Carson Winter

Let us know if this affects sales in any ways because I think it'd be hilarious.

Thrilled to say FEEDING THE WHEEL has earned a Cummie Award for the "novels are too long" novella category. I say this without hyperbole; this is the height of my writing career. Extremely honored and grateful. I am going to turn my vagina statuette into a rapper chain and wear it to formal events

Very cool to see PORTRAITS OF DECAY make the long list at the BSFA awards!

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That's why I spend 6 hours a day in a gooncave, mainlining pornography. No thought, just goon.

I think this should be a new best practice for all indie authors. Great idea @brandenburgdm.bsky.social

Carson Winter - A Spectre is Haunting Greentree - SSBA Horror Finalist Hello again! Slight schedule change on the SSBA posts. Last time, I promised 1 every Sunday, but instead I got sick and missed one. The curr...

Back with another SSBA Finalist Spotlight!

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Today, it's Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social author of A Spectre is Haunting Greentree!

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Fuck ICE. I can’t summon the words to express the rage I feel after seeing their latest murder. What you’ve heard is correct—they are Nazis, sadists, bullies. If there’s any justice in the world, we’ll get to see every one of their heads drop from a guillotine.

Video.
Fuck ICE forever.
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Art featuring a human in unassuming clothing curled in a fetal position, hovering over a barren landscape against a sickly green sky. Cover Copy: One summer afternoon, Santi and Maria's daughter disappears without a trace from a public park. A fruitless investigation passes, the agony only serving to tear Santi’s life and family further apart. Months go by, and Santi finally stumbles upon a clue: it is hardly a name, barely a whisper, but it is enough to reveal a haunting legacy and unleash an entirely new kind of horror upon the despairing young father: “He Who Does Not Speak With Children.”

Back cover art for @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social's ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT by @jennacha.bsky.social, alongside lovely words from our buds @emmaemurray.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social

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I really liked that one! I had low expectations because I didn’t dig Talk to Me but was pleasantly surprised.

Dead Languages is back for a recap of our favorite books we read from the last half of 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/0Krl...

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Ever find yourself with a taste for something short, sharp & stabby, but you can't quite narrow down the specific taste?

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Two novelettes; two authors; two heaping helpings of WEIRD.

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I don’t read a lot of newsletters, but I read @cjsubko.bsky.social’s. I always enjoy her insight, honesty, and vulnerability about the absolute beast that is writing.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Putting this on my TBR list right now. Looking forward to it. I'll post a link in the comment section. ❤️

Alright, I did the Year in Review thing. Bad year? Or good year with bad expectations? You be the judge.

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Pay: 4
# of readers: 1
Award chances: 1
Vibes: 3
Hard copy: 0
Community: 0

Not a big Christmas guy, but I will say being sick on Christmas fucking blows. Free day off and we have to spend it sniffling? Fuck that noise.

We have big plans to watch that today.

Cummies Award Final Ballot Born from the bowels of your favorite irreverent horror writing podcast, the Dead Languages crew is proud to present the first annual Cummies Award! After a month long round of nominations, we've no...

These Cummies aren't gonna vote for themselves... I was taking a look at the back end and we have a couple of ties that need to be broken.

Come on and vote for the dumbest award in horrorlit: forms.gle/J2KVcpWcb8tu...

Reminder that if you can't afford an artist, you can create the cover yourself. @carsonwinter.bsky.social painted his own cover.
Not only was it free, but it's also completely unique and representative of him as an artist and author.
No AI, no stealing, no excuses, no slop.
It's that easy.

PORTRAITS OF DECAY—my debut collection from @saltheartpress.bsky.social. Weird horror stories for fans of Ligotti, Evenson, Jackson, and Barron.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.

"I can't afford a visual artist"

So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?

Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Check out "The Children of the Event" by @carsonwinter.bsky.social, which starts as a kaiju story, then takes a surprising turn into... The Sneetches? and then settles into another, hyper-relevant story about how societies deal with change and transformation. Fascinating stuff.

such a banger story depicted perfectly. don't miss x

It’s always a great day to have a story on Pseudopod. Proud of this one.

And if you really dig it and want more, check out my collection PORTRAITS OF DECAY!

This is a terrific story from @carsonwinter.bsky.social, beautifully narrated by @fluidityaudio.bsky.social.

I don’t think we’ve run a story with footnotes before. It works brilliantly, with huge thanks to @kibitzer.bsky.social for the audio wizardry! 🦑

If you haven’t read Fawver, you’re missing out on one of our finest living weird horror writers.

His work is like if Ken Burns wrote about nightmarish disturbances that keep vanishing from your memory.

Seeking reviewers, influencers, people who like to talk about horror short fiction—if you're interested in reading and reviewing my collection PORTRAITS OF DECAY, please reach out.

The best part of writing is when you finish a first draft of a big project and you can spend days not doing any of this nonsense for a bit, guilt free.

Happy to report I've been lounging about the house, reading, and playing video games.