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ihate00 @ihate00.bsky.social · 7h
I just reviewed 'The Not-Dog-Thing' by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social from @bourbonpenn.bsky.social on my blog. This is certainly not just a simple story. ihate00critics.blogspot.com/2026/10/week...
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Weekend Shorts - The Not-Dog-Thing by Corey Farrenkopf
A blog about reviews of Book, Anime, Manga, Music and of fighting game combo videos among some other stuff.
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Mason Soun @sounfiction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have a great time reading Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social Issue 10. I thought "The Rainbow Gun" had one of the most interesting premises for a speculative short story that I have ever read!
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca
Cover for PALE GREY IDOL. Featuring black background with maori art of a tribal mask. Yelloe and grey font colors. 

Hello Undertow Family,


It's my great pleasure today to announce publication of a new journal — Pale Grey Idol.


Pale Grey Idol will be an occasional offering. The impetus behind it is to give a home to stories that don't quite fit the needs or aesthetic of Weird Horror magazine.


Some of you may recall the first journal I edited, Shadows & Tall Trees. Pale Grey Idol is very much cast in that mold. A slim journal styled after those first issues of Shadows & Tall Trees, presenting curious tales of the ineffable. Back to our roots, as it were.


An aspect of this new venture that might sadden some of you is that I am not fulfilling direct orders for the journal. I'm sorry about this but hope you'll understand and still support Pale Grey Idol.


Our most precious commodity is time. And these days life is eating away at it in unpleasant ways. I've crunched some numbers, and compared fulfilling orders through our Undertow site with sales through distribution channels. There is a modest amount more that comes in via direct sales, but when I factor in the actual time it takes to fulfill orders, well, that negates that bump. In addition, there have been a number of things that have made fulfillment of both print and eBooks...challenging and vexing.


So I've set up a dedicated website for Pale Grey Idol:


PALE GREY IDOL


There you'll find information about forthcoming issues, submissions guidelines, where to buy* the issues, the newsletter sign-up, and contact information.


I am very excited about this new venture, and I do hope that you will support it if you are able.


PURCHASE





NOTE - It appears the print edition has only propagated to Amazon, thus far. It should be up on Bookshop, and Barnes & Noble soon.


