Steve Toase

I do have a story called Dental Hygiene which probably wouldn't have been much better...

Thank you so much to @runalongwomble.bsky.social for a wonderful review of Crawl Space!

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BOOK LAUNCH! Our second anthology, _Horrific Scribes Presents: Rulemakers and Rulebreakers (26 Works of Order and Chaos)_ is available today wherever fine e-books are sold!

The best place to download? It's FEATURED ON GODLESS!!!
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The cover of Remains 4 showing a woman dressed in white making a hushing sound.

The TOC for Remains issue 4 novelette Heavyness by Seán Padraic Birnie short stories Hearsten Lake by Kay Vaindal Station to Station by Stephen Bacon Development Conversation by Stephen Hargadon The Baby by Annie Neugebauer Scissors, Paper, Rock by Craig Bernardini The Block by Steve Toase The Return of Benny Storax by John Possidente plus Letters From New America by James Sallis 2. Minding the Garden

A hand holding open Remains issue 4, showing the title page for my story, The Block

Now landed in the Franconian Forest - the latest issue of @remainsmagazine.bsky.social containing my story The Block about a dark shadow of The Bauhaus movement, and the aftermath of their experiments.

Go preorder this Crawlspace too! Then you can have a set.

Ha! Yes, I noticed that on Amazon and then saw how many other books have the same title in the past. There’s one or two…

Good luck with the launch. Just read the description and it looks like a fantastic story!

I love the cover for my book! And all the others here :)

Project Repoman 9 – The Hired Hand There’s no video of the Alex Cox introduction, but here’s a transcript. “In 1968, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Bob Rafelson and Henry Jaglom made Easy Rider, t…

Halfway through the first season of Moviedrome!

Today's #projectrepoman post is about The Hired Hand, an acid western from 1971, starring and directed by Peter Fonda, fresh off the success of Easy Rider.

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An excellent thread from Alex here, looking at one of classic Great Army find types. I'm going to be posting a lot more about these weights very soon...

Young woman holding a screaming child with captions: "How can a single night wear you down so much? I was finished."

Sleeping woman holding sleeping baby and sleeping axe, with onlooker saying: "But I do know not to wake a sleeping baby... and especially not the axe-wielding maniac she's sleeping on."

Woman screaming: "Mothers are just people!! Weare all people!!! Auugghhh!"

Cover of Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best, showing a woman with a grandma bracelet, hands covered in blood, holding a bloodied knife.

With Mother's Day coming up in the UK, may I suggest getting your mum or grandmother friend a cathartic copy of Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best? She probably has enough candles.

“A fast-paced read full of action and human drama.” ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY “A haunting, propulsive odyssey across the ruins of our solar system.” CYNTHIA PELAYO “A thrilling journey.” AI JIANG “A roaring whirlwind of a novel.” DAVID QUANTICK

Don't just take my word for it...

They got thrown randomly into a playlist, and they fit perfectly with the type of music I like when I'm writing fiction - nothing too distracting or intense, but not bland. Lovely stuff.

If you're here, then I probably don't need to tell you, but love and support artists, because they deserve your love and support for making life better. 9/9

The cover of The Bone Weaver's Orchard by Sarah Read, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

The Bone Weaver's Orchard by @inkwellmonster.bsky.social 8/9

The cover of Violent Vixens, an Homage to Grindhouse Horror, edited by Aric Sundquist, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

Violent Vixens, edited by Aric Sundquist 7/9

The cover of the Best of Both Worlds by S. P. Miskowski, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

The Best of Both Worlds by @spmiskowski.bsky.social 6/9

The cover of Haunted Ecologies by Corey Farrenkopf, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

Haunted Ecologies by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social 5/9

The cover of Out of Water by Sarah Read, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

Out of Water by @inkwellmonster.bsky.social 4/9

The cover of The Worst is Yet to Come by S.P. Miskowksi, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

The Worst is Yet to Come by @spmiskowski.bsky.social 3/9

The cover of The Deer Kings by Wendy N. Wagner, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

The Deer Kings by @wnwagner.bsky.social 2/9

The cover of Crawl Space by Steve Toase, with artwork by Mikio Murakami

As Crawl Space is now out (available to order from @journalstone.bsky.social ;) ) I wanted to highlight the wonderful cover by Mikio Murakami, and some of their other amazing art. Obviously, you should also go and check out these books. 1/9

Just discovered Fever Ray, so today's work is to a soundtrack of Fever Ray. Probably tomorrow's too.

We'll be running a lively day of online folk horror writing, with a series of workshops and interviews with STRANGE AS FOLK on the 9th May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #folkhorror #folklore #horror #writing #writers #authors #fiction #books

Was it the Nick Cave Version?

Part 1/2 of a 4-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel shows the Fairy Godmother and Cinderella in a room with a pumpkin on a dresser. The Fairy Godmother says "and with my magic, Cinderella, that pumpkin will turn into a carriage when the sun sets." Intrigued, Cinderella asks "wait. So... Tonight... That pumpkin suddenly expands to twenty times it's size?" When the Fairy Godmother replies yes, Cinderella continues "and then at midnight it shrinks back and just looks like pumpkin? Like regular old pumpkin. Like anyone who saw it would say 'that's just a pumpkin?'" The fairy Godmother inquires "right. Why?"

Part 2/2 of a 4-panel SMBC comic update. In the final panel, Cinderella is insistingly serving roast squash to her step family, saying "have some more roast squash, beloved stepmother." With the stepmother replying "Oh, maybe just one more bite."

Actually there's probably a medieval German version that makes this one look pleasant.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pumpkin
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Last promo today, just popping this up again. Online a few more weeks. Very kind of Undertow to make it available temporarily. If it it intrigues you, you can support the indie publisher and maybe grab a book (any book! they're all killer. so many killer collections). Ty.

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A lot of great collections. A.C. Wise. Premee Mohamed. Cassandra Khaw. Seán Padraic Birnie. Simon Strantzas. Michael Kelly. Priya Sharma. Steve Toase. Tobi Ogundiran. If you read all of them something unlocks in your brain, I promise.

It was a great day, finished off by going out for food :)

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