John Claude Smith
@jcsmith0919.bsky.social
Writer of Weird Horror and other oddities. Latest book is Autumn in the Abyss Redux. More on the way. Yes, this is me.
Technology.
I love it and I hate it.
Anyway. There’s a file awaiting my attention.
I love it and I hate it.
Anyway. There’s a file awaiting my attention.
January 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Technology.
I love it and I hate it.
Anyway. There’s a file awaiting my attention.
I love it and I hate it.
Anyway. There’s a file awaiting my attention.
It’s a good thing the car ran out of gas…
😅
Words. Workout. That’s what’s on my agenda.
😅
Words. Workout. That’s what’s on my agenda.
January 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
It’s a good thing the car ran out of gas…
😅
Words. Workout. That’s what’s on my agenda.
😅
Words. Workout. That’s what’s on my agenda.
Burroughs and yours truly.
As ready to face the new year as well ever be…
😳😅✍️💪
As ready to face the new year as well ever be…
😳😅✍️💪
January 1, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Burroughs and yours truly.
As ready to face the new year as well ever be…
😳😅✍️💪
As ready to face the new year as well ever be…
😳😅✍️💪
Huge end of the year news!
From the Hybrid Sequence Media: John Claude Smith releases Our Savage Anatomies “…a road trip, a love story and a monstrous manipulation of vampire/werewolf politics with a brutal twist..." [this blurb courtesy of Sunni Ellis, author of One Hell of a Night in Mexico]
From the Hybrid Sequence Media: John Claude Smith releases Our Savage Anatomies “…a road trip, a love story and a monstrous manipulation of vampire/werewolf politics with a brutal twist..." [this blurb courtesy of Sunni Ellis, author of One Hell of a Night in Mexico]
January 1, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Huge end of the year news!
From the Hybrid Sequence Media: John Claude Smith releases Our Savage Anatomies “…a road trip, a love story and a monstrous manipulation of vampire/werewolf politics with a brutal twist..." [this blurb courtesy of Sunni Ellis, author of One Hell of a Night in Mexico]
From the Hybrid Sequence Media: John Claude Smith releases Our Savage Anatomies “…a road trip, a love story and a monstrous manipulation of vampire/werewolf politics with a brutal twist..." [this blurb courtesy of Sunni Ellis, author of One Hell of a Night in Mexico]
Gift card reading suggestions from yours truly. I have three books available. Check them out.
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Autumn in the Abyss Redux
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Autumn in the Abyss Redux
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Autumn in the Abyss Redux
Autumn in the Abyss Redux - Kindle edition by Smith, John Claude. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Autumn in the Abyss Redux.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Gift card reading suggestions from yours truly. I have three books available. Check them out.
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Autumn in the Abyss Redux
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
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Autumn in the Abyss Redux
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
Gift card reading suggestions from yours truly. I have three books available. Check them out.
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Riding the Centipede
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Riding the Centipede
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Riding the Centipede
Amazon.com: Riding the Centipede eBook : Smith, John Claude: Books
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December 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Gift card reading suggestions from yours truly. I have three books available. Check them out.
2
Riding the Centipede
www.amazon.com/Riding-Centi...
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Riding the Centipede
www.amazon.com/Riding-Centi...
Gift card reading suggestions from yours truly. I have three books available. Check them out.
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The Wilderness Within
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The Wilderness Within
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December 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Gift card reading suggestions from yours truly. I have three books available. Check them out.
1
The Wilderness Within
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...
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The Wilderness Within
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1...
It’s always a delight when my good friend Sophia Loren decides to drop by, especially during this strange Christmas we’re having this year.
December 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It’s always a delight when my good friend Sophia Loren decides to drop by, especially during this strange Christmas we’re having this year.
I always knew these two were in cahoots...
;-)
Enjoy your Christmas Eve. Me, Mostly resting and reading sounds about right.
;-)
Enjoy your Christmas Eve. Me, Mostly resting and reading sounds about right.
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I always knew these two were in cahoots...
;-)
Enjoy your Christmas Eve. Me, Mostly resting and reading sounds about right.
;-)
Enjoy your Christmas Eve. Me, Mostly resting and reading sounds about right.
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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Since I see Kindle is trending, seems like a good time to post that my scifi novel from this year is just $1.99. Follow a quirky batch of scientists through a trippy story in a town where the boundaries of reality are stretched: www.amazon.com/Azure-Cove-A...
The Azure Cove Assignment
Amazon.com: The Azure Cove Assignment eBook : Welke, Ian: Kindle Store
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December 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Since I see Kindle is trending, seems like a good time to post that my scifi novel from this year is just $1.99. Follow a quirky batch of scientists through a trippy story in a town where the boundaries of reality are stretched: www.amazon.com/Azure-Cove-A...
More poetry!
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amr...
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner [Flight 666 DVD] HD
YouTube video by Evert Durden
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December 12, 2025 at 12:45 AM
More poetry!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amr...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Amr...
The soundtrack for my morning semi-workout comes from Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman as they combine their talents for David Cronenberg's brilliant Naked Lunch.
Writing, at the moment, is mostly lots of notes.
That is...where I am.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYM...
Writing, at the moment, is mostly lots of notes.
That is...where I am.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYM...
Naked Lunch Soundtrack - Howard Shore - Ornette Coleman - The London Philharmonic Orchestra
YouTube video by Jane Doe
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December 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The soundtrack for my morning semi-workout comes from Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman as they combine their talents for David Cronenberg's brilliant Naked Lunch.
