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A. McAnarney-Castro

@deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social
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Mesoamerican chaos-muppet. Horror & Spec. Fiction writer.🐙 Digital Manager @theyoungcenter.bsky.social. Opinions & Terrors my own My work, which is not yet finished: linktr.ee/alexmcanarneywrites

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I've been asked: what the earliest agreed archaeological evidence for making beer from cereals? Gobekli Tepe is a good place to start. If you are looking for agreement among archaeologists. Cereals. Feasting. Hot stone technology. Beerstone or calcium oxalate. gobekli-tepe.com/blog/beer-br...
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Was Beer Brewed at Göbekli Tepe? The Evidence | Göbekli Tepe
Stone troughs with calcium oxalate residues suggest fermentation. Six vessels held 160+ liters—evidence of brewing thousands of years before written history.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 20h
The parts in Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit when the claymation rabbits howl at the moon while beating their chests are severely underrated cuteness youtu.be/oFdJv9hPV_k
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Wallace and Gromit: Wererabbit Encounter
Alt: from Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit, the Were-rabbit howls at the moon and beats his chest like King Kong, then regular rabbits hear him and start also howling at the moon and beating their chests
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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"End Of The Street" - my oil painting
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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat Thanks, everyone! My most recent horror tale is "The Vanishing" in the Raw Blood and Nerve anthology. www.dickinsonpublishinggroup.com/products-sto...
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Raw Blood and Nerve #1 (Print Copy) — Dickinson Publishing Group
In this edition of Raw Blood and Nerve: A young Bible salesman discovers the murderous lengths to which past salesmen were willing to go, in our featured Nasty Novelette, "Faith and Blood" by Zary Fe...
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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hi, I'm Stephanie Ellis writer of folk horror, gothic, historical, and postapocalyptic horror subgenres Music favourites vary, though frequently metal. Top of the list atm is Metallica's S&M. Industrial, e.g. NIN, Ministry, Gary Numan. Also neo-pagan/folk with Heilung & Wardruna #HorrorWritersChat
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat: I published a piece poked fun at Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls. Lately I've been thinking about Wolf Eye's Enemy Ladder when writing about an insomniac: "Severed fingers, severed flights Severed freeways in the night Over and over again I gave up both sleep and life"
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HD Beird @thebeird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤔 Right KMFDM trapped in a building with robot killer going after their record label Death Machine meets Phantom of the Park It'll be a sequel to a film where the murder bot went after a military band on an army base SCREW LOOSE 2 Tagline; "This time, it's personnel!" #HorrorWritersChat
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Monkey Drums
Alt: Monkey Drums
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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hello #HorrorWritersChat! I’m Ell, I write ace horror & retellings of dark, weird, lesser-known fairytales. I love movie soundtracks and indie folk and pop. Currently have Rabbitology, The Crane Wives, Mollie Elizabeth, The Hound + the Fox, and Malinda on repeat. Need to check out Chasing Abbey.
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat Taking umbrage at the copyright infringement and false advertising, a Banshee challenges Siouxsie Sioux to a shriek off where only one voice can win.
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm starting a longer horror satire project about a failing Black Metal label and how the owner winds up conjuring Nazi spirits (accidentally) to prevent it from tanking. Currently writing about a punk salvadoran kid making his way in 90s DC with his angry familiar. #HorrorWritersChat
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Stephanie Ellis @stephellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was listening to a it of T Rex not long ago. Is one of my preferred artists when editing (them, Skunk Anansie, Poets of the Fall and Kate Bush). Don't know why but they help me focus for that part of the work.
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat: Greetings wildcats! A.M. Castro, writer of spec fiction and cosmic horror here. I loved "Longface" in AMCs The Vampire Lestat. Amazing proto glam rock vibes by way of T Rex, which I can see the brat prince including on his Playlist. I could also see Dax Riggs or Lera Lynn.
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James Ryan @jamesryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Only an hour to go for this week's #HorrorWritersChat Join us for 4 questions, a chat, and some self-promo at the end,
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	Write Horror?
Join us for four questions, a chat, and blatant self-promotion at the end.
Wednesday, September 30th
7 PM BST (UK) / 2 PM EDT (USA)
Questions will be posted by guest poster James Ryan
Search for the hashtag
#HorrorWritersChat
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No talky. Me angy.
Angrynlola
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/09/2026
"As a 49-year-old woman, I worry about a lot of issues: threats to our democracy, the changing climate, abortion rights. That’s why I can’t wait for my birthday when—like all women who reach the age of 50—I will naturally morph into an unfeeling, cold-blooded lizard being." buff.ly/F8vQT1N
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I Can’t Wait Until I Turn Fifty and Morph into a Lizard Person
“Ever wonder why women over fifty become invisible? It’s not because society no longer values them; it’s because they’ve changed into superior lizard beings ...
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Chet Sandberg @chetsandberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m Gen X. It was understood that if women don’t like you, it’s on you to fix that, not them.
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some nights you want to barf your feelings on the blank page. Some nights you want to barf your feelings into a clear sink. The differences are merely typographical.
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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 29/09/2026
The Colours - Cocaine [US - Folk, Country] (1968) Outlaw ballad with captivating southern-accent female vocal. redd.it/qegs06 youtu.be/PTkUKjC5WCs
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The Colours - Cocaine [US - Folk, Country] (1968) Outlaw ballad with captivating southern-accent female vocal.
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Shadow Box Archives @shadowboxarchives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What Happens On Halloween Comes Back Around #Horror #Creepypasta #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black What’s your favorite part of Halloween? Perhaps it’s the pumpkin carving or hayrides. Maybe it’s the decorations or those classic movies or TV specials. I know! It’s the treats,…
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What Happens On Halloween Comes Back Around
#Horror #Creepypasta #Halloween #ShadowBoxArchives Written By: Rosé Black What’s your favorite part of Halloween? Perhaps it’s the pumpkin carving or hayrides. Maybe it’s the decorations or those classic movies or TV specials. I know! It’s the treats, right? I won’t deny that I used to enjoy them - candy apples, Snickers, Reese’s, Sour Skittles. Just never those weird circus peanuts or black licorice (shudders).
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a book out tomorrow, SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, an anthology I edited with Simon & Schuster. I've been writing and publishing since 1999 - when my first journalism piece was published.
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The puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nowhere
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As I’ve said before, I prefer the term “language researcher”
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 28/09/2026
Sweeeeet
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Review: GHOST IN THE CELL is Joko Anwar’s Best Film to Date | Fangoria
Every once in a while, you’re lucky enough to watch a film that makes you feel like you can run through a brick wall. I’m thrilled to report that Joko Anwar’s Ghost in the Cell is one such film. It al...
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Make Writing Your Job @makewritingyourjob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
a residency that gave me chills today: a month in an artist's house, rent and utilities covered, $100 a week to live on, $300 toward travel. ten pages of prose or six poems to apply. one reading, one workshop. closes march 1.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Beyond the Fold" @oldheneel.bsky.social, BCS #436. "does a great job balancing the characters’ love and passion–their need to express themselves through their art–and the reality of the violence they are complicit in...Recommended" —Charles Payseur, Locus beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/beyo...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Beyond the Fold by Holden Lee
The power to fold life carries great responsibility, so we must fold a thousand cranes before we can touch a sheet of living paper. We fold them with writing paper, with newspaper obituaries, with pla...
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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We weren't expecting to be posting this quite so soon... but good news: we're reopening to submissions! 🎉
WE'RE REOPENING TO SUBMISSIONS!
WE WEREN'T EXPECTING TO WRITE THIS QUITE YET. BUT OWING TO A BIT OF UNEXPECTED GOOD FORTUNE - WE'RE OPENING BACK UP TO SUBMISIONS!