Thank you all for your continued support and good graces.
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sick today but I still want to celebrate #LitMagWeek: @trampset.bsky.social @centaurlit.bsky.social @villaineralit.bsky.social @paranoidxtree.bsky.social @crowkeys.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @poolpartymag.com Monkeybicycle
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI my short fiction recs for June-July, featuring stories from @thedeadlands.com @clarkesworldmagazine.com @lightspeedmagazine.com Future Tense Fiction @bourbonpenn.bsky.social and-- itsajumble.blogspot.com/2026/09/shor...
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Short fiction recs! June--August 2026
Very late, but here are some things I loved and read this past summer. Novelettes “The City in White” by Diana Dima in The Deadlands ...
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ihate00 @ihate00.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This kept me on my toes, always trying to guess where the story was heading. Just reviewed the anazing 'Middle Song' by @thomasha.bsky.social from @bourbonpenn.bsky.social on my blog - ihate00critics.blogspot.com/2026/09/week...
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"This foreboding story unspirals with delicious tension and mystery, as the background of this world—and of the narrator—is slowly revealed. It’s a layered story about complicity, control, and escape." Appreciate the double shoutout! Thanks again and look forward to checking out these stories.
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Thomas Ha > Middle Song > Bourbon Penn
People usually pass through the gray silence of the desert. Beyond charred sumps and refinery towers, oil fields and dust walls, they drive without an intent to tarry. Most know this for a middle plac...
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Got my contributors copies of the latest @bourbonpenn.bsky.social!!!! The Not Dog Thing is my 3rd story with them. I’m always so pumped to end up in their pages alongside so many other amazing speculative writers! Want to read some weird werewolf found footage? www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
A photo of me holding up the latest issue of bourbon Penn
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Are you looking for a little Saturday read about a sad TikTok dad, amateur naturalists wandering…and maybe lycanthropy??? If that’s the case, check out my new story, The Not Dog Thing, over in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social!!! www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Corey Farrenkopf > The Not-Dog-Thing > Bourbon Penn
After Mom died, Dad started making plant identification TikToks. Of course I gave him a follow. It was my idea after all. He was so depressed. So glum. Everyone needs an outlet for their grief.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Weird Horror ad in latest @remainsmagazine.bsky.social . Are you reading Remains? Weird Horror? What are your go-to mags? Some of mine: The Dark, @bourbonpenn.bsky.social , Supernatural Tales, Remains, ergot, The Fabulist, 3LBE, Nightmare Abbey, Dealands, @khoreo.bsky.social Chthonic matterM
Back inner cover of Remains magazine showing ad for Weird Horror.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wait. Let me be more specific. ABOUT EVIL TRANSDIMENSIONAL SOCKS: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Mari Ness > The Great Sock Experiment > Bourbon Penn
AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, Ok, two things: Science explains everything. Except socks. AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, So I guess we, or me, learned one thing from this: Socks are out ...
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
....so apparently there's this WHOLE THING about authors needing to talk more/needing to talk less about their NOVELS but not about their SHORT STORIES AND POEMS so, uh. Hi! SOME SHORT STORIES: ABOUT SOCKS: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Mari Ness > The Great Sock Experiment > Bourbon Penn
AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, Ok, two things: Science explains everything. Except socks. AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, So I guess we, or me, learned one thing from this: Socks are out ...
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net · 17/08/2026
Every @thomasha.bsky.social story is a magic trick.
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Thomas Ha > Middle Song > Bourbon Penn
People usually pass through the gray silence of the desert. Beyond charred sumps and refinery towers, oil fields and dust walls, they drive without an intent to tarry. Most know this for a middle plac...
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Yes, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 is, in fact, out early. I'd originally planned it for October, but various circumstances—notably that it was ready—prompted me to move it up. An amazing ToC!
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The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications
Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in the twenty-first century.” -Zacha...
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T. L. Xue @tixanfy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Let them see the sky past my teeth." Best read while listening to your grandparents' music on their stereo and stripping threads from green beans. @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/thr...
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T. L. Xue > Three Stories From My Grandmother > Bourbon Penn
When I was a child, my village spent the cold days between the autumn equinox and the first warm week of spring eating such pungent foods we could barely stand each other. Onion, garlic, chives, cilan...
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New story day!!!!! Wicked excited to be back in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social with my new weird dark fantasy horrorish (who even understands genre anymore) piece about a sad dude making cute animal tiktoks…that maybe aren’t so cute…or so animal? www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Corey Farrenkopf > The Not-Dog-Thing > Bourbon Penn
After Mom died, Dad started making plant identification TikToks. Of course I gave him a follow. It was my idea after all. He was so depressed. So glum. Everyone needs an outlet for their grief.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yesterday was A LOT, so you might have missed that I have a new story out in Bourbon Penn, which is not JUST about socks: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Mari Ness > The Great Sock Experiment > Bourbon Penn
AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, Ok, two things: Science explains everything. Except socks. AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, So I guess we, or me, learned one thing from this: Socks are out ...
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Friends! Weird Horror #13 is out! Art by James Hutton. Featuring another stacked ToC! If you pre-ordered, copies have just been dispatched. Thank you! Give it a couple weeks. Drop by our site to grab your copy, in either print or digital. undertowpublications.com
Weird Horror 13 cover, plus following text:


Weird Horror #13
$16.00
Cover art by James Hutton.


Uncanny and strange new fiction from Seán Padraic Birnie, Zachariah Claypole White, Brian Evenson, Stephanie Feldman, Jonathan Kincade, John K. Peck, M. Rickert, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Kay Vaindal, and Shaoni C. White.

Non-fiction from Orrin Grey, and Simon Strantzas.

"Excellent!"

-Ellen Datlow, The Best Horror of the Year

"With its seventh issue, Weird Horror (Fall 2023) has finally hit its stride. All 11 stories are effective, and sever-al are laudable."

