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Nadia Bulkin
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social
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Horror writer (SHE SAID DESTROY, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY). Co-editor of WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE.

📍 DC, raised in Jakarta/Nebraska, she/her ♠️💜

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Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · Nov 9
1 book /
1 movie /
1 album /
1 TV show
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson Martyrs by Pascal Laugier Mezzanine by Massive Attack The Sinner by Derek Simonds
nadiabulkin.bsky.social
Top 5 movie genres:
- Grieving people in occult shenanigans
- Woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown (complimentary)
- Anthropological studies of paranormal shit
- The wilderness is wilder than you think (derogatory)
- Cults and fraudsters (real)
igreggreene.bsky.social Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social · 2d
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Ugly duckling grows up to be ugly duck but at it least can fly
- Celestial being meets God face to face, loses mind
- A knife comes to terms with being a knife
- Not sure if the threat is real or in our heads, either way we're going to die
- Disco Dojo
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3d
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:

-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Three-Lobed Burning Eye is the first venue that published me back in 2008 (I'd received so many rejections that I forwarded the response to my mom for her so she could read it for me) and I'm so glad 3LBE is still thriving in 2025. A quality horror+ magazine. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/
Three-Lobed Burning Eye Issue 46 Untitled #5 BY NADIA BULKIN 5499 WORDS ALEXANDRA The other girls in Alexandra's fourth-grade class got Paradise Barbies and tickets to Disney On Ice for their birthdays, but Alexandra got a tulpa. Well, no, not a tulpa. Her mother called it a "thoughtform," but those were just two already-shapeless words mashed together into an even cloudier whole - like theosophy and causeless cause. Tulpa was what Uncle Webster called it when he heard about it ("What is this, Baby's First Tulpa?") and although her mother scoffed and rolled her eyes and said it was not a tulpa, the word had already burned its way into Alexandra's brain like a cattle brand. Tulpa. She liked the way the "tul" sat on her tongue and the "pa" bubblegum-popped from her lips like a spell. Like a command.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!
Cover of the book SUFFERING THE OTHER - a dark but colorful illustration showing a winged creature with a human face, wings, and long trailing tails, in vibrant gold and orange tones, flying upwards towards the top right corner, while dozens of dark serpents with glowing eyes and forked tongues travel in the opposite direction. The book contains 16 original stories and 8 reprints (indicated with **), arranged here alphabetically by author name. Table of contents: Nadia Bulkin -- Infested ** Lisa Cai -- The Eighth Cigarette ** Matthew Cheney -- Queer Horror, and Other Stories Jennifer DeLeskie -- You Shall Love Your Crooked Neighbor with Your Crooked Heart Kurt Fawver -- The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C Robin Rose Graves -- Her True Face Alexander Hay -- LEAD ** Bitter Karella -- The Divine Feminine Gwendolyn Kiste -- My Sister, the Abyss Jonathan Lees -- To Those That Have Lost Hope Laura Mauro -- Ptichka ** David Peak -- Crawling Out of Black Sun Marigold Rowell -- Salt Blossoms Erica Ruppert -- Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea Cheyenne Shaffer -- Ursula the Powerful ** A. J. Sharpe -- Sore Thumb Clint Smith -- “January Sick” J. J. Steinfeld -- The Suicide Inspector ** Bogi Takács -- A Technical Term, Like Privilege ** Jeffrey Thomas -- Song of the Loved Lee Thomas -- Kisses from the Pain Chamber Pamela Weis -- An Abomination A.C. Wise -- Sea-Wives Wen Wen Yang -- Ghost Festival in the Desert ** Cover art and design by RewX Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity." Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein's desire for "very young teen types" made him a pedophile
November 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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"In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times."
- Bertolt Brecht, 1939
jawmccarthy.bsky.social J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 6d
This is a really good reminder. Some recent acquisitions from @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @laurelhightower.bsky.social with a snippet of @haileypiperfights.bsky.social’s latest novel in the background bc we’ve gotten to a point where my TBR has bled over onto the dining room table.
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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33. @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, Issues With Authority, 2025.

