Jon Padgett
@grimscribepress.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of Thomas Ligotti Online and Grimscribe Press. Ligotti narrator for Penguin Random House Audio. Author of THE SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISM. he/him.
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I also feel like shouting out @ivygrimes.bsky.social !
Her Glass Stories, published last year, is one of the strangest and finest collections I've ever read.
grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/
Her Glass Stories, published last year, is one of the strangest and finest collections I've ever read.
grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/
Glass Stories
Author: Ivy Grimes Cover Artist: Jesse Peper Publication Date: August 21, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 142 pp. Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included worldwide…
grimscribepress.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I also feel like shouting out @ivygrimes.bsky.social !
Her Glass Stories, published last year, is one of the strangest and finest collections I've ever read.
grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/
Her Glass Stories, published last year, is one of the strangest and finest collections I've ever read.
grimscribepress.com/glass-stories/
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Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!
August 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Shout out to @undertow.bsky.social , @badhandbooks.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social , @wordhorde.bsky.social and @dimshores.bsky.social . I have not read a piece from any of these small print presses that wasn't amazing. The work they do is extraordinary. Go out and support them today!
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Today I celebrate the one-year anniversary of the birth of Glass Stories from the grizzled womb of @grimscribepress.bsky.social.
To mark the occasion, I will give my own personal rating of each story in the collection (out of 5 stars).
This will be my longest thread ever.
To mark the occasion, I will give my own personal rating of each story in the collection (out of 5 stars).
This will be my longest thread ever.
August 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Today I celebrate the one-year anniversary of the birth of Glass Stories from the grizzled womb of @grimscribepress.bsky.social.
To mark the occasion, I will give my own personal rating of each story in the collection (out of 5 stars).
This will be my longest thread ever.
To mark the occasion, I will give my own personal rating of each story in the collection (out of 5 stars).
This will be my longest thread ever.
Your humble servant will be narrating.
Thomas Ligotti's The Shadow, the Darkness
Thomas Ligotti's The Shadow, the Darkness "Live" in Philadelphia. Date: 9/20/25 Time 6:00 PM Where: The Convent 1648 E Berks St, Philadelphia, PA 19125 Do you need a ticket? No. We will have a list wi...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Your humble servant will be narrating.
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New essay! In which Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) made me stop and consider how place & space can work in short stories, in ways I previously hadn't appreciated (thru Ive Grimes' collection).
Read now! It's free! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
Read now! It's free! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
New essay! In which Ben Lockwood (@benlockwood.bsky.social) made me stop and consider how place & space can work in short stories, in ways I previously hadn't appreciated (thru Ive Grimes' collection).
Read now! It's free! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
Read now! It's free! Tell your friends!
www.speculativeinsight.com
Tag @ivygrimes.bsky.social
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Fresh off the press!
Our first review column! Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal, includes Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart, Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele
www.heartlines-spec.com/coup-de-coeu...
Our first review column! Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal, includes Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart, Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele
www.heartlines-spec.com/coup-de-coeu...
Coup de Coeur:
Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal
www.heartlines-spec.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Fresh off the press!
Our first review column! Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal, includes Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart, Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele
www.heartlines-spec.com/coup-de-coeu...
Our first review column! Coup de Coeur: Recent Canadian spec-fic reads by Lulu Vidal, includes Ordinary Wonder Tales by Emily Urquhart, Northern Nights ed. Michael Kelly and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele
www.heartlines-spec.com/coup-de-coeu...
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Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a publishing house dedicated to the work and influence of author Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe Press (@grimscribepress.bsky.social).
July 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Throughout July, we're celebrating INDEPENDENTS at the Emporium! Today, we’re looking at a publishing house dedicated to the work and influence of author Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe Press (@grimscribepress.bsky.social).
Happy 72nd birthday to my friend, Thomas Ligotti.
July 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Happy 72nd birthday to my friend, Thomas Ligotti.
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“I have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair.”
The Shambler from the Stars, by Robert Bloch
Narrator: Jon Padgett
Host: Joshua Tuttle
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/06/21/p...
This story first appeared in Weird Tales, September 1935
The Shambler from the Stars, by Robert Bloch
Narrator: Jon Padgett
Host: Joshua Tuttle
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/06/21/p...
This story first appeared in Weird Tales, September 1935
PseudoPod 981: The Shambler from the Stars | PseudoPod
I have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair. It was my own blundering that precipitated that unforeseen horror upon us both; my own stupidity that caused our downfall.
pseudopod.org
June 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
“I have nobody but myself to blame for the whole affair.”
The Shambler from the Stars, by Robert Bloch
Narrator: Jon Padgett
Host: Joshua Tuttle
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/06/21/p...
This story first appeared in Weird Tales, September 1935
The Shambler from the Stars, by Robert Bloch
Narrator: Jon Padgett
Host: Joshua Tuttle
Audio: Chelsea Davis
pseudopod.org/2025/06/21/p...
This story first appeared in Weird Tales, September 1935
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Featured artwork by Vincent Napoli
Tagging 👆 @grimscribepress.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social
Everything we do is funded by you. If you can, please go to pseudopod.org and click FEED THE POD
Tagging 👆 @grimscribepress.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social
Everything we do is funded by you. If you can, please go to pseudopod.org and click FEED THE POD
PseudoPod | The Sound of Horror
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June 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Featured artwork by Vincent Napoli
Tagging 👆 @grimscribepress.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social
Everything we do is funded by you. If you can, please go to pseudopod.org and click FEED THE POD
Tagging 👆 @grimscribepress.bsky.social @chelsead.bsky.social
Everything we do is funded by you. If you can, please go to pseudopod.org and click FEED THE POD
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Imagine Trump and Elon sending a bunch of oil drillers to an asteroid to nuke it so it splits in half to avoid a collision with Earth and then this happens on launch.
Jun 19: SpaceX Starship 36 explodes into massive fireball during static test last night
June 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Imagine Trump and Elon sending a bunch of oil drillers to an asteroid to nuke it so it splits in half to avoid a collision with Earth and then this happens on launch.
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get swept up with us today into today's square from Ivy Grimes
"...he said he had news. He was going to ask our mutual friend to be his girlfriend. It was the first time I'd ever been alone with R. "Why are you telling me this?" I said."
https://www.havehashad.com/ud9j6
"...he said he had news. He was going to ask our mutual friend to be his girlfriend. It was the first time I'd ever been alone with R. "Why are you telling me this?" I said."
https://www.havehashad.com/ud9j6
June 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
get swept up with us today into today's square from Ivy Grimes
"...he said he had news. He was going to ask our mutual friend to be his girlfriend. It was the first time I'd ever been alone with R. "Why are you telling me this?" I said."
https://www.havehashad.com/ud9j6
"...he said he had news. He was going to ask our mutual friend to be his girlfriend. It was the first time I'd ever been alone with R. "Why are you telling me this?" I said."
https://www.havehashad.com/ud9j6
Congrats to all and especially these authors, including the great Sam Cowan of Dim Shores! We’re looking forward to publishing Fawver’s newest collection this fall!
Congrats to all nominees for the 2024 Shirley Jackson Awards. Special congrats to @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and @kfawver.bsky.social, whose Dim Shores chapbooks were nominated in the Novella (Nadia) and Novelette (Kurt) categories.
June 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Congrats to all and especially these authors, including the great Sam Cowan of Dim Shores! We’re looking forward to publishing Fawver’s newest collection this fall!
I heard recently that a popular horror podcast was slagging off Ligotti’s short story, “The Red Tower.” My response: uploading a reading of it to YouTube. “Purple prosed” nonsense or singular masterpiece or something else entirely? You decide.
The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti
YouTube video by Jon Padgett
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April 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I heard recently that a popular horror podcast was slagging off Ligotti’s short story, “The Red Tower.” My response: uploading a reading of it to YouTube. “Purple prosed” nonsense or singular masterpiece or something else entirely? You decide.
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The SECRET GATEWAYS books have arrived!!!
Thank you to Matthew and Jon for working tirelessly to get these to their fans!
Thank you to Sam @ Dim Shores for pitching in to get these organized and mailed out.
@mattmbartlett.bsky.social
@grimscribepress.bsky.social
@dimshores.bsky.social
Thank you to Matthew and Jon for working tirelessly to get these to their fans!
Thank you to Sam @ Dim Shores for pitching in to get these organized and mailed out.
@mattmbartlett.bsky.social
@grimscribepress.bsky.social
@dimshores.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The SECRET GATEWAYS books have arrived!!!
Thank you to Matthew and Jon for working tirelessly to get these to their fans!
Thank you to Sam @ Dim Shores for pitching in to get these organized and mailed out.
@mattmbartlett.bsky.social
@grimscribepress.bsky.social
@dimshores.bsky.social
Thank you to Matthew and Jon for working tirelessly to get these to their fans!
