Grimscribe Press

12/11/2025

Many thanks!

September 2026.
Cover art by Harry 0. Morris and Rachael England.

Author's Bio
Dr. Raymond Thoss is a clinical psychologist who works primarily with trauma patients, with a specific focus on victims of child abuse and neglect. The kindest thing he can say about his childhood is that he survived it. As a despairing teenager who had lost all will to live, he read Ligotti's omnibus, THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY, straight through in two days while recovering from a vicious beating. Thomas Ligotti saved his life.

As an adult, Dr. Thoss worked in national disaster zones, mental health clinics, academic hospitals, and juvenile detention centers, and has been a faculty member at multiple institutions. His life’s mission: to help the traumatized, the abandoned, and the lost.

Book Synopsis
The pentagram, once a symbol of protection, became corrupted into a mark of darkness. THE REBELLION AGAINST THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE mirrors that transformation, protecting readers through the corruption it reveals.

Five points form this pentagram: "Notes on a Horror" defines the enemy. "Trauma Narration" offers a weapon. "Pensées Noires" contemplates the struggle. "Listening to Monsters" applies Sun Tzu's first principle—know your enemy. "The World As Will And Desolation" applies his second—know yourself.

Built from personal trauma and forged through clinical practice, this work uses Thomas Ligotti's philosophical framework from THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE as its foundation. It provides tools for survival and rebellion, demonstrating that healing emerges not from denying the darkness of human existence, but from acknowledging and confronting it.

12/11/2025

September 2026.
Cover art by Harry 0. Morris and Rachael England.

Author's Bio
Dr. Raymond Thoss is a clinical psychologist who works primarily with trauma patients, with a specific focus on victims of child abuse and neglect. The kindest thing he can say about his childhood is that he survived it. As a despairing teenager who had lost all will to live, he read Ligotti's omnibus, THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY, straight through in two days while recovering from a vicious beating. Thomas Ligotti saved his life.

As an adult, Dr. Thoss worked in national disaster zones, mental health clinics, academic hospitals, and juvenile detention centers, and has been a faculty member at multiple institutions. His life’s mission: to help the traumatized, the abandoned, and the lost.

Book Synopsis
The pentagram, once a symbol of protection, became corrupted into a mark of darkness. THE REBELLION AGAINST THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE mirrors that transformation, protecting readers through the corruption it reveals.

Five points form this pentagram: "Notes on a Horror" defines the enemy. "Trauma Narration" offers a weapon. "Pensées Noires" contemplates the struggle. "Listening to Monsters" applies Sun Tzu's first principle—know your enemy. "The World As Will And Desolation" applies his second—know yourself.

Built from personal trauma and forged through clinical practice, this work uses Thomas Ligotti's philosophical framework from THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE as its foundation. It provides tools for survival and rebellion, demonstrating that healing emerges not from denying the darkness of human existence, but from acknowledging and confronting it.

12/02/2025

Cover reveal!

Art by Vergvoktre.

EVERYWHERE IS A HORROR STORY by Kurt Fawver, coming August 11th, 2026.

10/14/2025

Now available today in trade paperback (free shipping) and pay-what-you-can eBook (ePub) from Grimscribe Press. DAUGHTERS OF CATASTROPHE is an incredible, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated chapbook by the tremendously talented S.P. Miskowski. Cover art by the legendary Harry 0. Morris.

Speaking of Shirley Jackson, this tale of familial horror and dark redemption is a wonderful fusion of Jackson's wry, unsettling prose and Flannery O'Connor's disturbing, often hilarious, Southern Gothic stories. Weird fiction luminaries Linda Rucker, Kristi Demeester, and John Langan praised this novella. Don't miss it!

10/10/2025

Cover reveal! DAUGHTERS OF CATASTROPHE, a novella by S.P. Miskowski. Cover art by the legendary Harry 0. Morris.

Shipping next week!

Synopsis

After a long and mysterious absence, Alma Parker returns to her rural Georgia home, setting off a violent emotional conflict with her sister Martha over control of the household. Raised on brutality and familial sacrifice, the sisters have taken different paths following the death of their mother. Together, the women must decide how to live in the shadow of their mother’s monstrous legacy.

Praise for Daughters of Catastrophe

“Narrated in prose as languid and deceptively dreamlike as a Georgia summer afternoon… Nobody does very bad women like Miskowski, and this deeply disturbing story further establishes her as a master at exploring the psychological terrain of the kind of women who aren’t supposed to exist.”
– Lynda E. Rucker, Shirley Jackson Award winner and author of You’ll Know When You Get There

“…the return home of a prodigal sister is the catalyst for a series of searing family revelations. Alternating between memory and confrontation, the narrative lays bare the secrets and sins that have bent and warped the lives of the three Parker sisters.”
– John Langan, author of Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions

“…a glorious, heady rush of red clay dusted prose… Miskowski has created a story that will linger in the darkest rooms where you store your secrets.”
– Kristi DeMeester, author of Dark Sisters

Author: S.P. Miskowski Cover Artist: Harry 0. Morris Publication Date: October 14, 2025 Published by: Grimscribe Press 66 pp. Pre-order here (Shipping and Handling Included for Most Addresses) Sy…

10/03/2025

This is an excellent deep dive into Slatsky’s collection, THE IMMEASURABLE CO**SE OF NATURE—specifically, the titular novella.

This was the first full length book I ever published as the editor-in-chief at Grimscribe Press, and I would’ve done a lot of things differently if I could go back. But if you haven’t read it, you should. It’s one of the best weird fiction collections I’ve ever read, let alone published.

Christopher Slatsky follows Ursula K. Le Guin in asking difficult questions.

08/11/2025

It’s alive!

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11/20/2024

Launch day for this magnificent debut collection by LC von Hessen has finally arrived! These stories are wickedly funny, subversive, strange forays into von Hessen's twisted imagination, and the style of their prose is out of this world. Surely one of the best collections of the year.

Get it! Read it! Review it! Support subversive, great weird writers!

Author: LC von Hessen Cover Artist: LC von Hessen Publication Date: November 20, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 242 pp.   Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included wo…

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! I've got three, no four, no FIVE recommendations on this grand holiday:

1) GLASS STORIES by Ivy Grimes (Grimscribe Press). A short debut collection of connected stories--some of the most bizarre, absurd, and funny you're ever likely to read. Grimes is an original and quite a new talent, though you wouldn't know it reading her exceptional work. GLASS STORIES is widely available now, everywhere books are sold.

2) SPIRITUS EX MACHINA by LC von Hessen (Grimscribe Press). This is another debut collection (a meaty one) by an incredibly original, newer author of the weird--also one of the very best in the field, in fact, as luminaries like Michael Cisco (who writes the Intro) will attest. These are wickedly funny, subversive, strange forays into von Hessen's twisted imagination, and the style of their prose is out of this world. Limited hardcovers (sold out) are printing and shipping from the distributor as I type. Trade paper and eBook drop November 20th.

3) THE STAY-AWAKE MEN audiobook by Matthew M. Bartlett, available widely. Read by me. Bartlett is one of my favorite authors, full stop. Nobody like him. These stories were a joy to read aloud and lend themselves to being heard as well as read on the page. Gritty, grimy, wildly original, and gloriously funny.

4) THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE: A CONTRIVANCE OF HORROR by Thomas Ligotti, read to you by me, care of Penguin Random House Audio (the second Ligotti book of theirs I've narrated). As pseudo-Ligotti character Rust Cohle observed, this is indeed "heavy s**t." It's also an extraordinary masterpiece--quite likely the best thing this living legend will ever write. It's dark and heady as it gets, but it's also deeply and paradoxically humane and almost continuously hilarious. Reading it from the inside out was inexpressibly awesome, and I loved and was honored to do it. Hearing it is electric and totally a different experience from reading it on the page. This audiobook is widely available

5) NOCTUARY & THE SPECTRAL LINK also by Thomas Ligotti, narrated by me for the always amazing Chiroptera Press. This pairs Ligotti's most underrated collection with perhaps his least read, smaller (and most recent) collection. Both books contain some of Ligotti's very best fiction to date, which is saying something. NOCTUARY itself is perhaps thematically more intertwined piece by piece than any other collection he's published--even GRIMSCRIBE. This one is also widely available.

If you've gotten down this far, thanks for reading this. Hope you have a memorable, creepy, fun night!

10/30/2024

This marvelous review just came out from Kirkus. Here's a tidbit of the review itself. Read it! Limited hardcovers are printing and will soon be shipping. Trade paper and pay-whatever-you-can eBooks drop in less than a month.

"Machines, dolls, and ghastly things animate von Hessen’s debut collection of somber horror tales…Von Hessen’s 14 stories herein tackle such diverse subgenres as the undead, body horror, and something more Lovecraftian…but there’s a discernible theme of identity that runs throughout the book... In every chilling moment and unexpected turn, the author’s prose is nothing short of intoxicating…Razor-sharp writing distinguishes stories that enthrall as often as they unnerve."

Machines, dolls, and ghastly things animate von Hessen’s debut collection of somber horror tales.

10/28/2024

For the night crew...

"Glass can represent many things: clarity, fragility, artificiality, illusion. In these 17 tales, the author forms glass into all manner of ideas to beguile her characters and reflect—darkly—aspects of their off-kilter lives…The stories are united by Grimes’ comic strangeness…the premises are always slightly dreamlike, and the dialogue is oblique, with inevitable intrusions of the humorous and the surreal…Fans of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender will enjoy these original, abstruse folktales and the elusive magic that animates them. A wry and memorable collection of sleek fables."
-Kirkus Reviews

Available in trade paper with free shipping worldwide and pay-whatever-you-can eBook edition. You're going to want this book.

Author: Ivy Grimes Cover Artist: Jesse Peper Publication Date: August 21, 2024 Published by: Grimscribe Press 142 pp.   Trade Paperback – $20 USD(Shipping and handling included worldwide…