Thank you @ghoulish.bsky.social for this Weird & timely 3 novella collection. So good!

Rating: a fab tiara & a box of flea market off-air VHS guaranteed to be cool, but you have to watch them all. Probably not cursed. Best of luck to you!
Nadia Bulkin's Issues With Authority. The cover image is of a neatly coiffed and made up white beauty queen with light brown hair. Her eyes and chest are obscured by white and orange lilies and other flowers. #MeanLouiseReads2025
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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DMV Democratic leadership locked 🔒 Abigail Spanberger, VA Wes Moore, MD Sandwich Guy, DC
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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My latest newsletter is live!

@nadiabulkin.bsky.social stops by to give us some story recs!

I’ve got a little cape cod serial killer story in this one and a few quick thoughts on the health of short story publishing :)

coreys-stories.beehiiv.com/p/corey-s-st...
Corey's Stories #4 with Nadia Bulkin
And why we should all support short story magazines :)
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November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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HELL HOUSE: LINEAGE: Minor characters from previous HH movies, amateurishly acted and directed, struggle to invent a reason for this movie's existence and choose something that's neither original nor in keeping with the spirit of the franchise. A baffling failure at every level. Grade = F. (Shudder)
November 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
nadiabulkin.bsky.social
If you're looking for something spooky to watch on Halloween, I have recommendations for you!

First up is my go-to list for the occasion: boxd.it/dofPE
Happy Halloween
Exuberant horror fare with minimal emotional stressors for the festive season
boxd.it
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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cafenowhere.bsky.social
If you haven’t gotten a paperback of The Nightmare Box by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social or Why Didn’t You Just Leave edited by @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and @omgjulia.bsky.social, NOW is the time. And proceeds are going to a good cause.
cursedmorsels.bsky.social Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 19d
Happy Halloween! ALL paperbacks are $9.99 in our store today only. Enjoy the strange horrors! #books #horror #halloween
www.cursedmorselspress.com
Graphic shows Cursed Morsels logo. Text reads, Halloween Sale. All paperbacks $9.99 at https://www.cursedmorselspress.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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You know who’s stopping by my next newsletter to talk about her new book and give us 5 short story recs????

@nadiabulkin.bsky.social!!!

Don’t want to miss out?

Sign up here: coreys-stories.beehiiv.com?fbclid=PAZnR...
Corey's Stories
A newsletter for people who love Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Weird / Between Genre / STRANGE short stories and people who are interested in my short stories/novels.
coreys-stories.beehiiv.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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zwlocklin.bsky.social
Not me wiping back tears at the last pages of @nadiabulkin.bsky.social’s masterful “Red Skies in the Morning,” from her collection ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY. “Red Skies” may be my fav thing she’s written, it so completely gets grief & loss & life in a world that feels increasingly meaningless &hopeless
zwlocklin.bsky.social HP Dafuqcraft @zwlocklin.bsky.social · Oct 13
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social ‘s “Your Next Best American Girl” is the story I wanted THE SUBSTANCE to be. Beautiful & paranoid & haunting, an exploration of beauty standards and a culture that pits women against each other—against themselves—that treats its women with empathy not ridicule
October 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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alexplatt.bsky.social
These three novellas had me totally hooked. This is the type of deep, multifaceted horror that delivers thematically and at a sentence level. Recommended for Halloween!
alexplatt.bsky.social Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 28d
Eeeeeeeee!
Issues with Authority by Nadia Bulkin with a signed card
October 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
nadiabulkin.bsky.social
You need to listen to @acwise.bsky.social's story. It's terrifying and sad and a total October vibe.
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 26d
Spookymonth continues with explorations of abandoned buildings and possible hauntings! Let @acwise.bsky.social and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social guide you, chill you, and (thank god) let you laugh. An exquisite hour that you can still watch! #Booksky youtu.be/CAC0NvCMpYk
October 22, 2025 Story Hour: Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
Just a friendly reminder that this is happening tonight! Listen to me and @nadiabulkin.bsky.social read you some scary stories in honor of the spookiest month!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 29d
It’s Spookymonth at Story Hour! This week, Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise will read from their own work. We don’t dare tell you more at this point. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color portrait of author Nadia Bulkin, a woman of mixed Asian and white parentage. She has medium-toned skin, large dark eyes, and dark hair dyed a deep red. She wears light eye makeup and a gray crew-neck Broadway knit top with black horizontal stripes. She sits by a window, which illuminates her face from one side. She looks steadily into the camera, smiling slightly. Head-and-shoulders color portrait of author A.C. Wise, a fair-skinned woman with auburn hair parted on one side and pulled back into what looks like a low braided bun. She wears a black spaghetti-strap top, a collar necklace of long silver beads, wire-rimmed glasses that are frameless on the bottom edge, an elaborate silver hoop earring in the helix of her visible ear, and red lipstick. She sits in front of a blurred backdrop, holding a leatherbound copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination to her chest and looks steadily into the camera with light gray-green eyes, smiling enigmatically.
October 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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storyhour.bsky.social
It’s Spookymonth at Story Hour! This week, Nadia Bulkin and A.C. Wise will read from their own work. We don’t dare tell you more at this point. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! @nadiabulkin.bsky.social @acwise.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color portrait of author Nadia Bulkin, a woman of mixed Asian and white parentage. She has medium-toned skin, large dark eyes, and dark hair dyed a deep red. She wears light eye makeup and a gray crew-neck Broadway knit top with black horizontal stripes. She sits by a window, which illuminates her face from one side. She looks steadily into the camera, smiling slightly. Head-and-shoulders color portrait of author A.C. Wise, a fair-skinned woman with auburn hair parted on one side and pulled back into what looks like a low braided bun. She wears a black spaghetti-strap top, a collar necklace of long silver beads, wire-rimmed glasses that are frameless on the bottom edge, an elaborate silver hoop earring in the helix of her visible ear, and red lipstick. She sits in front of a blurred backdrop, holding a leatherbound copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination to her chest and looks steadily into the camera with light gray-green eyes, smiling enigmatically.
October 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. a flag flutters near a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump during a "No Kings" protest against Trump's policies, in Washington, D.C.”

@reuters.com #NoKings 👑
October 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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briankeene.bsky.social
Hey! @nadiabulkin.bsky.social AND @acwise.bsky.social? That’s way better than whatever lame movie or insipid YouTuber you were going to watch. Tune in!
nadiabulkin.bsky.social Nadia Bulkin @nadiabulkin.bsky.social · Oct 15
story hour! story hour! story hour!

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acwise.bsky.social A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · Oct 15
It's time to celebrate Spooky Season on @storyhour.bsky.social! Next week, I'll be reading alongside @nadiabulkin.bsky.social. Join us then, and check out all the other fabulous and spooky readings every Wednesday at 7pm PST/10pm ESt.

www.storyhour2020.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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story hour! story hour! story hour!

(@storyhour.bsky.social)
acwise.bsky.social A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · Oct 15
It's time to celebrate Spooky Season on @storyhour.bsky.social! Next week, I'll be reading alongside @nadiabulkin.bsky.social. Join us then, and check out all the other fabulous and spooky readings every Wednesday at 7pm PST/10pm ESt.

www.storyhour2020.com
Home | Story Hour
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October 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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ghoulish.bsky.social
big restock of Nadia Bulkin’s ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY just arrived. come get your copy at the shop or order direct on our webstore: ghoulish.rip/product/issu...

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October 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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paulrpanossian.bsky.social
Thoroughly enjoyed @nadiabulkin.bsky.social's "She Said Destroy" - efficient, merciless, and savagely alive, Bulkin's anthology dishes out short spec horror whose shadows will linger. Looking forward to picking up "Issues with Authority"
October 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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For all my DC folks: www.popville.com/2025/10/beho...
Behold the Best Giant Skeleton of the Season So Far - PoPville
Thanks to Laurie for sending the giant skeleton that wins Halloween. So it is written, so it is so.
www.popville.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.
October 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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cafenowhere.bsky.social
Wrote out some Postcards to Voters while listening to music and now I’m settling down to finish reading the ferociously great collection Issues with Authority by @nadiabulkin.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM