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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Research for my Cosmic-Bizarro Work-In-Progress!

Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you are up for deconstructed military/folk horror with a mix of POVs and some updated epistolary story telling, have I got the thing for you! Called a “perfectly crafted novelette,” check out Into the Casbah and All the Way Through! a.co/d/024yMctx

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Look what came out yesterday! With early reviewers calling it "a deliciously dark novelette" & "a powerful military horror tale full of detail, brimming with dread and suspense," you should check it out! Links in comments.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Pre-orders are live for my deconstructed military/folk horror novelette, Into the Casbah and All the Way Through! undertakerbooks.com/products/int...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Pre-orders are live! undertakerbooks.com/products/int...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Tickets for GHOSTS OF THE ESSEX are on sale now! www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14103

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

and tickets are available now for GHOSTS OF THE ESSEX! click the QR code for details!

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

GHOSTS OF THE ESSEX: 25 years later, three men who survived the sinking of the whale ship Essex in 1820 struggle with the guilt and rage that continues to consume them, and the spirits that haunt their waking lives. www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14103

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Do you like historical fiction, hauntings, and a good ol' sea shanty? Tickets are on sale! The world-wide debut of GHOSTS OF THE ESSEX with seven performances this June in Hollywood, CA! www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/141...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Good book day yesterday. Horror and violence.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I guess I’ve made it as a writer: I finally received the coveted marketing scam email, wanting to share a great magazine where I have placed a few stories with their “reading club” for a nominal author participation fee!

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

My new immersive musical, GHOSTS OF THE ESSEX, FRIDAY OCTOBER 31, 2025, 6PM. Hollywood California, RSVP to wineandcheesemusic@gmail.com to get the full address and link to online viewing.

Image of an 19th Century whaling Ship, with a small crewed whale hunting boat in the foreground next to a surfacing whale. Snowy mountains and sunset sky in the background. The words "A Sea Shanty Halloween" appear across the sky. GHOSTS OF THE ESSEX, A NEW MUSICAL, FRIDAY OCTOBER 31, 2025, 6PM. Hollywood California, RSVP to wineandcheesemusic@gmail.com to get the full address and link to online viewing.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

my broken second toe from 3.5 weeks ago is healing nicely but I have another 2 weeks to go in my boot.

$Black and white x-ray image of foot bones, with a double fracture in the second toe.$

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Today is a great day to reread EARTHDIVERS by @sgj.bsky.social, starting with Vol 1: KILL COLUMBUS.

A comic book cover featuring three European ships on a blood red sea facing the reader, with a massive Native American face hovering in the sky behind them, the bottom half of his face a skull jaw in the water below. EARTHDIVERS KILL COLUMBUS written across the top.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Stoked to join this line up on October 22!

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

My latest musings: the end of summer, things I have loved, and a broken toe. jonathangensler.substack.com/p/broken-bon...

A bald man in a blue karate gi/jacket, viewed from chest up, wearing a blue and a red medal, his fist raised in the air. Splashed over the image are the words: "Broken Bones and Hauntings Coming Your Way. A long summer of inspirational adventure and new books coming down the pike."

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Broke my toe in my final sparring match this weekend, bringing home 2nd place in a 3-2 loss. But then went on to win the Kata competition, hopping around on a broken toe for my Stature of the Crane!

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

My first place finishing kata, Stature of the Crane, from today’s USSD Karate Invitational in Las Vegas.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This is a stunning edition of my overall favorite read from 2024. I got #47!

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Ten days on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon wilderness will change you. Especially if there is good music.

An acoustic guitar lays on a sandbar by the Colorado River running through the Grand Canyon reflecting the sunset’s fading light.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Lee’s Ferry and the Vermillion Cliffs. About to put in in the morning and head down the Grand Canyon.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Super cool to hang with the one and only @mattdinniman.bsky.social at #StokerCon2025. Glad we didn’t get lost in the Labyrinth!

Two men, one wearing a light blue AC/DC t-shirt and hat, the other wearing a Twisted Sister t-shirt and rocking a shaka “hang loose” hand gesture.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Something I wrote for today. This one is for all of these of us who never made it home, and those who left something vital behind in the sandbox, forever. open.substack.com/.../a-story-...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

For fans of dark fantasy, portals to new, unexpected places, and surreal horror, wander into The Midnight Labyrinth, featuring 17 loosely intertwined tales of exploration, fear, and the fantastic. www.amazon.com/Midnight-Lab...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Jump into the newest anthology from @grendelpress.social and sneak a peak behind the veil of reality in The Midnight Labyrinth, featuring my surreal military horror piece "Into the Casbah," among a slew of other fantastic work. Free to read on Kindle Unlimited! www.amazon.com/Midnight-Lab...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Jump into the newest anthology from @grendelpress.social and get a peak behind the veil of reality in The Midnight Labyrinth, featuring my surreal military short story "Into the Casbah." www.amazon.com/Midnight-Lab...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Jump into the newest anthology from @grendelpress.social, and get a peak behind the curtains of reality in The Midnight Labyrinth, featuring my surreal military horror short story "Into the Casbah." www.amazon.com/Midnight-Lab...

The words "Buckle up, Readers, Put your setbacks in an upright a locked position, and do no attempt to run down the aisle screaming when you hear what has really been going on." From "Into the Casbah" by Jonathan Gensler, above an image of the front end of an airplane flying to the right and a rectangular book cover with the words "The Midnight Labyrinth" over a shadowing creature standing before an open, glowing doorway,

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Shaolin Kempo Purple Belt achieved. 2 hours and 45 minutes of a grueling test and now I got a cool new belt and an all black gi. One step closer to my black belt. Thanks Boulder Karate!

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Today’s birthday mood. Hitting the dojo for two hours today cause I gotta keep this machine running hot for a few more decades.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

What does an up-and-coming rock band do with a killer song? A song that kills someone every time it is played live? YOU AIN’T SUPPOSED TO DIE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT is out now in issue #129 of OnSpec Magazine! Available at Weightless Books until they get the print run to the shop: onspec.ca/subscribe/

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

What's up sky? 2023 was a banger of a year for my first year of being published. Happy to provide links/docs for those who'd like to read my weird, dark tales. @crystallake.bsky.social

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Today's newsletter, with a @claymcleod.bsky.social rec, and other news. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Contributor Copy arrived! If you like small-town sci-fi horror, check this out. Big Tech crosses swords with Big Ag in REAP WHAT YOU SOW, leading off the weird and dark Soul Scream Antholozine: Science Runs Amok.

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Book days are the best. @briankeene.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social #briankvaughan That Thunderstorm Books edition of Island of the Dead is 🔥🔥🔥

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Jonathan Gensler @jongensler.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Am I supposed to stop buying books? I have a problem. But getting bookmail is just so much damn fun. I’ll get around to reading them all some day. @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @darkmattermedia.bsky.social @afsulli.bsky.social

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