Chris Kelso

Bluesky already feels more worthwhile than X. Here's 'On Melting: essays against the body', out through @filthyloot.bsky.social. It features blurbs from @horrorsong.blog and Ewan Morrison.

Sick of Stories (an interview with David Keenan) by Chris Kelso bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/10/21/s...

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SINGLE REVIEW: VANTABLACK - PHANTOMS OF NAGASAKI Simon Tucker reviews the "literary splatterpunk chamber doom/drone" of Vantablack's new single.

Vantablack is a literary splatterpunk chamber doom/drone band founded by Scottish author Chris Kelso and composer Nick Hudson and Stuart Dahlquist.

I have a story in this occult anthology! @pspublish.bsky.social 😍

The third Dawn Seliger* story, "Let Us Create Nothing but GOD!" will appear in Through a Glass Darkly: An Anthology of Occult Investigations, Chris Kelso and Preston Grassmann, eds., in the first half of2027.

I have a story coming out in this anthology -- Through a Glass Darkly -- from PS, edited by Preston Grassman and Chris Kelso, cover art by Myrtle Van Damitz. Some of the other contributors are -- Kaaron Warren, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Thomas, Eugen Bacon, Jonathan Maberry, Paul Di Filippo, etc.

Coming soon: Through a Glass Darkly is the largest anthology of its kind, twenty seven widely acclaimed writers take us into the darkest territories of the occult. Edited with my brother, Preston Grassmann.

Finally got the chance to meet my Children of the New Flesh co-editor, David Leo Rice. What a guy, and what a lovely evening. @1111press.bsky.social

Another festival nomination for our shirt film Metympsychosis

My pal Bruce sent me a picture or The Folger Variation in the window of Transreal Fiction! @miketransreal.bsky.social

Pleased to say my sort-of essay "Chestbursting" will be included! It's about *that* scene in Alien (1979), and watching it then and now as a transgender man.

What an honour to visit the Alasdair Gray Archives today with the family 💚💜❤️

Wonderful to welcome Chris Kelso and his family to the Archive! 📚✨ Scottish fantasy writer, illustrator and editor, Chris is a two-time Ginger Nuts of Horror Novel of the Year winner. A pleasure to have them visit!

LIBERATION NOW! by Seb Doubinsky is ON SALE NOW! “Liberation Now! is an antidote to our modern malaise ... bold, stylish, and impossible to put down.” ~Chris Kelso, author of The Dregs Trilogy zurl.co/WVP1y @sebdoubinsky.bsky.social @chris88.bsky.social

The following books are now sold out or out of print. Not included, The Dissolving Zinc Theatre. Which disappeared into obscurity some years ago.

Excited to announce The Human Costume (On Selfhood, Alienation, and the Body We Borrow). Edited with my bud, @roychristopher.com , and coming out through Anti-OedipusPress. Slated for a 2027 release 🙌

Excited to announce The Human Costume (On Selfhood, Alienation, and the Body We Borrow). Edited with my bud, @roychristopher.com , and coming out through Anti-OedipusPress. Slated for a 2027 release 🙌

This arrived from Black Shuck publishing. No idea what it’s about, but it was recommended by a potentially angry ginger Scotsman with a beard and his two warhounds ( @gnofhorror.com ), and even I know that’s a line you don’t cross.. The Dregs Trilogy by @chris88.bsky.social #booksky

Nova Scotia Vol 2 anthology, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J. Wilson, is now available for pre-order! @neilwilliamson.bsky.social www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/chris-k...

Nova Scotia 2: Discover our contributors! www.lunapresspublishing.com/post/chris-k...

Feed: "DC's" By: DC on Friday, February 14, 2025

We have an essay up today on ergot.: 'On Fuckedness or The New Empthy' by Chris Kelso www.ergot.press/authors/Chri...

"SHADOWSPHERES is a hybrid collection of essays & stories exploring the psychological and cultural fallout of a world accelerating beyond human control. Blending dystopian nonfiction, speculative fiction, and philosophical reflection, SHADOWSPHERES examines what remains human when society fractures"

And some more to summarise recs so far. Two of which I own, but thanks to @gnofhorror.com for the third which I ordered direct from the publisher

The Unger House Radicals by Chris Kelso

LIBERATION NOW! coming Aug 4th. “Liberation Now! is an antidote to our modern malaise—a fierce and fast-moving dystopian thriller that’s whip-sharp and brimming with anti-fascist energy. ... bold, stylish, and impossible to put down.” ~Chris Kelso, author of The Dregs Trilogy zurl.co/QD1v2

Excited for this 🙌 @tadethompson.bsky.social

Collected by Chris Kelso available now! From the hallucinatory margins of Scottish fiction comes a career-defining retrospective of collected short stories. "Visceral, rotten, funny, mind-expanding," says Chris McQueer. paperback and digital formats. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...

Very humbled that Andrew Coulthard wrote a critical analysis of my early Slave State books. Coming soon.

Very humbled that Andrew Coulthard wrote a critical analysis of my early Slave State books. Coming soon.

Summer is finally here and with it comes ISSUE ELEVEN! ☀️ FICTION Suad Kamardeen Deborah Chu Margaux Vialleron @erisyoung.bsky.social Joni Morris Jacob Parker Jack Lennon Hamish Gray NONFICTION @jencalleja.bsky.social Chika Jones @rachelashenden.bsky.social @clarepatterson.bsky.social

This is good book news. Kelso is really good.

Nice to meet @robinince.bsky.social tonight. What a gentleman!

Spanning fifteen years of nightmares, time crimes, and transgressive visions, COLLECTED gathers the essential short fiction of Chris Kelso – one of the most singular voices in contemporary cult literature. to be published 28th May Available for pre-order www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...

Last chance to give Possession a nomination for this year's Rondo Hatton 'book of the year' Award!

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Here's a link to my Collected short fiction book out through @shoreinf.bsky.social. I'll be launching the book at Satellite 9 on May 24th 😎 www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...

Chatted with the esteemed Chris Kelso at @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/02/c...

"Their work is prenatal with meaning and subtext. That’s something that makes them worthy of critical analysis. You want to write about these films because they are positively heaving with symbolism." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/02/c...

Shoutout to Chris Kelso, whose non-fiction title POSSESSION (PS Publishing) is nominated for a Rondo Hatton award. Voting for all categories ends May 1st and the link is YKW. Congratulations to Chris and all of the other nominees.

Possession: Dreams of Suffering and Sanity has been nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award. Please consider voting for it, although all the nominees are phenomenal. TO VOTE, simply email David Colton at taraco@aol.com by on Friday night at midnight, May 1, 2026.