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Justin Montgomery
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Dad | Author of Dark Fiction | Horror Lover | NEVER Ai |

PEEL BACK THE SKIN: STORIES 10.1.25 🎃👻💀
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Justin Montgomery @authorjmm.bsky.social · Nov 7
My debut collection, PEEL BACK THE SKIN is coming October 1st, 2025!

Featuring 13 stories of weird, body, cosmic, gory horror.

More details soon.

Cover by the incredible Trevor Henderson
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Been so long since I've written that I have anxiety and dread about trying again. To me, that shows how deeply I value & respect the process, but damn, is it defeating.
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Do we need to leave out ground beef for the raptor tonite
September 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The original runs had killer covers too but DAYUM these are incredible
jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 12
Just a reminder: The tenth anniversary editions of the original Southern Reach trilogy are still out in the wild, selling well. NYT bestsellers and on a lot of best-of-decade or this century lists. With new intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen MacDonald. Buy from you favorite indie.
Southern Reach covers with morphed boar, rabbit, and owl, art by Pablo Delcan.
August 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Booting up a blank word doc like Orlock in the sepulchre
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July 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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My Fantastic Four
Jet Jaguar, Godzilla, Gigan, and Megalon
July 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Book news from me. Been a long haul to here. xo
July 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Begging for a single fucking win this year fucking Christ. Tired of life
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July 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Fiction has been slow, but the poetry is an ever-flowing fount. Might event start subbing to poetry mags again.
April 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Not doing well rn
April 23, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Are any of the newish Resident Evil films/series/whatever worth watching? Craving that style.
April 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Anyone else become creatively cynical over the past couple months? Can’t get to that suspension of disbelief state often anymore. Every idea seems contrived & stupid. Agh. Someone help me relight the flame.
April 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Is anyone still out there?
April 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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They get me.
March 14, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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SUBMISSIONS WINDOW OPEN FOR **BIPOC WRITERS ONLY PLEASE** UNTIL APRIL 1st!

We're looking for 1+ Weird Folk Horror story for our quarterly New Weird magazine THE SKULL & LAUREL, now until April 1st.

Length: 100 to 4999 words

Submissions info here:
tinyurl.com/2na7fhww

Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
THE SKULL & LAUREL open for Short Story Submissions **BIPOC WRITERS ONLY, PLEASE** — tenebrous press
We are looking to accept at least one extra Weird Folk Horror short story from a BIPOC writer. SUBMISSIONS WINDOW: 11th of March to 1st of April This submissions period is for Issue 004 of THE...
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March 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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ghoulish book festival week ghoulish book festival week ghoulish festival week ghoulish book festival week ghoulish book festival week ghoulish festival week ghoulish book festival week ghoulish book festival week ghoulish festival week ghoulish book festival week ghoulish book festival week
March 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Happy #internationalwomensday and #womeninhorrormonth! These are just some of my favorite women horror writers, these ladies are amazing! There are so many incredibly talented women authors out there, pick one up today! #horrorbooks
Flatlay of books top row: Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan, Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo, Moonlit Path of Madness by Catherine McCarthy middle row: American Rapture by CJ Leede, The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister, The Reformatory by Tananarive Due Bottom row: The Deep by Alma Katsu, So thirsty by Rachel Harrison, and Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan
March 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Each time I think this divorce has brought me to my lowest, the ground gives away & I fall into a deeper level.
March 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Twelve years later, this album still resonates deeply with me.

Sempiternal, indeed.

Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal (2013)
March 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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If you think it's more important to ostracize and terrorize trans kids than protecting kids from school shootings you're an asshole and I hope you get hit in the mouth with a lug wrench

Repeatedly
February 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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This book is breaking my heart! 😭
February 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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As if the ceaseless deluge of terror in the news daily wasn’t bleak enough, I am absolutely DEVASTATED to report that my hair, is indeed, noticeably thinning 😭

My biggest fear (bald) has become prophecy 😭🤣
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February 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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As of today, the episode of Creepy Podcast featuring my story GINGERBREAD MASSACRE is available to listen for FREE wherever you get your podcasts!

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Hit & Run
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February 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Today is the day! Subscribers to Creepy Podcast’s Patreon have access to the audio production of my horror/comedy short story “GINGERBREAD MASSACRE”!

I hope you enjoy!

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2-23-2025 Early Access: Hit & Run | Creepy
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February 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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#NowWatching Heart Eyes (2025)
February 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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One of my favorite artists, and the genius who designed Peel Back the Skin’s cover
slimyswampghost.bsky.social Trevor Henderson 🍉 @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · Dec 12
Hello! I'm Trevor, a horror illustrator / creature concept artist working in Toronto.🪳📻

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A snowy parking lot at night. An abstract, fleshy, meaty thing is draped over a rusty, bloody shopping cart. The shopping cart melts into the creature through long ribbons of flesh to the point where the cart might actually be an extension of the creature. Its head is an oval on a long neck, like a sperm. Its only feature is a hole, making its face appear like a sucker. a creature with a fake face that looks like a sleeping old man crawls on all fours in a dark, tiled room the rotten corpse of a woman stands and stares at the viewer with malformed empty eye sockets. the raw flesh of its face is dominating by many rows of teeth, twisting around a black void of a mouth. giant dog made of meat in a parking lot at night. it's snowing. the dog has no eyes and its skin is sloughing off.
February 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM