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v good way to put it.

Shout out to @ivygrimes.bsky.social for a truly phenomenal piece of writing with The Cellar Below the Cellar, creating a soft Southern Gothic apocalypse digging its fingers into the raw, rich dirt of life.

A fairy tale for our fallen age, with teeth & heart to spare & great depths below the surface

Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications

If you're reading for the Hugo Awards, please consider @thomasha.bsky.social 's "Uncertain Sons" in the Novelette category. Thank you. You can read the story here:

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Shifty Lee and the ravishing Collins lead Don Sharps superb psychological ghost story. Tautly directed with creepy flair to spare. A spine-chilling gem. 1974.
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Tag yourself; I’m definitely in the tiny house surrounded by wolves on issue 7

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

The Talosite - EPUB — Undertow Publications Cover art by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich ePub Format It's 1916, during the First World War, in an alternate world where resurrection is possible. Anne Markham, the daughter of a celebrated neurologist, is...

Women in Horror Month continues. Today's spotlight is @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social's novella The Talosite.

He was made of copper wire and electrical sparks and aethereal fluid and hyphae ... emerging in the mist of dawn. Resurrection is possible. A

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I need all the help I can get!

@danielmiller.bsky.social can you start playing this again because I need someone to coach me through it

cheering myself up by getting absolutely murdered on TLOU Factions

looking at people who have the motivation to, say, sit up, as if they are members of some alien species.

Stupidly thought it might help amid a cfs relapse.

I think I'm now at five weeks of caffeine withdrawal. ADHD-I circus of symptoms in overdrive. A very clever move from me, a person with a history of clever moves.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

same!

It’s a great anthology. I read much of it years ago, but, in a paralysis of indecision about what to read next, decided to reread it. There’s a second volume as well, although I’m not too sure where it is.

(…but missed the class on alt-text, clearly: picture on the left is the front cover of BLACK WATER: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature, edited by Alberto Manguel; on the right, the back cover.)

Going back to school.

Front cover of Paradise by Ben Tufnell, published by Influx Press. Cover shows a dense forest under an apocalyptic sky.

I was just wondering what to read next when this popped through the door. Will read straightaway! @bentufnell.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social

At the Malarkey table at #AWP, I was describing Sheldon’s book as Canadian working-class surrealism, which is almost but not quite right. Think you can do better? Buy a copy and read it!

#OtD 8 Mar 1918 women in Austria celebrated International Women's Day on this date for the first time as thousands took to the streets protesting WWI. The date commemorated women protesting in Russia the previous year (pic), beginning the revolution. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1082...

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Thanks, Colleen. That's really interesting. v slow increases seem to be the way. I'm on a high dose of duloxetine which has helped with pain, but during recent relapses had some of the worst cognitive symptoms I've had. Curious if LDN might help with that side of it.

Cover for Counterpoint Press issue of THIN PLACES. Art by Stephen Mackey shows a veiled figure in white gown at a window.

Women in Horror Month continues. In 2020 we published @kaychronister.bsky.social 's remarkable THIN PLACES. When our rights expired, Counterpoint Press reissued it with 4 bonus stories. I urge you all—if you haven't—to pick up a copy of these beguiling and bewitching tales. Kay's work is amazing.

issue 12 of Weird Horror magazine sitting among some baby books on a pile of blankets and pillows.

Some very welcome new reading material courtesy of @undertow.bsky.social.

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@raynewman.bsky.social has a new collection out this year, but before then, Municipal Gothic and Intervals of Darkness can already be yours to invoke troubled dreams (but, you know, the fun kind)

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Kafka may be the most important writer of the twentieth century, far more important than James Joyce.

Licking my fingers and sticking them in the wall socket just to rule it out