My first-ever essay for Reactor Magazine is live! Ten years ago LIGHTS OUT introduced the YouTube Horror-to-Theatrical Blockbuster horror model that Hollywood thinks is brand-spanking new. I delve into went right… and then what went very, VERY wrong.

Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 1h ago

From Backrooms to The Amazing Digital Circus, Hollywood is looking to the internet for the next big thing. @williambibbiani.bsky.social considers Lights Out, David F. Sandberg's 2016 horror movie built off his online short film, which discussed tragedy and mental illness before audiences were ready:

ELRIC, THE ETERNAL CHAMPION - 2026

A creature wearing a woman's body becomes a lonely man's girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot... "Not Like Other Girls" by @ghoulpus.bsky.social is out now at Reactor! Art by A.W. Sommers Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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Post-apocalyptic shaman.

Grim Fandango (1998) Developed by LucasArts.

I'm still taking it in, but my story "The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home", published at @reactorsff.bsky.social is a World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Story! Congratulations to all my fellow finalists!!!! 🎉 locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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ZOMG I'm a World Fantasy finalist! Huge, huge thanks to the judges/nominators, and to Uncanny for pubbing "10 Visions" in the first place. I had just decided to mosey up to Oakland for the con and booked my hotel last week, so if you're going, I'll see you around! :D locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Delighted to find out this morning that "Unfinished Architectures of the Human-Fae War" is a short fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Awards! Congratulations to all the finalists!! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Holy shit, Audition For The Fox is nominated for Best Novel for the World Fantasy Award!! Deeply, deeply honored and congrats to my incredible fellow nominees; to be mentioned in the same breath as all y'all is a treasured moment in my career 💜🦊 @tachyonpub.bsky.social locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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congratulations to all the World Fantasy Award Finalists!!!!!!*

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Thrilled and shocked (throcked? shrilled?) that Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Three is a Best Anthology finalist in this year's World Fantasy Awards! This is the second WFA nom for a book in this series and just as much a surprise this time :) Congrats to all the nominees!

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Completely stunned. @thomasha.bsky.social's Uncertain Sons is a World Fantasy Award finalist in Collection, and Long Fiction. Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 is a finalist in Anthology, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece's St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls is a finalist! bit.ly/4fS9xoP

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Oh wow. Congrats to the finalists. Honored to be included with these authors. Thanks to World Fantasy Con, the judges, @clarkesworldmagazine.com, and @undertow.bsky.social. And thanks to readers who enjoyed and talked about these stories. Really means a lot.

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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for the new yorkers review of the new show "furious"

Night 🌃

When @thomasha.bsky.social drops a new story: www.youtube.com/shorts/5-NCP... Check out the Borgesian-Kafkian-Poeian mashup that is: "Our Revels Are Now Ended" clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_07_26/

If there were car reactions in the 1800s 👀 #shorts | when Beethoven dropped...😂

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icymi, latest story dropped in Bourbon Penn last month. highway roadhouse where things are not what they seem. this story brought to you by promo. www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/38/mid...

Thomas Ha > Middle Song > Bourbon Penn

People usually pass through the gray silence of the desert. Beyond charred sumps and refinery towers, oil fields and dust walls, they drive without an intent to tarry. Most know this for a middle plac...

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Reposting my old art.

my pieces for my show are up online and for sale! take a look :) www.gallerynucleus.com/events/1123

Companion: a Katherine Lam Solo Exhibition - Nucleus | Art Gallery and Store

EXHIBITION DETAILS    Exhibition on display August 1 starting at 6:30 PM to August 16, 2026   Opening Reception August 8, 2026 (5:00 PM - 8:00 PM)      Exhibit location: 210 East Main St. Alhambra CA,...

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The only *guaranteed* piece of craft advice I can give -- I mean the advice that is universally applicable -- is that if you kill many other writers and eat their scribere gland (roughly the size of a black-eyed pea, so be careful not to damage it) then your prose will improve immensely

“Oito Line in Winter Light” (2024)

Awakening

Don't forget to pre-order this beauty, if you haven't. Dropping October. We're not crowd-funding this. The only way it keeps going is through your generosity. Plus, it's pretty good. Shoot me a line if you're unsure if you've pre-ordered. Thx!! undertowpublications.com/shop/best-we...

The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 2 — Undertow Publications

Pre-Order. Shipping October 2026. Cover art by Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR “Momentous... an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in ...

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this is really, really bad, and Spokane is ... not exactly on the national radar. I know there are infinite people and places that need help, and everyone's resources are finite, but some options if you are so inclined:

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Wildfires in Spokane have destroyed hundreds of homes and led to evacuation orders for 60,000 people. n.pr/3Sbed19

Situation was apparently more extensive than we thought. Our podcast also went rogue and is spreading our stories in audio form. We continue to investigate how it managed to escape our sandbox, but suspect that this modern RSS technology is exhibiting signs of awareness. The industry is concerned.

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 4d ago

Clarkesworld has recently discovered that their August issue successfully breached containment and gained access to the Internet, where it is presently hacking reader's minds. "Oh no, what will we do? Who knew that stories could be so powerful?" said Neil Clarke, when approached for comment.

tune of the day youtu.be/T8Xu333ACx8

Shiroi Oka - Maromi no theme (Paranoia Agent - Ending)

YouTube video by Dreaming Music World

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A starred Library Journal Review for my upcoming Blood to the True Crown! www.libraryjournal.com/review/blood...

Gavin Newsom is trying to sneak through an SCE-sponsored bill that aims to make it impossible to sue your utility company when they burn your house down. It also adds a $100/year "pay for the next fire we inevitably start" surcharge to your power bill. www.latimes.com/california/s...

L.A. fire survivors say Newsom is trying to help utilities reduce their wildfire costs again

Survivors and the insurance industry slam purported last-minute bills to shift wildfire costs away from utilities.

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24. The Citadel of the Autarch, from Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, by the fabulous @nathanandersonart.bsky.social (available at www.inprnt.com/gallery/deim...) #MapMonday