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horror author, anarchist worm, gardening for the community, dog training for fun, a knife cosplaying as a person | MORSEL April 2026 Tor Nightfire | she/they Rep: @grahamophones.bsky.social Header: @babeandoak.bsky.social http://linktr.ee/carterkeane

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · May 9

hey guess what

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 21h

Some idiots think they're going to type a prompt into an AI, publish a "novel," and make Stephen King money, but it's never gonna happen because AI will never be able to do what Stephen King did (an incredible amount of cocaine)

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 2d

Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co

Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival.

Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes.

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you to creepy woods connoisseur @wnwagner.bsky.social for her stellar review of MORSEL! Her novel GIRL IN THE CREEK was one of my most anticipated reads this year. It did not disappoint!

“Though it be little, Morsel serves a fierce critique of the American cultural landscape as its heroes are swallowed up by a plot equal parts folk horror and pyramid scheme. This is a propulsive read with complex, believable characters—and one very good dog. Keane has proven that the Ohio woods are supremely scary.”
—Wendy N. Wagner, author of Girl in the Creek

Image of Wendy N. Wagner's book, Girl in the Creek

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Reminder! Today's your last day to submit your novella to us (closes 8pm BST). Send us your horror, mysteries, weird and uncanny manuscripts.

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/blog/pop-up-...

Pop up submission window — wild hunt books

Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions  from 6-12 October 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novellas only (35K-50K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under)...

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk

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It's Me, Mike Olson at Gamehole Con @devlin1.bsky.social · 5d

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · 5d

They don't even try to hide it. Evidence: the naked scene where they reveal Ed freaking Gein of all people as totally jacked

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 9d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 7d

We need these kinds of magazines to publish nonfiction. It's a tough time for literary criticism, essays about ideas, creative non-fiction, and I'm thrilled to see Apex is going to take pitches. Support if you can!

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 8d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 9d

My new book, THE FLESH KING is out today and available everywhere your get your books. But I’d feel like an ass if I didn’t mention new books by two of my favorite writers: THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE and SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon. Why not go nuts and get all three?

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 9d

Oh ok a bill that’ll overdraft me 50 just went through lol

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 9d

Hi hi

ko-fi.com/weredawgz

Support Danny Lore

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We Are NIM [Tactical Antifa Witch] @nixxi.mohilchock.com · 9d

When I say Gavin Newsom is not a democrat and is a transphobe, this is why. He criminalizes poverty and makes life harder for trans people.

The state legislature approved these measures representing the will of the people, and he's instead posting memes and waxing poetic on conservative podcasts. 🤦‍♀️

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 9d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · 10d

I'm realizing now it wasn't super clear I was agreeing with you. I definitely am. Sorry it was confusing!

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · 10d

I think you're very right. imo following someone back on a social media platform isn't a community action at all. It's reciprocation as commodity not as community.

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · 10d

I think people see community as a passive word when really it's active. We perform community, not just exist in it.

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 10d

New YOTM blurb from @kateelliottsff.bsky.social !

Screenshot of white letters on a black field reading "reading Year of the Mer is like watching two runaway trains headed for a high-speed collision. And oh boy, does it deliver an impact!" from Kate Elliott, author of The Witch Roads and Unconquerable Sun

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · 11d

didnt expect Dr. Jane Goodall to make me cry on a random October sunday

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 13d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11d

Yes

"Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it’s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate & catastrophic.

A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place.

It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish - many suspect it might markedly improve."

- David Graeber

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 19d

Rough sketches of the botanic & bones washi tape I designed for
Neon Hemlock's release of the novella - Death Valley Blooms by
S.M. Mack
www.neonhemlock.com/books/death-…..

@neonhemlock.bsky.social
@whatsmacksaid.bsky.social

Sketches for the washi tape designed for the release of the novella Death Valley Blooms by S.M. Mack for Neon Hemlock. Rough sketches are in two horizontal strips. The pattern is of winding twisted textured roots with blooming cactus flowers over top in different states of bloom. In between the roots and flowers are bones, vertebrae and a dessert cotton tail rabbit skull

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Get your ghost on!

THIS HOUSE ISN'T HAUNTED BUT WE ARE

After the death of their daughter, Simon & Priya renovate an old cottage. A child’s ghostly figure appears, doors lock themselves, a mysterious stain grows from the loft. Is it their daughter haunting them or something else?

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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 14d

Sphinx Moths & Hemlock sketches🦋

Part of the washi tape & brand pattern I designed for the small press publisher Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13d

Should be no surprise that this publication also doesn't pay its authors or artists.

https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 15d

Then what the fuck is the point of you

Important: The Horror Zine does NOT accept any material that contains adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; any rape scenes; serial killers; slasher; gore for gore's sake, or splatter punk. We do NOT accept any religious or political themes. We do NOT accept any submissions written in Olde English, Victorian, or 19th Century styles. We do NOT accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as dialogue (someone recounting past events). We do NOT accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance form, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do NOT accept fan fiction.

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 15d

Bumping for people looking for Halloween reads: don't forget to read weird collections by Black authors

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · Feb 11

Feeling very grumpy about the void here so l've channeled that into a list of weird or weird-ish or weird-adjacent or theoretically-weird collections by Black authors (some of which I’ve read and too many of which I have not)

Text reading

Linda Addison - How to Recognize a Demon
Has Become Your Friend
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Friday Black
'Pemi Aguda - Ghostroots
Lesley Nneka Akrimah - What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky
Paula D. Ashe - We Are Here to Hurt Each Other
Eugen Bacon - A Place Between Waking and Forgetting; Chasing Whispers; etc
Andre Bagoo - The Dreaming
DeMisty D. Bellinger - All Daughters Are
Awesome Everywhere
Chesya Burke - Let's Play White
Octavia Butler - Bloodchild
Elwin Cotman - Weird Black Girls; Dance on
Saturday
Kwame Dawes - A Place to Hide Samuel R. Delany - Aye, and Gomorrah Tananarive Due - Ghost Summer; The Wishing Pool
Henry Dumas - Ark of Bones
Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical
Corrections
Dare Segun Falowo - Caged Ocean Dub

Text reading

Curdella Forbes - A Permanent Freedom
Craig Laurance Gidney - The Nectar of Nightmares; Sea, Swallow Me
Nalo Hopkinson - Skin Folk; Falling in Love With Hominids
Alex Jennings - Here I Come
Alaya Dawn Johnson - Reconstruction
Stories
Cherie Jones - The Burning Bush Women & Other Stories
RJ Joseph - Hell Hath No Sorrow Like A Woman Haunted
John Keene - Counternarratives
Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River
Breanne Mc Ivor - Where There Are
Monsters
Mo Moshaty - Love the Sinner Kenya Moss-Dyme - Daymares
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu - Drinking from
Graveyard Wells
Tobi Ogundiran - Jackal, Jackal Ben Okri - Stars of the New Curfew; A Prayer for the Living
Nuzo Onoh - The Reluctant Dead
Vanessa Onwuemezi - Dark Neighbourhood

Text reading

Helen Oyeyemi - What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Suzan Palumbo - Skin Thief
Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Eden Royce - Who Lost, I Found Sofia Samatar - Tender
Sumiko Saulson - The Void Between
Emotions; Things That Go Bump in my Head Rion Amilcar Scott - The World Doesn't Require You; Insurrections
Tamika Thompson - Unshod, Cackling, and Naked
Gianni Washington - Flowers from the Void
L. Marie Wood - The Unholy Trinity

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carter keane @carterkeane.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks for sharing!