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Outstanding cover too

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Happy release day, Dan! Can’t wait to dive in to that folk horror goodness

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Come Sing For The Harrowing by @dancoxon.bsky.social is released today. Tales of folk horror to delight and enrich your soul. I am definitely judging this book by it's cover which is amazing 📚 📖
#folkhorror #horror #horrorsky #horrorfamily #horrorbooks #readabook

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Dino Buzzati Il Deserto dei Tartari

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Wonderful writer

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Book birthday! COME SING FOR THE HARROWING is out today! Join me on the Tiny Bookcase podcast, reading a story from the collection and discussing how it came into being. (Contains: wasps.) @clashbooks.bsky.social @tinybookcase.bsky.social

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It's only a week till @clashbooks.bsky.social release COME SING FOR THE HARROWING, and I'll be going on a virtual tour to celebrate the release. From publication day (21st), I'll be discussing the book, folk-horror as a genre, and even perform a reading of one of the stories. Come join the choir.

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58 years ago today, 2001: A Space Odyssey was released and changed cinema forever. 🚀

Kubrick’s visionary sci-fi masterpiece—groundbreaking, enigmatic, & endlessly influential—still feels light-years ahead of its time.

Revisit the film that redefined the genre:

cinephiliabeyond.org/2001-a-space...

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One for any folk horror fans out there - a lively online day of workshops and interviews with Strange as Folk, running on 9th May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #folkhorror #horror #writing #writers #authors #fiction #books #events #onlinevents #novels

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Come Sing For The Harrowing From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman. A young man worki...

Forbidden Planet appear to be selling Come Sing for the Harrowing at the bargain price of £10.99 - so if you haven't already pre-ordered a copy, this is looking like the hot option...

forbiddenplanet.com/491007-come-...

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Storytellers...maybe consider allowing the pets in your stories to live and thrive? Especially Horror books, the Horror genre is exceptionally cruel to animals. I am so traumatized, daily, by the treatment of animals in real life...maybe just for once, LET THE DOG LIVE in fictional stories?? jfc

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NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

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From July 25-31, join us for an 18-film retrospective celebrating Gene Hackman’s most treasured performances, tracing the evolution of the Academy Award winner who redefined American screen acting.

View the full screening schedule and secure your 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/gene

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This is absolutely stunning! ❤️ If there are prints on their way, please count me in!

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 June 2025 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Horror DNA take a deep dive into the work of author Ad…

I always appreciate @thisishorror.bsky.social supporting & promoting my articles on their excellent site. In my latest, I take a deep dive into the fiction of horror great Adam Nevill. Thanks to @kevharrison.bsky.social for lovingly curating the page.

www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...

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Just the coolest opening credits with Schifrin again delivering the goods youtu.be/S__L_OQe6NE?...

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It Dances in the Shadows, Version 2: A Primer on the Fiction of Adam N Adam Nevill ranks amongst the absolute best writers of supernatural horror fiction and has no duffers in his back catalogue.

@jonezyboy.bsky.social has written an immense round up of the fantastic catalogue of Adam Nevill over on the brillaint @horrordna.bsky.social check it out below

www.horrordna.com/features/it-...

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Movies are cool.

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Cover reveal!! I can finally talk about the Top Secret project I've been working on with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social! Ten haunted house stories by modern masters of the #Uncanny, compiled and introduced by yours truly - all wrapped up in a glorious deluxe hardback edition. Full details below.

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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

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In Praise of French Connection II Can we talk for a moment about just how good John Frankenheimer’s 1975 movie French Connection II is?

John Frankenheimer’s French Connection II is 50 years old. Can we talk for a moment about just how good it is? My latest Substack missive live and ready for your reading pleasure.

andrewnette.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

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Great book this. Deserved a much longer shelf life. Maybe buy a copy?

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Thanks so much, Dan. Really appreciate your support

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Copies of the novel, The Knock-Knock Man, on a bookshop table

Copies of the novel, The Knock-Knock Man, on a bookshop table

The Knock-Knock Man is 3 today. It’s been a rocky road with the publisher going under 4 months later (not related) & hoped for sequel being shelved (for now) So grateful to those that have supported my little horror noir. Signed copies can still be bought here -> www.russellmardell.co.uk/more-info

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Great news, Dan!

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Back from the dead... Come Sing for the Harrowing returns! You might remember that my second short story collection, Come Sing for the Harrowing , was released by Weird Little Worlds in October 2024....

Website announcement on the return of my folk #horror collection Come Sing for the Harrowing - coming from @clashbooks.bsky.social next year!

www.dancoxon.com/2025/05/back...

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Walter Murch on Suddenly Something Clicked Writers on Film · Episode

It’s Walter Murch day on Writers on Film. The legendary editor on his new book: “Suddenly Something Clicked: the Languages of Editing and Sound Design” open.spotify.com/episode/3dM3...

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Flat out the perfect summation:

"It is not ours to give away."

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