David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚
@daviddemchuk.com
I put the sewer into connoisseur. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. https://linktr.ee/ddemchuk
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You may know the tale of Sweeney Todd, but what of the tale of Mrs. Lovett? The Butcher’s Daughter, by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark. Serving customers May 2025 🥧🔪
Pictured: the members of “IntegrityTO”
The folks at IntegrityTO have finally weighed in on neighbourhood retail with AI generated scenes of creepy faceless loiterers congregating outside a 7-11…
Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.
Mind you the recommendation (that didn’t make it past committee) was for *corner lots*. They can’t even prompt right.
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Pictured: the members of “IntegrityTO”
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If you missed this week's talk on powerful and vulnerable women in supernatural k-dramas... you can find it here
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
Women from Nightmares: Vulnerability and Powerful Women in K-dramas with Soumili Hazra
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you missed this week's talk on powerful and vulnerable women in supernatural k-dramas... you can find it here
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
youtu.be/sBnTwqRdX3Q
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Musk should just hand the whole of twitter over to Joyce Carol Oates, lock stock and barrel, and walk away like in an old timey poker game.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Musk should just hand the whole of twitter over to Joyce Carol Oates, lock stock and barrel, and walk away like in an old timey poker game.
That’s me I am girlfriend
Girlfriend To Stay Underneath Blanket For Next 5 Months https://theonion.com/girlfriend-to-stay-underneath-blanket-for-next-5-months-1819575780/
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
That’s me I am girlfriend
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The scene in which the kid composes 'Ben' is perhaps one of the greatest fake composition scenes in cinema. Certainly better than Jeremy Allen White dicking around with his 4 track www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfCL...
Ben (1972) - Ben's Song
YouTube video by Tobey Maguire (Peter Parker)
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November 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The scene in which the kid composes 'Ben' is perhaps one of the greatest fake composition scenes in cinema. Certainly better than Jeremy Allen White dicking around with his 4 track www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfCL...
When the foghorn starts to wail and the mists draw closer to shore, you know it must be time for another Sunday Scaries. buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...
It's in the seas! It's coming!
Phantoms in the fog, babies washed ashore, one-eyed gulls with attitude, and 111,000 spiders in the dark. This must be the Sunday Scaries!
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November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
When the foghorn starts to wail and the mists draw closer to shore, you know it must be time for another Sunday Scaries. buttondown.com/daviddemchuk...
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I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I've made @thomasha.bsky.social's original novelette "Uncertain Sons" - from his debut collection - available to read for those catching up on year-end reading, for awards eligibility and recommendations. Enjoy!
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
We appreciate your kind consideration.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
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Frankenstein is the ultimate cautionary tale against making up a guy to get mad at
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Frankenstein is the ultimate cautionary tale against making up a guy to get mad at
Hi everyone, award-winning horror writer here. So here’s the thing: No. Absolutely not. Not a fucking chance.
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hi everyone, award-winning horror writer here. So here’s the thing: No. Absolutely not. Not a fucking chance.
She smiles and says “I will always love you”
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
She smiles and says “I will always love you”
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HALIFAX! In just over two hours I will be at Cafe Lara reading and discussing post-traumatic narratives. It is free to attend! I'm looking forward to seeing you!
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Reframing Narratives For The Post-Traumatic Experience - Afterwords Literary Festival
With Peter Counter
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November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
HALIFAX! In just over two hours I will be at Cafe Lara reading and discussing post-traumatic narratives. It is free to attend! I'm looking forward to seeing you!
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There should be 33 1/3 style books about specific wrestling feuds/stories/matches
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Done.
I sure would appreciate it if you spent about 20 seconds of your Friday signing up to get my writing sent straight to you. It's free, it's fun (sometimes), and it would mean a lot: dansinker.com/follow/
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Done.
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If you enjoy watching talks by experts in Gothic and horror that are free to access and made internationally available... why not support the project so I can keep running it and keep paying people to participate.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you enjoy watching talks by experts in Gothic and horror that are free to access and made internationally available... why not support the project so I can keep running it and keep paying people to participate.
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Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Anyway I hadn't heard anyone talking about this, so I guess I'm gonna talk about it. Spread the word if you're thinking about doing an nsfw KS project, Stripe apparently might pull your funding at literally any step of the process, with zero warning!
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NOPE (2022) on one hand a Speilbergesque thriller-metaphor about how Hollywood literally chews peple up and spits them out and they only way to survive is to be literally indigestible and also the best thing inspired by a treehouse of horror episode
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 AM
NOPE (2022) on one hand a Speilbergesque thriller-metaphor about how Hollywood literally chews peple up and spits them out and they only way to survive is to be literally indigestible and also the best thing inspired by a treehouse of horror episode
A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025
Eligible Works 2025 — David Demchuk
www.daviddemchuk.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
A dark and stormy night! The perfect time to remind you of my awards-eligible for 2025: short story The Start of Something in Weird Horror 11; an essay in @raforall.bsky.social's Why I Love Horror; and The Butcher's Daughter, co-written with Corinne Leigh Clark. www.daviddemchuk.com/eligible-2025
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Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
Eligibility Lists – The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA)
www.csffa.ca
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Psst! Canadians! The eligibility lists for the Aurora Awards are now open for work originally published in 2025. Make sure your speculative fiction, poetry, art, and eligible related work is listed!
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
www.csffa.ca/awards-infor...
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PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)
In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil
"The year's great work of literary horror."
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