Chris Kelso
@chris88.bsky.social
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Chris Kelso
@chris88.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Bluesky already feels more worthwhile than X. Here's 'On Melting: essays against the body', out through @filthyloot.bsky.social. It features blurbs from @horrorsong.blog and Ewan Morrison.
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Hey, I also have an interview anthology series called FOLLOW FOR NOW: 80 interviews! 2 decades! 2 books! 💙📚 #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0G8HLB2K...
Follow for Now
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December 20, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Hey, I also have an interview anthology series called FOLLOW FOR NOW: 80 interviews! 2 decades! 2 books! 💙📚 #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/B0G8HLB2K...
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So stoked to have blurbed SHADOWSPHERES, the excellent new book by Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison! 💙📚 #booksky
Preorder yours now: www.merigoldindependent.com/shadowspheres
Preorder yours now: www.merigoldindependent.com/shadowspheres
January 8, 2026 at 11:43 PM
So stoked to have blurbed SHADOWSPHERES, the excellent new book by Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison! 💙📚 #booksky
Preorder yours now: www.merigoldindependent.com/shadowspheres
Preorder yours now: www.merigoldindependent.com/shadowspheres
Proofs are here @merigoldindie.bsky.social @roychristopher.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Proofs are here @merigoldindie.bsky.social @roychristopher.com
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I read a couple Chris Kelso books this month. These things are chaotic in all the best ways. Highly recommend!
December 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I read a couple Chris Kelso books this month. These things are chaotic in all the best ways. Highly recommend!
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@chris88.bsky.social , details of Shrapnel Apartments just dropped into my head, unbidden.
I appreciate your writing, man. I will always buy your work.
I appreciate your writing, man. I will always buy your work.
December 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@chris88.bsky.social , details of Shrapnel Apartments just dropped into my head, unbidden.
I appreciate your writing, man. I will always buy your work.
I appreciate your writing, man. I will always buy your work.
On Melting: essays against the body is on Dennis Cooper's 'Best of 2025' 😮 Thanks, Dennis 💚
December 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
On Melting: essays against the body is on Dennis Cooper's 'Best of 2025' 😮 Thanks, Dennis 💚
Shadowplays, a collection of essays and fiction in opposition of accelerationism (December 19th through @merigoldindie.bsky.social)
"At the end of humanism, Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison have given us lenses for the blinding light of the cyborgian future” - @roychristopher.com
"At the end of humanism, Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison have given us lenses for the blinding light of the cyborgian future” - @roychristopher.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Shadowplays, a collection of essays and fiction in opposition of accelerationism (December 19th through @merigoldindie.bsky.social)
"At the end of humanism, Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison have given us lenses for the blinding light of the cyborgian future” - @roychristopher.com
"At the end of humanism, Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison have given us lenses for the blinding light of the cyborgian future” - @roychristopher.com
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this is one of the coolest things to happen here at X-R-A-Y...
Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !!
they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more
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Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !!
they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more
xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...
AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR A COGNITIVE EMPATHY BROADCAST: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL RIEDL FROM BLOOD INCANTATION by Chris Kelso
Music is the shorthand of emotion. There is something intrinsic to the structure of it – with its overtures, rising crescendos, and authentic cadences – which seem to mirror our temporal patterns so e...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
this is one of the coolest things to happen here at X-R-A-Y...
Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !!
they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more
xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...
Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !!
they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more
xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...
Here's my interview with Paul Reidl from Blood Incantation for @X-Ray magazine -
xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...
xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...
AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR A COGNITIVE EMPATHY BROADCAST: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL RIEDL FROM BLOOD INCANTATION by Chris Kelso
Music is the shorthand of emotion. There is something intrinsic to the structure of it – with its overtures, rising crescendos, and authentic cadences – which seem to mirror our temporal patterns so e...
xraylitmag.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Here's my interview with Paul Reidl from Blood Incantation for @X-Ray magazine -
xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...
xraylitmag.com/and-now-its-...
It's not often I make these lists, so I'm going to savour it. Thank you to Ash Anjum for including me on her list of 12 fantasy authors pushing the genre 💜
'Kelso’s transgressive weirdness is a reminder that fantasy began as rebellion.'
winteriscoming.net/12-fantasy-a...
'Kelso’s transgressive weirdness is a reminder that fantasy began as rebellion.'
winteriscoming.net/12-fantasy-a...
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
It's not often I make these lists, so I'm going to savour it. Thank you to Ash Anjum for including me on her list of 12 fantasy authors pushing the genre 💜
'Kelso’s transgressive weirdness is a reminder that fantasy began as rebellion.'
winteriscoming.net/12-fantasy-a...
'Kelso’s transgressive weirdness is a reminder that fantasy began as rebellion.'
winteriscoming.net/12-fantasy-a...
