Matthew Bean
@mbean.bsky.social
Benevolent god to some shrimps. Writer in the Iodine State.
Read “Like Paralda” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52.
matthewbean.net
LIKE PARALDA: smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06/22/lady-churchills-rosebud-wristlet-no-52/
Read “Like Paralda” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52.
matthewbean.net
LIKE PARALDA: smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2026/06/22/lady-churchills-rosebud-wristlet-no-52/
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Matthew Bean
@mbean.bsky.social
· Jul 9
In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify.
#anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction
#anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction
It's almost apartments now.
July 22, 2026 at 3:32 PM
It's almost apartments now.
July 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
What on (and just above, mostly to the left) blue blazes?
Shroomses.
Shroomses.
July 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
What on (and just above, mostly to the left) blue blazes?
Shroomses.
Shroomses.
and I love you and I'm tired of you
Anyone else wishing their beloved novel would just shut up already?
#amwriting #speculativefiction #wip
Anyone else wishing their beloved novel would just shut up already?
#amwriting #speculativefiction #wip
July 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
and I love you and I'm tired of you
Anyone else wishing their beloved novel would just shut up already?
#amwriting #speculativefiction #wip
Anyone else wishing their beloved novel would just shut up already?
#amwriting #speculativefiction #wip
In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify.
#anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction
#anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction
July 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify.
#anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction
#anticapitalist #speculativefiction #WeirdFiction
In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify.
Read the zine digitally or in print—link in bio.
Read the zine digitally or in print—link in bio.
July 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
In “Like Paralda”—available now in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 52—an ambitious musician explores the utility of envy and how artistic autonomy means mutation: becoming something the system can no longer commodify.
Read the zine digitally or in print—link in bio.
Read the zine digitally or in print—link in bio.
Some of my most influential nonfiction and "nonfiction" books, plus some bonus games.
#Shelfie #OccultBooks #Esoterica #Folklore #Mythology #ReligiousStudies #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction #OSR #TTRPG
#Shelfie #OccultBooks #Esoterica #Folklore #Mythology #ReligiousStudies #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction #OSR #TTRPG
July 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Some of my most influential nonfiction and "nonfiction" books, plus some bonus games.
#Shelfie #OccultBooks #Esoterica #Folklore #Mythology #ReligiousStudies #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction #OSR #TTRPG
#Shelfie #OccultBooks #Esoterica #Folklore #Mythology #ReligiousStudies #WeirdFiction #SpeculativeFiction #OSR #TTRPG
"A Concise Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Terms". A must-have for writing a novel about a basilica built on terrible secrets! Okay, maybe not a must-have, but fun & useful. Great estate sale find. Certainly not the original owner’s intended use…😈
#SpeculativeFiction #WritingResearch #ReligiousHorror
#SpeculativeFiction #WritingResearch #ReligiousHorror
June 25, 2026 at 4:00 PM
"A Concise Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Terms". A must-have for writing a novel about a basilica built on terrible secrets! Okay, maybe not a must-have, but fun & useful. Great estate sale find. Certainly not the original owner’s intended use…😈
#SpeculativeFiction #WritingResearch #ReligiousHorror
#SpeculativeFiction #WritingResearch #ReligiousHorror
I’m proud to announce that my short story “Like Paralda” has been published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no. 52. I’m honored to be included among so many remarkable LCRW contributors.
Available July 7, 2026. Link in bio.
Available July 7, 2026. Link in bio.
June 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I’m proud to announce that my short story “Like Paralda” has been published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet no. 52. I’m honored to be included among so many remarkable LCRW contributors.
Available July 7, 2026. Link in bio.
Available July 7, 2026. Link in bio.
June 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
This is exactly the sort of history I love to explore in my writing. What if pulp occultism was real and ubiquitous?
So far, all the answers I’ve cobbled together point toward something as bleak and beautiful as our own world, if weirder and worse.
So far, all the answers I’ve cobbled together point toward something as bleak and beautiful as our own world, if weirder and worse.
May 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
This is exactly the sort of history I love to explore in my writing. What if pulp occultism was real and ubiquitous?
So far, all the answers I’ve cobbled together point toward something as bleak and beautiful as our own world, if weirder and worse.
So far, all the answers I’ve cobbled together point toward something as bleak and beautiful as our own world, if weirder and worse.
Fought a gang of pill bugs for a key under the moldering hemp doormat and he was in.
May 19, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Fought a gang of pill bugs for a key under the moldering hemp doormat and he was in.
May 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM
BLACK BRANE by @michaelcisco.bsky.social
Reading this book is clinging to the edge of a hole. Finishing is falling in. It swallows whole horror and philosophy and string theory and the occult. Entangle yourself in this novel.
Reading this book is clinging to the edge of a hole. Finishing is falling in. It swallows whole horror and philosophy and string theory and the occult. Entangle yourself in this novel.
May 12, 2026 at 4:18 PM
BLACK BRANE by @michaelcisco.bsky.social
Reading this book is clinging to the edge of a hole. Finishing is falling in. It swallows whole horror and philosophy and string theory and the occult. Entangle yourself in this novel.
Reading this book is clinging to the edge of a hole. Finishing is falling in. It swallows whole horror and philosophy and string theory and the occult. Entangle yourself in this novel.
MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
A mother grows something to love from her son's lung - a monster, a person, a monster. Strange, dark, hopeful, heartbreaking. A story of loving on purpose. Find a cozy spot to hang from your arm tail, unhinge your novel-jaw, and devour this book.
A mother grows something to love from her son's lung - a monster, a person, a monster. Strange, dark, hopeful, heartbreaking. A story of loving on purpose. Find a cozy spot to hang from your arm tail, unhinge your novel-jaw, and devour this book.
![Cover design by Alex Merto @alexmerto [Image 1 & 2] & Miette Kringen [Image 3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aiumpej5kfdipq7hmz3o3toi/bafkreigu2ep35v3zho2hjwyuhlsxvmyqck673u4ncgyvmm63myp7llxfou)
![Cover design by Alex Merto @alexmerto [Image 1 & 2] & Miette Kringen [Image 3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aiumpej5kfdipq7hmz3o3toi/bafkreicqhurt7agruzzwxzgxtl36vzkzz7unjptkpogznmd4fh4cnip6w4)
![Cover design by Alex Merto @alexmerto [Image 1 & 2] & Miette Kringen [Image 3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aiumpej5kfdipq7hmz3o3toi/bafkreidnusd7htgjpvnnti6tpmmii3h2gj4puykywp4ho54nn6sw5tl3je)
April 29, 2026 at 3:37 PM
MONSTRILIO by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
A mother grows something to love from her son's lung - a monster, a person, a monster. Strange, dark, hopeful, heartbreaking. A story of loving on purpose. Find a cozy spot to hang from your arm tail, unhinge your novel-jaw, and devour this book.
A mother grows something to love from her son's lung - a monster, a person, a monster. Strange, dark, hopeful, heartbreaking. A story of loving on purpose. Find a cozy spot to hang from your arm tail, unhinge your novel-jaw, and devour this book.
Haunted Chest of Drawers
Marcelin (Ed.): "La Vie Parisienne" (1863)
Marcelin (Ed.): "La Vie Parisienne" (1863)
March 26, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Haunted Chest of Drawers
Marcelin (Ed.): "La Vie Parisienne" (1863)
Marcelin (Ed.): "La Vie Parisienne" (1863)
Attended @awpwriter.org in Baltimore. What a treat. I spent the first two days talking about how charming it was, only to find out it's called Charm City! I friggin love you, Bmore, can't wait to come back.
March 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Attended @awpwriter.org in Baltimore. What a treat. I spent the first two days talking about how charming it was, only to find out it's called Charm City! I friggin love you, Bmore, can't wait to come back.
This is the year I discover the spirit of Christmas.
After that, I'm not sure. I guess, learn and incorporate its true name into a pentacle written on virgin parchment, summon it, bind it within a magic circle of salt, then bend it to my mortal will? We'll see if there's time.
After that, I'm not sure. I guess, learn and incorporate its true name into a pentacle written on virgin parchment, summon it, bind it within a magic circle of salt, then bend it to my mortal will? We'll see if there's time.
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is the year I discover the spirit of Christmas.
After that, I'm not sure. I guess, learn and incorporate its true name into a pentacle written on virgin parchment, summon it, bind it within a magic circle of salt, then bend it to my mortal will? We'll see if there's time.
After that, I'm not sure. I guess, learn and incorporate its true name into a pentacle written on virgin parchment, summon it, bind it within a magic circle of salt, then bend it to my mortal will? We'll see if there's time.
"I simply want ice cream and to be alive until I am dead."
- "The House Call" from Near Flesh, by Katherine Dunn.
#writingcommunity
- "The House Call" from Near Flesh, by Katherine Dunn.
#writingcommunity
October 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"I simply want ice cream and to be alive until I am dead."
- "The House Call" from Near Flesh, by Katherine Dunn.
#writingcommunity
- "The House Call" from Near Flesh, by Katherine Dunn.
#writingcommunity
"I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed."
- Evelyn Waugh
This quote gifted me the fulfilling experience of reading something I already knew, but couldn't yet voice.
#writingcommunity
- Evelyn Waugh
This quote gifted me the fulfilling experience of reading something I already knew, but couldn't yet voice.
#writingcommunity
April 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"I regard writing not as investigation of character, but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed."
- Evelyn Waugh
This quote gifted me the fulfilling experience of reading something I already knew, but couldn't yet voice.
#writingcommunity
- Evelyn Waugh
This quote gifted me the fulfilling experience of reading something I already knew, but couldn't yet voice.
#writingcommunity
Move over annelids, handelids are the new it-worm!
April 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Move over annelids, handelids are the new it-worm!