RSLjnr
@rsljnr.bsky.social
(he/they)🌹AHRC-funded and researching (New) Weird & Ligotti @ Uni of Liverpool 🌹 work at Ergot., CHM, Sans Press, Vastarien 🌹 the way in is the way out 🌹
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@rsljnr.bsky.social
· Nov 6
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
last week I was able to have one of my fave stories appear in one of my fave publications -- I can't wait to see the next piece they release :)
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PSA: Dim Shores is down to 50 copies left of THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT! Preorder this lo-fi horror collection here: dimshores.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
PSA: Dim Shores is down to 50 copies left of THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT! Preorder this lo-fi horror collection here: dimshores.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
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I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨
Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
December 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I'm literally just a girl with a basement full of demon jars and I'm not going to apologize for that 💅🍓🫙✨
Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Satisfy your craving for scrumptious surreal horror and check out THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social, available for preorder now!
🌌 www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
@nmwhitley.bsky.social thank you for the mention!
Some love for my story "Jar of Arms"
From the free Ligotti tribute anthology We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
Some love for my story "Jar of Arms"
From the free Ligotti tribute anthology We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
buttondown.com/shortstoryre...
December 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Resharing this uplifting review for the evening people!
DO's a tiny press and the lion's share of promotional work falls on me to do, so every ounce of good feedback and help in getting the book out there means so damn much
DO's a tiny press and the lion's share of promotional work falls on me to do, so every ounce of good feedback and help in getting the book out there means so damn much
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Resharing this uplifting review for the evening people!
DO's a tiny press and the lion's share of promotional work falls on me to do, so every ounce of good feedback and help in getting the book out there means so damn much
DO's a tiny press and the lion's share of promotional work falls on me to do, so every ounce of good feedback and help in getting the book out there means so damn much
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Many thanks to RSL and The Fantasy Hive for this beautiful and deep review of The Cellar Below the Cellar 💜🖤
RSL reviews Ivy Grimes' upcoming folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR:
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Many thanks to RSL and The Fantasy Hive for this beautiful and deep review of The Cellar Below the Cellar 💜🖤
it's truly a beautiful piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social. pensive, mysterious, thoughtful, and weird in all the beautifulest ways. thank you for the ARC, and I can't wait for this to be out!
RSL reviews Ivy Grimes' upcoming folk horror novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR:
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
"with its poetic turns of narrative to its easily imaginable characters, reminds me time & time again that to die is not an absence, but a shift in perspective"
More: tinyurl.com/53juhdpp
bsky.app/profile/ivyg...
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
it's truly a beautiful piece by @ivygrimes.bsky.social. pensive, mysterious, thoughtful, and weird in all the beautifulest ways. thank you for the ARC, and I can't wait for this to be out!
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Dope article. If you’re looking to dig deeper into the story and its themes after reading, there’s a great free anthology featuring writers like @horrorsong.blog @joellekillian.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social @rsljnr.bsky.social @cjsubko.bsky.social , TJ Price & more.
I’ll link it below 🤘
I’ll link it below 🤘
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Dope article. If you’re looking to dig deeper into the story and its themes after reading, there’s a great free anthology featuring writers like @horrorsong.blog @joellekillian.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social @rsljnr.bsky.social @cjsubko.bsky.social , TJ Price & more.
I’ll link it below 🤘
I’ll link it below 🤘
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Lit mags are usually known for their slow response times, but these amazing flash fiction pubs are trying to change that!
Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lit mags are usually known for their slow response times, but these amazing flash fiction pubs are trying to change that!
Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
Submit to them here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/fast-f...
#writing #writingcommunity #litmags
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Maidens of Midnight, my debut lo-fi horror collection, is up for preorder. I'm proud of this weird little book, a collaboration with excellent illustrator @luciaretamales.bsky.social, but you don't have to take my word for it. Here's what @brianevenson.bsky.social wrote on the collection:
Some advance praise for @charibdys.bsky.social THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT from the brilliant @brianevenson.bsky.social. Featuring cover and interior art by @luciaretamales.bsky.social, and cover design by @grossandcolorful.bsky.social. Limited to 150 copies, with 90 sold in pre-order already.
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Maidens of Midnight, my debut lo-fi horror collection, is up for preorder. I'm proud of this weird little book, a collaboration with excellent illustrator @luciaretamales.bsky.social, but you don't have to take my word for it. Here's what @brianevenson.bsky.social wrote on the collection:
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November always manages to fly past as we gear towards the holidays but the team still managed to pack the month full of excellent reads - check out what their Top Picks were!
Read more: tinyurl.com/nvdmevas
Read more: tinyurl.com/nvdmevas
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
November always manages to fly past as we gear towards the holidays but the team still managed to pack the month full of excellent reads - check out what their Top Picks were!
Read more: tinyurl.com/nvdmevas
Read more: tinyurl.com/nvdmevas
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Every day you can choose not to feed the hate machine.
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Every day you can choose not to feed the hate machine.
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PORTRAITS OF DECAY from @saltheartpress.bsky.social is eligible for all those cool awards folks are talking about!
If you're a fan of weird fiction in the vein Padgett, Fawver, Jackson, Ligotti, and Cushing, check it out!
If you're a fan of weird fiction in the vein Padgett, Fawver, Jackson, Ligotti, and Cushing, check it out!
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
PORTRAITS OF DECAY from @saltheartpress.bsky.social is eligible for all those cool awards folks are talking about!
If you're a fan of weird fiction in the vein Padgett, Fawver, Jackson, Ligotti, and Cushing, check it out!
If you're a fan of weird fiction in the vein Padgett, Fawver, Jackson, Ligotti, and Cushing, check it out!
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Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
Love Story in Colored Glass - Uncharted
“This,” her father says, the stone a matte black promise in his hand, “is how your ship will travel.” With a bravura flick, he throws it out onto the lake, but all she can focus on is the spike of ten...
www.unchartedmag.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Story day!! I’m so delighted to debut in @unchartedmag.bsky.social with ‘Love Story in Colored Glass:’ an inter-dimensional love story about a starship that breaks reality - and a pair of lovers who find themselves, again and again, across the fracture.
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
www.unchartedmag.com/stories/love...
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This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is a thread of stuff that inspired my novella THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR, out with Violet Lichen Press on Feb 18, 2026!
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Thread updated weekly, maybe?
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
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"We clash with a world that we simply do not feel part of. When I read Ligotti, and I found the...malaise at being trapped into an existence we didn’t consent to—I finally found out that not only was I not alone, that there was a massive community of us."
@rsljnr.bsky.social
@rsljnr.bsky.social
Interview with authors of We Will Speak Again of the Red Tower
Ligotti, community, encrimsoning
ivygrimes.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"We clash with a world that we simply do not feel part of. When I read Ligotti, and I found the...malaise at being trapped into an existence we didn’t consent to—I finally found out that not only was I not alone, that there was a massive community of us."
@rsljnr.bsky.social
@rsljnr.bsky.social
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Here's the aurora-filled novella for anyone who is particularly into auroras right now:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
The Cellar Below the Cellar
Preorder and save 30%! Release Date 2/18/26 A playfully dark folk horror inspired by the fairy tale "Vasilisa the Beautiful" and the mythology around Frau Perchta, set under the blazing sky of endless...
www.apexbookcompany.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Here's the aurora-filled novella for anyone who is particularly into auroras right now:
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
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Grappling with some serious existential & financial angst today. Friendly reminder I've got two fun books with big ideas out that cool readers seem to really enjoy. Would love for you to check 'em out, too
As a debut indie author, I’m really grateful to have found the readers I have with these two books. Would be honored to have them considered alongside 2025’s other great new releases!
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Grappling with some serious existential & financial angst today. Friendly reminder I've got two fun books with big ideas out that cool readers seem to really enjoy. Would love for you to check 'em out, too
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ok but this story "Bog Eye" by @rsljnr.bsky.social is a weird masterpiece. It's chaos and poetry and really strange mutant philosophy and I just love it. I hope more people read this
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
ok but this story "Bog Eye" by @rsljnr.bsky.social is a weird masterpiece. It's chaos and poetry and really strange mutant philosophy and I just love it. I hope more people read this
can't wait to buy this. big congrats again ivy!!!! x
A Cover Reveal! 🌕
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Many thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this auroralicious cover for The Cellar Below The Cellar...out February 2026
Apex Book Company and Violet Lichen are thrilled to reveal the cover of @ivygrimes.bsky.social's Russian fairytale-inspired folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR! 🌌 Out February 18th, available for preorder now at www.apexbookcompany.com!
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
Cover Art: Jack Hillside
Cover Design: Silent Q Design
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
can't wait to buy this. big congrats again ivy!!!! x
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Suzy Eynon | -ette-review
Suzy Eynon in -ette-review Issue 6: Fall 2025
ettereview.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... 🌕🏚️🌌
Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!
Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
As night falls and the sky begins to dance, something looms over the dark horizon... 🌕🏚️🌌
Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!
Full cover reveal of THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR by @ivygrimes.bsky.social coming Monday!
last week I was able to have one of my fave stories appear in one of my fave publications -- I can't wait to see the next piece they release :)
"It took me a long time to acclimate to my bog eye. If you are not a mutant like me, what you see and hear and feel is what you are...Mutants like me are the inverse."
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
Today on ergot.: 'Bog Eye' by RSL @rsljnr.bsky.social
www.ergot.press/authors/RSL/...
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
www.ergot.press
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
last week I was able to have one of my fave stories appear in one of my fave publications -- I can't wait to see the next piece they release :)
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RSL was fortunate to receive a very early copy of Jo Kaplan's upcoming horror novel THE MIDNIGHT MUSE:
"Kaplan masterfully evokes the reader’s belief in a spectrum of characters"
Read more: tinyurl.com/59haa69d
@clashbooks.bsky.social
@joannapary.bsky.social
"Kaplan masterfully evokes the reader’s belief in a spectrum of characters"
Read more: tinyurl.com/59haa69d
@clashbooks.bsky.social
@joannapary.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
RSL was fortunate to receive a very early copy of Jo Kaplan's upcoming horror novel THE MIDNIGHT MUSE:
"Kaplan masterfully evokes the reader’s belief in a spectrum of characters"
Read more: tinyurl.com/59haa69d
@clashbooks.bsky.social
@joannapary.bsky.social
"Kaplan masterfully evokes the reader’s belief in a spectrum of characters"
Read more: tinyurl.com/59haa69d
@clashbooks.bsky.social
@joannapary.bsky.social
"Notions" -- painted Mr Blanky from the Terror, played by Ian Hart. One of me fave characters
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
"Notions" -- painted Mr Blanky from the Terror, played by Ian Hart. One of me fave characters