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Samir Sirk Morató
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your friendly neighborhood offal pile. works in Strange Horizons, ergot, The Dark, khōréō, & more 🦷🫀 "Gore Poetics" (collection, Cursed Morsels Press) emerges April 14th; pre-orders open now 🥩
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 19d
surprise: it's pre-order time! 🥩✨️ seeing this collection emerge into the world makes me feel so loved. a lot of passion & effort from multiple people went into creating this. i hope that you're all as excited for it as i am
cursedmorsels.bsky.social Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19d
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER ANNOUNCEMENT!

Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!

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The cover for Gore Poetics, Stories by Samir Sirk Morató. The cover features glistening intestines with two black pearls at the center. The text is a dark pink and flows with the texture of the intestines.
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teresa-ardrey.bsky.social
I finally signed up for book sirens for reasons and I know I set my preferences correctly when Gore Poetics showed up as most recommended.
February 10, 2026 at 11:39 PM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
happy valentine's day! 💘 if you want a horny-sad fantasy romance to wrap your coils around—one about monstrosity, disability, understanding, and what it means to love post the "happily ever after"—then i've got you covered
podcastle.org PodCastle @podcastle.org · Sep 17
#PC857: Ecdysis by Samir Sirk Morató, read by Amanda Ching. A #PodCastleOriginial! Rated R, Content warning for ableism (including ableist language) and scenes of a sexual nature

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#PC857: Ecdysis by Samir Sirk Morató, read by Amanda Ching. A #PodCastleOriginial! Rated R, Content warning for ableism (including ableist language) and scenes of a sexual nature My husband never got over being a lindworm. Understandably. For over two decades, he was a serpent wider than an oak barrel and longer than a warship; for under two years, he’s been human. Had someone changed me from a shark-swallowing, black-and-blood-banded titan to a naked, knobbly beast with limbs, I would’ve killed them and myself, even if we were wed. Yet wed we were. Our betrothal was as crushing as my husband’s past coils: because he was a princess-eating monster, he needed to be murdered; because he was a princely man, he needed to be married. “My eldest needs a bride or a coffin,” the queen told my father. “He’s forbidding his younger brother from marrying before he does, and no more princesses will come. We’re out of options. Surrender your daughter.”
February 15, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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brainmage.bsky.social
Roses are red,
These times are quite trying
A warning sign reading "danger not only will this kill you it will hurt the whole time youre dying"
February 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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editrixemma.bsky.social
Samir is an incredible writer, you should read this!
February 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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abigailkemske.bsky.social
What’s better than some creepy crawly love on this Valentine’s Day?? Support this mag and find my story “The Brood Thanks You for Your Service” inside this awesome issue. 💕🕷️💕
dielaughingmag.bsky.social Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social · 1d
Finally! It's Here! Happy Valentine's Day from the clowns at Die Laughing Mag. We're hoping to win your hearts with six hilarifying tales the likes of which you've never seen before (because love is blind, and all that). Get the full issue for $5 here! ko-fi.com/s/222d278cc8
Cover of Die Laughing Issue 6. The cover art features a variety of colorful clown-like creatures, shaped as hearts and also some kind of bug. Tongues are also involved.
February 14, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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lamantia.bsky.social
morning
February 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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dielaughingmag.bsky.social
Finally! It's Here! Happy Valentine's Day from the clowns at Die Laughing Mag. We're hoping to win your hearts with six hilarifying tales the likes of which you've never seen before (because love is blind, and all that). Get the full issue for $5 here! ko-fi.com/s/222d278cc8
Cover of Die Laughing Issue 6. The cover art features a variety of colorful clown-like creatures, shaped as hearts and also some kind of bug. Tongues are also involved.
February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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dielaughingmag.bsky.social
Find out more about Die Laughing Magazine at our website, and read stories from previous issues for FREE
Die Laughing Literary Magazine
Horror stories so hilarious they'll kill you!
dielaughingmag.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
spicycloaca.bsky.social
this collection has a lovely mixture of the brutal & delicate, the holy & anxious, and the human & otherworldly. go wade around in inexplicable horrors!
February 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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khoreo.bsky.social
Just wanted to put this out there: if you’re reading and voting for awards, here's our incredible slate of stories (and essays 🙌) from this past year! We’re so proud of our authors and artists and we hope you consider their stellar work 🧡✨
khōréō: Awards Eligibility 2025
Introduction   This year, khōréō celebrates our fifth anniversary and we are blessed to continue to have our stories be so loved and well-received! As a magazine dedicated to diversity and elevating t...
www.khoreomag.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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seizethepress.bsky.social
If you want to read individual issues of the magazine you can now buy them from our Patreon page for a few quid, including the new issue with stories from Samir Sirk Morató, LC von Hessen, and more.

Gonna be thinking of other ways to make individual issues available, so keep your eyes peeled.
Get more from Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon
creating an anticapitalist dark fiction magazine.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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sloppjockey.bsky.social
chorus. oil painting on wood, 3x3 inches
February 11, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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horrorsong.blog
You want to read this. A unique & beautiful example of the gnarly empathy genre.
February 10, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
Today's paperback sale: The Nightmare Box and Other Stories by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social is only $9.99 through our online store! Buy a copy of this dark, feminist, literary horror collection and get a free copy of the Solidarity Forever zine. Rad deal!
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...
The Nightmare Box and Other Stories paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
A young queer man finds love at a magical clothing shop—and the courage to stand up to the homophobic cops. A witch who makes custom nightmares wonders why all her victims are connected to the Black P...
www.cursedmorselspress.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
📣NEW PLEDGE / ADD-ON ALERT📣
🖌️ @carlydraws.bsky.social will draw you into a story! You may end up a guard, a recently slain sorcerer, a pirate...who knows? 🏴‍☠️

✨Available as a pledge and an add-on 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
Cropped screenshot of the pledge to get your face drawn into a story by Carly A-F. Details on the crowdfund itself.
February 12, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
It's issue 10's cover! Illustrated by @smuggerby.bsky.social
💀TIMEWORN TERRA🌏️ is our special issue of tales set in futures so far they feel ancient, where magic & technology blur together, and Earth's days are short yet still we lust & laugh!
Learn more here👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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spicycloaca.bsky.social
collection collage 2/19—🪰👩‍❤️‍👩🪺

"When does a chrysalis become a grave instead of a changing place?"

Gore Poetics (@cursedmorsels.bsky.social) debuts April 14th
This is a blurred image of a collage with one clear image spotlight floating in it. In the spotlight, a woman's grainy cleavage and a beetle crawling over it are visible.
February 11, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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michaelcisco.bsky.social
night on the town, by mike mingolla
two skullhead spectres mugging for the camera in a german expressionist night town
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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unrealfred.bsky.social
It’s not just that AI art is bad, though it is, and it’s not just it harms the environment, though it does, and it’s not just that it was built on theft, exploitation and bias, though it was, it’s that using it robs you of the experience of making art, good or bad, communal or alone, for yourself.
February 7, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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mass4shutins.bsky.social
watercolor + colorpencil
February 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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timaeusbloom.bsky.social
This is going to be superb!
frombeyondpress.bsky.social From Beyond Press @frombeyondpress.bsky.social · 5d
Coming in November! Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Stories of daring rogues, alien encounters, zombies, future technologies, and punching racists. Co-edited by Timothy R. Granger (aka Timaeus Bloom) and Mike Phillips.

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Black Ink: Pulp Stories from Black Newspapers, 1929-55. Edited by Timothy R. Granger and Michael W. Phillips Jr. Volume 1: The Black Stockings by William Thomas Smith + Tales of Black Robin by H.L. Faggett Introduction by Cauleen Smith, cover art by Daimon Hampton A Black guerrilla group fights against a racist presidential candidates, plus an undercover avenger rights racist wrongs one punch in the jaw at a time. Volume 2: The Creeping Thing by Cora Jean Moten + The Baron of Harlem by Nick Lewis Introduction by Charlotte Carter, cover art by Julie Anderson One of the first zombie stories in English, and one of the best. Plus a white gangster changes places and skin color with a scheming Black musician. Volume 3: From Outer Space & Orbit of Doom + short stories about Jacques Lenglet and Jiggs Bennett by James H. Hill Introduction by Ytasha L. Womack, cover art by Maurice Buckley Aliens visit Earth with a dire warning about humanity's nuclear ambitions, plus stories about a Black WW1 ace and a reporter who punches racists in the face. November 2026.
February 11, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
I think Samir's built up quite a rep for the weird and the transgressive. And Cursed Morsels has excellent taste.
February 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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michaelcisco.bsky.social
art by marina ho
a figure sitting at a table in the dark, papers and books in front of them, very subuded
February 9, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
Readers are loving The Writhing, Verdant End, as will anyone with a fondness for weird, grotesque, dark, transcendent ecohorror!

Order here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/the-...
What are readers saying about The Writhing, Verdant End? “Weird, ambitious and sticky as hell” -The Blog Without A Face “These stories will sit with you long after finishing them.” -ScarlettAnomalyReads “Memorable and intellectually stimulating eco-horror” -Ga.selle Jones “Perfect mixture of beauty and grotesque” -Rachel Wren Order your copy at https://www.cursedmorselspress.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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maximpetergriff.bsky.social
10/2/26 - nocturn
small hours big time a back road - Lincolnshire tight lane - trees - Poptones travelling through fog in the hollows
February 10, 2026 at 7:38 PM