Jon Padgett

Jon Padgett is a professional–though lapsed–ventriloquist who lives in New Orleans with his spouse, their daughter, and a rescue dog and cat. He is the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Vastarien, a source of critical study and creative response to the work of Thomas Ligotti. Padgett’s first short story collection, The Secret of Ventriloquism, was named the Best Fiction Book of 2016 by Rue Morgue Magazine. He has work out or forthcoming in Weird Fiction Review, PseudoPod, Lovecraft eZine, Xnoybis, and the anthologies A Walk on the Weird Side, Wound of Wounds, Phantasm/Chimera, and For Mortal Things Unsung.
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Cadabra Releases:
Written & Read:
20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism
Origami Dreams
The Mindfulness of Horror Practice
Read:
The Bungalow House
The Red Tower
The Small People
Gas Station Carnivals
The Clown Puppet
Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel
Liner Notes:
The Mill River Revenant
Bibliography:
Secret Gateways (Box Set), with Matthew M. Bartlett, Nightscape Press, November 2019
“To a Puppet, From a Dummy,” Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh, June 2019
The Broker of Nightmares (Kindle), Nightscape Press, April 2019
“Yellow House,” Ashes & Entropy, April 2019
“A Little Delta of Filth,” PseudoPod, Episode 609, August 2018
20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism (Fully Illustrated), Tallhat Press, March 2018
The Broker of Nightmares (limited hardcover), Nightscape Press, October 2018
20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism – LP (SOLD OUT), Cadabra Records, April 2018
“Absurd Degenerations and Totalitarian Decrepitude in “The Town Manager,” Weird Fiction Review, December 2017
“The Great Grey Bulk,” (aka “Ganesha Consumes)”, Phantasm/Chimera: An Anthology of Strange and Troubling Dreams, July 2017
“A Little Delta of Filth,” Walk on the Weird Side, Summer 2017
“Escape to Thin Mountain,” Pseudopod, Episode 547, June 2017
“Murmurs of a Voice Foreknown,” For Mortal Things Unsung, Escape Artists, March 2017
The Secret of Ventriloquism (audiobook), Jon Padgett, February 2017
“Organ Void,” The Junk Merchants, November 2016
The Secret of Ventriloquism (Kindle), Dunhams Manor Press, October 2016
The Secret of Ventriloquism (trade paperback and limited hardcover), Dunhams Manor Press, October 2016
“The Mindfulness of Horror Practice,” Antenna::Signals, issue 003, October 2016
“Murmurs of a Voice Foreknown,” Pseudopod, episode 490, May 2016
“The Mindfulness of Horror Practice,” Pseudopod, episode 471, January 2016
“The Indoor Swamp,” Xnoybis, #2, October 2015
“The Secret of Ventriloquism,” The Lovecraft eZine, Issue #35, Summer 2015
The Infusorium, Dunhams Manor Press, Spring 2015
“20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism,” Pseudopod, episode 433, April 2015
“20 Simple Steps to Ventriloquism,” The Grimscribe’s Puppets, June 2013