Ausiàs Tsel

2027

J.R. Andrews, Zak Cowell, Suzy Eynon, Ivy Grimes, Rebecca Harrison, Travis D. Johnson, Cliff Jones Jr., Massimo Magee, T.J. Price, Rhiannon Rasmussen

@jrobertandrews.bsky.social @reprobvte.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @cliffjones.bsky.social @eerieyore.bsky.social @charibdys.bsky.social

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Our Questionnaire is LIVE!

Thanks to all who have already completed it.

The information will be used to help us improve things here, both now and in the near future.

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Not bad, not bad at all.

Great questions! and great to see who’s out here writing this stuff. The horror community on here is something else. See you next week.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

If you're on Substack I'd love to know. I'm at ausiastsel.substack.com

The ants built their trail around the bed. Perfect circle. They didn’t stop when we sprayed them. They didn’t stop when we moved the bed. They are still there. The circle is smaller now.
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Ants. Not because of the bite. Because they already know something is wrong with the house before you do, and they’ve already decided where the edges are.
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The pig of Sant Antoni. Blessed, untouchable, free to roam the village. Everyone feeds it. Nobody questions it. We are surprisingly confortable with a sacred animal that could eat anything.
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Ausiàs Tsel. I write Mediterranean Gothic: the horror underneath liturgy, harvest festivals, village silence. Nature intrudes as rot. The fig tree. The dry riverbed. The saint’s feast no one questions.
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The Bread Ausiàs Tsel   My son leaves the bread upside down because he is six and the world is a surface you can rearrange. It’s a barra—too long for the plate, too warm for patience—resting on the tab…

I’m really proud of having "The Bread" at @pitheadchapel.bsky.social. Writing it confirmed something: Mediterranean Gothic doesn't need fiction. The dread is already in the kitchen. I'd like to know what you think. pitheadchapel.com/the-bread/

🔥Demà arriba a les llibreries l’esperadíssim…🔥

Ja ha sortit la meva traducció de «Maria Stuart», la novel·la amb què Stefan Zweig narra la biografia truculenta i controvertida d’aquesta reina escocesa —tan controvertida, per cert, que la versió anglesa de l’obra es va publicar fortament censurada.

An honor to be part of this, and with incredible company.

Our March Issue is live!
pitheadchapel.com/2026/03/01/v...

Cover Art by KYLE MERCER

Fiction by
CHARLIE KIEFT
PHEBE KIRKHAM
KATHRYN REESE @kathrynreese.bsky.social
DOUGLAS BAKER

Nonfiction by
AMY TURN SHARP
AUSIÀS TSEL @ausiastsel.com

Prose Poetry by
SEAN CHO A.
LILY CROWDER
MATT POINDEXTER

Per anar fent gana pel vermut, us convidem a llegir la presentació i les primeres pàgines de MARIA STUART, de Stefan Zweig i traducció de Joan Ferrarons, cortesia de @vilaweb.cat
: 🫴 www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/ava...

The Bread Ausiàs Tsel   My son leaves the bread upside down because he is six and the world is a surface you can rearrange. It’s a barra—too long for the plate, too warm for patience—resting on the tab…

First published nonfiction. ‘The Bread’ at @pitheadchapel.bsky.social — Mediterranean Gothic without ghosts. Just bread, superstition, and a son who learned cruelty could look like intelligence.
pitheadchapel.com/the-bread/

The Hermitage | Neon & Smoke

By the way, have you read my The Hermitage on @neonandsmoke.bsky.social ? I would love to know your opinion. www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...

🚨 Això és el dissabte vinent...

🎁 Atenció que hi haurà regals!

🎲 Rifarem entre els assistents:

- 📚 1 exemplar del joc de rol LA CRIDA DE CTHULHU (1996) !

- 🎨 10 cartells A3 de l'esdeveniment

I per a tothom, fins esgotar existències:

- 📜 1 Certificat exclusiu de pèrdua de seny 🤪

The Inevitable Encounter Ausiastsel.substack.com

THE INEVITABLE ENCOUNTER 姤 — Part Three "Now we can truly talk."

The I Ching calls it Zhōng Fú — Inner Truth. The kind that only surfaces when every exit is sealed.

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/the-inevit...

Tomorrow. Only on ausiastsel.substack.com

Right of Way New flash fiction. A four-second gap and everything it costs.

You brake. You leave a gap. You nod. Someone thanks you with a raised hand. Three hundred meters later a question corrodes you.

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/right-of-way

Pròximament a Males Herbes⏳

Quina alegria. A Substack vaig publicant ficció i assaig sobre tot açò; persianes, silencis, sants que no protegeixen ningú. Seràs benvinguda.

"El Mediterrani no discuteix. Enguixa. Les dictadures es van acabar, les democràcies van arribar, i els ossos van quedar sota terra. Cap comissió de la veritat. Cap retre comptes públicament. Només construcció nova sobre fonaments vells, i l’acord tàcit que cavar és de mal gust."

Llegiu:

Has triat el fragment exacte. Gràcies per fer-ho córrer, Clara. Per cert, tinc el Breve viaje por la España de las brujas, transitem territoris veïns.

She Found a Way Out. She Didn’t Take It. The Relief

New story on Medium: "The Relief."

A woman puts her head into a hole in her boyfriend's flat. What she finds there is the first thing that has ever made sense to her.

She spends the rest of the relationship pretending it didn't.

Què és el Gòtic Mediterrani? Notes per a una definició | Ausiàs Tsel Sobre l'horror sota llum dura, les persianes tancades i el silenci de les institucions.

Porto temps escrivint sobre persianes tancades i cuines on se sopa en silenci. Sabia que allò que m'espantava no tenia res a vore amb la boira ni amb els castells del nord. Però no tenia les paraules.

Açò és un intent de trobar-les.

ausiastsel.substack.com/p/que-es-el-...

For those who love horror! Thanks for sharing your words @ausiastsel.com

Proud to be in this issue. My story “The Hermitage”; a crumbling ermita in the Valencian hinterland, a stolen rosary, and saints that no longer answer to anyone. Free to read.

www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...

The Hermitage | Neon & Smoke

“The Hermitage” is out in Issue 2 of @neonandsmoke.bsky.social. Valencian hinterland. A saint with patient eyes. What happens when obedience ends but power doesn’t.
www.neonandsmoke.com/issue-2/the-...