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just finished reading this and jfc it's good. Two ghost stories set in Japan. absolutely visceral & gorgeous prose, texture and grime and beauty, sharp characters with cracks so deep you could fall into them. queer stuff, glorious mess, the clarity, the violence of the moment. i'm scared to kiss it

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 8h

Luna Abyss has such incredible vibes. Thrilling sense of motion with incredible vertical platforming as well. Just a gem.

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Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social · 15h

In the UK? You can get this BFS Award nominated book for free!!! Find out the truth about what happened on that December day when we all woke up with a million pounds under our beds... manuscriptsburn.blogspot.com/2026/10/want...

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Want a FREE Book from French Press Publishing?

Hey guys, For the next 5 days only if you're in the UK, French Press Publishing has the BEST offer for you - a book for the sweet price of ...

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AFTERNATURE productions @afternature.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A game where you drift through haunting scenes as a soul in an after-death experience. Set in Ireland 🇮🇪 Solo dev project #WishlistWednesday #indiegame #Ireland #megalithic #Troubles #BenignLand #gamedev

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apparently she has been At Her Nonsense again...

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Tim Major @timjmajor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF and #horror writers! This month featuring Dark Ages folk horror, 90s video games, superhero problems and the cosmic north of England. timjmajor.com/2026/10/02/o... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity Please share!

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Open submission calls for writers: October 2026

Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found! There are tons to flag up this month.Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of op…

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Announcing a new, occasional journal - PALE GREY IDOL. I hope you'll come along with us on this new venture. Info: palegreyidol.ca

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the brickmaster general @lauramauro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm in two of these! "The Night Parade" is my Japanese mythology inspired take on Alice. "And On 'Til Morning" is my take on Peter Pan as protector of the souls of lost children. I'm not in The Land Of Oz, but it's a fantastic read all the same

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just saw a Kickstarter for some sort of ancient-period board game refer to an ‘early bird hero’ and was genuinely intrigued by this mythic figure before realising they were talking about a reward for early backers.

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Humans are messy and imperfect and emotional and funny and they pour that into their art. Why would anyone want to outsource that to the planet-killing plagarism machine?

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Seven weeks to go until we gather together for WINTER HAUNTS, with an awesome array of Gothic and ghost story writing talent joining us for the event! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #wriitng #writers #horror #Gothic #Gothichorror #ghoststory #ghoststories #workshop #workshops #authorinterviews

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Jane Torbeck @janetorbeck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honestly just having a nice, nostalgic time right now bimbling around in Silent Hill: Townfall admiring all the things I recognise from the 1990s. Hopefully will not at some point enter the nightmare world and get chased by a horrible mutated plastic guide dog full of ominously jingling coins.

A screenshot from the video game Silent Hill: Townfall. A plastic collection box shaped like a life size guide dog is chained to a shop front. There is a coin slot on the dog’s head and the base advertises that the box is collecting donations for Guide Dogs For The Blind.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

grease the bottom

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 24/09/2026

I’ve written before about the architectural poetics of Silent Hill (though it was a long time ago!) and it’s great to see Screen Burn building on that. Here’s an old piece of mine if you are interested- www.killscreen.com/basements-ba...

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The Basement's Basement

Silent Hill’s such a screwed-up city even its buildings have issues.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're unaware of this fabulous press, @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social well check them out: blackshuckbooks.co.uk

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Black Shuck Books – Publishing the Peculiar since 2015

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Marie O’Regan @marieoregan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My son Joe has set up a JustGiving page on behalf of the family, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of our David, who passed away earlier this month after a long illness. Please consider supporting this if you can. Thank you. www.justgiving.com/page/memory-...

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Joseph's fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of David

Help Joseph O'Regan raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

15 years of brutal austerity + increasingly vile far right politics to secure the positions of parties enforcing it + world’s most poisonous media outlets = Years of fascist rioting with little or no government response

something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Hundreds of people are out in Gosport facing a police line.
Crowds of masked protesters are now confronting a police line to chants of "let them drown" sung by a child over a megaphone.

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Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're back!! After a year of far too many disruptive shenanigans, it is time to get this show back on the road! Or back in the podcast feeds And what better way to do it than an episode with @stevetoase.bsky.social that immediately veered off into a discussion about German cake and cheese. Classic.

A black and white photo of Steve Toase wearing a biker jacket with bare trees in the background

The cover of Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase, featuring a black background and a circle with a pattern made up of brown trowels in the centre

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コムフ @komufu-ts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Luna Abyssデモ版でもうやばい超構造体最高！！しかも日常的に配管内外がルートになってて感動！！！メイドインアビスに出てきそうな別時代の遺物奴が焚火してるかわいい正品版買うわ

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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drif @drif.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

my evil kidneys prevented me from completing brackeys jam, but we managed to complete and submit a game for gbjam 14 instead yippee 0xd21f.itch.io/churro-will-...

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Churro Will Survive! by 0xD21F, Mila/Darwin, ManerOST, OhNoPhoton, s-azzles

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bring worse news. That poor woman who lives in Piddington & who @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interviewed after that ridiculous election has had her address leaked to Tommy Robinson & the Pink Ladies & she’s been doxxed by both of them. Wtaf is going on. These people all need to be proscribed now.

