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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 21h

"So, Dim Narcissus, allow me to break your reflection by reaching through the mirror of water...so you can drink the sweet marigold breath of my wild mercy. You are good children. You are good little birds."

Today on ergot.: 'The Crux Quadrata' by Michael Borth

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 1d

The appealing quality of this white lanternflower was that it became increasingly beautiful and sharp. A symbolic and self-explanatory gesture of the cosmos and I could only answer with spontaneous ecstatic song.

Today on ergot.: 'The Crux Quadrata' by Michael Borth

www.ergot.press/authors/Mich...

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innovative + experimental horror

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 1d

Trump tariffs have caused quite a mess. I'm glad we don't use private courier companies to send our books. Public services, including postal services, are targets for neoliberalism and far-right goons. Defend your rights from these civic vandals. Don't vote like an asshole.

Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.bsky.social · 1d

And this drastically ends any vague possibility of selling my artworks in the United States again.

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social · 2d

I've been catching up on some horror films recently and watched Red Rooms last night. What a film, I cannot stop thinking about it

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 2d

imma be reading through the bloodletter magazine slushpile and writing feedback letters/line notes for folks in my workshop today while on the amtrak to voidcon: regale me with your memory of the first time you heard your favorite song?

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Laura Cranehill @lauracranehill.bsky.social · 2d

Hello New York Comic Con attendees! There's a Daily Secret Word you can whisper to the Saga Press booth and they will give the first two people with the password a free galley of my queer mycological body horror Wife Shaped Bodies!

The password for October 9th giveaway is: "mushroom" good luck! 🤞🍄🫶

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 2d

since i have a couple new pieces premiering in two separate venues over the next month, i wanted to share my most recent piece again -- an experimental erotic horror retelling of oscar wilde's salome

ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am a girl in a woman’s body, I am a woman in a girl's body, I am thirteen and three thousand years old. My Mother tells me a story about a princess who was turned to cinders.

Today on ergot.: 'The Daughter of Abomination' by Sasha Ravitch @sasharavitch.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Sash...

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder also that I’m reading for the Spring issue and I’m rip-snorting to see your work

The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 4d

Keep an eye out folks! Our Fall 2025 Issue will be out October 15th! Featuring all kinds of eco-writing and translation from a wonderful set of new and established writers.

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Jason Baltazar @jasonbaltazar.bsky.social · 4d

Ready for VoidCon this weekend.
I’ll be slinging two zines:

1) The MAKEITSTOP (PLEASE) - a fully illustrated gnostic totally-not-m ů ppets existential nightmare

2) STAMBDM - my liturgical prose poem about the one true religion around here, featuring a bunch of collaged illustrations.

#voidcon

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 4d

y'all have been giving us a lot to chew on! today is the last day to add to the heap, so if you haven't gotten your submission in, slither on over to your email inbox and do that!

Image id: an image of marbled flesh is overlaid on a group of people standing together. Text over them reads "Fuck being an individual. All my homies contort and slither eternally in the warm of the united flesh."

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 5d

This afternoon's listening pleasure before Patti Smith later tonight. sunn.bandcamp.com/album/life-m...

Life Metal, by SUNN O)))

4 track album

sunn.bandcamp.com

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Rhigu (comms open!) @rhigu.bsky.social · Aug 22

An Offering

A still life featuring a black cat, burning incense, a small heart, lillies and bleeding heart flowers.

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 5d

If we stop talking about Taylor Swift we will die

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Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social · 5d

If you're around Barcelona, come along to us read. This Saturday 5-7pm at Backstory Books (Carrer de Mallorca, 330). Trippy and interactive. And I promise to read at least one poem about the moon.

Image of Barcelona with details of a surreal-absurd reading at Backstory books, featuring Marcus Silcock, Thomas Helm and Hugh Behm-Steinberg.

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 5d

Today on ergot.: 'Mirrored' a new photo portfolio from Sonali Roy

www.ergot.press/dolmen/Sonal...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 5d

not to get too sappy on main but the pals i have made in the indie horror community since i joined bluesky a year ago have been such an inspiring and life-affirming reminder of how fucking awesome so many people truly are despite what the world wants you to believe

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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.

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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...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 5d

Did you know I'm giving a free talk next week? I'll be talking women and the Early Gothic! From writers to publishers, renegades and regulars... Come join me (donations very welcomed!)

Sunday 12th

10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

7pm - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

Select tickets – Women and the Early Gothic with Sam Hirst – Zoom

Women and the Early Gothic with Sam Hirst – Zoom, Sun 12 Oct 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support the project and do not s...

www.tickettailor.com

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 7d

The New Weird thrives today in unlabeled and often unrecognized forms. Disco Elysium, Dorohedoro, The Locked Tomb, Dishonored, their well of fucked-up cities and punk necromancers was fed from a distant reservoir of Ford, Gentle, Swanwick, Leiber and Peake

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 6d

Feathery apparition

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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah I’m listening to the new Taylor album. By Taylor I of course mean ambient artist Taylor Deupree, and by album I mean his wonderfully minimalist composition Somi, and by new I mean it came out in 2017.

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 7d

Unfortunately our peer reviewer who specializes in Paleobotany was out sick this week.

Rest assured, we'll be issuing a full retraction in our next issue.

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 7d

"Before the dinosaurs, the evil was there. But not before love. To survive, plants evolved to make flowers, so that pollinators would love them, see? Love is flowers. I meditate on the flowers of love and that’s my dream now."

Today on ergot.: 'Gowpen' by Max Olesen

www.ergot.press/authors/Max_...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 8d

"…and now I’m definitely awake again, sitting up in my bunk, and I’m sure it’s Wednesday. For some reason Wednesday is intake day for new prisoners. Not Monday or Friday, which would make more sense to me."

Today on ergot.: "Gowpen" by Max Olesen

www.ergot.press/authors/Max_...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

www.ergot.press

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