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| Founded | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Matt Blairstone |
| Country of origin | United States of America |
| Headquarters location | Portland, Oregon |
| Distribution | International |
| Key people | Alex Woodroe, Editor-in-Chief |
| Fiction genres | Horror, New weird |
| Official website | tenebrouspress |
Tenebrous Press (10p) is an indie publisher of horror and new weird literature based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. It was founded and is still run by Matt Blairstone. Its editor-in-chief is Alex Woodroe. The first book published by Tenebrous Press was the eco-horror anthology Green Inferno (2021) which was published after a successful crowdfunding campaign via the website Kickstarter.[1]
History
[edit]Tenebrous Press was founded by horror and comic writer Matt Blairstone in 2021 out of a frustration at a lull in the comic publishing industry caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] It funded its first anthology, Green Inferno, through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter.[3] In an early interview, Blairstone called Green Inferno, "simultaneously the trial balloon to see if I know what the hell I’m doing, and the announcement that Tenebrous Press has arrived."[2] The anthology included a short story by Alex Woodroe, who would later become Tenebrous Press' editor-in-chief. Woodroe had given up on submitting her writing to publishers and did not even know about Green Inferno until friends of hers revealed that they had submitted the story "Depth of the Water" to the anthology on her behalf and that it had been accepted.[4]
Blairstone recruited Woodroe as the editor of Tenebrous Press' second anthology, In Somnio.[4] He later said that this was the point when "Tebebrous was fully formed".[5] Woodroe also coined the term "new weird horror" to describe the genre focus of Tenebrous Press, a term which was later adapted to "new weird lit" in order to encompass other genres.[6]
2022 novella One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve by M. Shaw was Tenebrous Press' first single-author publication.[5] Several other Tenebrous Press publications were shortlisted for the 2022 Shirley Jackson Award. Tim McGregor's Lure for the novella award, Your Body is Not Your Body for edited anthology, and "Brother Meternitas" (a story from that anthology by Viktor Athelstan) for short fiction.[7][4]
In 2023, horror and speculative fiction publisher Dread Stone Press closed down. Twice a year, it had published pairs of horror novelettes under the name Split Scream. When Dread Stone Press closed, the Split Scream branding and format was passed on to Tenebrous Press. It began publishing the series (still edited by Dread Stone founder Alex Ebenstein) with the fourth volume, featuring novelettes from D. Matthew Urban and Holly Lyn Walrath.[8][4]
References
[edit]- ^ Ferguson, James (20 March 2021). "Green Inferno Hits Kickstarter for Nearly 200 Pages of Terror". Horror DNA. Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ a b Fawns, Angelique (3 April 2021). "Matt Blairstone, Terrestrial Horror & his Green Inferno". The Horror Tree. Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ Bermea, Bobby (13 March 2021). "Matt Blairstone: Oh, the horror!". Oregon Artswatch. Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d Bermea, Bobby (27 October 2023). "Bobby Bermea: The dark and gloomy glories of Tenebrous Press". Oregon Artswatch. Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ a b Blairstone, Matt; Woodroe, Alex (28 August 2024). "075: Just like a three-year-old's birthday party, except the cake has tentacles". Tenebrous Press Newsletter.
- ^ Woodroe, Alex. "What is New Weird Lit?". Tenebrous Press. Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "2022 Shirley Jackson Awards Nominees". Shirley Jackson Awards. June 2023. Archived from the original on 7 January 2025. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "Dread Stone Press". Dread Stone Press. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
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