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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Important video update for *sigh* "spooky season"

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The third Dawn Seliger* story, "Let Us Create Nothing but GOD!" will appear in Through a Glass Darkly: An Anthology of Occult Investigations, Chris Kelso and Preston Grassmann, eds., in the first half of2027.

Mock up of a thick book in forest green with a darkly expressionist bit of cover art suggestive of a landscape. Artist unknown, at least to me.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some pilots are part of the furry community

A mustachioed pic giving a thumbs up while flying a red biplane (Porco Rosso, Studio Ghibli)

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Matthew Rife is the great-nephew of Royal Rife, a guy who sold a little battery and light on a wooden box that would send electrical oscillations into the body to not-quite cure cancer. Matthew is selling nicer-looking rife machines, but not making any particular medical claims wink wink.

A rife machine, with a visible copper coil, incandescent bulb, a battery, and several wires.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Underdiscussed is Bret Stephens shuffling this man out of the white category in his commentary about the National Book Awards.

Kenan Orhan, with light brown hair bordering on blond, and light skin (and combination skin so patches of red) standing in front of tree.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxy, and such and such"

Yellow spikey Lisa Simpson before a plate in the kitchen, while yellow, bald Homer, mouth half full and utensils in both hands, speaks.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My historically accurate version of the Odyssey (filmed in Ikaria!) did not dominate the box office as I hoped.

Taken from inside my cousin's car in rural Greece, on a cliffside road exactly wide enough for one car. Speaking of cars, as we were driving up the hill, a red car turned the corner and started driving toward us.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lovecraft discourse on Bluesky! While I was at the @fabulistmag.bsky.social office and a gross PO shipping the second batch of my contribution to Lovecraft discourses--The Failure of the Century! Say it ain't so?! Anyway, Lovecraft was not a centrist. He was a reactionary!

Copies of The Failure of the Century, Fabulist bookmarks and stickers with an orange bespectacled face with tentacles, and cover letter.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A snippet from my foreword to The Failure of the Century. I'm going into the @fabulistmag.bsky.social office tomorrow to help pack some new orders, so if you're curious and want my fingerprints... fabulistmagazine.com/product/h-p-...

Chatting at the Lovecraft Café
By Nick Mamatas
Do I need to present my anti-fascist bona ides? Okay. November 1993 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, counter-protesting and dealing with mounted police when Nazis and Klansmen held a demonstration-cum-party they called “Gay Bash ’93.” Summer 1995, East Village, New York, helping de-Nazify Cherry Tavern and with street marches and some tussling. October 1999, Manhattan, eighteen KKK members versus six thousand of us counter-protestors. (I like those odds!) February 2017, Berkeley, California, dodging pepper-ball bullets on the UC Berkeley campus as then-popular μαλάκας (as my protest sign declared) Milo Yiannopoulos was holding an “alt right” rally, and then months more of counter-protesting as the fash realized that they could crowdfund their movement by livestreaming themselves beating up local skateboarders and punks. I am against fascism.
“So, why be pro-Lovecraft?” (sans quotes) is how this paragraph began in the irst, unsatisfying, draft of this essay. For the answer, read the play.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AND the Two Che Theory of History

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Also here's what New York's oldest newspaper had to say about my neighborhood

The New York post TERROR TOWN front page, discussing Jersey City, esp the Journal Square area

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to Star Trek!

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day, everyone, from a @codecwa.bsky.social shop steward!

my fat face, smiling, in bed, partially obscured by a blue blanket

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did they even send a picture of someone cupping his ear to listen?

chubby middle-aged guy cupping his ear and listening, with alamy watermarks everywhere

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Last 4 characters you saved on your phone are your D&D party: Lucy Ricardo Superman Rey Mysterio Mickey Mouse The Team Supreme!

