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Evan Dean Shelton @realsonicdanger.bsky.social · 2h

I had a few people say things this weekend like
“Are you one of the organizers?”
and
“Are you a writer?”

And yes I’m one of the organizers they don’t just keep me around to do speeches about how you’re gonna die and yes I’m a writer I wrote a book called CHURCHBURNER you should check it out.

🔥⛪️🔥

Evan Dean Shelton @realsonicdanger.bsky.social · Dec 18

You into horror?
Occultism?
Gangsta rap?
Black metal?
The 90s?
Crime?

I have the book for you.

Read CHURCHBURNER.

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 4h

Backmask smells like cigarettes and old man cologne
Death Cleric smells like incense and blood

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 15h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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Josh Link @joshthelink.bsky.social · 4h

Wanna hear @ossuary.bsky.social talk with me and Russ about Dracula: Prince of Darkness? Of course you do!

open.spotify.com/episode/5w9T...

S3E3: Dracula Prince of Darkness w/ OF Cieri

open.spotify.com

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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 15h

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David Corse @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social · 16h

I did my first reading from Split Scream 6. It was a moment of catharsis. My mother died a few weeks before the release and I’ve struggled with the text since.

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David Corse @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social · 16h

Couldn’t have gotten through the weekend without the legendary @michaelboulerice.bsky.social and his aperol spritzes!

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David Corse @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social · 16h

@justinlutz.bsky.social band shreds!

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Rain Corbyn (They/Them) @raincorbyn.bsky.social · 22h

I just filed paperwork for something extremely cool.

If this goes badly, bring it up with my enablers I met at @voidcon.bsky.social

If this goes well, I pulled myself up by my bootstraps and have definitely never relied on my horror/smut community for friendship, advice, support or work /s

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David Corse @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social · 16h

@voidcon.bsky.social recap post. Thanks to everyone who organized. It’s truly a unique event focused on community. Highlights 1/x

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junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social · 1d

authors need to start beefing with each other via long-winded letters & essays published in "serious" magazines again

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com · 1d

Summary of @voidcon.bsky.social: life doesn't owe us much and publishing even less, every chance we get to live new things, be happy in these skins, and love on our people is gravy.
Appreciate the Void for giving us gravy time. They did a great job and looked cool doing it.
Hail Void crew!

A collage of photos including selfies, group shots, food photos, book photos, and a can of spam

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Matthew Jaffe @mrj81.bsky.social · 1d

Listened to this fantastic episode again on my drive home from @voidcon.bsky.social and found it extremely relavent to the ‘Horror As A Place’ panel. Highly recommended. #psychogeography

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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GreasyGoat.bsky.social @greasygoat.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling to @voidcon.bsky.social , I didn't know what to expect. So I crafted a camouflage outfit. Passing glance I'd just look like a generic toxic white guy..but not if you looked closer 🤡

@lardhumungus.bsky.social CarFart hat
And @kerbcrawlerghost.bsky.social designed T-shirt

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GreasyGoat.bsky.social @greasygoat.bsky.social · 2d

The @cacomixpod.bsky.social @voidcon.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social special crossover-event of the decade! Watch for the foil embossed holographic variant covers!

@saracentury.bsky.social it was great meeting you 🤘

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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 2d

YOU ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF VOIDCON, BOULERICE.
SEE YOU NEXT TIME.

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VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 2d

WE LOVE YOU FOREVER, KYLE.
🙏🖤

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GreasyGoat.bsky.social @greasygoat.bsky.social · 2d

At @voidcon.bsky.social, I passed out canvases , stickers, canvas board card paintings. A handful snagged these "void ghoulies" I painted in my motel room

#voidcon #darkart

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K. Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 2d

I spent last TR, FRI, & SAT in Gettysburg @voidcon.bsky.social meeting & rapping w/ writers, artists, readers, musicians, & friends. It was life-affirming and life-depleting. Here's to VOIDCON 4, wherever it may be. And to all independent horror endeavors.

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Michael Boulerice @michaelboulerice.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think I've ever experienced post-con depression quite as hard as I am right now after @voidcon.bsky.social. We're talking "childhood pet funeral" levels of bummed out. I miss my people and I need a hug and a sandwich and a nap and another hug

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GreasyGoat.bsky.social @greasygoat.bsky.social · 2d

The end credits have run on @voidcon.bsky.social ...for now. The Ashen Road stretches ever forward. It bends and twists in circuitous ways. Those who walk it are forever changed. All journeys end, but the Ashen Road remains . #voidcon will return ...

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Filthy Loot @filthyloot.bsky.social · 2d

I've been driving for about 45 hours since Wednesday, but I'm now home, safe, and back at work. Had a bunch of fun at
@voidcon.bsky.social It was nice meeting everyone and seeing friends.

Now buy something so I can chip away at the debt from buying other people's books. 💔

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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 2d

“The sound of severed muscle echoes wet through the room, dampened when the blade hits bone.”

📌 ICYMI, read LIVE EVERY DAY by @saderotica.bsky.social

southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...

Live Every Day

By Elle Nash

southwestreview.com

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 2d

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Max Restaino @potheadfuckbrain.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful weirdo weekend. Truly inspiring. Honored to have been a part of it.

Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 2d

I spent all weekend surrounded by friends, engrossed in conversations about writing, publishing, creativity, forging a truly diy approach, shit-talking, friend-praising, and more. Honored to call these fucks friends, and to have made new ones.
I took zero photos but made the front page of a paper.

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Aaron Romano @alromano.bsky.social · 2d

My haul from VoidCon 3! Really this is only a fraction of what I would have walked away with if I had the cash - there were so many amazing artists and vendors there! I'll just have to start saving for VoidCon 4 🖤

Photograph of an assortment of indie/punk horror books and merchandise arranged over a floral background. Books include Reef Mind by Hazel Zorn, Torture Works by Porpentine, Wax and Wane by Saoirse ni Chiaragain, Pacifier by Ira Rat, and The Winnowing Draw and Wound of the West by Michael Tichy. Merch includes the 2025 October horror issuse of The Southwest Review, a VoidCon tote bag, a VoidCon coozy, stickers from the publishers Apocalypse Party, Merigold, Filthy Loot and others, a VIP pass for the convention and a Ring Pop.

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