John Claude Smith
@jcsmith0919.bsky.social
Writer of Weird Horror and other oddities. Latest book is Autumn in the Abyss Redux. More on the way. Yes, this is me.
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A heartwarming festive story of presidential destruction.
Epstein’s Ghost
Christmas Past is coming for Trump…and MAGA
chadbourn.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A heartwarming festive story of presidential destruction.
Tuesday morning thoughts, courtesy of Robert Crumb…
This, before I’ve stumbled out of bed and crawled over to the laptop to open a story file.
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This, before I’ve stumbled out of bed and crawled over to the laptop to open a story file.
😵💫
✍️
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Tuesday morning thoughts, courtesy of Robert Crumb…
This, before I’ve stumbled out of bed and crawled over to the laptop to open a story file.
😵💫
✍️
This, before I’ve stumbled out of bed and crawled over to the laptop to open a story file.
😵💫
✍️
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"The clay dries fine and soft, in the late spring and summer. It climbs and billows with the breeze. Raises up in the midday air and spreads out over the whole county like a tent. Whips into small cyclones and settles indoors. The red dust is a given. We don’t fight it the way we used to."
Daughters of Catastrophe
Author: S.P. Miskowski Cover Artist: Harry 0. Morris Publication Date: October 14, 2025 Published by: Grimscribe Press 66 pp. Buy Trade Paperback (Shipping and Handling Included for Most Addresse…
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November 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"The clay dries fine and soft, in the late spring and summer. It climbs and billows with the breeze. Raises up in the midday air and spreads out over the whole county like a tent. Whips into small cyclones and settles indoors. The red dust is a given. We don’t fight it the way we used to."
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For the evening crowd
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
For the evening crowd
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If you enjoyed @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's @shortwavebooks.bsky.social novella, THE EXTRA, you'll love her debut collection, YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED. Coming in February from Bad Hand Books.
Pre-order it now.
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Pre-order it now.
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You Have to Let Them Bleed by Annie Neugebauer (Paperback with Signed Bookplate) — Bad Hand Books
The collector hunts the darkness for terrible beauty: macabre and marvelous stories worth displaying in their shadow boxes. Tour these horrors with them, but beware: if you’re not careful, you might f...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
If you enjoyed @annieneugebauer.bsky.social's @shortwavebooks.bsky.social novella, THE EXTRA, you'll love her debut collection, YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED. Coming in February from Bad Hand Books.
Pre-order it now.
badhandbooks.com/preorders/yo...
Pre-order it now.
badhandbooks.com/preorders/yo...
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read this book if you wanna lose your bones
February 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
read this book if you wanna lose your bones
Taking a break from the other books I'm reading, as well as just taking a damn break from Everything with one of my all-time favorite collections.
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Taking a break from the other books I'm reading, as well as just taking a damn break from Everything with one of my all-time favorite collections.
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
100 poems!!!
We’re crazy, yet what a great exercise!
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We’re crazy, yet what a great exercise!
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I am about to write my 100th poem of the year! A challenge begun last July together with @jcsmith0919.bsky.social. I am drawing inspiration by ORLAM by P.J. Harvey, a book she wrote in Dorset dialect and retranslated into English.
November 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
100 poems!!!
We’re crazy, yet what a great exercise!
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We’re crazy, yet what a great exercise!
✍️
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"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
November 2, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power."
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
An utterly fantastic book!!
NOW IN PAPERBACK!
My debut trade novel, A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS, is now available in a brand new paperback edition.
Includes new cover artwork by Francois Vaillancourt, an introduction by Clay McLeod Chapman, an exclusive Bonus Story, and corrected text.
Now available wherever you buy books.
My debut trade novel, A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS, is now available in a brand new paperback edition.
Includes new cover artwork by Francois Vaillancourt, an introduction by Clay McLeod Chapman, an exclusive Bonus Story, and corrected text.
Now available wherever you buy books.
October 29, 2025 at 5:55 PM
An utterly fantastic book!!
Yeah, what? Why am I so wide awake at this ungodly hour?
Might get up and read. Write. Whisper to the shadows. Hang glide on the moon..
