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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I read this article again in the context of also just rewatching Verhoeven's Starship Troopers and reading about how audiences and critics initially thought it was a film valorising war and fascism. People can be comically bad at recognising satire.

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Uni grandfather clock

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Doodled up some character portraits for fun

A Dwarfish-looking guy with a messy beard. He's wearing a helmet and a coat of mail.

A genderless Elf-like person holding an arrow.

A swordsman dressed basically like Robin Hood. He sports an eye patch as well.

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Foreign Objects is one of the best stories of 2026. I’ve read a few stories recently where the author didn't understand the difference between 2nd person POV and 1st person addressing varying forms of 'you'; Karlo understands it and also deploys it in one if the most devastating ways I’ve ever read

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 06/09/2026

I think just more nuance, more ambiguity, less neatness/black-and-white thinking, more messiness, more complexity, moving parts, undefined edges. (And readers who don't whine about encountering it, but that's proving too much to hope.)

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm glad that Weird Fantasy is making a bit of a comeback. The Works of Vermin, The West Passage were thrilling, delightful reads (I've yet to read Waterblack, etc) I've been trying to do my part as well with AS THE SHORE TO THE TIDES, SO BLOOD CALLS TO BLOOD and my forthcoming novella

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hexplaceholder.bsky.social @hexplaceholder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A multi-volume epic that threads the balance between high fantasy and horror. Apocalyptic grandure, occult/psychedelic vibes for the magical elements, large cast of characters who are all fucked up weirdo's and terrible people.

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 04/09/2026

It's coming 👀 Writers in the North of England are invited to send us weird and horrifying tales of existential dread for anthology 3: cosmic horror. Opening to submissions next month. Read the guidelines here: carnyxpress.co.uk/anthology-3-...

Submissions will be open 1st October to the 30th November. We’re seeking weird and literary tales of cosmic horror, from writers living in the North of England, for our third anthology.

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Professor Uni’s class begins now :3

A black-and-white cat lying on a cardboard scratcher, wearing round glasses and a red bow tie, and looking at the camera

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been working on an audio version of this flash piece that I'll be sharing with you all very soon!

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

learning to effectively withhold information is a skill, and a valuable one. plus, you can't figure out your style & preferences (not some reader's preferences. *yours*) if you're too afraid to explore, assess, & learn. get your hands dirty!

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s about time we had a reckoning with the need so many writers feel to over-explain everything aspect of their stories, even in non Weird genres. Readers don’t need to be babied. Let us figure things out. Leave room for interpretation. Over-explanation makes writing worse.

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Weird fiction seems to be having a moment but without lots of the people trying to write it actually grasping what it is. I keep reading stories where there’s clearly an attempt at vaguely gesturing towards ‘the Weird’ but they just cant help over-explaining everything. Truly frustrating stuff.

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kay Vaindal is back in STP with An American Execution. A woman travels to witness the resurrection-execution of one of the 9/11 hijackers with the daughter of her abducted neighbour and her boyfriend who claims to be an emissary from another universe. Dark and wacky in pure Vaindal-esque fashion.

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"An American Execution" by Kay Vaindal - Seize The Press

He’s delusional. Good in the sack, though. I flatten the popcorn bag on the microwave carousel and hit two minutes, express cook, and he asks me why I hit two minutes and not the button that says popc...

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.

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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Like the artists in his story, Stanley works a strange alchemy. His cityscapes are so vividly described; their barbershops & 24-hour massage parlors, their people & their trash, some of my favorite writing of his to date" NM Whitley on The Most Beautiful Thing on This Black Earth by Nelson Stanley

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"The Most Beautiful Thing on This Black Earth" by Nelson Stanley - Seize The Press

The Connoisseur’d heard that she was the only genius in town. Weimar republic hairdo blacker than a goth’s heart. Improbable, glowing, crème-de-menthe eyes. Allegedly had a tattoo of Frederick Barbaro...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 16/08/2026

Was having a conversation on this topic just recently. A book (or story or painting or movie or whatever) is not a puzzle with a Correct Solution. It's an experience to think about and with, to chew over and then bring to other experiences.

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Morgan W Finley @baronvonuppercase.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As someone who has spent a lot of time curating their personal tastes (sorry not-sorry, algorithms), blind-buying whatever pops up on Zachary Gillan's recs has never disappointed Lovers of weird + horror, you're in safe hands over there

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

More faves of 2026 so far from other mags: A Dirge for the Mirrorbirds - Emily C. Skaftun (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) Scion - Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld) Atomic Chess - Josh Pearce (Bourbon Penn) Foreign Objects - Karlo Yeager Rodríguez (Typebar) Please Turn on Your Magic Beam - Orrin Grey (The Dark)

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

ergot. has published several of the best stories of the year so far imo. Valediction - Jason Baltazar Sisyphus, Bound - David Stevens Late Bloomer - Ian Kappos The Professor of Desire Presents - Anneke Schwob Rolliecoaster Meadow - J F Gleeson Read the archive, it's full of gems.

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Anneke Schwob's "The Professor of Desire Presents" is one of my favourite stories of the year so far. Fuck. ergot.'s strike rate of putting out short fiction that make me feel absolutely wretched (complimentary) continues to skyrocket.

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

It’s 2026 and I’m reading The Da Vinci Code. I want to throw it across the room every five minutes.

