First post would be short stories I read in January that inspired some thoughts.
Couple of goods ones in ergot ("Lillie" and "Appear Missing"); Carson Winter's "The Children of the Event"; an all timer from Josh Pearce; and two stories I really didn't like. Yes sorry there will be negative reviews.
Thinking about restarting a book and short fiction review blog π
07.02.2026 17:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1I've been bingeing some recent Pseudopods in my sickbed and The Book whips. A Guy is persuaded (deceived?) to do some heinous shit by a Weird book. Bad times ensue.
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It's in The Skull & Laurel #3. Buy it and read this story, it'll be the best thing you do this year.
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Read a short story today that blew me the fuck away.
Though Josh Pearce's "Witches in Cold Mountain Halls" might be better described as some kind of genre-destroying contemporary epic poem built from the bones of a dark fantasy dungeon crawl.
A real feat of deliberate prose as an art form.
Oh man, cheers Gareth, I really appreciate the kind words and support. Glad you like the mag π
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Iggy the Bread Dog
the seer
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Fall of the Candlekeep
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Me and the boys taking down a slop merchant. We spared the horse.
me and the boys when we find you posting that AI slop.
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Every weekend I post a new page or some process work of my gothic horror comic Worms to patreon. If you want to support a disabled trans artist and get to see some comics about horrid priests being horrid, itβs only Β£3 a month and is a huge help for me. www.patreon.com/erikapriceart
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so... an actually fascist movie instead of a satirical one? lol
15.03.2025 00:24 β π 454 π 66 π¬ 19 π 35Iβm so disillusioned with the marketing side of running a mag. Think itβs obvious Iβve always been uncomfortable with it but I hate it so much I want to stop any notion of having a βproductβ to sell. Iβd like people to support us for the value of the art we put out, itβs the only thing that matters.
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Iggy the Bread Dog as Truth
when I've once again broken alchemy's universal laws and must face Truth beyond the gate.
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If you like STP you can read the full new issue now by subscribing to our Patreon. Give us some money so we can keep existing!
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We're back! STP #12 is out now and it's full of dark weird upsetting fiction from Kay Vaindal, Joe Koch, Samuel M. Moss, Tabitha Bast, & Z.D. Dochterman.
Plus Tiffany Morris interviews Ivy Grimes, Shinjini Dey on writing disaster in The Singularity, and stellar insightful reviews from Zach Gillan.
Itβs been a while since weβve put an issue of Seize The Press out, simply cos I couldnβt find the right stories. But I just sent the final copy of issue #12 off to be compiled and Iβm so excited for people to read it, Iβm really proud of this one.
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"Pearl" by J. F. Gleeson might be favourite short story I've read so far this year. Masterful and unique manipulation of prose; awful, fucked vibes. Is his wife dead? Who knows. What a story.
21.03.2025 22:53 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I find reading bad books interesting in its own way so Iβll probably end up finishing it. Baffling this is such a popular book though.
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Closeup photo of a black cat with wide eyes
Closeup photo of a black cat with wide eyes
weβre listening to the BBC radio version of LOTR and she is Alarmed by Gollumβs noises
21.03.2025 17:43 β π 791 π 78 π¬ 23 π 1Annoying affectations aside, this is just a bad book. There's no emotional weight to the existential terror of being abandoned on another fucking planet. Just a list of logistical problems and setbacks to think his way through. It's just boring.
21.03.2025 17:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Came back to The Martian to give it another go and I don't know if I can do this man.
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A late medieval Judge Dredd.
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Made a blood worm for the blood moon
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Small excerpt from Age of Rot. Some copies still left
12.03.2025 17:17 β π 1773 π 250 π¬ 9 π 1Pig is a film that operates on such a specific level of ridiculousness that it circles right back round to utmost sincerity. Truly a role only Nicolas Cage could have pulled off.
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"As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood" physical copies, stacked inside a box
Friendly reminder: I still have some physical copies of my dark fantasy about brothers, blood magic, and bad blood!
DM me for details
A medieval tarot card styled illustration of a figure dressed in a long hood. Their forearms, legs, and face are mechanical. They carry three thin staves and a curved dagger.
βThe Knaveβ for Lancer RPGβs Shadow of the Wolf narrative expansion
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I just reread Joe Kochβs story The Power Company Detective that will be in the next issue of Seize The Press and thereβs such a raw energy to the prose, it rearranged my brain chemistry.
Genuinely think Joe is one of the best writers out there and youβre going to love this story in the worst way.
