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Tenebrous Press
@tenebrouspress.bsky.social
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Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.

@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.

SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️

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Fuck it how about Tenebrous Press! We're Weird! We rule! We're FIVE FUCKING YEARS DEEP and we're not stopping.

Our 2026 Book Club launches next week, we've got a killer back catalogue, and you should buy everything in our store:

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November 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🔥NEXT WEEK🔥
Subscriptions for our 2026 Book Club & preorders for our first title of '26—KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social—open!

'Course, we're not gonna stop you from hitting our webstore before then & helping us close out 2025 w/a bang!

Get your holiday shop on:
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A fancy-pants well-coiffed skeleton admires our 2026 lineup of titles. Cover art by Kerisson Wemerson; a lone kayaker traverses the waters into a the mouth of a massive, monstrous skull + Blurbs from Max Booth, Sonora Taylor, Laura Cranehill
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Gods below & above, do we feel seen by this passage or what🖤☠️
"In terms of what they publish, small presses see within the wider publishing landscape market-led tendencies towards sameness and repetition, tendencies that they counter through the production of a diverse and imaginative literature. They are vital for the literary ecosystem in that they take risks on books that larger publishers would not; champion genre-bending and innovative forms of writing; pour time and energy into supporting emerging and overlooked writers; are dedicated to publishing books in translation; and tend to publish far more writers from minoritised backgrounds due to their networks, openness to writers from non-traditional literary pathways, and submissions processes. They are also dedicated to expanding the boundaries of the visual form of books through original approaches to design, layout and printing – despite the costs of complex typesetting. Small-press publishers do all of this on extremely limited budgets, often without adequate pay themselves – and, in many instances, any pay at all. At the same time, their books are held to industry standard and compete with titles produced by big publishers: nominated for the same prizes, sold in the same bookshops and reviewed in the same publications. In sum, they are doing the same work as big publishers, only much more of it and for far less reward. Why?"
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Hails new followers & voyagers into the Weird! May we interest you in a slice of:

🚀Queer Sci-Fi Horromance?
🧠Surrealist Cronenbergian medical mind-fuckery?
❄️Indigenous Arctic supernatural survival?
🪸Coral eco-body horror?

And that's only PART of 2025. Fill your plate:
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Our 11 releases in 2025.
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Oh man😂 I wish we could claim some kind of marketing savvy but I was just telling someone in our discord…

…wait, you know what? We’ll own it. Yep, pure marketing savvy🖤☠️
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Art by @mxmorgan.com

All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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On days where I fret whether we're waving our Weird flag w/enough vigor, I remind myself of the 3k-word cheat sheet that @goresorcerer.bsky.social wrote up to explain PUPPET'S BANQUET.

@eveharms.com thought it was badass; that's good enough for us, should be for you too🖤☠️

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Screenshot of a snippet of text: "Multiple valid intended interpretations with space left for more …and potentially somehow all true at once -The main, ‘literal’ interpretation, as perceived by the protagonist" Text snippet: "I call this book a “diseased gothic”. This is an aesthetic declaration but also an assertion that the text itself is sick, warped. There are parts of this story that shouldn’t hang together, great howling voids in the logic of it that exist for ideas to be able to come in and out of, like worms into a carcass, making flesh into soil." Cover art by Donna A. Black, a horrifying centipede-cracked baby doll monstrosity, + nice blurb by Eve Harms. Cover copy: Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the “real” world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity. Of her husband, there is no trace…until weeks later, when Martin is discovered in a hospital for rare and abnormal diseases, his body spliced together with that of an unknown woman. And they are very pregnant.
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Weird Year in Review:
8 books.
3 magazine issues.
2 sleep-deprived co-publishers.
Let's do it again in '26!

Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️
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11 Tenebrous titles, all in a row
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Exclusive Teaser Sneak Peek!

A glance at the creative brilliance going on behind the scenes for the cover art for @dangerslater.bsky.social's WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE, causing severe psychiatric distress to a great many of you in fall 2026.

...I've never used so many goddamn rulers in my life🖤☠️
Screenshot of Clip Studio Paint workspace; all that's visible on the white board is a small reference pic of the SOCIETY movie poster and approx. 7000 ruler lines.
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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When they aren’t busy reenacting their favorite scenes from FUNNY GAMES, Tenebrous Cult members @beardedbetts.bsky.social (TRVE CVLT) & @anthonyengebretson.bsky.social (LUMBERJACK) hold down the Tenebrous remote table.
Your service is appreciated, Weirdos🖤☠️
Betts and Anthony at a convention table with their own titles + addl 10p books, looking just a little too pleased about the house of horrors they left behind.
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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We are absolutely f&$king RIPPING out of the gates in 2026.

Just in case you had any doubts🖤☠️

KAYAK by @kristalstittle.bsky.social, February 2026.
Cover art by @kerissonlp.bsky.social
Cover art for KAYAK: aerial view looking down on a tiny kayaker on the water paddling into a grouping of islands shaped like a monstrous skull.
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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A black starlit cosmos, descending to a vague green glow. Text: YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY Companion Volume (crossed out) Follow-up (crossed out) Sequel (crossed out) EVOLUTION Title Reveal Cover Art Reveal Submissions Details Coming Next Week
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Astronaut hates space, ship, other crew members💀

Not too fond of his assigned penpal either (at first)💀

Shit goes bananas at the edge of the universe💀

Time gets crazy💀

People die💀

Cosmic Horror💀

...Meet Cute?❤️

DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social
OUT NOW: store.tenebrouspress.com
Cover art by Carly A-F: against the blackness of space, a lone astronaut sits at their console, which drifts into the heavens in multicolored pixels. Blurbs by Emma Cole and Ide Hennessey.
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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By my count…eleven? I dunno, that seems a reasonable number 🖤☠️
11 Tenebrous releases in 2025. The joke is that I’m being a butthole and implying that ALL of our releases were masterpieces, and no one else’s were. Sure. “Joking”.
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Highly technical wall schedule conquered 🔥🖤☠️
Next year’s up, already with corrections scribbled on.
Our 2025 release schedule taped to my wall, each release haphazardly crossed out with a sharpie
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Today is all about scheduling the 2026 calendar; giving myself a heart attack *now* so I don't have 70 small heart attacks next year, or at the very least cutting that 70 down to a healthy 30.

2026 Book Club subscriptions open in TWO WEEKS🖤☠️
A fetching skeleton with one helluva head of hair blowing in the breeze admires our nine (fiction) releases for 2026: WE ARE GOOD PEOPLE by Danger Slater SPLIT SCREAM: CURSED PLACES by Sonora Taylor & Matthew Pritt BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4 MIDWESTERN CHROME by Michael Bettendorf KAYAK by Kristal Stittle ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT by Santiago Eximeno OLYOKE by Vincent Endwell DIVE by Allison Mick YOUR BODY IS A something or other
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Give the interview a read, and then get a copy of DEAR STUPID PENPAL, out now!

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November 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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A Very Tenebrous 2025.
The finest stories are being written in the cryptic, concealed corners that no one ever thinks to look into.

It's our mission to find them.

We can safely say we lived up to our promise this year:
NEW WEIRD HORROR + MORE🖤☠️

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All eleven releases from Tenebrous Press in 2025.
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Can't tell you what it means to see so many of our usual readers taking a chance & getting swept up in the cosmic beauty of @rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL today.

Some days we need to sit in all our feels. If you're up for it, this is one rewarding ride: store.tenebrouspress.com
Review text: "Wow. Okay, okay. Can we just take a minute and say that again? Wow. Just holy fucking wow." Review text: "Recommended for: Readers who want their cosmic dread served with flirtation, anyone who has ever pointed a telescope and whispered “look back,” believers in the church of found family, chemistry-joke sickos, and people who think bread-making might also be a love spell." Review text: "Transfixed. From the first page of Dear Stupid Penpal, to the very last, I was transfixed. Rascal Hartley is officially an auto-buy for me." Review text: "Dear Stupid Penpal reminds us to keep our cosmic perspective, our place in time's long river. It's a call to reach the offered hand of another, to hold each other close as you face the reality of eternity, and the great unknown promised by the nights sky."
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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🎉🖤RELEASE DAY🖤🎉

@rascalhartley.bsky.social's DEAR STUPID PENPAL is out now everywhere!

Sci-Fi, Cosmic Horror & Queer Romance meld effortlessly in this tale of a deep space mission thought lost forever & the bonds that keep us human at the edge of the universe.

Get it:
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Cover art by Carly A-F: against the blackness of space, a lone astronaut sits at their console, which drifts into the heavens in multicolored pixels.
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Now Reading! WE LIKE IT CHERRY’s @jacymorris.bsky.social makes blood curdle at the Rose City Book Pub with an original story he wrote yesterday specifically for this event🖤☠️

If you can’t join us here, you can contribute to the Oregon Food Bank below⬇️
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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DEAR STUPID PENPAL by @rascalhartley.bsky.social is out tomorrow, & today I wanna showcase some of the details of @carlydraws.bsky.social's gorgeous cover, because sometimes the eye doesn't catch those things against a black sky.

Order your copy here:
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Closeup of some of the retrofuturistic terminals aboard the ship. A human figure is silhouetted in the brilliant pixelated glow of the computer screen. pixels drift into the stars The full cover art
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Friday night, watching good-bad 90s sci-fi with the boyo, and folding new shipping boxes.

Books you order sure works look snazzy in said boxes🖤☠️

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My sexy hand folding a purple Tenebrous box
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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2025 so far:

💀3 issues o'Weird shorts
💀Dystopian Feminist Sci-Fi
💀Freaky Novelettes of Loss & Rebirth
💀Indigenous Supernatural Chiller
💀Cronenbergian Phantasmagoria Mindfuck
💀Best New Weird Horror of the Year
💀Eco-Body-Coral Horror
💀Tarot-themed Terror

Get some Tenebrous🖤☠️
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10 10p titles from 2025, all in a row.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM