Carrie-Edmund Laben

What if the world was on fire? What if a tiny group of queers, burnouts, and witches were fighting an oppressive government and an evil scientist from South Africa? What if family was way more complicated than most people think? It's not the news, it's my new novel: wordhorde.com/product/ss-b...

Preview: Visiting America – Fantagraphics to Publish R. E. Burke’s Graphic Memoir Account of Being Unjustly Incarcerated by ICE and the Stories of the Detained Women She Met. @fantagraphics.bsky.social www.brokenfrontier.com/preview-visi...

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Here’s the audio from the October 14th Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series, with guests John Langan & Carrie-Edmund Laben. Both read from their work to a large, enthusiastic crowd. @johnlangan.bsky.social @carrielaben.com @datlow.bsky.social www.kgbfantasticfiction.org/2026/10/27/a...

Society likes to conceptualize nudes as this extreme faux pas and no one is normal about them and it sucks. It would be so much better if we all shared nudes, so much better for it to be normal to be proud of like “hey friends, check out how pretty my cock is.” A better world is possible

Men today stand on broken masonry of schools they bombed, the smell of canvases they burned still in the air, the ash of books they torched stinging the eyes, and they will insist "Those who dwell here build nothing. They contribute nothing to science, art, or literature. Savages, every one."

Beloved friends! (And foes, and that one guy who's just kinda always around!) Today is the day! Today you can buy SMOKE SEASON as an audiobook, narrated by the mellifluous Mark Sanderlin. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Smoke-...

There are few joys like opening up a micropress book of local ghost stories and discovering that it's not just rehashed versions of the common urban legends but a genuinely bananas collection of body-snatching incidents, the mysterious deaths of carnies, and the like.

Wanting to ban trans women from sports is, even once you root out the biological ignorance on the effects of HRT, about punishing women for being too good at things.

Lets get it started

I know a lot of good kids and "creative, empathetic, loves animals" while all extremely positive qualities are also like, the most generic good-kid qualities? There's nothing personal in that at all.

Left Behind and Truth's Decline: How We Came to Live in Tim LaHaye’s World by @workerslit.bsky.social www.typebarmagazine.com/left-behind-...

Posting the ProPublica link instead of the "snitch cop has a sad" NYT framing because this whole thing is an even wilder ride than it looks on the surface.

Ethics and morals aside I feel like dating someone you know you can easily fool would just be... unbearably boring. And lonely.

nooo no it doesn't nothing compares honestly #HorrorWatch

Damn, yeah, that final sequence doesn't get less haunting... #horrorwatch

I am revising my estimation of seeing this cold from "amazing" to "how did anyone survive the experience?" #horrorwatch

Wait, what about someone who was killed *by* brain damage, like Johnny? #horrorwatch

This scene is weirdly... subtle... for what it is, which is a wild sentence to type... #horrorwatch

Wait, does a single named character in this movie *not* die because of the bad decisions of a woman? Damn, movie. #horrorwatch

Being one of those extras must have been intense. #horrorwatch

You'd think they could've drawn one woman who deals with trauma by *over*functioning out of the lot... #horrorwatch

This interview sequence is phenomenal. I can't think of a popular horror movie with more unconventional but effective pacing. #horrorwatch

Smoking right over your sick daughter's bed... #horrorwatch peak 60s parenting!

This is a LOT of philosophical discussion for the circumstances. #horrorwatch

What's the point of arguing for a back door if you already know you're surrounded? #horrorwatch

Barbara, I know the answer is 'trauma' but WHAT IS YOUR DEAL?! #horrorwatch

God could you imagine how electric this movie was the first time it aired? There was literally nothing like it. Not even at the start. #HorrorWatch

But sincerely: this lighting. #horrorwatch

I thought 1960s cars had a little more steel to 'em. Huh. #horrorwatch

Most vindicated obnoxious nerd in horror movie history. #horrorwatch #ripjohnny

He's still right, Barbara, you're under a damn tree. #horrorwatch

Honestly Johnny is right tho. That's why we have global warming and lead-poisoned governance now. To say nothing of zombies. #horrorwatch

This opening shot is really giving my hometown, if you're wondering how I caught the horror bug in the first place. #horrorwatch

Just hit go on a rightfully classic #horrorwatch

My sister-in-law got this great photo of my signing at @eveninghouse.bsky.social last night.