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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 04/10/2026

no, she’s the wolf from a 4th or 5th century mosaic depicting the founding of Rome

The she-wolf who nurtured Romulus and Remus, depicted in mosaic form as a maniacal black dog with sharp teeth and white eyes.

My dog, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the maniacal mosaic wolf.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For October let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BookWormSat 'Listen with faint dry sound Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisped, break from the trees And fall.' (Poem: Adelaide Cropsey/Art Jenny Gravette)

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Need some ideas for new books about sf, fantasy, and horror to buy for the weirdos in your life? University presses got those aplenty! And I've got the details!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October🎃 which means, SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 5! **This is our yearly Best-Of Weird Fiction anthology, only eligible REPRINTS will be considered** Get the full submissions details here, and check out the full cover reveal! tinyurl.com/4474xej6

THE CALL OF THE WEIRD
All October, Tenebrous Press is accepting submissions for the Fifth Volume of our Weird Fiction Award anthology, BRAVE NEW WEIRD.
This is a reprint anthology. Only works published between 10/31/25-10/31/26 will be considered.
Full details at www.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Matt Blairstone.
Beneath a swirling tile mosaic sea filled with fish and squid, two mountain giants surround a rural village who are burning a wicker man in their honor.
One of the giants eats the worshippers, while the other digs what they're throwin' down.

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𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚔 💀☕📚🍂🎨🐈‍⬛ @andy-paciorek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fisk Metallic Burial Case at Wheeling Catholic Cemetery, West Virginia (Mountain Mama) ~ W. C. Brown Collection (1896)

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The models for ‘American Gothic’ pose in front of the iconic painting, 1942.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Harvest Moon (Golden Hare) by Tamsin Abbott, English stained glass artist. #HarvestMoon is the #fullmoon closest to the autumn equinox #WomensArt

Stained glass artwork in gold and black featuring a hare lying down amonst grasses under a golden full moon

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 26/09/2026

Support the things you like, friends. They may not continue to exist without it.

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Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Autumn Dawn 1910 Jakub Schikaneder #WyrdWednesday

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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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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Humanities disciplynes are beautiful & useful by cause thei amplifye our humanitye. Undir the care offerid by focused & specialized researche & studye, workes of the present are given more momentum, and thryve. Artefacts of the past blossom ynto newe ydeas. The Humanityes care for the worlde.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Announcing our newest collection acquisition: NOWHERE'S DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN by D. Matthew Urban ( @breathinghead.bsky.social ). I'm so delighted to work with Dave again, and y'all are going to love this incredible weird book. Read more about it in our newsletter: buttondown.com/cursedmorsel...

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Announcing Nowhere's Door Is Always Open

Great, Weird Things Coming Now that the contract ink has dried and a soul has been exchanged, I can announce Cursed Morsels’ latest single-author short story...

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HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

my partner will be reading Ray Bradbury for the first time this spooky season. 🎃 as I've told him: good news: there's a lot for you to enjoy! bad news: he's dead.

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HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

tell me all about the spooky books you're reading for Halloween season

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HP Bookcraft @hpbookcraft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

truly what is better in life than a good spooky story

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I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Brotherhood of the Wolf, am I right?

Samuel Le Bihan and Mark Dacascos in Brotherhood of the Wolf. Looking all fine.

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am your mother, I am Nut, and I have come so that I may enfold and protect you from all things evil. (CTF3)

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

build me a gate that rises to the heavens and then double it.

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

instagram ads basically just pure AI slop books with names like The Shadow of the Dragon: Born Again, The Gnome's Quest: A Trilogy, The Luminous Academy, World's Only Hero, etc. All the "art" is disgusting, all the "trope" listing is pathetic, and all available on Kindle Unlimited. burn em all.

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Hazel Zorn @hazelzorn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A man who compulsively shops online is taken advantage of by his haunted algorithms. My story "The Yawning Pain of a Mouth Unfilled" is now free to read! @chmmagazine.bsky.social cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/the-...

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The Yawning Pain of a Mouth Unfilled – Cosmic Horror Monthly

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Interested in late medieval witches? It's not too late to join sessions on the topic at the IMC2027, co-organised by a @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student, Ana Inés Aldazabal.

Although the witch-hunt reached its peak in the early modern era, it was during the medieval period that the foundations were laid for the stereotype that would characterise witch trial records. In late medieval Europe, the idea emerged that an organised group of individuals led by the Devil sought to destroy the Christian community through maleficia. By allegedly attacking livestock, poisoning populations, spreading disease, and destroying crops, witches came to be perceived both as a collective threat and as a counter-community: an imagined parallel society with its own cult and culture, constructed as a negative reflection of Christendom. As witchcraft beliefs took hold, accusations and persecution became a means of reaffirming social boundaries. However, they could also have deeply disruptive effects on community life.

