Ryan T. Jenkins
@ryantjenkins.bsky.social
Writer of weird-ish/horror-ish fiction, dad of human and cats, he/him, addicted to books, copy editor
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Ryan T. Jenkins
@ryantjenkins.bsky.social
· Nov 12
My novelette, Come to Daddy, is out! Link below! A big day for me, as someone who dreamed of writing since elementary school. I'm almost 38 & it's finally happened. This story is weird af, but now more than ever, toxic masculinity needs a microscope. This is my small contribution. Thanks, everyone!
Happy anniversary to my best friend, who happens to be my lover. Eleven years seems both too short and too long for everything we've been through
went with @ryantjenkins.bsky.social
to a Frida Kahlo exhibit for our 11th anniversary & loved it. here’s to many more years of experiencing art together.
to a Frida Kahlo exhibit for our 11th anniversary & loved it. here’s to many more years of experiencing art together.
August 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Happy anniversary to my best friend, who happens to be my lover. Eleven years seems both too short and too long for everything we've been through
🥰
the little grey one has claimed my husband’s office chair. what’s even cuter is how reluctant he is to move her.
July 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
🥰
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BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) is out today!
25 of the best independently- & self-published Weird Fiction stories published in 2024, spanning Horror Sci-Fi Fantasy & all things unclassifiable...but WEIRD.
And all part of a balanced breakfast🖤☠️
Get it:
store.tenebrouspress.com
25 of the best independently- & self-published Weird Fiction stories published in 2024, spanning Horror Sci-Fi Fantasy & all things unclassifiable...but WEIRD.
And all part of a balanced breakfast🖤☠️
Get it:
store.tenebrouspress.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) is out today!
25 of the best independently- & self-published Weird Fiction stories published in 2024, spanning Horror Sci-Fi Fantasy & all things unclassifiable...but WEIRD.
And all part of a balanced breakfast🖤☠️
Get it:
store.tenebrouspress.com
25 of the best independently- & self-published Weird Fiction stories published in 2024, spanning Horror Sci-Fi Fantasy & all things unclassifiable...but WEIRD.
And all part of a balanced breakfast🖤☠️
Get it:
store.tenebrouspress.com
Me at Stokercon 2025 in the echoey swimming pool
we were traveling so I struggled to show @ryantjenkins.bsky.social the attention he deserved on Father’s Day, but here he is at StokerCon playing with our daughter in the pool—for an hour & a half. he inspires me to be a better parent every day.
June 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Me at Stokercon 2025 in the echoey swimming pool
Saw tons of folks at Stokercon and did not talk to 99 percent of them. Oh well, maybe next time 🙂
Hope to see some folks at Stokercon (!) ...time to pretend I'm not 99 percent introverted 😅
I’ll be at StokerCon this weekend—a horror literary convention—with my husband @ryantjenkins.bsky.social. he’s pitching his novel, “Stock Photo, about a millennial journalist’s slip into an online rabbit hole when investigating a famed stock photo model.
it’s unsettling & quirky & weird. I love it.
it’s unsettling & quirky & weird. I love it.
June 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Saw tons of folks at Stokercon and did not talk to 99 percent of them. Oh well, maybe next time 🙂
Hope to see some folks at Stokercon (!) ...time to pretend I'm not 99 percent introverted 😅
I’ll be at StokerCon this weekend—a horror literary convention—with my husband @ryantjenkins.bsky.social. he’s pitching his novel, “Stock Photo, about a millennial journalist’s slip into an online rabbit hole when investigating a famed stock photo model.
it’s unsettling & quirky & weird. I love it.
it’s unsettling & quirky & weird. I love it.
June 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Hope to see some folks at Stokercon (!) ...time to pretend I'm not 99 percent introverted 😅
Yay--so well deserved!
Congratulations to @lyndseycroal.bsky.social & M.Shaw; each are nominated for Best Novelette in the 2024 @sjacksonawards.bsky.social!
We're so proud of both of these Weird stories & their authors; hails to the judges, the awards board, & to the visionary author herself, who inspired us all🖤☠️
We're so proud of both of these Weird stories & their authors; hails to the judges, the awards board, & to the visionary author herself, who inspired us all🖤☠️
June 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Yay--so well deserved!
To all mothers, but especially to the one whom I'm married to--she makes our daughter feel empowered, beautiful & smart 🙏 She teaches a course on "bad mothers," only b/c she strives to be the best one possible
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
To all mothers, but especially to the one whom I'm married to--she makes our daughter feel empowered, beautiful & smart 🙏 She teaches a course on "bad mothers," only b/c she strives to be the best one possible
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
@aliciaandrz.bsky.social
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May 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Nothing else matters when a new Sayaka Murata novel is available in English. Queen of the Weird...I'm ready
May 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Nothing else matters when a new Sayaka Murata novel is available in English. Queen of the Weird...I'm ready
Perfectly 😚
May 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Perfectly 😚
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hi friends. please check out my new article with @chronicle.com about how the academy hates pregnant people (& what we can do about it):
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
May 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
hi friends. please check out my new article with @chronicle.com about how the academy hates pregnant people (& what we can do about it):
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Like a double feature or a split album, each SPLIT SCREAM volume brings 2 tales together into 1 Terrifying tome!
Discover your favorite New Weird Horror writers!
Welcome to the New Wave of the Weird Novelette!
Volumes 1-7 out now!
Hail SPLIT SCREAM🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
Discover your favorite New Weird Horror writers!
Welcome to the New Wave of the Weird Novelette!
Volumes 1-7 out now!
Hail SPLIT SCREAM🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
April 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Like a double feature or a split album, each SPLIT SCREAM volume brings 2 tales together into 1 Terrifying tome!
Discover your favorite New Weird Horror writers!
Welcome to the New Wave of the Weird Novelette!
Volumes 1-7 out now!
Hail SPLIT SCREAM🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
Discover your favorite New Weird Horror writers!
Welcome to the New Wave of the Weird Novelette!
Volumes 1-7 out now!
Hail SPLIT SCREAM🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...
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good morning! I’m 541 days sober & with my cute husband @ryantjenkins.bsky.social watching our baby test for her green belt.
I hope everyone has a wonderful
Saturday.
I hope everyone has a wonderful
Saturday.
April 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM
good morning! I’m 541 days sober & with my cute husband @ryantjenkins.bsky.social watching our baby test for her green belt.
I hope everyone has a wonderful
Saturday.
I hope everyone has a wonderful
Saturday.
Spring is here. My back porch, surrounded by trees & wildlife, is callin'. Time to read Split Scream, Volume 7.
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@alexebenstein.bsky.social
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@alexebenstein.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Spring is here. My back porch, surrounded by trees & wildlife, is callin'. Time to read Split Scream, Volume 7.
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@alexebenstein.bsky.social
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
@alexebenstein.bsky.social
Celebrating my wife's b-day today (@aliciaandrz.bsky.social)! Recognizing her endless positive impact on the world, w/ students & colleagues, & also her thirst to connect w/ people. She's special; nobody can argue that. Larger-than-life; brilliant-minded; gorgeously beautiful, to top it off
April 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Celebrating my wife's b-day today (@aliciaandrz.bsky.social)! Recognizing her endless positive impact on the world, w/ students & colleagues, & also her thirst to connect w/ people. She's special; nobody can argue that. Larger-than-life; brilliant-minded; gorgeously beautiful, to top it off
TENEBROUS LOCUS ELIGIBILTY
(link to vote in quote skeet)
All are write-ins:
Best Horror Novel/Best First Novel:
FROM THE BELLY @emnays.bsky.social
TRVE CVLT @beardedbetts.bsky.social
Best Horror Novel: A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE @carsonwinter.bsky.social
Cont. below⬇️
(link to vote in quote skeet)
All are write-ins:
Best Horror Novel/Best First Novel:
FROM THE BELLY @emnays.bsky.social
TRVE CVLT @beardedbetts.bsky.social
Best Horror Novel: A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE @carsonwinter.bsky.social
Cont. below⬇️
Vote for the Locus Awards.
Weird Horror is eligible in Best Mag category, and I'm eligible in Best Editor. Undertow in the Publisher category.
Would be nice to see your fave indies get some love @psychopomp.com @neonhemlock.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social etc.
poll.voting.locusmag.com
Weird Horror is eligible in Best Mag category, and I'm eligible in Best Editor. Undertow in the Publisher category.
Would be nice to see your fave indies get some love @psychopomp.com @neonhemlock.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social etc.
