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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"The first step in the process was purely bureaucratic: his name was confiscated... After that, the adjustments commenced." Today on ergot. two new pieces as 'Getting Used to It' by Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Se%C...

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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Delighted to be back in ergot today.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Decided to lay it out.

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"We each sat there, anxious, mulling it over, combing through past slights and faux pas we each feared we might have committed. What was it that had come back to haunt us, exactly?" Today on ergot.: 'Notice' by Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social www.ergot.press/authors/Jack...

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I've a new (very short) story out today.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 03/04/2026

For this I wrote about surveillance as an infection.

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

It's the first of the month. You know what that means — a new issue of The Dark. I have a little slice of winter in this issue, alongside work from @angelaslatter.bsky.social @dracopoullos.bsky.social and Ibrahim Ojedokun. www.thedarkmagazine.com/wendigo/

Cover of The Dark #131 artwork shows hand gripping a rag doll. Text Stories by Ibrahim Ojedokun, Angela Slatter, Phoenix Alexander, Michael Kelly

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Berlin loft, the place before now.

photograph black and white

Part of loft in Berlin- beams and long hall, doors to terrace

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Hey friends! I have a brand new story up at The Dark. Somewhat autobiographical, and one of the favorite things I've written for that. I hope you'll give it a read. It is a bit strange and dark. www.thedarkmagazine.com/hunger-2/

Screen grab from the Dark magazine site showing opening few lines of story "Hunger".

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I know issue 12 isn't even out yet—soon—but revel in the glory of the cover and contributors of issue 13 (Summer). Art by James Hutton. Design by Vince Haig. I'll be doing a big pre-order push soon on our 2026 titles to try and secure some much-needed operating funds.

Cover for issue 13 of Weird Horror. Art by James Hutton depicts a red figure with tree limbs sprouting from mouth and chest and yellow moon in background.

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Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: "My Stalagmite" for the Literary Nasties. This is a 1k story I wrote about butt plugs and body horror. Here's how it works: 1) read story: www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m... 2) vote for story: filthyloot.com/literary-nas... Thank you for your support!

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Literary Nasties - filthy loot press

Click Here To Vote! It’s time for the FOURTH Annual Literary Nasties Awards! Presented by Filthy Loot and Rebecca Rowland, the Literary Nasties exist to honor groundbreaking “misfit,” “cult,” and gen...

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥 Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down. Weird is strong🖤☠️ tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8

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Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'm currently writing the next installment of our somewhat haphazard newsletter and it might be of particular interest to submitting writers who were promised Part 2 of what qualities suffuse a potential STP story. You can read Part 1 from last year here.

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004: It's All About the Vibes

Sign up to the newsletter now We know what we want and it’s idiosyncratic dislocation One thing readers have always said about STP is that we have a...

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Eric LaRocca @ericlarocca.com · 06/01/2026

Today is Kathe Koja’s birthday!!! This is also a reminder that Kathe is one of the greatest living authors of horror/dark fiction and she had the most explosive, remarkable debut since Barker’s Books of Blood. They don’t crash land on the horror scene like they used to. Love you, Kathe! ❤️

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Ah, cool. It has a kind of burning celluloid film effect. Good luck with the event.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Wow! Very cool. What medium / technique is this?

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

send Zach cool shit! send him current & upcoming collections you're passionate about, especially if you fear they'll slip between the cracks! advocate for yourself and for your peers you admire

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact

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Review Requests I review weird/dark fiction for a variety of outlets, including Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Ancillary Review of Books, and am always looking for new work to read and critique…

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Writers! Vol. 2 of 'The Best Weird Fiction of the Year' is open to your submissions. Please adhere to the guidelines. undertowpublications.com/best-weird-f...

GUIDELINES
(Please read carefully)
NOTE: I receive over 2,000 submissions per call. Only writers whose work is selected for the volume will receive a response. Thanks for understanding.

This is a reprint fiction anthology, to be published later this year, 2026. I am seeking material first published last year, in 2025. To be clear, only weird fiction FIRST published in 2025 is eligible for inclusion in this volume. I will accept translated work as long as the first English-language publication was 2025.

To repeat—this volume is for stories originally first published in 2025. We are not accepting previously unpublished stories, or stories published prior to 2025 in any form.

Stories between 500 and 17,499 words are considered. Please check with your publisher if you are uncertain about the reprint rights to your work.

Stories created with or assisted by Generative AI, in any way, are ineligible and will not be considered. Audio only stories are also ineligible, unless they also appeared as text.

Writers can send in their work using the form below only. Do not e-mail your story. You can send up to three (3) stories, but each must be sent separately. Ensure your byline and e-mail address are on the manuscript.

NOTE: The submission form does not like any strange characters—asterisks, parenthesis, hashtags, etc.—in the form fields. Please use text and numbers only.

Deadline for all material is February 28.

Payment is a small $25 U.S. honorarium and 1 copy each of the print and electronic editions.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I forgot to mention it on NYE: THE CHAIR COMPANY. So good. Tense, paranoid, odd, darkly funny - I fell in love with the whole series. It felt like it was written for me. Insert Junji Ito "this is my hole" meme here.

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

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Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Thank you! And there's no hurry at all re the new thing.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

That last paragraph is an excellent description of your work.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Thanks, Samir. Looking forward to Gore Poetics, by the way.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

That's good of you to say, Sasha, thank you, and back at you.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Anyway. Hopefully, 2026 continues to build upon these last few months' better vibes. I've started writing again, and am glad of that. I want to continue, and for a while I didn't. Now. Onward. (5/5)

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Several pieces by @seanbirnie.bsky.social, @sashabrown.bsky.social, and @horrorsong.blog - some published, some not (yet), but which I've been fortunate enough to read anyway. Thank you for sharing it with me. None of the above is exhaustive, of course. It's just what comes immediately to mind.(4/5)

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Writing: "In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful" by @spencerwriting.bsky.social in Wierd Horror (@undertow.bsky.social). "The Junction" by Alison Moore (@nightjarpress.bsky.social). (3/5)

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

That said, some things that have stuck with me this year, and which spring immediately to mind: Films: EDDINGTON, STALKER, 28 YEARS LATER. (2/5)

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Time for a stock take. It's been an odd year for me. Mental health stuff, which I'm thankful to have come out the other side of. Only recently have I been able to not just absorb, but enjoy, writing, film, art. These last couple of months, I've gradually started to feel like myself again (1/5)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Happy to share that I’ll have a story in the next volume of the Horror Library anthology series! Coming in February, available for preorder now.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Oh, just saw a nice mention for Weird Horror in Best Horror 17, edited by @datlow.bsky.social and out today!!

....generous helpings of weird fiction. There was notable dark fiction from RJ Taylor, Jack Klausner, Aimee Ogden, Sean Padraic Birnie, Elin Olausson, Derrick Boden, Hiron Ennes, Nelson Stanley, Sasha Brown, Jorja Osha, Mike O'Driscoll, Avra Margariti, and Perry Ruhland.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Not bad thanks. How are things at your end? I may have a very short piece to send your way soon if you're interested.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Another winner. Great nonfic from Strantzas on juxtaposition and from Peak, disguised as fiction, on ontology. Killer stories by Say, Kuryla, Humphrey and excellent bookends from Demchuk and Klausner (both on identity juxtaposed with ontology, actually)

ISSUE II / FALL 2025 / FICTION / OPINION / COMMENTARY

WEIRD HORROR

DAVID DEMCHUK ANDREW HUMPHREY CYAN KATZ JACK KLAUSNER MARY KURYLA DAVID PEAK RORY SAY JOCELYN SZCZEPANIAK-GILLECE
JUNIPER WHITE A.C. WISE

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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

joe koch isn't just one of the finest writers of weird and transgressive literature working, today, but truly is one of the best to ever do it. if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 03/12/2025

@nmwhitley.bsky.social thank you for the mention! Some love for my story "Jar of Arms" From the free Ligotti tribute anthology We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower buttondown.com/shortstoryre...

We Shall Speak Again of The Red Tower, a recent anthology of short stories inspired by or written in tribute to Thomas Ligotti’s classic “The Red Tower”, is a project that feels like it was undertaken on a dare. Like a gang of kids egging each other on to go knock on the door of the haunted house, but no one wants to go it alone, i’ll go if you go, no you first, and pretty soon they’re all inside the haunted house together. Of course, in this analogy, the house is some other kind of construction…

Each kid emerges with a different takeaway on what happened to them inside: clinical (Joelle Killian) confessional (Carson Winter), satirical(C.J. Subko), monomaniacal (Jack Klausner), hysterical (TJ Price), metafictional/metaphysical (RSL), but all of them (and srsly they cannot stress this enough) definitely encrimsoned.

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