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Some good news: we're excited to announce that we've increased our payment rates for fiction. Our paid subscribers made this possible, and we are so grateful. Thank you!
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My new collection, The Pandemonium Waltz, will be on the loose tomorrow, Feb. 15th. 17 stories, cover and inside front and back cover art by Derek Ford, and an interview with me conducted by Kelly Link. Buy early and often. If you're so inclined, spread the word.
February 14, 2026 at 8:33 PM
My new collection, The Pandemonium Waltz, will be on the loose tomorrow, Feb. 15th. 17 stories, cover and inside front and back cover art by Derek Ford, and an interview with me conducted by Kelly Link. Buy early and often. If you're so inclined, spread the word.
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In my short fiction review column in this terrific issue, I feature stories from @fantasymagazine.bsky.social @podcastle.org @castofwonders.org @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @smallwondersmag.com and @bourbonpenn.bsky.social!
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February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
In my short fiction review column in this terrific issue, I feature stories from @fantasymagazine.bsky.social @podcastle.org @castofwonders.org @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @lightspeedmagazine.com @smallwondersmag.com and @bourbonpenn.bsky.social!
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My Year In Review has stories from @strangehorizons.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @castofwonders.org @escapepod.org @podcastle.org @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @psychopomp.com and a novella by @essahansen.bsky.social!
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February 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM
My Year In Review has stories from @strangehorizons.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @castofwonders.org @escapepod.org @podcastle.org @kaleidotrope.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @bcsmagazine.bsky.social @psychopomp.com and a novella by @essahansen.bsky.social!
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My 2025 Year in Review column + my latest short fiction review column are both in the February issue of LOCUS -- get it in digital or print: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
February 4, 2026 at 5:12 AM
My 2025 Year in Review column + my latest short fiction review column are both in the February issue of LOCUS -- get it in digital or print: subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
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Three stories to get to know my writing
Quote & share your own
1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the...
2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...
Quote & share your own
1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the...
2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Three stories to get to know my writing
Quote & share your own
1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the...
2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...
Quote & share your own
1. The Charcoal Sovereign at @bourbonpenn.bsky.social www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/the...
2. Crumpled at @thedeadlands.com psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
3. The Ballad of Easy Deaths at @3lobedmag.com www.3lobedmag.com/issue44/3lbe...
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If you're reading over coffee this Saturday, this novelette is temporarily available online again for the next month or so. Thanks if you check it out.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
Novelette
“Uncertain Sons.” Undertow Publications. September 2025 (12,400 words).
A young bikeman joins a search party in foothills beset by strange creatures and voices of the past. (Novelette included with Uncertain Sons and Other Stories; temporarily available online for November 2025.)
“Uncertain Sons.” Undertow Publications. September 2025 (12,400 words).
A young bikeman joins a search party in foothills beset by strange creatures and voices of the past. (Novelette included with Uncertain Sons and Other Stories; temporarily available online for November 2025.)
Uncertain Sons — Undertow Publications
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January 31, 2026 at 3:45 PM
If you're reading over coffee this Saturday, this novelette is temporarily available online again for the next month or so. Thanks if you check it out.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
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Won't bombard w/links, but the collection's afterword notes loose ties to 2 older stories. So if you enjoy the father/son or weird strains they are: "House Traveler" in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, audio in @pseudopod.org, and "The Sort" in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, new audio in @wilwheaton.net's pod.
January 31, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Won't bombard w/links, but the collection's afterword notes loose ties to 2 older stories. So if you enjoy the father/son or weird strains they are: "House Traveler" in @bourbonpenn.bsky.social, audio in @pseudopod.org, and "The Sort" in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, new audio in @wilwheaton.net's pod.
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I know issue 12 isn't even out yet—soon—but revel in the glory of the cover and contributors of issue 13 (Summer). Art by James Hutton. Design by Vince Haig.
I'll be doing a big pre-order push soon on our 2026 titles to try and secure some much-needed operating funds.
I'll be doing a big pre-order push soon on our 2026 titles to try and secure some much-needed operating funds.
January 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
I know issue 12 isn't even out yet—soon—but revel in the glory of the cover and contributors of issue 13 (Summer). Art by James Hutton. Design by Vince Haig.
I'll be doing a big pre-order push soon on our 2026 titles to try and secure some much-needed operating funds.
I'll be doing a big pre-order push soon on our 2026 titles to try and secure some much-needed operating funds.
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A sample of my short fiction reviews in LOCUS! @fantasymagazine.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social and @tasavvurnama.bsky.social .
