The forced perspective here is so fun!
25.02.2026 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The forced perspective here is so fun!
25.02.2026 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@matthewtpritt.bsky.social has a novelette in this collection that put my jaw on the floor.
He writes subtle, elegant stories filled with pathos and a deep undercurrent of dread.
You want visit his cursed place.
Love this!
22.02.2026 05:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Teen girl in hospital bed reading from her little clam shell
Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014
18.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 2949 🔁 570 💬 36 📌 43
Valentine’s Day sale image of a bloody heart featuring 14% off all single issues and ebooks of Fraidy Cat Quarterly
From now through March 1st you can save 14% on all Fraidy Cat Quarterly single volumes and ebooks when you buy direct! fraidy-cat-press.myshopify.com
And we have some awesome new handmade bookmark designs too!
#horrorlit #sale #amreading #horror #ebook #2026readingchallenge #indie #cosmichorror
Open for submissions! fraidycatpress.com/submission-g...
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attention all horror writers!
#horrorwriters #amwriting
You can get your print or ebook copy of FCQ 2 (and all of our other issue) AND save 14% on your single issues through the end of the month in our new Shopify store! fraidy-cat-press.myshopify.com
#indie #booksale #discount #horrorlit
Awesome review from the story that inspired our cover for Volume 2! What a great project for the year from @staniforthmick.bsky.social too!
16.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
One submission per form per time! So you could submit 1 story, 5 pieces of interior art, and 5 potential cover artworks. Once you get a response for each type of sub you can submit something else in that category.
I hope this helps!
Pssst: we’re open to submissions of horror fiction, interior art, and full color cover art AND WE’RE PAYING MORE NOW.
Guidelines here: fraidycatpress.com/submission-g...
#horrorlit #cosmic #horror #indie #shortstory #novelette #magazine #art #illustration
Apropos of everything else, Neil Gaiman is still a piece of shit, and he's resurfaced like a groundhog to remind us all of this fact.
02.02.2026 21:36 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hey, hey beautiful people. In addition to a beautiful new baby, I also have a beautiful new print anthology I’m in! Thanks to @fraidycatpress.bsky.social
Fraidy Cat Quarterly #8 has a whole heaping helping of me… and several better writers… but also me!
Read it, nerd.
#horrorwriterschat
Big news: we're reopening to submissions on 2/16 on a rolling basis!
Highlights: increased pay per word! Longer word count limits! Higher pay for interior art! New cover art submissions!
Full details: fraidycatpress.com/submission-g...
#callforsubmissions #horrorlit #fiction #art #shortstory
You can check out "Hivemind" and other stories of wrath and ruin in Fraidy Cat Quarterly Volume 7: Rage!
fraidycatpress.com/product/frai...
#horror #weird #indie #shortstory #horrorlit #rage #bees
We're incredibly proud to have published this absolute banger of a story in FCQ Volume 7! Congrats to @corriehaldane.bsky.social on the very well-deserved recognition and thank you to @tenebrouspress.bsky.social for highlighting excellent work in the weird horror indie community!
31.01.2026 16:02 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0It’s true! Check out FCQ #8 for gnawing tales of weird and cosmic horror, plus cover art that will send a chill up your spine 🥶😱
20.12.2025 23:32 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Congrats to you!
20.12.2025 18:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I've done a terrible job of promoting Fraidy Cat Quarterly recently, because of how objectively awful this year was in our personal lives. We're going to announce changes to how we do things next year and I think y'all will be excited about them! But we need time to catch up, so that's baked in.
20.12.2025 14:59 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You can get your copy of Abigail's story (and 10 other rage-filled and wrath-fueled tales) by buying direct from us:
fraidycatpress.com/product/frai...
We're also available pretty much everywhere books are sold online!
#horrorlit #rage #shortstories #indie #horror
You can pick up D. Matthew Urban's latest (as well as 6 other dynamite stories) direct from us:
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We're also available basically everywhere online!
#indie #horrorlit #shortstories #horror
Extremely proud to be mentioned in Best Horror of the Year Vol 17 from @datlow.bsky.social ! Big shoutouts to @cwmcguinness.bsky.social, @collyleonard.bsky.social @lost-squonk.bsky.social , JC Wiles, & everyone else who's trusted us with your words the last 2 years!
#besthorror #shortfic #horrorlit
Psyched to be back in FCQ with "Pages Found Under a Child's Bed," a grisly Richard Matheson homage in which various things gnaw: hunger, remorse, the folks who live under the lake...
02.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1New story in Fraidy Cat Quarterly issue 7! ☀️🐕🚀
02.11.2025 23:19 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0This includes my very accurate and totally true slice of 19th-century Australian bushranger life, the aftermath of the 'squatter-versus-selector' war, and the worst legends about Dan Morgan. The volume's subtitle gives a hint of what's involved.
02.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Howdy folks!
Just as a little heads up, my story Devouring a Perfect Circle will be appearing in volume 8, and the folks at Fraidy Cat have been amazing to work with!
Just think of it! A part of me to stick somewhere in your house to haunt you.
💙📚🪐
#horrorlit #horror #writingcommunity
Ahhh! This is the one!
#writingcommunity #horrorlit
Check out this great deal! FCQ #7 will include a new horror story by me titled "The Beast of Boma Road." A young woman’s encounters with a strange creature and wandering eyes will have you asking, who is the real best of this story? COMING SOON! 🖤🐈⬛🖤
02.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
You can get FCQ8 directly from us here (or wherever books are sold): fraidycatpress.com/product/frai...
Buying direct is appreciated and helps us out immensely!
#indie #horror #smallpress #independentpublishing #shopsmall #buydirect #cosmic #gnaw
FCQ8 is our gnaw-themed issue and features excellent writing from:
@jacobstevenmohr.bsky.social (with an original novelette)
Art by Valerie Marshall
Jasmine Harrell
@therrien.bsky.social
Tremain Xenos
@abastedo-writing.bsky.social
@breathinghead.bsky.social
@jfennellauthor.bsky.social
