I love Cunning Folk and can't wait for my copy to arrive! Definitely of interest to any @treadwells-books.bsky.social or @helleborezine.bsky.social coded souls ✨

Oh my GOD the sound of this.

Queen.

I'm sorry

*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man Why are people

Every year I watch V FOR VENDETTA around Guy Fawkes' Day and I just wish every year it didn't get MORE FUCKING RELEVANT

If you have even the slightest respect for your own work, don't touch this with a ten foot pole.

The moody autumnal country house vibes at Hawkwood are IMPECCABLE. Big sofas, blankets, grey skies, soft lighting, and books books books

This week I'm super privileged to be teaching @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social with @catcamacho1.bsky.social. We're presenting masterclasses on Structure, Openings, the Publishing Process and Editing, as well as having lots of intensive 1-to-1 tutorials with our writers, and a fair bit of homemade cake 🍰

I ate an enormous plate of veggies and watched Scream. That'll have to hold me till next weekend haha

Enjoying my precious three hours at home in my flat before heading off to Stroud for another week teaching at Hawkwood. I am a SHELL of a human.

Lovely review of the UNQUIET GUESTS anthology here! "It’s a very well told claustrophobic and menacing story that constantly feels like it will erupt very soon." www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

A king 👑

Keep the chills coming! I'm in @booktrib.bsky.social with recommendations incl Jennifer McMahon, @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Mona Awad @rachelharrison.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social booktrib.com/2025/10/31/c...

Off to Brighton for WFC (just-the-parties edition). Happy best day of the year, witches!

i'm sure everything will be fine

the other new print in my shop is actually a smaller, giclée version of an original linoprint that loads of people have asked me to reprint: "crow steals the sun". Limited to 15 signed copies & hand-finished with gold paint 👀 shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/crow... #art #witchsky #crow

Grab a copy!!

Doing my annual October 'buying lots of big beautiful books with gorgeous art and photos' because sometimes, when the SAD hits, they're the books I need to keep me in touch with reading over the winter x

This season spooky writers are moving in packs like tired and poorly regulated werewolves

I'm worried about having enough food in the coming months. If you'd like to help me survive as an artist, writer, and unofficial town sorcerer, I'd truly appreciate it if you considered signing up for my Patreon. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Aaaaaaaaa what an AMAZING REVIEW for a Friday morning! Thank you so much to @gnofhorror.com 🧡 "Ally Wilkes masterfully unearths deeply rooted fears from the most mundane and familiar settings, creating a collection that is profoundly weird, unsettling, and claustrophobic."

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

ALL OUR STRUGGLES FOR BODILY AUTONOMY ARE CONNECTED, say it loud

pardon me I need to go dig myself a grave to roll over in

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff

I'd have to say MAN EATER will smell like luscious tropical orchids and also clots of period blood.

I keep thinking how impossible it feels to balance the need to openly, honestly acknowledge how immensely difficult & distressing menopause can be & how impactful on every aspect of the body-mind, with the need not to make it excessively forbidding or frightening for those yet to experience it

Of course women don't like the Cybertruck. Women only want one thing, and it's Mildred Hubble’s broom.

We’re currently accepting applications to three different free opportunities for under-represented writers as part of the Breakthrough Writers’ Programme! Details below 🧵

Talk about an uncanny doubling... yesterday afternoon (by chance) I read both Tracy Fahey's tour de force, May I Borrow You For A Moment? in Fever Dreams from FTP, and Elizabeth Dearnley's examination of the fetch and doppelgänger in the latest @helleborezine.bsky.social 👀

Morning all! Friday is the perfect day to pick up some lunch break or weekend reading, and I have the perfect bite-sized delight. My micro-collection LONDON WEIRD is only 0.99 on Amazon or free on Kindle Unlimited, I'd love for you to check it out! www.amazon.co.uk/London-Weird...

As we're WELL into spooky season now, might I take this chance to once again recommend my 1970s-set ghost story The Apparition Phase, which first came out in 2020. As I always say, if you like ghosts, chances are you'll like this. Whoooo! etc. www.waterstones.com/book/the-app...

There's something so magical about assembling a short story from the heap of half-sentences and images and references inside your mind. It always feels a little like a trick; a little like alchemy.

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

I'd have to say MAN EATER will smell like luscious tropical orchids and also clots of period blood.

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

Helloooooooo as a weird writer who does aerial circus this is indeed MY HOLE, IT WAS MADE FOR ME -

hi, new people! 💖 a few basic facts about BlueSky: -they're called "skeets," not posts! -don't be afraid to use blocklists! -the pallid mask rots. -nobody likes management! -a red sound emanates from the bruised spine of the world. it is a song of ecstasy and terror. -have fun! 😜

Quick cultural lecture time, from Sigrid Ellis: As we are in Spooky Season, why do so many horror movies of the 80s and early 90s feature extremely creepy homeless people? +

The Wicker Man The Descent Eden Lake Incantation

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Deeply sad I won't be able to make it to this event, especially the post-show panel CONSPIRACIES IN ANTARCTICA: what really lies beneath the ice? www.arcolatheatre.com/event/thisli...

Editor: “We loved it but…”

good morning #PortfolioDay ! i'm viktor, a trans gay illustrator, looking for work in books, ttrpgs, and comics. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 historical fiction, fashion, and fantasy is my cup of tea ✨🌿🌸🍵 would love to work with more queer authors and fantasy book boxes! 🖼️ www.nooska-art.com ✉️ [email protected]

AN ABSOLUTE MUST-SEE, and it's free online! Uncanny and Paver-heads assemble... 🖤💀❄️

Question for @blpublishing.bsky.social and people who attended the BL's Tales of the Weird event online last year - did an online ticket only allow live streamed access or were events recorded so you could watch them later? (I want to goooooooo but am slammed till mid November)

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.