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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦
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Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)

https://undertowpublications.com/
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New arrival.
Hardcover of Stewart O'Nan's EVENSONG. cover depicits a painting if a house with evening holden light crossing one side
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder

And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Twitch City

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November 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
undertow.bsky.social
In house is issue #3 of @remainsmagazine.bsky.social I've been reading Andy Cox-edited mags all the way back to The Third Alternative. (I guess I'm old.) Check it out if you want to see what's going on in contemporary dark lit.
Issue 3 of Remains magazine. Cover depicts a very pale young woman or girl in a long, old-fashioned black dress/frock with laced bottom and collar, holding a teddy bear in front of an open door.
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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davering.bsky.social
looks like my novella is for sale over at Rebel Satori.

maybe check it out if you enjoy queer urban fantasy, wildly misconstrued irish mythology and/or brattish protagonists?

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The Hidden Ones
Unlock the secrets of the Hidden Ones dave ring and experience the fading myths of Eire. Come and delve into ancient tales! 🌌
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November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
undertow.bsky.social
And the titular story is free to read til the end of the month.

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November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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donfoolery.com
Even if I wasn't an M. Rickert superfan, I'd tell anyone this is $2 no reader will regret spending!
undertow.bsky.social Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 3d
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
PRAISE "...an affecting and tragic portrayal of a man struggling and failing to communicate and connect with those around him. Highly recommended..." - Starred Review, Booklist “Masterful ... darkly magical ... a stunning ending.” — Gary K. Wolfe, Locus “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie grabbed me from the first page. Quark is an indelible main character who I will continue to think about and love.” — Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by M. Rickert is a powerful evocation of an imaginary place, both magical and mundane; the tribulations of a good hearted hapless giant; and a compelling mystery. Dark and humorous and deep.” —   Jeffrey Ford, Author of Big Dark Hole “Fans of M. Rickert's singular blend of the mundane and the monstrous will be drawn deep into the briny, haunted world of Bellfairie.” —   Sofia Samatar, Author of A Stranger in Olondria, and Tender “Awash in sea rain, ghosts and the stories they trail, the sound of submerged bells from offshore (or their echo, or their memory), Bellfairie and its denizens are M. Rickert creations through and through—meaning magical, mournful, mysterious, profoundly human.” —   Glen Hirshberg, Author of The Motherless Children Trilogy “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie is a dark, dream-like, psychologically astute novel about the outsider as threat and victim, about the power of crowds, and the betrayal of innocence, replete with uncanny secrets, signs, and symbols that echo and reverberate, intimations of an unseen, sublunary world.” —   Douglas Glover, Author of Elle, and Savage Love
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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sheenalouisef.bsky.social
Rickert is fantastic & this is one of my favorite stories

#booksky
undertow.bsky.social Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 3d
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
PRAISE "...an affecting and tragic portrayal of a man struggling and failing to communicate and connect with those around him. Highly recommended..." - Starred Review, Booklist “Masterful ... darkly magical ... a stunning ending.” — Gary K. Wolfe, Locus “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie grabbed me from the first page. Quark is an indelible main character who I will continue to think about and love.” — Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by M. Rickert is a powerful evocation of an imaginary place, both magical and mundane; the tribulations of a good hearted hapless giant; and a compelling mystery. Dark and humorous and deep.” —   Jeffrey Ford, Author of Big Dark Hole “Fans of M. Rickert's singular blend of the mundane and the monstrous will be drawn deep into the briny, haunted world of Bellfairie.” —   Sofia Samatar, Author of A Stranger in Olondria, and Tender “Awash in sea rain, ghosts and the stories they trail, the sound of submerged bells from offshore (or their echo, or their memory), Bellfairie and its denizens are M. Rickert creations through and through—meaning magical, mournful, mysterious, profoundly human.” —   Glen Hirshberg, Author of The Motherless Children Trilogy “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie is a dark, dream-like, psychologically astute novel about the outsider as threat and victim, about the power of crowds, and the betrayal of innocence, replete with uncanny secrets, signs, and symbols that echo and reverberate, intimations of an unseen, sublunary world.” —   Douglas Glover, Author of Elle, and Savage Love
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
undertow.bsky.social
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
PRAISE "...an affecting and tragic portrayal of a man struggling and failing to communicate and connect with those around him. Highly recommended..." - Starred Review, Booklist “Masterful ... darkly magical ... a stunning ending.” — Gary K. Wolfe, Locus “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie grabbed me from the first page. Quark is an indelible main character who I will continue to think about and love.” — Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by M. Rickert is a powerful evocation of an imaginary place, both magical and mundane; the tribulations of a good hearted hapless giant; and a compelling mystery. Dark and humorous and deep.” —   Jeffrey Ford, Author of Big Dark Hole “Fans of M. Rickert's singular blend of the mundane and the monstrous will be drawn deep into the briny, haunted world of Bellfairie.” —   Sofia Samatar, Author of A Stranger in Olondria, and Tender “Awash in sea rain, ghosts and the stories they trail, the sound of submerged bells from offshore (or their echo, or their memory), Bellfairie and its denizens are M. Rickert creations through and through—meaning magical, mournful, mysterious, profoundly human.” —   Glen Hirshberg, Author of The Motherless Children Trilogy “The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie is a dark, dream-like, psychologically astute novel about the outsider as threat and victim, about the power of crowds, and the betrayal of innocence, replete with uncanny secrets, signs, and symbols that echo and reverberate, intimations of an unseen, sublunary world.” —   Douglas Glover, Author of Elle, and Savage Love
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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brucearthursaz.bsky.social
The Big Indies (if that's not a contradiction in terms) get mentioned a lot, but here's a very useful thread of lesser known magazines & small presses serving their own individual or peculiar editorial viewpoints & interests.

