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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer

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27|🏳️‍🌈|she/her Fiction Editor @ Divination Mag 🔮 Pre-order: 'Sore Thumb' in SUFFERING THE OTHER from Dim Shores 👍🩸 OUT NOW: 'Here's One I Made Earlier' in SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION from Sliced Up Press 🖌️🫟 🚫GenAI🚫 ajsharpe.co.uk

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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I read Ring, so naturally I then watched Ring (1998) last night 📼👻 In some ways I prefer the book (the plot, other than the stupid 'twist') and in some ways I prefer the film (the characters, other than why would show your kids only other parent the death tape) 😭
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It looks so good 🤩 So hyped for this to come out and so proud to be a part of it ❤️
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Resident Evil was a very fun horror movie. Just an excellent time at the cinema! Austin Abrams was just a delight to watch, which I figured would be the case after his performance in Weapons (I also think he's good fun in Do Revenge)
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gonna have to turn down a short story acceptance because of a very wishy-washy AI policy. My bad for not looking at their already published stuff and just trusting a "no AI" bullet point in the open call. Sucks because I thought I'd finally found this tale a home 😭
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Applied to the only two jobs in the area that weren't joining the army, teaching, or carer. Please, get me out of food service🤞😭
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I feel like “unhinged” and “spicy” have both run their course. We can say other things.
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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Latinx Heritage Month spotlight on some of my recent books!
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A photo of Bernie Sanders with the text "I am once again asking for you to specify classic or modern Shunn format in your guidelines. Standard doesn't mean anything."
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
unifying in her belly
Jean Jacket unfurling across the desert behind OJ in Nope
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder, this weird fiction anthology is a benefit for Transgender Law Center and National Immigration Project. Pre-orders are fairly low so far, please share this link far and wide: dimshores.bigcartel.com/product/suff... (bit.ly/4x9WHJQ also works.)
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Suffering the Other (anthology)
**PRE-ORDER OPEN, EXPECTED TO SHIP IN OCTOBER** A new benefit anthology of dark weird fiction based on the concept of othering -- the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundam...
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just submitted the final files for SUFFERING THE OTHER, and I should have a proof in 7-10 days. If it looks good (and I expect it will), I’ll order the full print run. That would keep us on track for late September/early October shipping.
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Suffering the Other (anthology)
**PRE-ORDER OPEN, EXPECTED TO SHIP IN OCTOBER** A new benefit anthology of dark weird fiction based on the concept of othering -- the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundam...
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
£4 cinema tickets today so making a day of it and watching 3 films! - Coyote Vs. ACME (just watched, really enjoyed!) - The Hunger Games (bf hasn't seen it and I will be dragging him to SOTR so...) - Death of Robin Hood (not super hyped but at £4 I'm open to anything)
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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's Saturday morning! Nothing to watch on TV? Read this instead: 💀📺 sliceduppress.com/smt
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SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION
Paperback ISBN: 9798233846199 Ebook ISBN: 9798232030445 The house is quiet. Other worlds await. It’s Saturday morning and you’re alone with the TV. You turn it on, inviting all kinds of…
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Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 02/09/2026
hello. friends an announcement about THE DEADLANDS we are going on a brief hiatus but we'll back. oh yes full details here, please read and share widely, it'd help us out. xo the deadlands psychopomp.com/an-intermiss...
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An Intermission - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
Hello friends.
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hi, I'm A. J. Sharpe, or Joey works too. I write a random variety of horror depending on my mood 😎🤙 I keep getting videos of grizzly bears from Banff National Park and it makes me uneasy thinking how powerful they are and how they could rip me to shreds 🐻 Which makes no sense, as I live in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s Sapphic September and Bisexual Visibility Month which means I, a bisexual author, should talk about my two sapphic horror books! Carnalis is about cannibalism, the body in late capitalism, and toxic love. Green Fuse Burning is about grief, climate change, art, and avoidance.
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The 'Saturday Mourning Television' horror anthology from @sliceduppress.bsky.social is out now! You can find my short story 'Here's One I Made Earlier' inside 👀
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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
💀📺 IT'S RELEASE DAY! 📺💀 Tune in to 30 short stories and poems about early morning kid's TV in SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION Links to buy in paperback or ebook here: sliceduppress.com/smt
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SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION
RELEASE DATE: 31st AUGUST 2026 Paperback ISBN: 9798233846199 Ebook ISBN: 9798232030445 The house is quiet. Other worlds await. It’s Saturday morning and you’re alone with the TV. You tu…
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Luca Ponsato.
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10,000 Motivated Rats @bombsfall.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The AI as God thing really separates the actual antitheists from the posers. I will assemble friends and kill that computer as a service to our dignity as a species.
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just watched Is God Is and thoroughly enjoyed ❤️ Gorgeously stylised and so unique. Violently horrifying.
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Update to the update: proofreading is done and I am making the noted edits. Big thanks to Louis Housley and Phil Thompson for your quick and thorough work. We are on track to ship in late September. Pre-order is open: bit.ly/4x9WHJQ. International folks, please contact me directly to order.
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Suffering the Other (anthology)
**PRE-ORDER OPEN, EXPECTED TO SHIP IN OCTOBER** A new benefit anthology of dark weird fiction based on the concept of othering -- the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundam...
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Suffering the Other anthology is available to pre-order from @dimshores.bsky.social! You can find my horrible little body horror story 'Sore Thumb' inside, along with 27 other stories ❤️ Proceeds will be split between National Immigration Project & Transgender Law Center.
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The cat is out of the bag. Pre-order for SUFFERING THE OTHER is now open, with the book expected to ship in late September. I’m on my way back home from an incredible NecronomiCon, more about all this after I’ve recovered. #NecronomiCon #WeirdFiction #exhausted
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 13/08/2026
the ones who can't walk away because of the car dependent infrastructure of omelas
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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI - trained on second-generation human output, languages & images - can never be anything more than a copy of a copy, like a dubbed VHS tape, blurry & indistinct. But they're selling it to us as our new God.
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Christina (Tina) @christinashrugs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A pair of screenshots from an interview with British-Australian comedian, Miriam Margolyes, where she says "I worry about Harry Potter fans. Because they should be over that by now."
(For extra context, Margolyes appeared in the Harry Potter films as Professor Sprout)
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Who wore it better? #solareclipse #moleman
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Reminder: all proceeds are being split between Transgender Law Center and National Immigration Project. If you are a reviewer with a platform, and you are interested in reviewing this book, please get in touch!
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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Finally, some updates. All copyedits for SUFFERING THE OTHER have been rolled in, and we have a new ARC. A few last tweaks and some proofreading, then it will be ready for publication. I plan to open up pre-orders this week, with shipping in late September.
Two Advance Reader Copies of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER, next to a stack of small promo postcards advertising the book. The cover art (by Rew X) shows a magnificent many-tailed and winged golden creature soaring towards the upper right, while dozens of evil-looking snake creatures rain down towards the lower left. It is beautiful.

Suffering the Other – table of contents

16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name.

Nadia Bulkin -- Infested **
Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette **
Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories
Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart
Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C
Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face
Alexander Hay -- LEAD **
Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine
Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss
Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope
Laura Mauro -- Ptichka **
David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun
Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms
Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful **
A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb
Clint Smith -- “January Sick”
J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector **
Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege **
Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved
Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber
Pamela Weis -- An Abomination
A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives
Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert **

Cover art and design by RewX
Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
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Chris DiLeo @authordileo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Damn right.
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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Storyboard #6
Three storyboard panels

The first shows someone squeezing an upended paint bottle

The second shows their face looking frustrated, as they squeeze the bottle too hard

The third shows red paint (?) splattering upwards onto their face as they look dismayed, there is a direction noting that the audience is shocked as [REDACTED]
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You can learn more here: www.honorearth.org/nodatacenters
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No Data Centers Toolkit — Honor The Earth
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The HWA removed the author of the juvenile AI-boosting screed from her position on the board of trustees for posting the juvenile AI-boosting screed that they allowed her to post on their official newsletter. Righto. Baby steps, I guess.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.
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Regarding The Pro-AI Tantrum In The HWA Newsletter
Today I, and every other HWA member, received the HWA newsletter in our inboxes. In that newsletter was an essay (“essay”) of pro-AI propaganda that made a number of specious points in …
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
An illustration of a man stepping on a rake. Both the man and the rake are labeled HWA.
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Weirdpunk Books @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To the surprise of no one, the hwa included some very out of touch, incredibly ignorant, pro-ai shit in their newsletter. Fuck ai. Fuck the hwa. Fuck em all.
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
If I had a nickel for every time I've thought about maybe working towards joining the HWA, only for them to do something pro-genAI, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice, right?
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I love how there's "what, are we in grade school?" preceded and followed by juvenile raving to stop being divisive by caving to slop. The author who wrote this also has a slop "writing coach" she developed, so this is just use the newsletter as advertising for her grift. Waste of email space.
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?
“Sure. Sure.

Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Me, a few minutes ago: "Why, surely whatever is in the HWA newsletter can't be THAT bad." Oh yes. It can be that bad. What the actual fuck, @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social?
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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
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Bert SG @bertsellsgraves.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I'm excited for this antho and you should be, too, and also this is a picture of my front porch that I took with my friends, and yes it is always this spooky at my house.
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Sliced Up Press @sliceduppress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Starting this weekend, the final countdown begins for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION (out 31st August in case you didn't know!) Instead of our usual one-a-day story snippets, we're trying something a little more TV-related and...weird. See you tomorrow (or Sunday) 👀💀📺 sliceduppress.com/smt
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SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION
RELEASE DATE: 31st AUGUST 2026 Paperback ISBN: 9798233846199 Ebook ISBN: 9798232030445 The house is quiet. Other worlds await. It’s Saturday morning and you’re alone with the TV. You tu…
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Hyped to say that my short story 'Pre-order Now' will be featured in the 'Side Hustle' horror anthology from @agitapublishing.bsky.social
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
OK, that was fun. Sixteen amazing authors are joining Lauren Bolger, Poppy Z. Brite, and Mae Murray in SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM. Coming in March 2027.
Broadmoor, Cardigan
Brown, Sasha
DeHaan, Laura
Dimaro, Felix
Fahmy, Yasmeen
Fleck, Jennifer
Hertzberg, Nick
Linardos, Akis
Masterson, Casey
Murray, Mae
Osha, Jorja
Sharpe, AJ
Sturges-Brown, Michelle
Teng, Emily
Warlen, Kristina
Whalen, Andrew
Wiggins, K.A.
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"FOR SALE: 3 x polaroid photos F – 24 – White – Blonde hair, brown eyes – Size: Plum" A.J. Sharpe is joining SIDE HUSTLE: HORROR STORIES FOR LATE CAPITALISM with "Pre-Order Now." Coming in March 2027.
On the left is the cover of the book, depicting masked figures holding bloody food delivery bags. On the right is a photo of the author with name and title.
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A. J. Sharpe | Horror Writer @undeadmind.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm in this 👇👇👇
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
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