John K. Peck
@johnkpeck.bsky.social
Author, woodcarver, Musiker, printer, reader. Basser @amsteel.bsky.social. Split Scream Vol. 7 OUT NOW from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Berlin/Brandenburg
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John K. Peck
@johnkpeck.bsky.social
· Mar 27
🖤☠️IT'S SPLIT SCREAM DAY🖤☠️
SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP featuring novelettes by @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler, is available today wherever books are sold!
Treachery, madness & Weird Horror lurk in all directions. It's time to wander from the path:
store.tenebrouspress.com
SPLIT SCREAM: OFF THE MAP featuring novelettes by @ideofmarch.bsky.social @johnkpeck.bsky.social & L. Mahler, is available today wherever books are sold!
Treachery, madness & Weird Horror lurk in all directions. It's time to wander from the path:
store.tenebrouspress.com
🌲💀🌲🖤💀🌲🖤💀🌲
SPLIT SCREAM 7 IS HERE!
🌲💀🌲🖤💀🌲🖤💀🌲
Featuring a double-gut-punch of eco-horror:
• "Evergreen" by John K. Peck and L. Mahler
• "Sequoia Point" by @ideofmarch.bsky.social
Join us in the weird, wild woods: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...
SPLIT SCREAM 7 IS HERE!
🌲💀🌲🖤💀🌲🖤💀🌲
Featuring a double-gut-punch of eco-horror:
• "Evergreen" by John K. Peck and L. Mahler
• "Sequoia Point" by @ideofmarch.bsky.social
Join us in the weird, wild woods: store.tenebrouspress.com/products/spl...
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New on the site: BRUTALIST BERLIN, 'a definitive new guide to Berlin's raw concrete landmarks and the historical forces that shaped them': www.degradedorbit.com/articles/bru...
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
New on the site: BRUTALIST BERLIN, 'a definitive new guide to Berlin's raw concrete landmarks and the historical forces that shaped them': www.degradedorbit.com/articles/bru...
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My latest cover for Tenebrous. Definitely had some Carpenter Brut rattling around in my skull while working on it.
ALSO: my commissions are OPEN again.
Indie publishers, indie authors: I'm keen to get you unique art for your project that won't break the bank.
DMs are open🖤☠️
ALSO: my commissions are OPEN again.
Indie publishers, indie authors: I'm keen to get you unique art for your project that won't break the bank.
DMs are open🖤☠️
Check out the cover to BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) Vol. 4, out June 2026!
🔥And then go grab a copy of this year's Vol. 3 at 20% off from our webstore through the weekend🔥
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...
Art by @mattblairstone.bsky.social
🔥And then go grab a copy of this year's Vol. 3 at 20% off from our webstore through the weekend🔥
store.tenebrouspress.com/products/bra...
Art by @mattblairstone.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
My latest cover for Tenebrous. Definitely had some Carpenter Brut rattling around in my skull while working on it.
ALSO: my commissions are OPEN again.
Indie publishers, indie authors: I'm keen to get you unique art for your project that won't break the bank.
DMs are open🖤☠️
ALSO: my commissions are OPEN again.
Indie publishers, indie authors: I'm keen to get you unique art for your project that won't break the bank.
DMs are open🖤☠️
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New on the site, Wassily Kandinsky’s "Point and Line to Plane":
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New on the site, Wassily Kandinsky’s "Point and Line to Plane":
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"The synesthetic tendencies implicit in his argument become explicit by the beginning of the final section, where he attributes not just sound, but color and temperature to lines and angles…"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
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While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...
These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients
Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.
www.coyotemedia.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...
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The grave of Willi Schulz, 1881-1928, Oberförster of the Grunewald, buried in the forest cemetery.
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The grave of Willi Schulz, 1881-1928, Oberförster of the Grunewald, buried in the forest cemetery.
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We're thrilled to announce that preorders for Violet Lichen's first novella are LIVE! Welcome to the world of @ivygrimes.bsky.social folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 🔮🪆🌌
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
October 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We're thrilled to announce that preorders for Violet Lichen's first novella are LIVE! Welcome to the world of @ivygrimes.bsky.social folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 🔮🪆🌌
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
October 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
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The first in our series on the Bauhausbücher project covers Walter Gropius' "Modern Architecture":
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
BOOKS OF THE BAUHAUS: INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE - Degraded Orbit
International Architecture, the initial title in the Bauhausbücher series, serves as a manifesto of sorts for editor Walter Gropius. Its general subject asserts the primacy of architecture over the ot...
www.degradedorbit.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The first in our series on the Bauhausbücher project covers Walter Gropius' "Modern Architecture":
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
"...from the industrial monumentality of proto-modernist Peter Behrens to the lighter geometric forms of Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright"
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/boo...
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Help #horror 💙📚 fans! I have a free anthology in need of readers!
WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a passion project, a challenge between friends inspired by Thomas Ligotti's masterpiece of weird fiction. Click to learn more and to get a copy.
Reposts welcome!
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a passion project, a challenge between friends inspired by Thomas Ligotti's masterpiece of weird fiction. Click to learn more and to get a copy.
Reposts welcome!
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
Get your FREE copy of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
“The ruined factory stood three stories high in an otherwise featureless landscape…”
With these words, Thomas Ligotti begins one of the most influential short stories in the canon of horror and weird ...
dl.bookfunnel.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Help #horror 💙📚 fans! I have a free anthology in need of readers!
WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a passion project, a challenge between friends inspired by Thomas Ligotti's masterpiece of weird fiction. Click to learn more and to get a copy.
Reposts welcome!
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a passion project, a challenge between friends inspired by Thomas Ligotti's masterpiece of weird fiction. Click to learn more and to get a copy.
Reposts welcome!
dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
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New on the site: A survey of the dizzying diversity of South Asia's decorated vehicles from @johnkpeck.bsky.social
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
October 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
New on the site: A survey of the dizzying diversity of South Asia's decorated vehicles from @johnkpeck.bsky.social
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
www.degradedorbit.com/articles/tem...
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Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
October 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
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There are no words for how evil and wrong this is, and the media’s acquiescence should never be forgotten. These families deserve peace and protection. They deserve rights and respect, citizenship or no. They’re human beings. They’re our neighbors. They are us.
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
There are no words for how evil and wrong this is, and the media’s acquiescence should never be forgotten. These families deserve peace and protection. They deserve rights and respect, citizenship or no. They’re human beings. They’re our neighbors. They are us.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My story “The Sierpiński Gasket” is in C0PPER_W1RE, the newest collection from the brilliant Apocalypse Confidential: apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/09/19/t...
THE SIERPIŃSKI GASKET
The buzzing needle burns a slow curve across his forearm; the floodlight overhead, angled into his eyes to avoid blinding the audience, warms his skin. The line completed, the needle lifts, still b…
apocalypse-confidential.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My story “The Sierpiński Gasket” is in C0PPER_W1RE, the newest collection from the brilliant Apocalypse Confidential: apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/09/19/t...
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“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY
September 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.”-Nemik, 5 BBY
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Today’s the day! FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, my first novel, is officially out! Pre-orders are signed and getting shipped, you can request this at your local shop or library, you can get it off @bookshop.org, you can buy copies at Evening House (sites down atm for maintenance, but soon!)
August 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Today’s the day! FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN, my first novel, is officially out! Pre-orders are signed and getting shipped, you can request this at your local shop or library, you can get it off @bookshop.org, you can buy copies at Evening House (sites down atm for maintenance, but soon!)
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What is a novelette? It’s a novel that knows you have other things to do today.
August 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What is a novelette? It’s a novel that knows you have other things to do today.
The Limey - Soderbergh - Terry Stamp monologue
YouTube video by Henrique Noronha
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August 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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More SPLIT SCREAM! Hard to believe we're on number 8, what a wild ride. A true privilege to get to edit this series. Excited for you both, @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social!
🎉💀SIGNING ANNOUNCEMENT🎉💀
Friday's a good day to SCREAM & we're thrilled to announce the authors of the 8th(!) volume of our split-novelette series, SPLIT SCREAM.
Welcome to the Tenebrous Cult, @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social
SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES, coming April 2026🖤☠️
Friday's a good day to SCREAM & we're thrilled to announce the authors of the 8th(!) volume of our split-novelette series, SPLIT SCREAM.
Welcome to the Tenebrous Cult, @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social
SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES, coming April 2026🖤☠️
August 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
More SPLIT SCREAM! Hard to believe we're on number 8, what a wild ride. A true privilege to get to edit this series. Excited for you both, @sonorataylor.bsky.social & @matthewtpritt.bsky.social!
The gutsiest soundtrack ever as it repeats not one but TWO songs, and each time they come on it’s like hearing them for the first time.
July 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The gutsiest soundtrack ever as it repeats not one but TWO songs, and each time they come on it’s like hearing them for the first time.
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We just wrapped on our very cool film shoot today (making films is so hard). Today is also the publication of an essay I wrote about how we can be better to each other. Thanks to @ergot.bsky.social for publishing.
www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...
www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
July 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We just wrapped on our very cool film shoot today (making films is so hard). Today is also the publication of an essay I wrote about how we can be better to each other. Thanks to @ergot.bsky.social for publishing.
www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...
www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...
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Incredibly funny that Ibanez puts this warning in their guitar manuals now
July 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Incredibly funny that Ibanez puts this warning in their guitar manuals now
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It’s alive!! Alive!!!
The Unkillable Frank Lightning is officially released today. So excited for you to finally meet Catherine and Frank and all the others.
Please help me spread the word, and thanks to all the folks who have already embraced this book. ⚡️
tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...
The Unkillable Frank Lightning is officially released today. So excited for you to finally meet Catherine and Frank and all the others.
Please help me spread the word, and thanks to all the folks who have already embraced this book. ⚡️
tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...
The Unkillable Frank Lightning - Tachyon Publications
[STARRED REVIEW] “Like Elmore Leonard by way of Mary Shelley, Josh Rountree’s Western spin on Frankenstein is a propulsive, haunting adaptation.” —Bookpage In this riveting historical horror novel, Fr...
tachyonpublications.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
It’s alive!! Alive!!!
The Unkillable Frank Lightning is officially released today. So excited for you to finally meet Catherine and Frank and all the others.
Please help me spread the word, and thanks to all the folks who have already embraced this book. ⚡️
tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...
The Unkillable Frank Lightning is officially released today. So excited for you to finally meet Catherine and Frank and all the others.
Please help me spread the word, and thanks to all the folks who have already embraced this book. ⚡️
tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...