Alex Ebenstein
@alexebenstein.bsky.social
Michigander. Horror writer. Three novellas, CURSE CORVUS, MELON HEAD MAYHEM (Shortwave Publishing), and REANIMATED REX out now. he/him
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Alex Ebenstein
@alexebenstein.bsky.social
· Jul 21
Who doesn't love Christmas?? Well, me actually, I'm a giant Grinch. But it's Christmas in July week or whatever and my next middle grade horror book, CARNIVOROUS CONIFERS, set around Christmastime, comes out tomorrow! The 2nd in my Stein's Monsters series, but is standalone. For fans of Goosebumps!
Watched The Fall of the House of Usher this week and finally found out what y'all were talking about 2 years ago. It's good!
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Watched The Fall of the House of Usher this week and finally found out what y'all were talking about 2 years ago. It's good!
Listening to music and playing with LEGO with my son, aka having the best damn time
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Listening to music and playing with LEGO with my son, aka having the best damn time
All in on The Chair Company
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
All in on The Chair Company
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It's the one year anniversary of Split Scream 6 and my novelette, MOTHER IS COMING HOME (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social)!
I put together a playlist that that encapsulates the vibes of MICH and the weird little creep MC.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0EW...
I put together a playlist that that encapsulates the vibes of MICH and the weird little creep MC.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0EW...
Mother Is Coming Home - A Playlist
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November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's the one year anniversary of Split Scream 6 and my novelette, MOTHER IS COMING HOME (@tenebrouspress.bsky.social)!
I put together a playlist that that encapsulates the vibes of MICH and the weird little creep MC.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0EW...
I put together a playlist that that encapsulates the vibes of MICH and the weird little creep MC.
open.spotify.com/playlist/0EW...
Wednesday nights this month are filled with 3 hours of climbing (bouldering) league followed by an hour of hockey that gets me home around midnight, and while it's a blast, these Thursdays man, ugh 😴
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Wednesday nights this month are filled with 3 hours of climbing (bouldering) league followed by an hour of hockey that gets me home around midnight, and while it's a blast, these Thursdays man, ugh 😴
Spent the afternoon organizing all the native perennial seeds my wife and I collected from our rain garden. Hopefully we can expand the garden with these. Nature!
November 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Spent the afternoon organizing all the native perennial seeds my wife and I collected from our rain garden. Hopefully we can expand the garden with these. Nature!
The last watermelon harvested from our garden was a monster, and perhaps the best tasting watermelon I've ever had. Kinda sad we have to wait until next year to grow more.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The last watermelon harvested from our garden was a monster, and perhaps the best tasting watermelon I've ever had. Kinda sad we have to wait until next year to grow more.
Took my son to his first professional hockey game last night (a local AHL team) and it brings me such joy to watch him experience new things. We had a blast, and the takeaway might be just how absurd hot dog cannons are. In his words: "This is getting *too* crazy!" haha
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Took my son to his first professional hockey game last night (a local AHL team) and it brings me such joy to watch him experience new things. We had a blast, and the takeaway might be just how absurd hot dog cannons are. In his words: "This is getting *too* crazy!" haha
It's really disgusting that the recovering skin around the burn on my arm looks like the edges of a roasted marshmallow.
Then again. Hmm
Then again. Hmm
November 3, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It's really disgusting that the recovering skin around the burn on my arm looks like the edges of a roasted marshmallow.
Then again. Hmm
Then again. Hmm
It's been so long since I've written consistently that I don't even feel like a writer. Like, I know I am, but yikes man, I need to find that shit again
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's been so long since I've written consistently that I don't even feel like a writer. Like, I know I am, but yikes man, I need to find that shit again
Re-potted our little pawpaws to better accommodate their taproots, planted some black walnut seeds for a tree-growing experiment, and then tomorrow I'm off to my favorite native plant nursery for some more native trees/shrubs/perennials. All of these things are better than everything else, currently
October 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Re-potted our little pawpaws to better accommodate their taproots, planted some black walnut seeds for a tree-growing experiment, and then tomorrow I'm off to my favorite native plant nursery for some more native trees/shrubs/perennials. All of these things are better than everything else, currently
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I'm so excited to be a part of the Tenebrous release schedule! I'd trust 10p with anything but song recommendations*
*this isn't true, but I just felt like being needlessly hurtful
*this isn't true, but I just felt like being needlessly hurtful
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?
