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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🩸 She comes for your blood. 🩸

ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They buried the lede! Author list for issue one: Seán Padraic Birnie, Brian Evenson, K. Wallace King, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Steve Toase, and Ben Tufnell. More weird, more horror, more weird horror is never a bad thing.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some inspiring words for your Tuesday evening.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is gonna be a great class for newish writers of horror who want to start publishing! Can’t recommend Eric enough

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am always grateful to have been raised on a steady diet of Nintendo games and street fighter. Last night I picked up Hades 2 and was able to beat the first boss on my first try after only having died three times total. #classicallytrained

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why, what made you guess I was an official card-carrying Tenebrous Press cult member? @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

Copies of brave, new, weird and skull and Laurel among stickers

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you haven’t read this collection, it’s one of my favorites in recent years.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👁️ Down with the panopticon. 👁️

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My story is now free-to-read on @trollbreathmag.bsky.social! Purple fog, paramilitary violence, and a woman who thinks performing 'blood metal' can transform the world. Hope you check it out along with the other stories in here!

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Hey everyone, my story for this ballooned to 7500 words and then I realized I had chosen the wrong POV / character to narrate the action through. Oops. Needless to say I won’t be hitting the deadline in one week but I encourage you all to submit to this anthology. It’s gonna be awesome!

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That's me with fellow @trollbreathmag.bsky.social #9 author Katherine Quevedo at WorldCon, attending (unsurprisingly) a panel on slipstream writing. Check out her sword & sorcery story "Shades of Bruises and Blood" and my own weird horror "Gael's Severed Eye," w/purple fog, parricide, & cute cat.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A visionary Labor Day message brought to you by your friends, the Wobblies

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I often do find myself overexplaining things. Trying more and more to pull myself back from this tendency. Better to reign in weirdness than serve in exposition.

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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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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Since other people are already talking 2027 releases, guess it's time for my niche: here is a post for listing out weird fiction publishing next year. Readers, writers, presses, publicists, whoever, let me know what's what.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Honored to return to "Trollbreath. My story is about parricide, stray cats, state-sponsored kidnappings, a mysterious purple fog, and a woman who believes making 'blood metal' music can change the world. 3 cups dark & weird with a quarter teaspoon of humor and hope. Stir and enjoy!

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PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Heng, Rachel. THE GREAT RECLAMATION. Riverhead Books, 2023

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think today is always my favorite day of the semester. Teaching the 18 and 19-year-olds about wage labor, surplus value, and capitalism.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

WorldCon is in LA area this year, so I'll be going Fri, Sat, Sun. Most of the talks I'm going to are about workers rights, cannibalism, non-Western horror, or the earth blowing up. Happy to meet up with fellow speculative weirdos; send me a DM. Extensive LA food recommendations upon request.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is gonna be a super interesting anthology. Getting my submission ready next week!

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just sold a story (can't say where yet). Now, time to burn through my earnings.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reminder we have 6 of our eBooks on sale from $2 to $4. Check it out. Grab a bargain. undertowpublications.com/ebooks

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EBOOKS — Undertow Publications

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"“Even if I had $26 million,” said Huddleston, “I’d want to sit here in my chair, and have my coffee and eat my food where I always do.”" This single sentence says so, so much. ✊💜 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

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The ‘Country Hicks’ Who Refused $26 Million from an AI Data Center

A Kentucky mother and daughter turned down a life-changing offer for their farmland. The ensuing drama has left the town divided.

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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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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/08/2026

Just crossed the terminal: Microsoft disclosures suggest that OpenAI is about 70% of AI sales! If only someone had said something

MICROSOFT DISCLOSURES SUGGEST OPENAI IS ABOUT 7)% OF AI SALES

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When @thomasha.bsky.social drops a new story: www.youtube.com/shorts/5-NCP... Check out the Borgesian-Kafkian-Poeian mashup that is: "Our Revels Are Now Ended" clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_07_26/

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If there were car reactions in the 1800s 👀 #shorts | when Beethoven dropped...😂

YouTube video by Cover Nation

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Check it out! That's me down there on the cover for Issue 9 of Trollbreath. My story "Gael's Severed Eye" is all about parricide, stray cats, state-sponsored kidnappings, and a woman who wants to make a new genre of music, blood metal, with the power to transform the world.

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Ea-nāṣir @jedgarnaut.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You know, there is someone for everyone. Before there was a posse, there were just separate insane clowns out there wandering, but somehow they met up. Makes you think.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

After giving it some thought, I figure there's never going to be a perfect time to open for horror/Weird fic collection submissions. Why not now while my job is still in a slow period? If you're BIPOC and/or queer, I'm especially interested in reading your work: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN NOW UNTIL FILLED) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. The submi…

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Going to Minneapolis in two weeks with a Boundary Waters trip thrown in! While in the Cities, would love to check out bookstores, events and chat with any writer folks out there. Any interesting stuff going on August 8-16?

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Sometimes there is actual good news in the universe

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy BNW release day to all authors @tenebrouspress.bsky.social and thanks to @seizethepress.bsky.social for originally publishing “Avila Beach,” my story of a town awash in severed limbs & teenagers with no future. If you take your fiction with a tablespoon (gallon?) of weird this is for you!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

👽💀Into the Weird we go once again💀👽 BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4, is OUT NOW! 23 of the finest & Weirdest stories of 2025. Congrats to all this year's winners🖤☠️ Get BRAVE NEW WEIRD wherever books are sold, or direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com

Red and black graphic box featuring cover art by Matt Blairstone; a human form seated, one hand on a book emblazoned with the Tenebrous skull & laurel. Where the screen cuts from red to black, the flesh is stripped from the human, exposing its skeleton. It thrusts its harm into the air, transforming into a death's head moth. It looks pretty cool.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Great advice from a great writer.

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I just backed this! Only five days left and they’re 70% of the way there. Do consider backing it if you wanna see more great fiction from Khoreo

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Thrilled to see Locus's 'Year's Best' fund in a day. Reminder that our little 'Best Of' could use some pre-order love, as well. If you're able and inclined. We think it's pretty good. You might, as well. undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

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The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications

Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in ...

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Honored to be in this collection among 22 other certified weirdos! Out July 14

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Meet @zddochterman.bsky.social, BRAVE NEW WEIRD winner🖤☠️ When severed limbs start washing up on shore, the city of Avila Beach blames a group of teen outsiders. They'll have to confront Minotaurs, carnivorous plants & cops to figure out not only who's behind the carnage, but how to get justice. ⬇️

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A great summary by the folks @tenebrouspress.bsky.social of my story "Avila Beach" that kickoffs 2026's "Brave New Weird" *A wave of body parts washing up on shore, an investigation by corrupt cops, and the wrath of the Minotaur* July 14th, get it here: store.tenebrouspress.com?utm_source=s...

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Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror

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

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If this cover Art speaks to you just imagine how much you’re gonna like the stories

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

if your vibe is bleak, horrifying, and weird, you probably already know… And if you don’t know, now you know

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

NEW: The scariest part of Backrooms is how eerily well it maps onto our capitalist world of hostile liminality, argues @rsbenedict.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/hostile-arch...

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Hostile Architecture: Late Capitalism and Backrooms

The scariest thing about Backrooms is that we already live there.

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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New Em Liu!

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Loads of excellent Weird fiction on sale right here. Some of the best out there, of you ask me. Hail the Sale. Hail 10p 💀🤘💜

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ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If you think 2020s internet culture is harsh, imagine getting on Poe's bad side: "With rare exception...we have had no American tales of high merit. We have had no skilful compositions...Of twattle called tale-writing we have had, perhaps, more than enough." - 1842 www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/...

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Poe's Review of Twice-Told Tales, April, 1842

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe's Review of Twice-Told Tales, April, 1842

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