Rex Burrows

DC's violent crime rate is at a 30 year low, and DC has a police force answerable to locally elected officials. This move is at best a performative flex of authoritarian muscle and more likely a prelude to something much worse.

This is who runs this account (and also Bartertown).

Explore spooky Chicago history - Chicago Reader Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories delves into spooky Chicago history and painful aspects of modern urban life.

"Red Line’s contributors create a thrilling mosaic of Chicago—past, present, and future—in all its complex, terrifying beauty."

The Chicago Reader loves RED LINE: CHICAGO HORROR STORIES. I can't ask for a better recommendation.

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Web page screen from Weird Horror showing partial text to "A Cruelty" plus byline on ochre background.

New story day here at Weird Horror: Rory Say's enigmatic "A Cruelty," which treads that literary space between Robert Aickman and Charles L. Grant.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/a-cruelty

Supernatural Tales 59: Autumn 2025 Supernatural Tales 59: Autumn 2025 - Kindle edition by Machin, James, Luckhurst, Roger, LeFanu, Sarah , Burrows, Rex , Day, Victoria , Wilkinson, Charles, Cashmore, Stephen, Dawson, Sam, Longhorn, David. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Supernatural Tales 59: Autumn 2025.

Also available here for the Amazon inclined:
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Supernatural Tales 59 The 59th issue of the long-running magazine offers a wide range of stories by British and American authors. From an anecdote told in a Yorkshire hair salon to a worried academic wandering an East Angl...

The ebook version of Supernatural Tales iss. 59 now available. This one includes my story "Pastepot" alongside six other works of eerie fiction.
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Oh yes. These are definitely the last pizza bagels on the scorched remnants of Earth.

[Gutteral singing]: something something something. PIZZA. BAAAAGELS!!!

Can’t quite make out the lyrics, but I’m pretty sure this death metal guy is singing about pizza bagels.

Purple background, white text, which says Grimes's geography occupies ambiguous spaces, shifts out perspectives, and invites us to contemplate what, if anything, they mean. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood

Ben Lockwood's essay about the role of geography - and the ways in which place & space can be ambiguous - in Ivy Grimes' short stories has made me think hard about inside/outside, domestic, and wild, safe and not...

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Happy book birthday to @johnlangan.bsky.social's LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS! This is a mesmerizing read, ingeniously inventive and downright scary. And Mr. Langan, our dear gentleman frightener, is one of the best guys you'll ever meet. Order your copy today! wordhorde.com/books/lost-i...

*taps mic*. Okay, the mub is back. Check out the audio here. Great narration, voice acting, effects, and the rest. Thanks to the Drabblecast team for looking into things quickly and reissuing as needed.

Suffering the Other – table of contents 16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name. Nadia Bulkin -- Infested ** Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette ** Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face Alexander Hay -- LEAD ** Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope Laura Mauro -- Ptichka ** David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful ** A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb Clint Smith -- “January Sick” J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector ** Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege ** Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber Pamela Weis -- An Abomination A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert ** Cover art and design by RewX Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan

I am very pleased to announce the table of contents for SUFFERING THE OTHER, a benefit anthology for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center. For plain text version see the ALT text. Coming late 2025 or early 2026.

A big thank you to Tales to Terrify editor @mlmorgenstern.bsky.social for selecting it. And this story was originally published in Cosmic Horror Monthly, so another thank you to the fine folks at @chmmagazine.bsky.social as well.

Happy to share that my story "The Head in the Pantry" will be getting the (suitably creepy) audio treatment in an upcoming episode of @talestoterrify.bsky.social !

Fully endorsed.

God how i hate dipshit vroom vroom cars.

Movie poster for The Warriors (1979). Image of massed gang members. Tagline: These are the armies of the night.

Tonight’s re-watch. Can you dig it?

My fellow Americans: if there are any small Canadian businesses that you rely on for goods or services, now would be a good time to kick them a little extra cash.

Heed Thomas’s words. This was a GREAT thing about early days here.

Virgil Finlay is a titan of sci-fi and fantasy illustration. Can you imagine making this with nothing but black ink? This is exactly the kind of vibes Goblins & Galaxies is going for in our sci-fi stories.

My fellow Americans: if there are any small Canadian businesses that you rely on for goods or services, now would be a good time to kick them a little extra cash.

Supernatural Tales 59 The 59th issue of the long-running magazine offers a wide range of stories by British and American authors. From an anecdote told in a Yorkshire hair salon to a worried academic wandering an East Angl...

…and it’s out:

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And you too can buy our books! We have so many great books. Like this one from @seanbirnie.bsky.social that I think everyone would love. Best $4 you'll spend today. Or tomorrow, even.

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A British astronaut stares in horror at some creature in the foreground- we don’t see it, we only see some sort of gelatinous appendix that looks like a hand looming over the terrified astronaut. The art includes the title of the movie and the tagline “it creeps. It crawls. It kills!”

THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT!

Rebecca holding a copy of her new chapbook

Publication day for my Nightjar Press chapbook! Through Narrowing Veins is a story of illness through the lens of cosmic horror. You can buy it now through the @nightjarpress.bsky.social website, alongside many other excellent titles (I've read loads and I love them)

Putting on my microbiologist hat to renew my plea about correctly differentiating viruses, bacteria, and fungi in spec fic (or just casual conversation). The American Society for Microbiology has a nice primer on the topic:
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Always writing about decaying cities!