For sale: my signed David Lynch INLAND EMPIRE CD. £600 and free worldwide postage.

DM if interested.

Remember if a message doesn't come from my co.uk bluesky address, it's not me.

New episode.
Out now.

On Patreon.
On the #BrokenVeil channel.

Patreon.com/brokenveil

FRIGHTFULLY COSY AND MILD STORIES FOR NERVOUS TYPES Now available, my second and most popular (to date) collection. Contains 'Aldeburgh' (a sequel to M.R. James' 'A Warning to the Curious').

Last day to buy my second collection FRIGHTFULLY COSY AND MILD STORIES FOR NERVOUS TYPE from my Buy Me a Coffee. Only 4 people have picked this one up so far - could you be the 5th?

Collection removed at 5:30pm tonight

buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains/...

Two Other Waterstones Related Thoughts From My Day:

1) It's pretty bleak to see how many authors can be reduced down to one book. A maximum of 2 if they got a TV or a movie adaption along the way.

2) There is apparently no section of a bookshop now that can be considered as Murder Mystery Proof.

Quick question, Blue Sky wanderers.
Do you think The Wasp Factory is a horror story?
I just went to a Waterstones who clearly think it is.

Stained glass artwork featuring a rural scene with fields and hills and two figures in the foreground riding a tandem bike on a track as the sun rises

Harriet Love, contemporary stained glass artist #Womensart #Sunday

I'm walking 5k this April for the National Autistic Society is fundraising for National Autistic Society Support I'm walking 5k this April for the National Autistic Society and donate to their page

My niece and I are autistic and completed our 5k for Autism Acceptance Month.

Our Chipathon was slow, steady and joyful with star dog Chip 🐶

My sister and brother-in-law were brilliant allies.

We smashed it. Still time to donate 💙

waam.autism.org.uk/fundraising/...

@journalautism.bsky.social

An update from my dad's workbench. He's carved one of his sheet phantoms skipping over a waxed driftwood pebble, like some kind of seabed creature...

Also, we ARE going to keep going. New stories coming every two weeks. Feel free to recommend ones you'd like to see us cover. 30-40ish min reads. Out of copyright and freely available, ideally.

Haunted Book Club 005 - Part 2 The Chat "Man Sized in Marble" by Edith Nesbit With Gav Cross & John YouTube video by Gav Cross: Storyteller

Haunted Book Club #5 discussing Man-size in Marble by Edith Nesbit is available now wherever you get your podcasts. You can also watch it on YouTube if you like
youtu.be/vS9siZfMuCM?...

CROM | Hello, I'm an artist from and living in Monterrey, México. I specialize in character art, concept art, cover and general illustration, as well as personal comic projects on the side. You can find samples of my work, FAQ, current commission prices and support options in the thread below.

Right hand side shows Harrowfield cover. Left hand side is BFS Voting Is Now Open flyer. Voting period 16-3rd May and links given. Link is included in main bsky post.

The British Fantasy Awards are now open for voting!

And I have an eligible entry in the Horror novel category with my folk horror, Harrowfield. Vote for the path of green and gold! 😁

Check out the full list of SFFH works available here: britishfantasysociety.org.

Still space on my lovely spec fic writing retreat in France in October! It's going to be super cosy:
www.retreatfrance.co.uk/yoga-mindful...

WITH DEEPEST SYMPATHY In 2010 my first book of short stories, WITH DEEPEST SYMPATHY, was published by Obverse Books. It was reissued in 2015 in paperback form as WILL ANYONE FIGURE OUT THAT THIS IS A REPACKAGED FIRST COLLE

My 1st collection, WITH DEEPEST SYMPATHY (2010), unavailable for 10 yrs, is for sale for the next 3 days. After it will be deleted, never reprinted til after my death (whenever that is).

This is where it all started for me, my first attempts at writing after twelve years of homelessness.

Wyrd Science Issue 8 – Rare Mags One of those magazines that does exactly what it sets out to do, no messing around, cramming every page full of what they want in the magazine and nothing else. Tabletop gaming, but now with added fil...

WYRD SCIENCE Issue 8 sees me interviewed about the Tales of the Weird series and my work on unearthing lost works!

raremags.co.uk/collections/...

Artwork in greys looking down on a rural track on which a small figure walks with fields either side and hills in the distance

Katja Lang, Road to E. (2022) #WomensArt

NEW EPISODE

NEW SERIES

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Hey, my publisher asked me to remind you that my stuff is available on their store! Also there's a wall scroll.

Books and plushies: fenrispublishing.com/order.php?r=...
Wall scroll: fluffandstuff.net/products/fox...

BROKEN VEIL II

EPISODE ONE OUT NOW

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Haunted Book Club - Suggested Stories! Tell us the stories you want the haunted book clubs to natter about. We would like to look at your ideas. We are looking for classic Short supernatural, ghost, weird stories. Victorian and Edwardian...

You can also now suggest stories for us to cover in future episodes of Haunted Book Club.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This year I took up art again, trying to do something other than my wee ghosts.

Haunted Book Club live. Saturday! The Curfew by Lucy M. Boston, Norton Priory, Cheshire. A chilling story set on the grounds of the ruined priory & lost house. We are grateful to the Estate of Lucy M. Boston for the privilege of bringing the story home for one night only.

Saturday! The Curfew by Lucy M. Boston, Norton Priory, Cheshire. A chilling story set on the grounds of the ruined priory & lost house. We are grateful to the Estate of Lucy M. Boston for the privilege of bringing the story home for one night only.
nortonpriory.greatbritishevents.org/events/f75b3...

A shelf of Exactly Those Sort Of Television Programmes on DVD.

WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR IDEAS FROM?

#BrokenVeil2

ZOOMIES!!! Hop on a Zoom call with me where I’ll spend an hour with you talking about how I go through my editorial process, finding lost ghost stories, archival research. I’ll also show you the tools I use.

You can also book an hours call with me for £74 ($100), where I will talk to you about how I go through my process with finding lost ghost stories, genealogy research, how to write biographical non-fiction and also the tools I use.

buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains/...

NEW SERIES / BROKEN VEIL II

Starts this week.

Listen by joining the Broken Veil Patreon channel.

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Beyond Belief, Podcast Episode · The Thrilling Adventure Hour · 13 April · 29min

A quiet night in, they should be so lucky! Join Frank and Sadie Doyle as their problem solving is put to the test @thrillingadv.bsky.social - Beyond Belief - “The Last Beyond Belief” 💜
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I have a chapbook coming! Salo Press are launching their new imprint Infidelities, and my story 'Never Land' is among the first wave. It's a strange recollection of a number of things that actually happened to me, peppered with lies and soiled by confusion. What fun!

www.salopress.com/store/

I can't speak for everyone, but I think I'd be more invested if they dumped the clock & went with a Doomsday Advent Calendar.

Morning.