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Samuel M. Moss

@perfidiousscript.bsky.social

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perfidiousscript.com Author of 'The Veldt Institute' (Double--Negative, 2025) https://double--negative.com/003-the-veldt-institute.html) Work in Always Crashing, 3:AM, minor lit[s], Seize the Press. Runs @ergot.bsky.social Photo: linktr.ee/doomstache

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 17d

Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'!

Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html

Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

The Veldt Institute | Asterism Books

### *At the Veldt Institute everyone is sick, so no one is sick.* Endless fields of grass. A sky so bright there are barely shadows. At the center of this expanse is the Veldt Institute, an austere s...

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 15h

Could be 'Foreign Accent Syndrome' which is a (rare)
neurological syndrome: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign...

Foreign accent syndrome - Wikipedia

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 17h

You know what we say around here?
In the club* we all fam†!

* Small press literary scene
† Are vying for the attention of the same 10 - 15 people in the hopes that they will help promote our work

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Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social · 17h

Mindlessly doomscrolling my immediate surroundings like some kind of savannah-dwelling primate

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks Stuart!

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Stuart Docherty @doc12345.bsky.social · 1d

@perfidiousscript.bsky.social this came in the post yesterday and I’m very excited to start reading.

Copy of The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Miss

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 1d

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

No Country for Old Cows (2007)

Edited screenshots from No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh (with cow horns and cow ears) sits in a hotel chair and asks someone across from him, "If the tool you followed brought you to this, of what use was the tool?"

In a zoomed out view, Anton sits silently behind a table with the 4 cow tools look8ng at his victim as if studying him.

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 2d

Could use a 2-3 star review to balance these out.

If you're into plot-heavy novels about suburban couples going through a divorce and want to write a hit piece about 'The Veldt Institute' (bonus points if you work in 'self-indulgent', 'incomprehensible' or 'unstructured') hit me up.

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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago // this Saturday // 7pm, Comfort Station // the inaugural installment of the Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series

feat.
Nat Baldwin
Josh Watkins
Lillie E. Franks (@lilliekoi.bsky.social)
Cajetan Sorich

music by
Barry Paul Clark
Casts

free, all ages

ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES — Comfort Station

This is the premiere installment of the ALWAYS CRASHING READING & PERFORMANCE SERIES, which features live readings from contributors to the ALWAYS CRASHING magazine alongside music and visual perf...

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

Every day Republicans are choosing to keep the government closed rather than lower your health care costs.

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 2d

Gothic spires

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Christi Nogle @christinogle.bsky.social · 2d

A beautiful book: THE VELDT INSTITUTE from @ergot.bsky.social editor @perfidiousscript.bsky.social! thank you!!

THE VELDT INSTITUTE by Samuel M. Moss, a book with light gray cover and blue and black geometric designs.

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 2d

"Portland is burning..."

[House music fades in]

[Cut to montage of local burns around the Portland area: people in facepaint dancing around weird art, tall bikes, giant puppets, house music grows in volume until his speech is drowned out]

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 2d

meanwhile all my friends in PDX are sending me photos of them going on their little bike rides to their favorite cafes or drinking beers with their buds

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 2d

Nathan Grover: "One cannot know impersonal reality but one can be it, if only for a few pages at a time."

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Nathanimal's review of The Veldt Institute

5/5: Amid the Veldt, a landscape most notable for its lack of notability and bereft of all possibility but to burn, towers the geometrically indifferent structure of the The Veldt Institute. At the In...

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 2d

Kyle E. Miller @kymiller.bsky.social: "The veldt is the book, The Book, every book, any book, this particular book, every text, the world text, the great work, atoms arranged to spell grass and sculpture."

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Kyle E. Miller's review of The Veldt Institute

5/5: The veldt is the book, The Book, every book, any book, this particular book, every text, the world text, the great work, atoms arranged to spell grass and sculpture. The mystery stands denuded, a...

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 2d

Some very kind reviews coming in on G R for 'The Veldt Institute':

Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social says "A strange and wonderful novel"

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Ivy Grimes's review of The Veldt Institute

5/5: A strange and wonderful novel about a confused patient doing his best to progress in his treatment at the mysterious Veldt Institute. I recommend this book to everyone.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 7d

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
...for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 4, our annual collection of the best **PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED** New Weird Horror of the year.
Eligibility window: stories published between 31st October 2024 and 31st October 2025.
All the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/10...

Submissions open for Brave New Weird volume 4 — tenebrous press

REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the FOURTH (!!!) Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying antholog...

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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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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social · 6d

Now at AC // www.alwayscrashing.com/current

italicized text in four columns asking a series of questions

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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

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Samuel M. Moss @perfidiousscript.bsky.social · 5d

A friend of mine had one and liked it a lot. He was a doctor, so he still owned/needed a smartphone for his on-call app (and maybe a few other things), but was progressibely transitioning to using the light phone.

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 7d

To honor the hallowed Halloween season, Letterboxd staff and contributors recommend 24 underseen horror ﬁlms, spanning from ’60s noir witches to ’70s psychedelic vampires to ’80s against-type Colin Firth.

Read about each pick on Journal: boxd.it/2Ko

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to have contributed to @letterboxd.social's 24 Underseen Horror Films by writing about my favorite feature of horny, depressed filmmaking--Larry Fessenden's HABIT.

Stop what you're doing and watch this Cassavetes castlevania of toxic love and vampiric sex RIGHT NOW.

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 7d

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