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D. Matthew Urban

@breathinghead.bsky.social

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weird fiction person • TX → NY • stories here and there • SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES out now from Cursed Morsels Press! • he/him • https://dmatthewurban.com

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · Apr 15

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces has breached containment! Thrilled to have my first collection out in the world. 18 tales for enjoyers of spider kisses, eerie grandparents, and endless whirling in trackless voids!

Order from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social at www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...

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"Violent and bizarre family traditions!
Encounters with your Aunt Spider!
Alchemical terrors at the track meet!
Apocalyptic songs on the harp of grief!
Neuroimplant hallucinations and horrors!
Meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat!"
Bottom text reads: "Order at https://www.cursedmorselspress.com"

Middle image is the cover of Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces by D. Matthew Urban, featuring a fleshy, toothy creature sitting in a darkened home with a cup of coffee.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 1d

"It is very rare for horror stories to make me feel actual horror and revulsion but [Lupus in Fabula] nailed it!"
-Cassandra on Goodreads

Ready to experience the horror and revulsion for yourself? Snag the book here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...

Lupus in Fabula paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

Lupus In Fabula collects thirteen stories about the interplay of lust, violence, yearning, and grief; about becoming a monster and loving monsters; about transformation; about strange occurrences in s...

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks for reading! So glad you enjoyed the collection 🧡🖤

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 5d

I had the pleasure of reading frequent CHM author D. Matthew Urban's collection, SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES. Tight prose and imaginative stories. Highly recommended for fans of weird fiction.

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 7d

"Bake him away, toys!"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 7d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 7d

not only is it time for FLESH, but fun fact - i'll be making a custom illustration / collage for every piece in this zine! 🥩🖊

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 7d

The time for FLESH has arrived. Send us your fleshiest pieces under 500 words between now and October 7th.
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Submission Calls

Open for submissions October 1st – 7th FLESH ZineFor this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be include…

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 7d

Frame from The Simpsons S11E12: two monkeys knife-fighting on the deck of a boat, surrounded by cheering gamblers

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 8d

Post a you from a different era

Mid-00s photo of a dark-haired twentysomething with sideburns playing Big Buck Hunter II in a southeast Texas truck stop

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 9d

Totally thrilled to have a story coming in the next issue of Weird Horror!

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 9d

The following weird fictioneers will appear in Weird Horror 12 early next year. @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rajivmote.bsky.social @russellnichols.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social

Blue, cyan-tinged photo of hazy, fog-topped trees with white text: Chloe N. Clark
Roy Graham
Rick Kennett
Annika Barranti Klein
Aliya Whiteley
Rajiv Moté
Russell Nichols
Rory Say
R.L. Summerling
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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 10d

I used to get paranoid whenever I'd see a post like "today's weird fiction/horror sucks because of XYZ." "Oh no," I'd think, "they're talking about me!" Well, I finally swallowed my pride and DM'd one of those posters. Turns out they weren't talking about me at all! They were talking about you

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 10d

From His Chest · 2021

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.”

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 13d

I'm & more. Very pleased to be part of this!

Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 14d

Kicking off spooky season the right way--w/ the TOC for our new horror issue, guest edited by B.R. Yeager 👻

feat: @saderotica.bsky.social @willvanderhyden.bsky.social @maxissippi.bsky.social & more…🕸️

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 13d

3 days left to enter the giveaway! 100 free copies to be given away! 18 weird horror stories per copy! Who will be the lucky winners, envied by all? Could one of them be...YOU? 👀

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 22d

We're doing a Goodreads ebook giveaway for Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces! 100 lucky readers will get a free copy of the weirdest book we've published so far. If you like your horror strange, grotesque, dark, funny, and--did I mention strange?--this is for you: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces

Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to …

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 14d

I went on the Dead Languages Podcast and all I got was this creeping sense of unease as the world disintegrates around me! Listen to me chat with PLM and Carson about disorientation in horror, fun ways to collapse reality, and NYC's plague of sexy, sexy rats

Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 14d

New. Fucking. Episode. We talk with D. Matthew Urban about reality breakdown in horror.

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Episode 127: Reality Breakdown in Horror (D. Matthew Urban)

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 17d

There are cryptids everywhere for those with the eyes to see

A blurry photo of a tabby cat’s face looking out from under a bookshelf

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 19d

plenty of good ideas here if you're looking for fun weekend activities

Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 22d

Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 21d

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Pamela Weis @pammerdrums.bsky.social · 22d

WTF did I just read?! @breathinghead.bsky.social's Zygote City in This Exquisite Topology is one hell of a wild ride. I might have to re-read it, but that's okay because I loved it. @angrygablepress.bsky.social

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks so much! So glad you liked it!

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 25d

Thankfully, most of the Other Daves have been located, extracted and placed in appropriate habitats. Other Daves #5 and #9, still at large, can be recognized by their over-large teeth and confusing eyes, respectively. Be cautious! Do not let them beguile you!

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 26d

Recently, I saw another @breathinghead.bsky.social doppelganger. I've seen them before, and I'm sure I will again. If you see a D. Matthew Urban double, DO NOT APPROACH. They are dangerous. It makes me feel like I'm living in one of Dave's stories.
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Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces ebook | 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...

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Sep 6

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 4 days. For the love of speculative fiction, horror stories, weird fiction, dark fantasy, magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, science fiction, alltopias, everypunk—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2026! kck.st/4mIkEm1

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 29d

Attention, weird horror lovers of the Texas Panhandle! From 5:00 to 6:30 this Thursday, I'll be at Burrowing Owl Books in my hometown of Amarillo (Wolflin Center, 2461 I-40), signing copies of my collection, Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces. Come say hi!

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · Sep 8

spotted in Austin: a big thing of parakeets

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · Sep 6

Studies in Suffocation I, Robyn O’Neil. Seen at the Menil Collection, always one of my first stops when I’m in Houston

Studies in Suffocation I by Robyn O’Neil, a graphite drawing showing bowed heads mostly submerged in a dark, textured substance

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · Sep 6

Swung by Ghoulish Books while rambling through Texas, and I'm so glad I did! It was awesome to meet @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social, pick up a book that's been on my list for a long time (A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney), and sign some copies of SPOVF!

Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thrilled & surprised to meet @breathinghead.bsky.social this evening! Luckily we had some copies of his @cursedmorsels.bsky.social collection SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES in stock for him to sign. 🥳

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats and many happy returns to @erikmchatton.bsky.social! Straw World is excellent, a treat for anyone who likes their stories weird, cosmic and unsparing

chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy book bday to Erik McHatton! Erik is a student of the Weird and frequent CHM collaborator. His debut collection STRAW WORLD AND OTHER ECHOES FROM THE VOID is out today and it's fantastic!

Celebrate the release on Friday with a reading and prizes: https://bit.ly/480DUa9

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