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Rex Burrows

@improbablerex.bsky.social

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Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc. RexBurrows.com

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · Feb 8

Here's a thread listing all of my published stories. I've noted the ones that are available to read for free, but please consider supporting these (across the board excellent) magazines, anthologies, etc. And thank you for reading! Here we go...

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 15h

ICYMI, we're open to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds for this entire month!

We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and other folks whose voices must be heard!

www.havenspec.com/submit/

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 14h

Oh whoa, nice. UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (@undertow.bsky.social) is on New York Public Library's list of 2025 best adult horror. Many thanks to NYPL!

Best New Horror of 2025 for Adults

Our expert horror committee read more than 150 titles published since last Halloween to select their 20 favorites. There's something for everyone here—whether you're looking for jeepers, creepers, sca...

www.nypl.org

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · 1d

My Weird Horror 11 story is now available to read online:

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 2d

New story up at Weird Horror. @jackklausner.bsky.social's chilling "We Didn't Used to Be Like This." It's sublime.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-didnt-use...

Screen grab of page from weirdhorrormagazine.com showing the story, title and front cover. Black text on ochre nackgrounb

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 2d

New story up at Weird Horror. @jackklausner.bsky.social's chilling "We Didn't Used to Be Like This." It's sublime.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-didnt-use...

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats! Looking forward to it!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 2d

I will never understand why people choose to house dog-shaped horses in apartment buildings.

Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 3d

A screaming comes across the sky. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social · 5d

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 5d

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 4d

It is the spooky month, and we have a spooky cover for our spooky October issue! @elizabeth-space.bsky.social's art perfectly complemented our issue's stories and poems. Get your copy of Issue 28 or sign up for a subscription at our store! store.smallwondersma...

Cover for Issue 28 (October 2025) of Small Wonders magazine. The painting, by Elizaveta Nazarova, shows a bedroom in grayscale, with a focus on one end of the bed. Eyes glow in the dark under the bed, and two clawed hands reach out into the room. The authors and poets in the issue are Montanna Rayne Harling, S.M. Hallow, Gordon Brown, Rebecca E. Treasure, Amanda Mitzel, Stacie Turner, Rachel Gutin, Casey Aimer, and Karl G. Dandenell. Editors are Stephen Granade and Cislyn Smith.

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Stacey Berg @staceyberg.bsky.social · 5d

We need to stop viewing our age as exceptional. People (including scientists) have been passionately wrong about the natural world for at least the history of the western world. As long as inquiry persists error gets corrected. What we need to advocate is continuing inquiry with minimum quackery.

Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science

www.nytimes.com

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 6d

…and then rides away, shakily balancing on a broken bicycle as synth-based circus music plays in the background.

Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 6d

All movies should feature a large glass cylinder full of swirling liquid Satan.

Justinallec807 @justinallec807.bsky.social · 6d

[Tick a few off the Oct bingo card: ✔️classic, ✔️top director, ✔️prime evil.]
Always a great time with this one, each detail just makes it all the more delicious. Pulling back, another ex of the "something wants in/something wants out" basic horror building blocks but just tweaked in the best way.

Prince of Darkness film, a green flame thingy spills from a house to lead over a guy's face.

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Blochtober

Paperback copy of Robert Bloch’s Midnight Pleasures, Valancourt Books reissue. It has a scary ass pumpkin on the cover.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Blochtober

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Joe R. Lansdale @joerlansdale.bsky.social · 9d

Another opportunity to win a copy of THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE

www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

@tachyonpub.bsky.social

Book giveaway for The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale by Joe R. Lansdale Sep 27-Oct 07, 2025

Enter to win one of 1 free copy available. Giveaway dates from Sep 27-Oct 07, 2025. In celebration of its release, we're giving away a copy of THE ESSENT...

www.goodreads.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 8d

Hegseth's words seem especially chilling in light of his whitewashing of the Wounded Knee Massacre as a heroic "battle" only a few days ago. The message would seem to be that the Trump Administration is willing to forgive any atrocity US troops may commit as an "earnest mistake."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 8d

The importance of knowing when to say "I don't know" was a key lesson in my science training and one that I've found pretty applicable to the rest of my life too.

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 8d

I'm so sorry. Keeping a good thought for you and your family.

Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 8d

One of my all time favorites.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 8d

Toby Manning looks back to the 1985 album about New York City that stood in complete antithesis to the gentrifying, Reaganite forces changing it out of all recognition

Many Happy Returns to #TomWaits' Rain Dogs, which turns 40 today!

buff.ly/vHWSmzE

Tom Waits' Rain Dogs album cover. A man being held by a laughing woman.

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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
D. Matthew Urban

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats! Wow, that's a strong issue.

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 9d

October's issue is almost here, but don't forget you can still pick up issue #63 at our webstore: https://bit.ly/3IbDkfg

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Rex Burrows @improbablerex.bsky.social · 9d

Happy to report that I’ve received five different vaccinations in the past two months. Fuck you, Kennedy. I’m gonna get vaccinated for shit that I’m not even at risk of getting.