Corey Farrenkopf
@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
https://coreys-stories.beehiiv.com
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
https://coreys-stories.beehiiv.com
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HUGE NEWS!!!
Living in Cemeteries earned out its advance!!! I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who picked up a copy!!!
This has meant so much to me. I hope my little novel keeps making its way out into the world. And if you are one of my readers, I hope you enjoyed it :)
Living in Cemeteries earned out its advance!!! I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who picked up a copy!!!
This has meant so much to me. I hope my little novel keeps making its way out into the world. And if you are one of my readers, I hope you enjoyed it :)
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Hey hey! Look who made it on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list! Pumped to see Haunted Ecologies and my short story, Drown Haunted, hanging out with so many other books/stories I enjoyed this year!!!
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Hey hey! Look who made it on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list! Pumped to see Haunted Ecologies and my short story, Drown Haunted, hanging out with so many other books/stories I enjoyed this year!!!
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
Would you like to read my little flash piece that is on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list???
Well here it is (from over in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social) :)
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...
Well here it is (from over in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social) :)
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...
Drown-Haunted
Content Warning My mother had a shrine to God in the basement before the flood came. Candles. Statuary. The golden tabernacle. Stained glass looked out on concrete foundation, no portal to a drier …
www.flashfictiononline.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Would you like to read my little flash piece that is on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list???
Well here it is (from over in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social) :)
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...
Well here it is (from over in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social) :)
www.flashfictiononline.com/article/drow...
Hey hey! Look who made it on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list! Pumped to see Haunted Ecologies and my short story, Drown Haunted, hanging out with so many other books/stories I enjoyed this year!!!
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
2025 Recommended Reading List
Welcome to the Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! Our recommendations are compiled annually by the Locus re…
locusmag.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Hey hey! Look who made it on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list! Pumped to see Haunted Ecologies and my short story, Drown Haunted, hanging out with so many other books/stories I enjoyed this year!!!
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...
It’s another Saturday at the Library!
Is the Nor’easter going to hammer us with snow this weekend?
Do you have enough books to get you through all that potential snow?
If the answer is no, definitely don’t forget to stop by your local library today to pick up all the books your heart desires!
Is the Nor’easter going to hammer us with snow this weekend?
Do you have enough books to get you through all that potential snow?
If the answer is no, definitely don’t forget to stop by your local library today to pick up all the books your heart desires!
January 31, 2026 at 2:18 PM
It’s another Saturday at the Library!
Is the Nor’easter going to hammer us with snow this weekend?
Do you have enough books to get you through all that potential snow?
If the answer is no, definitely don’t forget to stop by your local library today to pick up all the books your heart desires!
Is the Nor’easter going to hammer us with snow this weekend?
Do you have enough books to get you through all that potential snow?
If the answer is no, definitely don’t forget to stop by your local library today to pick up all the books your heart desires!
Made a little short story collection appreciation post!
Want to read some perfect short stories???
Start here :)
Want to read some perfect short stories???
Start here :)
January 30, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Made a little short story collection appreciation post!
Want to read some perfect short stories???
Start here :)
Want to read some perfect short stories???
Start here :)
It’s always a nice feeling when you’re reading back through your novel edits and you’re like Hey, this is good.
Much better than the usual Hey, this is bad.
Much better than the usual Hey, this is bad.
January 28, 2026 at 9:52 PM
It’s always a nice feeling when you’re reading back through your novel edits and you’re like Hey, this is good.
Much better than the usual Hey, this is bad.
Much better than the usual Hey, this is bad.
Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
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January 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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For the @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2026 Criticism Special, I wrote about weird fiction being constituted by weird reading, vis a vis Sederholm and Woofter’s The Weird and @undertow.bsky.social’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1., in tribute to Maureen Kincaid Speller. It’s a long one.
The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction
The ideal reader of the weird has to embrace a kind of wilful suspension of foreknowledge or generic expectation.
strangehorizons.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:42 PM
For the @strangehorizons.bsky.social 2026 Criticism Special, I wrote about weird fiction being constituted by weird reading, vis a vis Sederholm and Woofter’s The Weird and @undertow.bsky.social’s The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1., in tribute to Maureen Kincaid Speller. It’s a long one.
Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
Abolish ICE
Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 25, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Abolish ICE
Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
It’s another Saturday at the Library!
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
January 24, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It’s another Saturday at the Library!
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
It’s another Saturday at the Library!
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
January 24, 2026 at 2:06 PM
It’s another Saturday at the Library!
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
And it’s the Saturday before a major snow storm.
