Matt Blairstone

What, we’re just recycling the previous years costume now?
🖤☠️

ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume

Dudes who can’t get hired anywhere else and took the worst possible lessons from cosplay💀

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Also, oh hey bookstores and shop owners! If you wanna carry Tenebrous books without all the hidden markups that In**amSp**k adds, all the deets are here:

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Better % for you; better % for us and our authors🖤☠️

Also, normalize how weird “both” political parties sounds here in the US, like it is in the rest of the world. But I guess that’s asking for a lot.

More Portland Restaurants Offer Free Meals During SNAP Shutdown Options now include Cafe Olli, Grassa, Laughing Planet and more.

Most of my life has been in restaurants, at every level, from dishwasher to rat catcher to general manager.
There is sooo little money in restaurants. That it’s falling to them to feed this country for free should shame both worthless political parties.

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Cover art by Trevor Henderson, featuring a half dog-half rat looming over a foreboding manor; trope list includes: HOMICIDAL HOMES & GARDENS TORTURED ARTISTS (DECEASED) SO. MANY. DEAD. HUSBANDS. KINKY SWINGERS (DECEASED) NOSY REPAIRMEN (DECEASED) ARE YOU DOG OR RAT?

🎃HALLOWEEN READS🎃

Cuz books don't have expiration dates

@jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social's POSTHASTE MANOR takes you on a tour of the most f%&ked up haunted house imaginable. Think HAUSU (Japan, 1977) but middle America

Art @slimyswampghost.bsky.social

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My latest cover for Tenebrous. Definitely had some Carpenter Brut rattling around in my skull while working on it.

ALSO: my commissions are OPEN again.

Indie publishers, indie authors: I'm keen to get you unique art for your project that won't break the bank.

DMs are open🖤☠️

Calls for Reviews & Essays: January 2026 The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…

If you're a reviewer and willing to do a girl a solid, there's definitely something on this list for calls for reviews that would treat you right.
And also there's my hoodlum of a book

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Cover art for CLAIRVIOLENCE: by Bri Crozier; flora and fungi sprout from a diseased illustrated heart; a green snake slithers out. Blurbs by Mark Matthews, Clay Mcleod Chapman, Candace Nola

"One of the Most Anticipated Horror Books of Fall" - @pastemagazine.bsky.social

"Messy, horny & mean in the best way": The Blog Without a Face

Eleven tales that will exhilarate and terrify.

@momoshaty.bsky.social's CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT, out now🖤☠️

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Next year's tentative calendar, with one title partially obscured.

Rolled many small boulders up the hill for 2026 today, & I'm in awe at the variety.
Feels like such a trope-y answer—like a metal guitarist saying "yeah it's both our heaviest & most melodic album yet"—but it's also true.
Next year is bleak AF & Electric Neon.

Who's in for next year's book club?
🖤☠️

Looking for some horror this October? 🎃 Contributor @cavar.bsky.social has a story in BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 3, from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social! You can read their interview right here: buff.ly/wZS1iOt

Wanna stock up on some great Weird Horror reading for the weekend?

3 volumes of BRAVE NEW WEIRD or 3 cornerstone Tenebrous anthologies; each bundle is less than ten bucks!

(Also, if you buy eBooks direct from Tenebrous, you own them outright🖤☠️)

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Vintage Beistle are the best! I’ve got a few that are practically shreds at this point but I love em🖤☠️

Cover art for CLAIRVIOLENCE: by Bri Crozier; flora and fungi sprout from a diseased illustrated heart; a green snake slithers out. Blurbs by Mark Matthews, Clay Mcleod Chapman, Candace Nola

🔥💀RELEASE DAY💀🔥

Love, congrats & happy book birthday to @momoshaty.bsky.social! CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT features 11 terrifying stories of Occult Horror that cut deep across time & space.

These cards play for keeps🖤☠️

Cover art by @ear-a-corn.bsky.social

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Cover art by Jenna Cha; jaundiced yellow and sickly greens depict a fluttering human figure, seemingly free of bones, just skin flapping in the breeze, over a small farm and industrial town, a Jesus Saves billboard, and ferris wheel.

