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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.
"The Secret of Ventriloquism" by Jon Padgett (@grimscribepress.bsky.social), published by Dunham's Manor Press in 2016.
This limited hardcover edition of Padgett's debut collection of surreal short stories includes three full-page illustrations by Dave Felton.
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Cardin!
04.09.2025 11:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Shout 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 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 1I love all these publishers. Thank you!
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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.
Beautiful!
05.08.2025 23:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 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
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
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
www.heartlines-spec.com/coup-de-coeu...
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 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Very kind of you! A new Kurt Fawver collection should be around the corner as well as some more debuts and surprises.
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Happy 72nd birthday to my friend, Thomas Ligotti.
09.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 86 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1
“I 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
Featured artwork by Vincent Napoli
Tagging 👆 @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
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.
19.06.2025 15:40 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
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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
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!
15.06.2025 18:17 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So glad these finally made their way to you!
22.05.2025 03:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Creep cast
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I heard recently that a popular horror podcast was slagging off Ligotti’s short story, “The Red Tower.” My response: uploading a reading of it to YouTube. “Purple prosed” nonsense or singular masterpiece or something else entirely? You decide.
24.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 35 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0Thank you so much for your patience! I hope you enjoy your books!
22.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
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 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 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, “It 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.” “I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And 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
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 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0oh 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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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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Finished a breathtaking short story collection Santa brought me. Mindf* collection, composed of interconnected stories, reading more like a composite novel. Origami Dreams and both stories with Ventriloquism in their titles my favorites. Strongly recommended! 5/5
From @grimscribepress.bsky.social
Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
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"In a castle far from every prince" in F&SF
"We're all Mad here" in Orion's Belt
"Against cold stone" in Vastarien @grimscribepress.bsky.social
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