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@horrorsong.blog

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Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash. Website: horrorsong.blog The Wingspan of Severed Hands Invaginies https://bookshop.org/p/books/invaginies/20266528 The Couvade Convulsive The Shipwreck of the Cerberus

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 13d

Hello, I write literary horror and surrealist trash. You can find links to all of my publications on my website, and a page devoted to free stories & audio online. I'd be immensely grateful if you'd buy my books or request them through your library to support my writing.
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The Wingspan of Severed Hands Time is the winning predator, and every moment spirals deeper into the heart of the beast. “I’m awestruck by Joanna Koch’s nonstop spellbinding, almost paralyzingly in…

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ceej @ceej.online · 19h

amelia earhart didn’t “go missing.” she flew through a portal to the land of the lost and entered into a homosexual relationship with a sleestak

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 1d

Thank you for writing the things you do.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d

Will do!

Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d

God, so true, blurbing this book made me 43% hotter in a short 20-minute time span. Truly astounding results.

The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 2d

hey we have some fun around here but seriously if you are unaware you should know i do in fact have a book out and it's good. check out MOONFLOW, the cool book for hot people, from your local book retailer or dispensary www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...

Moonflow

"A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness. Deranged and gleefully weird as f*ck, this is an impressive debut from a singular...

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 2d

Karella: people who don't know what the term "egg" means
Franz Kafka: what does egg mean
Karella:
Karella: i am not in the mood right now, franz

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d

I don't have a well thought out thesis but when I watch giallo I'm very aware of it as post-fascist cinema.

Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

The House With Laughing Windows (1976)

One of the strangest giallos ever made! The atmosphere is rancid in the best possible way, and you will never guess the angle this film is going for.

The main character in a grassy field dressed in a beige suit staring up at the titular house. The house is dilapidated with many laughing mouths painted over the windows in red, black and white.

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

Are you tired of watching the same popular horror films over and over again for the Halloween season?

What if I gave you a list of cult horror films to watch this year instead?

A thread.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d

Black Brane was great, just finished reading this morning. I get tired of the same old stuff & structure in fiction. None of that here. & as beautiful & sad as it is while delighting in the act of writing; I guess I'm saying I'd wear the t-shirt.

Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social · Sep 2

attn black brane fans

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d

Meet me there

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 6d

SEVEN
DAYS
UNTIL
VOID

See you there.

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Kyle E. Miller @kymiller.bsky.social · 6d

My debut novel, The Idiot’s Garden, is now available. Read the book @horrorsong.blog says will leave you “surprised, delighted, baffled, moved to tears.”

If you’re boycotting Amazon, I’ll have author copies for sale.

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The Idiot’s Garden: Kyle E. Miller

Independent Literary Press

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 2d

There are multitudes of complex ecologies living in the soil,very much like alien worlds we might imagine in outer space. I don't find Tractor Beam's thesis the least bit short-sighted, and I appreciate them focusing a sci-fi lens on earth, our home, which we need to not destroy in order to survive.

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · Aug 29

Untitled (landscape)
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ~ Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish, Syilx
2020

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 8d

Prayers for Our Lost Children
Loretta Gould ~ Mi'kmaq
2021

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 8d

We are the Wildflowers
Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe
2024

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Along the Coastal Shores of the Salish Seas Traditional Native Territories
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun ~ Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish, Syilx
2023

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Need To See You In Barnyard @stefanheck.bsky.social · 4d

she has once again gone box mode

Kiki the calico/tabby cat sitting in a small box

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 3d

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

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PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 4d

“I had a strange experience, not long ago.”

The Suitable Surroundings
by Ambrose Bierce
&
The Resurrection Of Chilton Hills
by Philip Curtiss

Narrators: Ben Phillips and Kaz
Host: Joshua Tuttle
Audio: Graeme Dunlop

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C/W suicide

PseudoPod 996: The Suitable Surroundings and The Resurrection of Chilton Hills

THE NIGHT ONE midsummer night a farmer’s boy living about ten miles from the city of Cincinnati was following a bridle path through a dense and dark forest. He had lost himself while searching for…

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 4d

😭

Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 4d

How about The Quiet Ones? Ostensibly about demons but the actual horror is Jared Harris's character and the depth of his abuse, how its tendrils wind through everything and perhaps create a "demon"

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Ash Higgins @ashhiggins.bsky.social · 4d

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

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K. Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 6d

Alternatively, you can come buy books from me in person at VOIDCON in Gettysburg in a week. Money well spent. Also, the line up is kickass. I will be doing my own book buying and fanboying there. Partake, won't you?

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 6d

SEVEN
DAYS
UNTIL
VOID

See you there.

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 4d

I have managed to efficiently pack 60 books to buffer my descent into the VOID

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 5d

THIS TIME NEXT WEEK WE VOIDFOLK WILL BE KNEE DEEP IN HOT SHENANIGANS AND TOTAL CLOWNERY.

See you there.

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M. Lopes da Silva @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social · 4d

Good news everyone I spent today making so many dead billionaires for you today 😌 see you @voidcon.bsky.social

A bunch of handmade dead billionaire astronaut stickers

A hand-carved stamp of a dead billionaire made out of a rubber eraser, two prints of it, and a green ink pad.

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