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D. Matthew Urban

@breathinghead.bsky.social

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weird fiction person • TX → NY • stories here and there • SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES out now from Cursed Morsels Press! • he/him • https://dmatthewurban.com

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · Apr 15

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces has breached containment! Thrilled to have my first collection out in the world. 18 tales for enjoyers of spider kisses, eerie grandparents, and endless whirling in trackless voids!

Order from @cursedmorsels.bsky.social at www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/shak...

Graphic top text reads "Out today!"
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"Violent and bizarre family traditions!
Encounters with your Aunt Spider!
Alchemical terrors at the track meet!
Apocalyptic songs on the harp of grief!
Neuroimplant hallucinations and horrors!
Meat, meat, meat, meat, meat, meat!"
Bottom text reads: "Order at https://www.cursedmorselspress.com"

Middle image is the cover of Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces by D. Matthew Urban, featuring a fleshy, toothy creature sitting in a darkened home with a cup of coffee.

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 13h

Well, after three days of fun and games at VoidCon, it’s back to the grind of my real job: human pedestal

Selfie of me stooped forward looking into the camera while a tabby cat with alert expression and motion-blurred tail perches on my back

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 20h

🖤🚀

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 20h

Likewise, man!

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. Soon we’ll run this town

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 1d

Back in NYC after a killer time at @voidcon.bsky.social. Giant devil horns to the organizers, all the cool folks I met, the @tenebrouspress.bsky.social gang for hanging out, and @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social for taking karaoke into his own hands. No thanks to the authors for draining my wallet

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 1d

Final celebrity sighting in Gettysburg: stopped to look at this memorial for two Marines who crashed their plane in 1922 during a reenactment of Pickett’s Charge(?!), and who should I meet but THE Cool Koala

A sign in Gettysburg, PA labeled “The Last Line-of-Duty Deaths on Gettysburg Battlefield,” commemorating two Marines who died in a plane crash during a reenactment of Pickett’s Charge in 1922. On the ground next to the sign lies a colorful object, which closer inspection proves to be none other than…

Cool Koala! A brown stuffed koala with a jaunty smile, four different-colored paws (blue, orange, purple and yellow), and the words “COOL Koala” written in a white patch on its chest

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to GARA, human traveler. Would it please you to enjoy our recreation park?

Signs on the edge of a park in Gettysburg, PA. The sign on the left says “Recreation Park / Borough of Gettysburg.” The sign on the right says “Welcome to GARA / Gettysburg Area Recreation Authority”

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 2d

Side effects of VoidCon may include loss of inhibition, physical alteration, space travel

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 2d

D MATTHEW URBAN BOWIE

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 2d

Spotted in Gettysburg: a cat and its imitators

A gray and white cat sleeping on an upholstered chair next to two artificial cats, one orange and one gray

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 3d

Here in Gettysburg, PA, home of this metal bear, to attend @voidcon.bsky.social. Will this be the most historic event ever to happen in Gettysburg? Let’s find out!

A rusty metal bear on the roof of a hardware store in Gettysburg, PA

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 6d

"It is very rare for horror stories to make me feel actual horror and revulsion but [Lupus in Fabula] nailed it!"
-Cassandra on Goodreads

Ready to experience the horror and revulsion for yourself? Snag the book here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/lupu...

Lupus in Fabula paperback | Cursed Morsels Press

Lupus In Fabula collects thirteen stories about the interplay of lust, violence, yearning, and grief; about becoming a monster and loving monsters; about transformation; about strange occurrences in s...

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks for reading! So glad you enjoyed the collection 🧡🖤

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chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social · 10d

I had the pleasure of reading frequent CHM author D. Matthew Urban's collection, SHAKY PICTURES OF VANISHED FACES. Tight prose and imaginative stories. Highly recommended for fans of weird fiction.

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 12d

"Bake him away, toys!"

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 12d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Samir Sirk Morató @spicycloaca.bsky.social · 12d

not only is it time for FLESH, but fun fact - i'll be making a custom illustration / collage for every piece in this zine! 🥩🖊

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 12d

The time for FLESH has arrived. Send us your fleshiest pieces under 500 words between now and October 7th.
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Submission Calls

Open for submissions October 1st – 7th FLESH ZineFor this submission call, we’re looking for pieces (500 words or fewer) connected to the broad theme of FLESH. This zine will be include…

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 13d

Frame from The Simpsons S11E12: two monkeys knife-fighting on the deck of a boat, surrounded by cheering gamblers

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 14d

Post a you from a different era

Mid-00s photo of a dark-haired twentysomething with sideburns playing Big Buck Hunter II in a southeast Texas truck stop

D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 14d

Totally thrilled to have a story coming in the next issue of Weird Horror!

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 14d

The following weird fictioneers will appear in Weird Horror 12 early next year. @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social @grayhaem.bsky.social @noirbettie.bsky.social @rajivmote.bsky.social @russellnichols.bsky.social @rlsummerling.bsky.social @breathinghead.bsky.social

Blue, cyan-tinged photo of hazy, fog-topped trees with white text: Chloe N. Clark
Roy Graham
Rick Kennett
Annika Barranti Klein
Aliya Whiteley
Rajiv Moté
Russell Nichols
Rory Say
R.L. Summerling
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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 15d

I used to get paranoid whenever I'd see a post like "today's weird fiction/horror sucks because of XYZ." "Oh no," I'd think, "they're talking about me!" Well, I finally swallowed my pride and DM'd one of those posters. Turns out they weren't talking about me at all! They were talking about you

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H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social · 16d

From His Chest · 2021

Digital illustration in the style of a vintage storybook. A man peacefully sits in a sparse forest with his back against a tree stump. Muted red flowers grow out of his chest. Below the illustration reads “several flowers bloomed from his chest.”

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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 18d

I'm & more. Very pleased to be part of this!

Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social · 19d

Kicking off spooky season the right way--w/ the TOC for our new horror issue, guest edited by B.R. Yeager 👻

feat: @saderotica.bsky.social @willvanderhyden.bsky.social @maxissippi.bsky.social & more…🕸️

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 19d

3 days left to enter the giveaway! 100 free copies to be given away! 18 weird horror stories per copy! Who will be the lucky winners, envied by all? Could one of them be...YOU? 👀

Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 27d

We're doing a Goodreads ebook giveaway for Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces! 100 lucky readers will get a free copy of the weirdest book we've published so far. If you like your horror strange, grotesque, dark, funny, and--did I mention strange?--this is for you: www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces

Budget cuts drive a burned-out humanities professor to …

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 19d

I went on the Dead Languages Podcast and all I got was this creeping sense of unease as the world disintegrates around me! Listen to me chat with PLM and Carson about disorientation in horror, fun ways to collapse reality, and NYC's plague of sexy, sexy rats

Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social · 19d

New. Fucking. Episode. We talk with D. Matthew Urban about reality breakdown in horror.

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Episode 127: Reality Breakdown in Horror (D. Matthew Urban)

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D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 23d

There are cryptids everywhere for those with the eyes to see

A blurry photo of a tabby cat’s face looking out from under a bookshelf