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Anticapitalist magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 8 days
Atomic Carnival founder, & BRAVE NEW WEIRD recipient Eirik Gumeny, has passed. We didn't know him well; but we truck in words, & goddamn did Eirik's way with them touch us. He is loved & missed. We've posted is BNW-winning story here in full. Onward, Eirik🖤☠️ tenebrouspress.com/blog/2024/7/...
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Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social · 8 days
"Brick City clicks, grinds, scrapes around them, but everything else remains unmovable, unchangeable, indestructible. Boyd refuses to give up. Up, up." Today's #sfstoryoftheday by @nikawrites.bsky.social in @seizethepress.bsky.social. www.seizethepress.com/2024/05/08/b...
“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees h...
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 1 mo
It's THAT time of the year again! The annual STRANGE HORIZONS FUND DRIVE is now live. To donate: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str... Over the next 36 days, we're looking to raise $13,500 to stay alive through 2025, and beyond for some very special special issues!
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 10 days
Our first newsletter has gone out! You can read it here and also subscribe to get it delivered directly to your inbox so you can bypass the colossal stinking pit of dogshit that social media has become.
A New Age Dawnsbuttondown.email The age of X is over. The time of the newsletter has come. Not really. We’re still around on all your favourite (and least favourite) social media sites, but...
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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreview.bsky.social · 12 days
Weird Bodies in Flux: Roz Milner reviews INVAGINIES by Joe Koch, out now from @clashbooks.bsky.social ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/07/05/w...
Weird Bodies in Flux: Review of Joe Koch’s Invaginiesancillaryreviewofbooks.org Roz Milner Under Review:Invaginies. Joe Koch. Clash Books, June 2024. The thing about transition is that once you get past how elastic the human body can be, things become routine kind of quickly. Whi...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 14 days
"The weight of history bearing down on the reader is remarkably tangible and all-encompassing, a sense of darkness cloaking the distant neon lights of twenty-first century cyberpunk." @megapolisomancy.bsky.social's latest review, YOU GLOW IN THE DARK by Liliana Colanzi.
Beyond Dualistic Cyberpunk: a review of You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi from Zachary Gillan - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Cyberpunk is usually inextricably dualistic in its approach, most obviously in the dichotomy between cyberspace and meatspace, but also usually in its physical setting of the imperial core of the capi...
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 14 days
this story is for anyone who loved Riley Tao's story "What It's Like" in @seizethepress.bsky.social (they've got similarly upsetting endings)
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"Right to Remain" by Riley Tao What if your mom was a streamer? What if your mom wouldn’t stop streaming to attend your dad’s funeral? What if her followers sucked, and hated you? The most unsettling story I’ve read about internet hate mobs and corporate-owned deadnames.
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 13 days
This is a great book.
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"The weight of history bearing down on the reader is remarkably tangible and all-encompassing, a sense of darkness cloaking the distant neon lights of twenty-first century cyberpunk." @megapolisomancy.bsky.social's latest review, YOU GLOW IN THE DARK by Liliana Colanzi.
Beyond Dualistic Cyberpunk: a review of You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi from Zachary Gillan - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Cyberpunk is usually inextricably dualistic in its approach, most obviously in the dichotomy between cyberspace and meatspace, but also usually in its physical setting of the imperial core of the capi...
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Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 14 days
Zach Gillan's reviews are always essential reading. This sounds incredible.
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"The weight of history bearing down on the reader is remarkably tangible and all-encompassing, a sense of darkness cloaking the distant neon lights of twenty-first century cyberpunk." @megapolisomancy.bsky.social's latest review, YOU GLOW IN THE DARK by Liliana Colanzi.
Beyond Dualistic Cyberpunk: a review of You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi from Zachary Gillan - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Cyberpunk is usually inextricably dualistic in its approach, most obviously in the dichotomy between cyberspace and meatspace, but also usually in its physical setting of the imperial core of the capi...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 14 days
"The weight of history bearing down on the reader is remarkably tangible and all-encompassing, a sense of darkness cloaking the distant neon lights of twenty-first century cyberpunk." @megapolisomancy.bsky.social's latest review, YOU GLOW IN THE DARK by Liliana Colanzi.
