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(he/they)๐ŸŒนAHRC-funded and researching (New) Weird & Ligotti @ Uni of Liverpool ๐ŸŒน work at Ergot., CHM, Sans Press, Vastarien ๐ŸŒน the way in is the way out ๐ŸŒน

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PSA: Dim Shores is down to 50 copies left of THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT! Preorder this lo-fi horror collection here: dimshores.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

03.12.2025 22:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
The "girlhood is a spectrum" meme with "bonne maman advent calendar" on the left and "ted bundy's demonic soul trapped in a jar" on the right

The "girlhood is a spectrum" meme with "bonne maman advent calendar" on the left and "ted bundy's demonic soul trapped in a jar" on the right

Cover of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes

Cover of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes

I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿ“๐Ÿซ™โœจ

Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!

๐ŸŒŒ www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

03.12.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
03.12.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Resharing this uplifting review for the evening people!

DO's a tiny press and the lion's share of promotional work falls on me to do, so every ounce of good feedback and help in getting the book out there means so damn much

01.12.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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01.12.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Many thanks to RSL and The Fantasy Hive for this beautiful and deep review of The Cellar Below the Cellar ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ–ค

01.12.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it's truly a beautiful piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social. pensive, mysterious, thoughtful, and weird in all the beautifulest ways. thank you for the ARC, and I can't wait for this to be out!

01.12.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dope article. If youโ€™re looking to dig deeper into the story and its themes after reading, thereโ€™s a great free anthology featuring writers like @horrorsong.blog @joellekillian.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social @rsljnr.bsky.social @cjsubko.bsky.social , TJ Price & more.

Iโ€™ll link it below ๐Ÿค˜

29.11.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Fastest flash fiction magazines that respond in 1 week or less

โ€ข Bending Genres -  Thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning

โ€ข Flash Frog - Stories like dart frogs: small, bright, and deadly to the touch

โ€ข HAD - Minimalist, irreverent mag with popup submission calls

โ€ข Kinda Weird Mag - Celebrating creativity at its roots

โ€ข The Insurgence - Informative critical writing and celebratory creative writing

โ€ข Genrepunk Magazine - Literary magazine for weird little experiments

โ€ข Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace - Peacebuilding, healing, and changemaking

โ€ข Hotch Potch Literature and Art - Discover, delight and differentiate

โ€ข The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts - Weekly bursts of compression & decompression

โ€ข MetaStellar - Wandering to the limits of what could be

โ€ข The Future Fire - Progressive speculative fiction

โ€ข The Rye Whiskey Review - E-zine dedicated to all things barroom

โ€ข Intrepidus Ink - Gutsy, fearless, and unapologetic

November 13, 2025

Fastest flash fiction magazines that respond in 1 week or less โ€ข Bending Genres - Thrilling, fanciful, oddball, unusual, stunning โ€ข Flash Frog - Stories like dart frogs: small, bright, and deadly to the touch โ€ข HAD - Minimalist, irreverent mag with popup submission calls โ€ข Kinda Weird Mag - Celebrating creativity at its roots โ€ข The Insurgence - Informative critical writing and celebratory creative writing โ€ข Genrepunk Magazine - Literary magazine for weird little experiments โ€ข Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace - Peacebuilding, healing, and changemaking โ€ข Hotch Potch Literature and Art - Discover, delight and differentiate โ€ข The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts - Weekly bursts of compression & decompression โ€ข MetaStellar - Wandering to the limits of what could be โ€ข The Future Fire - Progressive speculative fiction โ€ข The Rye Whiskey Review - E-zine dedicated to all things barroom โ€ข Intrepidus Ink - Gutsy, fearless, and unapologetic November 13, 2025

Lit mags are usually known for their slow response times, but these amazing flash fiction pubs are trying to change that!

Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags

13.11.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maidens of Midnight, my debut lo-fi horror collection, is up for preorder. I'm proud of this weird little book, a collaboration with excellent illustrator @luciaretamales.bsky.social, but you don't have to take my word for it. Here's what @brianevenson.bsky.social wrote on the collection:

28.11.2025 19:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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November always manages to fly past as we gear towards the holidays but the team still managed to pack the month full of excellent reads - check out what their Top Picks were!

Read more: tinyurl.com/nvdmevas

28.11.2025 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Every day you can choose not to feed the hate machine.

24.11.2025 18:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PORTRAITS OF DECAY from @saltheartpress.bsky.social is eligible for all those cool awards folks are talking about!

If you're a fan of weird fiction in the vein Padgett, Fawver, Jackson, Ligotti, and Cushing, check it out!

24.11.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted โ€œThis,โ€ her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, โ€œis how your ship will travel.โ€ With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Story day!! Iโ€™m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with โ€˜Love Story in Colored Glass:โ€™ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.

www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...

21.11.2025 18:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The Cellar Below the Cellar Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...

This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!

Thread updated weekly, maybe?

www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

20.11.2025 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Interview with authors of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower Ligotti, community, encrimsoning

"We clash with a world that we simply do not feel part of. When I read Ligotti, and I found the...malaise at being trapped into an existence we didnโ€™t consent toโ€”I finally found out that not only was I not alone, that there was a massive community of us."

@rsljnr.bsky.social

17.11.2025 13:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Cellar Below the Cellar Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...

Here's the aurora-filled novella for anyone who is particularly into auroras right now:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...

13.11.2025 17:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

likewise with your work, which I'll be looking out for when I get home. it's always fun to find new artists :)) thank you again!!

13.11.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grappling with some serious existential & financial angst today. Friendly reminder I've got two fun books with big ideas out that cool readers seem to really enjoy. Would love for you to check 'em out, too

13.11.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

extra-canon response (they who call themselves Richie??): thank you so much @angelvleal.bsky.social for a lovely response. I'm so glad it worked as it did ๐Ÿ˜ญ

13.11.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

any proclaiming themselves disciple strikes me--and mine and Sarah's and mark's eyes--as but another mutant worthy of bog-eye philosophy!
it is always anyone, like yourself and anyone else, who reads us into being, that are like stars :))

13.11.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ok but this story "Bog Eye" by @rsljnr.bsky.social is a weird masterpiece. It's chaos and poetry and really strange mutant philosophy and I just love it. I hope more people read this

12.11.2025 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

always welcome!!!

11.11.2025 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

can't wait to buy this. big congrats again ivy!!!! x

10.11.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

was it for a specific app? ill try have a gander because i vaguely remember this too!

09.11.2025 20:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Suzy Eynon | -ette-review Suzy Eynon in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025

A lovely poetic piece by @suzyeynon.bsky.social:

ettereview.com/fall2025/eyn...

07.11.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A dark mountain landscape silhouetted against a sky filled with Northern lights, bright stars, and an unnaturally large full moon. The text "A folk horror novella" is visible behind the Northern lights

A dark mountain landscape silhouetted against a sky filled with Northern lights, bright stars, and an unnaturally large full moon. The text "A folk horror novella" is visible behind the Northern lights

As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... ๐ŸŒ•๐Ÿš๏ธ๐ŸŒŒ

Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!

07.11.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

last week I was able to have one of my fave stories appear in one of my fave publications -- I can't wait to see the next piece they release :)

06.11.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RSL was fortunate to receive a very early copy of Jo Kaplan's upcoming horror novel THE MIDNIGHT MUSE:

"Kaplan masterfully evokes the readerโ€™s belief in a spectrum of characters"

Read more: tinyurl.com/59haa69d

@clashbooks.bsky.social
@joannapary.bsky.social

05.11.2025 13:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I could only do what I could because of yours and everyone's beautiful work :))

04.11.2025 19:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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