“Trader” by Sam Asher from Bourbon Penn, “Late Night Conversations” by Ramsha Farooq Raja from Tasavvur Magazine, and more short fic recs from Maria Haskins
Fantasy Autumn, Bourbon Penn, and Tasavvur Fall: Review by Maria Haskins
Fantasy Autumn ’25 Bourbon Penn 11/25 Tasavvur Fall ’25 Issue #98 of Fantasy Magazine is the second issue since the magazine came under Psychopomp’s publishing umbrella with Shingai Njeri Kagunda …
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January 29, 2026 at 5:14 AM
A sample of my short fiction reviews in LOCUS! @fantasymagazine.bsky.social @bourbonpenn.bsky.social and @tasavvurnama.bsky.social .
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“Trader” by Sam Asher from Bourbon Penn, “Late Night Conversations” by Ramsha Farooq Raja from Tasavvur Magazine, and more short fic recs from Maria Haskins
Fantasy Autumn, Bourbon Penn, and Tasavvur Fall: Review by Maria Haskins
Fantasy Autumn ’25 Bourbon Penn 11/25 Tasavvur Fall ’25 Issue #98 of Fantasy Magazine is the second issue since the magazine came under Psychopomp’s publishing umbrella with Shingai Njeri Kagunda …
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January 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
“Trader” by Sam Asher from Bourbon Penn, “Late Night Conversations” by Ramsha Farooq Raja from Tasavvur Magazine, and more short fic recs from Maria Haskins
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Spotlight on Michael Kelly & Best Weird Fiction locusmag.com/2026/01...
January 26, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Spotlight on Michael Kelly & Best Weird Fiction locusmag.com/2026/01...
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Bourbon Penn 37 is live with brand new stories from Lavie Tidhar, Nick DiChario, Clelia Farris, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick.
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
@lavietidhar.bsky.social @breewernicke.bsky.social @dearnicoletta.bsky.social
Bourbon Penn 37
Stories by Lavie Tidhar, Clelia Farris, Nick DiChario, Bree Wernicke, Nicoletta Giuseffi, S.F. Wright, and Andrew Daniel Dick. Cover art by Brian Haberlin.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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I’m Simon Strantzas. I write horror but also sort of don’t. It's complicated. I wrote the collection Burnt Black Suns and edited the anthology Aickman’s Heirs. Last year I published a new collection called OTHER SIDES that I really think you might like.
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Other Sides | Lethe Press
In Other Sides, Simon Strantzas invites you to explore the eerie fringes of reality, where the familiar twists into the unexplainable. A hungry house that demands a price from its occupants. A boy who...
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January 20, 2026 at 2:00 AM
I’m Simon Strantzas. I write horror but also sort of don’t. It's complicated. I wrote the collection Burnt Black Suns and edited the anthology Aickman’s Heirs. Last year I published a new collection called OTHER SIDES that I really think you might like.
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We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS.
Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations, Thomas!
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
We're so proud and happy to hear that @thomasha.bsky.social is a 2025 Philip K.Dick Award Nominee for UNCERTAIN SONS.
Congratulations, Thomas!
Congratulations, Thomas!
Some good news: we're excited to announce that we've increased our payment rates for fiction. Our paid subscribers made this possible, and we are so grateful. Thank you!
January 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Some good news: we're excited to announce that we've increased our payment rates for fiction. Our paid subscribers made this possible, and we are so grateful. Thank you!
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Fab review of Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 in Rue Morgue!
"When an anthology contains "Best" in its title, you expect a certain level of quality, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 absolutely delivers."
—Monica S. Kuebler, Rue Morgue Magazine
Grab issue 228 to see the review
"When an anthology contains "Best" in its title, you expect a certain level of quality, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 absolutely delivers."
—Monica S. Kuebler, Rue Morgue Magazine
Grab issue 228 to see the review
January 5, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Fab review of Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 in Rue Morgue!
"When an anthology contains "Best" in its title, you expect a certain level of quality, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 absolutely delivers."
—Monica S. Kuebler, Rue Morgue Magazine
Grab issue 228 to see the review
"When an anthology contains "Best" in its title, you expect a certain level of quality, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 absolutely delivers."
—Monica S. Kuebler, Rue Morgue Magazine
Grab issue 228 to see the review
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Ahhh!! My Canadian lady pirate & shark-thing love story is listed!
Give Them No Quarter, Tell Them All Lies pubb’d @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/32/giv...
Give Them No Quarter, Tell Them All Lies pubb’d @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/32/giv...
January 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Ahhh!! My Canadian lady pirate & shark-thing love story is listed!
Give Them No Quarter, Tell Them All Lies pubb’d @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/32/giv...
Give Them No Quarter, Tell Them All Lies pubb’d @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/32/giv...
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Very happy to find out four of my stories made it onto @datlow.bsky.social’s Best Horror recommendations. Congrats to everyone else on the list, and thanks to those who published my stories! @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @swanriverpress.bsky.social @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Very happy to find out four of my stories made it onto @datlow.bsky.social’s Best Horror recommendations. Congrats to everyone else on the list, and thanks to those who published my stories! @bourbonpenn.bsky.social @swanriverpress.bsky.social @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social
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I had fiction published in
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social (A CLOCKWORK GUN)
@kaleidotrope.bsky.social (MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY)
@mythaxis.bsky.social (SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON)
with forthcoming stories next year in both Bourbon Penn and Kaleidotrope
fictionaljosh.com/fiction/
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social (A CLOCKWORK GUN)
@kaleidotrope.bsky.social (MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY)
@mythaxis.bsky.social (SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON)
with forthcoming stories next year in both Bourbon Penn and Kaleidotrope
fictionaljosh.com/fiction/
Fiction
Fact Factory Catalog 2017 The Body Electrician | Poetry | Star*Line 40.2 A Letter to the Dead | Poetry | Not One of Us #57 Quiverfull | Fiction | Bards and Sages Quarterly, January 2017 | The hospi…
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December 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I had fiction published in
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social (A CLOCKWORK GUN)
@kaleidotrope.bsky.social (MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY)
@mythaxis.bsky.social (SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON)
with forthcoming stories next year in both Bourbon Penn and Kaleidotrope
fictionaljosh.com/fiction/
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social (A CLOCKWORK GUN)
@kaleidotrope.bsky.social (MICROCOSMUS OF MYSTERY)
@mythaxis.bsky.social (SOMEDAY SOMEONE'S GONNA STEAL YOUR CARBON)
with forthcoming stories next year in both Bourbon Penn and Kaleidotrope
fictionaljosh.com/fiction/
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Hey! Last bit of news of 2025 before I crawl away and convalesce. Contract's signed, so I can say I'll be returning to @bourbonpenn.bsky.social in the new year w/a short story, "Middle Song." An honor to sell here and very glad this one's housed w/sibling story, "In That Crumbling Home" (Issue 28).
December 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey! Last bit of news of 2025 before I crawl away and convalesce. Contract's signed, so I can say I'll be returning to @bourbonpenn.bsky.social in the new year w/a short story, "Middle Song." An honor to sell here and very glad this one's housed w/sibling story, "In That Crumbling Home" (Issue 28).
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Just very thrilled to make it to @acwise.bsky.social excellent list of Favorite Short Fiction of 2025
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In case you want to read the mentioned story, Idle, Inc is at Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...
acwise.net/favorite-sho...
In case you want to read the mentioned story, Idle, Inc is at Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...
Favorite Short Fiction of 2025 – acwise.net
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December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Just very thrilled to make it to @acwise.bsky.social excellent list of Favorite Short Fiction of 2025
acwise.net/favorite-sho...
In case you want to read the mentioned story, Idle, Inc is at Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...
acwise.net/favorite-sho...
In case you want to read the mentioned story, Idle, Inc is at Bourbon Penn @bourbonpenn.bsky.social
www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/35/idl...
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Friends! @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is 3-months old today. Time flies. Please consider grabbing a copy of this stellar debut. Thanks to all who have bought a copy. Really appreciate it.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Friends! @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is 3-months old today. Time flies. Please consider grabbing a copy of this stellar debut. Thanks to all who have bought a copy. Really appreciate it.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
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Do you have plans next summer? My first horror collection, MIX TAPES FROM DEAD BOYS, is coming June 2026 from @journalstone.bsky.social.
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Do you have plans next summer? My first horror collection, MIX TAPES FROM DEAD BOYS, is coming June 2026 from @journalstone.bsky.social.
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So thrilled to be writing short fiction reviews for Locus Magazine! My first column is in the December issue which is available now in print and digital format. 📖
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Buy December 2025 | Locus Magazine
The December 2025 #779 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Dave Hutchinson and Bethany Jacobs, and a spotlight on The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio. The issue lists US and…
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December 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So thrilled to be writing short fiction reviews for Locus Magazine! My first column is in the December issue which is available now in print and digital format. 📖
subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
subscribers.locusmag.com/content/buy-...
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Just remembered I've got a book coming out in 2026. Crawl Space will be out from @journalstone.bsky.social in January. Expect weirdness.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just remembered I've got a book coming out in 2026. Crawl Space will be out from @journalstone.bsky.social in January. Expect weirdness.