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Carly Racklin
@willowylungs.bsky.social
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Your cozy goth ghoul-friend. Writer, editor, artist. 🪦 Debut novella FUNERAL SONG coming January 27, 2026 from @deadskypub.bsky.social. Words in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Haven Spec, The NoSleep Podcast, NECKSNAP Magazine.
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Carly Racklin @willowylungs.bsky.social · Nov 19
FUNERAL SONG cover reveal! 💜 It was absolutely a dream to have Alex Eckman-Lawn @alexeckmanlawn.bsky.social work his magic on this cover.
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(last repost) Look at my best friend's cover reveal! It's so pretty?? 💕 @willowylungs.bsky.social

Gonna be sappy because Carly and I have been swapping chapters, brainstorming, and writing in tandem since high school. Her prose is gorgeous! Preorder Funeral Song here: bookshop.org/p/books/fune...
Funeral Song
Check out Funeral Song - <p><b>No one mourns the living dead. </b></p><p> In the remote town of Cairney, a gift from the Angel of Death allows the dead to miraculously return to life -- after a fashio...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
willowylungs.bsky.social
FUNERAL SONG cover reveal! 💜 It was absolutely a dream to have Alex Eckman-Lawn @alexeckmanlawn.bsky.social work his magic on this cover.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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deadskypub.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL
No one mourns the living dead.
@willowylungs.bsky.social @alexeckmanlawn.bsky.social @thefuture_of #horrorbooks #coverreveal
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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🥩
digital illustration of a woman with light skin and dark hair holding a dagger to her throat. behind her is a portrait in a baroque style frame that's coming alive as a fleshy ghost
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
willowylungs.bsky.social
Alto's vampire love interest was kidnapped by Strahd last session and our party's paladin agreed to help rescue him because he's been "a boon" to us... Alto was not happy with the comment.
#dndart #curseofstrahd #dnd
A grayscale digital sketch of Alto, an air genasi man with voluminous curly hair, looking angrily at the viewer with tears in his eyes.
September 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
willowylungs.bsky.social
How else can it be proven to you
That I'm devout?
I spill right out

#dndart #curseofstrahd #dnd
A digital illustration of Alto, a young man with long curly hair, wearing a vest and striped trousers, lying on his side with a hand outstretched on the ground. A vampire bite wound on his wrist bleeds a bright red pool across half the image.
August 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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ladygoofus.bsky.social
Here's my lizardfolk NPC, Miira, being so so so gently told something startling by @willowylungs.bsky.social's character! #dndart
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Read "Tenebrism" by Carly Racklin on the CHM website, right here: https://bit.ly/40CIO8M
July 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
willowylungs.bsky.social
Made an impulsive tattoo appointment, just to feel something.
June 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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goblins-galaxies.bsky.social
The adventure begins! The first issue of Goblins & Galaxies is here. The stunning art by Jakub Jagoda is but a taste of the wizardry within. If you haven't already subscribed, head to www.goblinsandgalaxies.com.
June 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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nadirmagazine.bsky.social
Super excited to announce we'll be opening for subs in a few weeks. Bring us your weird!

Full guidelines here: nadirmagazine.com
Nadir Magazine's call for weird literature opens July 15th
June 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
Gift link? The only gift link I’m trying to see is a good kielbasa with some sauerkraut on a roll, am I right folks
June 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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nepeteaa.bsky.social
NO KINGS 🇺🇸
June 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
Hey everyone! Our good friends and contemporaries at @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social have just launched their crowdfund for new issues!

First day backers get a custom, crowdfund-exclusive bookmark or so the legends say...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...
Old Moon Quarterly: The Dark Fantasy Magazine
An independent magazine of dark fantasy and sword and sorcery, illuminated in the style of a Renaissance woodcut, featuring grim tales inspired by Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, and Arthurian myth.
www.backerkit.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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necksnapmag.bsky.social
🖤 TONIGHT! 🖤 Join us on this beautiful cozy cloudy day for an amazing reading at @flyleafbooks.bsky.social with some of our contributors: @jeswrites.bsky.social @willowylungs.bsky.social @joncarrollthomas.bsky.social and Mike Romanelli
June 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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tcustodis.bsky.social
Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Be gay do crow stuff

#pridemonth #pridecrows
June 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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necksnapmag.bsky.social
guess who just got the initial proof of their FIRST EVER PRINT COPIES? we did

p.s. COME TO OUR READING if you want early access, we're only making 25 of these!!! rsvp in bio/on our website
May 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Bird
May 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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ISSUE ONE IS OUT NOW! ➡️ necksnapmag.com/issues/issue-one/
May 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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I wrote a thing over at Terribleminds about The Starving Saints!

terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
Caitlin Starling: Five Things I Learned Writing The Starving Saints
Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores …
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May 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
willowylungs.bsky.social
Botanic garden ghoul today 🌿 Lady on the bus said I looked like a fairy which is maybe the best compliment ever.
A young white person with short dark hair smiles and looks to the side with their arms behind their back. They wear black glasses and a black top with a pattern of leaves, mushrooms, and frogs on it. A young white person with short dark hair smiles and looks to the side with their arms behind their back, standing in an empty greenhouse. They wear black glasses and a black top with a pattern of leaves, mushrooms, and frogs on it.
May 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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bimbotheory.bsky.social
You don’t have to take HRT or get surgeries to be trans, but remember that the anti-trans movement is moving mountains to try and prevent your access to those things—pursuing medical transition in one form or another is a subversive act, not a conformist one.
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social
I hope y'all are ready for a queer body swap horror novella!!!!
littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · May 15
COVER REVEAL!

Out at the end of July from Little Ghosts press, STUDENT BODIES @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social

When a ritualistic body swap x drinking game unlocks unexpected truths and desires inside the students of Holstenwall College, they’ll arouse the attention of the ancient and insatiable…

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The cover reveal of STUDENT BODIES by T.T. Madden. The cover depicts a melty body emerging from a strange skull. There's a relic being passed around in one of the fraternities of Holstenwall College, tied to a dark ritual and disguised as a drinking game. When Frankie Starling stumbles upon Dominion, a powerful sleight of hand that allows players to swap bodies using the skull of a strange beast, she inadvertently arouses something ancient and terrifying. Seeing through the eyes of others awakens truths inside those who play Dominion- secrets and desires delicious to the unseen force behind the game. Now, the evil has become insatiable…
May 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
willowylungs.bsky.social
So happy that my flash story "The Saddest Trains Go North" will be in this issue! 🌼💛
necksnapmag.bsky.social NECKSNAP MAGAZINE - issue two out now! @necksnapmag.bsky.social · May 17
saved our best announcement for last: ISSUE ONE COMING MAY 22, 2025! 🌼
May 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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saved our best announcement for last: ISSUE ONE COMING MAY 22, 2025! 🌼
May 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM