Horror author Michael J. Riser updates with a blog, new horror art throughout Bookruptcy, and some news on his editorial position at Screen Rant.
2023.10.31 -
"Lucid Interval” published in Qualia Nous vol. 2 from Written Backwards. Available in hardcover, softcover, and ebook formats.
2023.10.31 -
"What's Left of the Sun” published in Put Out the Lights and Cry from Outcast Press. Available in softcover and ebook formats.
2022.01.01 -
“Observance” published in Coffin Bell‘s vol. 5 issue 1 to finish out 2021 with a bang. Available for free.
2021.10.01 -
“Adopt Now” published in Coffin Bell‘s vol. 4 issue 4, "Technophobia", alongside a boatload of other great work. Available for free.
2014.06.19 -
"Love, Posey" appears in Solarcidal Tendencies (paperback from CreateSpace/Amazon.com $10).
2014.05.27 -
"Cradlesong" appears in Despumation vol. 1 (paperback issue from CreateSpace/Amazon $6.99, $3.99 for Kindle).
2014.05.18 -
"Casa de Perros" appeared in Pantheon Magazine's anthology Gaia: Shadow & Breath (paperbacks from $10-$13 at CreateSpace/Amazon, ebooks for $2.99).
2013.12 -
"Dog Training" and "As Simple as Teacups" featured in the Fall 2013 issue of Sheepshead Review (print only - $5, shipping included, here).
2013.10.12 -
Come Death featured on deviantART.com.
2013.09.21 -
The Pursuit of Love and Labor published in Deimos eZine, vol. 2, issue 3.
2013.01.06 -
"Snow Angels" published in Downer Magazine (defunct).
2012.12.12 -
"Love, Posey" published at Solarcide.com. Eventually removed to be published in a future Solarcide anthology.
2012.04.26 -
because I still don't get e. e. cummings featured at myhero.com for National Poetry Month.
2011.11.15 -
blue sluice featured on deviantART.com.
2011.02.07 -
Featured in deviantART.com's The A,B,C's of Literature: Q by the-photographicpoet.
2011.01.10 -
a poem from a well bottom featured on deviantART.com.
2008.12 -
"poet show" was published in UNC Charlotte's Sanskrit, vol. 39, pg. 19.
2008 -
Poem "profanity" was published by Black Book Press.
I absolutely adored There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm (Sam Hughes). You can read it for free now, and a new published version is apparently coming this year! You do not need to having even passing familiarity or interest in SCP to enjoy.
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I'd like my readers to experience a sense of existential dread so great that it dwarfs the more immediate, relatable terrors of the modern world. Especially fascism. Dread as a comfort. Dread as the hope and promise of something more.
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Chaotic Author Matt Mason
22.1.2025 @ 19:42#HorrorWritersChat question 3:
Now, your readers. What, ideally, would you like others to feel at the end of reading any of your horror stories?
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Horror is a lens through which to view the self, the world, and the boundaries of existence. It's a safe place to explore unsafety and uncertainty. In a world as fucked up as this one, it's one of the few genres that makes any sense to me since roughly 2016.
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Chaotic Author Matt Mason
22.1.2025 @ 19:24#HorrorWritersChat question 2 (whoops, a little late with this due to so many answers to QI):
What does horror mean to you personally?
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I'm Michael J. Riser. I write a lot of cosmic horror, mostly tuned toward death, god, and religious trauma. I don't think that's a subgenre, but hopefully it will be once my novel DIVINE APPETITES comes out. :D
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Chaotic Author Matt Mason
22.1.2025 @ 19:00And we are underway with #HorrorWritersChat question 1...
Introduce yourself: tell us who you are, what you write, and your favourite horror subgenre to write.
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Some of the #horrorwatch crew may perk up at this news ...
Bob Pastorella
22.1.2025 @ 17:44THE SMALL HOURS, releasing June 2025 from @ghoulish.bsky.social, has many inspirations.
LIFEFORCE is definitely an inspiration, especially Mathilda May's hypnotic gaze. And the nudity.
Oh yes, there's definitely naked vampires.
Pre-order THE SMALL HOURS now: ghoulish.rip/product/the-...
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Hey people!!!!! Good mood and good luck to everyone!!!!!
This was great to reead
Grateful for shariing this
Thanks, Chris! Gonna buckle down and get er done this year if it kills me.
Looking forward to reading the book when it's ready!