ghoul thing

the response this essay has gotten from strangers and friends alike means a lot to me. it sucks that so many people relate to the experiences I describe, but im glad i could write something even a little bit useful.

so suprised & happy to announce that Bloodletter Magazine nominated this essay for the Pushcart Award ♡

I have started an urgent gfm for my partner and friend Charisma and Robin. Please consider supporting them as they face financial hardship and housing insecurity! gofund.me/21cc825a8

@cyberpunk.dog @habariqueenby.bsky.social

As you’re doing holiday shopping, consider Amplitudes!

I’m proud of this project, and all our contributors—folks from more than 6 countries, each bringing unique perspectives and stories about queer/trans futurity, community, and survival even or especially through difficult times—did amazing work.

Why I Need the Birds A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Nonfiction: We are looking for personal essays, literary/media criticism, creative nonfiction, and more by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only considering full pieces (up to 4,000 words) and cannot consider pitches. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

Atop a purple illustrated background, white text reads "Reprints: We are looking for previously published speculative short fiction (up to 17,500 words by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors. At this time, we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free. OPEN NOW!! Find all the details at othersidespec.com/guidelines."

We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

Another bump for the homies 🙏😅

Psst you dont have to be a conventional scholar to participate--the Queer Horror Conference also accepts presentations from artists and other creative practitioners, as well as grads, undergrads, independent scholars, and established faculty.

Give us our roses while we're still alive.

If they took these off the list, what’s left? These are the main ones

It's that time... consider submitting to the Queer Horror Conference 2026 ! The call for papers is up now--it was so fun and generative last year, I would love to see all of you here this year! The conference is completely virtual, Feb 5-8th 2026 ♡
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...

Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag

🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Art by @mxmorgan.com

All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...

The WORKS OF VERMIN by hiron ennes surrounded by leaves and plants and shit

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!

"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman

"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear

"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber

Get your copy from your local bookstore!

LEECH by Hiron Ennes on a limestone hearth beside a stemmed glass with a pale drink topped with a dark float.

LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...

“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”

jeep compass, a 10 week old calico kitten, emerges from a cardboard box. her huge yellow eyes are looking at you.

jeep compass has decided to bite and attack the cardboard box. she is nibbling carefully at one of the flaps with her ears tilted back.

beast that lives in my home and hunts me daily.

just wanted to yell about my Trans-Gothic necromancer gay fuck book again
find out when this campaign goes live: zoop.gg/c/little-dea...

These things feel so awkward to post, but I genuinely like seeing other people sharing their work from this year, so I'll hop aboard the train of awards eligibility posts.

such a big honor to have this piece, one of the various tendrils of my respective tributes to nick cave, whether creative or academic, in the absolutely unfuckwithable @hexliterary.bsky.social

Libro FM screenshot, showing All the Hearts You Eat by Hailey Piper on sale for like 80 percent off, art by Julia Lloyd, narrated by a full cast

A woman decides to have a hot vampire summer and make it everyone's problem.

ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning

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Cover reveal! 🖤🏚️🖤

So many thanks to Nightworms and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for unveiling the cover for my second collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, out on 4/14/26 from @rdspress.bsky.social!

Artwork by the fantastic Scott Cole!

Pre-order links: books2read.com/hauntedhouses

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

Together.

thought i would just read one chapter of black flame (2025) before bed. found myself gripped by unease and frantic at 2am. absolutely fantastic, gripping novel, run do not walk etc

Private Traps: Transphobia, Psychosis, and Grief in Psycho Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho continues to be tumultuous ground for trans authors and viewers. In Private Traps, Dave Riser posits questions around the transphobic and ableist histories that force us to c...

#whatsleepsbeneath
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complicated feelings about Psycho, trans grief, and psychosis

Short fiction recommendation of the day: “Each-Uisge” by @davevriser.bsky.social in The Off Season ✨

so honored+excited to be included! here's a little bit about why i love horror + what Jack Ketchum's Girl Next Door did for me

“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…

so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
bloodlettermag.com/enough-rope-...