Rebecca Gransden
@rgransden.bsky.social
Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea.
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
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BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS:
Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.
To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.
To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
BRUISERS, LIT FREAKS and SMART MARKS:
Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.
To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
Managing editor @joshshepard.bsky.social got hit by an uninsured driver, resulting in heavy ER and auto costs.
To help one of the very best of us, we are offering two shirts for preorder, with every dime going toward Josh's bills: bruisermag.bigcartel.com
My conversation with Emmalea Russo is up now at @xraylitmag.bsky.social. This one visits some pertinent areas. Emmalea talks revealingly about the novel Vivienne, and shares her insights on the significance of synchronicity. Check it! xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRAWING LINES: AN INTERVIEW WITH EMMALEA RUSSO by Rebecca Gransden
Since its release in fall 2024 Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne (Arcade Publishing) has had time to percolate with the culture it so sharply interrogates. A slanted satire, the book poetically autopsies onlin...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My conversation with Emmalea Russo is up now at @xraylitmag.bsky.social. This one visits some pertinent areas. Emmalea talks revealingly about the novel Vivienne, and shares her insights on the significance of synchronicity. Check it! xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
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we have an interview with Emmalea Russo about her book 'Vivienne' !!
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
MAKING CONNECTIONS AND DRAWING LINES: AN INTERVIEW WITH EMMALEA RUSSO by Rebecca Gransden
Since its release in fall 2024 Emmalea Russo’s Vivienne (Arcade Publishing) has had time to percolate with the culture it so sharply interrogates. A slanted satire, the book poetically autopsies onlin...
xraylitmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
we have an interview with Emmalea Russo about her book 'Vivienne' !!
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social talks to Russo about: the nebulous concept of harm, the "innocence, honesty, and immanence about dogs" and how to grow a simple soul in today's world
xraylitmag.com/making-conne...
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The day has finally arrived, it’s launch time for giallo-autophagised mega project ‘All The Colour Of The Dark’.
A horror spiral into surrealism/perversion/even sci-fi at one point.
Available as a free PDF on Psycho H [with some sample visuals below]
psychoholosuite.com/2025/10/28/n...
A horror spiral into surrealism/perversion/even sci-fi at one point.
Available as a free PDF on Psycho H [with some sample visuals below]
psychoholosuite.com/2025/10/28/n...
October 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The day has finally arrived, it’s launch time for giallo-autophagised mega project ‘All The Colour Of The Dark’.
A horror spiral into surrealism/perversion/even sci-fi at one point.
Available as a free PDF on Psycho H [with some sample visuals below]
psychoholosuite.com/2025/10/28/n...
A horror spiral into surrealism/perversion/even sci-fi at one point.
Available as a free PDF on Psycho H [with some sample visuals below]
psychoholosuite.com/2025/10/28/n...
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we have a list of 11 books for Halloween, by Matthew Kinlin @matthewkinlin.bsky.social !
check it out !! & buy a book to read tonight while teenagers in hockey masks piss on yr front door
xraylitmag.com/nightmares-c...
check it out !! & buy a book to read tonight while teenagers in hockey masks piss on yr front door
xraylitmag.com/nightmares-c...
NIGHTMARES COME AT NIGHT: ELEVEN BOOKS FOR HALLOWEEN by Matthew Kinlin
Nightmares come at night. The poster for Halloween III: Season of the Witch shows the silhouettes of three children walking in Halloween costumes against a red night. A ghoulish apparition evaporates ...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM
we have a list of 11 books for Halloween, by Matthew Kinlin @matthewkinlin.bsky.social !
check it out !! & buy a book to read tonight while teenagers in hockey masks piss on yr front door
xraylitmag.com/nightmares-c...
check it out !! & buy a book to read tonight while teenagers in hockey masks piss on yr front door
xraylitmag.com/nightmares-c...
A year ago today Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs scampered into the world to spread chaos. Thank you to all those who have read this little rapscallion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YP...
