Frankly with the epic rise of shit content on the Internet, we are due a resurgence of personal blogs; the issue will be actually finding them in the shit. The deluge has ended the Internet as we know it.

Do you secretly root for the bad guy in books and movies? Let us scratch that itch w/ The Sanford Files by @timpratt.org. Carl Sanford's quest for occult power in Arkham begins in The Ravening Deep, continues in Herald of Ruin and concludes in The Twilight Magus.⁠ www.amazon.com/dp/B0F22GYWS6

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A Year in Willerby. Out now. Twelve of our most loved stories, bound with original lino cut prints. Limited edition. 100 individually numbered copies only, 50 gone already. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

'The Lost Owl', a pub frequented by ex-Pylon People when mooring nearby 🌿

If you see any mistakes please let me know? (they'll probably get fixed this week, but not right now *collapses, goes to find pancakes*)

There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.

Over Twelfthtide, I'm gonna post some of the "baddies" of Christmas, folks that St. Nick has never tamed like he has his dark companions Krampus, Peré Fouettard, etc. #COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Holda and Perchta! 1/

When The Hum fell silent, many ex-Pylon People took to living on houseboats on the county's canals. No longer marching under their temporary transmission tower temples, they remained somewhat nomadic, often mooring close to a pylon's reflection. – S.P. Gill, 'Ragged Walkers Revisted', 1982

When Hooklanders talk about the county being haunted by an ‘Iron Witch’, you have a moment of confusion. Do they mean Margaret Thatcher or do they mean some other malevolent entity that is withering the land and stealing hope? – Dr. Michael Benn, 1981

THREAD. A selection of haunting encounters I have had with folk horror creatures and ghosts during walks in the British countryside. You will find the full descriptions of these disturbing incidents in the alt text. 1. Weeping Fence Banshee.

Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001), the direct-to-video sequel to 1996's Tremors 2: Aftershocks, is, for better or worse, the moment Michael Gross' Burt Gummer becomes the franchise's central protagonist. I say for better or for worse because, despite my love…

I just had an idea for this. Each month I dive into an old Legends book and discuss its content both in regards to Star Wars and also the historical inspirations behind it. And also do a separate post about a history book and/or piece of research I’m undertaking about the First World War.

Merry Christmas folks! ❤️

Military history devoid of social, cultural, diplomatic, literary etc forms of history is essentially meaningless. Knowing what soldiers and armies did in battle without understanding why they did them, the cultures that produced them, or the industries that supported them is pointless.

Happy Christmas From Little Mari who is giving gifts (of toast) to Ickle Krampus and the Christmas Ghost. Little Mari takes Toastmas very seriously.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from December 24, 1905.

This isn't mine and I don't remember where I got it from, but you had best believe it's getting shared every year around this time.

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

Midwinter - Hookland's Queen of Owls. Suited in ways that are understood in the blood.

I had a dream, a Black Fathom Faith dream that I saw the King-Under-the-Sea. He wore an armour forged from sunken battleships, a crown whose points were the prows of claimed vessels, each with their carved figureheads still screaming salt prophecies. I woke broken. – Claire Ember

The Scythian Wolf historical horror anthologies are on sale for 99¢ this week!

New blog: In 2024, I released a 10-part serial novella as part of my #MarcDane series, and now MOSCOW RULES is available in a complete, full-length novella edition, as a free download - follow the link for a chilly thriller Christmas gift... 🎁 jswallow.com/the-complete...

Dive into the Scribe Award-Winning Daidoji Shin Mystery series by @jmreynolds.bsky.social this holiday season. ⁠ A charming slacker aristocrat discovers a talent for detection and a web of conspiracies in the Emerald Empire, from the world of Legend of the Five Rings ⁠ www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGM1NTW...

Nobody does Christmas like the Diamond Dog in Kingsport. Drop in for the hot jazz, cool drinks, and enormous Christmas tree. The management is not responsible for damage done by lost time travelers and scaly monsters. Available in ebook and audio from @aconytebooks.bsky.social for last minute gifts.

I have drawn a thing.

Thought this interview I did twenty years ago with E. F. Bleiler was worth posting. "Le Fanu was pretty much a dead end. His Victorian fellows either didn’t understand what he was doing or didn’t care about it." (One question submitted by @realgdt.bsky.social) swanriverpress.ie/2025/12/an-i...

In Hookland, nephomancy – divination by cloud – is more commonly know as cloud-telling. For those who learn the art, the sky becomes a book of signs, a constant floating by of omens. To look up is read a thousand promises and warnings.

Your annual reminder that Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers, a near as dammit perfect seasonal movie (with great queer/trans rep), is free to stream on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/10001...

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

Sleepwalker by @mikemaihack.com

⚔️ Check out this article on Blackgate about Charles Saunders and the upcoming biography on a Sword & Soul legend! 💪 www.blackgate.com/2025/12/18/t...

La Roche Longue in Quintin (Côtes-d’Armor) is a 7m tall needle-like granite menhir. It was said that fairies and nains used to dance around it and that the menhir itself sometimes danced when midnight sounded. #StandingStoneSunday.

bio of the great Charles Saunders coming in 2026: www.blackgate.com/2025/12/18/t...

For lovers of folk horror and the British Gothic, a novel set in the midwinter of 1665, within a remote Scottish priory haunted by ancient sorcery and deadly secrets. Enter the Priory…if you dare. amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD #horror #gothic #thriller

Phantasm (1979) The first time I watched Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm, it was at the insistence of my late friend Derrick Ferguson. Derrick, knowing my love of horror films, was gobsmacked to learn that I’d never yet experienced the trippy delights of this particular film or its sequels. For weeks,…

🐴Jirel of Joiry rides again...if these dang skeletons will let her! @mollytanzer.bsky.social brings us a new official tale with no less than four illustrations by @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social💀 Check it out, and more, in issue 5 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery: newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...

Seems like every time I wake up, the world has gotten a bit worse. A bit meaner, a bit nastier. Jesus.

I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me! bit.ly/4aiUIKQ

I shared a few tables of contents with Sargent (and Pugmire) early in my writing career, and I admired the pair of them. I desperately wanted to write the way they did but never quite managed the trick.

No matter how long I'm away, this is still home.

As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

Winter Landscape with Church, Caspar David Friedrich, 1811.

Played my first game of Blood Bowl 3 (vidya game, not board game) and managed to eke out a 1-0 win against vampires with dwarfs (Drakaheim Demolishers, woo! *cowbell sounds*), which was somewhat startling. More startling was I remembered how positioning worked.

i see so much love for inclusive detective stories, nick & nora spouses, and solid whodunnits and yet i can get no traction for my series that is all that and more. can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...

I have drawn a thing.

While searching for Clark Ashton Smith illustrations I remembered this sketch I did in 2000 of Eibon, Smith's Hyperborean sorcerer. Aside from Tsathoggua, the only CAS illustration I've done to date. The sketch looks better than the inked version.

Here’s a preview of the Hector Plasm finale, but be warned that even these few pages completely spoil the mystery if you’re not caught up

Something surprises me in this newsletter at least once a week and I help put the damned thing together.

As an immigrant from the US, I can't help but stare in horrified wonder as the UK attempts to speed run its way to a similar state of ruin. You have all these wonderful things, and its like you just want to throw them away on the say so of a man with a face like a soggy cabbage.