Ruthanna Emrys - A Half-Built Garden is out!

Out today!

This week on Reading the Weird, everyone is in a bad mood and it's all the fault of toxic masculinity: reactormag.com/terrible-horri…

This week on Reading the Weird: if you haven't seen it yet, you will. Sorry about that. reactormag.com/the-viral-post…

This week on Reading the Weird, a parent's worst nightmare and a very bad idea: reactormag.com/the-limits-of-…

This week on Reading the Weird, AU Mycroft Holmes and the perils of reincarnation: reactormag.com/the-award-for-…

This week on Reading the Weird, King gets the parenting feels pitch perfect: reactormag.com/the-joy-of-the…

This week on Reading the Weird, horror tropes about beds are... different. reactormag.com/reading-the-we…

This week, Reading the Weird enjoys Kyle Murchison Booth's company, but he would rather hide in his office: reactormag.com/reticence-and-…

Going to the ER tonight to try and get admitted because my insurance won't let me see anyone that will do anything to keep my eyesight. I have uncontrolled glaucoma and am in immediate need of care for both that and a corneal transplant. My insurance won't cover anything but that

This week on Reading the Weird, ghosts take the long view on recovery from violence: reactormag.com/love-in-the-ti…

In the latest Reading the Weird, @R_Emrys and @AnneMPillsworth continue digging through Stephen King’s Pet Sematary! We’ve reached Chapter 22, in which the Creed family cat dies, and Louis Creed makes a fateful cursed-cemetery-based decision. reactormag.com/look-both-ways…

This week on Reading the Weird, Megan Chee asks: what if we take wormholes - and the worms that make them - seriously? reactormag.com/the-worms-craw…

This week on Reading the Weird, we continue our Pet Sematary longread. Bad things are coming, but for now Louis feels weird about getting his daughter's cat fixed. The 70s were weird: reactormag.com/scaring-the-gh…

The new Lanternfish Press edition of The Willows, with my introduction and footnotes, is coming in October: lanternfishpress.com/shop/the-willo…

In the latest Reading the Weird, @R_Emrys and @AnneMPillsworth dig into Part 2 of their Pet Sematary exhumation! This week, Jud takes the Creeds to visit the pet cemetery, and we’re sure everything goes great. reactormag.com/smucky-the-cat…

"Metaphors & memories are folded into the body—maybe deliberately, maybe out of necessity." @reactormag's review of RIVERS is like a rabbit-hole, spinning new stories in fine webs between the poems. I'm enchanted by @AnneMPillsworth's magical bus & @R_Emrys' sculpture garden! 💚

@R_Emrys & @AnneMPillsworth wrote the most amazing analysis of my weird swamp story, including an insightful examination of the 2nd person narration and secret cryptid [spoilers], and I'm only just seeing it? reactormag.com/the-shortest-s…

@michaeldthomas I'm so sorry. Her memory for a blessing!

I will be at the Virginia Festival of the Book on Wednesday 3/21, 1pm at the UVA bookstore talking Strange Species with James Sturz: vabook.org/events/2024/03…

What happens when aliens land in the middle of your hopeful, solarpunk future? @R_Emrys talks first contact stories, sympathetic monsters, SF, and the weird fiction/hopepunk world of her latest novel, A Half Built Garden! Listen now wherever the podcasts find you.

This week on Reading the Weird, cars versus steamboats, a soundtrack of anti-capitalist anthems, and an exploration of the lifespan of the common Twinkie! reactormag.com/these-songs-ar…