Art by • Rain Valenzuela

ergot. innovative + experimental horror

If you like to sample a book before you read it, check out @spicycloaca.bsky.social's story "Aberration," which is told from the perspective of a possessive house interacting with a disabled tenant. If you like it, pick up Gore Poetics from our store!
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The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

Kaleidotrope re-opens next week to fiction and poetry submissions.

Kaleidotrope is *currently* open to artwork submissions.

kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

really good images of the model of NYC they made for the hudsucker proxy from an old issue of cinefex

a stylized 3d render of a realistically proportioned hare and a cute little bunny running at night.

princes with a thousand enemies

Congrats to the shortlisted authors!!

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, edited by Marissa van Uden Cover Art by Marcela Bolívar Cover Design by Mikio Murakami

We're over the moon to reveal the cover of Violet Lichen's second annual eco anthology edited by @marissavu.bsky.social 🌙✨🪐

ECO25: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION, blooming onto bookshelves November 17!

Cover Art by @tropicalgloom.bsky.social
Cover Design by Mikio Murakami, Silent Q Design

A pen and ink drawing of a strange city, a place of old buildings, stairs, ladders, and industrial works.

The art god commanded me to finish it tonight. I don’t have a title. (Fountain pen on paper.)

'The Queen of the Southern Kingdom had six husbands; a seventh was needed. Aged, ugly, and fatigued with life, the queen would have gladly remained without the seventh.'
- The Night Wife by Carole McDonnell. Art by Luke McDonnell.
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This is a blurred image of a collage with one clear image spotlight floating in it. In the spotlight, a pearl and the end of a speculum are visible.

collection collage 10/19—🦪⛓️👶

"The weight of all my seeded wombs shoved together makes a pressure so heavy that it almost explodes me in half."

Gore Poetics (@cursedmorsels.bsky.social) debuts April 14th

Today I get to join the coolest club in flash: people published in Had!

A flash about a memory of a family reunion of a recording of a

[A stack of books on a fence post with bright white dogwood blossoms in the background (bottom to top): DUNE MESSIAH by Frank Herbert, A YEAR WITH THE SEALS by Alex Morris, THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANDSDALE, THE MEMORY OF THE OGISI by Moses Ose Utomi, THE FAREWITCH OF FOXE HOLLER by Ellen Pauley Goff, OWLS OF THE EASTERN ICE by Jonathan C. Slaght, TIME'S AGENT by Brenda Peynado, CYBERSCION by Thomas Bulen Jacobs.]

It's Mailbag Monday! This week we have some top notch novellas, zoology by air and by sea, a long-awaited classic, some highly anticipated short stories, and a fantasy debut set right here in Kentucky! I'm so excited to dig in. What looks good to you??

Alice, blowing out the pilot light, and walking away:

I just finished Ivy Grimes' THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR and absolutely loved it. Creepy, absurd, and poignant. Recommended for fans of weird fiction with complex themes and lots of voice.

Depluralize a movie:
A thing in a place somewhere one time.

Press Release - Violet Lichen Acquires They Call the Place Wild by Rae For Immediate Release 4/3/2026 Lexington, KY: Violet Lichen Books is excited to announce the acquisition of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by Rae Mariz. Pitched as Richard Powers’ THE OVERSTORY meets the Br...

Violet Lichen Books is excited to announce the acquisition of THEY CALL THE PLACE WILD by @raemariz.bsky.social! 🐦‍⬛🌳🔪

Richard Powers’ THE OVERSTORY meets the Brothers Grimm in this lush dark fantasy, a masterfully woven love letter to refugees, the natural world, and folklore.

Been dying to make this Violet Lichen announcement! We have acquired an absolute gem of a novella by the amazing Rae Mariz. It's a stunner - you're gonna love it ✨🌿🖤🌿✨

Art by • Luke Eidenschink

Anathema: Spec from the Margins Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world!

Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

Please support Anathema's return and the revival of a space for queer writers of colour!

vertical image of a still retention basin and sunlit sky. the sky is split starkly down the middle, clear on the left, gray clouds on the right, sun at the center. the cloud line is reflected perfectly on the basin surface below the horizon. photo by Lindsay Schiel NEORSD

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock.

straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I

Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.

A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

I dug my teeth in!!!!

Samir Sirk Morató's short story collection "Gore Poetics" with a purple gloved hand touching the corner surrounded by meat

What beauty @spicycloaca.bsky.social and @cursedmorsels.bsky.social have wrought

Graphic shows Gore Poetics by Samir Sirk Morató and the bonus FLESH zine. Strange, erotic, and transgressive stories of intimacy and annihilation! Free bonus zine of fleshy and bizarre poems, stories, and nightmares! Preorders open now!

Gore Poetics is less than a month away! Preorder your copy from the Cursed Morsels store and get a bonus free FLESH zine.
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Digital art, my work. A monstrous women with claws and a wolf head taking over her human face

FERAL- 2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED