The H Word: Why Do We Like the Weird? - Nightmare Magazine I, like many of us, am always scared. A friend of mine once asked me why. And the first thing that came to my head was to show him Junji Ito’s “The Enigma of Amigara Fault.”

my article is up about weird fiction in weird, horrifying times, and the community that forms around people trying to wrestle their fears together! www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/t...

happy bookday ivy!! if anyone wants to read Ivy's thoughts on the writing and pbulishing of the book, do give this a read! fantasy-hive.co.uk/2026/03/inte... then go buy it!!

This is a phenomenal message -- a bright and thought-provoking discussion for your Tuesday.

goin thru demos to maybe turn into tunes with proper recording stuff

and there's a tune i keep restarting on the demo, with the first line of "i've been playing the same four chords for months now" -- because me parents are arguing in the background lmao

art mimics life mimics art

the stars fell, and they have eyes and teeth

(and I accidentally let one in. i was waiting for me Amazon delivery.)

new art!! was nice to attempt a creature feature

Skully slouches back in a chair scrolling endlessly in his phone

Doomscrolling

#Art by Adrien Conrad

such a banger story depicted perfectly. don't miss x

PseudoPod 1007: The Children of the Event The first person to see the wave was a fisherman. Like most of his kind, he was strong, fond of water, and a heavy drinker; he wore rubber boots and a yellow coat slicked with salmon guts.

🦑 Episode 1007…

“The first person to see the wave was a fisherman.”

The Children of the Event, by Carson Winter

Narrator: Matt Arnold
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Graeme Dunlop

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This story was first published in the collection ‘Portraits of Decay’

PSA: Dim Shores is down to 50 copies left of THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT! Preorder this lo-fi horror collection here: dimshores.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

The "girlhood is a spectrum" meme with "bonne maman advent calendar" on the left and "ted bundy's demonic soul trapped in a jar" on the right

Cover of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by Ivy Grimes

I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨

Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!

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Resharing this uplifting review for the evening people!

DO's a tiny press and the lion's share of promotional work falls on me to do, so every ounce of good feedback and help in getting the book out there means so damn much

💜💜💜

Many thanks to RSL and The Fantasy Hive for this beautiful and deep review of The Cellar Below the Cellar 💜🖤

it's truly a beautiful piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social. pensive, mysterious, thoughtful, and weird in all the beautifulest ways. thank you for the ARC, and I can't wait for this to be out!

Dope article. If you’re looking to dig deeper into the story and its themes after reading, there’s a great free anthology featuring writers like @horrorsong.blog @joellekillian.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social @rsljnr.bsky.social @cjsubko.bsky.social , TJ Price & more.

I’ll link it below 🤘

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Maidens of Midnight, my debut lo-fi horror collection, is up for preorder. I'm proud of this weird little book, a collaboration with excellent illustrator @luciaretamales.bsky.social, but you don't have to take my word for it. Here's what @brianevenson.bsky.social wrote on the collection:

November always manages to fly past as we gear towards the holidays but the team still managed to pack the month full of excellent reads - check out what their Top Picks were!

Read more: tinyurl.com/nvdmevas

Every day you can choose not to feed the hate machine.

PORTRAITS OF DECAY from @saltheartpress.bsky.social is eligible for all those cool awards folks are talking about!

If you're a fan of weird fiction in the vein Padgett, Fawver, Jackson, Ligotti, and Cushing, check it out!

Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted “This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...

Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.

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The Cellar Below the Cellar Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...

This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!

Thread updated weekly, maybe?

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Interview with authors of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower Ligotti, community, encrimsoning

"We clash with a world that we simply do not feel part of. When I read Ligotti, and I found the...malaise at being trapped into an existence we didn’t consent to—I finally found out that not only was I not alone, that there was a massive community of us."

@rsljnr.bsky.social

The Cellar Below the Cellar Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...

Here's the aurora-filled novella for anyone who is particularly into auroras right now:
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likewise with your work, which I'll be looking out for when I get home. it's always fun to find new artists :)) thank you again!!

Grappling with some serious existential & financial angst today. Friendly reminder I've got two fun books with big ideas out that cool readers seem to really enjoy. Would love for you to check 'em out, too

extra-canon response (they who call themselves Richie??): thank you so much @angelvleal.bsky.social for a lovely response. I'm so glad it worked as it did 😭

any proclaiming themselves disciple strikes me--and mine and Sarah's and mark's eyes--as but another mutant worthy of bog-eye philosophy!
it is always anyone, like yourself and anyone else, who reads us into being, that are like stars :))