FF will be open to submissions again during the month of November, so time to start thinking about what piece to send our way! If you need help deciding, I wrote up a statistical analysis of what stories stand the best chances with us. Check it out here: www.patreon.com/fusionfragme...

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I’m a watercolour and mixed media artist. I live in Canberra, Australia with my family and three pet rats. I love illustrating weird, horror-tinged stories (colour covers and/or black and white internal illustrations). 👁️ 🐀 🪸 👻 🌀 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻 🖤 www.chpearce.net/portfolio

Happy #portfolioday I'm Annalise, a queer freelance illustrator from Australia. I specialise in covers and ttrpg work. Prev clients include Dimension20 and Critical Role. Looking to fill in slots for January and February 2027. www.annalisejensen.com.au

We are pleased to announce that our legendary horror writing competition, Rusty Fears, is back. Check out this year's prompts, as well as the competition Ts&Cs at: https://rustyquill.com/news/2026-10-12-rusty-fears-8/

Them (Laurie Holden as Cybil and Radha Mitchell as Rose from Silent Hill 2006)! The faces aren’t quite right but that’s what practice is for! More original art happening in the background too, will be able to share in the next month or two… 👀 🎨 #fanart

So excited to have my story “Go Eat Some Worms With Callie Cooks” about a young woman’s cooking vlog featuring her helpful live-in fungus friend, Worms, included in RECORDED (ed. @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social) alongside these excellent names! I am obsessed with the formatting too. 🤩 🍄 🔪 🖤

Merc Fenn Wolfmoor@mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 14h ago

🎥 HAPPY [RECORDED] DAY!! 🎞️ My anthology of found media stories has been whisked off to all backers and authors (in ebook form)... AND NOW EVERYONE ELSE CAN PRE-ORDER IT! books2read.com/recorded-ant... If you like found footage? 👀 You will LOVE the 21 stories in this book—I am SO proud of this!

🎃 Just a reminder that our submission window is open until October 31st!!! Keep sending us your stories, poems and reviews! 🎃

okay this deadline is in two days, and then we open for novella submissions 😅

Neon Hemlock@neonhemlock.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Submissions are now open for speculative novelettes and/or tiny short story collection chapbooks. Word limit: 7,500 to 12,000 words. Limited print run. Will pay $100 and 25 copies. Deadline: October 15th. More info here: neonhemlock.submittable.com/submit/36598...

We have three novellas coming out in the next two months! If you haven't pre-ordered already, please consider checking them out. THE SAINTS WE MAKE by @josiewrites.bsky.social THESE HOLLOW BODIES illustrated by @pegasusunder.bsky.social THE WOLF MAID FROM THE SEA by @ferretly.bsky.social

FF#29 and Saros SF #7 are set for a dual release on October 26th! Patreon members will be receiving it soon, once I've got all the files prepped and ready to go!

🎥 HAPPY [RECORDED] DAY!! 🎞️ My anthology of found media stories has been whisked off to all backers and authors (in ebook form)... AND NOW EVERYONE ELSE CAN PRE-ORDER IT! books2read.com/recorded-ant... If you like found footage? 👀 You will LOVE the 21 stories in this book—I am SO proud of this!

Locals lately 🦜 🌸

The 113th Assistant Librarian: Forbidden Pages is out! I hope you enjoy Oliver and Agatha's third adventure. Thanks to the marvellous team of Rebecca McRitchie, Mary Verney and Melanie Ostell! (And artist Federica Frenna designer Kristy Lund-White and Judith Rossell for the kind words on the cover).

Hi. It looks like we are having a watch party for COHERENCE this Halloween, something I've never done. Like or repost this or whatever if you're interested, and I'll figure out how to do an intro for it!

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the house of leaves. I’m at the combi s n e a v t a i e o l n fo esuoh & tuh azzip

absolutely winning the clenching my jaw and hunching my shoulders competition, leaving my opponents in the dust

Lost Souls’ very own Editor in Chief Ben O’Mara is hosting a workshop “Skin in the Game” next Saturday! Come along to learn everything there is to know about recounting the truth of the darkness in your everyday life.

