Dim Shores

12/27/2025

OK, barely under the wire for 2025, THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT is in stock and shipping. Don’t miss the debut collection from Rhiannon R.S. , with cover art by Lucia Retamales. Featuring interior art by Lucia and Rhiannon herself, and cover design by Gross and Colorful. 168 pages, includes two exclusive stickers, limited to 150 copies and over 2/3 sold out already.

12/10/2025

A lot of good things coming soon so I’m back on this damned hellsite. The first one is Rhiannon Rasmussen’s debut collection THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT, one of the stronger debuts I’ve read. Don’t just take my word for it, here is what the legendary Brian Evenson has to say.

11/20/2025

“A book dripping with elegant prose that traps its readers in a growing unease."

A glowing endorsement from the amazing co-founder of Black Tabby Games, Abby Howard, for Rhiannon Rasmussen's THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA.

Preorder: bit.ly/3XyScs6

11/18/2025

Dim Shores is proud to present THE MAIDENS OF MIDNIGHT AND OTHER LOST MEDIA, a short story collection by Rhiannon Rasmussen, hauntingly illustrated by Lucia Retamales.

A limited run of 150 copies, 12 dark tales of different stripes and flavors that run the speculative genre gamut, concluding with the titular novella "The Maidens of Midnight."

Coming in December 2025, pre-order is open now. bit.ly/3XyScs6

09/05/2025

Art exhibit opening tomorrow night at Bloodstone Books in Sacramento. Includes art by Margaret Brundage, Frank Frazetta, Glenn Chadbourne, Molly Devlin, and my friend Matthew Jaffe’s original painting for Scott Nicolay’s DS book _caterpillars_. A special edition (26 lettered copies) of _caterpillars_ signed by Matt and Scott will be available during the showing.

08/13/2025

Momentarily back on this godsforsaken hellsite to bring a worthy event to yer attention. Sacramento-area folks, this should be a good time. Bloodstone Books is a relatively new bookstore with a great selection of inclusive horror, fantasy, science fiction, and weird books, plus other related items. I somehow haven’t had any Sac City Brews beer but I have high hopes. See you there?

Join us at Sac City Brews on Aug 16th from 1-5p for our next great grown-up book fair!

If you love books - especially scifi, fantasy, and horror - and tasty grub and craft beer, then you wont want to miss this experience.

The book fair will be at 3940 60th St, Sacramento, CA 95820 on 8/16. Our shop will still be open our normal hours.

06/02/2025

Ugh. Dim Shores is reluctantly still here from time to time. I have demonetized my pages as much as possible and am enthusiastically blocking all kinds of sh*tty accounts. Encouraging more of my friends to give Bluesky a try too. No algorithm and no ads, at least for now. More like Xitter than FB but feels good there without Zuck etc. breathing down my neck.

05/06/2025

OK, back on Facebook in a limited capacity to spread the word about a couple of benefits. First:

Back in 2015 I published the second Dim Shores chapbook -- _after_ by Scott Nicolay, with incredible cover and interior illustrations from Michael Bukowski. Michael is raffling off what remains of his original artwork as a benefit for the Sameer Project in Gaza, a donations-based aid initiative for Gaza led by Palestinians. I donated one of my precious copies of the novella and a set of the full color art prints that accompanied the book 10 years ago, and these will be included with Michael’s original art.

This is a special opportunity to get original art and the very rare chapbook (only 160 were printed). Raffle tickets are $6 USD, link down below.

01/18/2025

I received the second and final box of Scott Nicolay’s novella _caterpillars_ yesterday, and I begin fulfilling orders today. (Gorgeous cover art by Matthew Jaffe.)

As promised, I am giving away a copy of Scott’s rare 2015 Dim Shores novella _after_, including a set of four color prints by Michael Bukowski, to one lucky pre-order. There were 113 eligible orders; I used random.org to pick the winner, and that person is Oliver McCormick. Congrats Oliver, your Nicolay novellas will be on their way to you soon.

If you haven’t read _after_, it is reprinted in Scott’s excellent second collection And At My Back I Always Hear (2022, Word Horde).

_caterpillars_ is limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. There are currently 19 copies left in stock.

And please say hello to new intern Minx, fostered then adopted from a rescue in November. She is 2 years old and manages to be both sweetheart and dedicated sower of chaos.

01/15/2025

Well, I received one box of Scott Nicolay's new novella _caterpillars_, but the second box is somewhere in the bowels of the USPS, last seen in Phoenix AZ. *sigh* So if you order now you still have a chance to win a copy of Scott's rare 2015 novella _after_. There are 23 copies of _caterpillars_ left in stock.

_caterpillars_cover art by Matthew Jaffe, _after_ cover and prints by Michael Bukowski.

01/03/2025

Down to 33 copies of Scott Nicolay's brand new novella _caterpillars_. I just approved the final proof and ordered the print run, hope to have books in-house and ready to ship in about two weeks.

As a reminder, everyone who pre-orders _caterpillars_ will have a shot at winning a true rarity: a recently unearthed copy of the 2nd edition of Scott's 2015 DS novella, _after_, plus a set of the four Michael Bukowski prints that came with the 1st edition.

Also, I'm losing my ability to tolerate Meta's nonsense. These new "AI profiles" would be funny if they weren't so bad for so many reasons. I foresee a time when I shut down this page and the IG page. If you want to stay informed about DS stuff, please sign up for the mailing list and/or follow me on Blu3sky (which doesn't suck yet).