Hey everyone, read this if you’re in a weird horror about twins, cannibalism, and the devouring power of plants.
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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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In honor of the Stokers I’m going back and reading ones from previous years. This story is half early Internet horror, half parable for our times.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe's Review of Twice-Told Tales, April, 1842
The twins were born on a humid January night, uprooted from their young mother’s womb through a cesarean incision opened across gossamer skin, exactly seventeen years and ninety-eight days before they...
Insightful words from an amazing author on the Weird
Everyone should go read “Issues with Authority” 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
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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.
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.
this Pride, consider supporting queer authors and a queer press doing good work (and read some cool shit in the process!)
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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...
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Krungthep means “The City of Gods.” 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...
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...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
If you haven’t seen it yet, you will. Three hooded figures sit cross-legged on the floor of a candle-lit warehouse. There’s something strange about the middle one: its torso somehow both too long and ...
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.
New story day (and on an appropriate date, no less)! Enjoy my new flash, "Foreign Objects"
www.typebarmagazine.com/foreign-obje...
