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Ryan T. Jenkins
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Writer of weird-ish/horror-ish fiction, dad of human and cats, he/him, addicted to books, copy editor
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Ryan T. Jenkins @ryantjenkins.bsky.social · Nov 12
My novelette, Come to Daddy, is out! Link below! A big day for me, as someone who dreamed of writing since elementary school. I'm almost 38 & it's finally happened. This story is weird af, but now more than ever, toxic masculinity needs a microscope. This is my small contribution. Thanks, everyone!
Ryan T. Jenkins holding Split Scream Volume 6
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Happy anniversary to my best friend, who happens to be my lover. Eleven years seems both too short and too long for everything we've been through
August 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🥰
July 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) is out today!

25 of the best independently- & self-published Weird Fiction stories published in 2024, spanning Horror Sci-Fi Fantasy & all things unclassifiable...but WEIRD.

And all part of a balanced breakfast🖤☠️

Get it:
store.tenebrouspress.com
Cover art for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 3 by Matt Blairstone: a Monster Cereal style homage of a toxic green skeleton with corals sprouting from its skull, eating a bowl of Weird cereal: slugs, hardware, severed fingers, green sludge. TEXT: BRAVE NEW WEIRD: THE BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR + More VOLUME 3 store.tenebrouspress.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Me at Stokercon 2025 in the echoey swimming pool
June 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Saw tons of folks at Stokercon and did not talk to 99 percent of them. Oh well, maybe next time 🙂
ryantjenkins.bsky.social Ryan T. Jenkins @ryantjenkins.bsky.social · Jun 12
Hope to see some folks at Stokercon (!) ...time to pretend I'm not 99 percent introverted 😅
June 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Hope to see some folks at Stokercon (!) ...time to pretend I'm not 99 percent introverted 😅
June 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Yay--so well deserved!
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Jun 9
Congratulations to @lyndseycroal.bsky.social & M.Shaw; each are nominated for Best Novelette in the 2024 @sjacksonawards.bsky.social!

We're so proud of both of these Weird stories & their authors; hails to the judges, the awards board, & to the visionary author herself, who inspired us all🖤☠️
June 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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To all mothers, but especially to the one whom I'm married to--she makes our daughter feel empowered, beautiful & smart 🙏 She teaches a course on "bad mothers," only b/c she strives to be the best one possible
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Child in pink flowery dress on left and beautiful wife, in gray sweater
May 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Nothing else matters when a new Sayaka Murata novel is available in English. Queen of the Weird...I'm ready
Me reading VANISHING WORLD by Sayaka Murata on my back deck. Cedar-sided house in the background. My face is concealed.
May 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Perfectly 😚
May 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Like a double feature or a split album, each SPLIT SCREAM volume brings 2 tales together into 1 Terrifying tome!

Discover your favorite New Weird Horror writers!

Welcome to the New Wave of the Weird Novelette!

Volumes 1-7 out now!

Hail SPLIT SCREAM🖤☠️
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A rainbow mosaic of SPLIT SCREAM book covers
April 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Spring is here. My back porch, surrounded by trees & wildlife, is callin'. Time to read Split Scream, Volume 7.
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Me holding up Split Scream, Volume 7 by John K. Peck & L. Mahler and Ide Hennessy (from Tenebrous Press), with cedar-sided house behind me
April 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Celebrating my wife's b-day today (@aliciaandrz.bsky.social)! Recognizing her endless positive impact on the world, w/ students & colleagues, & also her thirst to connect w/ people. She's special; nobody can argue that. Larger-than-life; brilliant-minded; gorgeously beautiful, to top it off
A woman smiling--Alicia Andrzejewski (the Gorgeous Wife)--posing with man on the right (the Schlubby Husband)
April 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Apr 4
TENEBROUS LOCUS ELIGIBILTY
(link to vote in quote skeet)

All are write-ins:

Best Horror Novel/Best First Novel:
FROM THE BELLY @emnays.bsky.social
TRVE CVLT @beardedbetts.bsky.social

Best Horror Novel: A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE @carsonwinter.bsky.social

Cont. below⬇️
undertow.bsky.social Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Apr 4
Vote for the Locus Awards.

Weird Horror is eligible in Best Mag category, and I'm eligible in Best Editor. Undertow in the Publisher category.

Would be nice to see your fave indies get some love @psychopomp.com @neonhemlock.bsky.social @tenebrouspress.bsky.social etc.

poll.voting.locusmag.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Best Novella: MOUTH @joshuathehull.bsky.social

Best Novelette:
THE BALLAD OF HORSE GIRL @bitterkarella.bsky.social
THE GIRL WITH BARNACLES FOR EYES @lyndseycroal.bsky.social
COME TO DADDY @ryantjenkins.bsky.social
MOTHER IS COMING HOME @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social

Best Mag:
THE SKULL & LAUREL

🖤☠️
April 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Grateful to be a part of this list 🙏 so many good writers out there; let's keep being brave and weird
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · Apr 2
Congratulations to all the brilliant authors on the BRAVE NEW WEIRD shortlist! And a hearty & exhausted thanks to the nearly 1000 submissions we had to agonize over.

Full list here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/3/...

Or in the screenshots🖤☠️

Final Table of Contents will be announced...one day.
The BRAVE NEW WEIRD SHORTLIST: Ainsley Hawthorn - Big Cats of Newfoundland Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs - Spolia Alex Fox - The City of Cities, Inverted; A Shadow Cast By Many Hands Angela Liu - A Contract of Ink and Skin Ann LeBlanc - Memories Held Against a Hungry Mouth Avra Margariti - Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn Azure Arther - Reciprocity Briar Ripley Page - Birth Of a Sucker Calla Eris Orion - Kiss of a Toad Casey Lawrence - Ten Things I Have Learned About Human Skin: A Presentation [sarah] Cavar - Mad Studies Dane Erbach - Something Else David Corse - The Amassing Man E.G. Condé - Sibilance E.M. Linden - Mangrove Daughter Elad Haber - End of Line Elana Gomel - Mother Black Hole Eleanna Castroianni - Zarghána Emma Burnett - Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3] Emma E. Murray - An Angel of God Emmett Nahil - Vining Erik McHatton - The Man Who Collected Ligotti F. J. Bergmann - The Museum of Etymology Faith Allington - Teacakes for Foxes Guan Un - Painted Surfaces Hannah Greer - To Be Human Ira Rat - Soft Jack Klausner - Cardboard Faces Jack Lennon - The Scottish Welfare Fund Application Form James Cato - Wonders of a Plastic Ocean Jes Malitoris - The House of Coiled Earth Jess Elizabeth Reed - The Belly K. A. Roy - Welcome to Rebirth Grove K.A. Wiggins - The Tangle (Did Not Kill Kitsault) Kay Vaindal - Pig House Kelsea Yu - Creature Lena Ng - The Halloween Horror Show Leo Oliveira - They Remember Faces Leslie What - Wayback Lor Gislason - fumes Lucas Yao-Bendimerad - So Dramatic M. L. Krishnan - Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation Madalena Daleziou - Hauntless House Matthew Mitchell - Knight Rumors Nayt Rundquist - Flashes of Neverwhen O F Cieri - The Tragedy Brotherhood Plangdi Neple - Not All Your Bones Are Yours Raluca Balasa - Cogs in the (War) Machine Ryan T. Jenkins - The Potato Problem Samir Sirk Morató - EGREGORE Shantell Powell - The Snow Hath No Queen Sharang Biswas - Waiting for Jonah SJ Townend- I HAVE SEEN SEVEN BAD THINGS Sonya Vatomsky - The Yolo Wallpaper Susan L. Lin - Gravitational Pull Tehnuka - You Can Leave Your Helmet On Tiffany Michelle Brown - Full Immersion Tim Pratt - The Liminal Space Dating Agency Timaeus Bloom - Memorabilia Zoe Kaplan - Travelling Salesman Cover art for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 3 by Matt Blairstone: a Monster Cereal style homage of a toxic green skeleton with corals sprouting from its skull, eating a bowl of Weird cereal: slugs, hardware, severed fingers, green sludge. TEXT: BRAVE NEW WEIRD: THE BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR VOLUME 3 Hardcover Edition Signed Bookplate Preorder now Limited to 50 copies store.tenebrouspress.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Great seeing you and everyone (!)
March 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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SPLIT SCREAM: The Parents Ain't Alright. Here's Echo depicting @ryantjenkins.bsky.social's punk rock deadbeat dad from "Come to Daddy"
A bearded dude agonizes with his hands pressed to where his eyes should be, but the whole top of his head splooshes upward in a mess of body parts and splatter and avocadoes yes avocadoes. It merges with a record spinning on a turntable. look, you'll just have to read it.
February 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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My goth queen
(happy valentine's--love you ☺️)
February 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM