With preorders for SQUELCH! opening today, can we take a moment to check out and appreciate the spectacularly gnarly cover from @oddoblivion.bsky.social? Because damn, the vibes of this one go hard. And just wait until you see what’s lurking inside.
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A Label. A Publisher. Whatever It Needs To Be. VANTABLACK 10" vinyl available for preorder! www.merigoldindependent.com
It’s official, my weird worm book from @merigoldindie.bsky.social is now available for preorder! Snag a copy from Asterism or wherever you buy books, and you too can bring the worms home with you! 🪱
Squelch! | Asterism Books
#### Car wrecks. Dogs. Crowds. Birds. Their therapist. Worms. Most recently worms. All of these are things Cade is afraid of, the last of which has become uncomfortably present in their life. #### C...
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I’ve been meaning to make a post for awhile, but I’m ecstatic to announce my debut body horror novella is being published with @merigoldindie.bsky.social! SQUELCH! will be squirming its way into the world this September! More info to come 🪱
New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now with @charleneelsby.bsky.social! We discuss her new book Poor Damned Souls ( @merigoldindie.bsky.social ), it's always such a joy to talk to Dr. Elsby.
Rejoinder: Poor Damned Souls with Charlene Elsby
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Poor Damned Souls by @charleneelsby.bsky.social (coming March 25, 2026 through @merigoldindie.bsky.social ) is an extreme nightmarish story about obsession and self discovery. This book broke me to my core, in the best possible way!
Shadowplays, a collection of essays and fiction in opposition of accelerationism (December 19th through @merigoldindie.bsky.social) "At the end of humanism, Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison have given us lenses for the blinding light of the cyborgian future” - @roychristopher.com
I am not going to lie, I may have screamed a bit when I saw I got a package from the one and only @charleneelsby.bsky.social 🖤 I am beyond excited to read this book, thank you Charlene!! Poor Damned Souls is set for a March 25, 2026 release through @merigoldindie.bsky.social
In the Glow [ sunlight washes over the beige kitchen tiles and it is twenty years prior, mother calling out from the bedroom hall; i follow her voice to reality overgrown, where time exceeds the linear, as emblematic patterns rise and dust congeals to bone . . . . ] full #poem in Amethyst Review
In the Glow – a poem by Lydia Falls
In the Glowsunlight washes over the beige kitchen tiles and it is twenty years prior, mother calling out from the bedroom hall; i follow her voice to reality overgrown, where time exceeds the linea…
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Charlene Elsby's The Organization is Here to Support You is our next book! Out 3/25 but you can preorder it now! Existential bureaucratic horror satire in the tradition of Franz Kafka, J.G. Ballard, and Sayaka Murata. Fans of Severance and Brazil take note. weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/-pre...
Lovely write-up by Dennis Cooper on VANTABLACK! denniscooperblog.com/chris-kelso-...
Chris Kelso presents … VANTABLACK – DC's
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My First Paperback Proof (with aligned spine text and cover art) of AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE: STRANGE STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL. On sale January 14th and available to preorder NOW! Look at this beauty.
The Cult Leader is true story novel about Maria Sea Channels, a 29-year-old woman, who "sees through the pandemonium of COVID-19". She moves to Southwest Florida where she falls in love with an aspiring cult leader named Cash Swanson and helps him start a cult based on red pilling the masses.