( @undertow.bsky.social gets a particularly high recommendation from me.)
tenebrouspress.bsky.social Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 5d
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.

Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀

IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.

Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀

IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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thatcalamity.bsky.social
We all need to see that there is a way forward that isn't *gestures at the disasters happening*
tabathasouthey.bsky.social Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 6d
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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psychopomp.com
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲

thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon

this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support

🙏🏻🖤💀

if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:

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Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
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November 22, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home
Weird Murmur Blog by Grant Dowell. Weird Fiction, Pulp Tales, and Horror Story Discussions.
www.weirdmurmur.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Paging @charlieratpig.bsky.social
weirdmurmur.com Grant Dowell @weirdmurmur.com · 6d
A murmur about a great short story collected in Michael Kelly's The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol. 1, @undertow.bsky.social. Among other things, Charlotte Tierney's "A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home" reveals things about anxiety that only fiction can.
www.weirdmurmur.com/2025/11/a-wo...
A Woman's Place Is in the Haunted Home
Weird Murmur Blog by Grant Dowell. Weird Fiction, Pulp Tales, and Horror Story Discussions.
www.weirdmurmur.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
undertow.bsky.social
I've had the pleasure of hanging out with Sean in Ottawa, Niagara Falls, and Toronto. Good people, doing good work. If you can, please consider joining their Patreon to help keep the lights on at Psychopomp.
November 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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nmamatas.bsky.social
Internal indicia is accurate. I bet the ebook cover was just lazy use of a template.
Indicia “The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (ISSN 1095-8258), Volume 147, No. 1, 2 & 3, Whole No. 773, Summer 2025. Double issues published quarterly by Must Read Magazines, a division of Must Read Books Publishing.”
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
undertow.bsky.social
Saw it @weightlessbooks.bsky.social which says it's Summer 2025
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 2025 Sheree Renée Thomas et al. Subscribe to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction | View All Issues The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized issue offers: compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock, Nnedi Okorafor, and many others; the science fiction field’s most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films, and Science; humor from our cartoonists and writers. For more information and to sample some of our articles, Please visit our web site. NOVELLAS THREAT ASSESSMENT Matthew Kressel and Mercurio D. Rivera SOUL REBEL Maurice Broaddus NOVELETS THE FINAL TRIAL OF JALEN, OBA OF UHURI Justin C. Key THE CORPORATE SOUL John Shirley THE APOLOGY TOUR Nnedi Okorafor SHORT STORIES THE SEVENTY-EIGHT SPOONS Devan Barlow AND A LITTLE GARLIC William Mangieri THE RED RIVER SUMMERS Inda Lauryn POEMS MOCTEZUMA III Lisa M. Bradley DEPARTMENTS EDITORIAL: A NEW HORIZON Sheree Renée Thomas BOOKS TO LOOK FOR Charles de Lint MUSING ON BOOKS Michelle West BY THE NUMBERS #10 Arley Sorg SCIENCE: THE SKEPTICAL SCIENTIST Jerry Oltion COMING ATTRACTIONS CURIOSITIES Michael Gonzales
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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First new issue of F&SF in ages says it is "Volume 1."
Cover of first new issue of F&SF in ages and banner says it is "Volume 1"
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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kateelliottsff.bsky.social
This is up for pre-order in a numbered limited edition, and half the print run is already sold, so hustle, peeps. Described as lofi horror.
dimshores.bsky.social Dim Shores @dimshores.bsky.social · 7d
THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA explores visual art as vivisection, slasher films, corpse photography, and other dark oddities.

Written by @charibdys.bsky.social
Art by @luciaretamales.bsky.social
Cover design by @grossandcolorful.bsky.social

Preorder open now: bit.ly/3XyScs6
An ad for THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA. On the left side it says “written by Rhiannon Rasmussen” and “art by Lucia Retamales,” with stylized hybrid photo/illustrations of the two creators. On the right side is a photo of the book showing the cover. Under the cover it says “cover layout by Shi Briggs” and has a logo for their company Gross and Colorful. At the bottom of the ad it says “published by DIM SHORES."
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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datlow.bsky.social
4 packages of books were mailed today-here’s what’s left dm me here if you’re not on fb and I can tell you prices (US only)
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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tenebrouspress.bsky.social
🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Art by @mxmorgan.com

All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
Cover art, a swan alights on a cosmic celestial sea, the sky in the colors of the trans rights flag
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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esedia.bsky.social
My favorite short story I wrote this year. Please read! Kind of an emotional thing for me.
thedeadlands.com The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 7d
"Stepan comes to me in a dream, sullen, with a bleeding lower lip split just where his lower canine has been knocked out."

today, beloveds!!

Punks Don't Die by @esedia.bsky.social

read it here 🥀

psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
Punks Don't Die - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The last time I saw Stepan was at St. Petersburg Central Station.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
undertow.bsky.social
And since someone asked — no, I am NOT accepting physical books. No ePub? I'll take the PDF or even a Word/text document.
undertow.bsky.social Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 8d
Reminder to editors and publishers that I'm accepting epubs of mags, collections, and anthos that have original 2025 short fiction for consideration in Best Weird Fiction of the Year 2. Writers — you'll have an opportunity to submit in the new year.
undertow.bsky.social Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · Jul 27
Editor/Publisher friends (only): I'm happy to receive ePubs of your 2025 short fiction projects for the 2026 volume. DM for deets. Or send direct to: bestspecfic (at) gmail(dot)com

Writer friends (only): Subs will open next year. (You can let your editor know I can receive their projects now.)
November 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
I cosign every single word of this

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I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM