Rebecca Gransden

The great Kathe Koja has a new one out, and I was fortunate to provide a few words for inclusion in the book on its release. Dark Matter (@meerkatpress.bsky.social) is the climax to the expansive Dark Factory project. Highly recommend you take a dive into this world if you haven’t already.

Happy #PubDay to Kathe Koja's DARK MATTER, the 3rd and final* book in the Dark Factory series.

Blogtour & Schedule: https://smpl.is/af4ve

DarkFactory Website: https://smpl.is/af4vf

@Kathe Koja

Beautiful series of images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche from an 1888 book on the strange skies produced the world-over after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa.⠀⠀

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/studies-on-twilight-phenomena-after-krakatoa

Illustrations by Lisl Hummel, made for the book ‘Sally in Her Fur Coat’ by Eliza Orne White, published 1929. Hummel worked in papercuts, providing silhouettes for children’s titles.

BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS:

Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.

To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com

MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRAWING LINES: AN INTERVIEW WITH EMMALEA RUSSO by Rebecca Gransden Since its release in fall 2024 Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne (Arcade Publishing) has had time to percolate with the culture it so sharply interrogates. A slanted satire, the book poetically autopsies onlin...

My conversation with Emmalea Russo is up now at @xraylitmag.bsky.social. This one visits some pertinent areas. Emmalea talks revealingly about the novel Vivienne, and shares her insights on the significance of synchronicity. Check it! xraylitmag.com/making-conne...

MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRAWING LINES: AN INTERVIEW WITH EMMALEA RUSSO by Rebecca Gransden Since its release in fall 2024 Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne (Arcade Publishing) has had time to percolate with the culture it so sharply interrogates. A slanted satire, the book poetically autopsies onlin...

we have an interview with Emmalea Russo about her book 'Vivienne' !!

Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world

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The day has finally arrived, it’s launch time for giallo-autophagised mega project ‘All The Colour Of The Dark’.

A horror spiral into surrealism/perversion/even sci-fi at one point.

Available as a free PDF on Psycho H [with some sample visuals below]

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NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT: ELEVEN BOOKS FOR HALLOWEEN by Matthew Kinlin Nightmares come at night. The poster for Halloween III: Season of the Witch shows the silhouettes of three children walking in Halloween costumes against a red night. A ghoulish apparition evaporates ...

we have a list of 11 books for Halloween, by Matthew Kinlin @matthewkinlin.bsky.social !

check it out !! & buy a book to read tonight while teenagers in hockey masks piss on yr front door

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Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs Dangerous creatures, neglected kids and dejected employees face the weird, odd and perilous. Enter a world where possessed pageant girls get their revenge, a pigeon leads to an underground cult, and a...

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YouTube video by UFO CULT VHS Bunny Suit Guitar Prank

A year ago today Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs scampered into the world to spread chaos. Thank you to all those who have read this little rapscallion.

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DARRIN DOYLE RECOMMENDS: EIGHT BOOKS OF FICTION THAT EVOKE THE LIMINAL Opening your eyes at night, unsure of where you are, half-dreaming, half-awake…staring into the darkness of a living room, thinking that the shadow near the door might be a man…or a coat rack… the tre...

here are eight books recommended by Darrin Doyle !

the focus is on the liminal - "books that are highly effective at making the reader feel as if they are occupying a space in between..."

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YouTube video by BBC Archive 1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

Two people ripping off their own faces

Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs by Rebecca Gransden Gransden (Anemogram) brings together 14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural ...

New review for Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs, up at Publishers Weekly!

"14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural world"

"Inventive concepts and haunting, dreamlike imagery will appeal to horror fans."

www.publishersweekly.com/9781445220055

'DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR' BY LOGAN BERRY: AN INTRODUCTION by Kathleen Rooney Introduction for Logan for his Reading from ‘Doom Is the House Without a Door’ at Comfort Station on Saturday, August 16, 2025 –Kathleen Rooney Book launch playlist: DOOM UNLEASHED   Logan Berry’s lat...

Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social introduces Logan Berry's new book 'Doom is the House Without a Door' !!

writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to

click the link !

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The Hum summoned us to march the electric ley of the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, it called us onwards. Each pylon a portal deeper into its mysteries. To follow The Hum was to be transformed by it. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH #WrydWanderings

THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...

Pleasure to speak with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about the probing The Surrender of Man. Out from @incastellated.bsky.social. Check the interview at @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...

That’s my goth lit sister 🥲 love that book so much!

THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...

we have a great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview, this time with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about her new book about art, 'The Surrender of Man'

it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop

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Dark Matter Coming 2025 The world has ended. What are you going to do? Bunny Graves knows, and she wants Ari Regon to help her do it, as Ari

@kaaronwarren.bsky.social says #DarkMatter is "A wild ride" and @rgransden.bsky.social says "accelerating towards a destination unknown" and J. Ashley-Smith says "ecstatic, apocalyptic" and I say THANK YOU 🙏
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@meerkatpress.bsky.social #darkfactory #darkmatter

Figures Crossing The Field Towards The Group, Rebecca Gransden You ever muse on the most courageous thing you’ve ever done? Was it quitting a job because there was no toilet paper and you had to wipe with your bifocals? Or was it when you called your high schoo...

Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!

“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”

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Figures Crossing The Field Towards The Group, Rebecca Gransden You ever muse on the most courageous thing you’ve ever done? Was it quitting a job because there was no toilet paper and you had to wipe with your bifocals? Or was it when you called your high schoo...

Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!

“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”

triyou.com/f/figures-cr...

A review of Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group In Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, an unidentified blight spreads from the south of England, driving refugees northward. Our hero, a girl named Flo, walks n…

A review of Rebecca Gransden's novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...

A review of Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group In Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, an unidentified blight spreads from the south of England, driving refugees northward. Our hero, a girl named Flo, walks n…

Fresh review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group over at the mighty @biblioklept.bsky.social. Many thanks to Edwin Turner for casting his astute eye over the book.

“Strange, gnarly, alive”

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DAVE FITZGERALD RECOMMENDS: Brandi Homan’s 'Burn Fortune', Kristin Garth’s 'Daddy', and Danielle Chelosky’s 'Pregaming Grief' Paint Your Wagon, the 1969 Western musical starring Jean Seberg, Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin, was a historic commercial flop, by turns both mindbogglingly strange, and mind-numbingly dull in its de...

New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social

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