Seize The Press Magazine
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Magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.
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Subscribe and support our work at patreon.com/seizethepress
Currently closed to submissions.
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New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Christine Lai, author of the fascinating hybrid novel Landscapes
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
Christine Lai on thinking beyond the self, the veneration of violence, and making art in a collapsing world | Seize The Press Magazine
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December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Christine Lai, author of the fascinating hybrid novel Landscapes
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Christine Lai, author of the fascinating hybrid novel Landscapes
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
Christine Lai on thinking beyond the self, the veneration of violence, and making art in a collapsing world | Seize The Press Magazine
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December 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Christine Lai, author of the fascinating hybrid novel Landscapes
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
We talk about violence in western art, writing about the climate crisis outside of genre fiction and Christine gives us some art gallery recommendations around the world
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It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do
December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It's time for slower art. The constant churn and grind pushed by techno capitalism has reached its inevitable conclusion with AI slop. Let's make our best work and be patient with our process. Let's release art that's worth stopping for and savoring. Let's show each other what humans can do
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ARB puts up a call for reviews every month, but: at the end of each year, we find ourselves looking at a *long* list of speculative fiction & related non-fiction that we'd love to cover! Do your part to fight recency bias, and claim one of these!
2025 Reviews: Last Call
The Ancillary Review of Books does focus on newly-released works as they are published. However, we very much want to fight recency bias in book coverage, and the idea that books just vanish if the…
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December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
ARB puts up a call for reviews every month, but: at the end of each year, we find ourselves looking at a *long* list of speculative fiction & related non-fiction that we'd love to cover! Do your part to fight recency bias, and claim one of these!
New short story recommendation up today! We've got Andrew Kozma talking about "Sideswipe" by Soren Narnia on the Knifepoint Horror podcast. Elk horror gang rise up.
Andrew Kozma recommends "Sideswipe" by Soren Narnia | Seize The Press Magazine
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November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
New short story recommendation up today! We've got Andrew Kozma talking about "Sideswipe" by Soren Narnia on the Knifepoint Horror podcast. Elk horror gang rise up.
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The modern trend of science fiction conventions (often funded by shady entities doing greenwashing) that frame science fiction as some kind of tool to 'fix' the climate/future is so frustrating to me. Depending on art to provide a blueprint for scientific/social progress is absurd.
You should all listen to this if you’re not already listening to this podcast, but as a scientist who actually writes science fiction I can confidently say that asking scientists to communicate via scifi is the dumbest fucking idea ever
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The modern trend of science fiction conventions (often funded by shady entities doing greenwashing) that frame science fiction as some kind of tool to 'fix' the climate/future is so frustrating to me. Depending on art to provide a blueprint for scientific/social progress is absurd.
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If you want to read one of our books but can't afford it, just ask. We'll send you a free ebook.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If you want to read one of our books but can't afford it, just ask. We'll send you a free ebook.
A lawyer I know is trying to help an abuse victim client relocate to get away from their abusive ex. They have an infant child and they're really struggling due to SNAP being cut. Would be really cool if you're in a position to help a stranger out.
Donate to Help an abuse victim and her child relocate to safety., organized by Michael Wikoff
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November 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A lawyer I know is trying to help an abuse victim client relocate to get away from their abusive ex. They have an infant child and they're really struggling due to SNAP being cut. Would be really cool if you're in a position to help a stranger out.
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For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors
Today, I wanted to shout out @tropicaleccentric.bsky.social whose novel, "Andújar: the Robot Gentleman of San Juan" is a delight
Today, I wanted to shout out @tropicaleccentric.bsky.social whose novel, "Andújar: the Robot Gentleman of San Juan" is a delight
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
For what remains of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, I wanted to share work by other Puerto Rican authors
Today, I wanted to shout out @tropicaleccentric.bsky.social whose novel, "Andújar: the Robot Gentleman of San Juan" is a delight
Today, I wanted to shout out @tropicaleccentric.bsky.social whose novel, "Andújar: the Robot Gentleman of San Juan" is a delight
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A few 📸 from the ECO24 book launch at Lofty Pigeon! Word is it was a full house & all the books sold out 🙌🎉🔥✨🎉💚
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A few 📸 from the ECO24 book launch at Lofty Pigeon! Word is it was a full house & all the books sold out 🙌🎉🔥✨🎉💚
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
Pictured: @kayv.bsky.social reading from "Pig House," & @louisevans.bsky.social reading from "A Seder in Siberia."
