Mike Zimmerman
@zimwrites.bsky.social
Writer editor storyteller. Always errs to the dark side. 2022 National Magazine Award finalist. More than 100 million people have read my stuff (yup, the math checks out). Find me at www.zimwrites.com.
On this special day of thanks, please keep this deeply, perpetually, fundamentally ungrateful girl in your thoughts.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this special day of thanks, please keep this deeply, perpetually, fundamentally ungrateful girl in your thoughts.
Trapped inside. 8 hours to go.
November 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trapped inside. 8 hours to go.
May he never have to survive another exCRUtiating evening with Roger Matheson on the other side. RIP John Woodvine. 96! Well done.
Tiz the season but never need a reason to watch An American Werewolf in London...
Tiz the season but never need a reason to watch An American Werewolf in London...
October 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
May he never have to survive another exCRUtiating evening with Roger Matheson on the other side. RIP John Woodvine. 96! Well done.
Tiz the season but never need a reason to watch An American Werewolf in London...
Tiz the season but never need a reason to watch An American Werewolf in London...
Post a you from a different era.
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Post a you from a different era.
Contributor copy day is always a good day.
Also fun when the editors pick your story to lead off an issue. "Grampy Dargle" is one mean old bastard. Thanks @erykpruitt.bsky.social!
Also fun when the editors pick your story to lead off an issue. "Grampy Dargle" is one mean old bastard. Thanks @erykpruitt.bsky.social!
September 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Contributor copy day is always a good day.
Also fun when the editors pick your story to lead off an issue. "Grampy Dargle" is one mean old bastard. Thanks @erykpruitt.bsky.social!
Also fun when the editors pick your story to lead off an issue. "Grampy Dargle" is one mean old bastard. Thanks @erykpruitt.bsky.social!
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
August 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
I consider this a failed exercise. I failed. This only scratches, nay not even scratches, it lightly brushes the surface and is probably less about best than it is about favorite and also reveals a lot. No LAST JEDI what kind of film snob am I.
June 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I consider this a failed exercise. I failed. This only scratches, nay not even scratches, it lightly brushes the surface and is probably less about best than it is about favorite and also reveals a lot. No LAST JEDI what kind of film snob am I.
The more times I saw Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as a kid the less I cared there was Sinbad, an Eye, and a Tiger in the film.
June 23, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The more times I saw Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger as a kid the less I cared there was Sinbad, an Eye, and a Tiger in the film.
Pretty sure this was the first comic I ever bought. Same vibe!
June 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Pretty sure this was the first comic I ever bought. Same vibe!
Thanks, Beau. How about a COVER REVEAL! My second story collection, DARKNESS DOUBLED.
16 new tales, crime, horror, horror-crime, crime-horror, maybe some dark comedy and some are just plain weird.
Cover design by the incomparable @oivas.com
On sale date coming soon!
16 new tales, crime, horror, horror-crime, crime-horror, maybe some dark comedy and some are just plain weird.
Cover design by the incomparable @oivas.com
On sale date coming soon!
June 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Thanks, Beau. How about a COVER REVEAL! My second story collection, DARKNESS DOUBLED.
16 new tales, crime, horror, horror-crime, crime-horror, maybe some dark comedy and some are just plain weird.
Cover design by the incomparable @oivas.com
On sale date coming soon!
16 new tales, crime, horror, horror-crime, crime-horror, maybe some dark comedy and some are just plain weird.
Cover design by the incomparable @oivas.com
On sale date coming soon!
There were many but I saw this and Live and Let Die at roughly the same age.
May 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There were many but I saw this and Live and Let Die at roughly the same age.
RIP Mike Peters. Fortunate to have seen him one last time when he hit the Sellersville Theater a few years ago. He ripped through songs like a man on mission, which he was. Some pics from that show:
April 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
RIP Mike Peters. Fortunate to have seen him one last time when he hit the Sellersville Theater a few years ago. He ripped through songs like a man on mission, which he was. Some pics from that show:
First print copies are always fun.
April 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
First print copies are always fun.
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME ski/cliff jump
April 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME ski/cliff jump
HOOPER, the smokestack near miss (and maybe the whole damn film)
April 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
HOOPER, the smokestack near miss (and maybe the whole damn film)
THE HUNTER (lousy image, the gag is terrific)
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
THE HUNTER (lousy image, the gag is terrific)
In honor of the new stunts Oscar, I can't wait for the noms in films that have no business at the Oscars, like these older shoe-ins had it existed:
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
April 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In honor of the new stunts Oscar, I can't wait for the noms in films that have no business at the Oscars, like these older shoe-ins had it existed:
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
COVER REVEAL. New horror novella. Rock stars! Horrible happenings! I jest -- this is bar none one of the darkest things I've ever written. Cover design by the incomparable @oivas.com. Pre-orders up, links to come, ON SALE 4/4.
March 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
COVER REVEAL. New horror novella. Rock stars! Horrible happenings! I jest -- this is bar none one of the darkest things I've ever written. Cover design by the incomparable @oivas.com. Pre-orders up, links to come, ON SALE 4/4.
You've been murdered, who do you want on the case?
February 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
You've been murdered, who do you want on the case?
give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head.
December 12, 2024 at 12:04 PM
give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head.
Contributor copy day is always a good day.
November 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Contributor copy day is always a good day.