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Founder of http://HouseBlackwood.net. Editor of OMNIPARK & THE WILLOWS. Weird novelist. Backpacker in 40+ countries. Lord High Minister of All Things Sinister

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THIS PLACE IS WEIRD is a cosmic horror anthology featuring @bradkelly @orringrey @JamesMordechai @AngelaYSmith @Pedro__Iniguez and many others. Click "Notify me on launch" to pre-register for the Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/writiโ€ฆ

writingben's tweet image. THIS PLACE IS WEIRD is a cosmic horror anthology featuring 
@bradkelly @orringrey @JamesMordechai @AngelaYSmith  @Pedro__Iniguez and many others.

Click "Notify me on launch" to pre-register for the Kickstarter:
kickstarter.com/projects/writiโ€ฆ

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THIS PLACE IS WEIRD is a cosmic horror anthology featuring @bradkelly @orringrey @JamesMordechai @AngelaYSmith @Pedro__Iniguez and many others. Click "Notify me on launch" to pre-register for the Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/writiโ€ฆ

writingben's tweet image. THIS PLACE IS WEIRD is a cosmic horror anthology featuring 
@bradkelly @orringrey @JamesMordechai @AngelaYSmith  @Pedro__Iniguez and many others.

Click "Notify me on launch" to pre-register for the Kickstarter:
kickstarter.com/projects/writiโ€ฆ

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MASSIVE SALE! Back 2 OmniPark, the anthology that I edited with @writingben, is on sale at Amazon. Paperback is $3.75. Hardcover is $7.90. eBook is $8.34. New stories by Brian Evenson, Laird Barron, Hailey Piper, Gwendolyn Kiste, Jonathan Maberry & more! amazon.com/Back-2-OmniParโ€ฆ

aliciahilton01's tweet image. MASSIVE SALE! Back 2 OmniPark, the anthology that I edited with @writingben, is on sale at Amazon. Paperback is $3.75. Hardcover is $7.90. eBook is $8.34. New stories by Brian Evenson, Laird Barron, Hailey Piper, Gwendolyn Kiste, Jonathan Maberry & more! amazon.com/Back-2-OmniParโ€ฆ
aliciahilton01's tweet image. MASSIVE SALE! Back 2 OmniPark, the anthology that I edited with @writingben, is on sale at Amazon. Paperback is $3.75. Hardcover is $7.90. eBook is $8.34. New stories by Brian Evenson, Laird Barron, Hailey Piper, Gwendolyn Kiste, Jonathan Maberry & more! amazon.com/Back-2-OmniParโ€ฆ

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This Sun Speech Script is the most exquisite #conlang writing system I've ever encountered: reddit.com/r/conlangs/comโ€ฆ

writingben's tweet image. This Sun Speech Script is the most exquisite #conlang writing system I've ever encountered: reddit.com/r/conlangs/comโ€ฆ

Sometimes I feel like we pitch novels to our friends in just qualitatively the wrong ways, like bro I get that you don't habitually devour books about 19th-century whaling voyages; these are not the reasons I'm telling you to read Moby Dick


Helpful practice sentences from a phrasebook of "colloquial Tibetan," 1905

writingben's tweet image. Helpful practice sentences from a phrasebook of "colloquial Tibetan," 1905

Laird Baron - "The Nebula Quest" Kristi DeMeester - "Incarnate" Brian Evenson - "The Realm Between the Realms" Gwendolyn Kiste - "How To Survive a Birthday Party" I see four OmniPark stories on that list, which is a huge honor. Am I missing the other two?

Six stories from Back 2 OmniPark made it onto Ellen Datlowโ€™s โ€œThe Best Horror of the Year Volume Sixteen Recommendations (2023).โ€ ellendatlow.com/2024/11/28/theโ€ฆ. @writingben @aliciahilton01



The existence of spring water implies the existence of autumn water: an alluringly spiced fall beverage


TFW Clark Ashton Smith invented black metal

Clark Ashton Smith's illustration for his own story "The Charnel God" from Weird Tales Magazine, March 1934 issue.

Weird_Friction's tweet image. Clark Ashton Smith's illustration for his own story "The Charnel God" from Weird Tales Magazine, March 1934 issue.


Yeah I know you're "into mythology" but like are we talking Gaiman or Eliade here


I mean I used to dress up as a Sumerian and cook Sumerian food when trying to read cuneiform documents but I thought it was just me

I love it but Machiavelli was insane

DylanoA4's tweet image. I love it but Machiavelli was insane


What a wonderful surprise to see this OmniPark story in the wild! Confession: I rejected this sub for "Back 2 OmniPark" because it was set in a different time period than the rest of the antho. Now I just feel like it expands the lore in interesting new ways.


My gf describes Robert E. Howard's descriptive style as "guy in a bar at 1am trying to convince you how cool his favorite show is" and once you hear it it's very hard to unhear

writingben's tweet image. My gf describes Robert E. Howard's descriptive style as "guy in a bar at 1am trying to convince you how cool his favorite show is" and once you hear it it's very hard to unhear

Has anyone written the story/novel where all the small everyday devices are organic rather than electric, and have to be kept warm and charged with fresh blood, because if so I will read it right now


Things that are still good: - Dune - Blood Meridian - PT Anderson movies - marine biology - cosmic horror - ancient texts - magic systems


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