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You will be visited by three spirits

The cast of The Failure of the Century, on stage: a woman in a hat, and older man in a suit, a large man in a headress, a bald man before a typewriter

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm "I'll have the soup" years old

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Spotted the Pathfinder 1 just now

shot through a screen door, a long airship floating over a sun-kissed bay

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here we were, dodging bean bag rounds

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bluesky can't handle FB links easily, so here is a cap of my note of thanks to this Saturday's performance of The Failure of the Century at @laworldcon.bsky.social

Home from Los Angeles Worldcon, which was great! I managed to miss almost everyone (that wasn't the great part) unless they came by the PM Press booth in the dealer's room to say hi to me. Hotel lobby hamburger dinners for half-a-hundred bux just ain't for me, what can I say?
The Failure of the Century went amazingly well. It was a very "stagey" staged reading—99% a full performance except that the actors were on-book. Huge thanks to Scott Edelman Cody Goodfellow Rachel S. Heslin Jim Keller S Elizabeth Ransdell and Josh Wilson. Their performances (and Josh as publisher, house lights flicker-off-er and general dogsbody) were epic. The actors brought their own costumes from home (and made/got stuff such as a massive Egyptian nemes and a fake mustache), and props (typewriter! letter opener!), and special effects (blood! sound montage!) did stage management, and worked out blocking and gestural elements of their performances in an instant, despite only having rehearsed via Zoom previously.
We only got access to the venue and were even able to see what it was like ninety minutes before showtime too. The Worldcon tech crew was also thrillingly competent and hit all the sound and light cues despite zero time to practice.
As no theater company was involved, I'll have to mark the show as "self-produced" on my CV, but it wasn't. The actors and publisher produced it while I just rushed behind them saying that their great ideas were great ideas!
About thirty-forty people came and dozens watched virtually, and we sold many copies of the playscript both right after the show and throughout the rest of the con, including four on the historically dead Worldcon day of Monday.
It was very exciting, and more than a little exhausting. And now it's all over. That's the theater for ya!
Coming soon? Austin, Texas!

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Recently received author and contributor copies. Is print... back?

Spiraling in clockwise from the top:
Fifth Estate Anarchy and Nature Issue featuring a big red flower with purple stamen: includes my article "PM Press: Twenty Years In"

Beyond the Last Estate #7, with a bald bearded man, Nate Lippens, on the cover. Includes my memoir essay "Cult of None."

Darkest Depths, a graphic anthology with a demonic statue and portal with swirling flames. My piece is "Prisoner's Cinema."

The Fabulist #3, with multi-eyed and mouthed blue figure. Includes my reviews of Albertine Clarke's The Body Builders and John Chu's The Subtle Art of Folding Space

The revised and re-released Starve Better, yellow cover with black typewriter. My 2011 writer's guide with two new essays: one on the novella, and one on direct-to-reader publishing (e.g. Substack)

The Failure of the Century: my play with lips and tentacles on the cover. Also includes an essay by me and one by Christos Callow Jr.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Last day of @laworldcon.bsky.social ! Fan of human misery? Have I got the play, and instructional manual, for you! PM Press table, dealer's room.

The Failure of the Century, a play with kissy lips and tentacles on the white cover and Starve Better, a yellow-covered book on writing with a typewriter on it

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Moments from The Failure of the Century!

The cast: a woman and three men, one in an enormous hat

Lovecraft sleeping while Frank Long gloats

The Crawling Chaos with some avuncular advice for humanity

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

At @laworldcon.bsky.social ? Come see The Failure of the Century! 1:30 Pacific Ballroom (D)

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey @laworldcon.bsky.social get your #billionsvsbillionaires zines at the freebie table while YOU are still free! IT'S OKAY JUST SET ME ON FIRE and BREAD AND JAM FOR BIG BALLS

b/w cover zines of a car bumper cover and a beaten man cover

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

IT LIVES fabulistmagazine.com/product/h-p-...

my mug obscured by the cover to my play THE FAILURE OF THE CENTURY, which a lipstick smooch and grasping tentacles on it

The cover of THE FAILURE OF THE CENTURY with it's smooch and tentacle cover

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Behold! (Not my hand, nor my car. That's @fabulistmag.bsky.social at the printer!) A horror-themed pre-order you'll actually get instead of just waiting six years while I fail in Hollywood or whatever? Say it IS so! fabulistmagazine.com/product/h-p-...

