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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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nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social · 6d

Hello all, my story "Enselfening" is now live in the new issue of The Dark!
I am finding it impossible to come up with a pithy sales pitch for it, apart from saying it's quite weird and I'm proud of it and hope you'll read it 🙏🙏🙏
www.thedarkmagazine.com/enselfening/

Enselfening - The Dark Magazine

For several years, Winnie had been living on the north side of a town where nobody oriented themselves in terms of north, south, east, or west but rather in relation to the sea, the hills, and two riv...

www.thedarkmagazine.com

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 11d

In 2020 we published @kaychronister.bsky.social's debut THIN PLACES. Our rights expired in April, but it's being reissued by Counterpoint with 4 additional stories. I urge you to grab a copy. Kay is one of our finest writers.

bit.ly/42POI7C

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 22d

Horror folks, it's the middle of September, and the Stoker Recommended Reading List is looking extremely small. If you're a member of the HWA, go recommend something you've read that you loved!
horror.org/awards/curre...

HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommendations

horror.org

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 23d

New story day at Weird Horror — @andyhumphrey11.bsky.social's beguiling "Dark Water."

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/dark-water

Screen grab of weirdhorrormagazine.com page for Andrew Humphrey's DARK WATER. Black text on ochre background.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 26d

Dropping November 4!

A paperback copy of THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR propped up against copies of the book.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Sep 6

This is so up my street. Really good.

ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Sep 5

"Itching with a sudden and overwhelming emptiness the man went to the store to buy some Things. He flipped through aisles of Things until discovering, on the uppermost shelf, a Thing most beautiful."

Today on ergot.: 'Things' by Jon Doughboy linktr.ee/doughboywrites

www.ergot.press/authors/Jon_...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

www.ergot.press

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · Sep 3

Very excited to share the official announcement of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Official Double--Negative announcement here: www.instagram.com/p/DOIx9MGkWxg

Add it on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Order it on Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Aug 29

New story day at Weird Horror— @acwise.bsky.social's explosive "We Dwell in Its Many-Chambered Heart." A knock-down, drag-out tale of enduring horrors.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/we-dwell

Screen grab from weirdhorrormagazine.com showing page that has A.C. Wise's story WE DWELL IN ITS MANY-CHAMBERED HEART.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Aug 23

Pretty decent! Worth a watch. Garner and Brolin are good. Voiceover not really needed, felt incongruous - and Googling reveals test screenings had audiences not 100% clear on the ending, so the voiceover was added. Which is a shame, I think.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Aug 23

Off to see Weapons at the cinema. Quietly optimistic.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ah, thank you, Seán. Very glad you liked it. The whole issue is absolutely slamming, by the way.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Friends, new story day at Weird Horror! It's @junewhitewrites.bsky.social 's divine "Wine-Dark Eyes." The ocean calls. Will you answer?

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/winedark-eyes

Screen shot of webpage from weirdhorrormagazine.com showing Juniper White's story "Wine-Dark Eyes".

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello and good morning, although it’s afternoon here!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, ho, we've just posted "Another Mother Again" by @cyankatz.bsky.social, a fantastic Finnish folk horror to mess with your day. Their second ever published story. Please give it a read.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/another-moth...

Screen grab from weirdhorrormagazine.com showing page with ANOTHER MOTHER AGAIN by Cyan Katz.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Jul 22

This one is great. I read it when I got my contributor copy, and my mind has just kept returning to it.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 22

I've posted our first piece of fiction from Weird Horror 11, @daviddemchuk.com's sublime "The Start of Something." And it definitely is.

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com/the-start-of...

Screen grab from web page showing the first paragraph of David Demchuk's story.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Jul 19

Once again, @seanbirnie.bsky.social delivers the goods.

ergot. @ergot.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is what I shall do, Gwen thought. This is what I shall do.

The hand hung loose. She pulled. It gave. She set it on the counter where it squatted, spiderlike, puzzled by its newfound autonomy.

Today on ergot.: 'Buttons' by @seanbirnie.bsky.social

www.ergot.press/authors/Se%C...

ergot.

innovative + experimental horror

www.ergot.press

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is where I post from.

The area behind the diner in the film Mulholland Drive. Scruffy concrete walls arranged so that we are approaching a corner we cannot see around, looped barn wire along the top of one wall.

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Charlie Hughes @charliehughes77.bsky.social · Jun 30

Very pleased to share that my horror short story 'Window' appears in issue 122 of The Dark Magazine.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Jul 12

This is going to be excellent.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 12

I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 10

Impossibly, I've made my selections for The Best Weird Fiction of the Year. Will announce the contents soon. Here, though, are 20 other stories I found quite notable, to be acknowledged in the book.

undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

Stories: The Sea, Like Glass
Caesura
Hair of the World
Their Wings as Powdery As Bones
The Beautiful Thing You Once Were
The Coalface
Way Up in De Middle of De Air
Plunged in the Years
Absent Below the Lip
Wayback
The Ferryman
The Dying Chorus
After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland
Brick City, Stick City, Straw City
Not All Your Bones Are Yours
Warmth
Shepherd Not Sheep
The Limner Wrings His Hands
Dissection of a Mermaid
Paraffin
Authors: Ainsley Hawthorn
Alice Hatcher
Aliya Whiteley
Avra Margariti
J. Ashley-Smith
Jack Klausner
Jamie Roballo
Jeffrey Ford
Charles Wilkinson
Leslie What
Lynda E. Rucker
Max D. Stanton
Max Franciscovich
Nika Murphy
Plangdi Neple
Sean Padraic Birnie
Simon Strantzas
Vajra Chandrasekera
Wailana Kalama
Will VanDenBerg

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Jul 10

Yesterday was release day for Weird Horror #11. Includes a story of mine about class identity, paranoia, and ominous photographs, alongside stories by the likes of @daviddemchuk.com @acwise.bsky.social @cyankatz.bsky.social and more.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 8

It's release day for Weird Horror 11. Another disquieting and disturbing foray into the Weird. Subscriber copies have begun to mail. Artwork by @strangegodsart.bsky.social

What a ToC!

Grab your copy now:

www.weirdhorrormagazine.com

Screen grab from Weird Horror Magazine website showing issue cover and graphic buttons to read or buy the magazine.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hanging out with my Bluesky buddies

The ending shot from The Blair Witch Project. A man stands in the corner of a room, facing into the corner. The walls are stone. The man is wearing a dark jacket and a dark woollen hat. The image is grey and grainy.

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Jack Klausner @jackklausner.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thanks, Samir! Glad you liked it.

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