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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 35m

So long, outer planets, been good to know ya 👋🪐

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A fun aspect of being a horror writer is that friends and family will say "Hey, I bet you could write a horror story about that" regarding any occurrence whatsoever

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 27/09/2026

Encouraging anyone interested in ambiguous erotic difficult queer fiction with lots of giallo guts to request & review. Think of it as unsolved mysteries with butt sex. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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Dead Boys Don’t Cry

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have altered the beast. Pray I don't alter it any further...

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Weirdpunk is actually really great about keeping their backlist in stock, which is good because I think most publishers would consider my book A Small Light's sales weak enough to pull it. You can still pick up lots of other great stuff they have released. weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/a-sm...

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A Small Light & Other Stories - Sara Century | Weirdpunk Books

A mysterious woman stalks a seaside town. An isolated couple inhabit a house full of tropical birds. A rowboat floats down a river toward a witch's cave. Death wanders an unnamed city during the p...

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exciting announcement!! I'm thrilled to be working with Cursed Morsels again to set a new collection of weird horrors loose in your neighborhood. Can't wait for everyone to see what's behind door number zero 🚪👀😱

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/09/2026

the AI kill switch we need

A man says “It may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask Mothra to help.” This is a still from (I think) the film "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964)

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Storygraph giveaway! Now's your chance to meet everyone's favorites: the obliteration consultant, the clawed and fanged saint, the grandmother with a stinger and the one without, the children who play fire's music...all the stars are here!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

this labyrinth is indisputable

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

both @breathinghead.bsky.social and i have some disorienting, discomforting, & beautiful stories for you, so if you haven't read Gore Poetics or Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces yet, wriggle into these giveaways!

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A reminder that my collection Glass Stories is available from Grimscribe Press! Here's one of the stories in this collection, featured in @ergot.bsky.social : www.ergot.press/authors/Ivy_...

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ergot. innovative horror

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Our open call for horror and Weird fiction collections ends on Monday. If you have something that fits our guidelines (please read them!), send it in: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The D.C. sniper, folks, remember him? Dangerous fella, made very many people very scared. Well, I'm not supposed to say this, but...that was me! Not a lot of people know that."

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's always interesting to see which Cursed Morsels books do best at a book fair. This time around, it was Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces by @breathinghead.bsky.social, a book I love for its disorientation and grotesquerie. One more paperback in stock: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...

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Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to master the art of annihilation. A girl on the verge of a transformation seeks out a new member for her isolated, inhuman family. A glitching brai...

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

wolfpack

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If this story inspires you to make your own fact slab, PLEASE be sure to use the correct procedures and materials in its construction and maintenance. Slab care is no laughing matter!

Frame from The Simpsons S4E7: actor Troy McClure in overalls, cap and tool belt, standing in front of a cracked wall. The caption reads, "First, patch the cracks in the slab."

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

local fruit thinks that you'll enjoy Gore Poetics (my collection published by @cursedmorsels.bsky.social); news at eleven

A photograph of me, a long-haired Latin trans masculine person with an opal bridge piercing and multiple ear and nose piercings, holding a copy of my collection, "Gore Poetics." I'm hiding behind the book.

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Close enough Apparently my strongest regional markers include pronouncing pecan as "pick-AWN" and calling woodlice "roly-polies"

A dialect map of the USA with the "most like you" area concentrated in Oklahoma and Texas. Text above the map reads, "You talk most like someone from Oklahoma—about 55% of your answers match a typical resident."

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1. Consider the slab 2. Offer facts to the slab 3. ??? 4. Dream world

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"I have a horror of writers. The list of perverts is enormous." - Hilda Hilst, Letters from a Seducer

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s Sapphic September and Bisexual Visibility Month which means I, a bisexual author, should talk about my two sapphic horror books! Carnalis is about cannibalism, the body in late capitalism, and toxic love. Green Fuse Burning is about grief, climate change, art, and avoidance.

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"In France They Kill on Main Street"

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Release day! Thrilled to be part of this stacked anthology with my robots-vs-soldiers mystic torture quest adventure, "Fifty Billion Crucified Robots Can't Be Wrong." Check it out, and don't forget to mail your proof of purchase for a chance to meet Our Sponsor itself!

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trailwalker13.bsky.social @trailwalker13.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Good morning, it’s #MossyMonday! Wishing everyone a good start to the new week. 🌞

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Why do we leave an apple on our doorstep once a year? What happens to the villager who draws the black seed from the cup? These and other mysteries are unraveled in my story "God's Drudge," now available in issue 4 of @goblins-galaxies.bsky.social! goblinsandgalaxies.com/product/issu...

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Goblins & Galaxies #4 Summer 2026 – Goblins & Galaxies Magazine

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

started fire next to trash. it spread to trash. spread more through fiery trash. sentient? need funding to be sure.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

'Fox Moon' In celebration of today's lunar eclipse #FoxMoon #FoxFriday #FoxoftheDay 🦊🌿🌔

fox running from right to left. a full moon with two crescent moons on either side. The fox has several tails streaming behind them, some take on the shape of the crescent waxing moon on the right, some of the tails could also be ears of corn. Linocut, feathery orange red, white and black, Maria Strutz

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

"It was a goddamn hierogamy is what it was, two divine entities squirming and sweating and busting their god-plasm in giant squirts and spatters across the cosmos-canvas like the double-backed Jackson Pollock of all heavenly fornicators."

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

great song, great story, great collection! ("do you want to be in hell with me / I know you want to stop but you can't stop")

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Top five Simpsons lines I quote the most: 1. They love the sweet taste 2. I wash myself with a rag on a stick 3. Have all the donuts in the world! Ahahahaha! 4. The toppings contain potassium benzoate 5. We have squozen our whole supply Honorable mention: My name is Guy Incognito

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The answer is yes, and submissions for the food systems anthology are open NOW through September 14th (the same end date as before--don't worry!) Read submission guidelines here and submit something awesome: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN NOW UNTIL FILLED) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideally, …

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.” - Melville on the humpback whale (Moby-Dick ch. 32, “Cetology”)

A humpback whale’s flipper, resembling a white tentacle or periscope, held up out of the ocean as if waving hello

The flukes of a humpback’s whale’s tail disappearing into the water

The backs and dorsal fins of five humpback whales, just barely emerging from the water

A humpback whale breaching in the middle distance, its flipper extended and its belly turned upward, showing its ventral grooves. A white spot and a cluster of what look like barnacles are visible on its chin

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 18/08/2026

Would you believe 3 of my books are available to purchase and that buying or reviewing them helps me write more? Links here, plus a few you can't buy anymore to make you suffer envy. horrorsong.blog/books/

Sutter Cane fan asking Sam Neill, "Do you read Joe Koch?" Sam at Weirdpunk Books made this.

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My story from this recent @chmmagazine.bsky.social issue is now on the site free to read:

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Locavite @locavite.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A sulfurous cauldron… Phaeolus hispidoides aka Dyer’s Polypore aka Velvet-top fungus #ShroomScrolling 🍄‍🟫 #FungiFriends 🍄

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hi. Everything I want to say it at the following link, which contains why I think Patrick Barb should not be HWA President. I'm going to step away from socials for a few hours now, and will see you all later. 🫀 CW: sexual misconduct. theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

sketch of a little owl for another painting 🦉

A pencil drawing of a barn owl with starry patterning on its neck and down the center of its face. The owl sits nestled in a dead tree, looking directly at the viewer. Five other larger star designs are positioned around the owl and its tree.

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces is back on the shelves at the Cursed Morsels store! 18 tales of disorientation and disintegration all raring to scuttle through your brain on too many legs

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Evil? Lurking in the hearts of men? Now I've seen everything

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Entangled

A photograph of a watercolor and gouache painting on paper. The palette is a monochromatic blue and depicts three humanoid figures: two standing above one that’s reclining in the grass. The resting figure has vines growing out of a void in her face. The vines spread across the page, weaving in-and-out of the other figure’s faces.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

After giving it some thought, I figure there's never going to be a perfect time to open for horror/Weird fic collection submissions. Why not now while my job is still in a slow period? If you're BIPOC and/or queer, I'm especially interested in reading your work: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Goodnight. 🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

Rabbits dancing and gathered around a tree trunk, one is on the stump, a wolf approaches from the darkness, a forest is in silhouette in the background beneath a night sky with stars and crescent moon, illustration.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Now I’m not going to say definitively that 1 and 2 would bring about 3, but I think it bears trying

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Almost forgot to wish everyone a happy Bastille Day! Ah, ça ira, ça ira, ça ira, / L'égalité partout régnera

A 1793 etching entitled Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis. It shows Louis XVI being executed by guillotine on a scaffold surrounded by soldiers while devils fly around playing drums and horns and singing the Revolutionary anthem "Ça Ira."

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