27 stories! Freely available to stroll through at your leisure! Including 'Threequarter Lane', the only story I had in an actual in-your-hands print publication last year! Don't let that put you off.

Heads up for any artists/writers/etc currently using Linktree to point people to their work: from 5 July they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E.

My eyes: put things in them

To be clear, there is no ethical AI you can use. AI almost always means Arseholes Involved. If you are using AI/LLMs (Likely Lying Machines) to promote your work you are dead to me. Get some respect for the planet, the people whose work was stolen and the power of your own work to promote itself.

Backrooms, Obsession AND Passenger all in the local cinema this week? Good time to be an enjoyer of creepy shizz. Backrooms first. Review: batshit/10. Worth the big screen experience.

Hired Gorman from Aliens to record a videogame script without realising he was Gorman from Aliens. After a few hours in the booth he looked up and declared "This shit is unending". I couldn't blame him.

Kenichi Nakaya

From the peaks of Eryri to hidden valleys and haunted mines, the storied landscapes of Wales have inspired centuries of myth and folklore. Twenty tales of eerie encounters, Shadows Over Cymru is available online and in store. #Wales #Welshbooks #britishlibrarypublishing

We went offline for the weekend, broiling in the bin, complaining about the neighbour's BBQ 🦝 Back to it with reminders! 🌳Summer subs open 1st June for the Green Bin 🦊Our charity anthology is reduced in price until May 31st Links in comments Stay cool and trashy 💜 1/2

In case your timeline wasn't already full of Brits complaining it's too hot, it is too hot. Definitely too hot for Arsehole the cat, who now has a fan to keep her substantial mass cool.

#Caturday pic of Void Baby who, as you can see, is increasingly resentful of having his picture taken at all

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

I mean, it seems almost rude that Porto is this pretty. Look at it FFS.

@leighloveday.bsky.social Thank you again for contributing to THN! And honestly, we’re fully on board with the idea that dragons would improve any hometown. 🐉☺️ www.thehooletsnook.com/current-issu...

I mean, it seems almost rude that Porto is this pretty. Look at it FFS.

Hey, you, our gorgeous 27-story print anthology is at a bargainous prices for May. Help the wildlife of Britain and get a copy here: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... 🦌🦡🦊🦉🦋 work by @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social @terryholland.bsky.social @clareobrien.bsky.social @quickasaflash.bsky.social and more

When in Porto...

Some lovely things in here, and a fleeting one about how my hometown would be improved by the addition of dragons if you're so inclined.

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

NEW EVENT ALERT! Delighted to be teaming up with QUAD once more for a day celebrating the life and work of Terry Pratchett with THE LIGHT FANTASTIC, running on Saturday October 3rd! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/light... #pratchett #terrypratchett #discworld #derby #derbyshire

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Took 40 years but I've just seen Highlander on a cinema screen. Briefly, all is right with the world.

And just like that, the Spring Prompted Stories Pop-Up is available for your reading pleasure 🦝 Nineteen imaginative and creative flash created from prompts. We love it, you'll love, go get it 💜 trashcatlit.com/prompted-sto... 1/3

I’m really happy to see my art in the latest @generalwitch.bsky.social zine - out now! I illustrated a chilling story by @leighloveday.bsky.social. I’ve not had time to read the rest yet but I’ve admired the brilliant art of @juanochoa.eurosky.social, @elijahmauthe.bsky.social and many others.

My interview with Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy on his new film HOKUM is live on @fangoria.bsky.social! HOKUM stars Adam Scott and it's a shrieker - scary, imaginative, and moving. Opens this weekend, and it absolutely should be seen in a theater with a big crowd for maximum screamage! 😱⚡🤩

Five quid! A pittance! Look at this handsome thing! Even if you skip straight past my story that's still... many... many pages per pound.

You should always be playing Vanquish

Highlander? Back in cinemas? 2026 pulling its finger out and doing something decent at long bloody last: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hO5...

We're holding our first live General Witchfinders event with Dorchester's Teasel And Skylark Bookshop. • Tuesday 5 May / 7pm • at the Kings Arms in Dorchester • Live music from The Whitley Lake Band and The Flaming Cactus Band • Live Story Readings • A talk on Folk Horror • Launch of our next zine

Did the Odeon Scream Unseen thing last night, got shown the trailer for Hokum, assumed we'd been mugged off and would end up sitting through the sixth poxy Insidious film, then they showed mercy and gave us Hokum after all. It is a Good Time. Recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU_i...

Contributor copies of General Witchfinders 'Zine #4 looking ruddy stunning. Look at the artwork for this li'l story! Hope you consider grabbing a copy (maybe at the launch event on May 5th if you're down Dorset way - I can't make it BUT YOU SHOULD) @generalwitch.bsky.social @rablackart.bsky.social

A millennia ago, a few of us pulled together a drabble and micro markets spreadsheet. It definitely needs a refresh, and I'm calling on you all for help. Please could you look through and let me know what's changed/open/shut? Pls share widely! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

Voting Reform is the equivalent of voting twice for Trump. It is an act of pure ignorance, or racism, or both. And, as we all know, it leads nowhere good. Please god UK. Do not let that happen. Learn from our mistakes. Learn from America’s mistakes. Just get your shit together.

Climbed some big rocks. Saw some cute lambs. Bought some criminally priced ice cream.

Bunch of excellent folks. Sub calls emerge from the bin regularly too, go have a rummage: trashcatlit.com

Climbed some big rocks. Saw some cute lambs. Bought some criminally priced ice cream.

This year is just relentless. Rest easy, Oscar. It's going to take some time to make sense of a world without this sweet-natured old soul in it.

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

I like it when you complete a level in Sonic Chaos and it sounds like he died peacefully in his sleep.

Blue skies and sunshine? On a bank holiday? In this economy?

Absolutely horrifying. Must play. And I assume the bloke doing the VO isn't Gerard Butler but they should definitely tap him up for the adaptation.

Celebratory #Caturday pic of returning wanderer Void Baby. I don't even mind that he's gone straight back to cacking under the bed as long as he doesn't despawn in the middle of the night and traumatise us all over again.

A week since my first wee publication of 2026: 100 words about a creepy whirlpool in the #SciFanSat 'Spiral' issue. Loads of good stuff in here. Give it a whirl! Take it for a spin! Go round and have a look! Etc.

Off out to mow the back lawn, see you all on the other side

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Whatever AI offers you, it took from someone else. That alone is a disqualification. But if you go ahead and use it, you have no idea of the extent of the lift and if it's uncovered, you'll be liable