-Paula Guran, Locus
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A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A pleasantly creepy story about grief and a possible werewolf - The Not-Dog-Thing by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Corey Farrenkopf > The Not-Dog-Thing > Bourbon Penn
After Mom died, Dad started making plant identification TikToks. Of course I gave him a follow. It was my idea after all. He was so depressed. So glum. Everyone needs an outlet for their grief.
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LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this sock-related story is pure hilarious insanity yet somehow completely relatable 👻 @mariness.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #SF #SpecFiction #flash www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Mari Ness > The Great Sock Experiment > Bourbon Penn
AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, Ok, two things: Science explains everything. Except socks. AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, So I guess we, or me, learned one thing from this: Socks are out ...
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I need to send more stuff to Bourbon Penn - they always have amazing artwork (and yes, yes, I want to read the stories too. Excited to have something to look forward to this week)
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Wicked excited for my newest story, The Not Dog Thing, to be out in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social this week! Need a little sad dad nature identification TikTok story in your life? What if there was something weird waiting beneath the trees??? www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Corey Farrenkopf > The Not-Dog-Thing > Bourbon Penn
After Mom died, Dad started making plant identification TikToks. Of course I gave him a follow. It was my idea after all. He was so depressed. So glum. Everyone needs an outlet for their grief.
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
ANYWAY! My story about SOCKS - lots and lots of SOCKS - and how they MIGHT JUST BE OUT TO KILL US is now out in Bourbon Penn, free to read! www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Mari Ness > The Great Sock Experiment > Bourbon Penn
AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, Ok, two things: Science explains everything. Except socks. AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, So I guess we, or me, learned one thing from this: Socks are out ...
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Which also means that instead of reading generative AI summaries of James Fenimore Cooper, you can read my human written, experimental story about socks, dryers, and possible alternative universes instead! www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Mari Ness > The Great Sock Experiment > Bourbon Penn
AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, Ok, two things: Science explains everything. Except socks. AlexHatesSocks @Alex903127 – April 1, So I guess we, or me, learned one thing from this: Socks are out ...
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
ALSO worth reading over at Bourbon Penn today: "The Not-Dog-Thing," by Corey Farrenkopf, kinda/sorta a response to certain social media trends. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/39/the...
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Corey Farrenkopf > The Not-Dog-Thing > Bourbon Penn
After Mom died, Dad started making plant identification TikToks. Of course I gave him a follow. It was my idea after all. He was so depressed. So glum. Everyone needs an outlet for their grief.
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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
it's always a good day when you have a new story out! "The Jelly Heart" is about a girl who becomes obsessed with a cryptid that lives in a glass castle on the back of a sea turtle. is it an alien? is it a psychic jellyfish? who knows? you can read all about it at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
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Ruth Joffre > The Jelly Heart > Bourbon Penn
My parents only had one rule when I was growing up: Every question asked had to be answered, regardless of the subject or if it was age-appropriate. Once, I asked my father where to find a pink bunny ...
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Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions @sffmagazines.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
They always get the coolest covers. Dig them!
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 11/08/2026
Best mag out there. Go forth and read.
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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
