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@dimshores.bsky.social

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Micropress publisher of weird horror, strange science fiction, and dark fantasy. Cat enthusiast. Abyss gazer, void screamer. No ICE, no KKK, no fascist USA. Also no AI. He/him. dimshores.com

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 1d

Just got an email telling me it's the last day for 'prime deals.' Fug that crap. Want a real deal? Check out our selection of $2 eBooks for October. Any sale helps keep our indie spirit going. Thank you!

undertowpublications.com/ebooks

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 2d

My current audiobook listen. Big thumbs up so far.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 2d

DT probably believes it, for the rest of those assholes it’s just an official pretext to go after their foes. Just like “woke” is anything they don’t like, “antifa” is now officially anyone who opposes or even just criticizes them. ✊ #fightthepower

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 2d

Love the whole book but my favorite is “Andy Kaufman Creeping through the Trees.” Another story with scenes burned into my mind -- the Clifton performance and the finale at the house are just WILD. And another plug for Laird's audiobooks. The StC narrator took some getting used to but I came around.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll go with “The Men from Porlock,” partially because I saw Laird read from it at NecronomiCon 12 years ago. (12 years?!?) My copy of TBTTAUA was still in the mail when I left for the con so Laird gave me a signed copy to read on the plane ride home. Absolute legend. 🖤

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 2d

“Hallucigenia.” It made a big dent on my psyche, messed me up for DAYS after I read it the first time. Besides the barn, Helen’s declining medical situation and (especially) the encounter between Wallace and Choate in the alley have never left my memory. Also, the audiobook version is perfect.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 2d

“Mysterium Tremendum” and “--30--“ for me. I went back and reread “--30--“ after watching They Remain and liked it even better then.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 5d

Attention horror authors - only a couple of days left to submit yer work to FLESH zine. Pro rates and a great venue. @cursedmorsels.bsky.social is good folks in general. Looking forward to reading FLESH.

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 8d

Looking to submit to a zine that welcomes horror for all its nastiness and also pays 10 cents per word? Look no further.

Open for subs through October 7th: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

FLESH Zine
For this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be included for free with Samir Sirk Morató’s Gore Poetics, a Cursed Morsels 2026 release. For context, this book is weird, erotic, grotesque, queer, transgressive, literary, and intense if that gives you a sense for the kinds of work Samir and I (Eric Raglin) are looking for. Your submission can be fiction, poetry, or nonfiction.

Pay is 10 cents per word. We’re asking for first worldwide print and digital publishing rights but no exclusivity period. Contributors will receive five free physical copies of the zine.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 8d

I remember that. Proud to have been part of the mass unfriending. ✊

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 9d

What a great feeling! Congrats to the whole @salonsinister.com crew. I’m ordering a print copy right now.

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 9d

So @wolfemac.bsky.social shared this amazing pic of the mag in an ACTUAL BOOKSTORE

And I started crying when I saw the titles around it.

It's right next to Chuck Tingle for fuck's sake.

And @haileypiperfights.bsky.social 😭😭

A bookshelf filled with trans stories

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 10d

The US could take a lesson here. Glad to see you are persisting my friend.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 12d

Ending today - NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT audiobook is suuuper cheap on @libro.fm - less than $5 for 13+ hours of Indigenous dark fiction. Edited by Shane Hawk and @tvayyyy.bsky.social, introduction by @sgj.bsky.social. Instabuy for me.

Never Whistle at Night Audiobook on Libro.fm

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY • BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY • LOCUS AWARD FINALISTA bold, clever, and sublimely s...

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LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · 16d

My new baby kittens have a pricy vet follow-up in a few weeks, my old-man cat still needs his various prescriptions, AND my rent is going up in November, so book revenue is increasingly important nowadays! Please consider ordering a copy or leaving a review somewhere online 🤞

LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · Jun 13

R E M I N D E R that my debut horror/dark SFF/weird fiction collection Spiritus Ex Machina is available in ebook and paperback versions via Grimscribe Press (there was also a sold-out hardcover). Proceeds are mostly going towards my elderly cat's medical needs

Cover of Spiritus Ex Machina by LC von Hessen, available from Grimscribe Press. This book has . . . dolls! puppets! masks! mannequins!, olde-timey bollocks, extreme social discomfort, dream logic, weird kinks, dubious medical ethics, some Lovecraftian bits if you're into that (or if you HATE that), and D E S P A I R.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 15d

ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY cover art by Svetlana Radayeva, cover design by Matthew Revert. RED SKIES IN THE MORNING cover art by @leslekieuart.bsky.social, cover design by Michaela Waltz. Get IWA here:

Issues With Authority – GHOULISH

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 15d

If you missed out on @nadiabulkin.bsky.social's "Red Skies in the Morning" when I published it in 2024, you can finally read it in her outstanding new collection, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY, along with two other novellas, one exclusive to this book. A must-read.

Two books by Nadia Bulkin laid flat on a kitchen table: on the left, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY (Ghoulish Books, 2025), and on the right, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING (Dim Shores, 2024).

If you have already read Nadia’s first collection SHE SAID DESTROY (Word Horde, 2017), you know you need ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY. If you haven’t read SHE SAID DESTROY, please do. Nadia is one of the best at what she does, please support her and the indie presses that make work like this available.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 16d

Five-year-old you is correct.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 17d

This is good news.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 18d

This is violence

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats,looking forward to reading it!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 22d

Portland, this is where to be tonight, tomorrow and Sunday!
Come see some Weird films!
Come see us! We'll be holding down the fort all weekend long🖤☠️

hplfilmfestival.com

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon | The only convention that understands

hplfilmfestival.com

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 22d

Hugh Cook’s Chronicles of an Age of Darkness does some of this. Different books have different protagonists who experience the same events in different, sometimes contradictory, ways. My favorite weird fantasy/SF series.

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 22d

Preordered each as soon as that was an option. Can’t wait man!

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 23d

Rolling into Portland around 8:00 tonight. I’m staying near the Hollywood Theater, up for shenanigans and/or hijinks. Any of you fine folks in the area?

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival - Portland, OR

hplfilmfestival.com

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 24d

Cover design by Shi Briggs. www.etsy.com/shop/grossan...

Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 24d

OK, first proof/ARCs have been printed for The Maidens of Midnight, the first collection by @charibdys.bsky.social. Fantastic art seen here by @luciaretamales.bsky.social. And look how chonky it is - 170 pages, by far the thickest single-author book I’ve published. Pre-order coming soon.

A fanned-out stack of six copies of The Maidens of Midnight and Other Lost Media by Rhiannon Rasmussen. The cover art shows a large red face with open mouth and fangs that seems to hang in the sky as a woman in a sheer white gown looks toward it. The setting looks to be a wooded path in the forest at night. There is a box near the upper right corner that says “UNCORRECTED PROOF — ADVANCE REVIEW COPY."

Interior art by Lucia Retamales of something that looks like a cursed Tamagotchi hanging in front of a glitching video screen.

Six copies of The Maidens of Midnight and Other Lost Media, stacked and photographed so the spines are visible. This counts as a long book for Dim Shores.