Rex Burrows
@improbablerex.bsky.social
Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc.
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Here's a thread listing all of my published stories. I've noted the ones that are available to read for free, but please consider supporting these (across the board excellent) magazines, anthologies, etc. And thank you for reading! Here we go...
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is it Butlerian Jihad time yet? can we have a little one as a treat?
December 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
is it Butlerian Jihad time yet? can we have a little one as a treat?
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I posted more details on my website about my new poem "Los Fantasmas en Su Boca" and where to buy Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane (Brigids Gate Press.)
“Los Fantasmas en Su Boca”
"Los Fantasmas en Su Boca" poem by Richard Leis. In Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane (Brigids Gate Press.) My great-grandmother, ghosts, gratefulness, and grief.
richardleis.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I posted more details on my website about my new poem "Los Fantasmas en Su Boca" and where to buy Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane (Brigids Gate Press.)
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Friends! @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is 3-months old today. Time flies. Please consider grabbing a copy of this stellar debut. Thanks to all who have bought a copy. Really appreciate it.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
December 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Friends! @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons and Other Stories is 3-months old today. Time flies. Please consider grabbing a copy of this stellar debut. Thanks to all who have bought a copy. Really appreciate it.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
undertowpublications.com/ebooks/uncer...
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Out today! Includes my short essay “Creepshow” alongside many other excellent pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Soup’s on. Happy release day to Wendy and Grace and all the authors who came to the table.
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Out today! Includes my short essay “Creepshow” alongside many other excellent pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
If I never have to use the word stakeholder again, that’s 100% okay with me.
December 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If I never have to use the word stakeholder again, that’s 100% okay with me.
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Today's the day!
I have a little essay in here about watching Night Gallery as a kid. This delicious anthology would make a great holiday gift.
Thank you Grace R. Reynolds, Wendy Dalrymple & Alison Flannery. And thanks of course to @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🖤
I have a little essay in here about watching Night Gallery as a kid. This delicious anthology would make a great holiday gift.
Thank you Grace R. Reynolds, Wendy Dalrymple & Alison Flannery. And thanks of course to @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🖤
Soup’s on. Happy release day to Wendy and Grace and all the authors who came to the table.
December 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today's the day!
I have a little essay in here about watching Night Gallery as a kid. This delicious anthology would make a great holiday gift.
Thank you Grace R. Reynolds, Wendy Dalrymple & Alison Flannery. And thanks of course to @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🖤
I have a little essay in here about watching Night Gallery as a kid. This delicious anthology would make a great holiday gift.
Thank you Grace R. Reynolds, Wendy Dalrymple & Alison Flannery. And thanks of course to @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social 🖤
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Happy release day to Poisoned Soup! I’m so grateful to be included with my first ever creative non-fic piece. I hope it gives everyone the feels🖤
Soup’s on. Happy release day to Wendy and Grace and all the authors who came to the table.
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Happy release day to Poisoned Soup! I’m so grateful to be included with my first ever creative non-fic piece. I hope it gives everyone the feels🖤
Out today! Includes my short essay “Creepshow” alongside many other excellent pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Soup’s on. Happy release day to Wendy and Grace and all the authors who came to the table.
December 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Out today! Includes my short essay “Creepshow” alongside many other excellent pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
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Hey @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com and legacy media - where's the coverage of the cognitively impaired and deeply unwell president? Imagine ANY other president saying this. It'd be front page for weeks. When it's all over, we'll remember the part you played.
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Hey @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com and legacy media - where's the coverage of the cognitively impaired and deeply unwell president? Imagine ANY other president saying this. It'd be front page for weeks. When it's all over, we'll remember the part you played.
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I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I’ve been seeing this cover over and over and I just…
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
In the original you’re aware of the horror of falling, but the body positions of the workers are solid on the beam. Here, most of them should be falling off, yet they don’t, because they live in an unreal, consequence-free space.
Keeping a good thought for my friends in Providence tonight. Stay safe. Fuck guns.
December 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Keeping a good thought for my friends in Providence tonight. Stay safe. Fuck guns.
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Forget Black Friday! Supernatural Tales is ALWAYS good value. £4.10 + postage for 5 new eldritch stories. Issue 60 is an absolute cracker. As mentioned before, I make no claims for my own story, but the other 4 are brilliant - not a duff one among them. Get it now! Link to follow.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Forget Black Friday! Supernatural Tales is ALWAYS good value. £4.10 + postage for 5 new eldritch stories. Issue 60 is an absolute cracker. As mentioned before, I make no claims for my own story, but the other 4 are brilliant - not a duff one among them. Get it now! Link to follow.
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🦋 The Secret Is Out 🦋
After 15 months of searching, my debut queer bug novella 'Mariposa' has found its future home with
www.lmhpub.com
I'm so grateful for all the support I've gotten for this fucked up story, and I can't wait for you to see it fully emerge Feb 2027 🐛
#horrorsky #booksky
After 15 months of searching, my debut queer bug novella 'Mariposa' has found its future home with
www.lmhpub.com
I'm so grateful for all the support I've gotten for this fucked up story, and I can't wait for you to see it fully emerge Feb 2027 🐛
#horrorsky #booksky
Home | Laughing Man House | Horror Publisher
The Laughing Man House is an indie publisher of dark fantasy, horror, and southern gothic fiction.
www.lmhpub.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🦋 The Secret Is Out 🦋
After 15 months of searching, my debut queer bug novella 'Mariposa' has found its future home with
www.lmhpub.com
I'm so grateful for all the support I've gotten for this fucked up story, and I can't wait for you to see it fully emerge Feb 2027 🐛
#horrorsky #booksky
After 15 months of searching, my debut queer bug novella 'Mariposa' has found its future home with
www.lmhpub.com
I'm so grateful for all the support I've gotten for this fucked up story, and I can't wait for you to see it fully emerge Feb 2027 🐛
#horrorsky #booksky
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Winding down 2025 with story acceptances from two of my favorite quiet horror/weird fiction magazines.
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Winding down 2025 with story acceptances from two of my favorite quiet horror/weird fiction magazines.
Winding down 2025 with story acceptances from two of my favorite quiet horror/weird fiction magazines.
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Winding down 2025 with story acceptances from two of my favorite quiet horror/weird fiction magazines.
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Check back here for more submission details soon...
December 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Check back here for more submission details soon...
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Interview with Rhiannon Rasmussen
voices, zines, low-fi horror
ivygrimes.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“You need to free up storage space on your phone for the new update.”
Translation:
“We’re about to render your phone functionally useless.”
Translation:
“We’re about to render your phone functionally useless.”
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“You need to free up storage space on your phone for the new update.”
Translation:
“We’re about to render your phone functionally useless.”
Translation:
“We’re about to render your phone functionally useless.”
That moment when you swallow an oblong pill sideways and feel like you’re in Loony Tunes.
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
That moment when you swallow an oblong pill sideways and feel like you’re in Loony Tunes.
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This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.
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I do love a tale of the abyssal plains…
Snow, Stars, Stone by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Deep sea musings, yearning, and absence. This story is all about textures and needs to be read aloud 🌊
www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...
Deep sea musings, yearning, and absence. This story is all about textures and needs to be read aloud 🌊
www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...
Snow, Stars, Stone
Snow, Stars, Stone by Ariel Marken Jack
www.heartlines-spec.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I do love a tale of the abyssal plains…
I do love a tale of the abyssal plains…
Snow, Stars, Stone by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Deep sea musings, yearning, and absence. This story is all about textures and needs to be read aloud 🌊
www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...
Deep sea musings, yearning, and absence. This story is all about textures and needs to be read aloud 🌊
www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...
Snow, Stars, Stone
Snow, Stars, Stone by Ariel Marken Jack
www.heartlines-spec.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I do love a tale of the abyssal plains…
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Delighted that Heartlines chose to release this piece just as snow is finally starting to fall along my stretch of coast ❄️
Snow, Stars, Stone by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social is now free-to-read!
Deep sea musings, yearning, and absence. This story is all about textures and needs to be read aloud 🌊
www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...
Deep sea musings, yearning, and absence. This story is all about textures and needs to be read aloud 🌊
www.heartlines-spec.com/snow-stars-s...
Snow, Stars, Stone
Snow, Stars, Stone by Ariel Marken Jack
www.heartlines-spec.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Delighted that Heartlines chose to release this piece just as snow is finally starting to fall along my stretch of coast ❄️
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There will be 2 new Frost Zone Stories books coming in 2026!
Until then, why not start your collection of the series, with books 1 & 2 - for a total of 21 tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strange...
books2read.com/u/3JMW5A
books2read.com/u/bODRVg
Until then, why not start your collection of the series, with books 1 & 2 - for a total of 21 tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strange...
books2read.com/u/3JMW5A
books2read.com/u/bODRVg
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
There will be 2 new Frost Zone Stories books coming in 2026!
Until then, why not start your collection of the series, with books 1 & 2 - for a total of 21 tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strange...
books2read.com/u/3JMW5A
books2read.com/u/bODRVg
Until then, why not start your collection of the series, with books 1 & 2 - for a total of 21 tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strange...
books2read.com/u/3JMW5A
books2read.com/u/bODRVg