"The passage had not been made by manual digging but had been burrowed by something which left behind a clue to its dimensions in the tunnel's size and shape.This delirious idea came to me when I recalled the message that had been left on my hotel mirror: 'What buries itself before it is dead?'"

I’m reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb by #RichardRhodes. But it’s massive, and I’m planning to take a break with some #shortstories from The Shadow at the Bottom of the World by #ThomasLigotti.

Theatro Grottesco on The Wendigo

the fluxing clouds Thomas Ligotti, from ‘The Chymist’

Thomas Ligotti:

I’m reading TheShadow At The Bottom of the World by #ThomasLigotti #books #BookSky #horror #HorrorSky

I always seem to have (at least) two books in my backpack. Today, when I settled into the office, it was Dirt Upon My Skin and Teatro Grottesco. First reading for the former, second reading for the latter. Short stories are WAY better than doomscrolling and these are GREAT collections 🙂

The tomb of Philip Rundell that influenced Bram Stoker for the fictional churchyard of Kingstead in Dracula. #dracula #bramstoker

A crushing weight—she had carried the grief so long she had stopped noticing it, the way one stops hearing a ticking clock. The coroner noted that her body was significantly denser than it should have been. #HorrorPrompt

“War is God's way of teaching Americans Geography." — Ambrose Bierce

Coffee is up 18.3% Ground beef is up 17.2% Cereal is up 6.2% Steak is up 18% Bananas are up 5.4% Orange juice is up 28% Fish is up 5.1% Cookies are up 5%

Here are today’s writing prompts. Unrefined nature #WeirdMicro Glyph engine #GrimScribe @danigracewrites.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social @morganrrhaze.bsky.social @thescribblings.com

I'm in this and I'm super excited and honored! #horror #hwa #writingcommunity

Nominees for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards https://www.booksns.com/193552/ Nominees for the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards by pinche-borracho

Reading Dostoyevsky for the first time. I know this is beside the point but like. I mean he’s no Bram Stoker but would.

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#TBRuary Day 22: Fun with Structure I'm going with good ol' Dracula by Bram Stoker for this one. There are a number of books that are inspired by or are retellings of Dracula, so I think I should read the source material first.

P.S. Remember when I said I'd be better about posting exciting news? Well, that was a lie, because I've known for weeks that This Way Lies Madness (the Flame Tree anthology featuring my story Nothing and the Boy) has made it onto the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards!!!

Honored that William of Newbury is on the Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel. If you are an HWA voting member and would like a PDF, please DM me. Grateful to the HWA, readers, and @darkhorsecomics for the support.

Books to Films 📚=🎞️ The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) by Bram Stoker was adapted as Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), The Awakening (1980) & Bram Stoker's The Mummy (1998). The films alter the ending of the novel & convert the psychological terror into a supernatural threat. 🪦💀🧟‍♀️ #filmsky #booksky

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 1515 #hieronymusbosch #bosch

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-1516-8

So far I’ve NEVER SEEN another painter besides Hieronymus Bosch who uses mockery on bible acts. On this Garden panel of ~1500, the excuse will be that the persiflage hides the proper Arma Christi: <The Judas Kiss>. On his Anthony triptych biblical scenes are satirized by demons to harass the saint.

THE STRUCTURES WITH THE TENT CURTAINS are here interpreted as bath tubs. Seen as a sinful place, so the water will be cooking now. Painted by Hieronymus Bosch & Studio, ca.1500. TOP: Garden triptych (enhanced). BOTTOM: Last Judgment/Vienna.

THE DEVIL’S CAVE of Bosch’s Garden in Eden has no extra explanation yet. Special Infra-Red imagery does not reveal much except some vague figures inside and outside. The dark hole seems to be the hiding place of the evilish critters, including the iconic Snake of Mankind’s Fall that goes that way.

El Bosco. Tríptico del jardín de las delicias (1490-1500). Panel central. Óleo sobre tabla. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Hieronymus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych (1490-1500). Central panel. Oil on wood. Prado Museum, Madrid.

Realizing that Hieronymus Bosch—who seemed to be tripping balls while painting flatulence, creepy critters, and vice—kinda nails the current administration and state of affairs. Global tariffs || detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 1516 #bosch #hieronymusbosch