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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We're excited to announce our Next Wave of Weird readers at NecronomiCon 2026: Prema Arasu, Ari Mnemonic, Victoria Nations, Author Millie Price, Andromeda Ruins and Sarah Walker! Friday Aug 14, 9-10 PM on the 3rd floor terrace of the Graduate Hotel. Stay tuned for more details!

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Hey all! Melanie, here. Our The Call of The Weird event this weekend was a success, and we can't thank you all enough for getting Weird with us! The event was recorded will be put up on the podcast soon! Will alert you all when it is available.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Also that year, his Alphabestiary: 26 Poems and Drawings for Easily Alarmed Children and the Adults Who Like to Alarm Them, was published. Last September, his I Ain’t Resisting: the City of the Greensboro and the Killing of Marcus Smith, was published by Scuppernong Editions.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

He lives in Greensboro, NC, where his reporting on the police homicide of Marcus Smith won first place in investigative journalism from the NC Press Association in 2020.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Ian McDowell’s work has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, The Year’s Best Horror, Love in Vein, and the Science Fiction Book Club's Best Short Novels.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: @ianmcdowell.bsky.social

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Of Cinder and Bone placed in the Top 30 Books in Hugh Howey's 2021 Self Published Science Fiction Contest. She is also a contributor to Marvel Comics' Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda (2021) anthology as well as the Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson (2024) anthology.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

KYOKO M is a USA Today bestselling author of The Black Parade urban fantasy series and the Of Cinder and Bone science-fiction series. The Black Parade has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly and New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: KYOKO M

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

She is a recipient of the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award, The British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Scribe Award. She currently resides in Macon, GA.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

She is also the first woman to have written Swamp Thing for DC Comics, as well as the Vampirella character for Dynamite Entertainment.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Nancy A. Collins @nancyacollins.bsky.social is best known for the female punk vampire & vampire slayer Sonja Blue and as a founding pioneer of the Urban Fantasy genre.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: JOANNA ROY lives in the hills south of Blacksburg, Virginia with her husband, two children, her dog Weldon, and a slew of elderly cats. She loves opossums and bees.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Currently he’s editing material for a collection of civil rights–related sermons by the Reverend Doctor C. T. Vivian, that is in search of a publisher.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Hall’s novel, Dread Isle, was published in 2020. He worked in multiple capacities on the roleplaying game Blackbirds (Andrews McMeel Universal, 2022), which won Best Overall Presentation at the 2023 Ennies award ceremony.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Edward Austin Hall co-edited the 2013 anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, acknowledged in a front-page NPR.org story, “Sci-Fi Has Changed A Lot In The Past Decade—These 7 Reads Will Show You How.”

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Edward Austin Hall

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Jessi Ann York’s stories have been featured at several horror markets [PseudoPod, Vastarien, Cemetery Gates Media, Love Letters to Poe]. Her first two stories, “Phases of the Shadow” and “Women of the Mere,” were mentioned as standouts in the Summation section of The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Jessi Ann York

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Kortney Y. Watkins is an educator, writer, and poet residing in the Atlanta Metropolitan area. She lives for love and moonlight.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

He's released stories, reviews, and articles into such colorful landscapes as The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, LA Review of Books, VICE, and Southwest Review.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

The first book in that trilogy, A Crown for Cold Silver, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award. He’s also edited two anthologies, one of which was nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Jesse Bullington is the author of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Enterprise of Death, and The Folly of the World. Under the pen name Alex Marshall, he’s written The Crimson Empire, a genre-deconstructing stab at epic fantasy.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Jesse Bullington

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

He’s also the coauthor, with Jesse Bullington, of stories in the anthologies Tales From OmniPark and Back 2 OmniPark. Brent has an MFA in creative writing from NC State University, and he’s the director of editorial services for University Communications and Marketing at NC State.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Brent Winter is a writer and editor in Carrboro, North Carolina. He’s the author of the novel Blood Family and the novella Sisterhood of the Elf-Shot, both of which are set in the strange downtown Atlanta neighborhood known as D Street.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Brent Winter

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

The great-granddaughter of a dream interpreter, Violette is a lover of all things supernatural. Her eerie and unpredictable paranormal, fantasy, and horror stories recreate myths and legends and fashion new folklore. Violette is always working on something fresh.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Violette L. Meier, Atlanta native, is a happily married mother, writer, and folk artist who earned her B.A. in English at Clark Atlanta University and a MDiv at the Interdenominational Theological Center. She is also a certified herbalist, a chaplain, and an educator.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Violette L. Meier

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Her short stories have appeared in Black Static, The Dark, among others, and she's had stories included in several volumes of Ellen Datlow's The Best Horror of the Year, Year's Best Weird Fiction, and Stephen Jones' Best New Horror. She is at work on her next novel.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Kristi DeMeester, author of Such a Pretty Smile, Beneath, and the short fiction collection Everything That's Underneath.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

He is author of the novels A Spectral Hue (Word Horde, 2019) and Bereft (Tiny Satchel Press, 2013).His website is: www.craiglaurancegidney.com

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Craig L. Gidney lives and writes in his native Washington, DC. He is the author of the collections Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories (Lethe Press, 2008), Skin Deep Magic (Rebel Satori Press, 2014), and The Nectar of Nightmares (Underland Press, 2022).

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Craig L. Gidney @ethereallad.bsky.social

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

His work has been published in Spain, where it garnered nominations for the Premio Ignotus and Premio Amaltea, winning the latter.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

His debut novel, The October Film Haunt, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press. His work has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, shortlisted for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts' Crawford Award.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Michael Wehunt is a semi-reclusive creature living in the trees of Atlanta with his partner and their dog. Together, they hold the horrors at bay. He is the author of the collections Greener Pastures and The Inconsolables.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Michael Wehunt: @michaelwehunt.bsky.social

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Her cowritten screenplay “Eidolon” is a modern take on “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A member of HWA as well as The Outer Dark community, she’s been a regular contributor to Weird Fiction Quarterly since its 2022 inaugural issue. She lives in Athens.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Can Wiggins never met a monster she didn’t like … except one. She’s been published by Planet X Publications, Oxygen Man Books, Alien Sun Press, shoggoth.net and the Atlanta HWA anthology, Georgia Gothic.

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The Outer Dark Podcast @theouterdark1.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

The Outer Dark Presents: The Call of The Weird, Roundtable & Readings [Sat. March 23/Eagle Eye Books/Decatur GA] GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Can Wiggins: @canwig.bsky.social

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