have you heard of The Jelly Heart? it’s a mysterious sea cryptid that lives in a glass castle on the back of a sea turtle and the narrator of my story out today in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social becomes obsessed with trying to find it while her family falls apart around her. check it out!
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T. L. Xue @tixanfy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Memories, folktales, glimpses, and sparrows. "Three Stories From My Grandmother" is out in Bourbon Penn now!
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Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Bourbon Penn 39 is live! Featuring new fiction from Corey Farrenkopf, Mari Ness, Rich Larson, Nick DiChario, Ruth Joffre, T. L. Xue, and Charles Wilkinson. @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @mariness.bsky.social @ruthjoffre.bsky.social @tixanfy.bsky.social
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Bourbon Penn 39
Stories by Corey Farrenkopf, Mari Ness, Rich Larson, Nick DiChario, Ruth Joffre, T. L. Xue, and Charles Wilkinson. Cover art by Antonio Segura (Dulk).
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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hey Hey! It’s new story day for me!!! Need a little clifi flash story in your life??? Then check out What Is A Lake Beyond An Extinct Word over in @havenspec.bsky.social!!! havenspec.com/fiction/what...
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What Is A Lake Beyond An Extinct Word?, Haven Spec Magazine
"What Is A Lake Beyond An Extinct Word?" by Corey Farrenkopf
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
For the evening crowd. From time to time, when writing budget allows, I commission illustrations for my website. This one is a striking one by @emo-sludge.com. I saw Zach's portfolio and was blown away. I thought, "Bet he could do something real messed and freaky for this story!" And boy did he.
art by Zach Hazard Vaupen aka Emo Sludge. giant, arms wrapped around another giant, their legs wrapped, one giant eating the other giant's head, background is a crumbling library, books falling off shelves, walls falling apart
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Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
For the evening crowd...
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Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Bourbon Penn 39 cover reveal. Available now to subscribers!
Bourbon Penn 39. Cover art, Tropical Carrousel, by Antonio Segura (Dulk)
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It's my great pleasure to announce the authors and their works selected for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Thank you to all the writers, editors, and publishers who sent in work for consideration. The print edition is now up for pre-order. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...
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Alison Littlewood
Audrey Zhou
Brian Evenson
C.T. Muchemwa
Erin Brown
John Langan
Jon Lasser
Kay Chronister
Louis Inglis Hall
Lynda E. Rucker
Mary Kuryla
Nathan Ballingrud
Rebecca Campbell
Samantha Mills
Shaun Cammack
Spencer Nitkey
Steve Toase
TJ Price
Tomás Downey
Tomás Downey
Woody Dismukes
Elmer’s Bottle Tree Ranch
Mother’s Mother’s Daughter
The Subject
The Inheritance
The Night Market
Snakebit, Or Why I (Continue to) Love Horror
The Other River
The Shadow of His Vibrance
Malo Malo Malo Malo
Nixie
The Wig
Secret Night
A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World
10 Visions of the Future; or, Self-Care for the End of Days
Graceless Creatures
In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful
Pollen
hear of the rot
Diving Board
Sisters
The Peculiarities of Hunger
Remains #3
Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora
THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE #46
FIYAH #33
The SKULL & LAUREL #4
LOST IN THE DARK AND OTHER EXCURSIONS
LIGHTSPEED #179
FEVER DREAMS
THE DARK #118
TERROR TALES OF CHAOS
COSMIC HORROR MONTHLY #57
NIGHT & DAY
THE OTHER SHORE
UNCANNY #63
LADY CHURCHILL’S ROSEBUD WRISTLET #50
WEIRD HORROR #10
Occult Tales of Britain and Northern Ireland
We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
Diving Board: STORIES
DIVING BOARD: STORIES
khōréō Vol. 5, Issue 2
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Friends, in a couple days I'll announce the table of contents for "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2." Meanwhile, here are the very notable stories that garnered much consideration and will be listed in the book. As always, great stuff.
The Music We Became	by Addison Smith	from Final Curtain: Stories Inspired by the Phantom of the Opera

Orange Slab by Ashley Stokes - Interzone #301

Edgar Addison, the Author of Dévorer (1862-1933) by Ben Peek	- Nightmare #153

Personation	Ben Tufnell	The Brussels Review Autumn 2025

The Voice Thief	Chris Stavitsky	Oxford American #130

Another Mother Again	Cyan Katz	Weird Horror #11

The Start of Something	David Demchuk	Weird Horror #11

The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead	E.M. Linden	PodCastle #879

Whalesong	Guan Un	The Deadlands

Moving House	Joseph Anderson	Chthonic Matter #9

Belly Full of Eyes	K.S. Walker	Three-Lobed Burning Eye #46

The Further Tide	Lynda E. Rucker	Supernatural Tales #60

Apostasy in Fruit	Moustapha Mbacké Diop	The Dark #120

His Most Feared Constellation	R.L. Summerling	The Dark #119

The Sitter	Rob Francis	Fever Dreams

Trader	Sam Asher	Bourbon Penn #36

The Cold Burning Light of Her	Sam W. Pisciotta	Lightspeed #186

Shrike	Samir Sirk Morató	ergot.

Everything is White	Simon Strantzas	Other Sides

Not the Same Place	Simon Strantzas	Other Sides
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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oh happy day! 🖤 Maria reviews my "Queen of Hell" and other stories from @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #38 in Locus Online. Read her column for great short fiction recommendations.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 10/06/2026
Stories featured from @diabolicalplots.com March issue, @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #38 and @escapepod.org in February.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Many thanks to @mariahaskins.com for this rec and review of "Middle Song" in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social. If you missed it a couple months ago, it's available here: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/mid...
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Thomas Ha > Middle Song > Bourbon Penn
People usually pass through the gray silence of the desert. Beyond charred sumps and refinery towers, oil fields and dust walls, they drive without an intent to tarry. Most know this for a middle plac...
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Diabolical Plots, Bourbon Penn, and Escape Pods: Review by Maria Haskins locusmag.com/review/...
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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
As fans eagerly await the arrival of PHANTOM LIMB, sequel to the (ahem) cult hit novel LAST DAYS, author @brianevenson.bsky.social is kindly providing signed ARCs for two lucky members of the Brian Evenson subreddit! Click thru to enter the giveaway by Sat June 13 ⭐ www.reddit.com/r/BrianEvens...
Book cover for Phantom Limb, from Coffee House Press. Art by Jeffrey Alan Love. The image appears to be a hand reaching down, which forms the eyelashes of a woman's face.
Photo of author Brian Evenson. Photo by G.Garitan.
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Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We love Beautiful Bizarre Art Magazine! @beautifulbizarre.net And we're so excited they're currently sharing our editor, Erik Secker's, piece, "Waiting for Dinner", on their website. Check out the Art Prize details and so many other amazing entries here: beautifulbizarreartprize.art/win-2026-bea...
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A piece @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/rop...
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Michael Kelly > Rope > Bourbon Penn
I couldn’t explain the tentacle. Or the rope. A forlorn beach on a drear December day. Gray. Overcast. An electric charge in the still air. A weird alien drone in my sleep-addled head. The hard winter...
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We are so happy to announce that @thomasha.bsky.social's collection "Uncertain Sons and Other Stories" has won the Locus Award. Thomas also garnered a Locus Award for his story "In My Country." (Clarkesworld.) Congratulations, Thomas! Well deserved. We are thrilled for you. Congrats to everyone.
Graphic with Locus award trophy and book cover for UNCERTAIN SONS, on starry background. TEXT: Undertow Congratulates Thomas Ha, 2026 Locus Award Winner
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R.W.W. Greene (He/him) @rwwgreene.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The really fucked up thing about the Turing Test is that passing it requires a computer to successfully lie to us. In other words: the toasters nearly got me. open.substack.com/pub/rwwgreen... #WritingCommunity #AI #Scams #Publishing #Cyberpunk
A graphic that shows two hands reaching for the other.
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Dear Nicoletta in the trenches @dearnicoletta.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I was ecstatic to come across this review of my short fiction in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social #37 Maria Haskins! Locus Magazine! wow!
A text clipping of a review article by Maria Haskins for Locus Magazine. Text reads: “Daughter of the Dynasties” by Nicoletta Gi­useffi dives deep into the macabre and disturbing with a story about the Dynasties, a strange society and secret court where people’s body parts, and more than that, are consumed. Giuseffi’s prose is lavish and ornate, and the story slips into an almost delirious darkness as the lust and hunger of the Dynasties are revealed in nightmarish transforma­tions, magic, and ritualistic devouring. It’s a heady, feverishly phantasmagoric story.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 11/03/2026
You can read part of my February short fiction review column for Locus Magazine in Locus Online right now: locusmag.com/review/benea... Get Locus in print or digital: subscribers.locusmag.com/back-issues
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Small Wonders, and Bourbon Penn: Review by Maria Haskins
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/11/25 Lightspeed 12/25 Small Wonders 12/25 Bourbon Penn 11/25 Family is the common thread in the December 11 issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, with a focus on the bond be…
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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I've got new stories coming your way soon in @lightspeedmagazine.com, @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, and @adventitiouswords.bsky.social! it's going to be a busy summer 😎
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 17/05/2026
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social is tops. Broad spectrum weird, top tier writing.
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