🖤☠️
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 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I'm so excited to be a part of the Tenebrous release schedule! I'd trust 10p with anything but song recommendations*
*this isn't true, but I just felt like being needlessly hurtful
*this isn't true, but I just felt like being needlessly hurtful
Got a 2nd deg burn from coffee today at work because a giant idiot set up a ladder behind a closed door and a lesser idiot (me) tried to open the door (that I had just walked thru 2 mins earlier) while carrying a mug full of freshly brewed coffee, spilling said coffee all over my arm. Neat
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Got a 2nd deg burn from coffee today at work because a giant idiot set up a ladder behind a closed door and a lesser idiot (me) tried to open the door (that I had just walked thru 2 mins earlier) while carrying a mug full of freshly brewed coffee, spilling said coffee all over my arm. Neat
I wrote and published a dinosaur horror book that not many people have read for a variety of reasons, but I don't think that's going to stop me from writing another because I had fun doing so and it's what I want to do and wtf else matters you know?
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I wrote and published a dinosaur horror book that not many people have read for a variety of reasons, but I don't think that's going to stop me from writing another because I had fun doing so and it's what I want to do and wtf else matters you know?
I'm just a guy trying to avoid all work responsibilities by researching what native trees to plant in his suburban yard
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I'm just a guy trying to avoid all work responsibilities by researching what native trees to plant in his suburban yard
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The 1 year anniversary of Split Scream 6 is coming up! To celebrate, I had some stickers made.
You can get your own when you order SS6 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social or by coming up and saying the secret word: “ooze.”
Hail ooze! Hail slime!
You can get your own when you order SS6 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social or by coming up and saying the secret word: “ooze.”
Hail ooze! Hail slime!
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The 1 year anniversary of Split Scream 6 is coming up! To celebrate, I had some stickers made.
You can get your own when you order SS6 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social or by coming up and saying the secret word: “ooze.”
Hail ooze! Hail slime!
You can get your own when you order SS6 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social or by coming up and saying the secret word: “ooze.”
Hail ooze! Hail slime!
Came across a YouTube video of someone playing through Chaos Island: The Lost World for PC and was immediately catapulted back into childhood
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Came across a YouTube video of someone playing through Chaos Island: The Lost World for PC and was immediately catapulted back into childhood
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Flash on the Borderlands is here with one of my all time favorite @alexebenstein.bsky.social stories!
Keep your eyes on the Michigan skies. (And keep your ears on @pseudopod.org.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Keep your eyes on the Michigan skies. (And keep your ears on @pseudopod.org.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
PseudoPod 997: Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be
Podcast Episode · PseudoPod · 10/10/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Flash on the Borderlands is here with one of my all time favorite @alexebenstein.bsky.social stories!
Keep your eyes on the Michigan skies. (And keep your ears on @pseudopod.org.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Keep your eyes on the Michigan skies. (And keep your ears on @pseudopod.org.)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
We ended up harvesting about 25 pumpkins from our modest yard garden this year, which is awesome. But now I want to try growing gigantic pumpkins, because who doesn't love gigantic pumpkins?
October 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We ended up harvesting about 25 pumpkins from our modest yard garden this year, which is awesome. But now I want to try growing gigantic pumpkins, because who doesn't love gigantic pumpkins?
The Tigers make me sad. Fun season, tough way to go. Insanely fun/stupid Game 5 to end the season. Go whoever beats the stupid ass Dodgers
October 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The Tigers make me sad. Fun season, tough way to go. Insanely fun/stupid Game 5 to end the season. Go whoever beats the stupid ass Dodgers
Jack again oh no
October 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Jack again oh no
can we get runs NOW please????
Jack just tried to kill me but we're still kicking what a world
October 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
can we get runs NOW please????
Jack just tried to kill me but we're still kicking what a world
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Jack just tried to kill me but we're still kicking what a world
Can the Tigers please score runs and win already
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Can the Tigers please score runs and win already
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I have a story on PseudoPod! This one means a lot to me. Check it out?
Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be
“Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.”
The Wind Beneath, byAlex Ebenstein
They Still Haven’t Found Stevie, by Scott Weisser
Precious Darlings, by Annie Diao
Various CWs: please follow the link
“Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.”
The Wind Beneath, byAlex Ebenstein
They Still Haven’t Found Stevie, by Scott Weisser
Precious Darlings, by Annie Diao
Various CWs: please follow the link
PseudoPod 997: Flash on the Borderlands LXXV: Together is Our Favorite Place to Be
Our family doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful. There’s a gale when dawn illuminates our world. The morning light arrives as though leached from my son’s eyes, his gaze cast skyward…
pseudopod.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I have a story on PseudoPod! This one means a lot to me. Check it out?