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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 4h

OCTOBER LEAVES, my first Halloween story written on leaves goes on sale in conventional text tomorrow, in an edition of 48: hand stitched, numbered, & signed. Nepalese lokta paper wrappers with mulberry paper leaves and dyed moss. October 10, 2026 noon, East Coast time, at www.dragonstairs.com

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Red Dog Red Dog is Michael Swanwick's collection of essays, some fictional, about life in western Pennsylvania. It is wrapped in mulberry terrazzo paper in shades of red and tan (much like real red ...

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 11h

I am amazed that there is so much goodness in the very short title song! I find something so inspiring in tiny, perfect songs like that

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Highly accepted" is such a funny choice there, protesting too much in just two words!

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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every year, I write a Halloween story on fallen leaves and post photos of them, a sentence at a time, on my blog. The story will conclude on All Hallow's Eve. The first installment of AUTUMN'S END is up at: floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...

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AUTUMN'S END (Part 1 of 31)

. Above: Every year, to celebrate the season, I write a Halloween story which Marianne and I then copy out, one...

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My mind was blown when I learned that was an Eagles song...

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow!! Me too -- at this point I have it on VHS... and a homemade DVD I copied from the VHS...

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If they do it right Baby Enkidu could be a bigger deal than Baby Yoda

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Blockers! (Among the other cool things...) Nice

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of mine too! (Just got to do it earlier this week)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At the reading last night, performing some of my new piece "Welcome to Cloke!"

Small stage with chair, mic, and speakers, before a wall of displayed books. I am standing there frowning, holding some notecards, and wearing a wrinkled green asymmetrical smock-like garment.

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In a career first, I have just sewed a thematically appropriate custom garment which I will be wearing at the reading.

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In the area of Champaign-Urbana this late afternoon / evening? @davidbusboom.bsky.social, Matthew Henshaw, and I are reading, 5pm at Spineless Books, newly opened up at Lincoln Square, my favorite once mostly moribund mall that's undergoing a rebirth as a cool community space.

Sandwich board style sign reading: A Soiree of Strange Terrors - Local Authors Event! Readings by David Busboom, Matthew Henshaw, Caleb Wilson. Friday September 25th and 5:00 PM

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bill Orcutt is amazingly awesome! He has huge amounts of material, but a good starting place I'd say is the album "Orcutt Shelley Miller." Also Cyrus Pireh. Album rec: "Thank You, Guitar."

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Röyksopp samples the Parliament hook (actually just *part* of the hook!) over and over, turning it into the entire song www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Bp...

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So glad you asked! Here is the original: listen to that little hook at the very beginning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-7y...

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Parliament - Do That Stuff (1976) ♫

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love unexpectedly recognizing the original source of a sample that appears in a song I know well. The art is speaking to itself across the decades in my presence!

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Charlie Brown Christmas theme song

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Star-Spangled Banner (I genuinely love to hear person-made music come in through the window -- neighbor on other side used to practice trombone)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neighbor practicing saxophone outside! Current tune: Yakety Sax

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 09/09/2026

A reminder that a few brilliant friends & I did a completely free Ligotti tribute anthology. Download free to read my story "Jar Of Arms" and other fine scribblings. dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

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“The ruined factory stood three stories high in an otherwise featureless landscape…” With these words, Thomas Ligotti begins one of the most influential short stories in the canon of horror and weird ...

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Borderless Journal has today published a brief extract from my new novel THE BISCUIT THIEF. Hopefully this extract will encourage readers to consider buying the novel. The publisher is Telos Publishing 👻 #booksky borderlessjournal.com/2026/08/21/t...

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The Biscuit Thief by Rhys Hughes

Title: The Biscuit Thief Author: Rhys Hughes Publisher: Telos Publishing The bicycle was a new machine but it had been modelled on the penny farthings of old. It had a big front wheel and a small r…

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The last novel I read featured an art gallery scene! (It was a good scene, the main character had paid a society caricaturist to do a sketch of her, then gone on purpose to discover it accidentally at the gallery)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Michael Cisco's Celebrant has some weird natural "robots" that form within stone... I think...

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Very excited for this! A perfect game for these times...

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This reminds me of the time my college roommate, searching for a metaphor to describe how slow our internet was, said "My GRANDMOTHER could connect to the internet faster than this modem!"

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ah, the icons and colors bring me back! Rogue was one of the first computer games I ever played at home. I never got very far, hobgoblins always seemed to get me in the first few levels.

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Huh, I would not have thought Baba Is You was all that adaptable into a board game! Curious to see what they do with it!

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Analeptic Alzabo.

A scene from Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, in which Severian (front) drinks a strange mind-altering elixir.

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man... Been meaning to read it forever, finally found that a friend wanted to read it too, so we're doing a chapter a day and discussing.

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You discovered Lydia Millet that way? Awesome!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's the birthday of two men, both born in Detroit, who have been singularly committed, in utterly different ways, to their arts. Happy birthday to Thomas Ligotti and Jack White.

Black and white photo of a man standing in silhousette at a door apparently at the top of a staircase. Bright white outside, dark inside. This is, reportedly, Thomas Ligotti.

Cover of Jack White's album "Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016", which is excellent. As much as I like Jack's music (and I do), it's his creation of Third Man Records and, especially, Third Man Books that has changed my life in so many positive ways. (I have the gobsmacking honor of having published the first book from TMB labeled as Horror.)

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hear, hear! My favorite snippets of prose, the ones I remember forever, all involve adverbs or adjectives. John Banville's Kepler mentions the "goitrous blare of a hunting horn" -- Such a brilliant word choice, that "goitrous"!

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

the funny thing about ais revealing that if something just expresses nonstop positivity people invariably come to find that thing indespensible is that dogs hacked human cognition in exactly that way 40k years ago

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I didn't even think of it at first, but of course, it's the house I'm in as well! From 1894 or so, at least some rooms

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I5 minutes ago! However, I work there. Secondly however, it was my day off.

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

the pond last night at sunset

mist hangs over a small pond surrounded by tall pines under the gentle slopes of the green mountain national forest in central vermont

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Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Michael Shea paperbacks! Not obscure when they first came out but much harder to find now.

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Trevors (1990) starring Kevin Bacon @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

top 10 "cryptids" - Flatwoods Monster - Fresno Nightcrawlers - Pascagoula Humanoid - Sandown Clown - Loveland Frogman - Enfield Horror - Hopkinsville Goblins - Skunk Ape (distinct from bigfoot!!!) - Mothman - Michigan Dogman

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