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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h

Fourth Halloween rec since you ghouls are greedy for book flesh: Michel Bernanos' The Other Side of the Mountain. A truly disturbing voyage gives way to landfall in a harrowing, haunting, and horrific place. A direct influence on my novel Annihilation and also available in The Weird antho I coedited

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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
sphere science fiction

a red montage of creepy lamenting bodies in the shadow of a mountain

quotes on back

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h

Fifth Halloween rec because you are ravenous book cannibals is Dark Matter by Aase Berg. A truly visceral and transcendent collection translated by Johannes Göransson that's like Scott Walker's Tilt album in poetry form. Although totally unique and beautiful and unsettling.

red dots on black with title and author name obscured

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1

No Ghosts in lower left, Max Lury in lower right. White hand reaching down, two eye holes in the wrist.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h

Hillsboro Library tonight! On the west side here in Portland. Feeling adventurous? See you there!

Library Foundation of Hillsboro
An Evening with Author JEFF VANDERMEER

Our 2026 Author Event features Jeff VanderMeer, an award-winning, NYT-bestselling Science Fiction author whose works include the Southern Reach series and Hummingbird Salamander.
Saturday, October 10

7 - 8:30pm

Brookwood Library, Hillsboro
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Proceeds from the event benefit The Hillsboro Public Library

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 14h

Partial list of readers of my books

dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains , fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost.

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I had a pony! @meghancolleen.bsky.social · 10h

I had a helper today

Me with a green parrot on my shoulder giving me a kiss

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 10/10/2026

i have lived here my whole life, and i have never once seen a plane take off from the Willamette… …let alone do THIS. wtf.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h

Third Halloween book rec since you haints are haunting me for titles: Saskia Nislow's surreal, very tactile and disturbing ritualistic body horror novel Root Rot.

ROOT ROT

Various plants and fungi in red silhouette against black background with human shape blood vessels, lymph nodes etc in middle

SASKIA NISLOW

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h

Amen, and nothing sez power than book recs in 2026.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h

Second Halloween rec, since you weirdlings are restless, is Flicker by Theodore Roszak. The ultimate in film horror. Sophisticated, dark, original. Go in knowing as little as possible. And try to find a copy without a stupid cover. Most covers for this book are boring, alas.

strip of film in warhol colors down side, white backdrop, Flicker title in red, Theodore Roszak in black plus a Brett Eason Ellis blurb.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22h

I'd rather selfishly use it for books I like.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I really hope my publishers are not doing this. Fairly sure they are not.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My mom did this illo for my first, self-published collection, The Book of Frog, back when I was a teenager.

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Olivia Pumpkin Portlander 🐙🎃🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Monrovia, the Duchess of Brindle, is in the house. We love our time share dog. Her other mom is about to have a baby. I predict we'll get more Monroe time after the little one arrives. Yay!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(immediate understanding of a book is sometimes in hindsight evidence that it is flawed)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anne Carson's Float is a lovely artifact as well as fascinating at the sentence level. I realize I have 3 of her books, each time due to their differences in form/at not recognizing I had read her before. I don't always understand her work, but I recognize its authenticity and authority.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I prefer it when Nobel Prize for literature synchs up overwhelming talent with eccentricity or obscurity. Bob Dylan seemed a gratuitous choice. Murakami both doesn't need it and increasingly writes bad women characters. Anne Carson in the spotlight is great. I find her work oblique in a good way.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Siphonophore mimicry manifests solely when the egritted mobile phalange chemically reacts with a diodynetic egg cluster to preempt suppoforification. Depending on depth and ocean temperature at the time, of course.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very much looking forward to reading this advance copy of @usmantm.bsky.social's first novel! He's an excellent writer.

A Dark and Narrow House
Usman T. Malik

text in green against black with red house in middle if the cover.