Writing, at the moment, is mostly lots of notes.
That is...where I am.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYM...
Writing, at the moment, is mostly lots of notes.
That is...where I am.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPYM...
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A journalist from The Indian Express spoke to me about my fiction. I don't sound like a total prat.
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
Writer’s Corner: How Jayaprakash Satyamurthy brings horror into the nooks and crannies of Bengaluru
According to Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, author of Shelter From The Storm and Weird Tales of a Bangalorean, horror is an interesting way to explore the layered aspects of life, past and present, coming i...
indianexpress.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
A journalist from The Indian Express spoke to me about my fiction. I don't sound like a total prat.
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
indianexpress.com/article/citi...
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Hey! Got a reader on your Christmas list?
Paperbacks of SINNERS RIDE make great gifts!
Real readers call it "Terrific weird western!" and say they're "ready for more!"
mybook.to/LyuCY
Paperbacks of SINNERS RIDE make great gifts!
Real readers call it "Terrific weird western!" and say they're "ready for more!"
mybook.to/LyuCY
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Hey! Got a reader on your Christmas list?
Paperbacks of SINNERS RIDE make great gifts!
Real readers call it "Terrific weird western!" and say they're "ready for more!"
mybook.to/LyuCY
Paperbacks of SINNERS RIDE make great gifts!
Real readers call it "Terrific weird western!" and say they're "ready for more!"
mybook.to/LyuCY
This book is quite good.
Glancing at recent reads, all women. Many from different countries. I am totally into it!
Also of note: with the recent passing of my mother, this was a hell of a book to be up next…
Glancing at recent reads, all women. Many from different countries. I am totally into it!
Also of note: with the recent passing of my mother, this was a hell of a book to be up next…
December 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This book is quite good.
Glancing at recent reads, all women. Many from different countries. I am totally into it!
Also of note: with the recent passing of my mother, this was a hell of a book to be up next…
Glancing at recent reads, all women. Many from different countries. I am totally into it!
Also of note: with the recent passing of my mother, this was a hell of a book to be up next…
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Today’s the day for this one, from Open Road. openroadmedia.com/ebook/states...
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today’s the day for this one, from Open Road. openroadmedia.com/ebook/states...
Just woke up from a bizarre dream which included meeting a fave author…just as I had partially shaved off my goatee and was headed to the bathroom. He told me about a strange event he’d had on the road. I said he should use it in a novel. He said, I don’t think so,” and meant it. WTF?
😅🤔
😅🤔
December 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Just woke up from a bizarre dream which included meeting a fave author…just as I had partially shaved off my goatee and was headed to the bathroom. He told me about a strange event he’d had on the road. I said he should use it in a novel. He said, I don’t think so,” and meant it. WTF?
😅🤔
😅🤔
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releasing on Tuesday: a bunch of tiny stories that are like the nematodes on SpongeBob, just mindlessly gnawing at the edges of the world. and making their own sound effects.
Preordered! 🖤
States of Grace
Stories
Expanded edition by Stephen Graham Jones
Available December 9th!
@sgj.bsky.social
States of Grace
Stories
Expanded edition by Stephen Graham Jones
Available December 9th!
@sgj.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
releasing on Tuesday: a bunch of tiny stories that are like the nematodes on SpongeBob, just mindlessly gnawing at the edges of the world. and making their own sound effects.
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Twinkle in Your Eye Tuesday: Time to buy a copy of IF YOU KNEW ME for the holidays.
Cyber Monday me, readers. $3.99 Kindle, gorgeous paperback, primo audio. Treat yourself to a funny, chilly story of two women trying to make a name for themselves in a world that couldn't care less.
If You Knew Me: A Novel
Amazon.com: If You Knew Me: A Novel: 9781662531835: Miskowski, S.P.: Books
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December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Twinkle in Your Eye Tuesday: Time to buy a copy of IF YOU KNEW ME for the holidays.
Saturn and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving or, if that’s not your thing, a great day.
This art comes courtesy of Francisco Goya.
This art comes courtesy of Francisco Goya.
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Saturn and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving or, if that’s not your thing, a great day.
This art comes courtesy of Francisco Goya.
This art comes courtesy of Francisco Goya.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Stuff your Turkey with some weird horror…
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Deep into Autumn now, might I suggest you spend it in the Abyss with my good friend the mad poet, Henry Coronado?
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
Autumn in the Abyss Redux
Autumn in the Abyss Redux - Kindle edition by Smith, John Claude. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Autumn in the Abyss Redux.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Stuff your Turkey with some weird horror…
😳📖
😳📖
Reposted by John Claude Smith
SINNERS RIDE is the weird western you need in your life.
Ben Keelock was hanged at sundown. By sunrise, he was riding again.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G36C8VZ1
Ben Keelock was hanged at sundown. By sunrise, he was riding again.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G36C8VZ1
Sinners Ride
Sinners Ride - Kindle edition by Barrows , Brandon. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sinners Ride.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
SINNERS RIDE is the weird western you need in your life.
Ben Keelock was hanged at sundown. By sunrise, he was riding again.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G36C8VZ1
Ben Keelock was hanged at sundown. By sunrise, he was riding again.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G36C8VZ1
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A heartwarming festive story of presidential destruction.
Epstein’s Ghost
Christmas Past is coming for Trump…and MAGA
chadbourn.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A heartwarming festive story of presidential destruction.