Rex Burrows
@improbablerex.bsky.social
Writer, biologist, various other things. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Weird Horror Magazine, Supernatural Tales, Horror Library, etc.
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Here's a thread listing all of my published stories. I've noted the ones that are available to read for free, but please consider supporting these (across the board excellent) magazines, anthologies, etc. And thank you for reading! Here we go...
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MONSTROUS ANGELS is out now, featuring my cosmic horror story “Desert Blues” about a guy conning his lovers into ritualistic sacrifice and turning them into monsters. it’s a fun one! all proceeds go to the Avian Haven Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Freedom, Maine.
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Monstrous Angels: An Anthology of Religious Horror
An Anthology of Religious Horror
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November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
MONSTROUS ANGELS is out now, featuring my cosmic horror story “Desert Blues” about a guy conning his lovers into ritualistic sacrifice and turning them into monsters. it’s a fun one! all proceeds go to the Avian Haven Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Freedom, Maine.
bookshop.org/p/books/mons...
bookshop.org/p/books/mons...
RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia remains the greatest thing I’ve ever seen performed on stage (and I’ve seen some amazing plays).
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
RIP Tom Stoppard. Arcadia remains the greatest thing I’ve ever seen performed on stage (and I’ve seen some amazing plays).
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1. Nick Cave
2. Sleater-Kinney
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor
4. Mogwai
5. Run-DMC
1. Nick Cave
2. Sleater-Kinney
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor
4. Mogwai
5. Run-DMC
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1. The Cure
2. Prince
3. Lady Gaga
4. The Funk Brothers
5. St. Vincent
I've seen Tori Amos more than anyone else (over 10 times) so I didn't include her, + too many indie, punk shows, & festivals to list
1. The Cure
2. Prince
3. Lady Gaga
4. The Funk Brothers
5. St. Vincent
I've seen Tori Amos more than anyone else (over 10 times) so I didn't include her, + too many indie, punk shows, & festivals to list
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1. Huey Lewis & The News (x3)
2. Powerman 5000
3. The B-52s/The Go Go's
4. Slipknot/System of A Down/Rammstein/Mudvayne
5. Stone Temple Pilots/Linkin Park/Static-X/Deadsy
1. Huey Lewis & The News (x3)
2. Powerman 5000
3. The B-52s/The Go Go's
4. Slipknot/System of A Down/Rammstein/Mudvayne
5. Stone Temple Pilots/Linkin Park/Static-X/Deadsy
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1. Nick Cave
2. Sleater-Kinney
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor
4. Mogwai
5. Run-DMC
1. Nick Cave
2. Sleater-Kinney
3. Godspeed You Black Emperor
4. Mogwai
5. Run-DMC
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It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It’s Thanksgiving night and the cranberry sauce has spoiled and the mashed potatoes are already turning and you’re too busy scribbling away by candlelight to even notice. Why? Because Rotting Leaf Mag will open to submissions on December 1st, 12am EST
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Christmas present idea for the ghost story lover in your life? There's this gorgeous hardback, from @swanriverpress.bsky.social!
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Christmas present idea for the ghost story lover in your life? There's this gorgeous hardback, from @swanriverpress.bsky.social!
Today I'm thankful that I know nothing about Pokemon and, god willing, will never need to.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today I'm thankful that I know nothing about Pokemon and, god willing, will never need to.
A steaming slice of 80s pay cable nostalgia that is way weirder than you remember it being. Winged Devourers anyone?
Don Coscarelli’s fantasy adventure THE BEASTMASTER is now on 4K! Armed with supernatural powers, the handsome hero and his animal allies wage war against marauding forces. gruv.com/products/the...
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A steaming slice of 80s pay cable nostalgia that is way weirder than you remember it being. Winged Devourers anyone?
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November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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How many of you are writers in the DMV area? Just wondering!
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
How many of you are writers in the DMV area? Just wondering!
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Graphic design skills I do not possess, as evidenced by this free template I selected because the other free templates kept crashing...
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Graphic design skills I do not possess, as evidenced by this free template I selected because the other free templates kept crashing...
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
Still and all! Here are my awards eligible stories for this year ✨
Take Off Your Goddamn Sunglasses, You're Inside: A Tale of Dark Academia
November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Take Off Your Goddamn Sunglasses, You're Inside: A Tale of Dark Academia
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I have both an essay and a short featured in this forthcoming anthology.
Available on #NetGalley if anyone's interested!👇😀
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Available on #NetGalley if anyone's interested!👇😀
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Poisoned Soup for the Macabre, Depraved, and Insane
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I have both an essay and a short featured in this forthcoming anthology.
Available on #NetGalley if anyone's interested!👇😀
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
Available on #NetGalley if anyone's interested!👇😀
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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'Heavyness' excerpted here: www.seanbirnie.com/september-20...
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
September 2025: ‘Heavyness’ & a REMAINS magazine discount code
I was very pleased when Andy Cox and Richard Wagner returned to publishing this year with REMAINS, following Andy's retirement in 2024 and the shuttering of TTA Press, longtime stalwart of genre short...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
'Heavyness' excerpted here: www.seanbirnie.com/september-20...
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
'It seemed at any moment my body might just decide to disassemble.'
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We're revisiting our back catalogue and the ONLY original novel we've published—M. Rickert's "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie." This exquisite mystery is an amalgam of Frankenstein, and A Confederacy of Dunces. We want you to read it. The eBook is on sale for just $2.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We're revisiting our back catalogue and the ONLY original novel we've published—M. Rickert's "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie." This exquisite mystery is an amalgam of Frankenstein, and A Confederacy of Dunces. We want you to read it. The eBook is on sale for just $2.
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
undertowpublications.com/ebooks
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That short stories exist in the cracks and interstices of the capitalist system is how you know they’re the superior form
Yeah, unfortunately. Outside the world of magazines, anthologies, and small presses sustained by obsessive volunteer labour, the capital-I industry rather does seem to find short stories an unwanted form electricliterature.com/i-love-short...
I Love Short Stories. Do I Have to Write a Novel? - Electric Literature
The publishing world’s insistence on the novel as default fails to imagine what a book can do
electricliterature.com
October 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM
That short stories exist in the cracks and interstices of the capitalist system is how you know they’re the superior form
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Former Democratic Senator Doug Jones is planning to enter the Alabama governor’s race against current Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, otherwise known as the stupidest man in politics.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Former Democratic Senator Doug Jones is planning to enter the Alabama governor’s race against current Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, otherwise known as the stupidest man in politics.
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Trailer and premiere date revealed for Kier-La Janisse’s Shudder chiller “THE HAUNTED SEASON: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM” https://ow.ly/3vzw50XvRhn
Trailer and premiere date revealed for Kier-La Janisse’s Shudder chiller “THE HAUNTED SEASON: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM” - Rue Morgue
Christmas fear comes a little early to the streamer.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Trailer and premiere date revealed for Kier-La Janisse’s Shudder chiller “THE HAUNTED SEASON: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM” https://ow.ly/3vzw50XvRhn
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a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
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oh yes
the abyssal plain awaits you
the abyssal plain awaits you
We can't wait for you to dive deep into Snow, Stars, Stone by @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social -- plunge into the abyss and make peace with the darkness
Coming soon to paid subscribers November 30, 2025!
Coming soon to paid subscribers November 30, 2025!
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
oh yes
the abyssal plain awaits you
the abyssal plain awaits you
Whenever someone describes a work of fiction as “raising more questions than it answers” I consider that a positive review.
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Whenever someone describes a work of fiction as “raising more questions than it answers” I consider that a positive review.
Update: Hello pink eye my old friend.
It’s cool to be in a relationship with an elementary school teacher except for the part where I’m more or less sick for half the year.
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Update: Hello pink eye my old friend.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
I just learned about a giant toad that lived in Madagascar during the late Cretaceous. Its discoverers named it Beelzebufo, the "devil toad", and that right there is why I love science.
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I just learned about a giant toad that lived in Madagascar during the late Cretaceous. Its discoverers named it Beelzebufo, the "devil toad", and that right there is why I love science.
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With perfect artwork by Alison Flannery, POISONED SOUP from editors Wendy Dalrymple and Grace R. Reynolds and publisher @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social has a book cover! I have a poem in the anthology, which will published in December. 🥣
November 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
With perfect artwork by Alison Flannery, POISONED SOUP from editors Wendy Dalrymple and Grace R. Reynolds and publisher @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social has a book cover! I have a poem in the anthology, which will published in December. 🥣
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Dim Shores is proud to present THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA, a short story collection by Rhiannon Rasmussen, hauntingly illustrated by Lucia Retamales.
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Dim Shores is proud to present THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA, a short story collection by Rhiannon Rasmussen, hauntingly illustrated by Lucia Retamales.
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6
12 dark tales and 13 illustrations. 168 pages. Limited to 150 copies.
Coming December 2025, Pre-order now! bit.ly/3XyScs6