Bunny Suit Guitar Prank
YouTube video by UFO CULT VHS
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October 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
A year ago today Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs scampered into the world to spread chaos. Thank you to all those who have read this little rapscallion.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YP...
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here are eight books recommended by Darrin Doyle !
the focus is on the liminal - "books that are highly effective at making the reader feel as if they are occupying a space in between..."
xraylitmag.com/darrin-doyle...
the focus is on the liminal - "books that are highly effective at making the reader feel as if they are occupying a space in between..."
xraylitmag.com/darrin-doyle...
DARRIN DOYLE RECOMMENDS: EIGHT BOOKS OF FICTION THAT EVOKE THE LIMINAL
Opening your eyes at night, unsure of where you are, half-dreaming, half-awake…staring into the darkness of a living room, thinking that the shadow near the door might be a man…or a coat rack… the tre...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
here are eight books recommended by Darrin Doyle !
the focus is on the liminal - "books that are highly effective at making the reader feel as if they are occupying a space in between..."
xraylitmag.com/darrin-doyle...
the focus is on the liminal - "books that are highly effective at making the reader feel as if they are occupying a space in between..."
xraylitmag.com/darrin-doyle...
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BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.
1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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October 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.
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New review for Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs, up at Publishers Weekly!
"14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural world"
"Inventive concepts and haunting, dreamlike imagery will appeal to horror fans."
www.publishersweekly.com/9781445220055
"14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural world"
"Inventive concepts and haunting, dreamlike imagery will appeal to horror fans."
www.publishersweekly.com/9781445220055
Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs by Rebecca Gransden
Gransden (Anemogram) brings together 14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural ...
www.publishersweekly.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New review for Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs, up at Publishers Weekly!
"14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural world"
"Inventive concepts and haunting, dreamlike imagery will appeal to horror fans."
www.publishersweekly.com/9781445220055
"14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural world"
"Inventive concepts and haunting, dreamlike imagery will appeal to horror fans."
www.publishersweekly.com/9781445220055
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Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social introduces Logan Berry's new book 'Doom is the House Without a Door' !!
writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to
click the link !
xraylitmag.com/doom-is-the-...
writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to
click the link !
xraylitmag.com/doom-is-the-...
'DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR' BY LOGAN BERRY: AN INTRODUCTION by Kathleen Rooney
Introduction for Logan for his Reading from ‘Doom Is the House Without a Door’ at Comfort Station on Saturday, August 16, 2025 –Kathleen Rooney Book launch playlist: DOOM UNLEASHED Logan Berry’s lat...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social introduces Logan Berry's new book 'Doom is the House Without a Door' !!
writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to
click the link !
xraylitmag.com/doom-is-the-...
writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to
click the link !
xraylitmag.com/doom-is-the-...
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The Hum summoned us to march the electric ley of the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, it called us onwards. Each pylon a portal deeper into its mysteries. To follow The Hum was to be transformed by it. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH #WrydWanderings
October 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Hum summoned us to march the electric ley of the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, it called us onwards. Each pylon a portal deeper into its mysteries. To follow The Hum was to be transformed by it. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH #WrydWanderings
Pleasure to speak with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about the probing The Surrender of Man. Out from @incastellated.bsky.social. Check the interview at @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden
With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...
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October 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pleasure to speak with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about the probing The Surrender of Man. Out from @incastellated.bsky.social. Check the interview at @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
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That’s my goth lit sister 🥲 love that book so much!
we have a great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview, this time with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about her new book about art, 'The Surrender of Man'
it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop
xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop
xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden
With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...
xraylitmag.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
That’s my goth lit sister 🥲 love that book so much!
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we have a great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview, this time with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about her new book about art, 'The Surrender of Man'
it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop
xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop
xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden
With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...
xraylitmag.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
we have a great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview, this time with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about her new book about art, 'The Surrender of Man'
it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop
xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop
xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...
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@kaaronwarren.bsky.social says #DarkMatter is "A wild ride" and @rgransden.bsky.social says "accelerating towards a destination unknown" and J. Ashley-Smith says "ecstatic, apocalyptic" and I say THANK YOU 🙏
darkfactory.club/dark-matter-...
@meerkatpress.bsky.social #darkfactory #darkmatter
darkfactory.club/dark-matter-...
@meerkatpress.bsky.social #darkfactory #darkmatter
Dark Matter Coming 2025
The world has ended. What are you going to do? Bunny Graves knows, and she wants Ari Regon to help her do it, as Ari
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October 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@kaaronwarren.bsky.social says #DarkMatter is "A wild ride" and @rgransden.bsky.social says "accelerating towards a destination unknown" and J. Ashley-Smith says "ecstatic, apocalyptic" and I say THANK YOU 🙏
darkfactory.club/dark-matter-...
@meerkatpress.bsky.social #darkfactory #darkmatter
darkfactory.club/dark-matter-...
@meerkatpress.bsky.social #darkfactory #darkmatter
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Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
Figures Crossing The Field Towards The Group, Rebecca Gransden
You ever muse on the most courageous thing you’ve ever done? Was it quitting a job because there was no toilet paper and you had to wipe with your bifocals? Or was it when you called your high schoo...
triyou.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
Figures Crossing The Field Towards The Group, Rebecca Gransden
You ever muse on the most courageous thing you’ve ever done? Was it quitting a job because there was no toilet paper and you had to wipe with your bifocals? Or was it when you called your high schoo...
triyou.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”
triyou.com/f/figures-cr...
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A review of Rebecca Gransden's novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...
A review of Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group
In Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, an unidentified blight spreads from the south of England, driving refugees northward. Our hero, a girl named Flo, walks n…
biblioklept.org
September 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A review of Rebecca Gransden's novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...
Fresh review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group over at the mighty @biblioklept.bsky.social. Many thanks to Edwin Turner for casting his astute eye over the book.
“Strange, gnarly, alive”
biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...
“Strange, gnarly, alive”
biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...
A review of Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group
In Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, an unidentified blight spreads from the south of England, driving refugees northward. Our hero, a girl named Flo, walks n…
biblioklept.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Fresh review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group over at the mighty @biblioklept.bsky.social. Many thanks to Edwin Turner for casting his astute eye over the book.
“Strange, gnarly, alive”
biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...
“Strange, gnarly, alive”
biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...
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full thing now posted.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
full thing now posted.
READ NOW
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It's my birthday!!! Buy one of my spooky books!
Sapphic September and it's my birthday month-- you are now honor bound to buy my books. One is a historical fiction novel about a conspiracy theory to control the minds of children with pop music and the other is a collection of short stories. Both gay. Buy Backmask. Buy Lockdown Laureate
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It's my birthday!!! Buy one of my spooky books!
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New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social
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DAVE FITZGERALD RECOMMENDS: Brandi Homan’s 'Burn Fortune', Kristin Garth’s 'Daddy', and Danielle Chelosky’s 'Pregaming Grief'
Paint Your Wagon, the 1969 Western musical starring Jean Seberg, Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin, was a historic commercial flop, by turns both mindbogglingly strange, and mind-numbingly dull in its de...
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September 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social
xraylitmag.com/dave-fitzger...
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Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group once again spotted out at roam, this time under the watch of Mark Andrew Johnston. Instagrammed as avrelonian.
September 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group once again spotted out at roam, this time under the watch of Mark Andrew Johnston. Instagrammed as avrelonian.
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Thrilled to announce “Nature Cards” - A Naturalist’s Guide, collectable set conceived as an accompaniment to Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Ltd to 30 sets, signed, featuring flora and fauna from the book. Includes exclusive short prose. thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-NC/
September 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thrilled to announce “Nature Cards” - A Naturalist’s Guide, collectable set conceived as an accompaniment to Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Ltd to 30 sets, signed, featuring flora and fauna from the book. Includes exclusive short prose. thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-NC/