poll.voting.locusmag.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Best Novella: MOUTH @joshuathehull.bsky.social
Best Novelette:
THE BALLAD OF HORSE GIRL @bitterkarella.bsky.social
THE GIRL WITH BARNACLES FOR EYES @lyndseycroal.bsky.social
COME TO DADDY @ryantjenkins.bsky.social
MOTHER IS COMING HOME @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social
Best Mag:
THE SKULL & LAUREL
🖤☠️
Best Novelette:
THE BALLAD OF HORSE GIRL @bitterkarella.bsky.social
THE GIRL WITH BARNACLES FOR EYES @lyndseycroal.bsky.social
COME TO DADDY @ryantjenkins.bsky.social
MOTHER IS COMING HOME @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social
Best Mag:
THE SKULL & LAUREL
🖤☠️
April 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Best Novella: MOUTH @joshuathehull.bsky.social
Best Novelette:
THE BALLAD OF HORSE GIRL @bitterkarella.bsky.social
THE GIRL WITH BARNACLES FOR EYES @lyndseycroal.bsky.social
COME TO DADDY @ryantjenkins.bsky.social
MOTHER IS COMING HOME @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social
Best Mag:
THE SKULL & LAUREL
🖤☠️
Best Novelette:
THE BALLAD OF HORSE GIRL @bitterkarella.bsky.social
THE GIRL WITH BARNACLES FOR EYES @lyndseycroal.bsky.social
COME TO DADDY @ryantjenkins.bsky.social
MOTHER IS COMING HOME @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social
Best Mag:
THE SKULL & LAUREL
🖤☠️
Grateful to be a part of this list 🙏 so many good writers out there; let's keep being brave and weird
Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over.
Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...
Or in the screenshots🖤☠️
Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.
Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...
Or in the screenshots🖤☠️
Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.
![The BRAVE NEW WEIRD SHORTLIST:
Ainsley Hawthorn - Big Cats of Newfoundland
Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs - Spolia
Alex Fox - The City of Cities, Inverted; A Shadow Cast By Many Hands
Angela Liu - A Contract of Ink and Skin
Ann LeBlanc - Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth
Avra Margariti - Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn
Azure Arther - Reciprocity
Briar Ripley Page - Birth Of a Sucker
Calla Eris Orion - Kiss of a Toad
Casey Lawrence - Ten Things I Have Learned About Human Skin: A Presentation
[sarah] Cavar - Mad Studies
Dane Erbach - Something Else
David Corse - The Amassing Man
E.G. Condé - Sibilance
E.M. Linden - Mangrove Daughter
Elad Haber - End of Line
Elana Gomel - Mother Black Hole
Eleanna Castroianni - Zarghána](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzezf3upipcqfyabakveo4ub/bafkreif4g5ufdn52dkb3a5gm3lhgslinhv5yq6azkeuiiptdf3rbbcoiwq@jpeg)
![Emma Burnett - Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3]
Emma E. Murray - An Angel of God
Emmett Nahil - Vining
Erik McHatton - The Man Who Collected Ligotti
F. J. Bergmann - The Museum of Etymology
Faith Allington - Teacakes for Foxes
Guan Un - Painted Surfaces
Hannah Greer - To Be Human
Ira Rat - Soft
Jack Klausner - Cardboard Faces
Jack Lennon - The Scottish Welfare Fund Application Form
James Cato - Wonders of a Plastic Ocean
Jes Malitoris - The House of Coiled Earth
Jess Elizabeth Reed - The Belly
K. A. Roy - Welcome to Rebirth Grove
K.A. Wiggins - The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault)
Kay Vaindal - Pig House
Kelsea Yu - Creature
Lena Ng - The Halloween Horror Show
Leo Oliveira - They Remember Faces
Leslie What - Wayback](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzezf3upipcqfyabakveo4ub/bafkreiaqg4pvbmizoysrvsneyiafydojomf72sg7iq4qj7lahtrsakvrli@jpeg)
April 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Grateful to be a part of this list 🙏 so many good writers out there; let's keep being brave and weird
Great seeing you and everyone (!)
My second time attending #AuthorCon in Williamsburg, VA. @ryantjenkins.bsky.social @rebelsam94.bsky.social @pfracassi.bsky.social @toddkeisling.com @adamcesare.bsky.social
@ericlarocca.bsky.social
@briankeene.bsky.social
@ronaldmalfi.bsky.social
@ericlarocca.bsky.social
@briankeene.bsky.social
@ronaldmalfi.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Great seeing you and everyone (!)
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SPLIT SCREAM: The Parents Ain't Alright. Here's Echo depicting @ryantjenkins.bsky.social's punk rock deadbeat dad from "Come to Daddy"
February 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
SPLIT SCREAM: The Parents Ain't Alright. Here's Echo depicting @ryantjenkins.bsky.social's punk rock deadbeat dad from "Come to Daddy"
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please help. this woman is taking my man.
February 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
please help. this woman is taking my man.
My goth queen
(happy valentine's--love you ☺️)
(happy valentine's--love you ☺️)
still goth-ing it up on Valentine’s Day.
February 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
My goth queen
(happy valentine's--love you ☺️)
(happy valentine's--love you ☺️)