I saw Joe’s writing recently described as ‘transcendental, baroque, lyrical alchemy’. Wingspan was my first encounter with it and it altered my brain chemistry. Love seeing this book still getting traction and now an audiobook years later.
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
April 6, 2026 —remember that time with the family when we all got together and it was wonderful until Guan Un the boys started arguing about whose turn on the ATV and it’s so hard now to gather now with all the babies in the AV room but Uncle Davey is upset no one wants to see this footage—back from when they were younger than you are now—then when He held the camcorder in smoother hands—and he presses play and pixels tide across the screen—small children wave and shade their eyes against the light—and then so soon it’s over, everyone gets up but Aunty Cindy lies on the couch, the light in her eyes, repeating “Play it again! Don’t you—”
new today from Guan Un!!
love a piece that uses its title like this, love a short little snippet that also encapsulates such a large whole
https://www.havehashad.com/m09qu
Congratulations!!!
Bluesky was fucked up when this was posted, so if you missed it and want to read a story about alien sex, this one’s for you.
First and foremost this is a great story about sex work, misogyny, and patriarchy, but it also just has some really fucked up alien sex and guys being absolute freaks.
"Tabula Rasa" by Amy Kitcher is now free to read!
Don't forget! It's Leonora Carrington-coded, too!
Feels good to be writing again!
Happy release day to this beautiful, visceral collection!
Gore Poetics is officially here! 🥩💖 can't articulate how unreal it feels to see all this made tangible. endless thanks to everyone who's supported me through many, many edits, reviews, blurbs, and kindness - this wouldn't exist without y'all
Do something amazing today. Buy my weird out-of-print novel. Help me make some space in my office. Get really into teeth.
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Hell yeah!! Congrats!
Mega congrats!!
Homer telling the writer's room WHENEVER WALTER BENJAMIN'S NOT ON A LIST ALL THE OTHER THEORISTS SHOULD BE ASKING "WHERE'S WALTER BENJAMIN?"
"A Month in the Country" is one of the great English novels of the late 20th Century & you can read it in a day less the times you have to put it aside 'cos you're weeping your eyes out.
I heartily approve of his pastime, too: more people should be doing this.
Such a perfect book
It takes a lot to astonish me, but: *FIVE YEARS* AFTER IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED, RED X HAS RECEIVED A STARRED REVIEW FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. I did not think this was even possible. Thank you to everyone and most of all to me because I did the fucking thing.
www.publishersweekly.com/9781641298476
Check out this gorgeous cover for ECO25!!
The last title in the Haruspex opening lineup is none other than @horrorsong.blog ‘s incomparable The Wingspan of Severed Hands!
Joe’s surrealist body horror vista was a narrator’s dream to perform. I hope you like it.
haruspex-audio.com/products/the...
A dream come true! Rain's an incredible narrator and I'm delighted for my book to finally be out in audio & become accessible for more readers. Pre-orders are up now.
Thank you, Rain!
If you enjoyed "As the Shore to the Tides, So Blood Calls to Blood", I wrote a novella in that setting, a story about families, the curses they bear, and fighting the good fight - even in the face of Death.
I'm serializing it in my newsletter so consider signing up:
buttondown.com/crosshatches
Ahhh congratulations!!! Todd is a dream to work with and the finished books always look gorgeous!
The cover of Thin Places in Hard Concrete with a floating brutalist staircase and a pale blue to purple gradient.
A quote from Rose Ruane, author of Birding: “Ray’s books are masterpieces of uncanny atmosphere, claustrophobic, tautly plotted, exquisitely evocative prose, written with an artist’s eye for detail and architecture, an M.R. James or Robert Aickman of crumbling concrete and civic buildings. His incredible eerie tales of the urban weird will haunt you in the most welcome way.”
My new collection ‘Thin Places in Hard Concrete‘ is out on 30 April as an eBook and paperback with 10 brand new weird stories.
Pre-order the eBook here 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4
Garth Marenghi knows writers who explain things and they’re all cowards
Nodding wisely and tapping the sign
Just caught up with this, two brilliant authors! Great job @kjy1066.bsky.social and @thomasha.bsky.social, you both read so well!
My Weird Horror Magazine story is now free to read on the @undertow.bsky.social website! 'New Albert' is about a couple who begin questioning everything they know about the man who lives downstairs...
Friends, new story day at Weird Horror. Please enjoy @rlsummerling.bsky.social 's enigmatic "New Albert."
www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/new-albert
My Weird Horror Magazine story is now free to read on the @undertow.bsky.social website! 'New Albert' is about a couple who begin questioning everything they know about the man who lives downstairs...
There’s a longish extract from my long story ‘Heavyness’ on my blog here. Out of all my stories it’s the one most directly, explicitly informed by ME: www.seanbirnie.com/september-20...
The full story can be read in the current issue of @remainsmagazine.bsky.social
