John Langan
@johnlangan.bsky.social
Writer. All monsters, all the time. Filthy liberal.
El-Sayed on Islamophobia: "That's the only play they got. They're gonna point at me, they're gonna point at my name, like, 'Wow, he's different.' That's the best you got? You can't actually talk about what you want to do? My name is not raising your gas prices. My name is now taking us to war."
Good morning. On the Blog today, a revelation while reading @johnlangan.bsky.social's latest, and shades of William Hope Hodgson from @carolgyzander.bsky.social and Rachel A. Brune: www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...
8/5/26 — BRIAN KEENE
…but I don’t know the details because I am not an HWA member. I will say that if an organization — ANY ORGANIZATION — consistently doesn’t align with your values, needs, or goals, then the best way to...
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was just kvetching to my dad about how this is on zero streaming services, because of course it isn't
Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d agoMATEWAN is film that all of you should watch. It's a masterpiece that's more relevant now than it was in 1987.
next time we're picking someone to be the richest person alive I vote we pick someone who isn't also a finalist for stupidest guy alive
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoThe richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
“SAUÚTI TERRORS is a great addition to what I hope is the growing Sauúti universe” @Gabino_Iglesias reviews new anthology edited by @genni.bsky.social, Cheryl Ntumy & @stephenembleton.bsky.social
Sauúti Terrors edited by Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephen Embleton: Review by Gabino Iglesias
Sauúti Terrors, Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephen Embleton, eds. (Flame Tree Collections 978-1-83562-640-5, $26.99, 416pp, hc) March 2026. Cover by Akintoba Kalejaye. When I’m not writing nov…
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I was diagnosed after the lightbulb went off when my daughter was diagnosed. As an oldest daughter, I HAD to make elaborate systems to make life work, but I always wondered if I was dumb as hell since everything that’s so easy for others has always been so hard for me and just keeps getting harder
NPR@npr.org · 3d agoFor decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
The inaugural issue of the OGEROG ANNUAL is now available to order at www.amazon.com/Ogerog-Annua... . It features my academic horror, A WINTER’S HAUNT. #horror #anthology
Space Unicorns!! The countdown is on!!! There are ONLY 10 DAYS LEFT of the Uncanny Magazine Year 13 KICKSTARTER!!!! If you haven’t backed Year 13 of Uncanny Magazine yet, please consider doing it soon!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unc...
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On September 15, 2026, we’ll be launching our first Kickstarter campaign in more than a decade, to fund Year 17 of Lightspeed and Year 15 of Nightmare. Join us for a year of new short fiction from som...
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HONEYEATER is on the Lord Mayor's People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award shortlist! It's an amazing list — please check it out and, if you're in Australia, PLEASE consider voting! bwf.org.au/queensland-l...
Wes Craven was born on this day in 1939. When he passed in 2015, I wrote this piece about his place in the history of horror:
Remembering Wes Craven: The Gateway Filmmaker for a Generation of Horror Fans
Wes Craven’s Scream wasn’t supposed to be a smash. When it opened in December of 1996, in the midst of a particularly crowded holiday movie season, it was only on 1400 screens; it came in fourth for…
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Check out this rad broadside based on The Buffalo Hunter Hunter—it’s a limited run print from the James Welch Conference, but there miiiiight be a couple more at Fact & Fiction Books in Missoula? You’d have to call them, probably. Pink frame just felt right @stephengrahamjones.com 💖
If after listening to me interview guests for the past 10 years on Eating the Fantastic you'd care to hear someone else interview ME over a meal instead, check out Episode 51 of KEENEVERSATIONS, on which @briankeene.bsky.social grilled me in a Mexican restaurant. www.briankeene.com/keeneversati...
Keeneversations — BRIAN KEENE
Bestselling and multiple award winning writer, podcaster, and film producer Brian Keene in conversation with his peers, his fans, his friends, and himself, with a focus on the horror genre over the la...
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I’m astonished by the ability of my fellow humans to forget the events we all just lived through. Folks remember the masks and the remote school. The million US dead are rarely mentioned. Folks, we lived through a plague.
this sign to the extreme fr place I used to work finds a worker that's a better fit? hell yeah for both of them customer I used to serve finds a business that's a better fit? hell yeah for both of them person I used to date finds a partner that's a better fit? hell yeah for both of them let's go
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Fairwood Press- Patrick Swenson@patrickswenson.bsky.social · 4d agoFull cover time for another books forthcoming in October. This is THE NIGHT PARADE AND OTHER STORIES by @sbfeldman.bsky.social a collection of stories and the all new title novella. Full cover original art by someone I know well. Artemis Swenson really hit the mark with this piece!
Many are the men, small and great, old and new, landsmen and seamen, who have at large or in little, written of the whale.
Peter Straub tribute, recorded one week after his passing. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n2z... With @paultremblay.bsky.social, @johnlangan.bsky.social, and @lairdbarron.bsky.social
Some more weird stories for weird readers :) Find some joy in short stories today. You won’t regret it! Featuring: @paultremblay.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social @michaelwehunt.bsky.social @johnlangan.bsky.social @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social @brianevenson.bsky.social
Here we are engaged in the discourse of Emily Wilson and The Odyssey yet I'm still stuck in Edith Hamilton vs. Hercules Against the Moon Men mode. Hashtag SwordNSandal4Evah
Been reading this one a story a day with my dinner. Cold, Black and Infinite by @toddkeisling.com . So far, every story has been a total banger.
both he and the sharks were at times half hidden by the blood-muddled water
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” - Frank Herbert