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Might get up and read. Write. Whisper to the shadows. Hang glide on the moon..
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😉
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Yeah, what? Why am I so wide awake at this ungodly hour?
Might get up and read. Write. Whisper to the shadows. Hang glide on the moon..
😅
😉
Might get up and read. Write. Whisper to the shadows. Hang glide on the moon..
😅
😉
Thank you, @mewelke.bsky.social
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This is a great book! If you're looking for a wonderfully disturbing Halloween read this is a good one.
Deep into Autumn now, might I suggest you spend it in the Abyss with my good friend the mad poet, Henry Coronado?
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
October 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thank you, @mewelke.bsky.social
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Deep into Autumn now, might I suggest you spend it in the Abyss with my good friend the mad poet, Henry Coronado?
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
Autumn in the Abyss Redux
Autumn in the Abyss Redux - Kindle edition by Smith, John Claude. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Autumn in the Abyss Redux.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Deep into Autumn now, might I suggest you spend it in the Abyss with my good friend the mad poet, Henry Coronado?
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
I might indeed.
25 tales of body horror, psychological horror, Horror Horror!
Enjoy!
www.amazon.com/Autumn-Abyss...
This morning's workout soundtrack comes from the alternative rock/punk band, Standford Prison Experiment. Good stuff! I like. Saw them once in concert. Bought a shirt for five bucks. ;-)
After this, pulling up the novella for more revisions.
Let's rock!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYS...
After this, pulling up the novella for more revisions.
Let's rock!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYS...
Stanford Prison Experiment 2/7/1998 St. Louis (Lepers TV)
YouTube video by LepersTV
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October 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This morning's workout soundtrack comes from the alternative rock/punk band, Standford Prison Experiment. Good stuff! I like. Saw them once in concert. Bought a shirt for five bucks. ;-)
After this, pulling up the novella for more revisions.
Let's rock!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYS...
After this, pulling up the novella for more revisions.
Let's rock!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYS...
This morning's workout soundtrack comes from Rafael Anton Irisarri. Wonderful, full-bodied and multi-layered ambience.
Now, though. A shower, then I'll pull up the novella file.
Good morning!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xh0...
Now, though. A shower, then I'll pull up the novella file.
Good morning!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xh0...
Rafael Anton Irisarri : Peripeteia
YouTube video by Vapor Memory
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October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This morning's workout soundtrack comes from Rafael Anton Irisarri. Wonderful, full-bodied and multi-layered ambience.
Now, though. A shower, then I'll pull up the novella file.
Good morning!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xh0...
Now, though. A shower, then I'll pull up the novella file.
Good morning!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xh0...
Lazy Sunday plans:
Chillin’ Godzilla mode
And some writing.
Art courtesy of Chet Phillips.
Enjoy your day.
Chillin’ Godzilla mode
And some writing.
Art courtesy of Chet Phillips.
Enjoy your day.
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Lazy Sunday plans:
Chillin’ Godzilla mode
And some writing.
Art courtesy of Chet Phillips.
Enjoy your day.
Chillin’ Godzilla mode
And some writing.
Art courtesy of Chet Phillips.
Enjoy your day.
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The paperback edition of A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS releases in 10 days.
This new edition features a new introduction by Clay McLeod Chapman, a bonus story set in the world of CHILD, a new cover by Francois-art, and corrected text.
www.amazon.com/Child-Alone-...
This new edition features a new introduction by Clay McLeod Chapman, a bonus story set in the world of CHILD, a new cover by Francois-art, and corrected text.
www.amazon.com/Child-Alone-...
A Child Alone with Strangers: A Novel
Amazon.com: A Child Alone with Strangers: A Novel: 9781945863929: Fracassi, Philip: Books
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October 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The paperback edition of A CHILD ALONE WITH STRANGERS releases in 10 days.
This new edition features a new introduction by Clay McLeod Chapman, a bonus story set in the world of CHILD, a new cover by Francois-art, and corrected text.
www.amazon.com/Child-Alone-...
This new edition features a new introduction by Clay McLeod Chapman, a bonus story set in the world of CHILD, a new cover by Francois-art, and corrected text.
www.amazon.com/Child-Alone-...
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Need something scary/suspenseful, creepy/funny, and ONLY $3.99 to read this weekend? Get over here...
If You Knew Me: A Novel
Amazon.com: If You Knew Me: A Novel eBook : Miskowski, S.P.: Kindle Store
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October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Need something scary/suspenseful, creepy/funny, and ONLY $3.99 to read this weekend? Get over here...
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“Our most fearless chronicler of the monsters who lurk in that vast, sometimes beautiful terrain where family wounds press up against psychic, cosmic damage."
Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize nominee
Don't miss @lairdbarron.bsky.social's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT.
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Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize nominee
Don't miss @lairdbarron.bsky.social's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT.
bookshop.org/p/books/not-...
Not a Speck of Light
Check out Not a Speck of Light - <p><b>Named One of the Best Horror Books of the Year by </b><b>The New York Times</b><b>, </b><b>Esquire</b><b>, NPR, and </b><b>Paste</b><b>!</b></p><p>It's about to ...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“Our most fearless chronicler of the monsters who lurk in that vast, sometimes beautiful terrain where family wounds press up against psychic, cosmic damage."
Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize nominee
Don't miss @lairdbarron.bsky.social's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT.
bookshop.org/p/books/not-...
Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize nominee
Don't miss @lairdbarron.bsky.social's NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT.
bookshop.org/p/books/not-...
Excellent movie!! Everything works, the acting is stellar, and PTA is at the top of his game.
Well worth your attention.
Well worth your attention.
October 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Excellent movie!! Everything works, the acting is stellar, and PTA is at the top of his game.
Well worth your attention.
Well worth your attention.
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Today's $2.99 Kindle deal is not to be missed! Karl Edward Wagner's IN A LONELY PLACE (1983) is one of the best modern horror collections, featuring some of this master storyteller's best work. Grab it at a bargain price today online on Kindle worldwide! www.amazon.com/Lonely-Place...
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Today's $2.99 Kindle deal is not to be missed! Karl Edward Wagner's IN A LONELY PLACE (1983) is one of the best modern horror collections, featuring some of this master storyteller's best work. Grab it at a bargain price today online on Kindle worldwide! www.amazon.com/Lonely-Place...
Me, writing.
Yes, that is how I am usually dressed…
Yes, that is how I am usually dressed…
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Me, writing.
Yes, that is how I am usually dressed…
Yes, that is how I am usually dressed…
Only Madness…
That seems about right.
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Broken sleep. I blame the full moon.
Up shortly to deal with a workout and Words.
Good morning.
That seems about right.
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Broken sleep. I blame the full moon.
Up shortly to deal with a workout and Words.
Good morning.
October 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Only Madness…
That seems about right.
😵💫
Broken sleep. I blame the full moon.
Up shortly to deal with a workout and Words.
Good morning.
That seems about right.
😵💫
Broken sleep. I blame the full moon.
Up shortly to deal with a workout and Words.
Good morning.
Mike Thorn is an excellent horror writer.
I think his suggestion is valid! 😉
Get to it, friends! 📖
I think his suggestion is valid! 😉
Get to it, friends! 📖
'tis the season for horror fiction.
Might I suggest Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and/or Peel Back and See? 👻💀🔪
Buy them at your local bookshops if you can.
They're also available on Amazon and the like: tinyurl.com/28hwvecx
Might I suggest Shelter for the Damned, Darkest Hours, and/or Peel Back and See? 👻💀🔪
Buy them at your local bookshops if you can.
They're also available on Amazon and the like: tinyurl.com/28hwvecx
October 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Mike Thorn is an excellent horror writer.
I think his suggestion is valid! 😉
Get to it, friends! 📖
I think his suggestion is valid! 😉
Get to it, friends! 📖
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Did not expect THIS.
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Rush Sets Reunion Tour for 2026; Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson Discuss the ‘Difficult Decision’ of Finding a New Drummer After Neil Peart’s Death
Rush will head out on a reunion tour in 2026, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson joined by a new drummer. The tour will pay homage to the late Neil Peart.
variety.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Did not expect THIS.
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