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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

evening plans.

'weird horror' #3.
'cthonic matter quarterly' spring 2025.
'pale grey idol' #0.

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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

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Toronto and area friends! Find us this weekend at Little Ghosts Festival. Hope to see you! www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Toronto and area peeps! We'll be at Little Ghosts Festival Sept. 26 & 27. Come say 'Hi!' Grab a book. @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social

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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s time for LITTLE GHOSTS FESTIVAL again! Free to attend! Catch 20+ vendors, 6 panels, and a Sunday night showing of indie short films all curated by the ghostly team. Grab great local art, indie horror books, VHS tapes and more! Sept 26 & 27 , 1-6pm 🖤👻 www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

Little Ghosts Festival (2)!

Saturday & Sunday Sept. 26 & 27th 1-6pm
THE TRANZAC CLUB 292 Brunswick Ave Toronto ON
Horror Vendors, Panels, Short Films
www.littleghostsbooks.com/littleghostsfest

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We will be there, books in hand. Maybe a surprise, as well.

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Jerimy Earl @jerimyadamearl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

To all those authors who're shy about promoting their work via social media, don't be. I'm now reading 'Northern Nights' from @undertow.bsky.social entirely because of my feed here on Bluesky. #Booksky #CanLit

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Btw did you guys hear that @undertow.bsky.social got a World Fantasy nod for their newly revived project Best Weird Vol. 1? Did you hear one cool way to congratulate them is to pre-order the forthcoming Volume 2? New crop of stories, authors, weird stuff. Bet you heard that!

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The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications

Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. 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 ...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I've bundled our two World Fantasy Awards finalists together on sale. Get both books for just $35 delivered. The eBooks are also on sale, just $4 in our store. If you've not yet experienced these great books, now is your chance. @thomasha.bsky.social undertowpublications.com/shop/world-f...

Book covers of "The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1," and "Uncertain Sons and Other Stories".

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Completely stunned. @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons is a World Fantasy Award finalist in Collection, and Long Fiction. Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 is a finalist in Anthology, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece's St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls is a finalist! bit.ly/4fS9xoP

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2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Massive and well-deserved congratulations to @thomasha.bsky.social for winning the Nebula Award for Novelette for "Uncertain Sons." We are delighted to see this story striking a chord with readers. Thank you to all the readers, reviewers, librarians, booksellers, critics, etc., for the support.

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“Uncertain Sons”, by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Undertow Publications)

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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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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yes, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 has a new cover. The first iteration was fine, but the art had been used on several books already. I am way behind on this. Still reading. Hope to have a ToC by July and publication in October/November.

Cover for The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2. Blue-tinted artwork by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis depicts a crowned face with eyelashes like crowns and white ribbony paths flowing from the eyes.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Friends, am delighted to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social 's 'Uncertain Sons and Other Stories' has received a Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. Congratulations, Thomas!

Framed citation "A Special Citation of Excellence: UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES got the special citation for the PKD award! Bit of a blur but pretty sure I remembered to thank @undertow.bsky.social, @carolynmk.bsky.social, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social, @topferarts.bsky.social and others. Congrats again to winner M.R. Carey and all the finalists!

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Carolyn Macdonell @carolynmk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I'm enjoying the collection Salt Slow by Julia Armfield. Especially The Great Awake read on a night with insomnia. What are you reading? #Womeninhorrormonth

Book cover of Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Reminder you can really help us out by pre-ordering our 2026 titles. Thank you! Weird Horror #12 (Shipping March) Weird Horror #13 (Shipping August) Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (Shipping November) undertowpublications.com/shop/2026-pr...

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2026 Pre-Order Bundle — Undertow Publications

Pre-order all 3 of our 2026 titles: Weird Horror #12 (Shipping March) Weird Horror #13 (Shipping August) Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 (Shipping November)

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Friends! Our 2026 titles are up for pre-order. And our 2025 print titles are on sale. Pre-orders help us immensely. Take a look at our site for all the details. I hope you'll consider grabbing something, if you're able. Thank you all so much. undertowpublications.com/shop

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Kristin Knowles @kzknowles.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hey friends, can I ask you all to give our @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Crowdfundr a look? Any amount helps us with our workspace renovation plans, if you're not able (which I understand!), if you could share the link that would be amazing. Love you all! 🤗🧡 👻📚 crowdfundr.com/littleghosts...

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Little Ghosts Books Workshop Space

Little Ghosts Books horror bookstore & community hub is looking to expand its space by renovating our back garage into a studio to host our workshops, book clubs, and author events.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS. Congratulations, Thomas!

Book cover for UNCERTAIN SONS and text: Undertow Publications congratulates

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2025 Philip K. Dick Award Nominee

Uncertain Sons
and Other Stories

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Carolyn Macdonell @carolynmk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This is beyond disappointing. 😡

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Happy to see 13 stories from issues 8 & 9 of Weird Horror magazine make Ellen Datlow's recommendation list: ellendatlow.com/category/news/

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Welp! Something I never envisioned in all my wildest dreams — my name on the front of Locus magazine.

January 2026 cover for Locus magazine. Text: Tom Holt aka K.J. Parker, viking killer zombies. Kamilah Cole, arcane inheritance. John Varley, 1947-2025. spotlight on Michael Kelly & best weird fiction.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Delighted to learn that 4 Weird Horror stories are on the HWA Bram Stoker Award® Reading List. Reminder that Weird Horror is free to read and that if you are still reccing year-end stories our 2025 issues, #'s 10 & 11 can be read here: www.weirdhorrormagazine.com

Covers of issues 10 & 11 of Weird Horror. Issue 10, left has an orange banner and artwork depicting a robed figure with a dandelion for a head in an open entrance way. Issue 11, right, has a cyan banner and artwork of a blue figure kneeling and sprawling backwards, clutching a dagger, with a sword in his chest as a colorful plume erupts from the wound.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We're revisiting our back catalogue and the ONLY original novel we've published—M. Rickert's "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie." This exquisite mystery is an amalgam of Frankenstein, and A Confederacy of Dunces. We want you to read it. The eBook is on sale for just $2. undertowpublications.com/ebooks

PRAISE

"...an affecting and tragic portrayal of a man struggling and failing to communicate and connect with those around him. Highly recommended..." - Starred Review, Booklist

“Masterful ... darkly magical ... a stunning ending.”

— Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

“The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie grabbed me from the first page. Quark is an indelible main character who I will continue to think about and love.”

— Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will

“The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by M. Rickert is a powerful evocation of an imaginary place, both magical and mundane; the tribulations of a good hearted hapless giant; and a compelling mystery. Dark and humorous and deep.”

—   Jeffrey Ford, Author of Big Dark Hole

“Fans of M. Rickert's singular blend of the mundane and the monstrous will be drawn deep into the briny, haunted world of Bellfairie.”

—   Sofia Samatar, Author of A Stranger in Olondria, and Tender

“Awash in sea rain, ghosts and the stories they trail, the sound of submerged bells from offshore (or their echo, or their memory), Bellfairie and its denizens are M. Rickert creations through and through—meaning magical, mournful, mysterious, profoundly human.”

—   Glen Hirshberg, Author of The Motherless Children Trilogy

“The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie is a dark, dream-like, psychologically astute novel about the outsider as threat and victim, about the power of crowds, and the betrayal of innocence, replete with uncanny secrets, signs, and symbols that echo and reverberate, intimations of an unseen, sublunary world.”

—   Douglas Glover, Author of Elle, and Savage Love

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Carolyn Macdonell @carolynmk.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

@taskmaster.tv I am still waiting for the season 20 final on Taskmaster Supermax+.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Coming Spring 2026, issue 12! Art by @marcpotts.bsky.social Design by Vince Haig. Words by @rajivmote.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social and more. Pre-orders will go up early in the new year.

Cover for issue 12 of Weird Horror. Cover shows art by Marc Potts called "Frost Witch". Blue/Grey color scheme of witch floating or moving above the grounds as their harir and garments trail

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Carolyn Macdonell @carolynmk.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

@alexhorne.bsky.social I am trying to watch the season 20 final in the Taskmaster app. It's not there Alex. It's on YouTube already. Sad in Canada.😢

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Carolyn Macdonell @carolynmk.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Waiting for the awards. Good luck to @undertow.bsky.social ! #worldfantasyawards www.youtube.com/live/D5Fh_vA...

Photo of my TV screen with the World Fantasy Awards live stream

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Reminder to haunt our friends @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social in the @canconsffh.bsky.social dealers room this weekend to grab Uncertain Sons by @thomasha.bsky.social and Best Weird Fiction Vol. 1. Plus other great titles!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Coming soon! We'll be @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Festival, Oct. 4 & 5. Come see us and all the fab vendors and creators. www.littleghostsbooks.com/little-ghost...

Poster for Little Ghosts Festival. Oct. 4 & 5, Noon to 5 pm. Tranzac Club, Toronto. Vendors. Readings. Panels. Films.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It's UNCERTAIN SONS and @thomasha.bsky.social all the time now. Apologies, but reviews are dropping. Please check out this fab one from @williamshaw.bsky.social at Strange Horizons. bit.ly/41TpG7l

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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories by Thomas Ha

Ha’s current slippery and enigmatic style emerges from a firm grasp of genre fundamentals.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Most of you have already received your copies of @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS, but official pub day is 2 weeks today on the 16th. Still enough time to get a copy. undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta...

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Uncertain Sons and Other Stories — Undertow Publications

Sept. 2025 Cover art by Ove Tøpfer Trade paperback (284 pages) Uncertain Sons is a startling and masterful collection exploring familial love and trauma; societal and technological anxieties; ...

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Hey! I'm doing a small Uncertain Sons event at North Fig Bookshop next month. Brian Evenson will be there, which is wild and very nice of him! I think there will be tacos. Maybe we'll talk about Wolfe and weird horror. If you live in LA stop by. Will be chill and mainly my cousins. 9/20, 7 pm.

Banner says book launch Thomas Ha in conversation with Brian Evenson Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

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Carolyn Macdonell @carolynmk.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Good luck🤞 Aurora Awards Ceremony. 1st time nominee @undertow.bsky.social

Photo of Michael Kelly with caption "Best Related Work Nominee:

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Final proofing is being done on this. Pre-orders include the print AND e-book. Said eBook will be delivered early, thus making you the envy of all your friends and enemies. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

Cover for THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1. Odilon Redon art of a face in the middle of an areola/sun/aura thing.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

NOTE - It'll soon be up at Amazon, BN, Bookshop, etc. But for now you can pre-order direct. Price includes the physical book, plus eBook, and free shipping. Help us keep this series going. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

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Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1 (Pre-Order - Print & eBook bundle) — Undertow Publications

PRINT AND EBOOK (Pre-Order Ships November) A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds ...

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Happy Canada Day! Our Canadian-authored eBooks are on sale for just $1 each! 8 books! Grab them all or just the ones you don't have. The sale is for 3 days only—starting July 1 and ending at midnight July 4. undertowpublications.com/ebooks

Graphic showing these 8 books: No One Will Come Back for Us, by Premee Mohamed; Northern Nights (Michael Kelly, ed.); The Ghost Sequences, by A.C. Wise; Helpmeet, by Naben Ruthnum; The Talosite, by Rebecca Campbell; grotesquerie, by Richard Gavin; Nothing is Everything, by Simon Strantzas; All the Things We Never See, by Michael Kelly.

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Julia Rust @juliarust.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"Saving Thornwood" is AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER in paperback, hard cover and e-book from Barnes & Noble. A story of two friends who break the rules of time and space to fight cruelty and save the ones they love. YAP Books/Haverhill House Publishing. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/saving-tho...

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Julia Rust @juliarust.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

More kind words about David Surface's and my latest novel, SAVING THORNWOOD, available for pre-order (Kindle). Paperback and hard cover coming soon! Thank you @cbarzak.bsky.social

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