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sometimes a story perfectly reifies a specific feeling I have about moving through life. Fiction at its best, an art that gives form to something nebulous inside you and makes it feel solid. "Please Turn on Your Magic Beam" by Orrin Grey was that for me. Sad, beautiful, deeply profound horror.

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Please Turn on Your Magic Beam - The Dark Magazine

It’s a dark and stormy night, and the residents of the Castle Arms apartments are watching a scary movie. On the small, bulbous screens of their television sets, a killer stalks in scratchy chiaroscur...

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Uni, where did your ears go?

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 07/07/2026

An (incomplete) wishlist in the last few weeks leading up to subs closing: 🧙 gay wizards 🧷 punk warlocks 📖 musty libraries filled with arcane secrets 🌀 unfathomable magics beyond our ken 😱 horrific sorcerous mishaps 🔮 adventures through psychedelic otherworlds

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Congratulations to everyone on the shortlist & a shout-out to fellow Indian @tashanmehta.bsky.social, whose MAD SISTERS OF ESI is the only one I've read so far (it's beautiful, a Calvino-esque uncategorisable meta galactic fantasy). Very eager to get to the rest!

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 23/06/2026

Gollum to Bilbo:

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This means you can get a cheap copy of The Skull & Laurel #3, that has Josh Pearce’s “Witches in Cold Mountain Halls” in it. One of the best short stories I’ve read in years that’s a sort of New Weird dark fantasy dungeon crawl told in postmodern epic prose poetry. It’s fucking sick.

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 23/06/2026

Free shipping for @bookshop.org's Anti-Prime-Days! If you want to support ARB a little bit while you snag some books, click on any of the links in our reviews and essays, or check out our shop here:

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ARB's Coverage

Checkout out this list on Bookshop

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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 12/06/2026

The internet, 2026:

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Bookshop.org is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can get THE DEVOURERS slightly discounted there. A mythic realist, queer dark fantasy about love, sex, violence, & shapeshifting set in contemporary India & the Mughal Empire. It won a Lambda Award.

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The Devourers: A Novel

A Novel

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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Pals! @tenebrouspress.bsky.social have an eBook and eMag sale on at the moment! ✨️🖤 Go and grab some horror gems! Also, includes Split Scream Vol 5 and my novelette paired with @bitterkarella.bsky.social - just £2! Tell your weird horror loving friends! ✨️🖤 store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...

Happy UnPrime week Tenebrous Cult!

All Tenebrous books and emags are 50% off from our Webstore this week

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🔥SALE🔥 Prime Day is now thru the 26th? COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY, ALL OUR E-BOOKS & MAGAZINES ARE 50% OFF THRU THE 26TH. Buy from our webstore, get your books & mags delivered INSTANTLY, + you own them outright! (Sorry, not applicable to preorders) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

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e-Books

Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Sale's active as of this morning! It'll auto-apply on the website at checkout 🫡 Hope we can help you find a damn fine new summer read

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Samir has such a way with their writing of picking at the scabs of complicated relationships and "Starspeaker" really digs into a parental relationship that encompasses pain, resentment, duty, love, and all the contradictions that having all those feelings at the same time involves. Love this story.

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Matt Brandenburg @brandenburgdm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I was so excited to get to write a story and celebrate Katherine Dunn! She is probably at the top of my list of favorite writers. My story "Safety Features in Fabulon" pulls from Toad and Geek Love, exploring body modification, toxic friendships and isolation, all while set in a theme park ride!

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I’m gonna be dusting off my reviewing hat over the next few weeks in the Seize The Press newsletter. I’ve read some great stuff recently and the first books I’ll be reviewing are OLYOKE by Vincent Endwell, PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements, and THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes.

Cover image for Olyoke by Vincent Endwell

Cover image for Persona by Aoife Josie Clements

Cover image for The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes

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Anthony Engebretson @anthonyengebretson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Let me tell you something. I’ve got four books nobody has heard of that would make great movies. You want Hell Pigs? You want Kelpies? You want a Historical Fiction about a weird little guy who is psycho sexually obsessed with chopping down trees? I’m your man. Ball is in your court.

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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m so happy to share that my Weird West story, “Twin Pistons”, is included in this anthology. This project was an interesting push of my creative boundaries and I’m so glad my work is sharing in this reimagining of what Western stories can do.

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I genuinely love A Game of Thrones but using the word ‘bunghole’ in a fantasy setting inspired by Wars of the Roses era medieval Europe is a crime against literature.

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Chicken Finger is NM Whitley at it again. He writes with a specific level of off-kilter surreality that unbalances you just enough to make you wobble before you realise you’ve fell flat on the ground.

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Michael Boulerice @michaelboulerice.com · 16/06/2026

Today is my 46th birthday. It's also publishing day for INHALATION. If it's alright with you guys, I'd like to talk about why this book exists, as well as spend some time thanking the folks who made this possible

A selfie of me sitting in my 1990 VW Cabriolet holding up a copy of my newest book, INHALATION

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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Big shout out to the STP team James, Rebecca, and Karlo by the way. I started this thing solo four years ago with no expectation it would go anywhere and it somehow found an audience. Now there are four of us keeping the ship steady and I'm so grateful for everything they do to keep the mag going ❤️

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