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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 3d

Attention horror authors - only a couple of days left to submit yer work to FLESH zine. Pro rates and a great venue. @cursedmorsels.bsky.social is good folks in general. Looking forward to reading FLESH.

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 5d

Looking to submit to a zine that welcomes horror for all its nastiness and also pays 10 cents per word? Look no further.

Open for subs through October 7th: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

FLESH Zine
For this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be included for free with Samir Sirk Morató’s Gore Poetics, a Cursed Morsels 2026 release. For context, this book is weird, erotic, grotesque, queer, transgressive, literary, and intense if that gives you a sense for the kinds of work Samir and I (Eric Raglin) are looking for. Your submission can be fiction, poetry, or nonfiction.

Pay is 10 cents per word. We’re asking for first worldwide print and digital publishing rights but no exclusivity period. Contributors will receive five free physical copies of the zine.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 5d

I remember that. Proud to have been part of the mass unfriending. ✊

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 6d

What a great feeling! Congrats to the whole @salonsinister.com crew. I’m ordering a print copy right now.

Xtine @xtinemakepeace.bsky.social · 6d

So @wolfemac.bsky.social shared this amazing pic of the mag in an ACTUAL BOOKSTORE

And I started crying when I saw the titles around it.

It's right next to Chuck Tingle for fuck's sake.

And @haileypiperfights.bsky.social 😭😭

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 7d

The US could take a lesson here. Glad to see you are persisting my friend.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 9d

Ending today - NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT audiobook is suuuper cheap on @libro.fm - less than $5 for 13+ hours of Indigenous dark fiction. Edited by Shane Hawk and @tvayyyy.bsky.social, introduction by @sgj.bsky.social. Instabuy for me.

Never Whistle at Night Audiobook on Libro.fm

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY • BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY • LOCUS AWARD FINALISTA bold, clever, and sublimely s...

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LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · 13d

My new baby kittens have a pricy vet follow-up in a few weeks, my old-man cat still needs his various prescriptions, AND my rent is going up in November, so book revenue is increasingly important nowadays! Please consider ordering a copy or leaving a review somewhere online 🤞

LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · Jun 13

R E M I N D E R that my debut horror/dark SFF/weird fiction collection Spiritus Ex Machina is available in ebook and paperback versions via Grimscribe Press (there was also a sold-out hardcover). Proceeds are mostly going towards my elderly cat's medical needs

Cover of Spiritus Ex Machina by LC von Hessen, available from Grimscribe Press. This book has . . . dolls! puppets! masks! mannequins!, olde-timey bollocks, extreme social discomfort, dream logic, weird kinks, dubious medical ethics, some Lovecraftian bits if you're into that (or if you HATE that), and D E S P A I R.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 12d

ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY cover art by Svetlana Radayeva, cover design by Matthew Revert. RED SKIES IN THE MORNING cover art by @leslekieuart.bsky.social, cover design by Michaela Waltz. Get IWA here:

Issues With Authority – GHOULISH

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 12d

If you missed out on @nadiabulkin.bsky.social's "Red Skies in the Morning" when I published it in 2024, you can finally read it in her outstanding new collection, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY, along with two other novellas, one exclusive to this book. A must-read.

Two books by Nadia Bulkin laid flat on a kitchen table: on the left, ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY (Ghoulish Books, 2025), and on the right, RED SKIES IN THE MORNING (Dim Shores, 2024).

If you have already read Nadia’s first collection SHE SAID DESTROY (Word Horde, 2017), you know you need ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY. If you haven’t read SHE SAID DESTROY, please do. Nadia is one of the best at what she does, please support her and the indie presses that make work like this available.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 14d

Five-year-old you is correct.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 14d

This is good news.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 16d

This is violence

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 17d

Congrats,looking forward to reading it!

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 19d

Portland, this is where to be tonight, tomorrow and Sunday!
Come see some Weird films!
Come see us! We'll be holding down the fort all weekend long🖤☠️

hplfilmfestival.com

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon | The only convention that understands

hplfilmfestival.com

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 19d

Hugh Cook’s Chronicles of an Age of Darkness does some of this. Different books have different protagonists who experience the same events in different, sometimes contradictory, ways. My favorite weird fantasy/SF series.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 19d

Preordered each as soon as that was an option. Can’t wait man!

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 20d

Rolling into Portland around 8:00 tonight. I’m staying near the Hollywood Theater, up for shenanigans and/or hijinks. Any of you fine folks in the area?

H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival - Portland, OR

hplfilmfestival.com

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 21d

Cover design by Shi Briggs. www.etsy.com/shop/grossan...

www.etsy.com

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 21d

OK, first proof/ARCs have been printed for The Maidens of Midnight, the first collection by @charibdys.bsky.social. Fantastic art seen here by @luciaretamales.bsky.social. And look how chonky it is - 170 pages, by far the thickest single-author book I’ve published. Pre-order coming soon.

A fanned-out stack of six copies of The Maidens of Midnight and Other Lost Media by Rhiannon Rasmussen. The cover art shows a large red face with open mouth and fangs that seems to hang in the sky as a woman in a sheer white gown looks toward it. The setting looks to be a wooded path in the forest at night. There is a box near the upper right corner that says “UNCORRECTED PROOF — ADVANCE REVIEW COPY."

Interior art by Lucia Retamales of something that looks like a cursed Tamagotchi hanging in front of a glitching video screen.

Six copies of The Maidens of Midnight and Other Lost Media, stacked and photographed so the spines are visible. This counts as a long book for Dim Shores.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 23d

I just finished this weird little novella by @hazelzorn.bsky.social, published by the good folks at @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Bizarre eco horror, I really dig it. And Becca Snow’s cover art is a perfect fit. Interior art by Echo Echo too. All in all a great presentation of a dark trippy story.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 25d

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 29d

It’s going to be tight but I think we can do it. If you like weird spec fiction, please consider backing Three-Lobed Burning Eye so it can continue publishing and paying authors PRO RATES for the upcoming year.

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 29d

the @3lobedmag.com kickstarter is up to $7106 out of a $10,000 base goal! They have until NOON THURSDAY (edt) to get all or nothing!

Donate if you can, share share share!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/asf...

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

www.kickstarter.com

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · Sep 8

Help keep an eye burning!

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

www.kickstarter.com

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · Sep 7

Batman as a vampire from RED RAIN, art by Kelley Jones.

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Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · Sep 6

@deadneanderthals.bsky.social never fails to impress me but this one really hit the spot. I have played it dozens of times in the 8 months it has out. Spaced-out droning synths and sax mesh with live rock drums for hypnotic krauty action. I would give my left pinkie to see this live. #NWDHJ

Other Worlds, by Dead Neanderthals

7 track album

deadneanderthals.bandcamp.com

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Sep 4

Please share this far and wide! We need your support this week to continue publishing a pro paying magazine of horror fantasy dark science weird speculative fiction. With six days left, join our parade of 96 backers so far! kck.st/4mIkEm1

A procession of strange creatures marches against a colorful background along with the 3LBE icon and details from cover graphics.

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