D. Matthew Urban
@breathinghead.bsky.social
weird fiction person • TX → NY • stories here and there • SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES out now from Cursed Morsels Press! • he/him • https://dmatthewurban.com
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Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces has breached containment! Thrilled to have my first collection out in the world. 18 tales for enjoyers of spider kisses, eerie grandparents, and endless whirling in trackless voids!
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Highly stoked for this collection. Bring on the viscera! 🍖
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER ANNOUNCEMENT!
Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!
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Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!
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January 27, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Highly stoked for this collection. Bring on the viscera! 🍖
Another murder by these fucking Gestapo scumbags. Love and solidarity to the people of Minneapolis. Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum, fuck any politician saying less
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Another murder by these fucking Gestapo scumbags. Love and solidarity to the people of Minneapolis. Abolish ICE is the absolute minimum, fuck any politician saying less
"The Sphinx," Edgar Allan Poe
Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.
January 20, 2026 at 12:37 AM
"The Sphinx," Edgar Allan Poe
who the fuck is scraeming "KILL YOUR DARLINGS" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never kill my darlings
January 17, 2026 at 7:41 PM
who the fuck is scraeming "KILL YOUR DARLINGS" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never kill my darlings
I would like my stories to be used for divination and prophecy like the Sortes Vergilianae
what is the biggest writerly goal you are willing to cop to publicly? I would like to be nominated for a Lammy
January 17, 2026 at 12:57 AM
I would like my stories to be used for divination and prophecy like the Sortes Vergilianae
1. fuck ICE 2. help each other 3. long live weird horror 4. fuck ICE
If you have a weird horror-loving friend, buy them our WHOLE SHEBANG bundle, which includes 9 ebooks and 18 digital zines for $24. Today, I'm donating $12 from each order to support folks in south Minneapolis targeted by ICE and struggling to pay rent.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:09 AM
1. fuck ICE 2. help each other 3. long live weird horror 4. fuck ICE
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🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
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January 14, 2026 at 3:31 PM
🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
The Lighthouse (2019, dir. Eggers)
January 14, 2026 at 12:05 AM
The Lighthouse (2019, dir. Eggers)
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Order something from our store today and I'll send my portion of the proceeds to MN ICE Watch, a local org that works to keep people safe from fascists and provide mutual aid to those affected by the ICE invasion.
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January 10, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Order something from our store today and I'll send my portion of the proceeds to MN ICE Watch, a local org that works to keep people safe from fascists and provide mutual aid to those affected by the ICE invasion.
www.cursedmorselspress.com
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We published Antifa Splatterpunk one year after the January 6th insurrection. I wish this book were less relevant now, but unfortunately, the fascist horrors persist. In these stories, you'll find lots of Nazis getting their shit wrecked: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/anti...
ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
Fascism didn’t die in 1945. Its grave was only temporary. Rising again, this undead ideology shambles into the present, gathering power and spreading destruction wherever it goes.This monster stalks t...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
We published Antifa Splatterpunk one year after the January 6th insurrection. I wish this book were less relevant now, but unfortunately, the fascist horrors persist. In these stories, you'll find lots of Nazis getting their shit wrecked: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/anti...
First book finished in 2026: Fleischerei by @miseryvulture.bsky.social. Wonderfully lacerating! I was especially struck by how its story of obsession, trauma and erotic butchery unfolds amid the scars and ghosts of fascism, buried mass graves and the lingering smell of burned flesh
January 4, 2026 at 5:28 PM
First book finished in 2026: Fleischerei by @miseryvulture.bsky.social. Wonderfully lacerating! I was especially struck by how its story of obsession, trauma and erotic butchery unfolds amid the scars and ghosts of fascism, buried mass graves and the lingering smell of burned flesh
Well I’m sure we’ll be greeted as liberators THIS time! Good fucking God
January 3, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Well I’m sure we’ll be greeted as liberators THIS time! Good fucking God
Last book finished in 2025: Solenoid by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, which I've been reading in fits and starts for a long time, accelerating over the last week or so. Tremendous IMO, though recommended only if the phrase "gnostic surrealist Knausgaard" doesn't make you want to jump out a window
January 1, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Last book finished in 2025: Solenoid by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, which I've been reading in fits and starts for a long time, accelerating over the last week or so. Tremendous IMO, though recommended only if the phrase "gnostic surrealist Knausgaard" doesn't make you want to jump out a window
Ending 2025 feeling grateful for the publication of my first book. Huge thanks to @cursedmorsels.bsky.social for adding Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces to their roster, and to everyone who blurbed, reviewed, read, is reading or will read this bundle of weird contraptions!
Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces paperback | Cursed Morsels Press
Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to master the art of annihilation. A girl on the verge of a transformation seeks out a new member for her isolated, inhuman family. A glitching brai...
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December 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Ending 2025 feeling grateful for the publication of my first book. Huge thanks to @cursedmorsels.bsky.social for adding Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces to their roster, and to everyone who blurbed, reviewed, read, is reading or will read this bundle of weird contraptions!
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Hey hey hey, look what’s 25% off at the Barnes & Noble sale! Preorder your most anticipated books of 2026 (including @shortwavebooks.bsky.social titles) and maybe SLEEP ALONE wanders into your cart too…
December 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hey hey hey, look what’s 25% off at the Barnes & Noble sale! Preorder your most anticipated books of 2026 (including @shortwavebooks.bsky.social titles) and maybe SLEEP ALONE wanders into your cart too…
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Merry Christmas to all endosymbionts: mitochondria, chloroplasts, nitroplasts, the whole gang 🎄🦠
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Merry Christmas to all endosymbionts: mitochondria, chloroplasts, nitroplasts, the whole gang 🎄🦠
grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg: A Knives Out Mystery
December 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg: A Knives Out Mystery
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For Tiny Tim whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Did NOT die, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For Tiny Tim whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Did NOT die, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beats on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, where the shadows lie, One Tim to rule them all, One Tim to find them, One Tim to bring them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
December 25, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For Tiny Tim whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Did NOT die, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For Tiny Tim whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Did NOT die, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
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Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
It's true! If you're looking to start a new holiday tradition, or just wondering what to cook for the big family potluck, "Winter Savory" is full of festive ideas. 🍲🌿👑 Just a few of the lifehacks you'll find in my collection of weird horrors! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...
December 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
It's true! If you're looking to start a new holiday tradition, or just wondering what to cook for the big family potluck, "Winter Savory" is full of festive ideas. 🍲🌿👑 Just a few of the lifehacks you'll find in my collection of weird horrors! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...