I have way too much to do for work, writing, etc. So, of course, let’s do this.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Gordon B. White
@gordonbwhite.bsky.social
Horror/weird fiction writer. Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award nominee. Best Horror, Clarion West, dog dad, critically acclaimed (not in that order). He/him.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago
How to make a horror setting, step one: The typical human reaction on coming into possession of absolute proof of the supernatural is not to spread it, but actually, to start a cult about it.
I've spent the better part of the last 12 years being told that Dark Souls II is this critically flawed, lesser game, only to see it be slowly redeemed. I was right when I reviewed it. I'm right now. For @aftermath.site: fuck the haters, Dark Souls II is (still) good. aftermath.site/dark-souls-i...
They Could Never Make Me Hate Dark Souls II
I have spent over a decade being told that Dark Souls II is bad. But history has vindicated the game, and I never let the haters win.
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Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 5d agoHater week isn't over. I got one more in the quiver.
To the reader who enjoys Feast (or vice versa) I’d recommend: “As The Shore To The Tides, So Blood Calls To Blood” by @kjy1066.bsky.social “Godhead” by @gordonbwhite.bsky.social “In the Hills, the Cities” by Clive Barker & anyone who enjoyed Attack on Titan but felt like it didn’t land right
Reminding myself that a book is never expired, esp. less than a year after it came out: FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN is my debut novel, a DMT death trip through the digestive system of empire. It is a political horror adventure that makes Hobbes’ Leviathan a real kaiju + New Atlantis a real “utopia”
Feast of the Pale Leviathan
A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Owen finds inside is a community of fellow su...
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EMPATHY - She looks at the recording device, the thing she thought would fill her hours with joy and escape. It's turning out to be an empty fantasy. She feels childish, very useless all of a sudden.
I am teaching a full-up 3-4 hour workshop on “Dreams, Ideas, Outlines” tomorrow for Mill Creek Library. I’m psyched and would *love* to teach more workshops and classes (especially closer to Seattle), but also always happy to share my slides and handouts. sno-isle.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/69...
Mill Creek Library Writing Workshop: Dreams, Ideas, Outlines — Sno-Isle Libraries
Have you ever heard someone say that ideas are cheap? Well, that doesn’t mean they’re always easy to come by. It also doesn’t mean that every idea is good, useful or exciting for a story.\nIn this wor...
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This week, two authors make their terrifying Story Hour debuts*! Join us for spooky stories from @charlieratpig.bsky.social and @jeffreyford8.bsky.social ! Wednesday! 7:00 p.m. PDT! *They’re both reading horror. We have no plans to terrify the guests. www.storyhour2020.com
In better news I can now finally reveal the award what we won SME News’sUK Enterprise Awards 2026. Best Inclusive Film & Book Review Platform 2026
Hi, SFF Apex, Bona Books, Agita Publishing, And all the others who have gotten tricked by AI, Let's have a nice talk.
A Little Chat: Genre Fic in the Age of Slop | Dorian Dawes
There is a scene in Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta that is very different from how it was adapted in the 2005 film. Our eponymo
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I made my own covers (and bookmarks) using royalty free images and Photoshop/Affinity. AI isn’t necessary.
Maria Haskins@mariahaskins.com · 4w agoYou can get cover art made by real artists. You can buy premade covers from real artists. You can use stock images / art for your covers without involving AI-gen images. Writers and publishers have been getting covers made forEVER w/o AI-gen art and we don't have to use the tools of the enemy now.
TONIGHT! *The* @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social makes her Story Hour debut with returning favorite @toddkeisling.com !
Story Hour@storyhour.bsky.social · 4w agoTonight on Story Hour, Todd Keisling returns, and Katherine Silva steps up in her Story Hour debut! We’ll try to get Stephanie M. Wytovich another time, but we’re thrilled and chilled that Katherine will read for us tonight! Join us tonight at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @toddkeisling.com www.storyhour2020.com
It’s called elevated horror, T. It’s when the dracula is actually that your family sucks.
Over the last week I read these two: FANTASTIC LAND by Mike Bockoven and NEFANDO by Mónica Ojeda. Both are polyphonic novels, made of interviews and other accounts, exploring the darkness and driving forces in people. But while FL is pretty ”fun” horror, N is *grueling.* Like, doomscrolling a book.
Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? A sale or two would be a massive help. Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
Foreign Objects by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
Foreign Objects
Flash fiction by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
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ergot. is firing on all cylinders, this Ian Kappos story is one of the best things I've read this year. Ian is one of the most under-hyped writers of strange, irreal, genre-melding speculative fiction. Read Ian Kappos, people.
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innovative + experimental horror
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New story day! "Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults," in @nightmare-magazine.com, is about trans folks trying to live under authoritarianism. And also mysterious teeth. www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/patt...
Patterns of Dentition in Transgender Adults - Nightmare Magazine
The dryer groans to life, then begins thumping ominously. Maddie, already halfway out of her building’s laundry room, swears under her breath. The machine grinds and shakes. She slams the stop button,...
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Let’s just see what book my Spanish tutor is having me read. I’m sure it’s something — oh.
Boosting this again because a) I think a lot of you all like Rosemary's Baby, and b) this pod is a very fun pod. We talk about Muñeca and then we get down to why this book and movie are so brilliant.
The Scares That Shaped Us@scaresshapedus.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW EPISODE! Cynthia Gomez (@cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social) joins the show this week to talk about her amazing new Gothic novel MUNECA, and we dive into the awe-inspiring classic that is ROSEMARY'S BABY. This is a real deep-dive, so strap in!
On Smashwords? My collection is free there for a limited time! @smashwords.bsky.social www.smashwords.com/books/view/2...
Market of Loss: A Collection
There are many things for sale at the market of loss. Your mother's heart. A smile that makes you ache. A chance to feel alive for the first time, or the last. But remember, before you buy, every...
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Mike Huguenor (Shinobu, Hard Girls, Jeff Rosenstock) and I will be doing two PNW events for his awesome new book, ELVIS IS DEAD, I'M STILL ALIVE!: A HISTORY OF ASIAN MAN RECORDS. PORTLAND: Thu, 6/18 - BROADWAY BOOKS SEATTLE: 6/19 - ELLIOTT BAY BOOKS Come say hi!
PRO TIPS FROM ME, A LARGE INSECT 1. Do not be intimidated by the blank page 2. New notebook? Open to blank page 3. Write something meaningful on it 4. Now it is no longer blank 5. Go finish your novel
Taylor & Francis Research@tandfresearch.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery writer you admire once stared at a blank page feeling exactly how you feel right now. And they kept going.
I was really psyched to get a name check from @keithrosson.bsky.social in his recent interview on the Horror Joy podcast! Also just a really great talk about Keith’s take on horror and his creative process, esp. Coffin Moon. Listen here: www.redcircle.com/shows/979960... 1/2
And if you’re interested in the story he mentions about the mercenary assault on God’s enormous corpse, that’s GODHEAD. It’s in my most recent collection or you can listen to me read it here: youtu.be/OShj6ZqkVes?...
Reading of "Godhead"
YouTube video by Gordon B. White - Author, Etc.
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Load up on eBooks during our weekend sale. 10% off everything. Titles by @claymcleod.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @alexgrecian.bsky.social @toddkeisling.com @lairdbarron.bsky.social @inkwellmonster.bsky.social @michaelwehunt.bsky.social and more. badhandbooks.com/ebooks
eBooks — Bad Hand Books
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Matthew Cheney (@melikhovo.bsky.social) examines what we can learn from Clive Barker and Joel Lane, two very different queer writers who began carving out new spaces in weird fiction and horror in the dark days of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis. reactormag.com/poetry-from-...
Poetry From the Plague Pit: The Early Stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane - Reactor
At the height of Thatcherism and the AIDS crisis, two queer British horror writers began carving out their unique visions...
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I was really psyched to get a name check from @keithrosson.bsky.social in his recent interview on the Horror Joy podcast! Also just a really great talk about Keith’s take on horror and his creative process, esp. Coffin Moon. Listen here: www.redcircle.com/shows/979960... 1/2