Jan Stinchcomb
@janstinchcomb.bsky.social
Dark/Horror/Speculative Fiction
VERUSHKA is out now (JournalStone)
Stories in Gamut Magazine, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf
janstinchcomb.com
VERUSHKA is out now (JournalStone)
Stories in Gamut Magazine, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf
janstinchcomb.com
Pinned
Art is not frivolous or escapist. If you are making or consuming (or promoting) art, you don’t need to explain or apologize.
There’s a reason why fascists go after artists.
There’s a reason why fascists go after artists.
"By the heart, she said. Sex is a union of hearts."
Take a break and read something:
@skyskkyy.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/flash/1225/s...
Take a break and read something:
@skyskkyy.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/flash/1225/s...
Marie, the Most Beautiful — Split Lip Magazine
We did not mean for this to happen. The boy, bleeding on Marie’s carpet. Marie standing on his chest, tap dancing, as if that will help the situation.
splitlipthemag.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"By the heart, she said. Sex is a union of hearts."
Take a break and read something:
@skyskkyy.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/flash/1225/s...
Take a break and read something:
@skyskkyy.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
splitlipthemag.com/flash/1225/s...
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Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
December 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC.
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
There will be no cap.
See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit:
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
I wouldn’t even know where to begin listing Rob Reiner’s achievements. RIP 💔
RIP Michele Singer
2025, you are the worst.
RIP Michele Singer
2025, you are the worst.
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I wouldn’t even know where to begin listing Rob Reiner’s achievements. RIP 💔
RIP Michele Singer
2025, you are the worst.
RIP Michele Singer
2025, you are the worst.
Happy birthday to the queen, Shirley Jackson, with extra love for We Have Always Lived in the Castle and the underappreciated Hangsaman. 🖤
December 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Happy birthday to the queen, Shirley Jackson, with extra love for We Have Always Lived in the Castle and the underappreciated Hangsaman. 🖤
Do all my Gen-X comrades realize that Zed is actually dead?
Peter Greene, 1965 - 2025
Peter Greene, 1965 - 2025
December 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Do all my Gen-X comrades realize that Zed is actually dead?
Peter Greene, 1965 - 2025
Peter Greene, 1965 - 2025
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#NightTideMag's December Monthly Macabre is PRE-CODE HORROR!
It challenged censorship, moral panic, & taboo desire. It also weaponized difference; often villainizing disabled, queer, & racialized bodies. It’s a DEEPLY complicated era worth reexamining.
Pitch us your essay @ nighttidemag.com/pitch 👻📽️
It challenged censorship, moral panic, & taboo desire. It also weaponized difference; often villainizing disabled, queer, & racialized bodies. It’s a DEEPLY complicated era worth reexamining.
Pitch us your essay @ nighttidemag.com/pitch 👻📽️
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
#NightTideMag's December Monthly Macabre is PRE-CODE HORROR!
It challenged censorship, moral panic, & taboo desire. It also weaponized difference; often villainizing disabled, queer, & racialized bodies. It’s a DEEPLY complicated era worth reexamining.
Pitch us your essay @ nighttidemag.com/pitch 👻📽️
It challenged censorship, moral panic, & taboo desire. It also weaponized difference; often villainizing disabled, queer, & racialized bodies. It’s a DEEPLY complicated era worth reexamining.
Pitch us your essay @ nighttidemag.com/pitch 👻📽️
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🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week.
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week.
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
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Happy Wednesday! My latest story "Review: When the Baby Sleeps" is now live on @nightmare-magazine.com! If you're looking a brief creepy read, I hope you enjoy this one. 📽️🍼🛏️
HUGE thanks to @wnwagner.bsky.social for taking on this micro horror.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/revi...
HUGE thanks to @wnwagner.bsky.social for taking on this micro horror.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/revi...
Review: When the Baby Sleeps - Nightmare Magazine
The initial spark for this story was a writing prompt I saw online about writing a review for a horror movie that doesn’t exist. It led me to think about my personal relationship with horror movies. S...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Happy Wednesday! My latest story "Review: When the Baby Sleeps" is now live on @nightmare-magazine.com! If you're looking a brief creepy read, I hope you enjoy this one. 📽️🍼🛏️
HUGE thanks to @wnwagner.bsky.social for taking on this micro horror.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/revi...
HUGE thanks to @wnwagner.bsky.social for taking on this micro horror.
www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/revi...
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Nicole Wallace breaks down every insult and abusive remark Trump has made to female journalists in the last few weeks.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nicole Wallace breaks down every insult and abusive remark Trump has made to female journalists in the last few weeks.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
“We’re either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny, or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more”
No More.
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Oh man! Okay! So! Buddy comedy? Love story? Prayer? You got it. Don’t let the crude title fool you - this sweet story has the biggest chunk of my heart, and it’s yours now.
I’m so, so proud of this one. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it 😊 open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...
I’m so, so proud of this one. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it 😊 open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...
“Dipshits” by Kirsti MacKenzie
“My husband made me a promise, once,” she says. “He said, if I go first I’m gonna haunt the shit out of you.”
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Oh man! Okay! So! Buddy comedy? Love story? Prayer? You got it. Don’t let the crude title fool you - this sweet story has the biggest chunk of my heart, and it’s yours now.
I’m so, so proud of this one. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it 😊 open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...
I’m so, so proud of this one. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I had writing it 😊 open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...
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Please help writer and artist Don Noble and his family after a fire destroyed their house. Every little bit helps. gofund.me/1d348cfdd
Donate to Emergency Support for Don Noble & Family After Sudden Fire, organized by Candace Nola
Hello everyone,
Candace Nola from Uncomfortably Dark Horro… Candace Nola needs your support for Emergency Support for Don Noble & Family After Sudden Fire
gofund.me
December 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Please help writer and artist Don Noble and his family after a fire destroyed their house. Every little bit helps. gofund.me/1d348cfdd
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Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
December 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Read this as an American woman and then go break something.
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The absolute pleasure of receiving hard copies on a cold Saturday.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The absolute pleasure of receiving hard copies on a cold Saturday.
The absolute pleasure of receiving hard copies on a cold Saturday.
December 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The absolute pleasure of receiving hard copies on a cold Saturday.
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Farewell to Frank Gehry. Visited his Santa Monica house in 2019. (Did a whole Gehry-LA tour)
December 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Farewell to Frank Gehry. Visited his Santa Monica house in 2019. (Did a whole Gehry-LA tour)
Full supermoon tonight: the Cold Moon, or my favorite, the Long Night Moon.
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Full supermoon tonight: the Cold Moon, or my favorite, the Long Night Moon.
"The thrill of being on the inside of a secret works just as well as it did back in high school."
@acwise.bsky.social in The Dark Magazine
@acwise.bsky.social in The Dark Magazine
It's new story day! Most Likely To...(Class of 1997) is very loosely based on my own high school. It's available to read now in the December issue of The Dark!
www.thedarkmagazine.com/most-likely-...
www.thedarkmagazine.com/most-likely-...
Most Likely To . . . (Class of 1997) - The Dark Magazine
I watch from across the street as workers gut my high school; the building will be transformed into a brand-new suite of condos by the end of next year. They carry desks scratched with initials and ba...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"The thrill of being on the inside of a secret works just as well as it did back in high school."
@acwise.bsky.social in The Dark Magazine
@acwise.bsky.social in The Dark Magazine
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still true 📚
for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
still true 📚
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We just need a few more subscribers and we'll be able to raise our fiction payment rates in the new year. Help us out. We're so close!
Get more from Bourbon Penn on Patreon
creating a Weird Literary Journal
patreon.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
We just need a few more subscribers and we'll be able to raise our fiction payment rates in the new year. Help us out. We're so close!
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Out TODAY, or so I'm told.
Ecstatically grateful to @saralippmann.bsky.social for her kind words about my upcoming collection!
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
#workingclasslit #gritlit #UnsolicitedPress #IndieLitScene #IndieBooksMatter #RebelReaders #BookCommunity #ReadIndie #BookReview #LitCulture #PoetryAndProse #FictionThatBites
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Out TODAY, or so I'm told.
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Jerks, all glowed up, out today (again) from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social
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bookshop.org/p/books/jerk...
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Jerks, all glowed up, out today (again) from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social
bookshop.org/p/books/jerk...
bookshop.org/p/books/jerk...
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Submittable will open for Gargoyle Online #13 submissions at 9pm today.
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Submittable will open for Gargoyle Online #13 submissions at 9pm today.