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Elle Ravenswood

@elleravenswood.bsky.social
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Writes horror and dark fantasy (no AI ever). 📚 Lurks in the liminal space between nightmares. ☠️ Needs coffee to function. ☕️ elleravenswood.com

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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pardon me, marine layer coming through. 😶‍🌫️
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Greyhound sleeping position #194: Use your long leg as a pillow.
A fawn greyhound is curled up in a complex manner on the carpet, head to butt resting on her back leg
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes! Do it. Support them. You know you want to. Every little bit counts to keep amazing, human-made stories alive!
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
T-minus 10 days until the launch of the 2027 Apex Magazine Kickstarter! 🚀🍄 Keep your eyes peeled this week as we drop the full reward list, and sign up below to be notified when the campaign is live 👀 Thank you so much for your support! 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...
Signed Collection by Alix E. Harrow, "The Slantwise Histories"1 hr digital editing session with Malachi LilyFlash Fiction Critiques!
Ayida Shonibar
Hannya Kay
Rebecca Halsey
Rebecca E TreasureEssay on Narrative Voice & Worldbuilding from Jordan Kurella. Exclusive to Backers!
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another reason the world is dying: I tracked a package that went from CA to TN to AZ and then back to CA where it was delivered. Why did it go thousands of random extra miles? Did it need a vacation first? Maybe I should have paid the extra $10 for expedited delivery.
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The spam email I got today had high AI-generated praise for my ROMANCE novels. Hahahahaha! By romance, you mean where two people meet cute at bar and then one kills the other and uses their body as a meat puppet? That kind of romance?
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Confused Anime Girl Thinking
Alt: Confused Anime Girl Thinking with dots appearing the air
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Overheard in a bar the other day: I’m just doing this job as a side quest to the main plot of my life. 😆
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Support fantastic human made stories! Support zines with weird/amazing names! Read those dark little tales that your dark little heart desires! ☠️💕📚
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I will say some of the push for AI in writing is how a lot of non-AI writers think the point of writing is to get published and no, the point of writing is to remove the weird little thing from your body and teach it tricks
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
While we're away, grab this eBook! Aickman's Heirs at just $3. One of our most lauded and acclaimed titles, and required reading for weird fiction aficionados. What a ToC! @strantzas.bsky.social won a Shirley Jackson Award for his efforts. undertowpublications.com/ebooks/aickm...
There has been a lot of theorizing about Weird Fiction, of late. It is, naturally, a large part of our remit. We are biased, certainly, but one of the canonical works of Weird Fiction we think you should read is Aickman's Heirs. Aickman, himself, preferred the term 'strange tales.'


We published Aickman's Heirs way back in 2015. Edited by Simon Strantzas, it is one of our most lauded titles. It won the Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, and the British Fantasy Award. Further, the following stories were reprinted in various 'Year's Best' anthologies, won or were nominated for awards:









'The Dying Season,' by Lynda E. Rucker, Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.



'Seven Minutes in Heaven,' by Nadia Bulkin, Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. 



'Underground Economy,' by John Langan, reprinted in the Best Horror of the Year. 



'Underground Economy,' by John Langan, reprinted in the Best New Horror. 



'The Lake,' by Daniel Mills, reprinted in Best New Horror.



'Seaside Town,' by Brian Evenson, reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction.



'Seven Minutes in Heaven,' by Nadia Bulkin, reprinted in Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. 



'Camp,' by David Nickle, reprinted in Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction.



Just look at this stacked Table of Contents:







If you haven't read it yet, it is well worth your time. So we've put the eBook on sale for just $3. We know it'll be $3 very well spent.



