I literally can’t watch any more of this University Challenge. I just feel so bad for Strathclyde.

What a time to be stuck on a liquid diet.

I want to write a Marvel comic before I die.

Revisiting WYTCHES as a Saturday comfort read. Was there ever volume 2?

The best thing about writing folk horror is that the locations where it invariably takes place always have crap mobile phone and data coverage, for some reason.

What better place to spend your Saturday than in a bookshop? If you're an #IndieBookshop why not tell us something about yourself, any upcoming events, where you're based, what your speciality is if any, show us around! #SaturdayInABookshop #BookSky 📚💙 #Bookshop #BrowseABookshop alt text please

As a writer I need to monetise this cancer. If the bastard’s going to squat in my gullet for the next few months it can fucking well earn its keep.

Look, book, hook and spook all rhyme, no further questions.

I see absolute nothing sinister in these robots marching on to stage and Elon Musk pocketing a trillion dollars to provide a million more of them. And everyone cheering like maniacs.

You may now buy my heartwarming and magical Christmas novel set in a mobile library. amzn.eu/d/eD4BjzB

If ever there was a time for a Netflix adaptation of The Invisibles, this is it. The conspiracy crowd would leap on it joyfully and then have their minds blown.

SCUTTLER'S COVE, your next slice of coastal folk horror, still just 99p on Kindle, friends. amzn.eu/d/86u9K3O

British prison service right now: Nisus Wettus: Crucifixion? Mr. Cheeky: Er, no, freedom actually. Nisus Wettus: What? Mr. Cheeky: Yeah, they said I hadn't done anything and I could go and live on an island somewhere. Nisus Wettus: Oh I say, that's very nice. Well, off you go then.

I am almost at the end of this book. It’s a good horror story. I like the style of writing and the pace of the story. I also think a good call of Cthulhu adventure can come out of it 🙂 #horror #ttrpg (also I cannot wait to read the other books by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social)

I’m not quite sure why it’s taken me so long to get a copy of @thefence.bsky.social but oh my god. It’s full of words. Big, beautiful words. Thousands of ‘em. What a magazine.

Proust Leith’s Madeleine technical challenge #GBBO

@davidmbarnett.bsky.social ‘s Scuttler’s Cove was easily my favourite Halloween Month read this year, more weird coastal folk horror please!

Winner of the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award. British Fantasy Awards-nominated. Have you visited WITHERED HILL yet? www.canelo.co/books/wither...

Scratch Moss sneak peek.

Winner of the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award. British Fantasy Awards-nominated. Have you visited WITHERED HILL yet? www.canelo.co/books/wither...

“We want arrrr country back!”

Withered Hill didn’t win in the British Fantasy Awards last night but it doesn’t matter. Johanna Van Veen’s My Darling Dreadful Thing is a very worthy winner and the real triumph is for the horror genre — the shortlist was such a diverse, wide-ranging list and we truly are in a golden age for horror

Guess what happens tonight?! Proceedings kick off at 7.30pm, and our volunteers will do their best to keep this place updated as winners are announced.

This is a public service announcement to recommend pre-ordering @davidmbarnett.bsky.social's Scratch Moss. Out in the Spring, and the most brutal, gut-wrenching thing he’s written. If you thought Withered Hill was good, you’re going to be blown away by this. (www.canelo.co/books/scratc...)

I appreciate publishing is hard, and everyone’s got to hustle, especially in self-pubbing. But putting a link to your book in the replies to practically every one of my posts (on another platform) and even suggesting I buy your book to “take my mind off” cancer… I dunno, man.

Happy Halloween, everyone! One of my favourite days of the year. Today for Halloween I am reading Scuttler's Cove by David Barnett. Think 'Doc Martin' meets 'The Fog' with a touch of 'The Wicker Man' thrown in for good measure...

Finished my second read of Withered Hill by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social just in time for Halloween. I had completely forgotten the huge twist at the end. Seriously, great British folk horror, check it out now.

Here we are again.

It’s Halloween. Kiki is snuggling up with Withered Hill and Scuttler’s Cove. Be more Halloween. Be more Kiki. www.canelo.co/authors/davi...

A pair of surprise charcoal originals came from son Charlie Barnett to cheer us up for Halloween - witch and mermaid. You can see more of his work here, with links to his online shop at Sailors Jail gallery in Falmouth www.charliebarnettworks.com

We are now living in the Blackcurrant Tango ad. youtu.be/tAOlukpXQzQ?...

@keithrosson.bsky.social Keith, can I drop you a DM (or can you DM me) or is there a good way to get in touch with you quickly?

You could, if you so wished, procure the ebook of my Cornwall-set folk horror novel SCUTTLER’S COVE for a mere 99p as a Halloween treat to yourself. www.amazon.co.uk/Scuttlers-Co...

Great event with the always fabulous @joe-hill.bsky.social at Waterstones Leeds tonight.

For the Observer I wrote about the first lot of results from the national folklore survey, with input from Uncanny's @dannyrobins.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

So I’m not going to be at World Fantasy in Brighton this weekend because, fuck cancer, which is especially galling as Withered Hill is up for Best Horror in the British Fantasy Awards. But in the throes of tests and scans and treatment plans, so… anyway, did I mention fuck cancer?

And still only 99p! www.amazon.co.uk/Scuttlers-Co...

Heads-up to @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social attendees - I just logged into the members area of the website for the first time since I got my ticket, and there are FREE BOOKS waiting for you. This has been a public service announcement. Another follows 🧵⬇️

I miss the apostrophe in Hallowe'en.

A huge benefit of reading horror is it allows timid and anxious people to live adventurously.

Oh, good morning, little orange bestseller flag for Scuttler’s Cove.

Woodland walk. This late-18th Century folly is known as St David’s Ruin.

For those who Kindle, SCUTTLER’S COVE appears to be 99p at the moment. www.amazon.co.uk/Scuttlers-Co...

I just fucking love comics, me.

Robotic Martians form less than 0.0001% of this country’s population. I am sick of seeing TV ads like this.

Hey! It’s Halloween week! Buy some spooky folk horror by me! www.canelo.co/authors/davi...

Don’t forget the clocks went back last night, went back to the Clock Factory, slipping there through the gap ‘tween tick and tock, where they gathered in the furnace-heated place they were born to honour clock-faced Father Time and dance and sing, and bring us back an hour, to be returned in Spring.

Forget the Mothman, long-unseen billionaires are the true American cryptids. Some say on a moonlit night at the country club you can hear the clacking of their foot-long fingernails and the howls of their forgotten, archaic racial slurs drifting on the wind

Somehow I deleted this when I posted earlier. Here’s my (shite) news again for anyone who hasn’t seen it elsewhere.

so looking forward to this, have you read the first two in David's series so far? Withered Hill and Scuttler's Cove, both brilliant folk horrors set in the same 'universe'