I'm just not sure what questions to ask. #Homunculus #SmallProphets

Well this is thrilling. Pre-order #TheDark, my 1970s set folk horror and get 25% off. Go to @waterstones.bsky.social online or use the app. Hurry, hurry, hurry - the offer ends on Friday.

Well this is thrilling. Pre-order #TheDark, my 1970s set folk horror and get 25% off. Go to @waterstones.bsky.social online or use the app. Hurry, hurry, hurry - the offer ends on Friday.

LLM responses which do not reflect consensus reality & facts are produced via the Same Process which generate responses which *Do* broadly conform to consensus reality & facts. The Same Processes. The Same Ones. "Hallucination" is just a word to distance yourself from the outputs you don't like.

People have been making art on the beach again.

Get your vampire stories in. Deadline tomorrow! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Hands down my favourite adaptation. No tragic lost love back story. Filmed in my home town. JACK SHEPHERD FOR FLIP'S SAKE

Currently watching one of my favourite film genres: heartbroken/blocked writer goes to Italy and after mild adventure finds inspiration/love.

I’m looking forward to hosting this Brontë event with two great writers 👇

This piece is so much better than the pull-quote. It’s a beautiful profile of a fascinating brave strong woman and I urge you to read it.

Wish you were here because I still love you.

Mason's Drug Stores

Apologies all, but tonight's 'North Wind' has been postponed - apparently the moors road to Whitby is increasingly snowy with more forecast throughout the day/night! We're going to do it on Friday 6th March instead...

I'm making very slow progress with reading this, because I don't want to read it in the bath for fear of dropping it! But I just read "Kittycat", and what a bittersweet story that is. It feels very plausible too.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing Whistle, the premise of which seems to be 'What if M.R. James had a hot tub?'

2026-02-13: https://www.cartoongravity.com/2026-02-13/

More than 800 Iron Age artefacts, known as the Melsonby Hoard found in a N. Yorks field will go on display for the first time at the Yorkshire Museum, York from May onwards. The collection features chariot wheels, cauldrons & spears. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join us a for a big day of folk horror workshops and interviews from wherever you might be - STRANGE AS FOLK runs on the 9th May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #folkhorror #folklore #horror #writing #writers #authors #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #horrorauthors

Excerpt from Hilary Mantel’s review of Robocop archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th...

Post a banger that isn't in English? Absolutely has to be this. youtu.be/MwnFX0_H-rA

Big thanks to Radio Derby for having me on this morning to talk all things UK Ghost Story Festival - we've got two and a half weeks until kick-off! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #derby #derbyshire #eastmids #eastmidlands #ghost #ghoststory #ghoststories

if your money was on "oh my god you unbelievable dipshit why did you embarrass me on international television we are obviously not getting back together" congratulations please come collect your winnings

Anybody around Whitby on Friday? 'At The Back Of The North Wind' is back in Flowergate Hall, and I'll be discussing the legendary Black Heart of Whorlton Castle before singing a song about my favourite gravestone. Come and join us for a full evening of folky, haunto fun - pay what you fancy.

New Haunted Generation Radio Show! Honest! Music from Highly Likely, Elizabeth Parker, Renaissance, Roy Wood, more school assembly curios... plus I get put on trail in the Crown Court. Thanks to @soundliness.com @andreworton.bsky.social & Ross from The Futureheads... www.mixcloud.com/hauntedgener...

‘A gorgeous edition of Beyond & Within Witchcraft, which includes Gabriella Buba’s Oro, Plata, Mata. Everyone who knows me knows I am a huge fan of horror and folklore, major bonus points for witches and Filipino lore.’ Thanks @pameladelupio - to order: www.amazon.com/Witchcraft-S...

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

She's training a large language model built on stolen work to produce plausible responses to leading questions.

A huge thanks to all who attended the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL ONLINE over the last few days - and the in-person event will be here before you know it, running in Derby from the 27th Feb to the 1st March! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #derby #derbyshire #eastmids #eastmidlands

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The thing is, I'd like to watch Lord of the Flies, but I read it when I was 13 and I don't think I've ever got over it.

I read that horror story about the romance novelist using A.I. and teaching others how to do the same. As a palate-cleanser, let me share a site I've been obsessing over, which has a list of "Bestselling Books from 1900 to Present." kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/bestsellin...

You guuuuyyyys, Reading With The Burneys got reviewed in Women’s Writing! “A fascinating micro-history in the print ecology of the long Romanticism, reconstructed with critical acuity…a useful lens through which to reinterpret an entire cultural landscape…” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m sure I’m not the only woman feeling like this right now. Exhausted and antsy and so angry and sad and hopeless. We all knew what was happening, we all know how power and patriarchy works. We spend so much of our energy living with that knowledge.

You're not producing a novel with AI. You're using an algorithm powered by other people's stolen novels to lie and pretend you're a writer. Being a writer requires WRITING, you pathetic fucks.

Keep it spooky this spring as we head to York for a big weekend of horror and Gothic fiction with the third running of SPRING HAUNTS! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-hau... #York #Yorkshire #writingweekend #writersweekend #writing #writers #authors #workshop #workshops #fiction

[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Penny Evans, ceramic artist in Australia who creates works that embody her Indigenous Kamilaroi/Gomeroi cultural heritage #WomensArt

You are not entitled to the training and labor of your comrades solely because you want it and aren't satisfied with your own work.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Come join us for a ghostly gathering, full of exciting authors and speakers, this February with the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL at QUAD, Derby! www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/ #Derby #Derbyshire #ghosts #ghoststory #ghoststories #fiction #writing #writers #authors #festival #festivals

Oh look. Turns out there is an alternative to a painful, invasive test.

Wonderful review of WITCHCRAFT over on Uncomfortably Dark by @candacenola.bsky.social www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/02-02-2... #Booksky #HorrorWriting

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

I'm enjoying this teapot

Slightly terrifying/ultimately quite revelatory about re-reading/re-listening-to writings done 15 years ago by yr younger self. 'SO, that's who I was then' is the redux. These - first broadcast 2010 - are listenable for 28 days if you have 3 x 15 minutes for fiction. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Another contributor to #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft getting copies… Huge thanks @abookbumble 😀 To get yours: www.amazon.co.uk/Witchcraft-S...

Today is #NationalSweaterDay so let's enjoy 'The Fair-Isle Jumper' painted by #Orkney-born artist Stanley Cursiter in 1923. Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976) was Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland from 1930-1948 and was appointed the King's Painter and Limner in Scotland.