C.H. Pearce

📌 ✨ 👋🏻 Hello friends! New pinned post Portfolio: www.chpearce.net/portfolio Bibliography: www.chpearce.net/bibliography Print shop: inprnt.com/profile/chpearce/ Tumblr: tumblr.com/chpearcewrites Insta: instagram.com/c.h.pearce/ Rep @clgslr.bsky.social

proximate is 30% off for scream fest... wow store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/...

The Greatest Forms of Potato mini zine by the indefatigable Sarah Hingley (@sazzsquatch on Instagram) a big hit with the birthday girl, thank you ✨ 🥔 ✨ (I love the little guy on the envelope!) #bookmail #zines

Such a joy to get to do the cover art for Saros SF #7 ed. K. Thompson, I adore all the stories and the theme “Terminally Online.” 🔥 💻 📱 I even got to write about my current favourite parasite/isopod/metaphor cymothoa exigua! 💛 👅 🐟

Chimera Con lineup incoming! Tickets available here! events.humanitix.com/chimera-con-...

Seeking recommendations for Book Riot, my lovelies: What are some Native and Indigenous SFF that you're excited about releasing this year? SFF that leans horror is totally fine as well. Links appreciated!

Writing is an incredible way to share our most intimate thoughts, fears, and desires. No clanker could ever hope to replicate it, and it's pathetic that there's a whole industry built around attempting to produce sad little copies of real stories with real emotions and experience behind them.

Today is the digital release of Saros Spec #7 (print edition coming soon) and I’m beyond pleased to have my story “The Pieces” in its pages. Give the issue a look, it’s a good one! sarossf.com/issue-7/

Orion’s Belt is open to submissions until October 31! @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social www.orions-belt.net/submissions

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2026!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's August's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Spot the friend (bonus smol friend in final pic) 🕵 #kangaroos #canberrawalks

your moment of nose wibbles

—wait to read your stories! Just a few more hours left before #OpportunityWindow closes to #timeloop stories, so make sure you get 'em in before 11:59pm CDT! duotrope.com/duosuma/subm... I can't—

🏆🎃THE ATTIC TRAGEDY by J. Ashley-Smith: Forget jump scares. This Shirley Jackson Award-Winning novella is pure, slow-burning gothic dread. The perfect atmospheric read for a dark Halloween night. #boo zurl.co/kRgTz #Horror #GothicHorror #Ghosts #awardwinner @spooktapes.bsky.social

🎉 story out! The Animals Who Live at the Edge of the Human World is in Cosmic Horror Monthly. After humans abandon him in the Florida Everglades, an albino tegu wants to live. He encounters other abandoned pets. One is friendly. Another is a cat. cosmichorrormonthly.com/store/cosmic...

It’s Spooky Stories night! If you’re in Canberra come along to Gang Gang cafe 6:30pm tonight where I’ll be reading a weird horror story (guess what it’s about) with other amazing local writers, artists & musicians + launch of Lost Souls 04! 👻 📚 Info & tix: events.humanitix.com/lost-souls-m...

Kaaron Warren's GOING TO SUMMERTIME is out on October 27th, just in time for Halloween :) The official #blogtour starts 10/26 but you can check out the schedule & enter the giveaway now. If you haven't preordered your copy: FIX THAT NOW! zurl.co/wFYZH #horror #ghosts @kaaronwarren.bsky.social

also ALSO we're open for novella submissions right now more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

This sounds amazing 👀 📚

I am loving all the responses to this! Terry Gilliam wanted all the actors to have period-accurate (crooked, stained etc) teeth in The Brothers Grimm (2005) but the powers that be wouldn’t let him :-( Immense respect for trying though! 🦷

Which character is the protagonist do you think? I love all three anyway! 🖤

Fantastic author talk last night at Welcome to the Future with @charliejaneanders.com, @barbaratruelove.bsky.social, @garthnix.bsky.social & @kaaronwarren.bsky.social at Smith’s Alternative! All the pitches were so good I couldn’t resist buying all 3 👀📚 (yes my bookshelf is getting out of control)

You may enjoy ONE LAST LAUGH IN THE DARK now! That's right, it's here! My new novella, One Last Laugh in the Dark, is finally available! You can find purchase links on the BIBLIOGRAPHY page of this blog. And here is the full spread cover by Red Wallflower: I discuss much of the book's history in…

Oh Bernard - you're such a bore... #birds #ornithology #audubon #closeup #BirdsoftheWorld #BirdsofBlueSky #photography #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #AussieBirds #AustralianBirds

explaining my books to my mom

what if i wrote a story where somebody made friends with a monster

Spoonquill is an online (fully remote!) residency for spec fic writers with chronic illness. it's free to apply and attend! and I love that it builds in time for life, rest, and digestion/integration of information

The air is chilly, skeletons are dancing, and I'm growing increasingly paranoid about cannibals, occultists, and pod people. That can mean only one thing, October is here. The latest issue of CHM has been out for a minute now, any favorite stories? zurl.co/qmxmJ

Getting into the October spirit? Want some body horror with a side of Gender? “What’s the difference” you say? This story is for you! reactormag.com/not-like-oth...

Two stories (another to come) so far this year, a reprint & a new one. Uncanny: A bot tries to save his owners garden from a land developer's bot. Hilarity ensues! Clarkesworld: My primal scream of anger & hope. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/linc... clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

Do you like TIME LOOPS?? Well I have a dark fantasy novelette, "How Gods Feed" in BCS (beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/how-...) with an ace protag and a fucked up unicorn! ...and a noir, "Can't Rain All the Time," in Gavagai (gavagai.com/posts/6381)! THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY!!

Count spoons and write spec fic? You should apply to Spoonquill: a free online residency for writers with chronic illness. It's designed with rest in mind and has guest sessions by @adapalmer.bsky.social @sarahgailey.bsky.social @dongwon.bsky.social @witchywonderer.bsky.social @jcalyst.bsky.social

did you know that a disproportionate amount of our books are relevant for spooky season? use code BOO for 33% off ebooks until nov 14th yes that date is arbitrary spookiness does not truly have an end point but i had to pick something www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks

Maximum snuggles (they wouldn’t get out of my dressing gown sleeve so I gave them my dressing gown) 🐀 🐀 🐀 #petrats

FF will be open to submissions again during the month of November, so time to start thinking about what piece to send our way! If you need help deciding, I wrote up a statistical analysis of what stories stand the best chances with us. Check it out here: www.patreon.com/fusionfragme...

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I’m a watercolour and mixed media artist. I live in Canberra, Australia with my family and three pet rats. I love illustrating weird, horror-tinged stories (colour covers and/or black and white internal illustrations). 👁️ 🐀 🪸 👻 🌀 👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻 🖤 www.chpearce.net/portfolio

Happy #portfolioday I'm Annalise, a queer freelance illustrator from Australia. I specialise in covers and ttrpg work. Prev clients include Dimension20 and Critical Role. Looking to fill in slots for January and February 2027. www.annalisejensen.com.au

We are pleased to announce that our legendary horror writing competition, Rusty Fears, is back. Check out this year's prompts, as well as the competition Ts&Cs at: https://rustyquill.com/news/2026-10-12-rusty-fears-8/

Them (Laurie Holden as Cybil and Radha Mitchell as Rose from Silent Hill 2006)! The faces aren’t quite right but that’s what practice is for! More original art happening in the background too, will be able to share in the next month or two… 👀 🎨 #fanart

So excited to have my story “Go Eat Some Worms With Callie Cooks” about a young woman’s cooking vlog featuring her helpful live-in fungus friend, Worms, included in RECORDED (ed. @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social) alongside these excellent names! I am obsessed with the formatting too. 🤩 🍄 🔪 🖤

🎃 Just a reminder that our submission window is open until October 31st!!! Keep sending us your stories, poems and reviews! 🎃