This week on Reading the Weird, Little Shop of Horrors meets The Good Place in Kiera Lesley's "Concerning the Upstairs Bathroom": reactormag.com/square-house-d…

This week on Reading the Weird, cars versus steamboats, a soundtrack of anti-capitalist anthems, and an exploration of the lifespan of the common Twinkie! reactormag.com/these-songs-ar…

What happens when aliens land in the middle of your hopeful, solarpunk future? Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out! talks first contact stories, sympathetic monsters, SF, and the weird fiction/hopepunk world of her latest novel, A Half Built Garden! Listen now wherever the podcasts find you.

I will be at the Virginia Festival of the Book on Wednesday 3/21, 1pm at the UVA bookstore talking Strange Species with James Sturz: vabook.org/events/2024/03…

Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out! & Anne M. Pillsworth wrote the most amazing analysis of my weird swamp story, including an insightful examination of the 2nd person narration and secret cryptid [spoilers], and I'm only just seeing it? reactormag.com/the-shortest-s…

"Metaphors & memories are folded into the body—maybe deliberately, maybe out of necessity." Reactor Magazine's review of RIVERS is like a rabbit-hole, spinning new stories in fine webs between the poems. I'm enchanted by Anne M. Pillsworth's magical bus & Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out!' sculpture garden! 💚

In the latest Reading the Weird, Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out! and Anne M. Pillsworth dig into Part 2 of their Pet Sematary exhumation! This week, Jud takes the Creeds to visit the pet cemetery, and we’re sure everything goes great. reactormag.com/smucky-the-cat…

The new Lanternfish Press edition of The Willows, with my introduction and footnotes, is coming in October: lanternfishpress.com/shop/the-willo…

This week on Reading the Weird, we continue our Pet Sematary longread. Bad things are coming, but for now Louis feels weird about getting his daughter's cat fixed. The 70s were weird: reactormag.com/scaring-the-gh…

This week on Reading the Weird, Megan Chee asks: what if we take wormholes - and the worms that make them - seriously? reactormag.com/the-worms-craw…

In the latest Reading the Weird, Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out! and Anne M. Pillsworth continue digging through Stephen King’s Pet Sematary! We’ve reached Chapter 22, in which the Creed family cat dies, and Louis Creed makes a fateful cursed-cemetery-based decision. reactormag.com/look-both-ways…

This week on Reading the Weird, ghosts take the long view on recovery from violence: reactormag.com/love-in-the-ti…

Going to the ER tonight to try and get admitted because my insurance won't let me see anyone that will do anything to keep my eyesight. I have uncontrolled glaucoma and am in immediate need of care for both that and a corneal transplant. My insurance won't cover anything but that

This week, Reading the Weird enjoys Kyle Murchison Booth's company, but he would rather hide in his office: reactormag.com/reticence-and-…

This week on Reading the Weird, horror tropes about beds are... different. reactormag.com/reading-the-we…

This week on Reading the Weird, King gets the parenting feels pitch perfect: reactormag.com/the-joy-of-the…

This week on Reading the Weird, AU Mycroft Holmes and the perils of reincarnation: reactormag.com/the-award-for-…

This week on Reading the Weird, a parent's worst nightmare and a very bad idea: reactormag.com/the-limits-of-…

This week on Reading the Weird: if you haven't seen it yet, you will. Sorry about that. reactormag.com/the-viral-post…

This week on Reading the Weird, everyone is in a bad mood and it's all the fault of toxic masculinity: reactormag.com/terrible-horri…