Thank you to Sam @ Dim Shores for pitching in to get these organized and mailed out.
@mattmbartlett.bsky.social
@grimscribepress.bsky.social
@dimshores.bsky.social
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April 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Another very good book I finished back in January: Glass Stories by @ivygrimes.bsky.social . Themed single author collection, really cool idea, executed beautifully. Satisfying, varied range of strange, symbolic fantasies of dread, love and horror of the body, the domus, immanence and transformation
March 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Another very good book I finished back in January: Glass Stories by @ivygrimes.bsky.social . Themed single author collection, really cool idea, executed beautifully. Satisfying, varied range of strange, symbolic fantasies of dread, love and horror of the body, the domus, immanence and transformation
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oh my fabulous fiends of #HorrorReads! The poll is complete, and the story we're going to discuss this Sunday at 9PM EST will be Venio by Gemma Files! Give it a listen in the next few days and join us!
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February 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
oh my fabulous fiends of #HorrorReads! The poll is complete, and the story we're going to discuss this Sunday at 9PM EST will be Venio by Gemma Files! Give it a listen in the next few days and join us!
pseudopod.org/2019/11/04/p...
pseudopod.org/2019/11/04/p...
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When @sgj.bsky.social, @lairdbarron.bsky.social, Mariana Enriquez, @elizabethhand.bsky.social & @paultremblay.bsky.social all show up to talk horror w/ the director of THEY REMAIN... I am SO there! Series starts Feb 3, subscribe to @etchfilm.bsky.social's substack.
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First Word On Horror
A new documentary series featuring bestselling horror authors on their lives, the writing process, and the fears that make us human.
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January 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
When @sgj.bsky.social, @lairdbarron.bsky.social, Mariana Enriquez, @elizabethhand.bsky.social & @paultremblay.bsky.social all show up to talk horror w/ the director of THEY REMAIN... I am SO there! Series starts Feb 3, subscribe to @etchfilm.bsky.social's substack.
open.substack.com/pub/etchstud...
open.substack.com/pub/etchstud...
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Finished a breathtaking short story collection Santa brought me. Mindf* collection, composed of interconnected stories, reading more like a composite novel. Origami Dreams and both stories with Ventriloquism in their titles my favorites. Strongly recommended! 5/5
From @grimscribepress.bsky.social
From @grimscribepress.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Finished a breathtaking short story collection Santa brought me. Mindf* collection, composed of interconnected stories, reading more like a composite novel. Origami Dreams and both stories with Ventriloquism in their titles my favorites. Strongly recommended! 5/5
From @grimscribepress.bsky.social
From @grimscribepress.bsky.social
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"In a castle far from every prince" in F&SF
"We're all Mad here" in Orion's Belt
"Against cold stone" in Vastarien @grimscribepress.bsky.social
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"We're all Mad here" in Orion's Belt
"Against cold stone" in Vastarien @grimscribepress.bsky.social
www.orions-belt.net/archives/wer...
We’re All Mad Here — Orion's Belt
Broken teacups in her wake
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January 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"In a castle far from every prince" in F&SF
"We're all Mad here" in Orion's Belt
"Against cold stone" in Vastarien @grimscribepress.bsky.social
www.orions-belt.net/archives/wer...
"We're all Mad here" in Orion's Belt
"Against cold stone" in Vastarien @grimscribepress.bsky.social
www.orions-belt.net/archives/wer...
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Celebrating the last few days of the year with some excellent weird fiction by @kfawver.bsky.social. @grimscribepress.bsky.social
December 28, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Celebrating the last few days of the year with some excellent weird fiction by @kfawver.bsky.social. @grimscribepress.bsky.social
Merry Xmas from the cat crew! 90% funding achieved! www.gofundme.com/f/fund-for-f...
December 25, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Merry Xmas from the cat crew! 90% funding achieved! www.gofundme.com/f/fund-for-f...
Frank was a neighbor and colleague of my wife who died suddenly, leaving a cat colony for which to care. Please help as you’re able.
Donate to FUND FOR FRANK'S CATS, organized by Carolyn Hembree
University of New Orleans philosophy professor Frank Schalow died suddenly on May 25 at the age … Carolyn Hembree needs your support for FUND FOR FRANK'S CATS
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December 25, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Frank was a neighbor and colleague of my wife who died suddenly, leaving a cat colony for which to care. Please help as you’re able.