Beyond Dualistic Cyberpunk: a review of You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi from Zachary Gillan - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Cyberpunk is usually inextricably dualistic in its approach, most obviously in the dichotomy between cyberspace and meatspace, but also usually in its physical setting of the imperial core of the capi...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 22 days
Really stepped outside our usual wheelhouse with Nika Murphy's "Brick City, Stick City, Straw City", a story of betrayal and revolution. It's our first 'hopeful' story, but a hope that is gritty, grounded, and earned with truly thoughtful storytelling.
“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees h...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 17 days
We have a newsletter now! Sending the first one out next week so get in on the ground floor. Be hip or be square.
Seize The Press Newsletterbuttondown.email Anticapitalist magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.
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Typebar Magazine @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 19 days
Typebar Magazine Issue 2 is now free to the public. Nine incredible essays ranging from the useless malice of 2000s nostalgia to French sociology's relationship with Neopets. All free! FREE! www.typebarmagazine.com
Typebar Magazinewww.typebarmagazine.com An interesting thing to read on the internet.
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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 20 days
Hello, cowghouls! It is with great pleasure that we introduce you to @meatpunkperry.bsky.social's THE FLESH INHERENT, a gay cowboy western bursting with delightful body horror grotesqueries. Behold, the front cover by @doomedsarcoma.bsky.social. Excerpt and pre-order: ghoulish.rip/the-flesh-in...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 19 days
We've finally caught on to the fact that social media is in its death throes and got a newsletter! We're gonna bombard you with so many fucking emails you have no idea. Sign up here!
Seize The Press Newsletterbuttondown.email Anticapitalist magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.
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Nika Murphy | Ніка Мерфі @nikawrites.bsky.social · 20 days
“[This story] made me long for the fields” - @horrorsong.blog
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Really stepped outside our usual wheelhouse with Nika Murphy's "Brick City, Stick City, Straw City", a story of betrayal and revolution. It's our first 'hopeful' story, but a hope that is gritty, grounded, and earned with truly thoughtful storytelling.
“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees h...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 20 days
Cracking interview with Carson Winter, author of Soft Targets, the upcoming A Spectre is Haunting Greentree, and more kaiju disaster fiction than you can shake a stick at. Carson talked to us about Thomas Ligotti, ontological horror, and his recent consumerism horror novella The Psychographist.
Reality Is How Horror Stories Are Born: an interview with Carson Winter, author of The Psychographist - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com It’s been a hell of a few years for Carson Winter, with short stories published in various magazines and Best Of’s, and a growing number of weird horror novellas under his belt. Jonny Pickering chats ...
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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social · 21 days
There’s a lot of great stuff in Your Body Is Not Your Body, but Joe Koch’s story “Chironoplasty” transplanted me into another dimension. Joe is a genius, genuinely one of the best prose writers I’ve ever read.
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Nika Murphy | Ніка Мерфі @nikawrites.bsky.social · 21 days
This is also a story about a guy so horny, he’d topple an authoritarian government just at the chance to have a woman he met one time maybe sit on his face.
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Really stepped outside our usual wheelhouse with Nika Murphy's "Brick City, Stick City, Straw City", a story of betrayal and revolution. It's our first 'hopeful' story, but a hope that is gritty, grounded, and earned with truly thoughtful storytelling.
“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees h...
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Nika Murphy | Ніка Мерфі @nikawrites.bsky.social · 22 days
Hey so not only did I write this story solely with StP in mind but it’s also my favorite thing I’ve ever written. If you read nothing else by me ever again, please read this. I’m so proud of it and I’m so glad it found a home at Seize the Press.
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Really stepped outside our usual wheelhouse with Nika Murphy's "Brick City, Stick City, Straw City", a story of betrayal and revolution. It's our first 'hopeful' story, but a hope that is gritty, grounded, and earned with truly thoughtful storytelling.