WE'RE LOOKING FOR QUEER HORROR NOVELS OF AT LEAST 50,000 WORDS FOR A LATE 2027 EARLY 2028 RELEASE
IN EXCHANGE, WE'RE OFFERING A SMALL ($250) ADVANCE AND A LOT OF LOVE, CARE AND ATTENTIONIF YOU KNOW US, THEN YOU KNOW THE SORT OF THING WE LIKE, AND THE SORT OF THING WE DON'T. (IF YOU DON'T KNOW US: WORTH HAVING A QUICK READ AROUND TO MAKE SURE WE'RE THE RIGHT FIT)

PLEASE:
• NO "AI"-GENERATED ANYTHING
• NO RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA OR TRANSPHOBIA, ABLEISM OR MISOGYNY - TRUST US, WE CAN SMELL THEM ALL A MILE AWAY
• NOTHING THAT ISN'T QUEER HORROR

THINK YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR US?
EMAIL IT OVER TO
INFO @NEFARIOUSBATPRESS.COM
WITH A COVER NOTE AND SYNOPSIS, MARKED
"QUEER HORROR SUBMISSIONS"

CHEERS! ~ THE BATS
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Halloween costume for Fat Lola Test 1: Cow girl. Hat attached to head: 5 seconds. Scarf life: 15 minutes. Treats required: 3
Yeah aw dog
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My face when I click "submit."
Yolo face
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 24/09/2026
Happy Thursday. Give 'em hell. 😈
Godlevel:
You gotta wall in rooms like God sent you
bakwaaas:
as a punishment
[Image of Lestat walking]
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As a gourd-o-sexual, I appreciate this piece.
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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 22/09/2026
Trump is such a disgrace. If the U.S. ever wants to restore any of its alliances, the next administration will, at a minimum, need to accept ICC jurisdiction over the U.S. and hand over Trump and most of his administration, plus Elon Musk, to stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Berry has crafted a crucial entry in Ireland’s wider examination of its mother-and-baby homes and institutional control while keeping attendant horrors offscreen. Documentary evidence and testimony do the heavy lifting. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
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The Lost Children of Tuam review: Historical evils lurk beneath a muted surface
Frank Berry’s film reconstructs Catherine Corless’s meticulous investigation into the Bon Secours mother and baby home in the Co Galway town
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This thread. ❤️
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Juanitobanana Peanut Butter Jelly Time Dance
ALT: Juanitobanana Peanut Butter Jelly Time Dance
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Mitch Miller ☆ 📼 @astramachina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are truly are a bunch of bananas.
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Red Dragon Press @reddragonpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat Haven't set a release date yet, but I'm *definitely* releasing my second short story collection next month! Filled to the brim with horror and horror-adjacent tales. Keep your eyes peeled 👁 👀 👁 👀
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Mary Wyrd (she/her) @marywyrd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yeah, we won't split!
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're all we have. You might say we need to Bunch up together.
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks, hubs, for being first reader. Thanks, dog, for listening to my ideas. Thanks, mom and dad, for trying but failing to make me normal. Thanks, horror familia, for reading my weird and wild words. #horrorwriterschat
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Living? Brian Evenson. Fernanda Melchor. Agustina Bazterrica. Dead? Harlan Ellison. Shirley Jackson. Honestly? Pls no. I find other table. I am awkward yet overly-excitable banana. #horrorwriterschat
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Nate Crowder @natecrowder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'd love to see a panel on: Subverting Ableism in Horror Fiction I would like to see a balanced panel of authors who themselves have a range of dissabilities of some kind and have addressed it in their writing and possibly an editor or sensitivity reader. #HorrorWritersChat
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#horrorwriterschat: Damn. I gotta throw in some filmmakers in there too. If I were to do a panel on the abject body, the state, and its terrors I would do: Georges Bataille Ken Russell Única Zurn Piere Paolo Pasolini
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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat I’m my handle, I do novels and scripts, today I’ll pitch GROUNDHOG NIGHT In the spirit of TREMORS and LAKE PLACID, a gaggle of misfits led by a young girl must save their town from both a gigantic monstrous groundhog… and the loathsome mayor determined to exploit it!
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Hadassah Shiradski @dassawrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic historical horror, usually w/ supernatural themes. WIP: Set in the 15th century, Ada finds herself drawn to a house in the woods & the witch within. Unsure of everything, what will she do? A gory, erotic, sapphic novel in verse with three Speakers. #HorrorWritersChat
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Queen Anna V 👑 🫜🫜 @annavernerauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat Hey, I'm Anna and I love writing sci-fi horror. This is from my WIP "Andras" out to beta readers at the moment: "It's just Androids terra forming a dead planet. Nothing to see here."
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A. McAnarney-Castro @deusexmaquinarney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#HorrorWritersChat: Heya! I'm A.M. Castro. I write speculative & cosmic horror with some mesoamerican vibes. Everybody, especially two D.C.-salvi punks, needs some bunny. Because real, axe wielding rabbits never get caught, never surrender, and never die.
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Publishers and Editors! I'm taking subs for Vol. 3 of the award-nominated "Best Weird Fiction of the Year" til end of the year. Writers! You'll get a chance to submit your 2026 stories in January. bestspecfic(at)gmail.com


Esteemed Editors and Publishers,

I am now taking submissions of original 2026 short fiction projects — magazines, anthologies, single-author collections — for consideration in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 3. (Publishing Sept. 2027). Vol. 1 is a World fantasy Award Finalist.

I am seeking material first published this year, in 2026. To be clear, only weird fiction FIRST published in 2026 is eligible for inclusion in this volume. I will accept translated work as long as the first English-language publication was 2026.

Stories should be between 500 and 17,499 words. Audio only stories are also ineligible, unless they also appeared as text.

Publishers and editors are encouraged to send electronic or digital copies, via the email address below. (I am not accepting hard copy submissions.) ePubs are preferred, but I will also accept text files (Word), Mobi, or PDF. Please do not cherry-pick selections. Send the entire book, journal, or magazine to:


bestspecfic@gmail.com


Thank you for your time and kind consideration.


Warm Wishes,

Michael
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Michael Kelly / Publisher / Editor-in-Chief
undertowbooks@gmail.com

Undertow Publications
https://undertowpublications.com/
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