10p038: THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM: Table of Contents! SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 4: Cover Art! More?!
Up here in space, I'm looking down on you, My lasers trace, Everything you do, You think you've private lives, Think nothing of the kind, There is no true escape, I'm watching all the time
Hey Ho Tenebrous Cult!
Alex and I are currently chasing down a pile of awesome opportunities in the 10p big rig, so we're gonna keep it short and sweet this week.
But you’re cool with that, right? I mean, you only clicked on this to get all the delightful details mentioned in the title. So without further ado, the Table of Contents to our Anti-AI initiative/debut magazine, THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM:
Featuring SHORT FICTION:
“The Android & Esmel” by Marcy Arlin
“Chimera” by Edward Barnfield
“TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SYMPTOMS” by Caleb Bethea
“Please Rate Your Experience From 1-10” by Michael Boulerice
“Filtered” by Koji A. Dae
”The Grid” by Beth Dawkins“Philanderer” by Monica Joyce Evans
“Wound Together” by gaast
“The Grin of the Ministry” by Colin Hinckley
“Schroedinger's Head” by Joe Koch
“The Price of Pancakes” by Michael A. Reed
“Iago v2.0” by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez
“I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” by Jill Tew
“Requiem Shark” by Kay Vaindal
“The Bodiless” by Carson Winter
Featuring POETRY AND WEIRD FORMS
“Rent-A-Baby: Content Without the Commitment” by Lyndsey Croal
“do not trust the poet what has the poet ever done for you” by luna rey hall
“CyberBerry” by Eva Papasoulioti
“A Face-Eating Oracle Envisions Your Future” by Simo Srinivas
Featuring COMICS
“I’m not a robot” by Aster Fialla
“Spare Parts” by Caitlin Marceau
Plus additional ART by:
Janice Blaine
Jonathan La Mantia
Samir Sirk Morató
Helen Whistberry
And a LOGIC PUZZLE (!) created by Arkylie Killingstad
So, uh…yeah. No one informed us that our first foray into the magazine arts was supposed to be normal sized; and as you can clearly see, this one will be far from normal. Expect Weird Sci-Fi, Weird Horror, Weird Landscapes, Weird Situations…WEIRD.
In typical Tenebrous fashion, there’s a few names you likely know, and a bunch that you don’t; half of ‘em were complete strangers when we met.
Bowie’s best song ever, fight me.
Alex and project editor Cameron Howard are jammin’ away to hit our November release window; info on preorders, coming next week!
Hail our new AI overlords RESIST.
POSTHASTE MANOR PREORDERS ARE OPEN
Just the hardcover and bookplate?
None of that fancy stuff, just the paperback? We gotcha covered.
eBook? Hell yeah, we got those.
About POSTHASTE MANOR:
NEVER TRUST A HOUSE WITH A NAME.
Everyone has a story about Posthaste Manor.
None of the stories end well, but that doesn’t stop the hopeful from hoping and the desperate from trying.
This composite novel stands as both history and eulogy of one very haunted house, as recounted by artists, real estate agents, and beloved family pets; by the debauched, the dead and the dying, and anyone looking for one last chance.
Raise a glass in celebration. Just don't linger within its walls for long.
Cover art by Trevor Henderson.
Interior illustrations by Alex Woodroe.
About the Authors:
Jolie Toomajan is a PhD candidate, writer, editor, and all-around ghoul. Her dissertation in progress is focused on the women who wrote for Weird Tales and her work has appeared in Upon a Thrice Time, Death in the Mouth, and Black Static, among others. She is editor of Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction. Despite all of this, she would investigate a clown hanging out in a sewer grate.
Carson Winter is an award-winning author, punker, and raw nerve. His fiction has been featured in Apex, Vastarien, and Tales to Terrify. “The Guts of Myth” was published in Volume One of Dread Stone Press’ Split Scream series. His novella, Soft Targets, is out now from Tenebrous Press. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
“Un-builds a mosaic narrative from the exquisitely deconstructed corpse of Gothic fiction. Toomajan and Winter kick our expectations out like delinquents smashing windows, then remodel the old bones of the haunted house story to entrap the reader in a joyfully wicked architectural beast.”
Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Convulsive
“Disturbing, yet often tender, thanks to imagery that stuns and creeps and never forgets that a haunted house needs humans inside of it. A refreshing and evil spin on a classic trope by two fierce talents.”
Michael Wehunt, author of The Inconsolables
POSTHASTE MANOR is out October 18th! We’ll be talking to Jolie and Carson a whole lot more next week.
SPLIT SCREAM HALLOWEEN
The next volume in Alex Ebenstein’s SPLIT SCREAM series—and first from Tenebrous—arrives this Halloween! Here are the deets on the two latest Weird Novelettes that lurk within:
Nonsense Words by D. Matthew Urban
An aging professor of ancient history strikes up a friendship with her new colleague, Dr. Paul Duncan, a scholar of undecipherable inscriptions. As she finds herself drawn into Dr. Duncan's life—his brilliant wife and mystical daughters, frightened students and uncanny associates—darker forces behind his research emerge, plunging her into a nightmare of mythical absurdity and ritualistic death. Dark academia meets cosmic horror in Nonsense Words, where the incomprehensible is granted a conjured form—but too much imagination can be a dangerous thing. If the cosmos is nonsense, merely a divine or demonic joke, will she live to have the last laugh, or will she die a punchline?
Bone Light by Holly Lyn Walrath
An icy surf batters Bone Light as its beacon calls to weary souls at sea. This edifice built of bone and wretchedness sits atop a cursed rock, surrounded by death, watched over by the ghosts of light-keepers past. Their records tell of the inhospitable environment, but it is Mary Long’s writings that show the heart. Misfortune necessitates the arrival of her dear Ida, laying bear to the obstacles that shaped their history—a husband and taboo among them. These log entries illuminate Mary’s world—the banality, the heartbreak, the magic. In Bone Light, a beacon of death might finally be the thing to give life to a long-denied romance.
Resident Mad Doctor Echo Echo provides the interior illustrations this time around, and I can’t spoil the whole thing yet but here’s a tease:
SPLIT SCREAM Vol. 4 is out this Halloween; preorders will be open by the next time you hear from us!
Alright y’all, be good to one another. See you next week.
Hail Indie Horror.
Hail Split Scream.
Hail Posthaste Manor.
Damn the Machines.
Alex & Matt
I'm protected, electric eye . . .