“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees h...
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 22 days
Happy Invaginies Day! It's here, my new collection! If you like literary horror, surrealist trash, lyrical splatter, or poetic discomfort and rage, this may be the book for you.
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 22 days
Really stepped outside our usual wheelhouse with Nika Murphy's "Brick City, Stick City, Straw City", a story of betrayal and revolution. It's our first 'hopeful' story, but a hope that is gritty, grounded, and earned with truly thoughtful storytelling.
“Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” by Nika Murphy - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Sometimes, when Boyd squints hard enough, when windows in Brick City line up just right, when sunlight glints off shards of twisted iron fire escapes and bounces between rain-slicked alleys, he sees h...
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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 23 days
Set the controls for the heart of the Weird. The Best New Weird Horror of the Year, out in two days👽💀 Available direct from us, or from your preferred independent bookseller store.tenebrouspress.com
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Nika Murphy | Ніка Мерфі @nikawrites.bsky.social · 24 days
My story, “Brick City, Stick City, Straw City” in the current issue of @seizethepress.bsky.social is partially inspired by this movie.
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Thinking about DARK CITY, it's interesting to contemplate that it was made in that peculiar little window when Australia decided to actually invest in the arts in the '90s. Consider the following: •MURIEL'S WEDDING •STRICTLY BALLROOM •PRISCILLA: QUEEN OF THE DESERT
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 1 mo
"The power of art resides in its capacity to reveal what has previously been hidden, to lay bare the grim realities of our society, even if it wounds us." By way of Burroughs, Goya, and Agustina Bazterrica, Neal Auch interrogates and pokes at the flesh of meat horror.
The Horror on the End of Every Fork by Neal Auch - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com The publication of William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch was met with great controversy. The book was characterized as “a devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current Ameri...
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Malda Marlys 🦇🦇🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @aardwyrm.bsky.social · 1 mo
Today's rec is Lia Mulcahy's "Drinking Dead Brazilians" in @seizethepress.bsky.social, a precision strike to the heart that runs shockingly gentle fingers through the resulting bloodstains.
“Drinking Dead Brazilians” by Lia Mulcahy - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Here I am in glorious technicolour, standing in the lights that strobe and chase across my skin like flies on a carcass. There is a floor-length mirror, streaky with handprints and faceprints and lips...
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@bomper.bsky.social · 1 mo
Whoa, that was intense. Excellent.
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"For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time." @avramargariti.bsky.social returns to STP with another sicko horror story "Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn". That opening line got me, and it's gonna get you too.
“Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn” by Avra Margariti - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time. Until the night before twelfth grade, when you decided to rend us asunder with a few simple words: “I would like to go b...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 1 mo
"For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time." @avramargariti.bsky.social returns to STP with another sicko horror story "Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn". That opening line got me, and it's gonna get you too.
“Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn” by Avra Margariti - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time. Until the night before twelfth grade, when you decided to rend us asunder with a few simple words: “I would like to go b...
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Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 1 mo
Reminder for writers we now take fiction submissions up to 7500 words. Horrible weird unsettling grotesque or otherwise oddball fantasy science fiction and horror. Everyone can still submit, but particularly encouraging non-US authors to send your stuff in.
Submissions - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com Submissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de...
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Avra Margariti @avramargariti.bsky.social · 1 mo
Oh hey, I have another story out today! My return to StP is a queer horror tale of revenge, of making and unmaking. Read my little story of unbirthdays here and find about the vivisected shape of the world once it refuses to accommodate you:
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"For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time." @avramargariti.bsky.social returns to STP with another sicko horror story "Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn". That opening line got me, and it's gonna get you too.
“Unbirthday Means You Wish Yourself Unborn” by Avra Margariti - Seize The Presswww.seizethepress.com For years we were as inseparable as flesh fused together by wound-welding time. Until the night before twelfth grade, when you decided to rend us asunder with a few simple words: “I would like to go b...