From Beyond Press

In my basement, plotting to take over the world. That didn't work out so now I'm in publishing.

YouTube video by TheRunner75 The Banshees - Project Blue (1966)

Your daily obscure Chicago song is The Banshees' 1966 garage rock classic "Project Blue."

This has been presented by RED LINE: CHICAGO HORROR STORIES, which releases on August 12. Get your copy for two bucks off at our website.

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A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

“Each story stands out by revealing both Chicago’s beauty and its ugliness, an ugliness reflected in broader society... Red Line turns a place into a character as vibrant and complex as the people who live within it.” —Booklist

RED LINE: CHICAGO HORROR STORIES comes out in a week! @ala-booklist.bsky.social says "Red Line turns a place into a character as vibrant and complex as the people who live within it." Get it for two bucks off at our site frombeyondpress.com

“Each story stands out by revealing both Chicago’s beauty and its ugliness, an ugliness reflected in broader society... Red Line turns a place into a character as vibrant and complex as the people who live within it.” —Booklist

RED LINE: CHICAGO HORROR STORIES comes out in a week! @ala-booklist.bsky.social says "Red Line turns a place into a character as vibrant and complex as the people who live within it." Get it for two bucks off at our site frombeyondpress.com

Did you ever get a response from the Scientologists?

Graphic reproduces text from post, with the addition of "Followed by German silent film Journey into the Night with live score by Ira Glass (Band)."

Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories release party! Featuring an all-Chicago DJ set by Plastic Crimewave and readings by 10+ authors. Followed by a German silent film with a live score.

August 27, 6pm, Comfort Station Logan Square, 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Graphic reproduces text from post, with the addition of "Followed by German silent film Journey into the Night with live score by Ira Glass (Band)."

Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories release party! Featuring an all-Chicago DJ set by Plastic Crimewave and readings by 10+ authors. Followed by a German silent film with a live score.

August 27, 6pm, Comfort Station Logan Square, 2579 N. Milwaukee Ave.

This is incredible

Because it is, indeed, so damn cool.

People will just go on social media and say any damn thing.

I had to crop very carefully.

A screenshot containing part of an illustration of what looks like a cat cutting its hand open, with some partial text.

You are not ready.

@horrorsong.blog @blacksugarpill.bsky.social

Screen shot of an Amazon review says "I was vaguely familiar with this author’s work through seeing her name in books and articles about weird fiction writers from the first half of the 20th century, but I wasn’t prepared for the greatness in this volume. An excellent foreword sets up her life contextually, and then it’s on- I read the entire book in one sitting, I couldn’t put it down. If you dig Lovecraft, Frank B. Long, Robert Bloch etc, you’ll love this. Werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, all with a weird fresh twist. Highest recommendation, can’t wait for another volume."

One thing we do is reprints of forgotten works, many of them by women who wrote for pulp magazines. Just saw this excellent review of FETTERED AND OTHER TALES OF TERROR by Greye La Spina. Available most places books are sold.

I didn't want to upset anyone... yet.

It's been basically a year since THE FLESH OF THE SEA dropped. Despite the difficulties getting this book to print, I'm still immensely proud of myself and @shelleylavigne.bsky.social. To work together with my friend is an experience I wouldn't trade for the world. Wil+Jean 4eva💖

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

A screenshot containing part of an illustration of what looks like a cat cutting its hand open, with some partial text.

You are not ready.

@horrorsong.blog @blacksugarpill.bsky.social

I'm putting the finishing touches on a @horrorsong.blog project and I can vouch for this statement.

Stack of zines

Pulled a stack of zines and chapbooks for my non Sealey challenge challenge (these aren't poetry). But I plan on reading at least one a day. Stuff from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social, @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social, @horrorsong.blog, @frombeyondpress.bsky.social, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and more!

Boundless is going under, it’ll cease trading by end of day. Archna has emailed Neem Tree Press authors about this but not Unbound ones :/

Authors, a couple staff members are working hard to get reversions, subcontracts, and files to us—if you need them email NOW before the lights go off

i won’t judge someone who makes a living off of substack and doesn’t want to risk leaving, but if you have even the slightest opportunity to leave you gotta do it

1933 = Man's Castle (Borzage, USA)

In retrospect, I, and all other humans, are uniquely unsuited to plumbing the depths of this mystery. It must remain unplumbed.

one like = my favorite movie from a random year going back to 1920.

2008 = Yard Work Is Hard Work (Mack, USA)

1994 = Dellamorte Dellamore (Soavi, Italy)

A fine tree. Thank you.

1939 = The Rules of the Game (Renoir, France)