Books covers of four Dim Shores anthologies with a large notice saying “FREE E-BOOKS”. The anthologies and their covers are:
Looming Low Volume II (cover art by Yves Tourigny) - A bright white/orange sun/eyeball rises over a dark orange and brown desolate landscape. A crumbling tower and tiny human figure are in the foreground.
Looming Low Volume I (cover art by Yves Tourigny) - A dark teal and black moon/skull rises over a mysterious, misty landscape with clumps of trees. A small car driving down a small road with headlights on is moving towards a silhouetted figure in the foreground.
Dim Shores Presents Volume 1 (cover art by Mr. Anthrope) - A shrouded semi-transparent figure with no face and clasped hands in shades of purple, blue, and gray is seen from the waist up, superimposed over twisted trees in a dark forest.
Dim Shores Presentds Volume 2 (cover art by Russell Smeaton) - A large humanoid creature crouches on top of a mountain. It has long bulky arms and legs, and a curling trunk or tentacle for a head. Purple clouds swirl behind it, with a swarm of small black birds on the upper right.
Seems pretty trivial given everything else going on right now, but a quick notice to say all Dim Shores e-books are now free until further notice. Just ask and I will send you a ZIP file with all four anthologies released to date, no DRM.
28.01.2026 14:51
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fun fact: i wrote this story about cosmic diplomacy & generational apocalypses after being obsessed with the Augsburg Book of Miracles for years ☄️💘 thrilled to be in Seize the Press again & thrilled that this is out!
26.02.2026 21:31
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"Starspeaker" by Samir Sirk Morató - Seize The Press
You were a great starspeaker. You weren’t one of the best. Once, you mistranslated a location and directed a haughty emerald comet into an icy sea, where it obliterated three islands, inhabitants, lim...
Samir Sirk Morató is back in STP with "Starspeaker", an apocalypse story that digs into a parental relationship encompassing pain, duty, resentment, love, and all the contradictions having all those feelings at the same time involves.
26.02.2026 19:40
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Thank you my friend!!!
25.02.2026 07:52
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Oh thank you so much!! I hope you enjoy!
25.02.2026 07:51
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Out today!! Delighted to be published in Weird Horror with such wonderful writers! This issue contains my story 'New Albert' about a couple who begin questioning everything they know about the man who lives downstairs...
24.02.2026 17:43
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Brilliant talk this morning from Brontë about Robert Aickman! I'd never heard of the concept of the artifice story before, but it's everything I'm looking for in fiction and trying to achieve in my own writing (explain nothing! Preserve the mysterious!)
21.02.2026 11:24
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The cover for Gore Poetics, Stories by Samir Sirk Morató. The cover features glistening intestines with two black pearls at the center. The text is a dark pink and flows with the texture of the intestines.
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER ANNOUNCEMENT!
Gore Poetics by @spicycloaca.bsky.social is coming April 14th. It's strange, transgressive, and visceral--just like its cover by @sloppjockey.bsky.social with typography by @alandistro.bsky.social!
See more in our newsletter:
buttondown.com/cursedmorsel...
27.01.2026 18:36
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Two reviews! One very positive, one pretty negative! But which?!?
28.01.2026 17:03
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Starspeaker, my story about an eternal cosmic apocalypse—and the dysfunctional mother & daughter trying to end it—lives in this issue!☄️❤️🩹 proud to be part of this killer line-up & to have my words behind such a gorgeous cover
28.01.2026 18:32
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I am fucking *delighted* that a magazine found something worth sharing in a nauseating, unsavory tale about a failing restaurant. More so that that magazine was Seize the Press. Even more so that it sits alongside the most wicked cover and some profoundly unsettling weird fiction.
28.01.2026 19:11
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This is such a stacked issue and I am incredibly excited for everyone to read these stories!!
29.01.2026 16:04
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Thanks to @wjdavies.bsky.social & @review31.bsky.social for this great review of four recent @nightjarpress.bsky.social publications by @rlsummerling.bsky.social @bookishleels.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social & Joe Stretch
22.01.2026 08:38
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Contemporary Gothic
Review 31 is an online literary review.
I spent some time with last year's Nightjar Press chapbooks and ended up writing about creepy birds and the contemporary gothic. Review 31 kindly took it on. Free to read here: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
@review31.bsky.social @nightjarpress.bsky.social
22.01.2026 07:43
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Wow thank you so much for such a thoughtful and spot on write up of my night jar! Really appreciate your thoughts
23.01.2026 08:04
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Sounds great doesn't it?!
03.01.2026 14:13
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I’m very excited to teach a free online class on Robert Aickman and the art of the artifice ghost story as part of @romgothsam.bsky.social’s brilliant Romancing the Gothic series on 21 February!
Join me: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...
02.01.2026 15:37
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Signed up for this the moment I saw it!
03.01.2026 11:08
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Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
01.01.2026 13:41
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20/25 Vision: Looking Back (Thoughts & Lists)
It’s the 29th of December as I write this newsletter. Believe it or not, it’s snowing here in Buffalo. On top of that bit of normalcy, winds are hitting 70...
In my newsletter, I talk about 2025 books, movies and shows I loved, but also short fiction! You can find the list with links in the back half, with great work by
@ivygrimes.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social @kjy1066.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @rpmirabella.bsky.social & more
31.12.2025 18:48
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I just DMd you and realised you wouldn't be able to see it 🫣 I'll DM you my email address on twitter!
30.12.2025 20:37
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20/25 Vision: Looking Back (Thoughts & Lists)
It’s the 29th of December as I write this newsletter. Believe it or not, it’s snowing here in Buffalo. On top of that bit of normalcy, winds are hitting 70...
I was inspired by everybody being thoughtful and looking back on the year, so I did the same thing with my infrequent personal newsletter.
Talked about the year as I lived it, and put together some lists of books, movies, shows, and short stories from pals that I wanted to share.
29.12.2025 22:15
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Thank you Leigh!! Hope you've had a nice Xmas!
30.12.2025 09:32
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Happy belated birthday Karlo!!
29.12.2025 20:30
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Ahhh so glad! Thanks Rex!!
29.12.2025 17:58
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"The Monument" by R L. Summerling. Picture depicts an abstract shape against a blue sky with clouds
"It was a comfort, the professor said. Just for a while, no one could remember who was alive and who was dead."
Sneaking one last story into 2025! I've got a new piece up at The Archive today! The Monument is about art and memory and was inspired by "The Matter of Time" installation by Richard Serra I saw at the Guggenheim in Bilbao this year
www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...
29.12.2025 10:57
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Beautiful piece, so visual and immersive. Sadness like flowers sprinkled through it.
29.12.2025 15:48
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Thank you so much Faith, that's so lovely!! Hope you're doing well ❤️
29.12.2025 16:23
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i will never stop. i will never moderate. i will never treat anyone forcing this shit down the world's throat as though they are anything but antisocial wreckers divorced from even the most cursory understanding of beauty and joy
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