ideas off. It's called "writer friends" and "an editor" and I really recommend getting some of those rather than using a polluting plagiarism machine made by a technofascist ruling class that probably hates you.

Hero librarian Becky Spratford (@raforall.bsky.social) trumpets 6 quintessential horror collections, including books by @johnlangan.bsky.social, @brianevenson.bsky.social, and @premeemohamed.com! the-line-up.com/single-autho...

substack.com/@elizaorlins... And now, this.

hero(ine)

It warms my cold heart to see there's still interest in this old, unholy tome!

ICE Officer admitted he raped a woman in custody for months He did this in exchange for letting her see her daughter

We coulda had taco trucks everywhere.

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

The NYT has a bias, and its bias is towards fascism.

BOSTON NO KINGS!! #NoKings #WeSayNoKings