Christi Nogle

THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT is reviewed in the new issue of @fangoria.bsky.social! I'll be a puddle of goo next to a Wet Floor sign in my local bookstore later when I pick up a copy. Many thanks to Ahlissa Eichhorn for the kind words. 📼

Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

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Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135 “There's the shattering randomness of [the Kennedy assassination]: the missing motive, the violence that people seem to watch simultaneously from a disinterested distance.”

I had to look up this quote to read in context and found that the cure is looking at a picture of Borges 😂 www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1...

I just wish weird psychosexual obsessions functioned the way they used to. 19th century weirdos aiming to end masturbation made us both a breakfast cereal and a tasty cracker. That NEVER happens today. Nobody tries to criminalize IUDs and accidentally invents a new kind of Milano.

A bit bummed the YouTube links inexplicably don't work on this months newsletter but whatever it's short story rex not black sabbath rex

feat. @rlsummerling.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social @stevetoase.bsky.social @christinogle.bsky.social and more

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A screenshot from the Library Journal website showing Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, under the Horror section of reviews. Marked as from Titan, releasing September 2025, 336 pages, and then showing the beginning of the review with a red star at its opening. "In this collection of 13 stories, Piper (A Game in Yellow) taps into the rage and terror that are part of being a teenage girl. She transforms this storm of feelings into magic and power while acknowledging that this time is filled with new monsters and fears. In “The Long Flesh of the Law"

I'm stunned this morning to see TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS got a STARRED REVIEW in Library Journal 🤩

With shout-outs to brand new stories "The Long Flesh of the Law" and "Magical Girls Child Crusader Squad" + Benny Rose himself 😈 out September 16 from Titan!

www.libraryjournal.com/review/teena...

Huge stacks of books, a mug of tea, and a sharpie

I signed a bunch of books! These are for Night Worms, but you can get one at World Con, Seattle! My launch party for Feral & Hysterical, Mother Horror's Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women, is at the Sheraton Ravenna Hotel Saturday the 16th 1:30-2:30

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

He was yawning, but I think the picture looks a little distorted too, maybe because I took it from a distance and cropped.

White dog yawning with tongue out

This dog is so cute he does not seem real

Libraries are cool and librarians are awesome.

Cover reveal for Attila Veres's THIS'LL MAKE THINGS A LITTLE EASIER, design by Vince Haig. If you read Attila's THE BLACK MAYBE, you already know that nothing's going to make things any easier for the characters in his cosmic horror tales. Preorder: www.valancourtbooks.com/thisll-make-...

Lovely!!

Stylized mosaic style painting of a woman’s face

New painting in progress

Why, one might go so far as to argue that the short story is the superior form for weird/horror work, and that the market-based emphasis on the novel weakens the impact of the mode at large

Fascists hate art because it allows people to experience the power of a fantasy: that things are not what they seem, that other people experience things the way you do, that a better world is possible. Imagination is a dangerous weapon when your main tactic is "because I said so"

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Congratulations!!!

Pic of author Eden Royce  with her morning coffee. She is wearing eyeglasses with dark tortoiseshell frames and her hair is tied up in a white bandanna with read and blur flowers. She is looking at the camera and sipping out of a white coffee mug with the iconic Shirley Jackson Awards logo: black cat-eye glasses over the red lettering.

Cover art of the novella Hollow Tongue. Brown background with a beige center covered in variously patterned butterflies perched in a skull pattern.

I won a Shirley Jackson Award!!

What incredible news to wake up to. Thank you to the @sjacksonawards.bsky.social & this year's judges. Thank you to @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social & @rdspress.bsky.social for selecting my Southern Gothic novella Hollow Tongue and showing it lots of love.

#booksky

A copy of Vajra Chandrasekera's RAKESFALL held up against some green ferns. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

RAKESFALL by @vajra.me has been shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!

So now's the perfect time to pick up this hallucinatory, mind-bending epic!

"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell"

Buy: geni.us/rakesfall

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WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE won a Shirley Jackson! What an ending for the book @omgjulia.bsky.social and I thought up in our first interaction on a defunct social media site!

I can't thank our amazing contributors enough. And our publisher @ericraglin1992.bsky.social. And our Kickstarter backers!

You heard it here, folks: WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE is a Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology. Hugely proud of Nadia, Julia, and every single writer who made this book the spectacularly scary, dark, and stunning anthology it is!

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Mosaic style paintings, abstract

Some recent 8 by 8 inch panels

Thank you!

Mosaic style painting with a white goat or sheep at the center

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.