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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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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Recommended if you want the full picture of the Piddington situation. TL:DR it's driven by a self-aggrandising, attention-seeking, right-wing, white man.

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Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today's mini-interview for the upcoming BIG BAD BOOK OF KAIJU anthology ( @titanbooks.bsky.social 9/22) is with author/editor @henryherz.bsky.social Here's the link: bit.ly/3V3V2aC #kaiju #bigbadbookofkaiju #kaijupoetry #anthology #shortstories #giantmonsters #newrelease #scifi #SciFiBooks

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 15/09/2026

Laura Mauro returns with Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers: a novella and short story steeped in Japanese folklore, bleak and charming at once. Review now live: #LauraMauro #JapaneseHorror gnofhorror.com/biographies-of-valia…

Book Review Laura Mauro Returns- Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 16/09/2026

I spent 8 years living in a village in the middle of nowhere not far from an immigration detention centre. On one evening I was locking up the pub (for clarity I worked there I hadn’t just broken into it) Two men appeared from the pub car park shadows. They were walking slowly towards me

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Holloway is a conjurer of the beautifully grotesque, an architect of the vivid, whose writing is so lyrical and evocative it makes your teeth itch." — Disclaimer Magazine ko-fi.com/s/7292dd0671

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Pseudotooth paperback (signed) - Verity Holloway's Ko-fi Shop

The debut novel from Verity Holloway, Pseudotooth is an adult take on ‘portal fantasy’, boldly tackling issues of trauma responses, social difference ...

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 16/09/2026

Absolutely, solidarity. She's visibly furious, and terrified, and has reason to be both. This is the knife that slides in under the 'ho ho ho Piddington' jokes. This is where we are right now. It feels like a beach head. I hope it's not.

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Sexy Plato's Cave @andrewblair.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The arts industry in the UK: we contribute so much money to the economy but we are dying, please help Lisa Nandy: Village Parish Council: we held a pretend referendum Lisa Nandy: I'm listening

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We got the final bill and it’s a little over $9000 (they sneaked us a discount and knocked 10% off the total for us, I love that place). We got decent financing and we are getting help from relatives, we aren’t ruined, but it’s a LOT, so if you appreciate what I do: ko-fi.com/dynamicsymme...

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Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Winter Haunts takes place on the 14th November, and we'll have a thread of workshops and a thread of author interviews on the day! Check out what's incoming... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/winter-hau... #winter #Gothic #Gothicfiction #ghoststory #ghoststories

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh my god. Ed has FUCKED it

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Speaking of which, I don’t want to presume to tell anyone else what to do with their own dang cat, but I would advise against these wormy toys, you’d probably be fine but the downside if things go bad is very big and very expensive Which is too bad because our cats adore them

A selection of fuzzy wormy cat toys with googly eyes, in various colors.

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Ginger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 15/09/2026

Laura Mauro breaks a four-year silence with Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers: a decapitating ghost story and a bleak, Yuki-Onna-haunted novella soaked in Japanese folklore. gnofhorror.com/biographies-... Be sure to watch it till the end, for new volley in the Great Coffee Cream War

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 15/09/2026

Thankfully, this case has been resolved, but I talk about Valve's credit card age-gating and previous blocking of contentious but non-explicit titles here too. It's never just one thing.

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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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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The old link is dead, so here's the entirety of the extremely hard to find Koji Shiraishi found footage horror SENRITSU KAIKI FILE KOWASUGI! series. It's unavailable anywhere legitimate and is one of the greatest things ever. Enjoy. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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SENRITSU KAIKI FILE KOWASUGI!!! - Google Drive

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Like all cats, they loved poetry and had no small opinion of themselves, so if you asked any cat its name, you were likely to get a very long and involved poem telling you of every exploit they’d had since they were a kitten. Even cats never used real cat names." BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK.

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the brickmaster general @lauramauro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"We’re very much talking less about urban ennui here and more about snow-laden trauma and the emotional disembowelling of relationships. For which, it must be said, Mauro is an uncouth master of the art." Thanks to Ben Kurt Unsworth for the very kind review!!

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 13/09/2026

I want to see any accusations taken with the same seriousness as direct claims of plagiarism. That's serious, career-ending stuff, and people WILL harrass and abuse others over it. I've had some tell me that it's better to harrass a hundred innocents than let one bit of AI slip through. That's mad.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 13/09/2026

Okay, to make it clear: I am very, VERY anti-AI. I want to see these corporations sued, CEOs in jail, and data centers either looted for semiconductors or burnt to the ground. But witch-hunts? Spreading word that someone somewhere might have said they don't hate it so they MUST use it? Fuck that.

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pudding ➡️ ADVX 2026 @puddraws.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

IT'S FINALLY DONE. taking a long break from lace now 😮‍💨 #crafts #FFXIV

Emet-selch's ascian glyph in bobbin lace with the design in half stitch against a double torchon ground, done in red cotton thread, mounted and framed in a black picture frame.

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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Carrying one or two chestnuts or conkers in your pocket is an old custom meant to absorb heavy or negative energy, ease an anxious mind, and provide grounding. Traditional #folklore holds that keeping a conker in the pocket wards off rheumatism, joint stiffness, and cramps.

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

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