Meet Tenebrous Kate

Tenebrous Kate is a New Jersey-based writer and artist whose work explores her longstanding fascination with all things dark, fantastical, and forbidden. She is the cohost of the literary podcast Bad Books for Bad People and creates limited run items under her micro-publishing imprint Heretical Sexts. Publications that have featured her work include Heathen Harvest, Nine Circles, Slutist, and Ultra Violent Magazine. Her illustration clients include Spectacle Theater, Death in June, and Porta Nigra. Kate is an enthusiastic public speaker who has spoken at Kevin Geeks Out, Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, and the Alamo Drafthouse. Her long-running blog, Love Train for the Tenebrous Empire, cataloged her encounters with offbeat cinema, literature, and art. Her interests include psychosexual cult films, downer vibes, basement bars, surrealist and decadent art, and all manner of esoteric nonsense.