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Authors Carson Winter and P.L. McMillan languish in the woes and joys of being horror writers. Come join us as we chat craft, movies, books, and more! 😀 Deadlanguagespodcast.com πŸ₯΅ patreon.com/DeadLanguagesPodcast

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New episode! This week we’re hunkering down and talking about Apocalypse Horror!

open.spotify.com/episode/3Wpy...

11.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This week, we're talking Regional Horror! open.spotify.com/episode/2Hd8...

04.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bored office workers discover a reality distortion that makes some days don't count. Uh oh.

Grab SOFT TARGETS from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social

26.02.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

For no reason, just posting this here as a reminder that art doesn’t need to be owned by a corporation and sold and conglomerated for billions.

Support indie art. It is (almost literally) the only art that remainsπŸ–€β˜ οΈ

store.tenebrouspress.com

26.02.2026 23:57 πŸ‘ 201 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 5

Listen to @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social for such gems as:

some books are "built from the comps up" and "value familiarity over innovation"

and

"Wuthering Heights the movie. 50 Shades of Grey meets Crimson Peak"

25.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Has Carson gone too far??? Can the horror community survive the heat of his hot takes about mainstream horror? Listen here to find out: open.spotify.com/episode/68pJ...

25.02.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This week on Dead Languages we’re talking BUG HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!

open.spotify.com/episode/0QYY...

18.02.2026 15:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Flash Competition 2026 free flash competition

10 more days to submit to this free competition for women writers! Good luck everyone!
theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/flash-comp...

18.02.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This interview was so fun! So happy to learn about PLM's special interest in fairy tales, and v excited the idea of either @ivygrimes.bsky.social or @carsonwinter.bsky.social writing a Pied Piper X J R0gan retelling. I NEED TO READ THIS
(Pied Piper is one of my faves too πŸ‘€)

13.02.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks to Carson Winter and PLM for having me on their podcast to gossip about fairy tales and stuff!

11.02.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

This week we’re talking fairy tales with @ivygrimes.bsky.social! Check out the new DL here: open.spotify.com/episode/3lGx...

11.02.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Episode 139: Our 2026 Writing Resolutions Spotify video

What are your writing resolutions this year?

open.spotify.com/episode/7jen...

05.02.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

*don’t mind us, just clearing off a couple more genitalia-sized spaces on the mantle *
πŸ–€β˜ οΈ

28.01.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to say FEEDING THE WHEEL has earned a Cummie Award for the "novels are too long" novella category. I say this without hyperbole; this is the height of my writing career. Extremely honored and grateful. I am going to turn my vagina statuette into a rapper chain and wear it to formal events

28.01.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Episode 138: The Winners of the Second Annual Cummies Spotify video

This is it! The winners of the Cummies are announced here!

open.spotify.com/episode/6Ik2...

28.01.2026 15:07 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Dead Languages is back for a recap of our favorite books we read from the last half of 2025. open.spotify.com/episode/0Krl...

21.01.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Alright, I did the Year in Review thing. Bad year? Or good year with bad expectations? You be the judge.

mailchi.mp/b541c2a43694...

29.12.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Cummies Award Final Ballot Born from the bowels of your favorite irreverent horror writing podcast, the Dead Languages crew is proud to present the first annual Cummies Award! After a month long round of nominations, we've no...

Last chance to vote for the 2025 Cummies finalists!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

28.12.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cummies Award Final Ballot Born from the bowels of your favorite irreverent horror writing podcast, the Dead Languages crew is proud to present the first annual Cummies Award! After a month long round of nominations, we've no...

These Cummies aren't gonna vote for themselves... I was taking a look at the back end and we have a couple of ties that need to be broken.

Come on and vote for the dumbest award in horrorlit: forms.gle/J2KVcpWcb8tu...

23.12.2025 15:40 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

Reminder that if you can't afford an artist, you can create the cover yourself. @carsonwinter.bsky.social painted his own cover.
Not only was it free, but it's also completely unique and representative of him as an artist and author.
No AI, no stealing, no excuses, no slop.
It's that easy.

18.12.2025 19:34 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We do not support AI generated writing OR art here at the Tower and will accept neither as submissions.

The Tower craves souls. AI is a hollow shell. It would be like feeding a dog nothing but pizza crust; sure, they might act like they want it, but it causes nothing but farts and pancreatitis...

16.12.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.

"I can't afford a visual artist"

So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?

Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

16.12.2025 19:42 πŸ‘ 6514 πŸ” 2011 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 138

ICYMI, The Barre Incidents is nominated for a Cummie, and voting is open through the end of December!! If you want to try and help me earn a gorgeous, colorful dick sculpture, this is your *one* chance.

08.12.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cummies Award Final Ballot Born from the bowels of your favorite irreverent horror writing podcast, the Dead Languages crew is proud to present the first annual Cummies Award! After a month long round of nominations, we've no...

NMH has a song w/ the lyric β€œSemen stains the mountaintop,” therefore, I’m legally obligated to ask you to vote for the anthology I edited AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE: STRANGE STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL in @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social’s Cummies Awards for Best Anthology. Vote!

04.12.2025 23:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Vote for scrote! Errr...the Cummies!

01.12.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

FEEDING THE WHEEL IS UP FOR A CUMMIE AWARD! Yes I realize this probably puts me on several watch lists, but I'll gleefully spend my life waving hello to the plumbing van with the satellite dish on it that'll be parked in front of my house if it means winning a little clay genitals statuette for FtW

01.12.2025 19:03 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cummies Award Final Ballot Born from the bowels of your favorite irreverent horror writing podcast, the Dead Languages crew is proud to present the first annual Cummies Award! After a month long round of nominations, we've no...

The Cummies Final Ballot has been announced! This is the greatest literary prize in horror, because we said so. Please vote through December on the winner here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

01.12.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6
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Episode 136: Ho-Ho-Holiday Horror Spotify video

As is tradition, @authorplm.bsky.social and @carsonwinter.bsky.social are taking December off to regroup for the new year! Our last episode of the season is up today, featuring Luciano Marano talking with us about holiday horror!

open.spotify.com/episode/2MOm...

26.11.2025 15:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 135: Final Girls Spotify video

This week on the Dead Languages Podcast we’re talking Final Girls! Grand horror tradition or tired, sexist trope????

open.spotify.com/episode/3J8x...

19.11.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0