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Ausiàs Tsel
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País Valencià. Horror en català/valencià & English. Mística bruta, dark fiction & horror vacui. Fiction in Flash Phantoms (2025) and Black Sheep (Hobb’s End Press, 2026). My work has been rejected by the best. Collabs/swaps --> ausiastsel.com
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Mediterranean Gothic, wounded memory, and fiction where the sacred rots under domestic skin.
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Start Here: What I Write, and Why
Mediterranean Gothic, wounded memory, and the sacred rotting under domestic skin.
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Thanks! I'm on substack where the coffee's cold, but the silence is worse.

I write Mediterranean Gothic. Stories where the light is too bright, the house remembers everything, and violence is never passion — it's ritual.

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#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is a hard one. For me, it will start with the body. Enhanced parts etc. But soon it will be only for the ones that can pay for them. The others–well, the other will have to sell his will for a chance to buy better body parts. Oh wait, isn't that happening now? #HorrorWritersChat
[Moon entity. Observed. Depth distance. Calculated. Organic material: satisfactory.]

[Ablative carapace. Installed. Cortex. Pried.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: WHEN IS DEHUMANISATION COMPLETE? LOSS OF BODY? OF WILL? AN ALIEN CONSCIOUSNESS IN ONE’S MIND?]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I would like to explore the "freedom" how the dehumanized people that exist today would use the physical dehumanization to keep exploiting their fellow humans. #HorrorWritersChat
[Grafting. In progress. Conveyor attachments. Plugged. Mining extraction. Tools. Inserted.]
[Spinal chord. Interwoven. Cranial examination. Reactivated.]
[Inquiry. Required for completion: INDUSTRIAL HORROR EXPLORES DEHUMANISATION. HOW WOULD YOU EXPLORE IT YOURSELF IN THE GENRE?]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Hi! I write psychological horror, but for me the scarier is always the future, because our imagination can make everything more scary than everything that happened. #HorrorWritersChat
[Organic Material. Booted. Nerve System. Controller Liquids. Injected.]

[Material responsive. Cranial activity. Under control.]

[Inquiry. Required for completion: TELL US, WHO YOU ARE, WHAT DO YOU WRITE, AND WHAT INDUSTRIAL HORROR IS SCARIER? OF THE PAST, OR OF THE FUTURE?]

#HorrorWritersChat
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Xafogor. Insomni. Una mare que es mor. Un home que escriu cartes a una dona anomenada Raquel.
“Estimada Raquel” — nou flash fiction en valencià.
Llegiu-lo d’una tirada. Després torneu-hi. open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...
Estimada Raquel — Una carta d’amor
Flash fiction en valencià: una carta d'amor escrita en una nit d'insomni. Un home sol, una mare moribunda, una dona anomenada Raquel. Però potser no és el que sembla.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Pere writes love letters by candlelight. His pen scratches against marble.

The candle illuminates Raquel's photograph—her youthful smile, lively eyes, lustrous hair.
Some devotions are darker than others.

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/dear-raquel
#flashfiction #horror #darkfiction #gothiclit #booksky
Dear Raquel
Every night, Pere writes to the love of his life. Tonight, he promises, they'll finally be together. A flash fiction about devotion and loneliness. 650 words.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Un teòleg alemany mort fa quasi un segle m’acaba de fer la pregunta més incòmoda que m’han fet en mesos.
I estic en un tren passant per la Plana. No estava preparat.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
So, how's everyone sleeping? Snoring neighbors keeping you up at night? I'm not saying I have the solution... but funny enough, I do. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/litany-in-...
Litany in G major
The dread doesn’t come from the dead. It’s your neighbor’s snoring through the wall at 3 AM.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Terrified, puking and crying from a wheelchair in an ER, I said every name I need in my life.

And one more sentence: I don't want to die.

New–little–essay: Writing from the Low Place II

#Booksky #NonFiction

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Writing from The Low Place II – I don't want to die
I wrote this from an ER cubicle with an IV line in my arm. Fluorescent light, sterile plastic smell, paper mattress crinkling. Not knowing what the hell was happening to my body.There's no difference ...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I think the authors I follow are 50/50: half bitching about AI, the other half publishing books with AI covers. No idea how the second group made it onto my feed.
November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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When I went to Birmingham museum last week I saw some Morris & co sketches for their stained glass for Edinburgh. Ive been wanting to use them as reference all week, so had a go today
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
G. G. G. G.
Your neighbor snores through the wall every night. Three nights, twenty, more. The snores start speaking: "Come. Open. Finish it."
Amazon delivers lockpicks in red boxes.
"Litany in G Major"
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Litany in G major
The dread doesn’t come from the dead. It’s your neighbor’s snoring through the wall at 3 AM.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
New flash fiction: "Litany in G Major"

Everyone's had intrusive thoughts. The difference between you and a monster isn't morality, it's circumstance.
Sleep deprivation. A neighbor who won't stop. Amazon's red box.
No judgment. Just making a point.

