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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · Nov 12

The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God comes out at the end of this month and is up for pre-order!
Weird horror short stories about isolation, grief, guilt, art, acidic body fluids, queerness, burning down a regenerating church, brick-cats, abandoned malls, and more.
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Cover art for The Still Beating Heart of a Dead God by Sam Richard, featuring a painting of a cracked open coffin with a column of ghoulish spirits pouring out of it like smoke.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 16h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 16h

All crowned in butts and glory.

Chris Farley asking Phil Hartman if that really is B.R. Yeager's butt crack over there.

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 19h

Very much same!

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Romano @alromano.bsky.social · 1d

My haul from VoidCon 3! Really this is only a fraction of what I would have walked away with if I had the cash - there were so many amazing artists and vendors there! I'll just have to start saving for VoidCon 4 🖤

Photograph of an assortment of indie/punk horror books and merchandise arranged over a floral background. Books include Reef Mind by Hazel Zorn, Torture Works by Porpentine, Wax and Wane by Saoirse ni Chiaragain, Pacifier by Ira Rat, and The Winnowing Draw and Wound of the West by Michael Tichy. Merch includes the 2025 October horror issuse of The Southwest Review, a VoidCon tote bag, a VoidCon coozy, stickers from the publishers Apocalypse Party, Merigold, Filthy Loot and others, a VIP pass for the convention and a Ring Pop.

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 1d

I spent all weekend surrounded by friends, engrossed in conversations about writing, publishing, creativity, forging a truly diy approach, shit-talking, friend-praising, and more. Honored to call these fucks friends, and to have made new ones.
I took zero photos but made the front page of a paper.

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 2d

VOIDCON
@voidcon.bsky.social
@weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 2d

It was so good hanging out with you both!!!

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 3d

jesus wept // @horrorsong.blog & @sammytotep.bsky.social of @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social @ @voidcon.bsky.social

joe koch looking cool as hell in front of his wares

sam richard also looking cool as hell in front of the weirdpunk wares

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 4d

VoidCon is already on fire.

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 4d

is the guy in the bathory shirt walking down the gettysburg sidewalk here for voidcon? and other questions i am asking myself

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 4d

This rules.

Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 5d

A friend and reader got a Sabbath of the Fox-Devils tattoo and this is easily the most incredible moment in my writing career.

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 5d

Being a pervert is a-okay. Being a creep is not. Hope this helps!

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 5d

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This is Allyween @allymalinenko.bsky.social · 6d

This is very funny tho

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 6d

Super Mario’s design is based on PJ Soles’s character in Carrie

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Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social · 9d

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GreasyGoat.bsky.social @greasygoat.bsky.social · 8d

#booksky #horrorsky #💙 #📚🩸#horrorreads
SABBATH OF THE FOX-DEVILS
@sammytotep.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social

5💀S
"if the kids from the chick tracts and the horror movies actually got the chance for catharsis , crying and payback "

FULL REVIEW ON GOODREADS

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 11d

O sweet! A digital golden calf.

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Weirdpunk Books @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Gears are in motion for our next release. It's a bit behind, but things are really starting to come together.
Shrieks in Cups of Gold is an anthology in the spirit of the work of Katherine Dunn. TOC reveal, cover, and preorder in about a month. Should be out in November.
Stoked for y'all to read it!

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 11d

Decidedly clear thought for him, did he get hit with a shovel?

Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 11d

Tellyouwhatboutthatspiderland

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Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 11d

I never leave the house without having frosted my celtics, ya know?

Sam Richard @sammytotep.bsky.social · 11d

Why must the riffs be crucibled?

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