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What’s going on with tiny frights?

Posted on January 14, 2025January 15, 2025 By caracabe

What’s going on with tiny frights?

I’ve decided to turn it into my personal horror blog. Posts will probably be infrequent, and I expect they’ll mostly be about what I’m reading, viewing, or listening to in the horror genre (or horror-adjacent material). I might occasionally post original writings or art. Zine issues and podcast episodes will remain available.

On Saturday, January 18th, I will be shutting down the tiny frights Facebook and Instagram accounts.

tiny frights will remain active on Bluesky and Mastodon.

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tiny frights is ceasing publication

Posted on November 6, 2024January 15, 2025 By caracabe

tiny frights is ceasing publication, and there will be no new podcast episodes.

Much gratitude to everyone who’s been a part of tiny frights. As much as possible, be safe and be well.

(I plan to keep past issues and podcast episodes online.)

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tiny frights vol. 3 no. 2, Halloween 2024 is live!

Posted on October 31, 2024 By caracabe
tiny frights cover, featuring a jack-o-lantern on a dark background

tiny frights vol. 3 no. 2, Halloween 2024, is live! Read or download it from one of the following links:

  • Web: https://issues.tinyfrights.com/webpub/tiny-frights-v03-n02-halloween-2024.html
  • PDF: https://issues.tinyfrights.com/v03n02/tf-v03-n2-halloween-2024.pdf
  • EPUB: https://issues.tinyfrights.com/v03n02/tf-v03-n2-halloween-2024.epub

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tiny frights vol. 3 no. 1, Walpurgis 2024 is live!

Posted on April 30, 2024April 30, 2024 By caracabe

tiny frights vol. 3 no. 1, Walpurgis 2024, is live! Read or download it from one of the following links:

  • Web: https://issues.tinyfrights.com/webpub/tiny-frights-v03-n01-walpurgis-2024.html
  • PDF: https://issues.tinyfrights.com/v03n01/tf-v03-n1-walpurgis-2024.pdf
  • EPUB: https://issues.tinyfrights.com/v03n01/tf-v03-n1-walpurgis-2024.epub
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tiny frights is leaving Substack

Posted on January 1, 2024 By caracabe

tiny frights is leaving Substack, for reasons explained in this article on Business Insider. 

As a replacement, we’ll be managing subscriptions in-house with phpList.

If you’re one of our Substack subscribers, you’ll receive an email soon explaining how to continue to get our content.

If you’re not yet one of our subscribers, you can subscribe to the new system at https://tinyfrights.com/mlist/?p=subscribe&id=1, where you’ll have a choice of three “newsletters” to subscribe to:

  • tiny frights updates
    • Join this list to be notified when a new issue of the tiny frights zine is published. Notifications will contain links to the issue web page, a PDF version, and an EPUB version. Subscribers to this list may receive occasional announcements, updates, or other items of interest between issues.
  • tiny frights podcast
    • Join this list to be notified when a new issue of the tiny frights podcast drops (usually once a week).
  • tiny frights full issue
    • For most people, I wouldn’t recommend subscribing to this list, which will send full issues of the tiny frights zine to your email inbox. These will be huge files with multiple embedded images. As with the “tiny frights updates” list, subscribers to this list might occasionally get other, related, emails.

We won’t sell or give your information to anyone, unless we’re compelled to do so by law, which seems unlikely.

For now, the tiny frights content that’s on Substack will stay up, but it won’t be there permanently.

I hope for a pleasant and pleasantly spooky 2024 for you all!

Sincerely,
Carl Bettis, editor

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tiny frights leaving Substack

Posted on December 26, 2023 By caracabe

tiny frights will be leaving the Substack platform soon. (If you don’t know what Substack is, this change won’t affect you.)

More details to come once I work out the logistics.

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tiny frights submissions are closed

Posted on October 1, 2023 By caracabe
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Door_and_stairs_in_Portugal.jpg

tiny frights submissions are closed until November 1st, 2023. Look for the next issue on Halloween day!

News, Updates

We have a podcast!

Posted on July 23, 2023 By caracabe

tiny frights now has a weekly podcast! The first episode has been released, and the next three are in the works. Find it wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442.

Many thanks to Anne for helping make this a reality.

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Update 2022-09-18

Posted on September 18, 2022 By caracabe

Today begins Banned Book Week. You might want to check out the American Library Association’s 13 Scary Banned Books to Read for Halloween.

In other calendar-related news, the deadline for the Halloween 2022 issue of tiny frights is September 30th, less than 2 weeks away! If you have little scary poems or microfictions or spooky works of visual art, now is the time to send them! (Please read our submission guidelines first.)

Horror reads since the last update:

  • Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed, a combination coming-of-age novel and cosmic horror
  • The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher, weird horror with humor and tenderness
  • My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, an original and thrilling take on the final girl trope

Probably at least one of these will be reviewed in the upcoming issue.

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Update 2022-07-15

Posted on July 24, 2022January 29, 2023 By caracabe

With only two issues of tiny frights a year, I figured I should put out the occasional interim update.

Horror reads since Walpurgis night

One or more of these might be reviewed in the upcoming issue.

  • Dark Country by Monique Snyman, a horror detective novel.
  • Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from Women of the Weird, edited by Mike Ashley.
  • Manhunt, a dystopian near-future novel by Gretchen Felker-Martin.
  • What Can You Say Against a Death Machine? a collection of absurdist short stories by Marty Shambles.
  • Your Body is Not Your Body: A New Weird Horror Anthology to Benefit Trans Youth in Texas, edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone.
  • Coyote Songs: a barrio noir, a novel by Gabino Iglesias.
  • The Curious Case of H.P. Lovecraft, a biography of the influential horror writer and notorious bigot, by Paul Roland.

My recent horror viewing

  • I watched all four seasons of Hannibal. No disrespect to Anthony Hopkins, but Mads Mikkelson plays the part better. (But then, he had a larger canvas to work on.) I appreciated the importance of William Blake in the 4th season.
  • Blake’s work and thought also played a part in the psychological horror movie Saint Maud.
  • Brand New Cherry Flavor — this miniseries kept me watching to the end, but I’m still not sure what I think of it.
  • I was disappointed by the final season of Stranger Things.
  • I rectified a grievous omission in my education by finally watching Get Out, and I’m glad I did.
  • Ditto The Shape of Water.
  • Watching the series Midnight Mass was time well spent, but it could have been even better.
  • I continue to watch my way through Wynonna Earp, but it’s starting to remind me of Supernatural.

Miscellaneous spookiness

My wife and I spent a couple of nights at The Elms Hotel & Resort, and I went on the paranormal tour. There were a few tales of apparitions, but most unexplained occurrences seemed to fall under the heading of poltergeist phenomena, or maybe just mischievous spirits moving things. We experienced nothing eerie during our stay.

The Halloween 2022 issue

The next issue is starting to take shape, with art, poetry and fiction by the likes of Kathy Allen, Jerome Berglund, Alex Bestwick, Linda M. Crate, Mort Duffy, Nolcha Fox, Madison McSweeney, Jennifer Rodrigues, and your humble editor. If you’d like to join this illustrious roster, the deadline for submissions is September 30th. See the submission guidelines for details.

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