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wil 🦇 @itswil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

just finished this after seeing this recommendation and my god. excellent. gorgeous. awful. moving. strangely funny. unforgettable. what a book. what a specific and unique book.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Really bad idea to mess around with John Picacio, one of the consumate professionals in the field and someone who always values community.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The idea is if it free more people will attend.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tickets here usually are for the price of the book, possibly a little more. But you can't do a ticketed event for writers who need new readers to discover their books.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It can be a paid gig here if hosted by a library, but a bookstore like Powell's would go bankrupt doing that or have to put on fewer events. They do a great job of maximizing events, which enriches community and allows a lot of writers with debuts or smaller audiences to have an event.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BECAUSE THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND IN MAH BRAINS

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Aah BOOO Rah, Scary PDX Stereotype @acjaggard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PDX: "Night Voices" cstpdx.com/event/night-... Jeff Vandermeer & Theo Ellsworth in the Couv! whiteoakbooks.net/event/2026-1... "The Kiss", "Bad Education" hollywoodtheatre.org "Social Reckoning", "Other Mommy" www.fandango.com "Beware Boiúna" familycinemas.com/movies/bewar...

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NIGHT VOICES (1995) Episodes 3 & 4 (Church of Film) | Clinton Street Theater

Known as the Italian Twin Peaks! The mutilated body of a student is found beneath Rome's oldest bridge, the Ponte Sublicio. Detective Morlisi is put on the case, which at first seems to be connected t...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was tickled that the Swede kept ooohing and aaaahing over so many things he saw in Portland.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On October 7, come to the secret debrief on the Southern Reach at White Oak Books-- and get a free copy of my new collab with Theo Ellsworth, the Owls comic. For charity. Tickets here: whiteoakbooks.net/event/2026-1...

NYT Bestseller
JEFF VANDERMEER

Special “Behind the Scenes” Event:
--Debuts Owls comics collab w/ Theo Ellsworth (for charity)
--Annihilation movie secrets
--Area X art book preview
--Exclusive reading from Abdication, forthcoming Southern Reach novel

Tickets in-store or online.
https://whiteoakbooks.net/event/2026-10-07/author-event-jeff-vandermeer-offsite

WHERE / WHEN:
WHITE OAK BOOKS
Vancouver, Washington
6:30pm, Wed, October 7
Clark College Foster Auditorium (within Foster Hall)

“The King of the Weird Fiction” (the New Yorker) offers an exclusive visual and spoken word tour of new projects.

Photo copyright by Alicia J. Rose
Area X coffee table book

Alicia J. Rose White Oak Books

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026

goooood morning it’s another cloudy gross one, cool but dry and gray - and we had a marvelously sociable loop, greeting several dogs we hadn’t seen in awhile and visiting a couple of neighbor ladies so yes, it’s true: Lucy Loved That Walk

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix with bright blue eyes and a smile, sitting on a sidewalk in a foggy neighborhood.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This week! Behind the scenes of the Southern Reach coffee table book and more. They are also taking orders online from anywhere in the US for my books and I will happily personalize.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Coyotes on Rose City Golf Course!!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Around Portland, showing Johannes Helden around, a really interesting Swedish multimedia environmental artist who now kinda loves the McMenamins vibe. Plus the urban walks and all the fruit trees and gardens. Etc et al.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Highly recommend the Australian indigenous art exhibit at the Portland Art Museum. portlandartmuseum.org/event/the-st...

three pieces in shape similar to skateboards Wingu Tinaima Pitjantjatjara, about 1917-2010 Minyma Tjuta (Seven Sisters), 2006 Irrunytju, Western Australia
Acrylic on canvas
Purchased with funds donated by Supporters and Patrons of Indigenous Art, 2006

Kunmanera (Patju) Presley Pitjantjatjara, 1945-2025
Markurapiti. 2015 Tjuntjuntjara, Western Australia

Markurapiti offers a bird's-eye view of a sacred underground water source on Kunmanara (Patju) Presley's Ancestral land in the Great Victoria Desert.

abstraction of red and white and orange squares with very minute detail almost like filigree, apologies did not get the artist name

Betty Muffler Pitjantjatjara/Yankunyjatjara, born 1944
Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country), 2022
Acrylic on canvas

white circles and other shapes with faded other colors ghosting through

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this, thanks. also SF core readership thinks of itself as a community, is smaller than the general readershop, and thus reaching them through SF news outlets is easier to alert to a new book.

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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voyager 1 is running on less memory than a single photo in your camera roll—69 KB. Its data is saved to an 8-track tape & software was developed when "the cloud" was in the sky. NASA sends commands and the old thing answers. And yet your brand new laptop freezes because you opened too many tabs.

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