Jonathan Gensler

@jongensler.bsky.social

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Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Creepy Pod, On Spec Mag, & others. Shaolin Kempo. Snowboarding. Drums. Army vet. Dad.

Image of an 19th Century whaling Ship, with a small crewed whale hunting boat in the foreground next to a surfacing whale. Snowy mountains and sunset sky in the background. The words "A Sea Shanty Halloween" appear across the sky. GHOSTS OF THE ESSEX, A NEW MUSICAL, FRIDAY OCTOBER 31, 2025, 6PM. Hollywood California, RSVP to wineandcheesemusic@gmail.com to get the full address and link to online viewing.
Black and white x-ray image of foot bones, with a double fracture in the second toe.
A comic book cover featuring three European ships on a blood red sea facing the reader, with a massive Native American face hovering in the sky behind them, the bottom half of his face a skull jaw in the water below. EARTHDIVERS KILL COLUMBUS written across the top.
A bald man in a blue karate gi/jacket, viewed from chest up, wearing a blue and a red medal, his fist raised in the air. Splashed over the image are the words: "Broken Bones and Hauntings Coming Your Way. A long summer of inspirational adventure and new books coming down the pike."
A katateka in blue gi and green belt performs a kata in the form of the crane to resounding applause.
An acoustic guitar lays on a sandbar by the Colorado River running through the Grand Canyon reflecting the sunset’s fading light.
Two men, one wearing a light blue AC/DC t-shirt and hat, the other wearing a Twisted Sister t-shirt and rocking a shaka “hang loose” hand gesture.
A close up of a misshapen hole in a door, through which we can see the tops of several strange and broken hotel desk lamps.
The words "Buckle up, Readers, Put your setbacks in an upright a locked position, and do no attempt to run down the aisle screaming when you hear what has really been going on." From "Into the Casbah" by Jonathan Gensler, above an image of the front end of an airplane flying to the right and a rectangular book cover with the words "The Midnight Labyrinth" over a shadowing creature standing before an open, glowing doorway,