Benjamin Adams (He/Him)
@benjaminadams.bsky.social
Please do not DM me. Married. Writer, gamer, horror movie buff, record collector. Co-edited CHILDREN OF CTHULHU for Del Rey Books. Did some official DOCTOR WHO short fiction for Big Finish. Pro-indigenous peoples, pro-equality, pro-fairness, anti-fascist.
Pinned
Hopefully this will be better than Threads. Sick and tired of Facebook. Let’s go, Bluesky.
Hit me up if you’re mutually into:
Post-punk
Goth
J-Horror
K-Horror
CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dragon Age Veilguard
Cthulhu
Cosmic horror
Doctor Who
Star Trek
Harlan Ellison
David Bowie
Scarred for Life
Hit me up if you’re mutually into:
Post-punk
Goth
J-Horror
K-Horror
CRPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Dragon Age Veilguard
Cthulhu
Cosmic horror
Doctor Who
Star Trek
Harlan Ellison
David Bowie
Scarred for Life
Upcoming Publications
Here's what I have in the pipeline....
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August 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Gloucester: What, is he dead?
Edgar: Sit you down, father; rest you.
Edgar: Sit you down, father; rest you.
August 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Gloucester: What, is he dead?
Edgar: Sit you down, father; rest you.
Edgar: Sit you down, father; rest you.
Getting my Substack going... rbadams.substack.com?r=4gq2ui&utm...
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Benjamin Adams - All The Best Hauntings Are Sad is a page about my work as a horror/fantasy/SF writer, and my occasional thoughts on life in general. Click to read Benjamin Adams - All The Best Haunti...
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August 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Getting my Substack going... rbadams.substack.com?r=4gq2ui&utm...
My heroic fantasy novelette “The Red Priests of Zaggua” (started in the 1990s, finished this year) just sold to DIRTY MAGICK magazine. Great way to kick off a Monday morning!
August 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My heroic fantasy novelette “The Red Priests of Zaggua” (started in the 1990s, finished this year) just sold to DIRTY MAGICK magazine. Great way to kick off a Monday morning!
Watched STARVE ACRE tonight, which I found wonderfully atmospheric and traumatic. It also helped me understand an issue I’ve been having wrestling with the third act of a story I’m writing about a couple who’ve moved to a strange house on Saddleworth Moor, so hurrah for that.
August 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Watched STARVE ACRE tonight, which I found wonderfully atmospheric and traumatic. It also helped me understand an issue I’ve been having wrestling with the third act of a story I’m writing about a couple who’ve moved to a strange house on Saddleworth Moor, so hurrah for that.
I was recently interviewed on the Smol Bear Show by one of my editors. The interview also serves as promo for his small press. Check it out if you wanna see nearly three hours of two neurodivergents nattering at each other! youtu.be/K76XP89WYfc?...
BENJAMIN ADAMS: THE SMOL BEAR INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Smol Bear Show with Alex S. Johnson
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August 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I was recently interviewed on the Smol Bear Show by one of my editors. The interview also serves as promo for his small press. Check it out if you wanna see nearly three hours of two neurodivergents nattering at each other! youtu.be/K76XP89WYfc?...
Hey everyone, here's A COLLECTIVE PAW, a new anthology from Alex S Johnson, featuring my gentle "cat lady" fantasy, "Bagheera & Bathsheba & Bonnie." Available now in paperback via Amazon! All proceeds go to vetted animal rights charities. Kindle and hardcover soon. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJM427GQ/
A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology Volume 1
Amazon.com: A Collective Paw: An Animal Rights Anthology Volume 1: 9798293608621: Johnson, Alex S., Sixx, Nicole H, Williams, Alea Celeste, Maybe, Ellyn, Steckel, Jan, Brite, Poppy Z, Kiernan, Caitlin R, Bark, Jasper, Fairchild, Michelle, Taborska, Anna: Books
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July 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey everyone, here's A COLLECTIVE PAW, a new anthology from Alex S Johnson, featuring my gentle "cat lady" fantasy, "Bagheera & Bathsheba & Bonnie." Available now in paperback via Amazon! All proceeds go to vetted animal rights charities. Kindle and hardcover soon. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJM427GQ/
Hm. Sure would be nice to hear back from some editors with either acceptances, rewrite requests, or rejections. Anything’s better than an empty inbox, and at least with a rejection I can retool the piece for another market. A check or two would also be good! #writerlife
July 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Hm. Sure would be nice to hear back from some editors with either acceptances, rewrite requests, or rejections. Anything’s better than an empty inbox, and at least with a rejection I can retool the piece for another market. A check or two would also be good! #writerlife
I’ve signed a contract for my story, “The Lady of Silken Decay,” for the anthology SPELLS AND FANGS, coming September 30 2025 from Dragon Soul Press, in both physical and ebook editions.
July 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I’ve signed a contract for my story, “The Lady of Silken Decay,” for the anthology SPELLS AND FANGS, coming September 30 2025 from Dragon Soul Press, in both physical and ebook editions.
