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tiny frights was a free e-zine of very short horror and horror-adjacent poetry and fiction, as well as visual art and reviews. Back issues and podcast episodes are available online. tinyfrights.com is now my personal horror blog.

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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wife went out of town and brought a little something back for me.
A kitchen towel with a graphic of an old-fashioned television with bat-wing aerial. Text on the TV screen and under the TV says: 
I LIKE HORROR MOVIES
AND MAYBE 3 PEOPLE
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bookmail from Tenebrous Press!
3 books, 2 bookmarks, 2 stickers, and a small pin with the “10p” laureled skull.

The books:
1. Alicia Is in the Basement, by Santiago Eximeno
2. Clairviolence, by Mo Moshaty
3. Olyoke, by Vincent Endwell
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Bookmail from Cursed Morsels!
Two books:
1. The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, by Cynthia Gòmez
2. Lupus in Fabula, by Briar Ripley Page

and two zines:
1. Creature in the Bathroom
2. Solidarity Forever
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The arrival of bookmail improves any day. The fact that this shipment came on my (delayed) birthday celebration makes it even better.
Five books:
1. The Etched City: a novel, by K. J. Bishop
2. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections by Walter Benjamin, edited by Hannah Arendt
3. In the Land of… Simplicity: a novel, by Mattie Lubchansky
4. Don’t Call Us Dead: poems, by Danez Smith
5. Invaginies, by Joe Koch
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Watching The Bride. As an amateur scholar of Dada, I couldn’t help but notice this poster in the background. “Merz” was the idiolect of Dada created by artist Kurt Schwitters.
A still from the movie The Bride. Frankenstein’s monster and the Bride stand over a man’s dead body in a street at night. The wall behind them is covered with posters. On one poster the words “MERZ” and “dada” are prominently visible.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
My purchases at Rainy Day Books for #IndieBookstoreDay: - The Natural Order of Things, by Donika Kelly - Come Sing for the Harrowing: stories by Dan Coxon - Black Flame, by Gretchen Felker-Martin
3 paperback books:
- The Natural Order of Things, by Donika Kelly
- Come Sing for the Harrowing: stories by Dan Coxon
- Black Flame, by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
red text on a mottled green background: “I should read labels more carefully. Instead of ginger ale I bought giger ale, and now my stomach is rumbling.”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Movie theaters forever
John Trent (Sam Neill) sitting in a movie theater with a bucket of popcorn, wearing a hospital gown covered with drawn crosses, a demented smile on his face. From the movie In the Mouth of Madness.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Bookmail! From Ghoulish Books.
Book, Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
A digitally manipulated selfie with eyes magnified to enormous size, looking off to the side in apparent apprehension.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
My thoughtful wife, knowing how I love the holidays, bought me some seasonal decor.
A Christmas tree about 16 inches tall, made of skulls and bones, with white Christmas lights and a black bat as a topper.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A captioned screenshot of the original Addams Family tv show. Lurch, Gomez and Morticia stand in their living room. Gomez, looking cheerful, calls out, “Fester, get the Halloween poems from the library.”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
BookMail! I am ready for spooky season!
Five books:
1. Feral and Hysterical: Mother Horror’s Ultimate Reading Guide to Dark and Disturbing Fiction by Women, by Sadie Hartmann
2. Mourning Jewelry: Poetry, by Stephanie M. Wytovich
3. Tono Monogatari, by Shigeru Mizuki
4. Capitalism: A Horror Story — Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination, by Jon Greenaway
4. Seven Legendary Monsters, by Clara Elena García
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
It’s finally here!
Cover of the horror novel Moonflow by Bitter Karella
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Bookmail!
A paperback book, The Siege of Burning Grass, by Premee Mohamed. Theu cover shows a bird-headed humanoid figure in a green coat against a red background.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.
Raul Julia as Dracula, on a Broadway set designed by Edward Gorey
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
...this is who runs this account...
Edward Gorey drawing: The Insect God. A bipedal creature with a segmented body, sticklike limbs, lacy wings, and feathery antennae atop a skull-like head stands facing the viewer, its wings spread and its arms raised.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
the bluesky elders. always watching.
a northern cardinal perched on a bird feeder, staring directly at the viewer, seemingly with a stern expression
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Pogo comic strip characters Churchy the turtle and Howland Owl sitting at a table, Howland in an aggressive pose as he pours a cup of coffee. Howland shoutily shouts, “Let’s be calm about this! Would you like A CUPPA COFFEE!?” Churchy meekly says, “Don’t mind if I do…”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Bookmail! My @tenebrouspress.bsky.social order came, as usual with swag and artistic packaging.
Two books: From the Belly by Emmett Nahil, and All Your Friends Are Here by M. Shaw. Above the books, the box they came in, featuring a purple and green gaping, lanternfish-like creature against a yellow background. To the right of the books, a Tenebrous Press bookmark, a postcard (I think the veinous writing on it says “Five Ever,” probably a horror book title, skull and candles and a crumbling wall in the background), a yellow pin with a laureled skull and the text “10p,” an irregularly shaped “Tenebrous” sticker, and a rectangular “Tenebrous Press” sticker with a screaming, garlanded skull trailing flames.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Current reading: The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension, by Jessie Douglas Kerruish, a werewolf novel first published in 1922.
[Psychic detective Luna Bartendale speaking]

"Still he dabbled in arts forbidden, between the gallant days of Bosworth and the final rest in the odour of bought sanctity. The early Tudor period was a time of great mental progress, good and bad, like our own early Windsor era. Some strong intellects unravelled the wholesome, useful secrets of nature. Others gorged like ghouls on the unholy remains of mental abominations an elder age had tested and tried to consign to the grave. Necromancy will seduce the noblest minds, as we have painful evidence in our own age. And the evil a man does may haunt those who come after him to the end of time, while he rests in peace himself."
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Not horror related (afaik), but if you’re in the KCMO area this Friday evening and you like poetry, this should be an excellent reading! Featuring Angela Carole Brown, Bill Patterson, Jacob Jardel, and Nettie Zan. 7 pm at The Writers Place at Nonprofit Village, 31 W 31st St. KCMO.
Flyer with details of the reading. Details can also be found at https://riverfrontreadings.com/event/riverfront-readings-friday-march-14th/
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Bookmail! Two horror, two nonfiction.
Four books:
1. What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures, by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
2. The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due
3. Monstrilio, by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4. Imagination: A Manifesto, by Ruha Benjamin
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Book mail!
Two books:
1. Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry, edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
2. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, by Carmen Maria Machado
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Anna Matilda, 1790.
HORROR! I call thee from the mould'ring tower,
The murky church-yard, and forsaken bower,
Where, 'midst unwholesome damps
The vap'ry gleamy lamps
Of ignes fatui shew the thick-wove night,
Where morbid MELANCHOLY sits,
And weeps, and sings, and raves by fits,
And to her bosom strains the fancied sprite.

Or, if amidst the arctic gloom,
Thou toilest at thy sable loom,
Forming the hideous phantoms of Despair— 
Instant thy grisly labours leave,
With raven wing the concave cleave,
Where floats, self-borne, the dense nocturnal air.

Oh! bear me to th' impending cliff
Under whose brow the dashing skiff
Beholds Thee seated on thy rocky throne;
There, 'midst the shrieking wild wind's roar,
Thy influence, HORROR, I'll adore,
And, at thy magic touch, congeal to stone.

— Anna Matilda
“Invocation to Horror” (excerpt), 1790
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Siegfr.        To trust in story,
In the old times Death was a feverish sleep,
In which men walked. The other world was cold
And thinly-peopled, so life's emigrants
Came back to mingle with the crowds of earth:
But now great cities are transplanted thither,
Memphis, and Babylon, and either Thebes,
And Priam's towery town with its one beech.
The dead are most and merriest: so be sure
There will be no more haunting, till their towns
Are full to the garret; then they'll shut their gates,
To keep the living out, and perhaps leave
A dead or two between both kingdoms.

— Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-Book, published 1850
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Recently read: The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman, PhD, and Mark H. Harris. Saga Press, 2023. Thoughtful, richly informative, and entertaining. My one complaint is the lack of an index, because I'd like to use this book as a reference work.
The book cover features a graphic in red of a Black Power fist rising from the ground in front of a headstone that says R.I.P.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie
A vintage black-and-white illustration of a hairy, bat-winged man standing on a rock balanced on one foot, his other leg extended behind him, wings spread, arms above his head, as if he might be practicing ballet; smoke rises from a volcano in the background.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Recently read: We Mostly Come Out At Night, edited by Rob Costello. An anthology of queer monster stories—as in, the monsters are queer. YA. I wish books like this had been available when I was a young adult, and I wouldn't hesitate to give this to a young adult in my life.
The book cover, featuring red trees, shadowy monsters (one perched on a tree branch), and a night sky
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Went to a terrific poetry reading at a local bookstore I’ve never been to before (Flagship Books in Kansas City KS) and might have found a book while I was there.
Book titled We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures, edited by Rob Costello
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Happy Halloween! From Horrific No. 8, November 1953; art by Don Heck
A ghoul in the foreground, wearing a yellow garment, rubbing their has and grinning at the reader; in the background, a mustached white man wearing purple, sitting in a chair, says “AND NOW MEET GARRY GHOUL, WHO PROMISES TD KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH CHOICE TDBITS FROM THE WORLD OF THE DEAD… TALES OF TORMENTED SOULS SHRIEK OUT TO HIM AND WILL SOON BE OURS!”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Happy Halloween the 7th! William Blake, The Book of Urizen, Plate 12.
A watercolor print of a human skeleton with a spiked spine sitting in a fetal position, right hand on its skull
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Post a meme made by you
A medieval picture of a neighborhood full of large snails and people living in giant snail shells. Text: “Move slowly and make things”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
A captioned clip from the old tv show The Addams Family. Lurch in the foreground. Behind him, Gomez and Morticia, hand in hand. Gomez calls: “Fester, get the Halloween poems from the library.”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
There’s not much time! tiny frights is open for submissions through September 30th for the Halloween issue. tinyfrights.com/tiny-frights...
An antique engraving of Death as a skeleton holding an hourglass in one hand and a spear poised in the other.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
This is where I post from, if you even care
an old book illustration of a weird, cavernous place filled with bizarre creatures and strange growths
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
I was #1,354,587. Not in the earliest 10% so once again, not one of the cool kids. Just president of the chess club.
Celebrating 10 million users. I was user # 1,354,587.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Happy Friday the 13th!
A 4-panel Pogo comic strip.

1. POGO: S'POSE I SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR THEORY... FRIDAY, THE THIRTEENTH, IS PUT ITS CLAMMY FINGERS ON MY THROAT

CHURCHY: YES! YES!

2. POGO: THEY THROM AN' GORTLE ME… GRIMBLING MY NOZZERS AN' GOOTERIN’ THRAYFULLY NEITHERS. "ORK! ORK!" I CRY, IN PIDDIFUL NOO! "NOMBLY," I SCREEP!

3. POGO: GOOPLEY AND NORTHFUL, FRI. THE ONE AND THREE, SNAYS AT MY VERY VITABLES! I AM UNDOOD!

CHURCHY: OH, I HATE THIS TO HAPPEN TO YOU!

4. POGO: AN' SEE? IT REALLY DIDN’T HAPPEN AT ALL!

CHURCHY: YOU CHEAT! I THUNK YOU MUST WAS ACTUAL GOT BY SOMETHIN’… AN’ DYIN’ MEBBE.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Pick a selfie from your gallery and make it black and white
a stark black and white photo of a bearded man wearing eclipse glasses, staring at the sky
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Your occasional reminder that tiny frights is open for submissions thru September 30 for the Halloween 2024 issue. Submission guidelines at tinyfrights.com/tiny-frights...
The info in the post text, along with a multicolored illustration of a human skull with portions labeled “ghoul haiku,” “spectral sonnet,” “demonic drabble,” etc.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Happy birthday to Mary Shelley, born OTD in 1797! Manuscript page from Frankenstein, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Manuscript page from Frankenstein, courtesy Wikimedia Commons
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Actual photo of a reader enjoying an issue of tiny frights. (Source: The Thing #13, Charlton Comics, April 1954, story titled “Library of Horror”; art by Steve Ditko, lettering by Charlotte Jetter; no author credit I can find.)
Old comic book panel. A horrified man in a suit and tie sits in a library, reading a book by candlelight. Monsters tower over him, looking over his shoulder and reaching forward. The man says, “Good heavens! I’ve trespassed into the beyond—and there’s no escape!”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
What is your current social media strategy?
An illustration from the 1895 book Etidorhpa, with an old man surrounded by mysterious hooded figures in torchlight; one of the figures is showing the man a book or tablet.
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
Feeling cozy, rewatching a favorite classic.
A captioned still from the movie In the Mouth of Madness. John Trent (Sam Neill), in a straitjacket, an agonized expression on his face, says, “Oh, no. Not The Carpenters, too.”
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
Your occasional reminder that tiny frights is open for submissions thru Sept 30 for the Halloween issue: squoom.com/z/ (Source illustration by J. Augustus Knapp for the book Etidorhpa by John Uri Lloyd, 1896)
An elderly man being led by a naked, eyeless humanoid thru a rocky landscape with many giant hands pointing at them
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
Just a little summer break!
tiny frights podcast is on a brief hiatus. See you next week!
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 16/07/2024
Two recent used-book finds, one from Jackson Street Booksellers in Omaha, and one from Prospero’s Books in Kansas City.
The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allen Poe, illustrated by Gahan WilsonHorrors Unknown, edited by Sam Moskowitz (“Newly discovered masterpieces by great names in fantastic terror”)
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
Book mail takes some of the sting out of the water bill.
Three paperback books:
1. Macbeth: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, by Gareth Hinds
2. No One Will Come Back for Us and Other Stories, by Premee Mohamed
3. The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 09/06/2024
Your occasional reminder that tiny frights is open for submissions through September 30th for the Halloween issue. squoom.com/z/tfsubmissi...
an old illustration showing a woman guiding a giant floating skeleton hand thru an iron gate
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tiny frights @tinyfrights.bsky.social · 07/06/2024
Dr. Phibes
Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes
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