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A few of my stories that are online, should anyone fancy a read:
syntaxandsalt.com/2017/06/19/t...
cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/cold...
cemeterygatesmedia.com/2021/09/16/c...
syntaxandsalt.com/2017/06/19/t...
cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/cold...
cemeterygatesmedia.com/2021/09/16/c...
The Vigil by Matt Neil Hill
Suzanna wears her central nervous system like an exoskeleton now, shrieking the glass shards of bloody murder whenever I even think about touching her. I bring us back suspect materials wrapped in …
syntaxandsalt.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:15 AM
A few of my stories that are online, should anyone fancy a read:
syntaxandsalt.com/2017/06/19/t...
cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/cold...
cemeterygatesmedia.com/2021/09/16/c...
syntaxandsalt.com/2017/06/19/t...
cosmichorrormonthly.com/fiction/cold...
cemeterygatesmedia.com/2021/09/16/c...
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A beautifully produced book, featuring magnificent Artwork The Mad Butterfly's Ball edited by Preston Grassman & Chris Kelso is a horror anthology based around creepy-crawlies from PS Publishing #BFSREview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-m...
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A beautifully produced book, featuring magnificent Artwork The Mad Butterfly's Ball edited by Preston Grassman & Chris Kelso is a horror anthology based around creepy-crawlies from PS Publishing #BFSREview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-m...
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It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
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Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
CONTROL AND THE FUCKTOPUS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KELSO ABOUT ŻUŁAWSKI’S 'POSSESSION' by Alice
Chris Kelso is a Scottish writer of dark, weird fiction. I came to his work through Voidheads (Schism), and he’s since published Metampsychosis with Feral Dove, and most recently, a monograph on the f...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
An in-depth, insightful review of Possesion: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity over at Zonal Hotel
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REVIEW: Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity by Chris Kelso
Kelso’s solid and incisive interpretations allow for the reader’s addendums and refutations, encouraging a more unified, nuanced and comprehensive understanding of this cursed (blessed?) film.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
An in-depth, insightful review of Possesion: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity over at Zonal Hotel
zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-pos...
zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-pos...
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I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
Some lovely praise from some great writers 💜
September 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Some lovely praise from some great writers 💜
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Excellent in-depth review of @chris88.bsky.social's new Midnight Movie Monograph on the cult horror film Possession. It's a great read, and Chris's very personal dissection of the film is an insightful labour of love.
pspublishing.co.uk/possession-h...
pspublishing.co.uk/possession-h...
September 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Excellent in-depth review of @chris88.bsky.social's new Midnight Movie Monograph on the cult horror film Possession. It's a great read, and Chris's very personal dissection of the film is an insightful labour of love.
pspublishing.co.uk/possession-h...
pspublishing.co.uk/possession-h...
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I can’t thank Chris Kelso enough for this very cool and rare book, Possession. Flipping through this gorgeous book, you can tell the detail and care Kelso spends discussing this “video nasty.” I highly recommend!!
August 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I can’t thank Chris Kelso enough for this very cool and rare book, Possession. Flipping through this gorgeous book, you can tell the detail and care Kelso spends discussing this “video nasty.” I highly recommend!!
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My latest review from the Scottish literary maverick Chris Kelso is his unorthodox take on the cult film POSSESSION. 5/5* all the way baby! Who's this other Tony Jones guy?
Thank you @tonyjonescomm.bsky.social for the truly great write up of Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity in Horror DNA! 🙌
www.horrordna.com/books/posses...
www.horrordna.com/books/posses...
Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity
Fantastic, obsessive and highly personal deep dive into the cult art house horror film Possession.
www.horrordna.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My latest review from the Scottish literary maverick Chris Kelso is his unorthodox take on the cult film POSSESSION. 5/5* all the way baby! Who's this other Tony Jones guy?
Thank you @tonyjonescomm.bsky.social for the truly great write up of Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity in Horror DNA! 🙌
www.horrordna.com/books/posses...
www.horrordna.com/books/posses...
Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity
Fantastic, obsessive and highly personal deep dive into the cult art house horror film Possession.
www.horrordna.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Thank you @tonyjonescomm.bsky.social for the truly great write up of Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity in Horror DNA! 🙌
www.horrordna.com/books/posses...
www.horrordna.com/books/posses...
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Thank you to Chris Kelso for the beautiful gifted copy of a book that surely was written just for me 😭❤️ This remains my favorite film of all time… (next to Martyrs and The Baby of Macon)
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Thank you to Chris Kelso for the beautiful gifted copy of a book that surely was written just for me 😭❤️ This remains my favorite film of all time… (next to Martyrs and The Baby of Macon)