@philmakesmonsters.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award-longlisted writer. BE NOT AFRAID releasing October 2026! Work in Uncharted, Coffin Bell, Cleaver, The Pinch, The Devil Take You. Co-host of the Pixel Lit podcast. Dollar store Orson Welles. he/him PhilMakesMonsters.com
Hegseth wouldn’t know a warrior if one was sitting on his face.
Mewgenics’ biggest fan.
Story Hours come together in uncanny ways. Eugen Bacon and Phil Keeling read artful, chilling stories addressing resource shortages in different parts of the world. Cli-fi, social horror, incredible storytelling. A must-watch! @genni.bsky.social @philmakesmonsters.bsky.social youtu.be/BHiCJZ6WTZg
Tonight’s reading was so much fun. Thanks to @storyhour.bsky.social for giving me some time, and thanks to @genni.bsky.social for absolutely kicking my ass with a genuinely haunting story.
Come see us! Come listen! Getcher butts in here.
I stand by this. A lot.
You ought to pick this one up.
What if @pixellitpod.com got over 500 YT subscribers before our 5 year anniversary?
youtube.com/@pixellit
Hope to see y’all there!
10th credit sequence of the year.
WARNING: Playing the Tex Murphy/Tex Avery drinking game could lead to severe hangovers and unplanned pregnancy. Please watch today’s episode of Pixel Lit to learn more:
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So is Barron enlisting?
Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically.
Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.
"The Peace President." [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]
Ninth credit sequence of the year!
My books as Pantone paint chips? Don’t mind if I do.
Join Kevin and Phil today during the finale of METRO 2033! In which nothing tragic happens to anyone or anything.
Promise.
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The final ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards is live, and it’s full of some amazing authors — 2025 was a good year for horror!
“How could he go from this to this??”
Money.
“But why would they support that?”
MONEY.
“But how is it—“
IT’S MONEY IT’S ALWAYS MONEY
The year of reading more classics is going well:
*wife sees Phil weeping in his chair*
Wife: “So you finished All Quiet on the Western Front?”
Phil: “They were just *boys*, goddammit!”
Made the best chicken wings of my life. Now it’s your problem.
Eight credit sequence of the year. More 40K: what a surprise!
Got a scam text and blacked out.
Hey you remember the time you forgot to pay a speeding ticket and got threatened with jail time?
Anyway, ICE is killing and detaining innocent people and the president’s a pedophile and nothing’s being done about it.
But wow: that speeding ticket was damn important, right?
Post a banger, not in English.
This one is from the heart.
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Can our hero recover from realizing early on in his young life that he has plot armor?? Find out in the latest episode of PIXEL LIT: METRO 2033!
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My latest piece has just hit what I so eloquently refer to as the “oh shit oh shit oh shit” moment. That literary version of the scissors effortlessly gliding through wrapping paper.
Seventh credit sequence of the year. God damn.
Today we’re continuing our Alice in Wonderland-style march through the Soviet sewers in METRO 2033!!!
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I don’t generally consider a book-length project to be a real thing until I hit about 10k words. So as of today, I’ve got a real thing on my hands.