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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod
@pseudopodalex.bsky.social
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Co-Editor of PseudoPod, Jury Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Bram Stoker Awards, Co-Chair of the Atlanta Chapter of HWA
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zinrock.bsky.social
::sips hot cocoa::
still from the film 'Village of the Damned' with children who look exactly like each other with white hair and red, piercing eyes. caption reads: Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow...
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
pseudopodalex.bsky.social
Merry Dirty Deeds

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AC/LeeC - "Dirty Deeds Around the Christmas Tree"
YouTube video by Bill McClintock
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December 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
This is a terrific story from @carsonwinter.bsky.social, beautifully narrated by @fluidityaudio.bsky.social.

I don’t think we’ve run a story with footnotes before. It works brilliantly, with huge thanks to @kibitzer.bsky.social for the audio wizardry! 🦑
pseudopod.org PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 3d
🦑 Episode 1007…

“The first person to see the wave was a fisherman.”

The Children of the Event, by Carson Winter

Narrator: Matt Arnold
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Graeme Dunlop

pseudopod.org/2025/12/12/p...

This story was first published in the collection ‘Portraits of Decay’
PseudoPod 1007: The Children of the Event
The first person to see the wave was a fisherman. Like most of his kind, he was strong, fond of water, and a heavy drinker; he wore rubber boots and a yellow coat slicked with salmon guts.
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December 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
pseudopodalex.bsky.social
Do it
paultremblay.bsky.social Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social · 4d
This is happening in an hour (8pm) if you want to join!
snhumfa.bsky.social SNHU Online MFA @snhumfa.bsky.social · 12d
On Wednesday, 12/10, from 8-9 pm EST, Word for Word proudly welcomes horror master @paultremblay.bsky.social! Free and open to the public. Register here:
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December 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Sometimes only a couple of things work for you in an entire novel, and those couple things are enough to make you cherish it.
December 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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wnwagner.bsky.social
Short story that's a movie review that's more than it seems? Yeah, this experimental little piece is a real treat.
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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raforall.bsky.social
Trending: Libraries Are Refocusing on Physical Media

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Trending: Libraries Are Refocusing on Physical Media
I am going to take a little detour from writing about the best books of the year to begin looking at a very big trend of 2025-- the return o...
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December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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gwendolynkiste.bsky.social
I'm back at The Lineup with my biggest list yet: the Best Horror Books of 2025!

So many fantastic horror books this year! 🖤☠️😱

the-line-up.com/best-horror-...
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
Tonight! Join us!
storyhour.bsky.social Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 5d
The Victorians told supernatural stories at the end of December. Story Hour is happy to have any excuse! This year, Dee Holloway and Ash Huang will regale us with their spookiest tales. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PST! @deeholloway.bsky.social @ashsmash.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com
Head-and-shoulders color photo of author Dee Holloway, a fair-skinned woman with dark, very short hair. The photo is taken from below and an angle, with the subject in frame at a diagonal. She wears a blazer checked in browns and black on white over a henley striped in white, yellow, and lavender; very large round glasses that are tortoiseshell on top and clear on the bottom; and no earrings, although at least one pierce hole is visible. On her, it all works. She appears to be standing with one arm akimbo in an alley of brick buildings. The daylight is soft, and she looks into the camera with a faintly amused expression. Color headshot of author Ash Huang, a woman of East Asian extraction who wears her shoulder-length hair dyed dark blue-green, the color more intense around her face. She wears a long necklace with a gold chain, a sheer black blouse with white geometric shapes over a black tank, and light makeup. She stands before a neutral background, turned slightly away from the camera with her face in three-quarters view. She looks directly at something off-camera, smiling slightly.
December 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
H/T @brackenmacleod.bsky.social
Traciesearing: If weird Al is on stage screaming a serious version of "killing in the name" we're officially in the 'even the nice guy snapped' era of American politics. His entire career is built on parody and joy, not rage. So when weird Al breaks character , that's not a performance that's a warning. Pinnaclesups: I will follow Serious Alfreds into hell.
December 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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sarahcoomer.bsky.social
Spooky Advent day 9: Binoculars behaving badly - A View from a Hill by M R James, adapted for television by Peter Harness, and directed by Luke Watson, broadcast first on 23rd December 2005.
A black and white illustration - two men are silhouetted looking out over the countryside from a hill. One looks through a pair of binoculars, and the other points ahead with a walking stick. Above them we can see what the man sees through his binoculars - on the left in the background, an abbey surrounded by trees, and on the right, nearer to us, a corpse swinging from a gibbet surrounded by crows
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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matthewkressel.net
GenAI is a theft/plagiarism machine.

ChatGPT tries to access my websites 1000s of times per week, though I have things in place to block scraping. Nevertheless, it keeps trying to get in, from hundreds of different IPs, across hundreds of global regions.

What do we, the creators, get in return?
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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garnetonwinter.bsky.social
Silk & Sinew on The Lineup's best horror list for 2025! I am blown away and so dang proud of all the authors and their stories. 💪💪💪❤️
Big thanks to @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social !!!
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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chronicleflask.katday.com
Hey everyone. It’s a full moon…
… aroooooOOOOooooo
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
Not kidding when I say "Winter Savory" by D. Matthew Urban is one of my favorite Christmas Weird horror stories, right up there with "The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise" by Thomas Ligotti. You can read it and many other weird stories here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...
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...
www.cursedmorselspress.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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raforall.bsky.social
Chicago Tribune Top 10 books of 2025 list includes @johnlangan.bsky.social!

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/t...
The 10 best books of 2025: Censorship, crime and compassion
From “Clam Down” to “Murderland,” these are the 10 books out of my tall stack of best books of the year that I couldn’t get out of my mind. How do you pick yours?
www.chicagotribune.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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acwise.bsky.social
I've made another round of updates and additions to the eligibility and recommendations link post. Please do keep sending your links my way!

acwise.net/what-have-yo...
What Have You Done, What Have You Loved 2025 – acwise.net
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November 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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alasdairstuart.bsky.social
Hey, want to hear a brilliant narrator absolutely nail a story by one of horror's modern greats? With excellent audio production and a host who grew up somewhere a lot like this?
pseudopod.org PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 13d
“It’s early March 1993 and Generation X sorely needs an antihero.”

Do It, by Paul Tremblay

Narrator: Rosie Sentman
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Chelsea Davis

pseudopod.org/2025/12/01/p...

This story was first published in the anthology ‘120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era’
PseudoPod 1005: Do It
It’s early March 1993 and Generation X sorely needs an antihero. Not a folk hero, you fucking hippies. Not a sponsored, manufactured musician in Chuck Taylors and unwashed hair, not even if he’s a…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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tkingfisher.com
These guys are great! I donate every year and may I suggest that some of the crafts they sell on behalf of the elders make great Christmas presents?
jackattack.bsky.social Jack Musto 🐇 🌕 🐺 @jackattack.bsky.social · 18d
Time once again to rep my favorite place for giving: anelder.org - they supply food, firewood and supplies for traditional crafting to Navajo Elders. If you have the cash, please give these folks a hand.
November 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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thesuiway.bsky.social
it's that time of the year again!

this award season, i want to highlight a story that was very difficult for me to write, but i am glad is out there. you can read or listen to Mavka by following the link below. thank you @yelenacrane.bsky.social for the narration!
a photograph of a lined piece of paper with a black marker pen and words "Mavka, PseudoPod 963 available in audio. Link below" written in terrible handwriting. typed text reads: eligible for most things. this is the most Ukrainian thing I've written and it is not a happy story. heed the content warnings.
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
You guys! Jonathan has written some of my favorite short stories!
(This is at the top of my list.)
pseudopod.org/2020/07/03/p...
November 23, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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annvandermeer.bsky.social
I can't wait for this book to come out into the world. I wrote an essay titled "Curating Creativity." My co-contributors are amazing anthologists and I thank @dancoxon.bsky.social and Pete Sutton (as well as @lunapress.bsky.social ) for this opportunity.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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thesuiway.bsky.social
a new thing with some thoughts.
Let's Talk About "The List"
*sigh* I had a whole thing written out about a different topic, but fine, let's go.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM