H.V. Patterson

2026’s New Horror Books All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

Thank you to everyone who read my work. Thank you for personal, near-miss, positive, and form rejections.

Thank you @jesmwrites.bsky.social for getting me these fabulous earrings!

Author H.V. holding two large, plastic earring 100s.

In the grueling game of submitting, it's important to celebrate the effort as much as the acceptances. For the last few years, I've had a goal of accumulating at least 100 rejections a year.

I have officially received 100 rejections for 2025!!

Ho-Ho-Horror In the Bleak Midwinter

New post up! See what I've been up to and my thoughts on the importance of reading non-fiction!

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Creepy!! I love it!

See Something, Say Something by Seth Wade So this twink in green tights swoops through your window, drugs you, then whisks you away to an island with gnashing crocodiles and famished cannibals and some madman with a rusty hook for a hand—that...

So excited for this short prose piece today, and honored to be featured by @hexliterary.bsky.social again: hexliterary.com?p=2970

Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horrors Amazon.com: Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horrors eBook : Gostelow, Mathew, Holland, Terry, Overall, Sonia, Haigh, Heather, Royston, Sarah, Maloney, Ali, Relph, JP, McLeod, Lindz, Fekete, Zary, Press, Ghost Willow: Kindle Store

You can buy the book here:
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It's packed full of incredible stories, including Terry's marvellous piece.

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Like #writing? Love quiet horror? My interview with @storyradio.bsky.social is out today, featuring an incredible reading by @terryholland.bsky.social.
We talk about the Silent Screams charity anthology and whether horror can ever be literature.
Listen here:
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October 29th: H.V. Patterson | Crepuscular Magazine Get more from Crepuscular Magazine on Patreon

"Molting Love" is now free to read in Crepuscular Magazine! One of my creepier microfiction stories.

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I might have gotten two rejections through the night but my Christmas horror short story All is bright was published by ROF Publishing in their first ever anthology Season's Grievings which is now on sale!

I'm in here alongside @catvoleur.bsky.social @hvpatterson.bsky.social @dmpelley.bsky.social

I read an earlier draft of this story at the Ghoulish Book Festival a few years ago, and I'm really excited to share an expanded version with a wider audience!

NoSleep Podcast S23E20 - The NoSleep Podcast It's Episode 20 of Season 23. Tune in to WNSP for tales about trying tasks. "The Relic Eater" written by Daniel Ray (Story starts around 00:04:20) Produced by: Jeff Clement Cast: Dylan - Jeff Clement,...

I'm thrilled to make my NoSleep Podcast debut! "Tickborne" is currently available for paid subscribers on S23E20.

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John Wiswell 2025 Awards Eligibility Post Novel: WEARING THE LION (DAW Books) Novelette: PHANTOM VIEW (Reactor) Short Story: An Asexual Succubus (Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabres) Non-Fiction: Breakout, Ripoff, Genre: How Fiction Outgrows Originality (Uncanny Magazine)

I published some pieces I'm deeply proud of this year. My second novel, one of my most personal novelettes, one of my weirdest short stories, and an essay on an idea that's been nagging me for years.

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.

Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀

IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

Really loved this book! Stayed up too late because I had to finish it. Check out DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social!

All eleven releases from Tenebrous Press in 2025.

A Very Tenebrous 2025.
The finest stories are being written in the cryptic, concealed corners that no one ever thinks to look into.

It's our mission to find them.

We can safely say we lived up to our promise this year:
NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE🖤☠️

Read something Weird: store.tenebrouspress.com

Image shows a field of sunflowers beneath a wide expanse of blue sky. Text reads: P.A. Cornell - 2025 Awards Eligibility. Under which are listed the following stories: • “Through the Machine” (SF / 5000 w) – Lightspeed • “The Space Between Us” (SF / 1499 w) – Lightspeed (Coming in December) • “Spells for the Afterlife” (F / 2588 w) – Of Enchantment, Enigma, and the Infinite • “Falling Forever” (SF / 893 w) – Factor Four • “And I Will Read to You About Butterflies” (SF / 3647 w) – Heartlines Spec • “The Futility of Warning You” (SF / 750 w) – Factor Four • “Feathers” (F / 760 w) – Worlds of Possibility • “So Many Things to See” (SFF / 2415 w) – Trollbreath • “Fire & Flight” (SFF / 4941 w) – Plott Hound • “After the Rain” (SF ECO / 3706 w) – Escape Pod • “After the Suns Go Down” (SFH / 8675 w) – The Growers • “Twelve Things that Will Occur Immediately Following Your Invention of Teleportation” (SF Humor / 880 w) – Factor Four • “The Underlying Cause of Her Insomnia” (FH / 1000 w) Trembling With Fear • “Hard Times at the Four Pines Motel” (SF / 1000 w) – Short Circuit

A reminder that you can find all my 2025 eligible work right here: www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-.... Thank you for keeping my stories in mind when nominating or voting for awards.

