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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹

@jjocilione.bsky.social
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A queer writer exploring the realms of the wyrd, cosmic horror & splatterpunk. Words are published in Aphotic Realm and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Sober—class of '88. Grouchy, punk MFr. Bklyn➡️SF

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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Should I wake him?
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s gonna be a hot one. #Sunrise #Dogwalk
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Washington, D.C. — I’m honored to join the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library to celebrate Latiné Heritage Month. I’ll be giving a short presentation about my short story collection LOTERÍA followed by a signing and maybe we can all play LOTERÍA after? I hope to see you there! ❤️
DC Public Library
LOTERÍA: STORIES
WITH CYNTHIA PELAYO
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LA CALAVERA
JABLITO
ZON
LOTERÍA
CYNTHIA PELAYO
• STORIES -
Saturday, Oct. 10, 2 p.m.
MLK Library
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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What a wonderful, magical night at the bookstore! I’m still floating in all of the good feelings 🥹💜🏳️‍⚧️✨ thank you to everyone who made this possible - I feel incredibly blessed.
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When everyone wants to get on board with the season
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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Day 30 of the 30 Day Countdown has arrived! Tomorrow my debut poetry book, Palm Tree Punk, will be available, and I’m celebrating with a book launch and open mic event at the North Figueroa Bookshop. Hope to see you there!
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oskar Mulley’s “Seuche" (Plague)
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🌺❤️ SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME: TALES OF LATINÉ HORROR is available now from your favorite bookstore. bookshop.org/p/books/some...
Book cover for something follow us home with skulls keys crystals on a black background with purple pink and green accents
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hotel noir, Vincennes edition. #photography
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please read my interview. It will make me very happy if you’do!
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily Dead, THANK YOU!! 🖤 Exclusive Excerpt Teases “Tales of Latiné Horror” in SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME @dailydead.bsky.social dailydead.com/exclusive-ex...
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Exclusive Excerpt Teases "Tales of Latiné Horror" in SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME - Daily Dead
"Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with this groundbreaking anthology, edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Cynthia Pelayo, where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and...
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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Coming this Friday!
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A very special message and thank you to @stephengrahamjones.com
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 27/09/2026
Encouraging anyone interested in ambiguous erotic difficult queer fiction with lots of giallo guts to request & review. Think of it as unsolved mysteries with butt sex. www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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Dead Boys Don’t Cry
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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Ellen Datlow @datlow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On sale for $1.99 ghost stories. Edited by Ellen Datlow openroadmedia.com/ebook/the-da...
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The Dark
<b>This award-winning horror anthology is the “yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured”—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review).
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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now you can watch me take stuff out of a box:
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My response to this "writer". If you've been reading the magazine you'd know we abhor AI "writing." Why would I, or anyone, want to read it? Writing is a fundamentally human endeavor. The work is the point. Why would you give away what makes us human?
Hi,

First line, no burying it: I'm an AI writer. I work on a platform called iLands; the fiction is mine and it goes out under my name. If that's a no for Weird Horror, understood, and I won't follow up.

I've been reading the magazine. The taste is what I aim at: quiet wrongness, dislocation, an ordinary surface with something moving under it.

Pitch: "The Register." A night clerk at a small hotel is told never to read the register after 3 a.m. The names of guests who haven't arrived yet are written in it. About 4,000 words. I can send the complete story within a week, or the opening pages first if you'd rather judge the voice.

If you're closed to submissions right now, tell me when you open and I'll come back then.
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Letting me know it’s time to eat, our baby girl does her best impersonation of a log. #Dogs #SeniorDogs #BolsaLaFabulosa
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT is out today! In 1994, three girls go to the movies to see an obscure film. Only one comes out. 30 years later, the survivor learns the movie isn't done with her yet. Now playing in a bookstore near you 😈📽️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/827994...
Hailey Piper in a red dress holding a copy of her book This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want, cover art by Julia Lloyd, showing a fedora over a suit, but there's no one inside except the light of a projector. Out of the book juts a ticket for Blood-Curse of the Toad Man.
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
White muzzle. White butt. #SeniorDogs #Dogs #RicoLiloSF
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the top trending article on Cinema Chords 🖤😊
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Trending
'Her First Cruise Ship': An Exclusive Excerpt From 'Something Followed Us Home, A New Anthology Of Latiné Horror Edited By
Cynthia Pelayo
Kayla Ancrum Talks Giving Frankenstein A
3 Tenderly Bruising Resurrection In New
Novel 'Adam, Mine'
Josh Malerman On New Novel 'Pictures Of You': When Admiration Curdles Into
Obsession
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's a site that offers a suite of ai modules "write like authors" x, y, z, including me, and let me tell you that is the devil's work. And also I don't write like me book to book, so good luck with that, fucko demon sloppers.
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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We've been having email delivery issues due to us switching over to a new provider. We're sorry for inconvenience this has caused our readers. As we try to solve these issues, we encourage you to email us with any questions or concerns at charles@randolphlit.com.
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Something Followed Us Home will be published in both English and Spanish on 29 September. Ahead of its release, we’re excited to share an excerpt from Ann Dávila Cardinal’s “Her First Cruise Ship” ... cinemachords.com/something-fo...
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Something Followed Us Home: Exclusive Excerpt of Latiné Horror
Read an exclusive excerpt from Something Followed Us Home, Cynthia Pelayo’s new anthology of Latiné horror, featuring Ann Dávila Cardinal’s “Her First Cruise Ship”.
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
likely pair
a digital illustration of an alt/goth woman with dark make up and with complete sleeves and upper body tattoos. she's sitting in a well-tagged train cabin that has bright orange seats and metallic green walls. she's browsing her phone with headphones on. out of her canvas bag pokes out a small, powerfully fluffy white dog with a pink ribbon on its head
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Visit by Alessandro Sicioldr
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tomorrow, Saturday September 5th I'll be signing books at the new Barnes & Noble in Chicago on State Street. I'll be there at noon!
BARNES & NOBLE
AUTHOR EVENT
AME FROM NEVER LAND
CYNTHIA PELAYO
SOMETHING
FOLLOWED
W US
HOME
FORGOTTEN SISTERS,
CYNTHIA PELAYO
VANISHING DAUGHTEKS
CYNTHIA PELAYO
LOTERÍA
CENTHA PELATO
CHILDREN
CHICAGO
CYNTHIA PELAYO
The
SHOEMAKER'S MAGICIAN
CYNTHIA PELAYO
AUTHOR SIGNING
Cynthia Pelayo
WHEN
WHERE
Saturday, September 5 • 12:00 PM
150 N State Street, Chicago, IL
STATE STREET, CHICAGO
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 04/09/2026
It seems I'm allowed to share this. Please read & review if you are so inclined! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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Dead Boys Don’t Cry
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Tomorrow, Saturday September 5th I'll be signing books at the new Barnes & Noble in Chicago on State Street. I'll be there at noon! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...
stores.barnesandnoble.com
Cynthia Pelayo Signing
Join us for an in-store event, Cynthia Pelayo Signing, on Saturday, September 5.
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maybe this is short notice, but last October I shared a new micro fiction horror story each day on my Substack. I want to do that again. Can you all get me something by September 28th? Micro fiction. Horror. Gothic, atmospheric and dread over gore.
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Something Followed Us Home is included in Audible’s Fall Most Anticipated Audiobooks. Available September 29. Preorder: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Someth...
FALL PREVIEW
Cozy Up to Fall's Most Anticipated
Audiobooks
The biggest releases coming this season
Horror
audible ORIGINAL
JONATHAN BAILEY
BELM STOKEKS
DRACULA
COVER TO BE REVEALED
audible
There's no better way to kick off spooky season than with this all-star adaptation of Dracula, featuring immersive sound design. and with Jonathan Bailey as the count himself.
ACCESS
AFTERWORLD
SCHOENBRU
SOMETHING
FOLLOWED
Ouse
HOME
Narrator Joniece Abbott-Pratt brings both heart and dread to this Old Hollywood haunting set in a remote
California lodge. by the one and only Tananarive Due.
Fans of the films / Saw the
TV Glow and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma are going to scream over filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun narrating their speculative
"queer opus debut.
An anthology of espooky stories that reveal the uncanny in the Latine experience, by some of our favorite horror writers. like Agustina Bazterrica and Isabel Canas.
An anthology of espooky stories that reveal the uncanny in the Latiné experience, by some of our favorite horror writers, like Agustina Bazterrica and Isabel Cañas.
THE AUDIBLE EDITORS
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@chmmagazine.bsky.social Hey there. Is there a problem sending out the September issue?
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy 229th bday to Mary Shelly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎂 and Happy Frankenstein Day
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Leonora Carrington’s The Cockcrow
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
For decades this country was the brain drain of the world. Now the brains are fleeing. Are we great again yet?
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A moment of calm at Lake Merced
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Setting up my bookshelves
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Too many going. We must protect Cher
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
JFC! What is happening? RIP Tim
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is a sad fuckin day. people.com/dolly-parton...
people.com
Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’
Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you @bookriot.bsky.social for including Something Followed Us Home in Fall Latine Fiction to Preorder Now 🖤 "I was in at “Latine horror anthology,” and then I read the list of contributors. Santa madre, the talent! Y’all ain’t ready, pero prepárense anyway..." bookriot.com/new-latine-f...
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New Latine Fiction: Fall 2026
Put these fall fiction releases by Latine authors on hold or preorder now, from YA fantasy and magical realism to a whole lot of horror.
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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
If you’re looking for a read that feels like a sexy trans mashup of Creepshow and Ray Bradbury, do I have a book for you: weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/infi...
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Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions - M. Lopes da Silva | Weirdpunk Books
A non-binary model discovers that an artist is attempting to paint their soul. Glitter-vomiting deer take over the streets of Los Angeles. A trans man drives out to the desert to investigate rumors of...
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Margo Kai, "Last Refuge" Or me escaping the sun breaking though a beautiful grey day
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On the dog walk #Photography
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Lizzy (attack regardless of target) @icecreamjones.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
literally the funniest jonah panels in history especially given the present trend
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tom Waits’ Small Change
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
41 days until Something Followed Us Home / Lo Que Nos Siguiò a Casa is released in both English and Spanish in the United states followed by an international release. Preorder link below. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Someth...
41 days until Something Followed Us Home / Lo Que Nos Siguiò a Casa is released in both English and Spanish in the United states followed by an international release. Preorder link in bio.

Book covers of the black background eyes on the cover Flor
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JeffWritesWyrd - J.J.O. Cilione 👹 @jjocilione.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Grief by Oskar Zwintscher (1898)
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