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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃

@wnwagner.bsky.social

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Horror writer (GIRL IN THE CREEK due out 2025, Tor Nightfire); editor-in-chief of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE, senior editor, LIGHTSPEED. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️‍🌈 Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · Sep 2

I should probably remind people that I had a novel called GIRL IN THE CREEK come out about a month and a half ago. It got a star in the Library Journal! And look at this awesome blurb from @keithrosson.bsky.social:

Against a green background and just to the left of the cover for GIRL IN THE CREEK, a blurb: Dazzling. GIRL IN THE CREEK is unflinching eco-horror, steeped in the pitch-perfect setting of the rainswept Pacific Northwest. I devoured it even though it gutted me, and it solidifies that Wagner is an absolutely electrifying writer.
— Keith Rosson, author of FEVER HOUSE

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 9h

About ninety percent of all global historical emissions have been produced in the lifetime of our current president.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3h

Why did Indianans conspire to kill Charlie Kirk, a nation asks

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 3h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

If you never want to eat mushrooms ever again, here's a great list of mushroom horror -- errr, sporror -- novels:
reactormag.com/creeping-fun...

Creeping Fungus: Nine Works of Sporror - Reactor

If you love mushrooms or just want some creepy reads to add to your TBR, this list is for you!

reactormag.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

YESSSS!

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🖤🖤🖤!!!

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 3h

Happy birthday to one of the best publications ever

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

Did you know @nightmare-magazine.com turned 13 this month??!?
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Editorial: October 2025 - Nightmare Magazine

We always try to pull out the stops in our birthday issues, and this year is no different. There’s no real theme this month---although regret and reparation loom large---but every single piece is out ...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

BE RIGHT OVER!!!!!

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

NOOOOOO! (No cake here, OR pie.)

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

Did you know @nightmare-magazine.com turned 13 this month??!?
www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/e...

Editorial: October 2025 - Nightmare Magazine

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

Looking for a FABULOUS story to get you in the Halloween spirit? How about "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead," a story of spirits and drag queens from the sensational Sam J. Miller???
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/cour...

Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead - Nightmare Magazine

Honey, the spirits are here with us tonight and they are deeply disappointed. [audience laughter] Momma, do you not own a mirror? Did you think you looked cute when you walked out of your house tonigh...

www.nightmare-magazine.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3h

Just sitting here working and daydreaming about eating chocolate cake.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 4h

This is terrific!

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting news! My novel Plague Birds, which was a finalist for the Nebula & Philip K. Dick Awards, will be rereleased by Apex Books @apexmag.bsky.social in an new edition with extra content in June 2026. And a sequel will be published by Apex in Oct. 2026. 1/
www.apexbookcompany.com/products/pla...

Cover of Plague Birds by Jason Sanford, which was a finalist for the Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 5h

Awesome!!!

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 9h

It's the third day of Banned Books Week, and I, as your friendly enby bookseller, am here with more books by living, marginalized authors that are CONFIRMED banned.

Are you ready?

Pop in for this new thread.

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 8h

I had a fantastic time last night at Broadway Books, chatting with Keith Rosson about his terrific new book, COFFIN MOON. When I got home, I couldn't believe I forgot to get any pictures!
At least you all can still read his book:
broadwaybooks.net/book/9780593...

The cover of Keith Rosson's novel, COFFIN MOON: a stylized black highway winds through the open mouth of a yellow human skull. The skull has fangs!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so glad you joined us! Broadway Books is terrific.

Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

You know how to get MY attention!!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

Trump wants to send *300* National Guard members from California -- 100 more troops than his original plan for Portland.
California is suing.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s violate a court order in the most dickish way possible.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: California National Guard Sent to Oregon, Newsom Says

www.nytimes.com

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

Whew, glad it's not a year-round thing!

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 3d

Around 250,000 people took to the streets in Amsterdam today to protest the genocide in Gaza.

ShouraHashemi @shourahashemi.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 Sagenhafte 250.000 Menschen heute auf der Straße in Amsterdam gegen den Genozid in Gaza!
Wesentlich mehr als erwartet.

Stoppt den Genozid!

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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 3d

This look phenomenal!!!