#Booksky

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Litany in G major
The dread doesn’t come from the dead. It’s your neighbor’s snoring through the wall at 3 AM.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
New website. Same voice. No decoration. No bullshit. Just the work. ausiastsel.com
Ausiàs Tsel – Mediterranean Gothic
Valencian author writing Mediterranean Gothic: fiction where memory fractures, houses bruise, and the sacred grows teeth. Stories in Catalan/Valencian and English.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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🍖 Mads Mikkelsen
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Recupero la traducció del clàssic d’E. Nesbit Man-size in marble. Fins ara, aquesta peça no comptava amb cap versió en valencià/català. Amb aquesta primera traducció intento cobrir un buit en l’accés a la literatura de terror clàssica en la nostra llengua.

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Ben mudats de marbre - Ausiàs Tsel tradueix E. Nesbith
Fins ara, aquesta peça —i bona part de l’obra de Nesbit per a adults— no comptava amb cap versió en valencià/català. Amb aquesta primera traducció directa de l’anglés, respectuosa amb el gust victorià...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"Mira cap amunt.

La ferida del costat del Crist és fosca i humida, del color del fetge de corder abans de coure. Dels dits dels peus sense pell del iaio abans de morir."

El meu relat Diumenge de maig, només a Substack

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Diumenge de maig - Ausiàs Tsel
El Gòtic Mediterrani passa sota una llum dura, la de Sorolla, en espais on sagrat i domèstic col·lapsen l’un dins l’altre.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Mediterranean Gothic isn't haunted castles. It's a Valencian church in May, fifty-three children in white, and a Christ whose wound remembers what bodies do.

New on Substack: the manifesto I didn't know I was writing.

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/may-sunday

#Booksky
May Sunday
A Mediterranean Gothic Manifesto
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November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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El Gòtic Mediterrani no són castells encantats. És una església valenciana al maig, cinquanta-tres xiquets de blanc, i un Crist la ferida del qual recorda per a què estan fets els cossos.

Nou al Substack: el manifest que no sabia que estava escrivint.

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Diumenge de maig
Un manifest del Gòtic Mediterrani
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November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
El Gòtic Mediterrani no són castells encantats. És una església valenciana al maig, cinquanta-tres xiquets de blanc, i un Crist la ferida del qual recorda per a què estan fets els cossos.

Nou al Substack: el manifest que no sabia que estava escrivint.

open.substack.com/pub/ausiasts...
Diumenge de maig
Un manifest del Gòtic Mediterrani
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Mediterranean Gothic isn't haunted castles. It's a Valencian church in May, fifty-three children in white, and a Christ whose wound remembers what bodies do.

New on Substack: the manifesto I didn't know I was writing.

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/may-sunday

#Booksky
May Sunday
A Mediterranean Gothic Manifesto
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November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
For 15 years, the sound of an unplugged TV has lived inside my skull. No rest, no pauses, no miracle drops.

You'll get used to it, my ass.

#booksky

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-ringing
The Ringing – Mediterranean Gothic on Tinnitus and Eternal Noise
A short piece about chronic tinnitus, insomnia, and the fear that the noise doesn’t stop when the body does.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Writing from pain is indecently easy. You type because it's one of the few movements that doesn't demand much strength. The world's already been edited down: light, noise, appetite, plans—cut, cut, cut.

On what the low place does to your prose.

#Booksky

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Writing from the Low Place
Some thoughts from the low place, where writing is ventilation, not cure.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Some days the page is the only place where the noise makes sense.
Writing from the Low Place

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#Booksky
Writing from the Low Place
Some thoughts from the low place, where writing is ventilation, not cure.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I’ve decided Substack gets a little more than the blog. A colder cut. A deeper bruise. ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-ringing

#Booksky #Horror #Substack
The Ringing – Mediterranean Gothic on Tinnitus and Eternal Noise
A short piece about chronic tinnitus, insomnia, and the fear that the noise doesn’t stop when the body does.
ausiastsel.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM