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The full wrap of This World of Vile Wonder. The artwork is ‘Astronomer by Candlelight’ by Gerrit Dou.

Paperback of THIS WORLD OF VILE WONDER: HORROR TALES OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION available now!

Release day is Oct 20, so paperback orders should arrive by then. Mybook.to/vilewonder

It’s a sad Brian Kelly kind of day. The best kind of day.

Happy birthday

Happy belated birthday Pedro!!

This is Tucker. He was offered a tortilla but told to take it gently, and no one has ever understood the assignment better. 13/10 (TT: tucker_thegentleman)

Operation Depresso by Stefan Sofiski Here I am—another beat city bloke emerging from the London tube. I breathe out the soot and engine grease I’ve inhaled underground, and queue up for my morning dose of americano with extra shot of depresso. Busy station—cafes and bakeries, mechanical voice soundtrack and miserable commuters dragging themselves to be swallowed by glitzy office blocks for the next nine hours.

Operation Depresso by Stefan Sofiski

Here I am—another beat city bloke emerging from the London tube. I breathe out the soot and engine grease I’ve inhaled underground, and queue up for my morning dose of americano with extra shot of depresso. Busy station—cafes and bakeries, mechanical voice…

New short piece at @keep-planning.net - hope you'll check it out

Their loss. This is great stuff.

Thanks to @thedodgemag.bsky.social and @addisonzeller.bsky.social for sharing my story "Two Dreams," rejected two different times explicitly for having talking animals. Like, literally, one of them was a just form and "no talking animals."

In wonderful company:

www.thedodgemag.com/derrickmarti...

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE

WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

Seeing North Carolina on here is encouraging

Traveling Alone TRAVELING ALONE by Katy Goforth  Order Here! As a child, Holt Watson was drawn to the dying, holding their hand as they left this world. For his help, Holt was paid with the deceased’s talent,...

IT'S HERE. Meet Holt and Birdie and Carrie and them. TRAVELING ALONE by Katy Goforth (@katywrites.bsky.social) is out in the world today: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/traveling-al...

Cover for Thomas ha's UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES, featuring Giger-esque figures of bone on red background.

What? @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS is already 1-month old. They grow up so fast. Please grab a copy, if you haven't. Praised by @kellylink.bsky.social @jeffreyford8.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @wiswell.bsky.social @byzantienne.bsky.social @stevetem.bsky.social Brian Evenson, and more.

A fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.

and the cover

Golden Maze by @carlydraws.bsky.social

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Sure the game was terrible but the London crowd adding a U to the
J-E-T-S chant was interesting

Bob Gray, Information Technology expert.

Trump's insistence that Joe Biden was president on January 6 raises new questions about Joe Biden's memory.

Don’t think a professional athlete has ever felt more relatable than when LeBron got sciatica

They’re doing their best to make it so

TPUSA alternate Super Bowl halftime concert lineup.

Can’t pick my favorite part. Lee Greenwood near the bottom or Aaron Lewis (OF STAIND)

Facebook comment about TPUSA having their own halftime show. “I haven’t seen grown men this upset about a bunny since Con Air

It’s funny. I don’t remember getting high but I’m seeing some crazy shit on my phone right now.

Tacoverse food truck. One of my favorites.

Tricked out hearse at a car show

Tacos and a hearse does it get any better?

Why don’t the hulk’s pants rip off too? Wouldn’t his thighs and glutes just obliterate them?

The guys in true detective season one who did exactly that

Trump forming an anti Christian crime investigation task force to distract from the fact that he is a pedophile

A blurry hand against a gray backdrop forms the cover design, with Near Flesh in yellow on top along with Katherine Dunn in yellow too. With STORIES and AUTHOR OF GEEK LOVE in black text... As for further thoughts...there's a wonderful adult sensibility to the stories and a helpful matter-of-fact brutality, for lack of a better word. A story about roosters and chickens and a kind of miscommunication about their fate doesn't shy away from the cause-and-effect. A story about a woman stuck down a well has the lived-in quality of believing Dunn herself was once stuck down a well, with a surprising ending. The story first published in the New Yorker, "The Resident Poet," even seems to poke fun at the New Yorker in how, first of all, in its tale of a student having an affair with a professor, it feels like cliche NYer content. But then the kind of cold-blooded, unsentimental depiction of a weekend trip and the unflinching depiction of both characters elevates it into another realm entirely. Very original. Another story from the POV of a high school student explores the school's fascination with a new arrival. When the narrator finally gets to see the new student's house and finds it bereft of furniture, there's a practical reason for this, but also it oddly creates the space for the actual colorful story of the new student's life later. If Dunn had filled the house with detail, somehow the later tale told by the student would not have been quite as impactful. Which is another way of saying that Dunn's clarity and concision is matched by a real understanding of *space* and how to use it. None of these stories have any extraneous scenes or moments. Each exists and succeeds in how Dunn manages to envelop you in the moment and hold you there, across so many different narrators from various socio-economic classes. Highly recommended. And if you like the short stories of Joy Williams and Ottessa Moshfegh, you will definitely like Dunn's fiction.

Near Flesh by Katherine Dunn, best known for Geek Love, is a wonderful posthumous collection (her first). This feels like a cohesive and high-quality selection to me, not just something cobbled together to put out another book. More thoughts in the alt text.

Happy pub day and happy birthday