Blurbs from Bitter Karella, Hailey Piper, and Briar Ripley Page

🔥💀COVER ART REVEAL💀🔥

As if this day couldn't be awesome enough, we have this wraparound cover art for @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE, immaculately crafted by @jennacha.bsky.social

OLYOKE sets the world afire in March 2026! Much more info to come🖤☠️

Clairviolence: The Devil’s in the Details… and the Therapy Bills Mo Moshaty’s collection is a deck cut wide open. Each story keys off a Major Arcana card, then bleeds, burns, or writhes its way toward some hard emotional truth. It’s horror that cares about the b…

Wanna dig deeper beneath the surface of @momoshaty.bsky.social's CLAIRVIOLENCE ? The Blog Without a Face's review paints a rich picture:

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Exclusive Interview: "Clairviolence" Author Mo Moshaty ... . Exclusive Interview: "Clairviolence" Author Mo Moshaty \ In which she talks about this collection of horror short stories.

Mo has thoughts on things🖤☠️

Read @momoshaty.bsky.social's great interview covering CLAIRVIOLENCE, plus a whole lot more, conducted by @paulsemel.bsky.social:

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Get Ready for Rogue Star Magazine From Tonya R. Moore - Get Ready for Rogue Star Magazine

Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social. If we meet our $1200 goal, we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting January 2026. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (re-posted w/corrected link) #signalboost #writers #authors

The Barre Incidents, a novel by Lauren Bolger — Malarkey The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis, she grapples with the old horror stories in their hometown of B...

The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, and learning cryptids and banished, embittered gods are real. You can order here through @malarkeybooks.bsky.social !
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Cover art by Carly A-F, in the dark of deep space a lone astronaut sits at a console in their spacecraft, multicolored and pixelating into space. blurbs by Emma Cole and Ide Hennessy

Our 35th(?!) book is out next month. Here’s the full cover wrap for @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s DEAR STUPID PENPAL, featuring stellar art by @carlydraws.bsky.social

Cosmic Horror x Queer Romance in an entirely epistolary story. You gotta read it to believe it🖤☠️

Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

This could be you, reading this excellent book!

check it out :-)

Hot riffs

The only thing burning Portland down is my hot riffs

Comixxxxx

Pullbox-plus pickup today 🖤☠️

Record on the turntable; jacket art for The Mentally Ill, featuring a photo of John Wayne Gacy and Rosalynn Carter

Gift from @alexwoodroe.com bought at the @crucialblast.bsky.social table based purely on vibes.

And, based purely on vibes, she nailed it; late 70s lo-fi scuzz-punk by The Mentally Ill, that sounds like it was recorded in an insane asylum🤘

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

THE DEATH WHEELERS
THE BROOD
THE DUNWICH HORROR
THE BEYOND

Cover art for CLAIRVIOLENCE: by Bri Crozier; flora and fungi sprout from a diseased illustrated heart; a green snake slithers out. Blurbs.

We’re days away from the release of @momoshaty.bsky.social’s CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT & the cards are restless!

11 tales of occult terror that will rattle you to your core🖤☠️

Cover art by @ear-a-corn.bsky.social

Order: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art for CLAIRVIOLENCE: by Bri Crozier; flora and fungi sprout from a diseased illustrated heart; a green snake slithers out. Blurbs by Mark Matthews and Clay Chapman.

Fortune favors the Weird. CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT by @momoshaty.bsky.social arrives next Tuesday!

The cards never lie🖤☠️ Cover art by @ear-a-corn.bsky.social

Get CLAIRVIOLENCE: store.tenebrouspress.com

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We're gonna be revealing the first of two cover art brain-melters from @jennacha.bsky.social in next week's newsletter.

If you have amazing taste in art—and of course you do, you follow us!—and wanna see just why Jenna is one of our faves, you should subscribe now:

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Cover art by Carly A-F, in the dark of deep space a lone astronaut sits at a counsel in their spacecraft, multicolored and pixelating into space. blurb by Emma Cole

Cosmic Horror.
Sci-Fi time shenanigans.
And…

…Tenebrous finds LOVE??? 🖤🖤🖤💀💀💀

It’s true.

@rascalhartley.bsky.social’s DEAR STUPID PENPAL is up for preorder now!

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Stunning cover art by @carlydraws.bsky.social

October is halfway over! Have you submitted anything for the BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR OF THE YEAR?