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Matt Blairstone
@mattblairstone.bsky.social
Publisher/Founder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor.
Illustrator of slimy things.
Devotee of comic books & guit-fiddle music of every stripe.
OPEN for both editing & art gigs.
He/him
Portland OR
Pinned
Need Human Art for your book/shirt/band/life in general? I'm open for commissions!

Holler:
1.) DM me
2.) email mattblairstone at gmail dot com
3.) mattblairstone.carrd.co

Recent client work:
@brandenburgdm.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @nwreader.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
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From today's newsletter:

"Not as many people will read DEAR STUPID PENPAL as *should*. But the ones who do? Get ready to hear them talking about it a whole lot, for a long time to come. This book changes people. It changed me."

Preorder @rascalhartley.bsky.social's debut:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Hails to The Line-Up!
They agree that @rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is a must-read.

This unique blend of sci-fi, cosmic horror, buddy comedy & romance is one of the best things you'll read all...ever.

Out next Tuesday, order now here:
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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This person mos def wins the coveted Sexiest Tenebrous Cultist of the Day.

But share & share alike, we always say; this is a title that can be proudly paraded by multiple folks at once!

So: who else wants to be Sexiest Tenebrous Cultist of the Day? You know what to do🖤☠️
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November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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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
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2025 so far:

💀3 issues o'Weird shorts
💀Dystopian Feminist Sci-Fi
💀Freaky Novelettes of Loss & Rebirth
💀Indigenous Supernatural Chiller
💀Cronenbergian Phantasmagoria Mindfuck
💀Best New Weird Horror of the Year
💀Eco-Body-Coral Horror
💀Tarot-themed Terror

Get some Tenebrous🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Blurb, blur, blurb. Blurb is the word. Here's part of a killer blurb from @mattblairstone.bsky.social Matt Blairstone, Cult Leader over at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Also, got a bit of a promo video for One-Shot in the comments. Click that link, maybe buy a book, maybe get weird with me.
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Dudes who can’t get hired anywhere else and took the worst possible lessons from cosplay💀

theonion.com/ice-agent-7-...
ICE Agent, 7-Year-Old Both Wearing Same ‘Military Commando’ Halloween Costume
theonion.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Also, oh hey bookstores and shop owners! If you wanna carry Tenebrous books without all the hidden markups that In**amSp**k adds, all the deets are here:

tenebrouspress.com/wholesaledis...

Better % for you; better % for us and our authors🖤☠️
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Most of my life has been in restaurants, at every level, from dishwasher to rat catcher to general manager.
There is sooo little money in restaurants. That it’s falling to them to feed this country for free should shame both worthless political parties.

www.wweek.com/food/2025/10...
More Portland Restaurants Offer Free Meals During SNAP Shutdown
Options now include Cafe Olli, Grassa, Laughing Planet and more.
www.wweek.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🎃HALLOWEEN READS🎃

Cuz books don't have expiration dates

@jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social's POSTHASTE MANOR takes you on a tour of the most f%&ked up haunted house imaginable. Think HAUSU (Japan, 1977) but middle America

Art @slimyswampghost.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 5:47 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🖤☠️
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
October 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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If you're a reviewer and willing to do a girl a solid, there's definitely something on this list for calls for reviews that would treat you right.
And also there's my hoodlum of a book

ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/02/c...
Calls for Reviews & Essays: January 2026
The Ancillary Review of Books publishes reviews and essays with an emphasis on utopian impulses and systemic injustices. ARB seeks to build a community of radical thinkers writing about amazing, sp…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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"One of the Most Anticipated Horror Books of Fall" - @pastemagazine.bsky.social

"Messy, horny & mean in the best way": The Blog Without a Face

Eleven tales that will exhilarate and terrify.

@momoshaty.bsky.social's CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT, out now🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Rolled many small boulders up the hill for 2026 today, & I'm in awe at the variety.
Feels like such a trope-y answer—like a metal guitarist saying "yeah it's both our heaviest & most melodic album yet"—but it's also true.
Next year is bleak AF & Electric Neon.

Who's in for next year's book club?
🖤☠️
October 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Looking for some horror this October? 🎃 Contributor @cavar.bsky.social has a story in BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 3, from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social! You can read their interview right here: buff.ly/wZS1iOt
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Wanna stock up on some great Weird Horror reading for the weekend?

3 volumes of BRAVE NEW WEIRD or 3 cornerstone Tenebrous anthologies; each bundle is less than ten bucks!

(Also, if you buy eBooks direct from Tenebrous, you own them outright🖤☠️)

store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
October 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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🔥💀RELEASE DAY💀🔥

Love, congrats & happy book birthday to @momoshaty.bsky.social! CLAIRVIOLENCE: TALES OF TAROT AND TORMENT features 11 terrifying stories of Occult Horror that cut deep across time & space.

These cards play for keeps🖤☠️

Cover art by @ear-a-corn.bsky.social

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October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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🔥💀COVER ART REVEAL💀🔥

As if this day couldn't be awesome enough, we have this wraparound cover art for @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE, immaculately crafted by @jennacha.bsky.social

OLYOKE sets the world afire in March 2026! Much more info to come🖤☠️
October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Wanna dig deeper beneath the surface of @momoshaty.bsky.social's CLAIRVIOLENCE ? The Blog Without a Face's review paints a rich picture:

theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/10/21/c...
Clairviolence: The Devil’s in the Details… and the Therapy Bills
Mo Moshaty’s collection is a deck cut wide open. Each story keys off a Major Arcana card, then bleeds, burns, or writhes its way toward some hard emotional truth. It’s horror that cares about the b…
theblogwithoutaface.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Mo has thoughts on things🖤☠️

Read @momoshaty.bsky.social's great interview covering CLAIRVIOLENCE, plus a whole lot more, conducted by @paulsemel.bsky.social:

paulsemel.com/exclusive-in...
Exclusive Interview: "Clairviolence" Author Mo Moshaty ... .
Exclusive Interview: "Clairviolence" Author Mo Moshaty \ In which she talks about this collection of horror short stories.
paulsemel.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Campaign started for @roguestarmag.bsky.social. If we meet our $1200 goal, we'll be able to pay authors SFWA pro rates for fiction (one previously unpublished story quarterly) starting January 2026. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... (re-posted w/corrected link) #signalboost #writers #authors
Get Ready for Rogue Star Magazine
From Tonya R. Moore - Get Ready for Rogue Star Magazine
www.backerkit.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The Barre Incidents is a Horror/Sci Fi book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, and learning cryptids and banished, embittered gods are real. You can order here through @malarkeybooks.bsky.social !
malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...
The Barre Incidents, a novel by Lauren Bolger — Malarkey
The Barre Incidents by Lauren Bolger, author of Kill Radio Cover design by Matthew Revert When Kara's miner father dies of Silicosis, she grapples with the old horror stories in their hometown of B...
malarkeybooks.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Our 35th(?!) book is out next month. Here’s the full cover wrap for @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s DEAR STUPID PENPAL, featuring stellar art by @carlydraws.bsky.social

Cosmic Horror x Queer Romance in an entirely epistolary story. You gotta read it to believe it🖤☠️

Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This could be you, reading this excellent book!

check it out :-)
October 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The only thing burning Portland down is my hot riffs
October 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM