Seán Padraic Birnie
@seanbirnie.bsky.social
Writer: I Would Haunt You if I Could. Stories in Fictionable, Cōnfingō, Best British Short Stories, Interzone, Black Static, The Dark, ergot.
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Pinned
I Would Haunt You if I Could — Undertow Publications
COVER ART: Jana Heidersdorf
I would haunt you …
The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed
haunt. Sown with seeds of sorrow and grief, and imbued with disquieting
bod...
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First post on the new blue app: the wonderful @undertow.bsky.social’s published I Would Haunt You if I Could, my debut collection of short stories, in 2021, and it’s available here, among an absolute treasure trove of other titles: https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
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More blanks, more voids, more left unsaid, more productive ambiguity
March 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
More blanks, more voids, more left unsaid, more productive ambiguity
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Less description, fewer feelings
March 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Less description, fewer feelings
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And the titular story is free to read til the end of the month.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
And the titular story is free to read til the end of the month.
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
undertowpublications.com/uncertain-sons
Appear to be in a phase of my life in which there simply never enough little treats.
November 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Appear to be in a phase of my life in which there simply never enough little treats.
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'Heavyness' excerpted here: www.seanbirnie.com/september-20...
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
September 2025: ‘Heavyness’ & a REMAINS magazine discount code
I was very pleased when Andy Cox and Richard Wagner returned to publishing this year with REMAINS, following Andy's retirement in 2024 and the shuttering of TTA Press, longtime stalwart of genre short...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
'Heavyness' excerpted here: www.seanbirnie.com/september-20...
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
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We're revisiting our back catalogue and the ONLY original novel we've published—M. Rickert's "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie." This exquisite mystery is an amalgam of Frankenstein, and A Confederacy of Dunces. We want you to read it. The eBook is on sale for just $2.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We're revisiting our back catalogue and the ONLY original novel we've published—M. Rickert's "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie." This exquisite mystery is an amalgam of Frankenstein, and A Confederacy of Dunces. We want you to read it. The eBook is on sale for just $2.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
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these Penguin UK horror reissues look amazing & I’m intrigued by Edith Wharton’s POMEGRANATE SEED (she wrote horror?) & Rosalind Ashe’s MOTHS
November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
these Penguin UK horror reissues look amazing & I’m intrigued by Edith Wharton’s POMEGRANATE SEED (she wrote horror?) & Rosalind Ashe’s MOTHS
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Time is a flat circle.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Time is a flat circle.
The troubling realisation that I currently, for the first time in a long, have no stories out on the rejection carousel. I'll need to rectify this when I have some energy, but I'm very excited about two pieces coming out next year: 'Heavyness' in REMAINS (Jan) and 'Autoclave' in WEIRD HORROR (July)
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The troubling realisation that I currently, for the first time in a long, have no stories out on the rejection carousel. I'll need to rectify this when I have some energy, but I'm very excited about two pieces coming out next year: 'Heavyness' in REMAINS (Jan) and 'Autoclave' in WEIRD HORROR (July)
On which note: bsky.app/profile/sean...
tired of being tired of being tired of being ill
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
On which note: bsky.app/profile/sean...
tired of being tired of being tired of being ill
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
tired of being tired of being tired of being ill
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I'm up at HAD today and yet my family is still not showing me any respect
seems weird
seems weird
"If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a Republican..."
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
some rules today from Sasha Brown
https://www.havehashad.com/5as8y
Narc Rules by Sasha Brown
If someone asks if you’re a narc and you actually are a narc, you have to say it. That’s the rule. Like if someone directly asks you, you’re not allowed to lie about it. Same with if you’re a…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm up at HAD today and yet my family is still not showing me any respect
seems weird
seems weird
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#Booksky folk looking for gift ideas (or cheeky treats for themselves), i've done a list of 60 books that are related to Keshed in one way or another for @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - mix of fiction, non-fic and poetry old and new. Have a shufty!
uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...
How To Get Keshed and Influence People
A list of titles related to Keshed.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#Booksky folk looking for gift ideas (or cheeky treats for themselves), i've done a list of 60 books that are related to Keshed in one way or another for @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social - mix of fiction, non-fic and poetry old and new. Have a shufty!
uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...
uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...
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A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home
Weird Murmur Blog by Grant Dowell. Weird Fiction, Pulp Tales, and Horror Story Discussions.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
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We the shitposters of the UK were saying at the time that lockdown was too late, some of us were already working from home. But no he insisted the Cheltenham Festival (March 10-13) and Liverpool v Madrid (March 11) went ahead. Meanwhile on March 12 the subservient press were briefed thus:
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We the shitposters of the UK were saying at the time that lockdown was too late, some of us were already working from home. But no he insisted the Cheltenham Festival (March 10-13) and Liverpool v Madrid (March 11) went ahead. Meanwhile on March 12 the subservient press were briefed thus:
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Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
Read and rather enjoyed Ray Russell's 'Sanguinarius' yesterday, a story based on the historical Elizabeth Báthory, and found myself thinking of the networks of patronage and ruling class solidarity at play in the Epstein scandal(s). I now want this edition.
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Read and rather enjoyed Ray Russell's 'Sanguinarius' yesterday, a story based on the historical Elizabeth Báthory, and found myself thinking of the networks of patronage and ruling class solidarity at play in the Epstein scandal(s). I now want this edition.
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Incredible archive of Byte magazine. The covers. THE COVERS.
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Incredible archive of Byte magazine. The covers. THE COVERS.
'Are the fae open source?' is going to be rattling around in my head all day, posed with an air of rapidly increasing desperation.
“Are the fae open source?”
They might like you to think they are, but it’s just a ruse to get access to your name.
They might like you to think they are, but it’s just a ruse to get access to your name.
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
'Are the fae open source?' is going to be rattling around in my head all day, posed with an air of rapidly increasing desperation.
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The humor and spookiness are both so great but also, by the end, both feel like a red herring that Birnie uses to distract you from how deeply and insightfully he's written a portrait of a very specific place and people.
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The humor and spookiness are both so great but also, by the end, both feel like a red herring that Birnie uses to distract you from how deeply and insightfully he's written a portrait of a very specific place and people.
fatigue dip and off work but I made a load of sourdough pizza dough yesterday and the day before, and the sauce today, and I’ll be making pizzas tonight even if have to do it while comatose.
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
fatigue dip and off work but I made a load of sourdough pizza dough yesterday and the day before, and the sauce today, and I’ll be making pizzas tonight even if have to do it while comatose.
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Reminder to editors and publishers that I'm accepting epubs of mags, collections, and anthos that have original 2025 short fiction for consideration in Best Weird Fiction of the Year 2. Writers — you'll have an opportunity to submit in the new year.
Editor/Publisher friends (only): I'm happy to receive ePubs of your 2025 short fiction projects for the 2026 volume. DM for deets. Or send direct to: bestspecfic (at) gmail(dot)com
Writer friends (only): Subs will open next year. (You can let your editor know I can receive their projects now.)
Writer friends (only): Subs will open next year. (You can let your editor know I can receive their projects now.)
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Reminder to editors and publishers that I'm accepting epubs of mags, collections, and anthos that have original 2025 short fiction for consideration in Best Weird Fiction of the Year 2. Writers — you'll have an opportunity to submit in the new year.
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"Are neurotypicals actually just NPCs?", the longest thread in the history of reddit, locked after 12,239 pages of heated debate.
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"Are neurotypicals actually just NPCs?", the longest thread in the history of reddit, locked after 12,239 pages of heated debate.
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Two links of interest:
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goodreads- www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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goodreads- www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Two links of interest:
preorder- www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
goodreads- www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
preorder- www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
goodreads- www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
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yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
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yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
Of the Lovers | Issue 33
By Addison Zeller — "They are first seen, despite the general darkness, close to the window, from which they draw back prudently, it is to be supposed, in a slow lateral glide along the surface of the...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
A couple of brash and velvety ones up in the latest (really stacked) issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com — hope you’ll check them out (there’s two links, see)
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/
yourimpossiblevoice.com/point-of-com...
yourimpossiblevoice.com/of-the-lovers/