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Chris Kelso
@chris88.bsky.social
Angry writer, eager editor, devoted dad
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Bluesky already feels more worthwhile than X. Here's 'On Melting: essays against the body', out through @filthyloot.bsky.social. It features blurbs from @horrorsong.blog and Ewan Morrison.
On Melting: essays against the body is on Dennis Cooper's 'Best of 2025' 😮 Thanks, Dennis 💚
December 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Shadowplays, a collection of essays and fiction in opposition of accelerationism (December 19th through @merigoldindie.bsky.social)

"At the end of humanism, Chris Kelso and Ewan Morrison have given us lenses for the blinding light of the cyborgian future” - @roychristopher.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Chris Kelso interviews Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation !!

they discuss Blood Incantation’s latest album, art’s threat to authoritarianism & much more

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AND NOW IT'S TIME FOR A COGNITIVE EMPATHY BROADCAST: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL RIEDL FROM BLOOD INCANTATION by Chris Kelso
Music is the shorthand of emotion. There is something intrinsic to the structure of it – with its overtures, rising crescendos, and authentic cadences – which seem to mirror our temporal patterns so e...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It's not often I make these lists, so I'm going to savour it. Thank you to Ash Anjum for including me on her list of 12 fantasy authors pushing the genre 💜

'Kelso’s transgressive weirdness is a reminder that fantasy began as rebellion.'

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December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A beautifully produced book, featuring magnificent Artwork The Mad Butterfly's Ball edited by Preston Grassman & Chris Kelso is a horror anthology based around creepy-crawlies from PS Publishing #BFSREview britishfantasysociety.org/review/the-m...
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It was an honour and privilege to speak with @rodge.glass @unistrathclyde.bsky.social. Such a warm and giving host. Thanks to everyone who came (and to Bruce McIntosh for taking the pictures). You can pick up Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity from the @pspublish.bsky.social website.
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'

such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween

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CONTROL AND THE FUCKTOPUS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KELSO ABOUT ŻUŁAWSKI’S 'POSSESSION' by Alice
Chris Kelso is a Scottish writer of dark, weird fiction. I came to his work through Voidheads (Schism), and he’s since published Metampsychosis with Feral Dove, and most recently, a monograph on the f...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
An in-depth, insightful review of Possesion: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity over at Zonal Hotel

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REVIEW: Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity by Chris Kelso
Kelso’s solid and incisive interpretations allow for the reader’s addendums and refutations, encouraging a more unified, nuanced and comprehensive understanding of this cursed (blessed?) film.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
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October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I am very excited to be speaking with Rodge Glass on the 5th of November at Strathclyde University. Rodge was the lecturer who encouraged me to write when I was 17, so it's lovely to complete the full revolution and have him mediate this conversation. Free entry!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strathclyd...
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Some lovely praise from some great writers 💜
September 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Excellent in-depth review of @chris88.bsky.social's new Midnight Movie Monograph on the cult horror film Possession. It's a great read, and Chris's very personal dissection of the film is an insightful labour of love.

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September 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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I can’t thank Chris Kelso enough for this very cool and rare book, Possession. Flipping through this gorgeous book, you can tell the detail and care Kelso spends discussing this “video nasty.” I highly recommend!!
August 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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My latest review from the Scottish literary maverick Chris Kelso is his unorthodox take on the cult film POSSESSION. 5/5* all the way baby! Who's this other Tony Jones guy?
September 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Thank you @tonyjonescomm.bsky.social for the truly great write up of Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity in Horror DNA! 🙌

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Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity
Fantastic, obsessive and highly personal deep dive into the cult art house horror film Possession.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Thank you to Chris Kelso for the beautiful gifted copy of a book that surely was written just for me 😭❤️ This remains my favorite film of all time… (next to Martyrs and The Baby of Macon)
August 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Morning, Womble. I recently finished the excellent Possession (in the Midnight Movie Monograph series from PS Publishing) by @chris88.bsky.social and am now about halfway through The Employees by Olga Ravn, which is kind of breaking my heart a little bit 🥺
August 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity - on tour.
August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thank you to Chris Kelso for the beautiful gifted copy of a book that surely was written just for me 😭❤️ This remains my favorite film of all time… (next to Martyrs and The Baby of Macon)
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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If you're a fan of the film POSSESSION, I can heartily recommend checking out @chris88.bsky.social's new book from PS Publishing 🐙
August 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity is here...
August 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM