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It's been an interesting week. Lotta fingers ended up in a lotta mouths. Plus movie and book reviews. Read my newest newsletter. Or better yet, subscribe and get them delivered to your inbox and bypass the algorithm altogether. Have a good day, friends.

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Carcosa Sings for You #12: The Scarf of the Beloved | Ryan C. Bradley Get more from Ryan C. Bradley on Patreon

Every other month on Carcosa Sings for You, I narrate a public domain horror story and add some music and foley effects. It's one of my favorite projects I get to work on. This month, I read, "The Scarf of the Beloved" by Greye La Spina!

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Name 5 authors you've read 3 short stories by in the last 10 years:

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If we’re going out, why not go out reading something great? Buy trans books!

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Higher intensity salad | Dreamcast 2 Get more from Dreamcast 2 on Patreon

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Submissions Submit to Madness Heart Press, Madness Heart Games, Aggadah Try It, Maddeningly Erotic Booksand Gutter Mystic Books We are overjoyed to see that you are interested in joining the Madness Heart Pres…

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*Splatterpunk, antifascist, and anti-capitalist #horror
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There's a War Against Valentine's Day | Ryan C. Bradley Get more from Ryan C. Bradley on Patreon

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I have a new fucked up story for you.

"There's a War Against Valentine's Day"

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This one came out before the election and…you know. Anyway, it got some amazing nods—Stoker, Locus, glowing NYT review, NPR—but never took off. Seeing it getting love this week for being 100% boricua? Yeah…agradecido. Oh, and it’s on sale! Mil gracias. Much love.

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Trope graphic for THE SMALL HOURS by Bob Pastorella, cover art by Betty Rocksteady.

Read the book that created Texas Backyard Noir, my splatterpunk vampire novel, THE SMALL HOURS, released by the always awesome @ghoulish.bsky.social. Cover art by the amazing @bettyrocksteady.bsky.social.

It's funny, horny, and very, very bloody.

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Night Hike (Postscript) Night Hike (Postscript) by Ryan C. Bradley “Night Hike” is available now in Myths Reborn! Like with all of my postscripts, this piece is written with the assumption that you’ve read the story. Spoi…

I've got a postscript of "Night Hike" over on my blog, writing about my inspiration and process for writing the story. I take a left turn into my philosophy of horror and crime fiction too.

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The Unkillable Frank Lightning - Tachyon Publications [STARRED REVIEW] “Like Elmore Leonard by way of Mary Shelley, Josh Rountree’s Western spin on Frankenstein is a propulsive, haunting adaptation.” —Bookpage In this riveting historical horror novel, Fr...

Thanks Gabino!!

The Unkillable Frank Lightning was named one of the Best Horror Books of 2025 by @bloody-disgusting.com!

I’d love more folks to check it out!

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Let Me Re-Introduce Myself Hi y’all. I’m Ryan. I write horror-comedy and comedy about horror. That’s the slightly reductive way I introduce myself to potential readers at conventions. A lot of times I pick out a tattoo or a …

This year I'm trying to blog more and I realized I had 200 followers on a WordPress I rarely updated last year so I'm writing some, "Who am I?" kind of posts.

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This was such a fun talk! Check it out!

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Alt text (I forgot): one large container of pork fried rice next to two large containers of plain white rice

The recipe called for 4 cups of rice cooked. Apparently that was not the same as 4 cups of rice uncooked 😂.

This has nothing on @nameshiv.bsky.social's rice story

The picture is of us having a different conversation. We are saying different words. Maybe some are the same but we're expressing different ideas with the limited set of words available to us.

Me and H.V. chatting at Magic City Books

This month the brilliant writer @hvpatterson.bsky.social stopped by to talk about "Stowaway" from V/H/S Beyond. The film is streaming on Shudder.

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Max Booth | Patreon words to save the world

hello internet, I have launched a patreon. if you're a fan of the books I write, or the work I do through Ghoulish Books, or perhaps my many failed podcasts, or some mysterious other thing I've forgotten about, please consider throwing some $$$ my way. thank you. patreon.com/interrobangbus

Sticker sheet with moon, snail, mushroom, skull

My little sticker shop is now live and you can buy these! I got some samples and they’re really nice and bright, I’ll be adding more stuff in the coming weeks and testing out prints and some other stuff so your support and encouragement would mean so much! 🍄

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5 Classes I Took in College
Creativity
Chaucer
Myth, Legend, and Folklore
Abnormal Psychology
Intro to Existential Literature

Carl with his hair thrown over his face, wearing an eye searing shirt with a skull on it

Carl in a model type pose, showing off the skull print on a high viz green tee. The skull has a huge calcified growth on its upper mandible and a variety of audio cables extending from it.

Carl putting his hair up and staring blankly into the camera, still wearing the same honestly aggressive tee

Oh uh i posted a weird photo the other day and it was an ad for these shirts I had made

The book's cover: a symmetrical arrangement of animal skulls: a deer skull with wings coming out of the horns above the skulls of two rodents. The text reads, "Myths Reborn: Modern Tales of Cryptids & Dark Folklore" edited by Kelly A. Hearty.

My story "Night Hike" is live in Myth's Reborn!

You can order the book here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G7XKCDBD

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