Front of the book, with big smoochy lips and tentacles

The teeny spine: The Failure of the Century: A Play Regarding H. P. Lovecraft Nick Mamatas (F) stands for Fabulist, the publisher

All the back cover text which is here anyway:

https://fabulistmagazine.com/product/h-p-lovecraft-is-the-failure-of-the-century-pre-order-for-8-29-26/

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Happy birthday, H. P. Lovecraft! And now a li'l defamation via my play The Failure of the Century, the book for which you can pre-order! I'd like to get fifty pre-orders. If you're going to @laworldcon.bsky.social we're selling and holding a staged reading! fabulistmagazine.com/product/h-p-...

LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR, MODERN PROBLEMS .
FRANK
Well, I have news. And a request.
HOWARD
As do I. I also have news, and a request.
FRANK
Shall we share simultaneously, Howard?
HOWARD
(grinning widely)
Yes, let's!
FRANK AND HOWARD
(Howard): I think I am dying and don't want to go!
Help me with my last story!
(Frank): War is coming and I don't want to go. Help me
pretend to be queer!
HOWARD
What?!
FRANK
Howard!
- From The Failure of the Century: A Play Regarding H.P.
Lovecraft, by Nick Mamatas

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These especially, but truly any vehicle devised, built, or piloted by any of the Little Rascals. Even if pulled by a donkey named Algebra or propelled by hungry geese.

Several distinctive soap box racers made from trash, such as barrels or garbage cans, with children (many in hats) at the wheel. B/w still from Our Gang/The Little Rascals "Auto Antics"
Season 17, Episode 14
Released July 22, 1939

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Have you pre-ordered my play The Failure of the Century from @fabulistmag.bsky.social yet? If we don't hit 50 pre-orders, the publisher will have to eat these prop beans, Lovecraft-style! bit.ly/4cQ79y3

gigante beans, covered in brownish goop, on a wooden spoon

beans in brownish goop on a wooden spoon

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Look at me I'm Bernie Sanders, I'm Homer Simpson.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

First batch of STARVE BETTER signed and ready to ship from @ebbooksellers.bsky.social www.ebbooksellers.com/item/PMT_BEJ... Order your signed copy today! I live close to the store and need the steps.

A mess of the yellow and black Starve Better editions. Typewriter on cover.

Same yellow and black books, neatly stacked, spines visible

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Indeed. Here's how a popular site loads when one turns off the adblocker:

The bottom of Spider-Man's leg, an ad, five lines of text, mostly obscured by as second ad (banner). The right side column also includes an ad, and links to trending stories, most of which are covered by an autoplay audio/visual ad.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It would be especially funny if Israel was also responsible for the Trump-in-the-food-cart leak. Rubio and Trump, artist's rendition:

An image from the Dell Yearling edition of Sport by Louise Fitzhugh (artist unknown)--a young kid in a yellow service jacket is pushing a big food cart with a cloth over it; poking out from under the and looking nervous is another kid. They are in a fern-festooned hotel lobby.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Pleased to receive my copies of Beyond the Last Estate #7, which includes my essay "Cult of None: When All Your Wildest Dreams Come True." I'm a devoted reader of this zine and highly recommend it in general.

two copies of a full-size magazine, one shows the cover including Nate Lippens (a bald bearded man) and one open to my essay including a pic of a little weirdo (me)

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

These pictures are to encourage you to buy the re-release of my how-to guide for short fiction and non-fiction STARVE BETTER. Get em signed at @ebbooksellers.bsky.social www.ebbooksellers.com/item/PMT_BEJ...

a pizza, my son clenching utensils and making a creepy face and in his plate Starve Better

My son, happy now, with a root beer float and a spoon of ice cream, with Starve Better (yellow cover, black typewriter) propped up

A small fuzzy black dog with yellow and black Starve Better

a box of Starve Better, yellow and black

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I didn't tag JMS in my popular post, but someone else did in a quoteskeet, and now I am blocked by JMS. Probably not meant as a snitchskeet, but practically it is one. There is almost NEVER a reason to tag a 3rd party into a conversation and people should STOP doing it and yes I mean ALL OF YOU.

My "wanna vom" post screencapping JMS talking about running I Have No Mouth and Must Scream through an AI, a quoteskeet of it tagging JMS in it, overlaid with a preview image (from my cursor over JMS's name) of JMS having blocked me.

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