So excited to be part of the second volume of Katabatic Circus from @angrygablepress.bsky.social! Check this out if you're a fan of speculative poetry.

Recent Reads I've Loved:

-Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer
-Good and Evil, Samanta Schweblin, trans. Megan McDowell
-Linghun, Ai Jiang (a reread!)
-Pick a Garnet to Sleep in, Kim Shuck
-Thirst, Marina Yuszczuk, trans. Heather Cleary

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It's true! Nightmare Magazine will open to subs in January! Check out the schedule below for dates & times; read the guidelines for more specifics.
And yes, as ever, each writer can make one submission to each category: short story, flash, poetry, CNF.
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This past year with has been wild! 8 weird, emotional & unhinged books released into the world. I’m so proud of each one and so grateful for everyone who’s read, shared, reviewed, or supported this little indie horror press.

Here’s to even more strange stories ahead.
🖤Embrace Your Strange.

Black background with spiderwebs around the edges. The text reads: Horror Book Club Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley Tuesday, December 9th at 7pm Heirloom Rustic Ales, 2113 E. Admiral Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74110

The holiday seasons is approaching, and we're reading Candy Cain Kills by Brian McAuley for our next horror book club meeting! See y'all at Rustic ales Tuesday, December 9th.

An infographic in the iconic yellow and red font on blue background from the Zohran Mamdani campaign. 2025 WORKS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION DEBUT POETRY COLLECTION IS MY CHAINSAW A HEART: 13 CENTOS HWA AND ELGIN AWARD ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL POEMS "PATIENT 10642," SALON SINISTER 1 "THE GIANT ROBOT PREFERS NOT TO," BRAINROT, FIFTH WHEEL PRESS "SCYLLA & CHARYBDIS CALL & RESPOND," DARK HEARTS: TRIANGULATION (PARSEC INK) "OLEZKHA TURNS TO POETRY," OUCH! COLLECTIVE VOL. 4 "MOTHER LOVES THE LAND AND LOVES THE SEA," LAST GIRLS CLUB MAGAZINE "MOTHER TAKES A WIFE," GARLAND ISSUE 3, FIFTH WHEEL PRESS "THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING," THE CLEANSING POWER OF FIRE ANTHOLOGY (INFESTED PUBLISHING) "ANCHOR SPINDRIFT," HAVEN SPEC MAGAZINE RHYSLING AWARD ELIGIBLE

This is my awards eligibility thread for poetry for 2025, this year with Helpful and Clever Graphic. For those who don't know, I'm Elizabeth R. McClellan, and my poetry can be found at popelizbet.com.

You can preorder Into the Dark now! Includes my dark fantasy story, "Phalanges and Flames"!

HEARTBREAK INCORPORATED Alex de Campi GOTHIKANA Runyx BLESS YOUR HEART and ANOTHER FINE MESS Lindy Ryan THE HACIENDA, VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE and THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ Isabel Canas IF FOUND, RETURN TO HELL and THE DEATH I GAVE HIM Em X. Liu SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER and SAINT DEATH'S HERALD C. S. E. Cooney THE IMMORTALITY THIEF Taran Hunt WANDERERS Chuck Wendig SINOPHAGIA edited Xueting C. Ni GORSE and RAGWORT Sam K. Horton WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE Lorraine Wilson THE NEEDFORE MK Hardy RED RABBIT Alex Grecian THE DARK BETWEEN THE TREES by Fiona Benson THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD, THE GRIEF OF STONES, THE TOMB OF DRAGONS and A THEORY OF HAUNTING Katherine Addison THE LIAR OF RED VALLEY Walter Goodwater THE VENGEANCE Emma Newman SIGN HERE Claudia Lux BENEATH THE RISING, A BROKEN DARKNESS, THE VOID ASCENDANT and THESE LIFELESS THINGS Premee Mohamed NORDIC VISION ed. by Margret THE RITUAL CRIME UNIT THE HIDDEN LEGION and THE SILENT EMPEROR by Snorri Kristjansson

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Our Lady of the Grain is an amazing story within a truly fantastic anthology. Highly recommend.

Yay! Thank you!!

It does!! I'm really looking forward to talking about it