What are 5 books you’ve read & loved that you sometimes feel no one else has?
1) Crappalachia by Scott McClanahan
2) Threats by Amelia Gray
3) Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower
4) True Story by Kate Reed Petty
5) Figures in a Landscape by Barry England
King Alfred pub in Winchester
This was my writing spot for the last 24 hours. I've written a new short story (and made a start on novel 2)!
It's good! I'm very very underread in terms of British mythology and legend, so it's a good grounding.
Storyland by Amy Jeffs
Now reading.
A row of books!
Shelves of second hand books
Winchester used bookstores are very very good indeed.
A very very very red hotel corridor.
I am in the creepiest hotel. Fully prepared to accept that I have always been the caretaker here.
Although, minus points for taking a moment of Mancunian history and plonking it in the Newport Folk Festival. Cowards.
I quite liked A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. It's mostly quite a bit more subtle than a lot of other biopics, and it's a smart choice to focus on a short period in Dylan's life. Unafraid to show him as a bit of a dickhead too. Good stuff.
Fyi, this book has one of the all time great cups of tea in it.
Dead Weight
Now reading (courtesy of @hildur.bsky.social!). What a phenomenal novella.
I have! It's excellent.
I'm heading into London today with very few plans apart from finding nice places to read. Any suggestions of things to do? Feel like seeing some odd little corners I've not explored before.
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Times are tight but we help each other when we can. Consider helping Candace. She’s an advocate for so many within the horror community and she needs us to be an advocate for her: bit.ly/4dQUw7q
The “quiet genius” of BODIES OF WORK is that it “asks uncomfortable questions about who owns a story. The artist who creates it? Or the people he exploits to make it?” Really lovely review right here: bit.ly/4cohjVw Thank you @gnofhorror.com @titanbooks.bsky.social
Clay McLeod Chapman’s ‘Bodies of Work’ is a supernatural revenge novella that turns the serial‑killer trope inside out. The ghosts don’t just haunt—they rewrite the story.”
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It's time to enter Mariner’s Cove... 🐝
THE HIVE by @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social is officially out today! An epic, otherworldly horror novel about a wave of collective obsession and paranoia taking over an American suburb.
🩸 Join us: https://tinyurl.com/msk6zmwm
Illustration from Shrek
Fat raindrops began sizzling on Shrek's hot knob
41 today. Blimey.
41 today. Blimey.
Christopher from The Sopranos with a cigarette and wearing shades
It's called mantasy, T. It's when the magic sword is your dad never hugged you.
Bodies in the Bookshop bookstore
G David bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop
Cambridge bookshops are ace.
Hall of fame FT correction
Bloody Disgusting says BODIES OF WORK is a must-read horror book: bit.ly/4c2wtRy
"The Lighthouse at the End of the World is British speculative fiction doing something new." A working-class South London criminal. A parallel city of discarded tech. Sharp, urgent, unforgettable. Read our review ⬇
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Advance reader copy of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd
dedication page that reads: to Stan Winston, for making magic real
the ARC is here for THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT! 🤩
I wanted to show it + the dedication page. This book is my love letter to film, and it felt right dedicating it to the late great Stan Winston.
coming September 15th from @titanbooks.bsky.social 📽️
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...
Are you ready to see behind the curtains of the Théâtre Saint-Siméon? 🧛 🩸
THE RED SACRAMENT by @boneysoups.bsky.social is a savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th century Paris on the cusp of revolt and revolution. Coming July 7! tinyurl.com/3xhkvkx6
we have such sights to show you (bad ones)
Continuing the ritual of wandering around NYC on release day to see if I can spot copies of BODIES OF WORK in the wild. I’ve got to rush to class so this one’s a bit quick.
Signed copies at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. Thanks to B&N Union Square for my first foot-long worth of shelf-space.
God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager.
She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.