NOTE - When purchasing eBooks you'll get an eMail with a link to download your files. The link is only active for 24 hours. I can resend the link if you do not download the files, to be sure, but there may be a delay when I'm away.
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry played a huge role in my childhood 1/3
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Pennywise (Tim Curry) Scary Ha!
Alt: Pennywise the clown (Tim Curry) showing his huge teeth
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Here's a short blog post I wrote about the plague of AI slop, with a shout-out to my favorite human-created/curated ezines and publishers. Please check them out and READ ALL THE STORIES! elleravenswood.com/blog/we-aren...
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We Aren’t Dead Yet
A familiar complaint about AI slop and a shout out to my favorite ezines and publishers
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love this story! It stuck with me in the best ways 💕. Definitely take some time to read this one.
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A client keeps playing red light, green light with projects and funding and the mental whiplash is killing me.
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Squid Game: Red Light, Green Light Challenge
Alt: Squid Game: Red Light, Green Light Challenge
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Yeeeessss!!!!
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Read weird. Live weird. It’s ok, you know you want to.
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Behold, the goofiness of a greyhound at rest.
A fawn colored greyhound is sprawled on her back on a gray couch with her long limbs sticking out every which way. She looks stupidly comfortable.
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Luna Station Quarterly @lunastation.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Luna Station Quarterly is always seeking new artists to work with. We license art for four covers each year. We prefer work by woman-indentified and non-binary artists. 1/3
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
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The Dude's Opinion - The Big Lebowski
Alt: The Dude's Opinion from The Big Lebowski. Lebowski is sitting in a bowling alley with his hands on his head telling someone that’s like just their opinion, man
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Help fund an absolutely amazing, human made zine! We need these stories now more than ever. Every little bit helps ❤️💕
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
And what happens when AI is trained on this anti-AI writing style? Then we need to change how we write again. And again. Maybe I should start leaving out all the vowels now. Gd lck rdng my nxt stry.
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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If you're a new writer and wanting to level up your skills, please don't turn to AI as a beta reader. Join a writers group - either locally or online. Swap stories with other new writers. Get into those deep conversations about craft. You'll learn so much more that way.
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We have construction being done in our house and one of the workers keeps randomly busting out into opera but in a very Kermit the Frog voice. I haven’t gotten any work done today because I can’t stop cracking up. Every time.
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Xuxi: Kermit the Frog Playing Banjo
Alt: Kermit the Frog Playing Banjo and singing with a rainbow background
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
You want to see my notes for this story? *Frantically pulls out giant pile of sticky notes from the recycling bin* Ok, this is my shopping list. Some songs I heard recently. Some random numbers. A doodle of a dog or cat or something. Um, this could take a while.
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you love amazing, human-made stories, help keep @uncannymagazine.bsky.social going! Show the space unicorns some love. Every little bit counts!❤️ 💕📚
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 10/07/2026
BACKROOMS... at home. A24 has officially announced that Kane Parsons' #Backrooms will be available on Digital this coming Tuesday, July 14.
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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
WE ARE LIVE! Help us have a great first day? We REALLY want to make this SFF anthology work & start a new annual SFF Best Of series! Head to locusmag.com/anthology (link in bio) to get a pledge in! Be a part of something special! #BacktheBook Sharing helps us tremendously:)
At the top of the image, text says: "now announcing..."
In the center of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1"
Below the book, text says: "find Locus on kickstarter"
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ugh. This. It’s painful and awful. Just don’t.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
STRANGE 👽 SURREAL 👽 SHOCKING 👽 BEAUTIFUL Apex Magazine is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS for the month of July! We're seeking short spec fic up to 9k words. Closing August 1st, reopening in September and November. We can't wait to read your work! 🖤 Submit here: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
"Apex Magazine Submissions OPEN!

We are Seeking:
short sci-fi, fantasy, and horror fiction
short genre-related nonfiction
Up to 9k words

Submissions Close August 1st
https://apexbookcompany.moksha.io/"
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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We're all very balanced, normal people, right? Right?
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The purgatory like quality of the perpetually cloudy days with little temperature difference in May and June make each gray day feel exactly the same. But drive 2 miles inland and the sun is out. Microclimates can fuck with your head in such weird ways.
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The Dude Stirring His Drink
Alt: The Dude looks confused while stirring his white Russian drink
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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We're opening for submissions at the beginning of July! Check out our guidelines and send us your best: zurl.co/0xO8P
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Up at the crack of dawn and it’s going to be a long day. Good thing I brought a good book!📕❤️ @wiswell.bsky.social
A juror badge and the book Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Book delivery from @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social!!!!! Yay!!! My weekend is set ❤️📚
Here lie two paperback books, What Feasts at Night and The Ministry of Time Travel, along with a lovely bookmark
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Show me the beautiful, weird, crazy things that messy lump of meat inside your skull hallucinates instead the basic, boring stuff a cold, sterile machine produces. That’s writing, my friends! And don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/05/2026
H&R Block Location Mistaken For ‘Backrooms’ Fan Event
H&R Block Location Mistaken For ‘Backrooms’ Fan Event
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I wish I could write a horror story that inspires the same amount of tension and creeping dread as the microsoft teams new message beep.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Boycott Barnes and Noble. Loudly. Right fucking now. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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Barnes & Noble CEO backs selling AI-written books in stores
The retail bookseller plans to open 60 more stores in the US this year
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The CEO of B&N can be a dipfuck about AI, & Granta can Granta—I’m not cool enough to know what Granta actually is—but if it’s making you feel hopeless, take heart: Human made art won’t stop, as long as humans want it. It’s that simple. It’ll be there if you look for it🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com
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Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror
Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 12/05/2026
Scorpio: The remarkable thing isn't how much blood there is, but how much blood there isn't.
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Nicholas Meletio @nicholasmeletio.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Life goals
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Having a bad day? Check out this whimbrel cruising the tide pools for a meal
A Hudsonian whimbrel standing on a seaweed and mussel covered rock in the tide pools looking for food on a sunny day
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Nothing says Happy Friday like a bout of vertigo with some nausea for good measure. It’d be great if someone could hold the world steady for a bit so I could get some work done.
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a cartoon character with a surprised look on his face is wearing a jester outfit
Alt: Pomni, wearing her jester outfit, has squiggles in her eyes and looks dizzy and nauseous. Stop the spinning
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Yes please ❤️
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
How much precious time did I lose from my life clicking the dozens and dozens of “no, I don’t want to give you more money” and “yes, I really mean it” buttons while trying to get my taxes done with fucking turbotax. Make way for the never ending profit freight train of misery.
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Elle Ravenswood @elleravenswood.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Always super excited to get a delivery from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social!!! Looks like its gonna be a late night tonight ☠️👻❤️📚
Two books, In Somnio and Posthaste Manor, with matching stickers plus Charon sticker and pin
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