Outstanding cover too
Posts by Russell Mardell
Happy release day, Dan! Can’t wait to dive in to that folk horror goodness
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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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
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.
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...
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
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-...
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
NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
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
This is absolutely stunning! ❤️ If there are prints on their way, please count me in!
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-...
Just the coolest opening credits with Schifrin again delivering the goods youtu.be/S__L_OQe6NE?...
@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-...
Movies are cool.
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.
“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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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-...
Great book this. Deserved a much longer shelf life. Maybe buy a copy?
Thanks so much, Dan. Really appreciate your support
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
Great news, Dan!
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...
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...
Flat out the perfect summation:
"It is not ours to give away."