Remember, if you live a the area with a ton of snow predicted, today is the day to stock up on books and movies from the library!
Be prepared! You don’t want to be caught without a book.
Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
So much of novel editing is deciding whether a character needs a beard or a mustache.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
So much of novel editing is deciding whether a character needs a beard or a mustache.
Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
Folks, these are some great deals from one of our finest. Grab that Gavin collection asap.
January 23, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Folks, these are some great deals from one of our finest. Grab that Gavin collection asap.
So much of novel editing is deciding whether a character needs a beard or a mustache.
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM
So much of novel editing is deciding whether a character needs a beard or a mustache.
Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bookstore... It is! Because sharks rarely hurt humans and are unfairly treated like monsters rather than the beautiful animals they are! Plus most sharks do not go in bookstores.
Also Blahaj here has incredible taste in literature.
Also Blahaj here has incredible taste in literature.
January 23, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bookstore... It is! Because sharks rarely hurt humans and are unfairly treated like monsters rather than the beautiful animals they are! Plus most sharks do not go in bookstores.
Also Blahaj here has incredible taste in literature.
Also Blahaj here has incredible taste in literature.
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Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
Reposted by Corey Farrenkopf
It always bums me out that there aren’t more short story collections and anthologies being talked about on IG and TikTok…
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
It always bums me out that there aren’t more short story collections and anthologies being talked about on IG and TikTok…
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
Librarian friends…the bad thing happened…
I knocked over the whole rack of stacky chairs :(
I knocked over the whole rack of stacky chairs :(
January 22, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Librarian friends…the bad thing happened…
I knocked over the whole rack of stacky chairs :(
I knocked over the whole rack of stacky chairs :(
It always bums me out that there aren’t more short story collections and anthologies being talked about on IG and TikTok…
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
It always bums me out that there aren’t more short story collections and anthologies being talked about on IG and TikTok…
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
So I’m trying to fix that.
Here are 5 great recs from:
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
@undertow.bsky.social
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Nathan Ballingrud
@lenavalencia.bsky.social
Got my contributor’s copy of The Joining!
My story, “Same Barn, Same Groom” is hanging out with so many cool writers in the ToC.
Want to go to a weird weird wedding with us???
My story, “Same Barn, Same Groom” is hanging out with so many cool writers in the ToC.
Want to go to a weird weird wedding with us???
January 20, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Got my contributor’s copy of The Joining!
My story, “Same Barn, Same Groom” is hanging out with so many cool writers in the ToC.
Want to go to a weird weird wedding with us???
My story, “Same Barn, Same Groom” is hanging out with so many cool writers in the ToC.
Want to go to a weird weird wedding with us???
I have to go shovel snow…but I also have a novel to edit…
The weather gods are unkind…
The weather gods are unkind…
January 19, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I have to go shovel snow…but I also have a novel to edit…
The weather gods are unkind…
The weather gods are unkind…
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Rearranged my short story collection shelves!
Want to see a few of my favorites???
Featuring:
@kellylink.bsky.social
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@ambersparks.bsky.social
@jeffreyford8.bsky.social
@thomasha.bsky.social
@acwise.bsky.social
@kristinaten.bsky.social
@paultremblay.bsky.social
Want to see a few of my favorites???
Featuring:
@kellylink.bsky.social
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@ambersparks.bsky.social
@jeffreyford8.bsky.social
@thomasha.bsky.social
@acwise.bsky.social
@kristinaten.bsky.social
@paultremblay.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Rearranged my short story collection shelves!
Want to see a few of my favorites???
Featuring:
@kellylink.bsky.social
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@ambersparks.bsky.social
@jeffreyford8.bsky.social
@thomasha.bsky.social
@acwise.bsky.social
@kristinaten.bsky.social
@paultremblay.bsky.social
Want to see a few of my favorites???
Featuring:
@kellylink.bsky.social
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
@ambersparks.bsky.social
@jeffreyford8.bsky.social
@thomasha.bsky.social
@acwise.bsky.social
@kristinaten.bsky.social
@paultremblay.bsky.social
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A lot happened this week that is way more important, and this feels like a million years ago, but icymi: (1) Uncertain Sons was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award! (2) If you missed getting a copy, Undertow's running a big sale on some 2025 ebooks, incl. this collection for $3! Just 3 man
EBOOKS — Undertow Publications
undertowpublications.com
January 18, 2026 at 9:21 PM
A lot happened this week that is way more important, and this feels like a million years ago, but icymi: (1) Uncertain Sons was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award! (2) If you missed getting a copy, Undertow's running a big sale on some 2025 ebooks, incl. this collection for $3! Just 3 man