C.H. Pearce

For the month of December, USA readers can pick up The Rook on their kindle for just $2.99!

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Here it is! The magical medical school book I've been talking about for years! 🫀✨💀📙

BODIES OF MAGIC will be taking your pulse & injecting itself into your veins in September next year.

Pre-order offer! If you pre-order our new antho, ENCOUNTERS, you'll be in with a chance of winning one of five paperback copies on release day. Either post your order confirmation or email it to encounterswithcryptids@gmail.com.

Fifteen monstrous stories. Out 02/14/26 www.amazon.com/dp/B0G4BLN1GR.

A reminder that my new horror collection SONGS OF SHADOW, WORDS OF WOE - featuring Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and Australasian Shadows Award-winning stories - is out and desperate for your attention now!

2025 Good and Evil and Other Stories – Samanta Schweblin, trans. Megan McDowell – Knopf (Los Angeles Review of Books) Profane Illuminations II: On Weird Fiction by John Langan, Rebecca Campbell, and B. Catling (Ancillary Review of Books) Foreword – Uncertain Sons and Other Stories – Thomas Ha (Undertow Publications) Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism (Ancillary Review of Books) Profane Illuminations I: On Weird Fiction by Steve Rasnic Tim, Ananda Lima, and Christi Nogle (Ancillary Review of Books) Profane Illuminations: An Initiation (Ancillary Review of Books) The Profane Illumination of the Weird: Distinguishing Weird Fiction and Horror (Nightmare) Model Home – Rivers Solomon – MCD (Seize the Press) Red Skies in the Morning – Nadia Bulkin – Dim Shores (Seize the Press)

A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.

(tumblr post) laskulls normal ocean creatures: ah. viva la sea. the blue, it is harsh but it is my love. i am a magnificent creature in a magical place the deep ocean weirdos: i don't need oxygen to survive. i haven't eaten since the fall of byzantium. i have 300 eyes on my eyeballs. its been 14000 years since l've bumped into another life form. I'll kick anything's ass. nothing can kill me not even death

found this classic banger again

last couple weeks of december when things slow down is usually when i try to catch up on short spec fic (try, being the operative word, always behind). if you've got recs for strange stuff in semi-pro mags that stuck out to you and that you think flew under the radar would def be interested to know.

It’s so good but we’ll see if I nope out before the end haha 🙈

Good morning Womble! Just started THE TROOP by Nick Cutter, incredible so far 👀 🖤

Congratulations! 🎉

Congratulations! 🎉

Hey, my horror novel BEDFELLOW is also available for $1.99.

www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...

Whalesong - PSYCHOPOMP.COM The whalesong hits when she’s on the highway. Up until that point, Hailey had just been driving, foot tensed on the pedal, hoping velocity would turn into an answer for a question that she didn’t know...

An eligibility post for 2025! I was lucky enough to have five things published this year. 🧵

- I would love you to consider Whalesong, published by the lovely skeletons at @thedeadlands.com. This one means a lot to me, and I hope it might to you as well.

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

Subcultures exhibition

Belconnen arts centre

Belconnen arts centre

XIII Change is Coming by Claire Low

Fantastic exhibition opening last night at Belconnen Arts Centre including the Subcultures exhibition curated by Red Saunders featuring work by Claire Low (last pic), Stephen Herczeg, Zee Herczeg and more! You can also vote for your fave artwork (I am struggling to choose). 🖤

A new book! By me! About something 'orrible on the London Underground!
It's out in six months and I think you're gonna like it...

CHM will be open for submissions at the beginning of the new year!

Read our guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3FZcgMA

When my father asked me what cosmic horror was I had to pick a book he'd actually recognize and I blurted out "Moby Dick." I stand by this. See also: this print.

2025 AWARDS ELIGIBILITY - LYNDSEY CROAL Collection DARK CRESCENT Luna Press Publishing - Horror/fantasy/SF, 55k words Includes : Novella: “Daughter of Fire and Water” Original short fiction: “The Frittening”; “Dark Crescent”; “The Fiddler and the Muse”; “A Change in the Rain”, among others. Selected Short Fiction “When the Blood Runs Dry”, Blood in the Bricks, NewCon Press - Horror, 2,738 words “To Reap, To Sow”, Analog SF March/April, & SF Caledonia (forthcoming) - SF, 4,518 words “Under a Bleeding Sky”, ParSec #14 - SF, 1,258 words

I see it's that time of the year again, so here's my Awards Eligibility for 2025! Mostly shouting about Dark Crescent, if folks enjoyed these dark and strange folklore tales from @lunapress.bsky.social! If anyone would like a copy of any of the stories for awards consideration, just drop me a DM! ✨

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

St Dymphnas School for Borderland Girls — Weird Horror Magazine

Still reading for awards consideration? Try Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece's ST. DYMPHNA’S SCHOOL FOR BORDERLAND GIRLS.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/st-dymphnas-...

Exciting book acquisitions I forgot to post about! 😅 Not one, but TWO new books by @angelaslatter.bsky.social!! And a contributors copy of Midnight Echo edited by @martydyoung.bsky.social !

Hey artists, crafters, makers: If you have an online shop, drop it in the replies. I love getting one-of-a-kind pieces for my loved ones, and I doubt I'm the only one, so don't be shy!

Rebels & Rainbows - book cover illustration, a card pack by C.H. Pearce Rebels & Rainbows - book cover illustrationCard Pack description...

Thanks Jennifer, this is a lovely idea! I am terrible with promoting my art print shop. Think the bird greeting card is quite festive (linked)! 🦜 ✨

www.inprnt.com/gallery/chpe...

Hey there. Back in Drabblecast w/ an audio version of "Window Boy" originally published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. (And the opening story to recent collection Uncertain Sons and Other Stories at @undertow.bsky.social). Check it out!

I'm always confused when writers change the plot because a reader figured out what was coming. Surely that's good? Surely that means the breadcrumbs have been laid out appropriately?

I am a completionist so I am compelled to do #artvsartist every year, even though social media is fragmented and the instagram grid is no longer a thing! I had a fantastic art year, thank you for your support and following along on my journey ❤️ 🤓 🎨

#artvsartist2025

🎱Introducing DirtBags🎱
A brand new, 100% hand drawn graphic novel by Americo Alvarenga and Madison Lee is launching next year with @comix_app 💚

www.comix.one/projects/dir...

🥰 He’s the cutest!

Thank you! Yes it’s a whole new world, headaches gone too! 🤩