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Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I got my contributor copies of Thomas Ligotti’s “The Shadow, The Darkness” from Cadabra Records! Ligotti has been a huge influence on me and I’ve long loved Cadabra’s collabs with Ligotti and @grimscribepress.bsky.social. Being asked to write the liner notes was a massive honor.

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S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thanks, Jeremy! Three middle-aged sisters must decide how to live in the shadow of their mother’s monstrous legacy in this (retitled) Shirley Jackson Award nominated novella published By Grimscribe Press. grimscribepress.com/daughters-of... @grimscribepress.bsky.social

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Daughters of Catastrophe

Author: S.P. Miskowski Cover Artist: Harry 0. Morris Publication Date: October 14, 2025 Published by: Grimscribe Press 66 pp. Buy Trade Paperback (Shipping and Handling Included for Most Addresse…

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you love BACKROOMS, check out @gemmafiles.bsky.social's "The Puppet Motel" in her collection IN THAT ENDLESSNESS, OUR END from @grimscribepress.bsky.social. Liminal space, liminal time, and an inhuman haunting. Very creepy. Gemma is a gem in the crown of contemporary horror 👑 👻

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I've published Kurt more than any other author, six times so far. (Two of those stories won Shirley Jackson Awards.) @lairdbarron.bsky.social said “If we’re talking about Thomas Ligotti and @michaelcisco.bsky.social, we need to be talking about Kurt Fawver.” Yes, his prose is that good.

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

If you take a look in here, you'll find my story "Glass Piano" and an interview about it...."Glass Piano" first appeared in @hexliterary.bsky.social and was then part of the collection Glass Stories with @grimscribepress.bsky.social

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Speculative Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

A Writer's Guide and Anthology

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

September 2026. Cover art by Harry 0. Morris.

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Cover reveal! Art by Vergvoktre. EVERYWHERE IS A HORROR STORY by Kurt Fawver, coming August 11th, 2026, from Grimscribe Press.

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lewishousley.bsky.social @lewishousley.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Today I celebrate the one-year anniversary of the birth of Glass Stories from the grizzled womb of @grimscribepress.bsky.social. To mark the occasion, I will give my own personal rating of each story in the collection (out of 5 stars). This will be my longest thread ever.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

New essay! In which Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) made me stop and consider how place & space can work in short stories, in ways I previously hadn't appreciated (thru Ive Grimes' collection). Read now! It's free! Tell your friends! www.speculativeinsight.com Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social

Purple background, white text, which says Combined, the narrative style and generic settings of short stories create unique geographic interactions within the text via reader interpretations. "Glass Geographies: Finding places and spaces in Ivy Grimes' Glass Stories" -- Ben Lockwood

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 22/04/2025

Fresh off the press! Our first review column! Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal, includes Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart, Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele www.heartlines-spec.com/coup-de-coeu...

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Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal

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Word Horde Emporium of the Weird & Fantastic @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a publishing house dedicated to the work and influence of author Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe Press (@grimscribepress.bsky.social).

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Happy 72nd birthday to my friend, Thomas Ligotti.

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 22/06/2025

“I have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair.” The Shambler from the Stars, by Robert Bloch Narrator: Jon Padgett Host: Joshua Tuttle Audio: Chelsea Davis pseudopod.org/2025/06/21/p... This story first appeared in Weird Tales, September 1935

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PseudoPod 981: The Shambler from the Stars | PseudoPod

I have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair. It was my own blundering that precipitated that unforeseen horror upon us both; my own stupidity that caused our downfall.

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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 22/06/2025

Featured artwork by Vincent Napoli Tagging 👆 @grimscribepress.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social Everything we do is funded by you. If you can, please go to pseudopod.org and click FEED THE POD

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PseudoPod | The Sound of Horror

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🔪 c h o p p a h 🔪 @choppah.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Imagine Trump and Elon sending a bunch of oil drillers to an asteroid to nuke it so it splits in half to avoid a collision with Earth and then this happens on launch.

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HAD @havehashad.com · 17/06/2025

get swept up with us today into today's square from Ivy Grimes "...he said he had news. He was going to ask our mutual friend to be his girlfriend. It was the first time I'd ever been alone with R. "Why are you telling me this?" I said." www.havehashad.com/ud9j6

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Congrats to all and especially these authors, including the great Sam Cowan of Dim Shores! We’re looking forward to publishing Fawver’s newest collection this fall!

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I heard recently that a popular horror podcast was slagging off Ligotti’s short story, “The Red Tower.” My response: uploading a reading of it to YouTube. “Purple prosed” nonsense or singular masterpiece or something else entirely? You decide.

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The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti

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William Hollon Jones @billiamhollon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The SECRET GATEWAYS books have arrived!!! Thank you to Matthew and Jon for working tirelessly to get these to their fans! Thank you to Sam @ Dim Shores for pitching in to get these organized and mailed out. @mattmbartlett.bsky.social @grimscribepress.bsky.social @dimshores.bsky.social

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Clive Barker gets it. faroutmagazine.co.uk/hellraiser-c...

Noting Rowling’s vast financial success, Barker felt that Rowling’s newfound position of fame ought to exclude her from discussing trans rights. He added, “It really just seems redundant for a woman as successful, as validated in the world, as Ms Rowling, to be negative, to be disruptive if you will, to a very beaten up subculture. These are human beings. She has no right to opine, I think, upon the lives of human beings that she does not know.”

“I feel very protective of people who are on the edge of our culture as gay people still are,” Barker continued. “And certainly transgender people are on the edge of our culture. And here you have one of the most successful people in the frigging world – Ms Rowling. Going after a very emotionally vulnerable portion of our culture. It just seems unnecessary and unfair.”

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Fergus Rebeccason @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Another very good book I finished back in January: Glass Stories by @ivygrimes.bsky.social . Themed single author collection, really cool idea, executed beautifully. Satisfying, varied range of strange, symbolic fantasies of dread, love and horror of the body, the domus, immanence and transformation

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Paul Jessup @pauljessup.com · 12/02/2025

oh my fabulous fiends of #HorrorReads! The poll is complete, and the story we're going to discuss this Sunday at 9PM EST will be Venio by Gemma Files! Give it a listen in the next few days and join us! pseudopod.org/2019/11/04/p...

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PseudoPod 673: Venio | PseudoPod

Watch out. I’m going to tell you about something, and then . . . you’ll know. You won’t be able to un-know or forget why you should want to. And even if you decide you don’t believe it now…

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Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

When @sgj.bsky.social, @lairdbarron.bsky.social, Mariana Enriquez, @elizabethhand.bsky.social & @paultremblay.bsky.social all show up to talk horror w/ the director of THEY REMAIN... I am SO there! Series starts Feb 3, subscribe to @etchfilm.bsky.social's substack. open.substack.com/pub/etchstud...

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First Word On Horror

A new documentary series featuring bestselling horror authors on their lives, the writing process, and the fears that make us human.

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Antti Olavi @olavihorsma.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Finished a breathtaking short story collection Santa brought me. Mindf* collection, composed of interconnected stories, reading more like a composite novel. Origami Dreams and both stories with Ventriloquism in their titles my favorites. Strongly recommended! 5/5 From @grimscribepress.bsky.social

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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"In a castle far from every prince" in F&SF "We're all Mad here" in Orion's Belt "Against cold stone" in Vastarien @grimscribepress.bsky.social www.orions-belt.net/archives/wer...

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We’re All Mad Here — Orion's Belt

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Phil Keeling @philmakesmonsters.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Celebrating the last few days of the year with some excellent weird fiction by @kfawver.bsky.social. @grimscribepress.bsky.social

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Xmas from the cat crew! 90% funding achieved! www.gofundme.com/f/fund-for-f...

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you want a free ecopy of my collection Glass Stories for review, DM me or email me at ivy.grimes@gmail.com. No pressure if you ask for it and can't finish! I just want it to reach as many strange eyes as possible.

A brass angel with blue books flanking each side. The book is Glass Stories by Ivy Grimes.

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Fergus Rebeccason @adamscantwell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#Bookmail arrived today- been looking forward to this from @grimscribepress.bsky.social - SPIRITUS EX MACHINA by the real @lcvonhessen.bsky.social

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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Read my little story "Glass Art" here! donotsubmit.net/glass-art-by... And thanks to Don't Submit! for publishing this story, which is from my collection Glass Stories...

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Glass Art by Ivy Grimes – Do Not Submit

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Bill DeGeest @williamdegeest.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ducking in quick to show the latest delivery to my mail box. Spiritus Ex Machina story collection by @lcvonhessen.bsky.social published by @grimscribepress.bsky.social!

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 02/12/2024

Massive site-wide sale on Audible means there's a nice little chunk of my wishlist purchases, including @grimscribepress.bsky.social's work as narrator for Ligotti's NOCTUARY AND THE SPECTRAL LINK, a handful of Warhammer Horus Heresy titles, and @hughhowey.com's Silo series because I love that show!

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My 89th published short story is "Significant Dreamers of the Twenty-First Century" from Vastarien by @grimscribepress.bsky.social Currently available only in print, but I would love to get this one on a fiction podcast someday! grimscribepress.com/vastarien-a-...

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Vastarien: A Literary Journal

A source of critical study and creative response to the corpus of Thomas Ligotti as well as associated authors and ideas STATUS:ON INDEFINITE HIATUS Vastarien. The forbidden tome. The impossi…

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Available today! These stories are wickedly funny, subversive, strange forays into von Hessen's twisted imagination, and the style of their prose is out of this world. Surely one of the best collections of the year. Get it! Read it! Review it! Support subversive, great weird writers! #horror

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Spiritus Ex Machina

Author: LC von Hessen Cover Artist: LC von Hessen Publication Date: November 20, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 242 pp. Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included wo…

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Thanks, William. This debut collection drops next week in trade paper and pay what you can ebook editions. Grimscribe was exceedingly fortunate to publish a book as powerful and original as this one—one of the best collections of 2024. Don’t miss it!

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Spiritus Ex Machina

Author: LC von Hessen Cover Artist: LC von Hessen Publication Date: November 20, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 242 pp. Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included wo…

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Jon Padgett @grimscribepress.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Please don’t miss this brilliant debut collection from @ivygrimes.bsky.social . The stories within are incredibly imaginative, moving, horrific, absurd and often hilarious—sometimes all at once. Glass Stories is astonishingly original and surely one of the best collections of 2024.

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Glass Stories

Author: Ivy Grimes Cover Artist: Jesse Peper Publication Date: August 21, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 142 pp. Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included worldwide…

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