D. Matthew Urban

Lupus in Fabula paperback | Cursed Morsels Press Lupus In Fabula collects thirteen stories about the interplay of lust, violence, yearning, and grief; about becoming a monster and loving monsters; about transformation; about strange occurrences in s...

"It is very rare for horror stories to make me feel actual horror and revulsion but [Lupus in Fabula] nailed it!"
-Cassandra on Goodreads

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Thanks for reading! So glad you enjoyed the collection 🧡🖤

I had the pleasure of reading frequent CHM author D. Matthew Urban's collection, SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES. Tight prose and imaginative stories. Highly recommended for fans of weird fiction.

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"Bake him away, toys!"

not only is it time for FLESH, but fun fact - i'll be making a custom illustration / collage for every piece in this zine! 🥩🖊

Post a you from a different era

Totally thrilled to have a story coming in the next issue of Weird Horror!

I used to get paranoid whenever I'd see a post like "today's weird fiction/horror sucks because of XYZ." "Oh no," I'd think, "they're talking about me!" Well, I finally swallowed my pride and DM'd one of those posters. Turns out they weren't talking about me at all! They were talking about you

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.”

From His Chest · 2021

I'm & more. Very pleased to be part of this!

3 days left to enter the giveaway! 100 free copies to be given away! 18 weird horror stories per copy! Who will be the lucky winners, envied by all? Could one of them be...YOU? 👀

I went on the Dead Languages Podcast and all I got was this creeping sense of unease as the world disintegrates around me! Listen to me chat with PLM and Carson about disorientation in horror, fun ways to collapse reality, and NYC's plague of sexy, sexy rats

A blurry photo of a tabby cat’s face looking out from under a bookshelf

There are cryptids everywhere for those with the eyes to see

plenty of good ideas here if you're looking for fun weekend activities

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WTF did I just read?! @breathinghead.bsky.social's Zygote City in This Exquisite Topology is one hell of a wild ride. I might have to re-read it, but that's okay because I loved it. @angrygablepress.bsky.social

Thanks so much! So glad you liked it!

Thankfully, most of the Other Daves have been located, extracted and placed in appropriate habitats. Other Daves #5 and #9, still at large, can be recognized by their over-large teeth and confusing eyes, respectively. Be cautious! Do not let them beguile you!

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Attention, weird horror lovers of the Texas Panhandle! From 5:00 to 6:30 this Thursday, I'll be at Burrowing Owl Books in my hometown of Amarillo (Wolflin Center, 2461 I-40), signing copies of my collection, Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces. Come say hi!

spotted in Austin: a big thing of parakeets

Studies in Suffocation I by Robyn O’Neil, a graphite drawing showing bowed heads mostly submerged in a dark, textured substance

Studies in Suffocation I, Robyn O’Neil. Seen at the Menil Collection, always one of my first stops when I’m in Houston

Swung by Ghoulish Books while rambling through Texas, and I'm so glad I did! It was awesome to meet @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, pick up a book that's been on my list for a long time (A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney), and sign some copies of SPOVF!

Congrats and many happy returns to @erikmchatton.bsky.social! Straw World is excellent, a treat for anyone who likes their stories weird, cosmic and unsparing

The stories in my collection are full of decay, dissolution, collapse and confusion, just like the real world. But unlike the real world (as far as I know), they've also got alchemical flesh parasites, arachnid aunts, and Aeolian harps that play the all-consuming music of sorrow

Yep! Kinda fucked me up too, and I watched it on purpose as an adult 😵‍💫🔩

Yep!

NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE

Tales and Stories
Now First Collected

Happy 228th birthday to Mary Shelley! Taking the occasion to re-read her great Gothic story "Transformation": gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5...