This is fantastic news. I have one of the originals but not the other.

This week's comics. Just a couple, but awesome. New Roy Thomas Conan in this issue of SSoC.

Spring Gothic! New black cat statement piece now available (& all below goodies still available) via Torch & Arrow! One of a kind! Black Cat Beaded Bib: torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/4479... Shop itself: torchandarrow.etsy.com Your support keeps a freelance household alive between books & shows!🖤

Published 207 years ago today, John Polidori's The Vampyre. That guy has a lot to answer for...

Great deal on some pre-made covers by a real human artist. Adrian is easy to work with and does great stuff.

Happy Birthday to artist Pablo Marcos!

This is fantastic news.

I just learned there was a matched set of Virginia Coffman covers with white borders, and I'm having to remind myself I don't need them. I have all these with different covers. They are sharp though.

A lot of reading about the Universal Monsters made me want to revisit Charles L. Grant's 'Universe of Monsters' books. Still love these covers.

post two characters who bring you happiness

Starting book #53 of 2026: Into the Ashes by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social A cataclysmic series of quakes and eruptions in In New Zealand's Tongariro National Park are not what they seem: behind these are ancestral Māori mountain warriors, the legendary Kāhui Tupua. The Māori background is terrific!

I will be yelling about this again on Monday but for you Saturday night kings (and No Kings), here's a surprise: the manga adaptation of the Disney Fairies novel "Wings of Starlight" that I've been working on is now available to preview on Webtoons! www.webtoons.com/en/graphic-n...

Well, this sounds fascinating. Thanks to @bevvincent.bsky.social for the heads up. www.amazon.com/Monsters-Arc...

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

I may or may not have just bought the coach playset from Van Helsing.

Awesome looking cover.

Dears! Tonight! 8pmEST! I just found out my book club talk is open to all! Have you read THE SPECTRAL CITY (Book 1 in my Gaslamp Fantasy saga set in 1899 NYC)? Want to talk about it with me + a fantastic group of delightful people? We'd love to see you there! www.facebook.com/events/95851...

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Today's movie was the absolutely delightful THE MORE, THE MERRIER, a romantic comedy from 1943, starring Jean Arthur, Charles Coburn, and Joel McCrea. Sweet, romantic, and laugh out loud funny. Amanda and I really enjoyed it.

Friends! @eveninghouse.bsky.social links for signed copies of A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN & signed copies of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (an Evening House bestseller)! This lil' store has the biggest heart & supports *all kinds* of artists, it's still new so your support is particularly crucial!

Tonight on FRIDAY NIGHT FRIGHTS, Peter Cushing stars in FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN, from 1967. As ever, I'm your host, Charnel R. Rutledge.

Mail call! Two more Gothic novels from the fine folks at @valancourtbooks.bsky.social . The Caledonian Bandit (1811) and The Phantom of the Castle (1798). I'm not familiar with Richard Sickelmore but I have read another Gothic by 'Mrs. Smith, Barozzi; or, The Venetian Sorceress, which I enjoyed.

Here's one of the strangest crossover drawings I own. Cerebus and Superman as drinking buddies. Dave Sim and I decided they were in a bar under a Red Sun so Supes could get plastered.

Oh and 'The Fire of Asshurbanipal' was adapted into an issue of Conan the Barbarian, which is where I first encountered the story.

I'm so old I started buying used Robert E. Howard books when they were cheaper than new ones.

Wanted to reread the Robert E. Howard story 'The Fire of Asshurbanipal' and went looking for it. It's reprinted in all of these volumes and at least one more I have but can't locate right now. Probably others. There are two versions, one with a supernatural menace and one without.

In Baginton, the ghost of a woman in a long grey dress is reported to glide from the church of St John the Baptist and into the Old Rectory opposite. Witnesses have described her as being almost translucent. #PhantomsFriday

James A. Moore and me at #10 Barnes Street, where Lovecraft lived and wrote some of his most famous works. This is moments before @briankeene.bsky.social 's infamous drive-by "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!"

New interview with me over at Overstreet Access. www.overstreetaccess.com/creature-fea...

Two years gone. You are missed, brother.

I'm excited to announce that I'll be at @goblinmkt.bsky.social in Chicago, IL next Tuesday, March 31, to celebrate the launch of Dungeons & Dragons Crochet! Event details and store location are online here: goblinmkt.com/events/2026-...

Gorgeous Conan art by Pablo Marcos.

Monster Rally Commission I got from Neil Vokes. The gray tones on this are amazing.

Don't know the artist but this is from Leslie’s Sunday Magazine, 1881

1/2 I came home and read SUPERMAN/SPIDER-MAN One thing I really like about the recent DC/Marvel crossovers is they don't try to explain why the characters are together. Just like in the crossovers of the 1970s-80s, Superman and Spider-Man exist in the same continuity and always have.

Plus the new issue of Cryptology!

This week's comics. With Grim @jimzub.bsky.social , @gailsimone.bsky.social (Twice!) and @markwaid.bsky.social

An absolute classic of the mystery genre and Victorian Gothic Fiction.

These are waiting for me along with @jimzub.bsky.social 's Conan at Dr. No's comics.

My Lord of the Rings fan fiction would be 'Law and Order: Gondor'.

Good morning. Some thoughts on different forms of creative expression, @kaseylansdale.bsky.social's new book, my next producer project, and more. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

Full disclosure, I've been doing my Walter Brennan impression off and on since watching "Rio Bravo" Dagnabbit.

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Reading some more horror/ghost stories by Frederick Cowles. Some of these are just demented. Imagine if M.R. James had written for the pulps. Creepy, scary, often violent. Just wild stuff.

Check this one out @leannareneehieber.bsky.social

When making your spring reading plans, consider a pit stop in Sommersville, Georgia. It's a nice, inviting place with friendly people, scenic country roads, a world-class state park... oh, yeah, the occasional bit of murder & mayhem.  Links: www.amazon.com/stores/Bobby... www.ben-books.com

Check it out. Brand new novel from my friend, @kaseylansdale.bsky.social

For some reason, I woke up with 'Masquerade' from The Phantom of the Opera playing in my head. The internal soundtrack is weird sometimes. Romance and Dread is where the Gothic lives.

When I was a kid, this was these were the closest thing I could find to Conan movies.