Vanessa Fogg

Apex Magazine Issue 151 EDITORIALMusings from Maryland by Lesley Conner ORIGINAL FICTION"Liecraft" by Anita Moskát, translated by Austin Wagner"Ghosts of Summer" by Catherine Tavares "Code Green" by Rebecca Johnson "We Used ...

And my second October story is here in issue 151 of @apexmag.bsky.social! “The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night” is a Shakespeare-inspired story about Stories featuring a doomed young lover(?), weird burial rites, and a cat.

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Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

Come help us fund year six of The Deadlands--paying for stories, poems, essays, and staff! Your mushroom coin enters you in spooky giveaways throughout 2026. We can't do this without you!

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Thanks, Charles, same to you!

Got my September round-up posted, with some great short fiction and my favorite longer read of the year (reading year, not publication year) www.tarvolon.com/2025/10/05/s...

IT IS ALIVE!! Behold the cover for Rabbit Test and Other Stories, out in April! Preorder while it is still legal to distribute through the mail!

Oh WOW, congratulations!!!

SUPPORT FORUM FOR THE CARE AND FEEDING OF YOUR PERSONAL SPIRIT-ANGEL - Uncharted Welcome to the forum! You have successfully registered and now have full access to the site and all its resources. And congratulations again on the summoning of your own personal spirit-angel. It’s an...

FFer Read of the Day: "Support Forum for the Care and Feeding of Your Personal Spirit-Angel" by @vanessafogg.bsky.social in @unchartedmag.bsky.social

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Ah, thank for featuring this!

@yiizzy.bsky.social I think you’d be into this:)

Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India p. 60 Bhoota Vahana Yanta Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine- men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between 1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE. According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture, as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after him and kill him. At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated as a Roman. This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master Robot-Maker, and had a son by her. Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh, and sewed the wound back up.

When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)

Photograph of a smiling Chinese American woman in a skull crown holding a copy of Demon Song by Kelsea Yu

DEMON SONG is out in the world today!! Thank you to everyone who preordered, blurbed, reviewed, library requested, shared, beta read, recommended, or otherwise supported this release!! With help from all of you, I get to continue in my dream career! 🥰

Available now in hardcover, ebook, & audio!! 🥳🥳

When Horror Meets Mental Health: This Way Lies Madness An Interview With Lee Murray And Dave Jeffery - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website "This Way Lies Madness" delivers empathetic horror on anxiety, grief, and more. Editors explain its role in destigmatizing mental health via global stories.

Here it is, my lovelies. A massive in-depth interview with @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social about creating an anthology that tackles mental health in horror.

It's a brilliant anthology and dare I say a brillaint interview

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Thank you, Chris!

Oh, so happy to hear this from you, Sam 💕

Ahh, thank you, John!!

Eeee thank you, Sam!!

I love this cover! 💕

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).

also hey, this issue is stacked??

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My book officially drops in almost a month!! And I’ll be reading at the online launch event!

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And also featuring work by @bethgoder.bsky.social Olufunmilayo Makinde @dianadima.com and Christine Butterworth-McDermott

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My short fiction recs for July and Aug. Featuring work by @lchanwrites.bsky.social @clairejiawen.bsky.social @awprihandita.bsky.social @catvalente.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social @mcflycahill90.bsky.social @angelaliu.bsky.social Daniel Oluremi and--
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Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review This time around, I’m looking at uneasy stories, the kind that leave you with the creeping feeling of something unsettling happening...

My latest Words for Thought column for @apexmag.bsky.social is now available to read online, discussing work by @kellyrobson.com, @thomasha.bsky.social, Jocelyn Szczcepaniak-Gillice, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social and @stevetoase.bsky.social.

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A Short Fiction Treasures Special: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives Going through the archives of Strange Horizons for this special column has been a bit like exploring a treasure chamber. I’ve picked fifty stories. I could have picked hundreds. Meaning: I left a l…

Strange Horizons turns 25 this year, which is pretty much an eternity in the world of spec fic zines, and I had the privilege of going through the archives for a special short fiction roundup: 2 x 25 Gems from Strange Horizons’ Archives

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SO. Remember back in the mists of time I talked about the haunted dollhouse starring in a horror visual novel (jam)?

BEHOLD! "Don't Go Into the Dollhouse" is done!

(It's alive... alive!!!!)

Written w/ @howsweetthewords.bsky.social & all visuals done by me!

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A beautiful set of stories

Me too!

It was!! :)