David Busboom
@davidbusboom.bsky.social
Horror writer, science editor, dinosaur/bird enthusiast, husband, dog dad. Author of EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING (JournalStone 2022). HWA, CSE member. Anti-fascist, anti-AI. He/him.
https://davidbusboom.com/
Cover art: @flancortes
Profile pic: Don Noble
https://davidbusboom.com/
Cover art: @flancortes
Profile pic: Don Noble
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Every Crawling, Putrid Thing - JournalStone
EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING “It would be accurate to say that Busboom’s fiction is a love letter to schlocky, neon horror, peppered with sticky-sweet nostalgia and loving luridity. It would, however,...
journalstone.com
Need a little something for that horror reader in your life? Well, why settle on one when you can get EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING?
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The Blog Without a Face has named Notes from Underground one of the Best Horror Books of 2025, calling it, "Smart, uncanny, and fun as hell."
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
BWAF Selects: The Best Horror Books of 2025
Phew, what a year. Your freaky friends at BWAF are going to be taking an extended break over the holidays. We’ll be seeing you in 2026, but before that, want to welcome you to our annual roll…
theblogwithoutaface.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The Blog Without a Face has named Notes from Underground one of the Best Horror Books of 2025, calling it, "Smart, uncanny, and fun as hell."
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
theblogwithoutaface.com/2025/12/22/b...
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This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
I got one almost exactly like this just the other week. It at least mentioned an anthology I was in, but never named the story or any other specifics.
You'd think if they really wanted this scam of theirs to succeed, they'd have mentioned the name of at least one of my books. But I guess they're not very good at this.
December 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I got one almost exactly like this just the other week. It at least mentioned an anthology I was in, but never named the story or any other specifics.
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CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
December 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.
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you wanna see a dead body
FFC review: AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (2025), by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avat...
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
ZERO STARS/****starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Kate Winsletscreenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silverdirected by James Cameron by Walter Chaw I think, for white ...
filmfreakcentral.net
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
you wanna see a dead body
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"crush squeeze splatter", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) & "botbot", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) #art
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"crush squeeze splatter", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) & "botbot", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) #art
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Wishing a joyous Coelacanth Day to all! The “living fossil” known only from paleontology and long assumed to be extinct was found to be still among us on this day in 1938.
The 400-Million-Year-Old Fish Everyone Once Thought Was Extinct - Sciencing
The coelacanth was rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938 after disappearing from the fossil record for over 60 million years.
www.sciencing.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Wishing a joyous Coelacanth Day to all! The “living fossil” known only from paleontology and long assumed to be extinct was found to be still among us on this day in 1938.
Just got off the phone with my elderly collector friend who used to run my favorite bookstore* ever. On my birthday he mailed me a long and detailed list of old horror/weird/apocalyptic paperbacks that he had on hand and thought I might like to check out. Always nice to talk to Chuck.
December 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Just got off the phone with my elderly collector friend who used to run my favorite bookstore* ever. On my birthday he mailed me a long and detailed list of old horror/weird/apocalyptic paperbacks that he had on hand and thought I might like to check out. Always nice to talk to Chuck.
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Guess I'll post this again
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Guess I'll post this again
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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V i b r a t i n g
We're reopening to submissions on January 1st.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
Writers, ready your most depressing, unnerving, dislocating, horrible stories.
December 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
V i b r a t i n g
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Reactor has kindly bundled together some highlights of their original fiction from 2025, including my novelette Wolf Moon, Antler Moon, which is one of my very favorite things that I published this year. Prom massacre meets animal transformation story - enjoy! reactormag.com/download-sho...
Download Reactor Original Short Fiction Highlights 2025! - Reactor
Our new bundle gathers a selection of this year's stories in one easy-to-read place.
reactormag.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Reactor has kindly bundled together some highlights of their original fiction from 2025, including my novelette Wolf Moon, Antler Moon, which is one of my very favorite things that I published this year. Prom massacre meets animal transformation story - enjoy! reactormag.com/download-sho...
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People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
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🐴Jirel of Joiry rides again...if these dang skeletons will let her! @mollytanzer.bsky.social brings us a new official tale with no less than four illustrations by @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social💀
Check it out, and more, in issue 5 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
Check it out, and more, in issue 5 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🐴Jirel of Joiry rides again...if these dang skeletons will let her! @mollytanzer.bsky.social brings us a new official tale with no less than four illustrations by @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social💀
Check it out, and more, in issue 5 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
Check it out, and more, in issue 5 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
Hell yeah.
December 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hell yeah.
Done! My wife and I loved TACKY so this was a no-brainer Christmas gift.
SLOPPY makes a great gift, it’s about addiction and chaos and shoplifting and cocaine and the wolf of wall street, what else. smoking is in there, and the guy i cheated on my first husband with while he was sitting next to me. my 4th grade enemy. buy it today for a woman you like in some capacity
Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong
Or: Doing It All Wrong
bookshop.org
December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Done! My wife and I loved TACKY so this was a no-brainer Christmas gift.
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very few people can truly understand just how cathartic this is @kaijubigbattel.bsky.social
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6abc.com/post/wife-cr...
Wife creates 'Godzilla rage room' for man having tough year
A California woman said her husband was having a tough year, so she created a "rage room" for him to destroy while wearing a Godzilla suit.
6abc.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
very few people can truly understand just how cathartic this is @kaijubigbattel.bsky.social
6abc.com/post/wife-cr...
6abc.com/post/wife-cr...
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If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
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Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable.
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable.
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
I adore each and every one of these.
Hi, I’m Emma, an illustrator, comic artist, and sculptor with a propensity for drawing dinosaurs, monsters, aliens, and spaceships, but especially dinosaurs.
I'm working on a sci-fi story with all of the above. Except dinosaurs, oddly no dinosaurs.
I'm working on a sci-fi story with all of the above. Except dinosaurs, oddly no dinosaurs.
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I adore each and every one of these.
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publishers weekly pushing an AI workshop to help master Amazon's algorithms, among other horrors... is a thing. jesus. this mass delusion is going to destroy everything if there isn't enough pushback.
December 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
publishers weekly pushing an AI workshop to help master Amazon's algorithms, among other horrors... is a thing. jesus. this mass delusion is going to destroy everything if there isn't enough pushback.
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
His white teeth make a musical din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
His white teeth make a musical din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
December 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
His white teeth make a musical din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
His white teeth make a musical din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
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Out today!! I still can't believe that's my name on the cover! Pinch me!
Get yours:
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...
Get yours:
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...
December 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Out today!! I still can't believe that's my name on the cover! Pinch me!
Get yours:
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...
Get yours:
www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...
Yes.
Conan HBO series:
Three seasons
Young, brash Conan
Peak ass-kicking weird horror Conan
Melancholic King Conan
Three different actors. Let the dollar bills rain
Three seasons
Young, brash Conan
Peak ass-kicking weird horror Conan
Melancholic King Conan
Three different actors. Let the dollar bills rain
December 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Yes.