Launch event for Your Body is a Fever Dream tonight!! I'm gonna be reading my short story! Lifelong dream come true stuff happening, here withfriends.co/event/293444...

Y'all, we're one week down; 23 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT to BRAVE NEW WEIRD! BRAVE NEW WEIRD showcases the BEST Weird Fiction PUBLISHED IN THE PREVIOUS CALENDAR YEAR, via independent press or self-publishing. Got something that qualifies? Hit us up here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/9/... 🖤☠️

For the evening people! I have a new S&S story out featuring the maiden Lady Blood, death goddess of underground Xibalba. If you’re in the mood for some weird/violent/horny Mayan fantasy, check this out!

xavier garcia@xaviergarcia.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey everyone! The good news keeps coming. I got a new Lady Blood story published! If ya got time for some evil Mayan gross horror Sword & Sorcery, definitely check out issue #195 @aurealisfsf.bsky.social's mag. This piece is one of my favourites! aurealis.com.au/store/aureal...

i'm at the lit space / i'm at the genre space / i'm at the combination lit space and genre space

Free shipping on Bookshop.org Oct. 6 and 7. Grab pale Grey Idol and support indies not billionaires. bookshop.org/p/books/pale...

They're saying there's an anti-prime day sale. They're saying you might pick up a short story collection for the anti-prime day sale. Is that true bookshop.org/p/books/unce...

Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

LOCUS AWARD WINNERWORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALISTNEBULA AWARD WINNER ("Uncertain Sons" Novelette)PHILIP K. DICK AWARD SPECIAL CITATIONBRAM STOKER AWARD(R) NOMINEE ("Uncertain Sons" Novelette)BRITISH SCIE...

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RELEASE DAY! YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, featuring New Weird Cosmic Horror from 30+ trans & gender nonconforming creators, is OUT NOW WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD. Direct from us: store.tenebrouspress.com Prcoeeds benefit the Trans Doe Task Force & Trans Legal Services Network. Hail the Weird🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

One of my favorite people on the planet has a book coming out in about two weeks. Tatratea by @alexwoodroe.com is a hallucinatory & cerebral exploration on isolation, & y'all shouldn't sleep on it. Romanian eco-horror. The good shit. 10/20/26 @clashbooks.bsky.social bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Halloween reading, Meerkat-style. 🖤 For readers who like their fiction dark, strange, unsettling—and occasionally impossible to categorize. What are you reading this Halloween? #HalloweenReading #HorrorBooks #WeirdFiction #DarkFiction #HorrorFiction #MeerkatPress meerkatpress.com/catalog/

Oh, hai! Rest of World, my novella Fitcher's Bird comes out tomorrow! Australia, you've got another week to wait, sorry! And if the words "beautiful", "bleak" and "violent" don't sell you, then honestly I just don't know what's wrong with y'all! 🤣

The ideal reader response

Zachary Gillan@megapolisomancy.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my absolute favourite responses to any type of media is “I’m confused” or “what just happened” at the end of something when literally no information has been revealed. Like watch or read or whatever and you won’t find out, that’s how it works.

Wrote my first newsletter in ages, instead of writing my books... okay re-directing back to drafting. HERE is my very brief little update on me, for anyone interested <3 zkabraham.com/2026/10/03/a...

A FLASH autumnal update

Hello my loves! I miss writing blogs/this newsletter. This used to be my only form of writing; moments of confessional, the pseudo-personal essay, in which I would share what was going on with me c…

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*panic-chooses and runs away* my9movies.net/en

Katherine Lam @ LBX 431@katherinelam.bsky.social · 2w ago

me all of a sudden: have i ever seen a movie??? this is more "movies that live in my head rent free" and less formulative my9movies.net/en