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https://www.ergot.press/ : Online magazine publishing innovative literary horror and weird fiction : : New work each Friday : : Submissions open : : A paying venue : : Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 5d
"…and now I’m definitely awake again, sitting up in my bunk, and I’m sure it’s Wednesday. For some reason Wednesday is intake day for new prisoners. Not Monday or Friday, which would make more sense to me."

Today on ergot.: "Gowpen" by Max Olesen

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 6h
since i have a couple new pieces premiering in two separate venues over the next month, i wanted to share my most recent piece again -- an experimental erotic horror retelling of oscar wilde's salome
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Aug 22
I am a girl in a woman’s body, I am a woman in a girl's body, I am thirteen and three thousand years old. My Mother tells me a story about a princess who was turned to cinders.

Today on ergot.: 'The Daughter of Abomination' by Sasha Ravitch @sasharavitch.bsky.social

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 1d
Reminder also that I’m reading for the Spring issue and I’m rip-snorting to see your work
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The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 1d
Keep an eye out folks! Our Fall 2025 Issue will be out October 15th! Featuring all kinds of eco-writing and translation from a wonderful set of new and established writers.
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Jason Baltazar @jasonbaltazar.bsky.social · 1d
Ready for VoidCon this weekend.
I’ll be slinging two zines:

1) The MAKEITSTOP (PLEASE) - a fully illustrated gnostic totally-not-m ů ppets existential nightmare

2) STAMBDM - my liturgical prose poem about the one true religion around here, featuring a bunch of collaged illustrations.

#voidcon
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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 1d
y'all have been giving us a lot to chew on! today is the last day to add to the heap, so if you haven't gotten your submission in, slither on over to your email inbox and do that!
Image id: an image of marbled flesh is overlaid on a group of people standing together. Text over them reads "Fuck being an individual. All my homies contort and slither eternally in the warm of the united flesh."
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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 2d
This afternoon's listening pleasure before Patti Smith later tonight. sunn.bandcamp.com/album/life-m...
Life Metal, by SUNN O)))
4 track album
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Rhigu (comms open!) @rhigu.bsky.social · Aug 22
An Offering
A still life featuring a black cat, burning incense, a small heart, lillies and bleeding heart flowers.
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 2d
If we stop talking about Taylor Swift we will die
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Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social · 2d
If you're around Barcelona, come along to us read. This Saturday 5-7pm at Backstory Books (Carrer de Mallorca, 330). Trippy and interactive. And I promise to read at least one poem about the moon.
Image of Barcelona with details of a surreal-absurd reading at Backstory books, featuring Marcus Silcock, Thomas Helm and Hugh Behm-Steinberg.
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 2d
Today on ergot.: 'Mirrored' a new photo portfolio from Sonali Roy

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 3d
not to get too sappy on main but the pals i have made in the indie horror community since i joined bluesky a year ago have been such an inspiring and life-affirming reminder of how fucking awesome so many people truly are despite what the world wants you to believe
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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 · 2d
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.
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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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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 3d
Did you know I'm giving a free talk next week? I'll be talking women and the Early Gothic! From writers to publishers, renegades and regulars... Come join me (donations very welcomed!)

Sunday 12th

10am - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

7pm - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...
Select tickets – Women and the Early Gothic with Sam Hirst – Zoom
Women and the Early Gothic with Sam Hirst – Zoom, Sun 12 Oct 2025 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support the project and do not s...
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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 5d
The New Weird thrives today in unlabeled and often unrecognized forms. Disco Elysium, Dorohedoro, The Locked Tomb, Dishonored, their well of fucked-up cities and punk necromancers was fed from a distant reservoir of Ford, Gentle, Swanwick, Leiber and Peake
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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 3d
Feathery apparition
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 5d
Yeah I’m listening to the new Taylor album. By Taylor I of course mean ambient artist Taylor Deupree, and by album I mean his wonderfully minimalist composition Somi, and by new I mean it came out in 2017.
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 5d
Unfortunately our peer reviewer who specializes in Paleobotany was out sick this week.

Rest assured, we'll be issuing a full retraction in our next issue.
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 5d
"Before the dinosaurs, the evil was there. But not before love. To survive, plants evolved to make flowers, so that pollinators would love them, see? Love is flowers. I meditate on the flowers of love and that’s my dream now."

Today on ergot.: 'Gowpen' by Max Olesen

www.ergot.press/authors/Max_...
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innovative + experimental horror
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 5d
"…and now I’m definitely awake again, sitting up in my bunk, and I’m sure it’s Wednesday. For some reason Wednesday is intake day for new prisoners. Not Monday or Friday, which would make more sense to me."

Today on ergot.: "Gowpen" by Max Olesen

www.ergot.press/authors/Max_...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 5d
My new album The Life of a Showgirl is out today. Hope everyone likes it. It’s about my life as a performer and entertainer, with a revealing peek behind the curtain. I think you’ll discover it’s not all glamor and sunshine… -CS
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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 5d
When’s swift gonna write an album about the era where you sit on an industrial pier and/or dredge and eat wasabi peas until your nose bleeds
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david c. porter (NTTN) @davidcporter.net · 6d
first of fifteen pieces on works of “minor horror” that I’ll be posting throughout October went up today, on a largely-forgotten “killer ape” programmer from the early 40s that is actually, against all odds, both aesthetically refined and dramatically compelling. check it out below
Minor Horror #02-1: The Monster and the Girl
This is the first in a series of fifteen pieces on “minor” horror films that I’m going to be publishing here throughout October.
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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 6d
My brave and controversial opinion is that slaughtering people is bad. We live in a death cult but we don’t have to feed into it.
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ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · 6d
Tomorrow on ergot.: some new goings on in the clink with Max Olesen
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