Featuring native-seed packets designed by Apex's very own ⭐Ori Whipple!
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Awards season means nominating myself for made-up awards that should exist. Thanks to @seizethepress.bsky.social for publishing my weird fiction story Avila Beach in the Spring!
Read it here: www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/a...
#weirdfiction
Read it here: www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/a...
#weirdfiction
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Awards season means nominating myself for made-up awards that should exist. Thanks to @seizethepress.bsky.social for publishing my weird fiction story Avila Beach in the Spring!
Read it here: www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/a...
#weirdfiction
Read it here: www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/a...
#weirdfiction
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One of my favorite authors and one of my favorite outlets? Yes please. Do yourself a favor and treat yourself.
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Lyndsey Croal @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, author of the excellent short story collection "Dark Crescent"
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
Lyndsey Croal on Scottish ghost stories, ambiguity in folklore, and her book Dark Crescent | Seize The Press Magazine
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November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
One of my favorite authors and one of my favorite outlets? Yes please. Do yourself a favor and treat yourself.
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Had an amazing time launching @apexmag.bsky.social Violet Lichen’s ECO24 with @louisevans.bsky.social yesterday evening at Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn! Great turn out and we sold out 🍀 Also found a Maryland mention in my first visit to Brooklyn
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Had an amazing time launching @apexmag.bsky.social Violet Lichen’s ECO24 with @louisevans.bsky.social yesterday evening at Lofty Pigeon Books in Brooklyn! Great turn out and we sold out 🍀 Also found a Maryland mention in my first visit to Brooklyn
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Weird Year in Review:
8 books.
3 magazine issues.
2 sleep-deprived co-publishers.
Let's do it again in '26!
Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
8 books.
3 magazine issues.
2 sleep-deprived co-publishers.
Let's do it again in '26!
Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Weird Year in Review:
8 books.
3 magazine issues.
2 sleep-deprived co-publishers.
Let's do it again in '26!
Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
8 books.
3 magazine issues.
2 sleep-deprived co-publishers.
Let's do it again in '26!
Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️
store.tenebrouspress.com
If you're in New York tonight, Kay Vaindal will be reading Pig House 2: Pig in the City at Lofty Pigeon Books!
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you're in New York tonight, Kay Vaindal will be reading Pig House 2: Pig in the City at Lofty Pigeon Books!
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
Jk but they are reading the classic OG Pig House and answering questions alongside Louis Evans for the launch of ECO24, The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Mooch on over, it'll be fun.
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Really great to chat to @rlsummerling.bsky.social and Seize the Press about weird folklore, short stories, eco fiction and more! Read about it, malevolent sea blobs included, here 👇🌊✨️
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Lyndsey Croal @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, author of the excellent short story collection "Dark Crescent"
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
Lyndsey Croal on Scottish ghost stories, ambiguity in folklore, and her book Dark Crescent | Seize The Press Magazine
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November 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Really great to chat to @rlsummerling.bsky.social and Seize the Press about weird folklore, short stories, eco fiction and more! Read about it, malevolent sea blobs included, here 👇🌊✨️
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Lyndsey Croal @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, author of the excellent short story collection "Dark Crescent"
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
Lyndsey Croal on Scottish ghost stories, ambiguity in folklore, and her book Dark Crescent | Seize The Press Magazine
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November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Lyndsey Croal @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, author of the excellent short story collection "Dark Crescent"
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
We talk about Scottish folklore, eco-fiction, malevolent sea blobs and Lyndsey gives us her essential folklore reading recommendations!
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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.
Pre-orders will go up early in the new year.
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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.
Pre-orders will go up early in the new year.
Actually I lied! "This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline" by Maxine Sophia Wolff is fun. If you find the descent into cosmic workplace madness fun.
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Actually I lied! "This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline" by Maxine Sophia Wolff is fun. If you find the descent into cosmic workplace madness fun.
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TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN is a magical book. Post-fascist Italian weird horror novel that seems to predict the internet, our deep need to pour ourselves into it, the isolation and web of espionage it creates, the way it is exploited by power.
Adored it
Adored it
October 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN is a magical book. Post-fascist Italian weird horror novel that seems to predict the internet, our deep need to pour ourselves into it, the isolation and web of espionage it creates, the way it is exploited by power.
Adored it
Adored it
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Hello scary, silly friends! We are proud to present the FIFTH issue of Die Laughing Mag, complete with four shorts, 2 flashes, and more laughs and scares than you can shake a stick at. Available now for a perfect Halloween treat!
Buy DL Issue 5 here for $5: ko-fi.com/s/3936f3817e
Buy DL Issue 5 here for $5: ko-fi.com/s/3936f3817e
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hello scary, silly friends! We are proud to present the FIFTH issue of Die Laughing Mag, complete with four shorts, 2 flashes, and more laughs and scares than you can shake a stick at. Available now for a perfect Halloween treat!
Buy DL Issue 5 here for $5: ko-fi.com/s/3936f3817e
Buy DL Issue 5 here for $5: ko-fi.com/s/3936f3817e
Trying to think of a fun Halloween story of ours to read today but I don't think we have anything fun. Read this instead, it'll make you feel like shit.
“The Power Company Detective” by Joe Koch - Seize The Press
The gun doesn’t remember you. The man you were was not important, nothing more than another in a series of shifting targets for the shouting hole of its small black mouth. Furthermore, you may have be...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Trying to think of a fun Halloween story of ours to read today but I don't think we have anything fun. Read this instead, it'll make you feel like shit.
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my story about a neverending cosmic apocalypse & those trying to delay it will be in issue #13! excited for y'all to read it and the other stories i'm privileged to share space with 🪐🫀
Been quiet round here lately cos I (Jonny, Editor-In-Chief) have been crazy busy with work. But! We've got some cool stuff coming soon, including:
STP Issue #13, and it's a bumper edition
An interview with Lyndsey Croal
The revival of the newsletter
Me actually catching up with the submissions pile
STP Issue #13, and it's a bumper edition
An interview with Lyndsey Croal
The revival of the newsletter
Me actually catching up with the submissions pile
October 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
my story about a neverending cosmic apocalypse & those trying to delay it will be in issue #13! excited for y'all to read it and the other stories i'm privileged to share space with 🪐🫀
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Up now at the Los Angeles Review of Books, my review of Samanta Schweblin’s excellent Good and Evil and Other Stories! The affect of art-dread! Genre haunting literature! Hauntings without ghosts! Doublings without doppelgängers! lareviewofbooks.org/article/para...
Parading Around Among the Living Like Nothing Happened | Los Angeles Review of Books
Zachary Gillan explores Samanta Schweblin’s “Good and Evil and Other Stories,” translated by Megan McDowell.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Up now at the Los Angeles Review of Books, my review of Samanta Schweblin’s excellent Good and Evil and Other Stories! The affect of art-dread! Genre haunting literature! Hauntings without ghosts! Doublings without doppelgängers! lareviewofbooks.org/article/para...
Been quiet round here lately cos I (Jonny, Editor-In-Chief) have been crazy busy with work. But! We've got some cool stuff coming soon, including:
STP Issue #13, and it's a bumper edition
An interview with Lyndsey Croal
The revival of the newsletter
Me actually catching up with the submissions pile
STP Issue #13, and it's a bumper edition
An interview with Lyndsey Croal
The revival of the newsletter
Me actually catching up with the submissions pile
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Been quiet round here lately cos I (Jonny, Editor-In-Chief) have been crazy busy with work. But! We've got some cool stuff coming soon, including:
STP Issue #13, and it's a bumper edition
An interview with Lyndsey Croal
The revival of the newsletter
Me actually catching up with the submissions pile
STP Issue #13, and it's a bumper edition
An interview with Lyndsey Croal
The revival of the newsletter
Me actually catching up with the submissions pile