Some lunch time reading from @seizethepress.bsky.social that gives me Sideways Stories from Wayside school vibes but way darker: www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/a...

I Would Haunt You(r Ebook Reader) If I Could

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/

I read this book last year and it became an instant favourite. If you're looking for non-fiction that feels grubby, liminal and haunted, then this is the book for you. In the first Backlisted ep Rachel Cooke describes Seabrook as someone you feel both afraid of and for. That's really stuck with me.

I'd def recommend picking it up, it's incredibly sinister.

Been thinking about Jeannette Ng's Under the Pendulum Sun and how it's one of the few books that makes the fae as sinister and horrifying as they deserve to be. An under-read dark fantasy gothic masterpiece.

Have you read my award-winning story "The Power Company Detective"? Okay, okay; you got me. I'm lying. The only award it won is in my heart.
www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/t...

I know you've all read this book by now because I keep blathering about it, right

New Patreon post! Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social tells us why she loves "The Monsters of Heaven" and "Sunbleached" from Nathan Ballingrud’s collection "North American Lake Monsters"

New Patreon post! Sally Parlier @sallyparlier.bsky.social tells us why she loves "The Monsters of Heaven" and "Sunbleached" from Nathan Ballingrud’s collection "North American Lake Monsters"

I don't understand how Joe does it, but his work is routinely bewildering in how multiple realities exist at once in a story. Wtf is going on

We’re now closed to submissions until we get caught up. Will update here and on the website when we reopen.

We’re going to be closing to submissions from 12pm BST tomorrow (12th September). Not sure exactly how long for, until we get caught up. If you want to get something in, send it in before then.

OUT NOW: my debut novella with @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ! The coral reef becomes sentient and invades the surface world, mutating all life. 🔥🪸🪸🔥 Pick up your copy today! store.tenebrouspress.com/products/ree...

I’m very behind on submissions reading at the mo, so if you’re writer who’s sent something in and it’s been over 30 days I haven’t forgot about you, I’m just drowning in reading and will get back to you as soon as I can. Sorry for the wait.

My latest newsletter's out, with my much-much-much-delayed review of @bleakhousing.bsky.social's INTO THE PEERLESS aaaaaaaand a new flash piece by yours truly (first printed by @cursedmorsels.bsky.social )

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Reminder of this beauty coming November. Pre-order from us or your fave online vendor.

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Yes, Sebald and latex. @rlsummerling.bsky.social knew how to get to the good stuff.

I really enjoyed these super kind, super thoughtful questions.

Long live Seize the Press.

New author interview up on the Patreon today! We spoke to Caleb Bethea @calebbethea.bsky.social, author of glitter-gore fest "Disco Murder City".

We talk about identity, art and fucking up genre conventions. This may be the only time you see W.G. Sebald and latex mentioned in the same sentence.

Hell yeah, big day for the leviathan community.

Rebecca interviewed John a couple weeks back about Feast of the Pale Leviathan, check it out.

This story filled me with such a deep sense of inescapable dread, I can’t wait for you all to read it and it ruin your day. A fitting and wonderful tribute to the king.

Contract signed: my story "One of Our Girls is in Trouble," initially written for and performed at a David Lynch tribute event in April, will appear in print for the first time in a forthcoming issue of Seize the Press

this is, arguably, the sweetest story i've ever written. i've also never had a story called "disgusting" as many times as this one has been. which is, y'know, probably due to the whole "35 million ticks" and "nipple piercing body horror" stuff, but hey!

Today on the Patreon we've got Z.D. Dochterman talking about Spencer Nitkey's story "In the Dream, He Is Skinless and Beautiful" from Weird Horror #10.

Also with nods to fan favourites Avra Margariti, Samir Sirk Morató, and Thomas Ha cos there's just too much good shit out there to limit yourself.