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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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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1h
That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
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2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards
OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2h
The #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Fiction Podcast goes to @podcastle.org
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2025 Winner Outstanding Fiction Podcast: Podcastle (featuring PodCastle.org's logo of a castle and dragon)
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h
We'll give you a bit to get settled in by highlighting this year's trophy artwork by @nilahmagruder.com
Artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile in a round, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3h
Oh, hello
"2025 Winners Announcement" with Ignyte Awards logo overlayed on artwork by Nilah Magruder featuring a young Black knight in profile, kneeling with gloved hands on the hilt of a sword surrounded by orange flames. An eclipsing sun is in the background, giving the character a purple halo.
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 16h
Do you read Sutter Cane?
Book: Sutter Cane's In the Mouth of Madness
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 17h
Hmmmm tonight could be a good night to fall asleep after reading several M.R. James stories in bed

But maybe not?

But MAYBE

Anyway the important thing is that there is no ash-tree right outside my bedroom window :)
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 16h
Don't put your hand under the pillow.
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 16h
Do you read Sutter Cane?
Book: Sutter Cane's In the Mouth of Madness
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PodCastle @podcastle.org · 3d
#PC912: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Tanuki-Kettle by Eugie Foster, read by Tina Connolly. Previously ran as #PC28 and first published by Cricket Magazine. Rated G.

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#PC912: TALES FROM THE VAULTS - The Tanuki-Kettle by Eugie Foster, read by Tina Connolly. Previously ran as #PC28 and first published by Cricket Magazine. Rated G. When Hisa was a baby, her mother called in a soothsayer to cast her daughter’s horoscope. The old woman pulled out her astrology charts and consulted them while incense turned the air blue with perfumed smoke. That day, the fortuneteller had a headache and was in a black mood. Though Hisa’s mother brought her a cup of hot, green tea and fanned her sweating brow, the old woman continued to scowl. “This child will be too bold for her own good,” the fortuneteller grumbled. “Is there nothing I can do?” asked Hisa’s distraught mother. “I could hire tutors to teach her the folly of brashness.” “That is not sufficient.” The soothsayer’s eyes lit upon the brimming teapot. “She must grow up to be a lowly tea girl.”
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Terror Vision Records & Video @terrorvisionvids.bsky.social · 3d
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Orrin Grey @orringrey.com · 4d
As the release day for NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND draws near, we approach the end of our Hollow Earth Expeditions with some investigations into Mignola, Frankenstein, and the book's horror influences...
Hollow Earth Expeditions: The King of Fear
I like to think that the stories in Notes from Underground contain more melancholy than terror, but this is still a horror collection, and these are still horror stories. You don’t have to ta…
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 4d
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 4d
I think there's a K in Knucklehead
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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Sep 2
Sharing not for the first time and probably not for the last either...for 3:39 of pure joy, watch this with the subtitles ON. (Trust me!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Um...

#TinyJoys
Pöpcørn | Recipes with The Swedish Chef | The Muppets
YouTube video by The Muppets
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DK Latta @dklatta.bsky.social · 4d
Random shout out:
"The Old Lady" by Eleanor Scott (vintage tale on Pseudopod: 1929) read by writer/ed/VOA Kat Day; a fun tale managing to be very traditional (old manor house, Oxford students, creepy families) w/ some freshness. Some, I think, via the female POV. 1/5
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PseudoPod 956: The Old Lady
Adela Young must have come up to Oxford at the same time as myself; but no one, in a way, knew that she had. She was one of those people whom one never notices, physically or mentally – the kind of…
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 4d
Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts
All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

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On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
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P.L. McMillan @authorplm.bsky.social · 4d
Tis the season. Submit a prompt for my upcoming writing challenge!
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Spooky Writing Challenge - 2025 — P.L. McMillan
Submit a prompt for my annual spooky writing challenge
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 5d
Back on April 2, Speaker Johnson swore in 2 House Republicans - during a pro forma session - who were elected the day before. Anyone who says Adelita Grijalva D-AZ can only be sworn in when the House is back and voting is lying to you.
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 5d
the lord's work right there
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 5d
A couple paragraphs later they make the same point. Go me. Also Hot Fuzz apparently fits.
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Alex Hofelich, PseudoPod @pseudopodalex.bsky.social · 5d
Interesting. Based on the definition they provide, folk horror includes The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I can go with that.

Rural Poor as Monstrous Other is apparently a good folk horror subspecies. Nice.
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 6d
Do you know of an Indigenous horror writer who took the horrible horror trope "Indian burial ground" and wrote a book about it? Please let me know. I would love to see an Indigenous person subvert that trope.
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Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social · 9d
So thrilled to be the featured author today at the Why I Love Horror series from @raforall.bsky.social!

"Keep going. Keep fighting. Keep reading horror. We must."

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31 Days of Horror: Day 3-- Why I Love Horror by Gwendolyn Kiste
Today I have another readalike author from    WHY I LOVE HORROR: ESSAYS ON HORROR LITERATURE  the amazing Gwendolyn Kiste who is a readalike...
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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 8d
“I had a strange experience, not long ago.”

The Suitable Surroundings
by Ambrose Bierce
&
The Resurrection Of Chilton Hills
by Philip Curtiss

Narrators: Ben Phillips and Kaz
Host: Joshua Tuttle
Audio: Graeme Dunlop

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PseudoPod 996: The Suitable Surroundings and The Resurrection of Chilton Hills
THE NIGHT ONE midsummer night a farmer’s boy living about ten miles from the city of Cincinnati was following a bridle path through a dense and dark forest. He had lost himself while searching for…
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