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Jon Padgett

@grimscribepress.bsky.social

Editor-in-Chief of Thomas Ligotti Online and Grimscribe Press. Ligotti narrator for Penguin Random House Audio. Author of THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM. he/him.

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September 2026.
Cover art by Harry 0. Morris.

11.12.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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Cover reveal! Art by Vergvoktre. EVERYWHERE IS A HORROR STORY by Kurt Fawver, coming August 11th, 2026, from Grimscribe Press.

02.12.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Glass Stories Author: Ivy Grimes Cover Artist: Jesse Peper Publication Date: August 21, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 142 pp. Β  Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included worldwide…

I also feel like shouting out @ivygrimes.bsky.social !
Her Glass Stories, published last year, is one of the strangest and finest collections I've ever read.

grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/

22.10.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cardin!

04.09.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!

31.08.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

I love all these publishers. Thank you!

02.09.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A photo where a book called Glass Stories (with a blue cover and a weird angelic ghost, artwork by Jesse Peper) is posed in front of a cute salt-and-pepper mini-schnauzer.

A photo where a book called Glass Stories (with a blue cover and a weird angelic ghost, artwork by Jesse Peper) is posed in front of a cute salt-and-pepper mini-schnauzer.

Today I celebrate the one-year anniversary of the birth of Glass Stories from the grizzled womb of @grimscribepress.bsky.social.

To mark the occasion, I will give my own personal rating of each story in the collection (out of 5 stars).

This will be my longest thread ever.

22.08.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 8
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Thomas Ligotti's The Shadow, the Darkness Thomas Ligotti's The Shadow, the Darkness "Live" in Philadelphia. Date: 9/20/25 Time 6:00 PM Where: The Convent 1648 E Berks St,Β Philadelphia, PA 19125 Do you need a ticket? No. We will have a list wi...

Your humble servant will be narrating.

11.08.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Beautiful!

05.08.2025 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Purple background, white text, which says Combined, the narrative style and generic settings of short stories create unique geographic interactions within the text via reader interpretations. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood

Purple background, white text, which says Combined, the narrative style and generic settings of short stories create unique geographic interactions within the text via reader interpretations. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood

New essay! In which Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) made me stop and consider how place & space can work in short stories, in ways I previously hadn't appreciated (thru Ive Grimes' collection).

Read now! It's free! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com

Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social

02.08.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coup de Coeur: Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal

Fresh off the press!

Our first review column! Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal, includes Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart, Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele

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22.04.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a publishing house dedicated to the work and influence of author Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe Press (@grimscribepress.bsky.social).

28.07.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Very kind of you! A new Kurt Fawver collection should be around the corner as well as some more debuts and surprises.

28.07.2025 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy 72nd birthday to my friend, Thomas Ligotti.

09.07.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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PseudoPod 981: The Shambler from the Stars | PseudoPod I have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair. It was my own blundering that precipitated that unforeseen horror upon us both; my own stupidity that caused our downfall.

β€œI have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair.”

The Shambler from the Stars, by Robert Bloch
Narrator: Jon Padgett
Host: Joshua Tuttle
Audio: Chelsea Davis

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This story first appeared in Weird Tales, September 1935

22.06.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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PseudoPod | The Sound of Horror

Featured artwork by Vincent Napoli

Tagging πŸ‘† @grimscribepress.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social

Everything we do is funded by you. If you can, please go to pseudopod.org and click FEED THE POD

22.06.2025 10:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine Trump and Elon sending a bunch of oil drillers to an asteroid to nuke it so it splits in half to avoid a collision with Earth and then this happens on launch.

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A screenshot of a Twitter post featuring a colorful graphic with a motivational quote about success, surrounded by various social media icons and engagement metrics.

A screenshot of a Twitter post featuring a colorful graphic with a motivational quote about success, surrounded by various social media icons and engagement metrics.

get swept up with us today into today's square from Ivy Grimes

"...he said he had news. He was going to ask our mutual friend to be his girlfriend. It was the first time I'd ever been alone with R. "Why are you telling me this?" I said."
https://www.havehashad.com/ud9j6

17.06.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 10

Congrats to all and especially these authors, including the great Sam Cowan of Dim Shores! We’re looking forward to publishing Fawver’s newest collection this fall!

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So glad these finally made their way to you!

22.05.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Creep cast

25.04.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti
YouTube video by Jon Padgett The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti

I heard recently that a popular horror podcast was slagging off Ligotti’s short story, β€œThe Red Tower.” My response: uploading a reading of it to YouTube. β€œPurple prosed” nonsense or singular masterpiece or something else entirely? You decide.

24.04.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much for your patience! I hope you enjoy your books!

22.04.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The SECRET GATEWAYS books have arrived!!!
Thank you to Matthew and Jon for working tirelessly to get these to their fans!
Thank you to Sam @ Dim Shores for pitching in to get these organized and mailed out.
@mattmbartlett.bsky.social
@grimscribepress.bsky.social
@dimshores.bsky.social

21.04.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Head of Buddha with Buddha bump.

Head of Buddha with Buddha bump.

Ah, the legendary Buddha bump’ I had a beloved chow golden mix named Earle who had one as well.

17.04.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, β€œIt really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

β€œI feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. β€œAnd certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, β€œIt really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.” β€œI feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. β€œAnd certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

Clive Barker gets it.

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The book Glass Stories by Ivy Grimes - the front cover - an illustration of a strange hieratic angelic figure

The book Glass Stories by Ivy Grimes - the front cover - an illustration of a strange hieratic angelic figure

Another very good book I finished back in January: Glass Stories by @ivygrimes.bsky.social . Themed single author collection, really cool idea, executed beautifully. Satisfying, varied range of strange, symbolic fantasies of dread, love and horror of the body, the domus, immanence and transformation

07.03.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

oh my fabulous fiends of #HorrorReads! The poll is complete, and the story we're going to discuss this Sunday at 9PM EST will be Venio by Gemma Files! Give it a listen in the next few days and join us!

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First Word On Horror A new documentary series featuring bestselling horror authors on their lives, the writing process, and the fears that make us human.

When @sgj.bsky.social, @lairdbarron.bsky.social, Mariana Enriquez, @elizabethhand.bsky.social & @paultremblay.bsky.social all show up to talk horror w/ the director of THEY REMAIN... I am SO there! Series starts Feb 3, subscribe to @etchfilm.bsky.social's substack.
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