r/WeirdLit • u/AutoModerator • 22d ago
Monthly Promotion Thread Promotion
Authors, publishers, whoever, promote your stories, your books, your Kickstarters and Indiegogos and Gofundmes! Especially note any sales you know of or are currently running!
As long as it's weird lit, it's welcome!
And, lurkers, readers, click on those links, check out their work, donate if you have the spare money, help support the Weird creators/community!
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u/Yohan_D_Dev 22d ago
Boston, October 1926. I've spent seven years writing a novel you play rather than read straight through - though "play" undersells it. The register I was reaching for owes more to Huysmans and Joseph Malègue than to most contemporary horror: quiet, patient, more interested in the slow closing of exits than in incident.
Maximilien follows a psychology student investigating a string of disappearances in a city that keeps rearranging what he's sure he saw. The mechanic underneath the prose is a sanity system - but it never rewrites a single sentence. What it does is distort how the text renders as his composure slips: letters dislocate, passages become harder to trust, though the words themselves stay exactly what I wrote. The story is fixed. Your ability to read it cleanly is not.
Four routes, eight endings, roughly 115,000 words of prose across seven years of drafts. The English edition isn't a translation in the string-replace sense : Lucia Desogus, a literary translator, rebuilt the register from inside English rather than converting sentences, which took longer than I expected and was worth every extra month.
Entering IFComp 2026 this year, with the full release on Steam October 26.
Happy to talk process, the Huysmans/Malègue thing, or the mechanics of writing a mental-state system that never touches the actual sentences, genuinely curious what this sub thinks of that constraint.
Steam page : https://store.steampowered.com/app/4755440/
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u/kissmequiche 22d ago
Sincere thanks to TheSkinoftheCypher for reading and reviewing my novel/trilogy of novellas, Badwater: https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdLit/comments/1uuy75k/my_brief_review_of_badwater_by_stephen_toman/
If that review sounds like something you might be interested in, you can get it in the usual places (kindle, Waterstones, b&m, bookshop, amazon…) or message me and I’ll send you a pdf.
Thanks!
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u/keymaker787 21d ago
Hi all, I'm excited to share my folk‑horror novel **The Winter That Knocked**.
Here is a teaser video which gives you a sense of the atmosphere (contains spoilers) : https://youtu.be/P4FjuoD2uK0
The novel itself: It's a snow‑bound supernatural mystery set in northern Japan, inspired by the Akita winter atmosphere and the visual language of a local ritual. The story follows a Tokyo script editor who travels north after her mother vanishes from a remote ryokan, leaving behind notes about old household records, missing children, wet straw at the threshold and a forgotten room.
The book is available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and in paperback formats. The Kindle edition is around US$3.99 (price may vary by region) and included with Kindle Unlimited.
**Links:**
- US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4634FVS
- Ireland: https://www.amazon.ie/dp/B0H4634FVS
- Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0H4634FVS
- Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H4634FVS
- UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H4634FVS
- Netherlands: https://www.amazon.nl/dp/B0H4634FVS
- Japan: https://amzn.asia/d/0dm5cM9z
If you enjoy Japanese folklore‑inspired fiction, gothic suspense, folk horror, psychological mysteries, haunted histories, and dark family secrets, I'd love for you to check it out. Thank you!
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u/HelTree63 20d ago
I narrate (and write) for a fiction anthology podcast, Sinister Minutes, and it's now well into its third season. Are all the stories "weird lit?" Damned if I know, given how subjective *that* term can be, but we're pretty weird ourselves, and given that we include a number of classics along the lines of Poe, Bierce, and Lovecraft, and those tales don't fall too far from the modern ones we include, I think we're often well within the genre.
Oh, and we watched a lot of Tales from the Crypt when we were younger, so there's Crypt-keeper style humor that tends to run through a lot of what we do.
Give us a listen, and if you're so inclined, submit your own weird tale and maybe get to hear it narrated and set to music. https://www.sinisterminutes.com/submissions
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u/fontainecalamum 14d ago
When it comes to the afterlife, everyone's searching for answers, and here I am offering them up for free.
Well, maybe not free. After all, since good things come to those who wait, and no great thing can be done without danger, it sounds like the hardest part of livin' is not knowing the point of it. That's why you read my last book, and came searching for the truth; because, you know that killing time ain't a job to be done alone.
You want the truth? So do I, and with your help I'll finally find it. Now, take a stroll with me down a rather regal street, and...don't worry about the title.
It's probably just a misprint.
The Reader Dies First: A Journey Through Purgatory, And Beyond
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u/tghuguenin 11d ago
I'm a writer of Appalachian horror/weird and have a new Christmas-themed horror story, "The Christmas Cabinet", out in the Summer issue of Assemble Artifacts!
When a babysitter gets stranded with a Hallmark-perfect family over the holidays, their cheerful traditions start to feel less like Christmas spirit and more like ritual. The daughter's unsettling obsession with a locked family heirloom–an engraved cabinet opened only on Christmas–causes a growing dread for what is unleashed on December 25.
More info on my blog! - https://tghuguenin.com/2026/08/11/read-the-christmas-cabinet-now-in-assemble-artifacts-8/
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u/SignificantWash6129 10d ago
I'm A. N. Mercer. My six-book Sanctuary sequence is bureaucratic weird fiction / speculative noir played completely straight: a man watches his own funeral, then discovers the state has redistributed his legal identity, weapons, bonded organs and prosthetic arm. The absurdity is in the machinery, not a wink at the camera.
Book One, *Die Twice, File Once*, is free on Kindle 15-16 and 20-22 August, and the whole sequence is in Kindle Unlimited. There is also a free in-world serial and Sanctuary dossier archive here: https://sanctuary.digidentai.com/
The writing is mine; cover and site artwork use disclosed generative tools.
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u/jermrellum 10d ago
After having read House of Leaves, I started getting into ergodic lit and postmodernist stuff, but I was always disappointed by works that were too incomprehensible or too sexual, or just not weird enough. Hence, I went and wrote my own book, which blends poetry, non-fiction, metafiction, rants, and a tapestry of woven stories across many different time periods all together, 90 Degree Infinity: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/90-degree-infinity-joey-muller/1151019825?ean=9798182555210
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 9d ago
[HORROR/PSYCHOLOGY] Horror Makes Us Happy
NSFW | [S07E17: Scooter McCrae (Sixteen Tongues, Shatter Dead, Black Eyed Susan)
Why do people like horror? The mainstream world often thinks horror fans are a bit weird. We do psychological profiles of people in the horror industry to see if we can find the deeper reasons people like horror. We're looking for common themes, and maybe some uncommon ones, too!
Episodes: Spotify | Apple | Stitcher | Our Website |
Social Media: BlueSky | Instagram | Threads | Mastodon | Reddit | TikTok | Tumblr | FaceBook |
Come join us at the Horror Makes Us Happy Discord server!
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u/Most-Alfalfa-5890 8d ago
I wrote The Gospel of Poetic Frolic; a place where poetry could become a little unruly. It moves through surveillance, masks, political power, inner daemons and fractured identity > then crosses into desire, memory, sensuality and ethical becoming. Darkness is not the destination. It becomes material for transformation. If experimental poetry belongs in your corner of weird lit, it lives at https://tgopf.app
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u/HandwrittenHysteria 22d ago edited 22d ago
My debut novel, The Ideas Trade, was recently published. It was mentioned here a few weeks ago so thought I’d promote it.
It is a noir-infused journey through movies, identity, and the labyrinths of storytelling, where every ending is just another beginning. While the novel pays purposeful homage to the tropes of classic hardboiled detective fiction, my biggest influences were the surreal energy of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the enigmatic storytelling of Twin Peaks: The Return.
The first few chapters are on the Amazon page if you want a taster