In the Gallifreyan Death Zone! This is the exact spot where the Master accosts the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane in THE FIVE DOCTORS. It’s literally a good 30 minutes down a one-lane sheep farming road in Wales.
July 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
In the Gallifreyan Death Zone! This is the exact spot where the Master accosts the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane in THE FIVE DOCTORS. It’s literally a good 30 minutes down a one-lane sheep farming road in Wales.
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Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
June 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.
Receiving an acknowledgment of submission is always appreciated. Too many small markets these days claim “lack of time,” really? Why’re you editing something in the first place then? And avoiding conflict by simply not bothering with rejection emails at all? Grow a skin like writers are supposed to.
June 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Receiving an acknowledgment of submission is always appreciated. Too many small markets these days claim “lack of time,” really? Why’re you editing something in the first place then? And avoiding conflict by simply not bothering with rejection emails at all? Grow a skin like writers are supposed to.
Away from pro writing for over a decade, six months back in and four antho sales under my belt, and once again finding the same swirling miasma of personal politics in the field that helped drive me away from the HWA and then writing altogether. Ah well. All part of the gig. Onwards.
well.art
June 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Away from pro writing for over a decade, six months back in and four antho sales under my belt, and once again finding the same swirling miasma of personal politics in the field that helped drive me away from the HWA and then writing altogether. Ah well. All part of the gig. Onwards.
Sold my story “Dead Souls,” to the goth and death rock tribute anthology THE BEAUTIFUL DOWNGRADE, where I’ll be next to work by David J. of Bauhaus/Love & Rockets, Jarboe of Swans, Kari Krome of The Runaways, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.
June 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Sold my story “Dead Souls,” to the goth and death rock tribute anthology THE BEAUTIFUL DOWNGRADE, where I’ll be next to work by David J. of Bauhaus/Love & Rockets, Jarboe of Swans, Kari Krome of The Runaways, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.
My feline dementia story “Bagheera & Bathsheba & Bonnie” has been accepted to the animal charity anthology A COLLECTIVE PAW, probably the only time I’ll be on the same contents page as Bram Stoker and Sappho.
June 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
My feline dementia story “Bagheera & Bathsheba & Bonnie” has been accepted to the animal charity anthology A COLLECTIVE PAW, probably the only time I’ll be on the same contents page as Bram Stoker and Sappho.
Now why on Earth would a city of over 10 million people suddenly need to evacuate? This is a bit terrifying.
June 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Now why on Earth would a city of over 10 million people suddenly need to evacuate? This is a bit terrifying.
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We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
June 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
As a horror writer, I can conjecture that the right wing has been conditioned into their current level of batshit crazy by decades of Russian mind control signals on Fox News. I mean, that’s just fiction, right?
And hey, it explains all the stories of relatives changing into MAGA pod people….
And hey, it explains all the stories of relatives changing into MAGA pod people….
June 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As a horror writer, I can conjecture that the right wing has been conditioned into their current level of batshit crazy by decades of Russian mind control signals on Fox News. I mean, that’s just fiction, right?
And hey, it explains all the stories of relatives changing into MAGA pod people….
And hey, it explains all the stories of relatives changing into MAGA pod people….
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Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.
June 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.
I just backed this team’s game on Kickstarter. It sounds absolutely charming.
Hey Bluesky,
It's time we introduce ourselves.
We are Sisterhood Games, the all-women indie dev trio making DOWNHILL, our 4th wall-breaking action RPG.
We are Oreea, Xenia (that's me hi), and Ana, and this is our very first game and it's exciting, and hard, and scary!
🧵We need your help...
It's time we introduce ourselves.
We are Sisterhood Games, the all-women indie dev trio making DOWNHILL, our 4th wall-breaking action RPG.
We are Oreea, Xenia (that's me hi), and Ana, and this is our very first game and it's exciting, and hard, and scary!
🧵We need your help...
June 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I just backed this team’s game on Kickstarter. It sounds absolutely charming.
Buying some popcorn.
June 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Buying some popcorn.
Looks like a ton of Exit 8 “anomaly spotting” copycat games coming up in Steam’s June NextFest.
May 31, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Looks like a ton of Exit 8 “anomaly spotting” copycat games coming up in Steam’s June NextFest.
It’s publication day for the anthology CRIMINAL PURSUITS: THIS IS ME, featuring a mean-spirited little piece by yours truly. Now available via Amazon, link below.
May 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It’s publication day for the anthology CRIMINAL PURSUITS: THIS IS ME, featuring a mean-spirited little piece by yours truly. Now available via Amazon, link below.
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Do you still follow someone because you’re angry at them and want to track the things they do?
I invite you to start your summer by unfollowing them so you don’t devote energy to something that makes you sad
I invite you to start your summer by unfollowing them so you don’t devote energy to something that makes you sad
May 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Do you still follow someone because you’re angry at them and want to track the things they do?
I invite you to start your summer by unfollowing them so you don’t devote energy to something that makes you sad
I invite you to start your summer by unfollowing them so you don’t devote energy to something that makes you sad