iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

GRIMDARK SHREK UPDATE: it's been a tough winter and my dawg Christopher Bown and I are getting through it with some illustrated ultraviolence fantasy-fic

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

the best part of being a guest speaker at the hs horror writing workshop was when the kids asked if we *actually* thought The Blair Witch Project was real-- I took great joy in explaining to them that there was a fake TV special that fully warped my reality lmao

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I was the guest speaker for a class of horror writing high schoolers yesterday and it was surreal! My biggest takeaways were that they hate AI with a passion (based) and will shower you with finger claps (nice)

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

my new book RELEASE THE HORSE got a killer review in the latest issue of BEYOND THE LAST ESTATE 🙏

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

do any other lapsed CoS stans look back at photos like this and ask themselves: wtf was I thinking?

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

read some good fiction in memory of Daniel Woodrell today hometown hero, an incredible talent, and the writer I looked up to most

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

lmaoooo me if Sam says he's anything other than a kind man with hobbies and interests

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

listening to positive FRANKENSTEIN takes from normally rational friends and lovers

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

"I’ll see y’all there and we can sing together and shake our heads over all the meanness in the used-to-be."

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

this might look like a blursed senior photo, but it's really just the demeanor of a man who is always happy to get high in the forest beside some fallen structures

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

starting a new non-fic writing gig this week! once I get through the research jitters, it'll be real swell to flex some more of my *useless* pop-media knowledge

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

drugs, weird guitars, illuminati, Dune references, and Cher; who could say no?

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

GDT's NIGHTMARE ALLEY is streaming in b&w right now; it still (somehow) needs another half hour in the last chapter to fully work, but this version is undoubtedly the best way to see it

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

happy Halloween from the kid in the obscene latex mask

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

wooly bear caterpillar scrying; fuzzy fates claim she'll be a mild one 🤞

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

clown in a dunk tank disses ur bf, wyd?

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

it's finally animatronic screaming head in the window season

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

watch out for this guy at the pinball hall: will try to seduce you into betting quarters on the glass and taking drugs in the alley

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

the european RE4 cover really speaks to me

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

my first book CHAINDEVILS still sawing through to your hearts, I love to see it - I take so much fuckin pride in writing things that folks champion or loathe, with little in-between

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

seen enough A24 movies to know what happens to me if I follow her in there 🌱🌸🐻🔥

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

tricked my ig followers into talking about books, and they're nice to me, so I'll mostly be using this bs account as a place to type things for them lol follow me @darkcirclecomics www.instagram.com/darkcircleco...

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

one time I talked my way into pitching comics to Lloyd Kaufman and it was the best! dude was everything I wanted him to be, and even though it didn't work out at the time (COVID literally came crashing ashore that weekend) it's still one of my favorite memories

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"You look ugly. You've hardened. For the first time, you look vulgar to me."

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I can tell I'm nearing the end of my manuscript journey when the quotes hit the title page 🙏

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

reposting this review because I can't stop smiling over the damn thing; check it out at The Blog Without A Face: theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/09/11/r...

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

partner and I at the MISSOURI EXECUTIVE ORDER 44 show 🖤

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

read Schechter and Powell's DID YOU HEAR WHAT EDDIE GEIN DONE? this afternoon and, I tell you what, that damn book has got me too scared to sleep!

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

went to the Big library to catch up on stuff for free-- but then I smoked half a hooter in the parking lot, immediately lost my validation, and had to pay ten bucks 💀

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

ONE OF US Midwest was easily my best convention. I've never done well at shows (big or small), and it was really nice to interact with so many readers. I also got to party and get in trouble, which is all I really ask

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

this book is so funny to me bc it's just a spooky organ player writing things to women like: "just piss your pants a little, guys like that" and "wouldn't it be *crazy* if you went grocery shopping in a fur coat...and NOTHING underneath" 😜

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

i'll be in Iowa next weekend for ONE OF US to meet some Midwest Freaks and talk Weird Fiction ⚔

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

writers don't need AI prompts, they need the entire The Enchanted World library

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

you can tell someone has bad taste when they rank "Second Honeymoon" as the worst V/H/S segment

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

met many monsters in my time but none so terrifying as the dude who used to come eat raw meat out of the butcher's case-- literally every type of raw meat, washed down with multiple cartons of heavy whipping cream while sitting in the cafe...pretty sure he died, but I did write a comic about him

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I'd advise y'all to start taking drugs, but that would be stepping on my steeze, and I ain't like that shit either, so

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

even though I'd seen plenty of fucked up shit before then, nothing could have prepared my elementary school brain to see the dead Brower kid on late-night cable lmao slept on my parent's floor for a week

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

finally got hold of Manu Larcenet's adaptation of THE ROAD and it is painfully great, like SO goddamn good

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

ONE OF US is coming up quick-- don't normally do conventions but I do believe this will be a most righteous occasion (and maybe y'alls only chance to look me in the eye lol) oneofusfest.com

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

you don't gotta be from Missouri to RELEASE THE HORSE but if y'all ever been to the Ozarks, you just might enjoy my first collection of short stories: www.filthyloot.com/product/horse/

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Matthew Mitchell @matthewmitchell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Gomez gonna scream until you pick up my new book RELEASE THE HORSE from Filthy Loot Press www.filthyloot.com/product/horse/

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