'Nuff Said.

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"The King in Yellow Wallpaper" 😂 #horror #horrorfiction #weirdlit #writingcommunity

Too excited about my latest #BookHaul to not share it -

AMBER and ELRIC hardcover collections from eBay

BEST OF C.L. MOORE and IN A LONELY PLACE from The Green Hand, Portland, ME

JIREL OF JOIRY and the PRYDAIN series from ThriftBooks

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Happy 115th Birthday, K. Ungeheuer! This is K. at age 2 in 1910 #horror #weirdlit #weirdtales #horrorfiction #surrealism

#365Stories in 2023 - 48/365
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"The Autopsy" (1980)
by Michael Shea

Increasingly strange events plague the town of Bailey, culminating with an explosion in the mines beneath the town. Dr. Carl Winters, a terminally-ill pathologist, arrives to conduct autopsies on the victims of the explosion.

Shea blends cosmic horror with elements of science fiction in this tale of otherworldly possession.

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#365Stories in 2023 - 47/365
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"Frontier Death Song" (2012)
by Laird Barron

During the 1992 Iditarod, a racer witnesses as Graham, a fellow competitor, is caught and killed by the Wild Hunt. Two decades later, Graham returns as the new incarnation of the Huntsman, giving the racer three days to live.

Barron, a former Iditarod competitor himself, updates the Wild Hunt folklore motif with this story of survival against the odds.

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Exciting news for readers of Laird Barron and his ISAIAH COLERIDGE series; a new novella, THE WIND BEGAN TO HOWL, is coming this spring from Bad Hand Books.

Additionally, the publisher is forgoing their share of the profits for the first 30 days of preorders, to assist Barron as he recovers from a recent illness.

For many, myself included, this will be a day-one preorder.

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https://badhandbooks.com/store/the-wind-began-to-howl-paperback

hi, #writers. coffin bell journal is open for submissions through 6/30!

our theme for this issue? MALICIOUS EDITIONS. haunted books, evil poems, gruesome recipes, a magazine article that drives its readers to murder, a swingers resort brochure that's actually a curse, etc.

submission guidelines found at https://coffinbell.com/submit/

#coffinbell #coffinbelljournal #darklit #horror #speclit #weirdlit #weirdfiction #submissioncall #litmag

hi, #writers. coffin bell journal is open for submissions through 6/30!

our theme for this issue? MALICIOUS EDITIONS. haunted books, evil poems, gruesome recipes, a magazine article that drives its readers to murder, a swingers resort brochure that's actually a curse, etc.

submission guidelines found at https://coffinbell.com/submit/

#coffinbell #coffinbelljournal #darklit #horror #speclit #weirdlit #weirdfiction #submissioncall #litmag

Due to some Amazon weirdness, I have two (2) free Kindle editions of "The Cockroach of the Dada Movement" for the first two people to comment

NOTE: this coupon can only be redeemed in the US Kindle Store. I will DM you directly for the email for delivery. The coupon can be sent to any email address, so if you already own a copy you can gift it to any friend

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hello #readers and/or #writers:

i wanted to make sure 1) #BearCreekGazette is on your radar and let you know that 2) they're currently running a kickstarter to fund TWO upcoming #anthologies. both take place in the town of bear creek.

as a former resident, i can tell you that this town is [redacted] because of what happened when [redacted] [redacted] beneath the silvery-white [redacted] until the screams became whispers.

#bookstodon #weirdlit #speclit

join us: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearcreekanthologies/two-bear-creek-hardback-anthologies?ref=project_link

hello #readers and/or #writers:

i wanted to make sure 1) #BearCreekGazette is on your radar and let you know that 2) they're currently running a kickstarter to fund TWO upcoming #anthologies. both take place in the town of bear creek.

as a former resident, i can tell you that this town is [redacted] because of what happened when [redacted] [redacted] beneath the silvery-white [redacted] until the screams became whispers.

#bookstodon #weirdlit #speclit

join us: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bearcreekanthologies/two-bear-creek-hardback-anthologies?ref=project_link

#365Stories in 2023 - 26/365
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“Perchance to Dream” (1958)
by Charles Beaumont

Philip Hall, having been awake for 72 hours, explains to a psychiatrist why he’s afraid to fall asleep.

While better known as a screenwriter, Beaumont was just as capable of grabbing a reader’s attention with his short stories; including this one, which was later adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone.

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Extremely saddened to hear of the death of writer Paul La Farge. His novel The Night Ocean is a favorite from the last decade. Different but worthwhile is his story Rosendale. I have been waiting for new stuff from him ever since. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/rosendale #weirdlit #paullafarge

The new issue of Weird Tales arrived.
Issue 366. Such a pleasure to get something like this in 2023, in its 100th year of publication. The binding and thickness, 128 pgs, gives it the durability and value of a paperback anthology.

I just wish I could of contributed a story illustration.

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Latest read, The Spider (1915) by Hans Heinz Ewer. The tenants of room 7 hang themselves, even a policeman taking the room after the first suicides. Then a skeptical medical student bluffs his way in and things get weird.
This is fantastic HOWEVER Ewer, because he "dalled with" Nazism-- even though he balked at their treatment of Jews & homosexuals (and the Nazis later destroyed his life)--is a forgotten writer (that's a lesson about fascism)
66 of #400FantasyStories #WeirdLit #ShortStory #books

Latest read, The Spider (1915) by Hans Heinz Ewer. The tenants of room 7 hang themselves, even a policeman taking the room after the first suicides. Then a skeptical medical student bluffs his way in and things get weird.
This is fantastic HOWEVER Ewer, because he "dalled with" Nazism-- even though he balked at their treatment of Jews & homosexuals (and the Nazis later destroyed his life)--is a forgotten writer (that's a lesson about fascism)
66 of #400FantasyStories #WeirdLit #ShortStory #books

@soalexgoes Not sure why I've been reluctant to boost, but this is my first one. When I first started exploring Mastodon I searched #weird and found #weirdlit and then this story.

#storyoftheweek: THE RIDER, by #brianevenson. published in the incomparable WEIRD HORROR MAGAZINE (@Undertow)

a man in need. a quiet, quiet, quiet suburb. a family, or something like it, settling down for dinner.

#weirdliterature #weirdlit #weirdhorror #horror #shortstory #shortfiction

https://www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/the-rider

#storyoftheweek: THE RIDER, by #brianevenson. published in the incomparable WEIRD HORROR MAGAZINE (@Undertow)

a man in need. a quiet, quiet, quiet suburb. a family, or something like it, settling down for dinner.

#weirdliterature #weirdlit #weirdhorror #horror #shortstory #shortfiction

https://www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/the-rider