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Jack Klausner
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Writer. Fiction in The Dark, ergot., Weird Horror, Fictionable, and elsewhere.
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

"My Stalagmite" for the Literary Nasties. This is a 1k story I wrote about butt plugs and body horror. Here's how it works:

1) read story: www.twinpiesliterary.com/fuck-us-up/m...
2) vote for story: filthyloot.com/literary-nas...

Thank you for your support!
Literary Nasties - filthy loot press
Click Here To Vote! It’s time for the FOURTH Annual Literary Nasties Awards!  Presented by Filthy Loot and Rebecca Rowland, the Literary Nasties exist to honor groundbreaking “misfit,” “cult,” and gen...
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December 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥

Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.

Weird is strong🖤☠️

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Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
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January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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I'm currently writing the next installment of our somewhat haphazard newsletter and it might be of particular interest to submitting writers who were promised Part 2 of what qualities suffuse a potential STP story.

You can read Part 1 from last year here.
004: It's All About the Vibes
Sign up to the newsletter now We know what we want and it’s idiosyncratic dislocation One thing readers have always said about STP is that we have a...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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Today is Kathe Koja’s birthday!!! This is also a reminder that Kathe is one of the greatest living authors of horror/dark fiction and she had the most explosive, remarkable debut since Barker’s Books of Blood. They don’t crash land on the horror scene like they used to. Love you, Kathe! ❤️
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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Two of my stories from 2024 are in this list. Which is nice. In good company, too.
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Full list of BH #17 recommendations part 2
Hogan, Sean “Wassail,” Unquiet Slumbers. Holder, Nancy “The Captain’s Wife,” Where the Silent Ones Watch.Holi, Emily “Buttons,” Mother Knows Best.Hollingsworth, Matt “Zagreb,” Winter in the City.Ho…
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January 4, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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send Zach cool shit! send him current & upcoming collections you're passionate about, especially if you fear they'll slip between the cracks! advocate for yourself and for your peers you admire
megapolisomancy.bsky.social Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 15d
Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact
January 1, 2026 at 10:18 PM
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Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Writers! Vol. 2 of 'The Best Weird Fiction of the Year' is open to your submissions. Please adhere to the guidelines.

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GUIDELINES (Please read carefully) NOTE: I receive over 2,000 submissions per call. Only writers whose work is selected for the volume will receive a response. Thanks for understanding. This is a reprint fiction anthology, to be published later this year, 2026. I am seeking material first published last year, in 2025. To be clear, only weird fiction FIRST published in 2025 is eligible for inclusion in this volume. I will accept translated work as long as the first English-language publication was 2025. To repeat—this volume is for stories originally first published in 2025. We are not accepting previously unpublished stories, or stories published prior to 2025 in any form. Stories between 500 and 17,499 words are considered. Please check with your publisher if you are uncertain about the reprint rights to your work. Stories created with or assisted by Generative AI, in any way, are ineligible and will not be considered. Audio only stories are also ineligible, unless they also appeared as text. Writers can send in their work using the form below only. Do not e-mail your story. You can send up to three (3) stories, but each must be sent separately. Ensure your byline and e-mail address are on the manuscript. NOTE: The submission form does not like any strange characters—asterisks, parenthesis, hashtags, etc.—in the form fields. Please use text and numbers only. Deadline for all material is February 28. Payment is a small $25 U.S. honorarium and 1 copy each of the print and electronic editions.
January 2, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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We're open for fiction submissions!

We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.

No closing date, open indefinitely.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
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January 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Time for a stock take.
It's been an odd year for me. Mental health stuff, which I'm thankful to have come out the other side of. Only recently have I been able to not just absorb, but enjoy, writing, film, art. These last couple of months, I've gradually started to feel like myself again (1/5)
December 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.
JAMES MERRILL CHRISTMAS TREE From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks, That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me, The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining — Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver, A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear, Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin. Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully! No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's Dusk room aglow For the last time With candlelight. Faces love-lit, Gifts underfoot. Still to be so poised, so Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Happy to share that I’ll have a story in the next volume of the Horror Library anthology series! Coming in February, available for preorder now.
ericjguignard.bsky.social Eric J. Guignard @ericjguignard.bsky.social · 25d
DAY 6 OF 6 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 9 (from @darkmoonbooks.bsky.social )
More here:
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#HorrorLibrary, #anthology, #DarkMoonBooks, #NewRelease
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Oh, just saw a nice mention for Weird Horror in Best Horror 17, edited by @datlow.bsky.social and out today!!
....generous helpings of weird fiction. There was notable dark fiction from RJ Taylor, Jack Klausner, Aimee Ogden, Sean Padraic Birnie, Elin Olausson, Derrick Boden, Hiron Ennes, Nelson Stanley, Sasha Brown, Jorja Osha, Mike O'Driscoll, Avra Margariti, and Perry Ruhland.
December 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Ending 2025 with 2 v short pieces at @alwayscrashing.bsky.social, concerning a judgement and a curse. Find ‘Pivot’ & ‘Jinx’ here: alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...

Many thanks to the editors for finding a place for these 2 odd bits. Delighted to make my debut in a such an interesting publication.
SEÁN PADRAIC BIRNIE / 2 STORIES — always crashing
Pivot I did not mean to hit the child, but in standing, turning, swinging my arm, my hand, my fingers with long fingernails, it appeared that I swung that arm and hand intentionally, so as to hit the...
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December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Another winner. Great nonfic from Strantzas on juxtaposition and from Peak, disguised as fiction, on ontology. Killer stories by Say, Kuryla, Humphrey and excellent bookends from Demchuk and Klausner (both on identity juxtaposed with ontology, actually)
ISSUE II / FALL 2025 / FICTION / OPINION / COMMENTARY WEIRD HORROR DAVID DEMCHUK ANDREW HUMPHREY CYAN KATZ JACK KLAUSNER MARY KURYLA DAVID PEAK RORY SAY JOCELYN SZCZEPANIAK-GILLECE JUNIPER WHITE A.C. WISE
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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joe koch isn't just one of the finest writers of weird and transgressive literature working, today, but truly is one of the best to ever do it.
if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?
November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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This one is indeed rather good.
undertow.bsky.social Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Dec 5
@spencerwriting.bsky.social's IN THE DREAM, HE IS SKINLESS AND BEAUTIFUL is on HWA Bram Stoker Award Reading List. What's that mean? Don't know. But maybe you want to read and rec a story about skin, loss, and the dripping viscera of the thoughts we keep inside ourselves.

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Skinless and Beautiful — Weird Horror Magazine
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December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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@nmwhitley.bsky.social thank you for the mention!
Some love for my story "Jar of Arms"
From the free Ligotti tribute anthology We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
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We Shall Speak Again of The Red Tower, a recent anthology of short stories inspired by or written in tribute to Thomas Ligotti’s classic “The Red Tower”, is a project that feels like it was undertaken on a dare. Like a gang of kids egging each other on to go knock on the door of the haunted house, but no one wants to go it alone, i’ll go if you go, no you first, and pretty soon they’re all inside the haunted house together. Of course, in this analogy, the house is some other kind of construction… Each kid emerges with a different takeaway on what happened to them inside: clinical (Joelle Killian) confessional (Carson Winter), satirical(C.J. Subko), monomaniacal (Jack Klausner), hysterical (TJ Price), metafictional/metaphysical (RSL), but all of them (and srsly they cannot stress this enough) definitely encrimsoned.
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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I'm up at HAD today and yet my family is still not showing me any respect

seems weird
havehashad.com HAD @havehashad.com · Nov 23
"If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a Republican..."

some rules today from Sasha Brown

https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
Narc Rules by Sasha Brown
If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"When it comes to horror, I’m drawn to the paranoid and the pessimistic. Naturally, Ligotti’s work appeals to me."

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Interview with authors of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
Ligotti, community, encrimsoning
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November 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Coming Spring 2026, issue 12! Art by @marcpotts.bsky.social Design by Vince Haig. Words by @rajivmote.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social and more.

Pre-orders will go up early in the new year.
Cover for issue 12 of Weird Horror. Cover shows art by Marc Potts called "Frost Witch". Blue/Grey color scheme of witch floating or moving above the grounds as their harir and garments trail
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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valkyriekaren.bsky.social Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · Nov 13
But what if we kissed inside the giant taxidermy cetacean?
An image of a taxidermy blue whale displayed in a museum. Text says "The world's only taxidermied blue whale, dating back to 1865CE, is housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. However, due an an incident involving a couple having sex inside it, the whale's jaws are now only opened on special occasions"
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Resharing this because I feel like I've raised my head above water finally. Got to write a piece for this that was probably the most fun I had, trying to pay homage to Ligotti's story-turned-essay format. I could analyse the AMAZING authors in this AS WELL as ramble about random theories--the DREAM
carsonwinter.bsky.social Carson Winter @carsonwinter.bsky.social · Oct 16
COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE

WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
October 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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… not to mention the haunting in The Coalface by @jackklausner.bsky.social

Get all these and more at fictionable.world/issues_front...
Fictionable: issues
Check out the Fictionable archive
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October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Looking back through our #archive of more than 50 #exclusive #ShortStories and #comics on this #spooky night, there are 'half-things' hovering just out of view in Daisy Johnson's Conference…

Image: Intricate Explorer

#Halloween #books #reading #writing #fiction #translation #blog
A carved pumpkin shines out in the darkness, with blurry lights behind
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM