Michael Cisco

a little? mostly scandi and some finn so ...

i can drink and be sad at once! it's my superpower.

the image shows a wave crashing on a stone, a sort of ghostly fabric hovering over it, framed in lightning, with braille-like constellations superimposed on it

uh oh -- reactor magazine, march 25th ... a totalitarian fairy tale from a treasury of classic Alak folklore

boris karloff as captain hook -- just thought you should know

RIP robert duvall

jerry the cat in a suit smoking on a ledge overlooking a city in the snow

that's the current WIP done and submitted

siouxsie sioux reading the sixth pan book of horror stories

now if only I knew which story dammit! she's somewhere near the middle, so Ron Holmes? William Sansom? John Collier?

lemmy and chuck berry being pals

happy valemmtines day

by one bad noodle

my thanks again to everyone at KGB, @matthewkressel.net @tdelucci.bsky.social and @datlow.bsky.social for inviting me to read at that storied podium again -- and thanks to all who turned up to hear me and @timchawaga.bsky.social --

Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota, on January 26, 2026 (Brandon Bell / Getty Images) The editors of The Nation are formally nominating the city of Minneapo...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

punches and blows hand delivered ...

a photo of a gas station called stinker station, skunk mascot on sign, motto is SAVE LIKE MAD

where you'll find me

TONIGHT! Join us with Michael Cisco & Tim Chawaga, 7pm at the KGB Bar, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB series. Theresa DeLucci is subbing for Ellen Datlow. Come one, come all!
@michaelcisco.bsky.social @timchawaga.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @tdelucci.bsky.social

a ghostly figure in an archaic room, screeching cat with arched back at their feet, ominous draped forms in the vicinity

the palace of spirit -- painting by romolo tessari

a figure sitting at a table in the dark, papers and books in front of them, very subuded

art by marina ho

did you read the post?

a superb owl candle

superb art by cm duffy

columbo peeking in through a glass door, being spotted by another guy, captioned "oh dear"

i'm no saint but when i look at The Files i have to say that these "people" who present themselves and see themselves as the finest, or indeed only, human beings are walking talking plague bacilli gleefully rotting everything they can get their hands on, they're the scum of the earth, not immigrants

perfectly normal ordinary everyday art by hayv kahraman

Next Wednesday, join us with Michael Cisco & Tim Chawaga for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading, 7pm at the KGB Bar. Come one, come all! @michaelcisco.bsky.social @timchawaga.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social

ghoulish silhouettes of people streaking by with prominent eyes and grimacing teeth

vyacheslav belov -- passersby

two skullhead spectres mugging for the camera in a german expressionist night town

night on the town, by mike mingolla

art by wolfe von lenkiewicz

you might check out Caged Ocean Dub by Dare Segun Falowo.

b&w photo of dr. zaius at the bus stop by the big donut

"Faye's inquiry into the precise formation of Nazi statements ... they always contain the ... cry 'Long live death!', even at the economic level ..." -- Thousand Plateaus ... and Paul Virilio called fascism the "suicidal state" too