rest in peace, comrade 🫡 🖖

Speaking of the spooktacular, there are only TEN copies left of the first run of The Failure of the Century. @fabulistmag.bsky.social MAY print some next year, or may not! fabulistmagazine.com/product/h-p-...

H.P. Lovecraft is THE FAILURE OF THE CENTURY | The Fabulist Magazine

It’s after midnight in Providence, when the eccentric, problematic author H. P. Lovecraft receives three visitors: Fellow pulp writer Frank Belknap Long; Lovecraft’s estranged wife, the voluble and vi...

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r@chrainchrainchrain.bsky.social · 5d ago

THE FAILURE OF THE CENTURY (2026) by Nick Mamatas with an afterword by Christos Callow Jr. is a play regarding H.P. Lovecraft.

Headline of the week

I think about this tweet often

Bay Area: Come by 1246 Folsom tonight 10/6 for a reading & panel with Tina LeCount Myers, Duane Horton, @julieleong.bsky.social & @ebonidunbar.bsky.social - hosted by myself & @fabulistmag.bsky.social 📚 ☕️ 5pm coffee hour at the cafe beforehand, panel and signings after!

TONIGHT is the 2nd annual Fire Season reading event at Arc Gallery, as part of the Stir seasonal reading series, co-produced by @TKRex and The Fab! If you are in the SF Bay Area, make it down to 1246 Folsom St. in SF from 6-8pm for amazing writers, tasty snax and bevs, + books, mags and lit swag!

This is a great issue! Buy the @fabulistmag.bsky.social print #2! (Not just saying this because I proofed it and hopefully didn’t mess it up!)

Michael J. [Haunt Fox] DeLuca@michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A @fabulistmag.bsky.social mini-appreciation thread. This is just a gorgeous object, full of glossy full-color weird art. I'd pull it apart and hang it all over my walls if I didn't consider that a violation of the form.

a delightful beast [ #monster #fantasy #art ]

Welp we shipped the first batch of Issue Three mags (136lbs of fine printed literature) via USPS bulk mail. There were guard shacks, labyrinthine postal complexes, loading docks, and very helpful postal employees. The whole saga is here, in pictures: www.instagram.com/explore/sear...

Quite enjoyed Casey Rae's caseyrae.bsky.social essay on science fiction and modern "Torment Nexus" dystopianism, esp. for the astute cross-reference to world religion and Buddhist teachings related to preventing or addressing apocalyptic world cycles. casey-raes-apocrypha.ghost.io/building-the...

Building the Torment Nexus

Science fiction keeps warning us about the future, and we keep proving it right.

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"…I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." —Eugene V. Debs

Lovecraft discourse on Bluesky! While I was at the @fabulistmag.bsky.social office and a gross PO shipping the second batch of my contribution to Lovecraft discourses--The Failure of the Century! Say it ain't so?! Anyway, Lovecraft was not a centrist. He was a reactionary!

A snippet from my foreword to The Failure of the Century. I'm going into the @fabulistmag.bsky.social office tomorrow to help pack some new orders, so if you're curious and want my fingerprints... fabulistmagazine.com/product/h-p-...

Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting. Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...

HUNGRY GODS AND OTHER MATTERS OF CONSCIENCE by Heather Bourbeau, which I've been sitting on since I met the author at AWP in 2024. Heather is a badass and her writing does not disappoint. Never have I encountered such a densely satisfying collection of fiercely feminist, antifascist microfictions.

The Fabulist Vol. 1, No. 3 contains this phenomenal piece of metafictional cultural criticism by @tkrex.bsky.social

Spoken by one who knows great print production and design, this is high praise. Thank you. And, believe me, “The Paladin in the Forest of Thorns” is going to get the *full treatment*. We don’t f around with this stuff!

Michael J. [Haunt Fox] DeLuca@michaeljdeluca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A @fabulistmag.bsky.social mini-appreciation thread. This is just a gorgeous object, full of glossy full-color weird art. I'd pull it apart and hang it all over my walls if I didn't consider that a violation of the form.

Thanks for the props @tkrex.bsky.social ! And, awesome spider!

T. K. Rex@tkrex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

my latest newsletter is out! mentioning: @fabulistmag.bsky.social @jennydwilliams.bsky.social @julieleong.bsky.social @theworldsgreatestwriter.com @babylonsalon.bsky.social @vanessahua.bsky.social @bethwinegarner.bsky.social @ebonidunbar.bsky.social and spider buttondown.com/tkrex/archiv...

There is no such thing as a white race and motherfuckers need to stop capitalizing that garbage right fkng now

Honoring @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social student and author Rin Kelly, the Rin Kelly Scholarship for Fiction offers a $350 scholarship to emerging writers with a focus on speculative, imaginative and critical/satirical works.Submissions open thru Sept. 10! Learn more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Dolly Parton supported a fight against a drag ban in Texas and the ban was ruled unconstitutional this morning.

TONIGHT! at the SF Public Library main branch: "Speculate: Writing About the Strange and Surreal." Featuring Khan Wong, Audrey T. Williams, TK Rex, Audrey T. Williams, Katie Flynn and Doug Henderson. Fabulist Mag editor Josh Wilson moderates. See you there!

They're here! Eight boxes of ISSUE THREE arrived from the printer this a.m.! Subscription fulfillment begins NOW — a major task that will take us days to complete. (We're also trying a new USPS shipping class that could save us a thousand bucks!) Here we go ... !

:) whole bunch of good stuff coming your way!

Midnightplatasm IV: Oblivion@midnightplat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking forward to this and a few other things I found on @fabulistmag.bsky.social 's web shop.

Have you pre-ordered my play The Failure of the Century from @fabulistmag.bsky.social yet? If we don't hit 50 pre-orders, the publisher will have to eat these prop beans, Lovecraft-style! bit.ly/4cQ79y3

"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes

I am reviewing Frank Miller's PUSH THE WALL, which had black sprayed edges, for @fabulistmag.bsky.social (spoiler: Miller is a bit of a himbo).

Holy smokes, can you believe this _amazinggggg_ cover art by California artist Sky Wolvenlion for the next issue of The Fabulist Magazine?!? #divineface #fantasyart #humanmade #indiepublishing #noai fabulistmagazine.com/subscribe/