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Posts by D. Matthew Urban

If you haven't gotten to all the SPLIT SCREAM books yet, now is your chance. They're all great, I might add (with absolutely zero bias in that statement whatsoever, why would you even ask)

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I'm still very fond of "The Sad Snail," my epistolary story about a social simulation game haunted by a digital snail 🐌

Partially inspired by Patricia Highsmith's classic tale of gastropod terror, "The Quest for Blank Claveringi" 🐌

Published in Tales from Between 3 🐌

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Helmetless dude biking across the Williamsburg Bridge with a (helmeted) toddler asleep on the seat behind him. Type of hubris the gods like to punish!

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That’s great to hear! Hope she enjoys it 🖤

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🎶hellooo...🎶
🎶helloooooo...🎶
🎶hellooooooooo...🎶

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I loved this collection! Lyrical and visceral as the title promises, precise as a scalpel through your basal ganglia, highly recommended to all sickos and weirdos. Highlights for me included the extremely gutting "Lithopedion" and the beautifully cut-up "SHRIKE"

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Happy birthday! 🥳

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Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces paperback | Cursed Morsels Press Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to master the art of annihilation. A girl on the verge of a transformation seeks out a new member for her isolated, inhuman family. A glitching brain implant shatters its owner's sense of reality. A high-school athlete's body becomes the vessel of a fleshy apocalypse. In Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, characters twist in the grip of forces beyond their understanding. Infused with the weird and uncanny, these stories probe the crannies and dead ends where humanity confronts the implacably alien, where even the most familiar faces begin to change, waver, and fade.Includes paperback and bonus "Family Legends" zine edited by D. Matthew Urban and Eric Raglin.

This story can also be found, along with 17 other tales of disorientation, transformation and dissolution, in my collection Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social!

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My tiny little story "How I Turned My Little Brother Human" is in this week's PseudoPod, excellently narrated by Elie Hirschman! Listen for tips on how to make the best of a tricky situation 🍃🌺

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White cherry blossoms on dark branches against a blue sky

White cherry blossoms on dark branches against a blue sky

cherry blossoms in peak bloom at Branch Brook Park, Newark

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Deep in the sea, sickly and serene, wading through the waters, the silhouette of a finfolk haunts the invertebrate forests , this one of a southern form, a seal unseen in the northern salt lined brine, human faced in the maw of an ocean song, a pattern ice like shades adorn her odd form, they hum sullen, otherworldly tunes too those with the ear to hear beyond your familiar world .

Deep in the sea, sickly and serene, wading through the waters, the silhouette of a finfolk haunts the invertebrate forests , this one of a southern form, a seal unseen in the northern salt lined brine, human faced in the maw of an ocean song, a pattern ice like shades adorn her odd form, they hum sullen, otherworldly tunes too those with the ear to hear beyond your familiar world .

Selkie

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A tabby cat sticking her head out from under the flap of a cardboard box lying on its side

A tabby cat sticking her head out from under the flap of a cardboard box lying on its side

Happy April Fool’s Day from the April fool herself

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The royal perfumes

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it's #transdayofvisibility and i have a short story collection coming out about the beautiful, horrible parameters of a body (and, depending on who you are, how the world treats it). if that speaks to you, consider pre-ordering

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A collage of 40-ish badasses

A collage of 40-ish badasses

Both of us at Tenebrous are deeply honored to present the 40+ badass 🏳️‍⚧️creators🏳️‍⚧️ who will comprise the Table of Contents for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, a New Weird Cosmic Horror anthology due out 10.06.26!

Full deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/3/...

#transdayofvisibility #tdov

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David Lynch was a Posadist

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Really dug Transmuted by @eveharms.com! Mind-altering queer body horror bubbling in the alembic with esoteric weirdness and bizarro satire, plus a sex scene as distressingly hot as it is hotly distressing

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Thanks so much!

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My story about the strange aftermath of a birthday party has been posted, oddly enough, the day after my birthday. Grab your favors and your big green gun and head over to the Weird Horror website to check it out! 🥳😈👑

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Thank you! 🥳📚

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Thank you! I'm excited to dig into them.

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A stack of paperbacks:
* Persona by Aoife Josie Clements
* Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
* Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov
* The Butcher of Nazareth by David Scott Hay
* Human Sacrifices by María Fernanda Ampuero
* Panics by Barbara Molinard

A stack of paperbacks: * Persona by Aoife Josie Clements * Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette * Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov * The Butcher of Nazareth by David Scott Hay * Human Sacrifices by María Fernanda Ampuero * Panics by Barbara Molinard

Birthday book haul acquired in a multi-store frenzy

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Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth

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A royal figure in a pose like a portrait. His fingers interlocked. His head is based on a devils tooth mushroom and his neck and wrists have mycellular frill. He has globules on him resembling gems or eyes

A royal figure in a pose like a portrait. His fingers interlocked. His head is based on a devils tooth mushroom and his neck and wrists have mycellular frill. He has globules on him resembling gems or eyes

A gentleman 🍄

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an illustration of a woman rendered in green wearing a mantilla style veil. Her hands are on her face and her eyes are downcast. Her 

Red centipedes crawl on her face and hand.

an illustration of a woman rendered in green wearing a mantilla style veil. Her hands are on her face and her eyes are downcast. Her Red centipedes crawl on her face and hand.

centipede bride

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a mobile of black sections connected by wires hanging from a white ceiling

a mobile of black sections connected by wires hanging from a white ceiling

a mobile of black and red sections hanging against an off-white wall

a mobile of black and red sections hanging against an off-white wall

a vaguely insectile or clock-like assemblage of black and red sections hanging on an off-white wall

a vaguely insectile or clock-like assemblage of black and red sections hanging on an off-white wall

a construction of red, white and black spheres on a black frame standing in a concrete alcove

a construction of red, white and black spheres on a black frame standing in a concrete alcove

gizmos and contraptions at the Calder Gardens in Philadelphia

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The succubi are back in town! Very happy to see this excellent novella roaming the earth again 🎸💀

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St. Paul shop creates 'National Loon Day' The first ever National Loon Day will be celebrated this Friday.

National Loon Day... how cool!

Congratulations to ABA Bird of the Year program alumnus, the Common Loon: www.kare11.com/article/news...

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blackened meatgaze

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Zines incoming! This one will include the piece where I finally reveal the wisdom I've gleaned from nature's greatest salescreature: the leopard slug 𓆑𓆑𓆑

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