Dark & Weird Speculative Fiction | Brave New Weird Award | Seize the Press, Trollbreath, No Sleep Podcast & others | Assistant Professor of Writing at USC | Apophatic Utopianist
Author site: zddochterman.com
ZD Dochterman
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Insightful words from an amazing author on the Weird
In honor of the Stokers Iâm going back and reading ones from previous years. This story is half early Internet horror, half parable for our times.
Just read the Stoker-nominated "Autogas Ferryman" by @champwongs.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com
A wonderful story about a taxi driver who ferries ghosts around Bangkok. Without spoiling it, I think the story does a masterful job of weaving together personal trauma and political events.
Reading the Nebula short stories and really loved "The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead." @emlinden.bsky.social
Hits all the right notes of a lost homeland and how the living choose to remember the dead. Threads the line between nostalgia and looking to the future so well.
this Pride, consider supporting queer authors and a queer press doing good work (and read some cool shit in the process!)
Everyone should go read âIssues with Authorityâ but only if you can deal with psychic cult members working for the CIA and beauty contestants with holes in their bodies.
Now Shirley Jackson nominated!!!
Another great story by Karlo that resonates with the Vieques incident through its eerie unfolding
If you think 2020s internet culture is harsh, imagine getting on Poe's bad side: "With rare exception...we have had no American tales of high merit. We have had no skilful compositions...Of twattle called tale-writing we have had, perhaps, more than enough." - 1842
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Krungthep means âThe City of Gods.â A much more charming name than the bawdy Bangkok that foreigners joke about. But to Somsak, it is the city of ghosts. He drives his taxi slowly along through the gl...
The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead E.M. Linden  The living have been leaving Tawlish for centuries; this evacuation is only the latest and last. There are good reasons for it: the freshwater spr...
Sentence structure, paragraphs, descriptions, DIALOGUE (chief candidate for the inherent Otherness of Text), are all Weird. Reading Weirdly is just paying extra close attention to a text. Once you do, the complete and utter alienness of representing "reality" with words becomes totally unavoidable.
I can't decide if this story by Manish Melwani is actually fiction or if he just peered into the future and took notes, but I do know it is 100% horror.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/mamm...
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