For this panel, we welcome proposals dealing with witchcraft in relation to communities during the Middle Ages. We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines (art history, history, law, literature, religious studies, etc.) and contributions that foster interdisciplinary dialogue from researchers at any stage of their career

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rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sweet, strange uncitizens: ONCE I WAS MADE OF EARTH is here, an epic fantasy that's been ratling in my brain for years now and that I'm putting out into the world serially outside of the capitalist publishing apparatus. Share, and read, and comment. archiveofourown.org/works/91618061

The painting "The Moment" by James Warden, with the text "Once I Was Made of Earth" on it by Rivers Solomon. The painting is in the romantic style, quite dramatic and dark in tone if not colour, with a horse rearing with fear in its eyes as a snake launches to bite it, against a back drop of pink and blue mountains.

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My relationship of 5 years that was the foundation for my entire life ended this January. 4 months mater I got laid off. I got a new full time job last month but now my contract at part time job isn’t being renewed.

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

If you've ever worked on a farm, at a ranch, in a food bank, at a grocery store, in a food shipment warehouse, at a food marketing firm, or at any other food systems-related job, I'm very interested in the story you might submit to our food systems call. 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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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day! The future belongs to the workers. 🖤❤️🏴

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Datinge app for megalith enthuasistes Henge

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Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

you didn't high five it did you steve ... steve?

a 19th century etching of a huge black hand emerging from the ocean, a ship in full sail away from it

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🎉🔥SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT🔥🎉 Just in time for Halloween 2027: this one's for the devilish! Author of KAYAK @kristalstittle.bsky.social is back w/one simple mission: THE DEVIL'S ADDRESS will scare the hell out of you. Fans of found footage horror: you'll want to stay forever🖤☠️

Publisher's Marketplace announcement for THE DEVIL'S ADDRESS

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.

Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"

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

An exquisite Art Nouveau collar necklace by René Lalique.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Grace is dying If you see her as you travel south on the A21 just before the turn off to Tonbridge, spare her a thought At 400 years old, one of the oldest living things you will see, a town built around her, & every oak around chopped down She deserves to die with dignity

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geoff @geoffreigh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

become unalgorithmable

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Note from my notebook (2016)

I know I buy far too many books but I like to think that lining the walls of my house with them wards off evil in some deeply important way.

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potion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

do what you love and you'll never post a day in your life

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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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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A time lapse from our global meteor network camera August 10 captured 39 meteors from the Perseid meteor shower. You can tell the meteors apart from the planes and satellites because the meteors are the really quick streaks that flash top to bottom of the frame.

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Census enumerator: Where were you born?

Victorian handwriting on a white background reading: 'somewhere'.

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You Can't Stop Progress @petrochemicsoul.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

John Carpenter is so fucking cool. johncarpentermusic.bandcamp.com/album/cathed...

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Cathedral, by John Carpenter

14 track album

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

John Singer Sargent, 'Orestes Pursued by the Furies,' 1921

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Saturday! Are you interested in submitting to Crossroads? We are now accepting proposals for our third issue, "This Haunted Landscape." Think sacred places, hauntings, and regional cryptids. We close submissions on September 1st.

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Crossroads - Issue 3 - Proposal

The issue theme is "This Haunted Landscape" and will focus on the folk horror of place in the USA. Think haunted places, sacred spaces, and regional cryptids. All contributors will receive a $50 paym...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Goya rightly gets a lot of love for his Black Paintings, this slightly earlier work is another of my faves, The Burial of the Sardine (1812–1819). Love how it grows increasingly sinister the more details you pick out, the masked revellers surrounding the grinning 'King of the Carnival'...

The title is posthumous, referring to the culminating event, Entierro de la Sardina, of a three-day carnival in Madrid ending on Ash Wednesday. Masked and disguised revellers are seen dancing their way to the banks of the Manzanares, where a ceremonial sardine will be buried. Goya does not illustrate the fish in the painting, nor the large doll made of straw, called a pelele, from which it hung; the centrepiece is the darkly grinning "King of the Carnival".

Mask detail. The painting is certainly a tribute to the common people, depicting an exuberant crowd carousing on the first day of Lent while other Spanish Catholics worship at church. Yet the celebration takes on a sinister aspect due to the many masked and blank faces.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Happy cover reveal day for LONESOME AND FESTERING by @ericraglin1992.bsky.social (me)! @louceph.com did a spectacular job with the art, and @alandistro.bsky.social nailed the typography. You CAN judge the book by this cover. See preorder and review copy details in the posts below. 👇

The cover illustration shows a bunch of men in suits packed into a pantry. Most are slumped over or facing the walls, but one looks up ghoulishly at the viewer and the bare bulb hanging above.

A widower reaches his violent breaking point while giving a tour of a haunted coral reef. A student pays off his lunch debt by toiling in the endless, monster-infested caverns beneath his school. An old woman discovers her fate is grotesquely connected to the endangered toads she’s trying to save. A lapsed member of a queer motorcycle gang returns to rekindle a romance, commit arson, and summon Satan.

Lonesome and Festering is Eric Raglin’s latest horror and Weird fiction collection for sickos, featuring stories about fighting for love, surviving dystopia, and becoming your worst self under capitalism and fascism.
PREORDERS OPEN (OUT NOV 10th)
https://www.cursedmorselspress.com

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Eric J. Guignard @ericjguignard.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My schedule has recently opened up! I’m throwing my name out there that I am very much interested and available for writing short stories for anthos, mags, or other writing projects. Msg or email me!

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