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Matt Ruff
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Author of Lovecraft Country, Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, and various other novels.

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Matt Ruff @bymattruff.bsky.social · Jan 17
The paperback edition of THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS: A RETURN TO LOVECRAFT COUNTRY will be here on February 20:
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okay here's that "one set of footprints" thing
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 13d
Yesterday, Illinois State Police arrested a protester dressed as Jesus, draped in American flag. When he did not walk, they picked him up and carried him.
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Trying to read this with an open mind, but it doesn't bode well that Yudkowsky needed three years to figure out that intelligent beings are hard to control.
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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i appreciate the critical thinking skills of people i agree with
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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November 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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New Hell House LLC installment just dropped on Shudder.
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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“How did the Super Pandemic of 2026 start, Grandpa?”

“Well, Timmy —“
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · 18d
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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I really liked A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE but had a feeling a lot of viewers would be unhappy about the ending and boy was that right.
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Dr. Husband and Mrs. Bucket
-It’s 2025, and the NYT has discovered biological clocks.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A reminder if you’re in Chicago: tonight at 6:30 I’ll be at the U. of Chicago Divinity School with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez for a panel on Horror Writing and Religion, hosted by @americanwritersmuseum.org as part of their “American Prophets” series.
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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A reminder if you’re in Chicago: tonight at 6:30 I’ll be at the U. of Chicago Divinity School with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez for a panel on Horror Writing and Religion, hosted by @americanwritersmuseum.org as part of their “American Prophets” series.
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Tomorrow night!
americanwritersmuseum.org American Writers Museum @americanwritersmuseum.org · Oct 7
Join us this Friday, Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Chicago as we talk horror writing and religion with @bymattruff.bsky.social, author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, alongside Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Free to students!

Register here: bit.ly/46EnYIF
Horror Writing and Religion - An American Prophets Program
Leading writers of horror and suspense—Tananarive Due, Matt Ruff, & Juan Martinez—discuss the role of religion in their work and the genre.
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October 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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americanwritersmuseum.org
Join us this Friday, Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Chicago as we talk horror writing and religion with @bymattruff.bsky.social, author of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY, alongside Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez. Free to students!

Register here: bit.ly/46EnYIF
Horror Writing and Religion - An American Prophets Program
Leading writers of horror and suspense—Tananarive Due, Matt Ruff, & Juan Martinez—discuss the role of religion in their work and the genre.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Thank you Christian Mingle.
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I am, as they say, reupping: thecjn.ca/arts-culture...
Emma Forrest wrote a seminal Jewish novel—and was quietly ghosted for it
The British author discusses the muted reaction to her Jewish work and the Manchester attack on Yom Kippur.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Well I don't have time to vote in all of them.
hcrichardson.bsky.social Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · Oct 8
People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.
burness.bsky.social Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · Oct 7
Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I'll be at the University of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10 as part of the @americanwritersmuseum.org American Prophets series, talking about "Horror Writing & Religion" with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez.

Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd
September 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Finished watching Alien: Earth and really enjoyed it. I'd describe it as the rare example of an idiot plot that (mostly) works, and at some point when I've got time I'll try to unpack that in an essay.
October 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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When you've been watching Alien: Earth and find yourself staring at the sourdough containment.
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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I'll be at the University of Chicago on Friday, Oct. 10 as part of the @americanwritersmuseum.org American Prophets series, talking about "Horror Writing & Religion" with Tananarive Due and Juan Martinez.

Details/tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdh6zhtd
September 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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#Kindle #deals! Nothing over $2.99 w/ works by @riverssolomon.bsky.social, @legroff.bsky.social, @paultremblay.bsky.social, @kevinblucia.bsky.social, @caitlinstarling.com, @brianmcwriter.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @bymattruff.bsky.social & more! #booksky #ad #bookdeal

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Cover for Rivers Solomon's AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS. There's a drawing of a Black person's face staring sternly at you. Her skin is all but translucent, and you can see the stars of the universe through it. Cover for Lauren Groff's THE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON. It's a simple but interesting cover in that the title and author's name are in white and take up the front, but the background image appears to be reptilian scales. Cover for Paul Tremblay's THE BEAST YOU ARE. It's all in red, featuring a wolf with yellow eyes coming in from a left to bite a cow's ear. The cow also has yellow eyes. It could be a buffalo. It looks like one of those woodcuts from way back in the day. Cover for Kevin Lucia's CARETAKER OF THE DEAD. There's a black crow (or raven; I don't know. I'm just a bird lawyer not an ornithologist.) perched atop a old timey lantern.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Today the ebooks of four of Matt Ruff's novels are on sale in the U.S.:
-- LOVECRAFT COUNTRY is $1.99
-- BAD MONKEYS is $1.99
-- 88 NAMES is $1.99
-- SEWER, GAS & ELECTRIC is $2.99

You can read about all of his novels on his website: bymattruff.com
September 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#Kindle deals! Nothing over $2.99 w/ works by @stephenking.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, @bobford.bsky.social, @natcassidy.bsky.social, @joerlansdale.bsky.social, @rebelsam94.bsky.social, @bymattruff.bsky.social, @gemmafiles.bsky.social, & more! #bookdeal #ad

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Cover for Robert Ford's BURNER. A woman's face is smack dab in the middle of the cover, the orange and red lighting behind her makes her appear on fire. Much of her face is covered by her out-of-control hair. Cover for Stephen King's DOCTOR SLEEP. There's a woman bathed in red and wearing a black top hat looking at you from the center of the cover. Cover for Tananarive Due's THE BETWEEN. There is a side profile of the face of a Black person against a pink/red/purple background. You know those pictures that can be a vase or two faces, depending on how you look at it? That's going on here in a way. The Black person's face is on top, and there appears to be another face in the purple background up against it. Cover for Nat Cassidy's WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME. A gray wolf is barring its teeth at your from outside a window. DON'T LET IT IN.
September 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Alan Ball sent a postcard to his family during the summer of 1953. Last week, it arrived at his home in Idaho. “It has mostly brought a chuckle to me because, you know, who gets their mail returned after 72 years?”
Postcard Sent From the U.N. Is Returned to Sender After 72 Years
Alan Ball sent the postcard to his family during the summer of 1953. Last week, it arrived at his home in Idaho.
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September 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Labubu Feminism and Other Forms of Violence
Kat and Phoebe try to figure out what a Labubu is.
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September 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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okay okay OKAY i’ll rank all the Shakespeare plays

1. Nice Night For Fucking
2. The Parallax View
3. Comedy Central Roast of Queen Elizabeth I
4. Romeo and Juliet and Ted and Alice
5. Untitled Richard Burbage Project
September 13, 2023 at 3:05 PM