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Weird Frequencies: Strange Stories by Stranger Authors
Stare into the digital void with 13 short stories from Youtubers specializing in Pulp, Vintage and Indie literature. This anthology is packed with horror and adventure, crime and mystery, satire and drama. All with a touch of science fiction, and all bloody weird.
Wizard Jim from News from the Gelding
T. H. Brandt from Secret Fire Books
Andreea from Infinite Text
J. Swick from Pulp Mortem
Bryan Raines from Bad Taste Books
Erik Waag
Joseph Reads Books
Chris from Liminal Spaces
Virgil Seine from Literally Books
Richard Remple from Vintage SF
Ira D. Devario from SF Words of Wonder
The Outlaw Levi Wallace
Nick Anderson from The Book Graveyard
Wizard Jim from News from the Gelding
T. H. Brandt from Secret Fire Books
Andreea from Infinite Text
J. Swick from Pulp Mortem
Bryan Raines from Bad Taste Books
Erik Waag
Joseph Reads Books
Chris from Liminal Spaces
Virgil Seine from Literally Books
Richard Remple from Vintage SF
Ira D. Devario from SF Words of Wonder
The Outlaw Levi Wallace
Nick Anderson from The Book Graveyard
308 pages, Paperback
Published December 5, 2025
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January 5, 2026
My thoughts on Weird Frequencies, edited by J. Swick:::::::::
An alien detective searches for clues looking to solve a case on a strange planet, a young woman makes a rare trek across an enormous gorge in order to seek a better life for her people, a man on an airplane reevaluates his life while meeting a mysterious stranger, a member of an alien warrior race discovers a space station covered in gigantic vines discovering the strangest of circumstances upon entering it, morticians in the future use robots and digital transference of lives in order to wage war on death, and a man loves digging a hole so much that it causes the biggest problems reality will ever face.
These are a few of the stories in this anthology edited, produced, and published by booktuber Pulp Mortem. Each story here is written by a beloved book reviewer on YouTube. It is filled with wonderfully realized stories that exceeded my expectations. When you get to know certain reviewers, you tend to wonder what kind of art they would create. A person obsessed with talking about creations should have the desire to create something themselves. Here is proof that this is true. These stories are well worth your time.
An alien detective searches for clues looking to solve a case on a strange planet, a young woman makes a rare trek across an enormous gorge in order to seek a better life for her people, a man on an airplane reevaluates his life while meeting a mysterious stranger, a member of an alien warrior race discovers a space station covered in gigantic vines discovering the strangest of circumstances upon entering it, morticians in the future use robots and digital transference of lives in order to wage war on death, and a man loves digging a hole so much that it causes the biggest problems reality will ever face.
These are a few of the stories in this anthology edited, produced, and published by booktuber Pulp Mortem. Each story here is written by a beloved book reviewer on YouTube. It is filled with wonderfully realized stories that exceeded my expectations. When you get to know certain reviewers, you tend to wonder what kind of art they would create. A person obsessed with talking about creations should have the desire to create something themselves. Here is proof that this is true. These stories are well worth your time.
December 24, 2025
This is a compilation of weird short stories written by a bunch of book-tubers that I follow. Almost all of these stories are excellent.
Some of my favorites were -
Beyond the Thick by J. Swick
Conjunction Junction by Chris from Liminal Spaces
Last Rites by Andreea at Infinite Text
La Fente Eye by Nick Anderson
They are all very good in their own way, including a very sweet comic that could have been fleshed out a bit more by Richard Remple. (The only thing I didn’t love in this book.)
I highly recommend picking this up if you like weird stories. I honestly can’t see a reason to not give this 5 stars. I’m even going to put it on my favorites pile and will probably read a few of the stories in this again.
Some of my favorites were -
Beyond the Thick by J. Swick
Conjunction Junction by Chris from Liminal Spaces
Last Rites by Andreea at Infinite Text
La Fente Eye by Nick Anderson
They are all very good in their own way, including a very sweet comic that could have been fleshed out a bit more by Richard Remple. (The only thing I didn’t love in this book.)
I highly recommend picking this up if you like weird stories. I honestly can’t see a reason to not give this 5 stars. I’m even going to put it on my favorites pile and will probably read a few of the stories in this again.
December 30, 2025
An excellent collection of strange and weird fiction! I definitely recommend it to those who feel that traditional fiction has become stagnant in its style and form.
January 27, 2026
In Weird Frequencies, pulpy science fiction collides with BookTube personality in an anthology that feels more like a clandestine radio transmission than a traditional short story collection. The stories here are brimming with retro-futurist charm, grimy noir aesthetics, slipstream weirdness, and a disarming amount of heart. The through-line isn't narrative/theme consistency but vibe (the best kind)' a persistent sense that you're reading dispatches from alternate dimensions where genre boundaries have melted like celluloid in a projector fire.
Individual Story Reviews
Beyond the Thick by J. Swick
Swick opens his own anthology with confident style and a narrative that feels as if Raymond Chandler were let loose in a Ray Bradbury world. Plotting is lean and efficient; every loaded gun fires, every shadow matters. The “Eye” (it'll make more sense when you read it!) and its mysteries beg for expansion, but even in miniature this is a satisfying adventure in the golden-age tradition.
5/5
Darkness Shared by Joseph Gilbert
A sleight-of-hand story if there ever was one. You think you're watching a space-western meander toward a dusty resolution—AND THEN! the trapdoor opens. The horror element is perfectly timed and devastating in its simplicity. I felt the air knocked out of me in those final moments.
5/5
Mouth of the World by Bryan Raines
A grim parable of otherness draped in grotesque alien skin. Raines writes like he's exorcising something reflective of our reality, something that most people refuse to admit is the underlying truth of our own cruelty. It worked, even as it slowed the pulse in its final moments.
4/5
Conjunction Junction by Chris from Liminal Spaces
What starts in sadness drifts into revelation. Liminal is the right word here. Down to the underlying narrative structures of this story that I found myself constantly thinking of long after I read it. (It might be because of my frequent flights for work and all of the interesting people I meet along the way). This story lives in the in-between, unwilling to resolve completely, and it leaves the reader floating slightly unmoored.
5/5
The Next Cycle by Ira D. Devario
A short sharp shock (say that three times fast) of space horror. The conclusion that felt one paragraph short of full impact. Still, the terror is clean and effective, and there’s something satisfying in its brutal brevity.
4/5
The Ruins of Balor by T.H. Brandt
A pulp pastiche full of bombast and archetypes: the noble hero, the vile villain, the stakes that echo into myth. It's campy, yes, but knowingly so, and its nostalgia is sincere rather than saccharine. Think WW2 Thulian conspiracies and you get the jist.
4/5
Last Rites by Andrea at Infinite Text
An intellectual and emotional gut-punch. This one burrowed in deep and stayed there. What begins as a cerebral meditation on AI and digital mortality soon nosedives into something gothic and horrible. The duality of Ben and Sybil is haunting. This is speculative horror at its most prophetic. Also, what the heck, Andrea at Infinite Text! I demand to know what that ending was about. (You don't have to respond, this story just sticks with me)
5/5
La Fente Eye by Nick Anderson
Classic Lovecraftian dread meets glossy pulp aesthetic. While it ends too soon, there’s richness in the imagery particularly that infinity-shaped jewel, a symbol of recursion and madness. A tale that rewards rereading.
4/5
All Things Unto Themselves by Virgil Seine
An absolute standout. Seine crafts vivid prose with the propulsion of good pulp and the surreal elasticity of slipstream. The worldbuilding crackles with potential, and I found myself mourning the story’s brevity. This could easily anchor a novel or even a series.
5/5
It Was on Deck Three by Erik Wang
A rollicking adventure bursting with genre joy: space-western meets noir heist with just enough grit. The six-legged sidekick is a delight. There's nothing revolutionary here, and it doesn't need to be. Pure entertainment done well.
5/5
Faster Than Life by The Outlaw Levi Wallace
And here’s the crown jewel. A story about transgression and consequence, about the invisible toll of advancement. It’s weird in all the best ways lyrical prose, terrifying implications, and strangely elegiac. If you distilled Black Mirror through the ink of Ballard, you’d get something close to this.
5/5
Bobbi and the Spaceman by Richard Remple
Not a story so much as a vignette, a playful comic interlude. Too short to score, but undeniably charming. The perfect palate cleanser towards the end of the anthology.
The Dig by Wizard Jim
A descent into madness that earns its pacing and its final disorientation. “We are not meant to understand” feels like the secret motto of this whole book. Jim’s prose is crisp, even as the plot spirals into entropy.
4/5
Final Thoughts
Weird Frequencies is a mosaic of pulpy nostalgia and modern unease. It never pretends to be uniform, and that's its power. Each story hums on a slightly different frequency (pun intended) some harmonious, some discordant, but none of them forgettable. At its best, it evokes that sacred strangeness of stumbling upon a late-night radio broadcast full of stories not meant for the mainstream (ala old school twilight zone).
For fans of vintage science fiction with a taste for the uncanny and nostalgia, this is a transmission worth tuning into.
This was an absolute banger of a good time, and will be a book I can find myself recommending to ALOT of friends.
Individual Story Reviews
Beyond the Thick by J. Swick
Swick opens his own anthology with confident style and a narrative that feels as if Raymond Chandler were let loose in a Ray Bradbury world. Plotting is lean and efficient; every loaded gun fires, every shadow matters. The “Eye” (it'll make more sense when you read it!) and its mysteries beg for expansion, but even in miniature this is a satisfying adventure in the golden-age tradition.
5/5
Darkness Shared by Joseph Gilbert
A sleight-of-hand story if there ever was one. You think you're watching a space-western meander toward a dusty resolution—AND THEN! the trapdoor opens. The horror element is perfectly timed and devastating in its simplicity. I felt the air knocked out of me in those final moments.
5/5
Mouth of the World by Bryan Raines
A grim parable of otherness draped in grotesque alien skin. Raines writes like he's exorcising something reflective of our reality, something that most people refuse to admit is the underlying truth of our own cruelty. It worked, even as it slowed the pulse in its final moments.
4/5
Conjunction Junction by Chris from Liminal Spaces
What starts in sadness drifts into revelation. Liminal is the right word here. Down to the underlying narrative structures of this story that I found myself constantly thinking of long after I read it. (It might be because of my frequent flights for work and all of the interesting people I meet along the way). This story lives in the in-between, unwilling to resolve completely, and it leaves the reader floating slightly unmoored.
5/5
The Next Cycle by Ira D. Devario
A short sharp shock (say that three times fast) of space horror. The conclusion that felt one paragraph short of full impact. Still, the terror is clean and effective, and there’s something satisfying in its brutal brevity.
4/5
The Ruins of Balor by T.H. Brandt
A pulp pastiche full of bombast and archetypes: the noble hero, the vile villain, the stakes that echo into myth. It's campy, yes, but knowingly so, and its nostalgia is sincere rather than saccharine. Think WW2 Thulian conspiracies and you get the jist.
4/5
Last Rites by Andrea at Infinite Text
An intellectual and emotional gut-punch. This one burrowed in deep and stayed there. What begins as a cerebral meditation on AI and digital mortality soon nosedives into something gothic and horrible. The duality of Ben and Sybil is haunting. This is speculative horror at its most prophetic. Also, what the heck, Andrea at Infinite Text! I demand to know what that ending was about. (You don't have to respond, this story just sticks with me)
5/5
La Fente Eye by Nick Anderson
Classic Lovecraftian dread meets glossy pulp aesthetic. While it ends too soon, there’s richness in the imagery particularly that infinity-shaped jewel, a symbol of recursion and madness. A tale that rewards rereading.
4/5
All Things Unto Themselves by Virgil Seine
An absolute standout. Seine crafts vivid prose with the propulsion of good pulp and the surreal elasticity of slipstream. The worldbuilding crackles with potential, and I found myself mourning the story’s brevity. This could easily anchor a novel or even a series.
5/5
It Was on Deck Three by Erik Wang
A rollicking adventure bursting with genre joy: space-western meets noir heist with just enough grit. The six-legged sidekick is a delight. There's nothing revolutionary here, and it doesn't need to be. Pure entertainment done well.
5/5
Faster Than Life by The Outlaw Levi Wallace
And here’s the crown jewel. A story about transgression and consequence, about the invisible toll of advancement. It’s weird in all the best ways lyrical prose, terrifying implications, and strangely elegiac. If you distilled Black Mirror through the ink of Ballard, you’d get something close to this.
5/5
Bobbi and the Spaceman by Richard Remple
Not a story so much as a vignette, a playful comic interlude. Too short to score, but undeniably charming. The perfect palate cleanser towards the end of the anthology.
The Dig by Wizard Jim
A descent into madness that earns its pacing and its final disorientation. “We are not meant to understand” feels like the secret motto of this whole book. Jim’s prose is crisp, even as the plot spirals into entropy.
4/5
Final Thoughts
Weird Frequencies is a mosaic of pulpy nostalgia and modern unease. It never pretends to be uniform, and that's its power. Each story hums on a slightly different frequency (pun intended) some harmonious, some discordant, but none of them forgettable. At its best, it evokes that sacred strangeness of stumbling upon a late-night radio broadcast full of stories not meant for the mainstream (ala old school twilight zone).
For fans of vintage science fiction with a taste for the uncanny and nostalgia, this is a transmission worth tuning into.
This was an absolute banger of a good time, and will be a book I can find myself recommending to ALOT of friends.
January 11, 2026
Very good scifi anthology.
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