ergot.
@ergot.bsky.social
https://www.ergot.press/
: Online magazine publishing innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions open :
: A paying venue :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
: Online magazine publishing innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions open :
: A paying venue :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
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ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
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crucks. oil painting on linen, 2020
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
crucks. oil painting on linen, 2020
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Thrilled to announce the White House has asked me to come up with an unemployment rate for this month. It’s probably like 5% or something? Ballpark. Anyway, feel free to put that in the news. Cheers.
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Thrilled to announce the White House has asked me to come up with an unemployment rate for this month. It’s probably like 5% or something? Ballpark. Anyway, feel free to put that in the news. Cheers.
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2025 Eligibility List
passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
November 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
2025 Eligibility List
passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
passion is my graphic design. art behind the text for Uncertain Sons by @cdsart.bsky.social. thanks in advance if you read (or have already read) any of these this year. much appreciated. will add links or other details at some point maybe.
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Our 2025 award eligibility post! If you've liked anything we've done this year, please consider it in your recommendations.
Thank you for your generous consideration.
Thank you for your generous consideration.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Our 2025 award eligibility post! If you've liked anything we've done this year, please consider it in your recommendations.
Thank you for your generous consideration.
Thank you for your generous consideration.
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A little preview of how fucking cool Gore Poetics is going to be. Can't wait to publish this one next year.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A little preview of how fucking cool Gore Poetics is going to be. Can't wait to publish this one next year.
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This is gonna be great. @spicycloaca.bsky.social is a Brave New Weird award winner, an incredible writer, & a hell of an interior art designer for THE SKULL & LAUREL magazines to boot🖤☠️
A little preview of how fucking cool Gore Poetics is going to be. Can't wait to publish this one next year.
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This is gonna be great. @spicycloaca.bsky.social is a Brave New Weird award winner, an incredible writer, & a hell of an interior art designer for THE SKULL & LAUREL magazines to boot🖤☠️
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Hey, if you have an MM (especially SF, fantasy, and horror) book out in 2026, let me know!
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Hey, if you have an MM (especially SF, fantasy, and horror) book out in 2026, let me know!
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"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..."
ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
Attention Span — Elnura Huseynova
stay for a moment hey november as slipping through your fingers but moving on movement tilts a stroke of time moving as it is one after another which blows statues as if immune to others for you ha…
minorliteratures.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"i wish the blab were genuine moreaway into an urge your heart speaks a sign language or else i’m gasping ..."
ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
ATTENTION SPAN et al — Elnura Huseynova
minorliteratures.com/2025/11/11/a...
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Authors, a terrific series. Please read the guidelines.
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Authors, a terrific series. Please read the guidelines.
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If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you wrote an SF/F/H story that was published in 2025 (or read a story that you thought was great), tell me about it in this thread!
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
Authors, also send your story to me here: johnjosephadams.com/basff-submis... (Please read the guidelines before submitting.)
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Just a head's up: subs to @thedodgemag.bsky.social close on the 15th! I'm reading fiction for Spring and Summer
November 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just a head's up: subs to @thedodgemag.bsky.social close on the 15th! I'm reading fiction for Spring and Summer
ergot. work of the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u3u...
What Halloween felt like
YouTube video by GAKHED
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ergot. work of the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u3u...
There is no new work up on ergot. today.
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There is no new work up on ergot. today.
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
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ergot @ergot.bsky.social is publishing some of the best writing anywhere, had somehow missed the incredible story "Bird Bones" from Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
ergot @ergot.bsky.social is publishing some of the best writing anywhere, had somehow missed the incredible story "Bird Bones" from Ryan Shea @rshea.bsky.social
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This by @rsljnr is just beautiful in its chaos.
'I rang mother. I never ever wanted to. Her thought bubbles betrayed the cinema of her wants'
'I rang mother. I never ever wanted to. Her thought bubbles betrayed the cinema of her wants'
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
This by @rsljnr is just beautiful in its chaos.
'I rang mother. I never ever wanted to. Her thought bubbles betrayed the cinema of her wants'
'I rang mother. I never ever wanted to. Her thought bubbles betrayed the cinema of her wants'
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last week I was able to have one of my fave stories appear in one of my fave publications -- I can't wait to see the next piece they release :)
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
last week I was able to have one of my fave stories appear in one of my fave publications -- I can't wait to see the next piece they release :)
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strange subterranean commotions
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
strange subterranean commotions
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For writers I feel the deepest connection with, I usually ration out their books. One every couple of years. In a perfect world, I could save my favorite of their books for last, but it usually works the opposite way.
November 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For writers I feel the deepest connection with, I usually ration out their books. One every couple of years. In a perfect world, I could save my favorite of their books for last, but it usually works the opposite way.
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surprise! i'm in this issue of The Dark with a reprint of my coastal new weird story "Twilight Tide," which features undead marine creatures, love letters, neurodivergency, and estranged hornysad monsterfucking 🐠💍🦷 i am delighted this was the story they liked
Twilight Tide - The Dark Magazine
The redfish is remarkable because despite the fact it’s dead, it is still moving. Opal, straw flip-flops in hand, watches it arrive. The dimmed, bloated body (once golden, once maroon) pushes itself o...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
surprise! i'm in this issue of The Dark with a reprint of my coastal new weird story "Twilight Tide," which features undead marine creatures, love letters, neurodivergency, and estranged hornysad monsterfucking 🐠💍🦷 i am delighted this was the story they liked
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This newest bit of beautiful word noise from @rsljnr.bsky.social just ripped open my mind. You should let it rip yours open too. Join us.
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This newest bit of beautiful word noise from @rsljnr.bsky.social just ripped open my mind. You should let it rip yours open too. Join us.
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Finally another from @ergot.bsky.social: "A Haunting," inspired not so much by the movie Ghosthouse (though I love the movie Ghosthouse) as by the experience of having watched the movie Ghosthouse too many times
www.ergot.press/authors/Jame...
www.ergot.press/authors/Jame...
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Finally another from @ergot.bsky.social: "A Haunting," inspired not so much by the movie Ghosthouse (though I love the movie Ghosthouse) as by the experience of having watched the movie Ghosthouse too many times
www.ergot.press/authors/Jame...
www.ergot.press/authors/Jame...
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You're all sleeping on @rsljnr.bsky.social. Check out their new story, "Bog Eye", on @ergot.bsky.social. Reads like a Ligottian eulogy with some fantastic prose.
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
You're all sleeping on @rsljnr.bsky.social. Check out their new story, "Bog Eye", on @ergot.bsky.social. Reads like a Ligottian eulogy with some fantastic prose.
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
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the comeuppance has arrived (or has always been arriving?) -- do yourselves a favour and check out the other awesome stories ergot. has, too. truly an amazing publication <3
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
the comeuppance has arrived (or has always been arriving?) -- do yourselves a favour and check out the other awesome stories ergot. has, too. truly an amazing publication <3
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
October 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
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In honor of the day, I'm posting scary stories:
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In honor of the day, I'm posting scary stories:
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."
Here's "A Memory" in @ergot.bsky.social, loosely inspired by the "Einstein room" in Paganini Horror (1989)
"In the new house there was a tunnel...one could pass through and find on reaching the far end that one had returned to the tunnel’s entrance."