Jan Stinchcomb

a black and white drawing of a room with many clocks on the wall Alt: A clip from the creepy Disney Silly Symphony black-and-white short films of a bunch of sentient, dancing clocks.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 🎃🪦🍬

How are you celebrating the holiday this year? We're celebrating with...a DEADline! ☠️

You have until 12 AM TONIGHT to submit your flash fiction! October's theme was FOLKLORE. Be sure to submit before the clock strikes midnight! 🕰️

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Jan Stinchcomb: NORTHWEST STALKER • Cleaver Magazine Jan Stinchcomb is author of The Kelping, The Blood Trail and Find the Girl. Her stories have appeared in Wigleaf, Hobart, and Pithead Chapel.

And a reality-based micro:

www.cleavermagazine.com/northwest-st...

Jan Stinchcomb > Each Time I Set Foot in That House > Bourbon Penn I can’t ever leave my childhood home. Something always pulls me back. Many people feel this way, I realize, but my family is in a special situation. Our house is different from all the others.

And a longer ghost story:

www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/26/eac...

The Shy Girl by Jan Stinchcomb Everyone’s afraid of the woman. She died with her tiny daughter in the swimming pool. No: a man came and drowned her and now her ghost forever searches for her little girl. Or was it that she died …

Here are a few Halloween treats from my personal archives.
First, a little ghost story:

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"Usually I'm paid in blood."

A great Halloween story and a reminder to work only with SAG actors.
@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @nocturnemag.bsky.social

A very Halloween-y excerpt from GRAPHIC RAGE is up at Mutha Magazine today! 🧙‍♀️

Great! Bookmarking.

I remember (and love) these scary stories from @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social

It's great!

a man and woman are sitting in a car looking out the window Alt: David Hemmings and Daria Nicolodi driving together in a tiny car in Deep Red (1975).

Watching my absolute giallo favorite, Deep Red.

Today is my books one-year birthday and I nearly missed it. If you haven't read it, it's a darkly funny hybrid book about grief, loss, suicide, friendship, and the shit that happens to us. Get a signed copy on my site or buy one directly from @diodeeditions.

www.diodeeditions.com/product-page...

Ghost boy

Frame #3991 from E47 The Lost Arrow

Our Autumn Issue is here. 11 spooky stories to chill your bones. Read, enjoy, and share widely!
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...

My horror collective @nyxhorror.bsky.social is happy to announce an incredible opportunity for horror writers: in partnership w/ Stowe Story Labs, one woman-identifying writer w/ a horror feature or TV pilot will receive a full Fellowship to the June Narrative Lab.
Apply here 👇🏾
bit.ly/NarrativeLabs

Thank you ever so much! 🖤

The Pool Pit by Guy Cramer I’d gotten a call a few days before my birthday, this was back when I was just tall enough to punch my dad in the belly button.

"Inside were his Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and KISS albums. All the dudes on the album jackets looked like party guys"

Get your Halloween vibe on (& pour one out for Ace Frehley) w/ this AMAZING story "The Pool Pit" by Guy Cramer 💀🔥💋

New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

VOL. 58: Gang of Babies — Paranoid Tree Press Jan Stinchcomb | Kate Voronina

“You would never guess our power from the occasional King Cake cameo.” @janstinchcomb.bsky.social in @paranoidxtree.bsky.social

www.paranoidtree.com/read/vol-58

Thanks, Lori!

Thank you so much.

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Painting of a woman with brown hair. She's wearing a dark blue dress and there's a black cat on her lap.

According to a Flemish folktale, a man mocked a witch. She told him to leave those alone who leave you alone. When the man went home, a screeching cat jumped in front of him. The cat vanished and reappeared again and again. He arrived home more dead than alive.

🎨Gwen John
#WyrdWednesday

Thank you!

I knew you would.

“You know us.

We are the original gang of tiny plastic babies.”

What a delight to wake up to @janstinchcomb.bsky.social’s gang in my inbox

Once more for the night crowd:

My condolences ❤️

Literary Arts Fund logo

Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

Current Events by Tom R The newspaper delivery boy turns his face to the wind and pedals up the tall hill by the bay, that one dotted with thin white trees and torn rope swings and bulging suitcases with the bodies of newspa...

"Look: on the top of the hill there is the newspaper delivery boy resting his bike against a big white cross and on the cross there is graffiti but he does not read it..."

New on hex today is "Current Events" by Tom R, a wild, recursive horror trip. Do not miss! 👇🐕‍🦺📰🍊👇