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The land is blossom blur. Spring wears its bridal white despite a belly already swollen with coming summer. The feral churches of the county hold marriages for spectral couples. Even myths are mating, creating stories waiting to be born. Our blood chases hope. – #DAKilroy, 1982 #Spring

Today I found out my book has sold more than 20,000 copies, worldwide, across all formats!! 21,195 to be precise. TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND!! According to my editor. I am REELING. 😭😭🖤🖤🖤💪💪💪

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Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

The land wakes in green gowning and golden gorse. The land wakes in tangle, scratch and a constancy of call. Woodpecker, blackcap and even the greenfinch’s wheezing song delight the ears. Joy rides the tide of blood. Hope cracks the armoured earth. Spring walks the way. - #EmilyCBanting, 1982

New #projectrepoman post up. This week was The Long Hair of Death. Normally I don’t compare my thoughts to the Alex Cox intro, but I when I watched it after the film I was pleased to see we’d both seen the same similarity with another classic horror stevetoase.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/p...

Oh my GOD my history-loving 12 year old is gonna flip out when I'm on the same show as the Lauren Tarshis.

Forget about backmasking. I found an anti police message in upside down Tengwar on the Elvish dictionary my son got today…

I'm always eager for new work from @stevetoase.bsky.social, and his novella Crawl Space is seriously dark, delightful Weird Horror. If you like his short stories you'll love this. Genuinely disturbing good fun.

IT’S HERE! Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities. 👉🏼 Pre-orders for The Green Issue are now open worldwide! helleborezine.com/products/the-green-issue

I've got a new book out! Cult Britannia is a 400-page beast covering hundreds of weird and wonderful world of British horror and science fiction movies from the quaint post-war 1950s through to the end of the post-modern digital 1990s. Available in paperback and on Kindle here: amzn.eu/d/ghGmoNA

I don't know which is more unsettling. Finding out part of my childhood home (ex council house) is now an AirBnB I could stay in, or that the local empty 'haunted house' when we were kids is now a listed building that last sold as a family home for nearly 1 million pounds.

And on 6music next is Tortoise Crypto Death Scam, first played by John Peel back in 1987.

This might not be the most significant impact of AI, but one of insidious use I've seen is people tidying up photographs using AI (eg colourised and upscaled). The reason this bothers me, is it introduces AI artefacts into historical photos which then circulate and can cast doubt on originals 1/5

Thanks for a great review of The Block in Remains #4 "Like the boxes a wonderfully dense short story that distorts reality very well. "

Carry all your troubles away with this monsterous Medieval card 😈 Adapted from Zimmerischen Totentanz, Vergänglichkeitsbuch des Wilhelm Werner von Zimmern, 1540-1550 tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4477... #medieval #history #monster #marginalia #skystorians

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Also, for those interested — the 2 of you — I had a summer-tinged story in the February issue: www.thedarkmagazine.com/hunger-2/

First daytime visit of Cu Rua* recently. Peanuts bring all the wildlife to the yard. *named after the fox in The Hounds of the Morrigan

One for any folk horror fans out there - a lively online day of workshops and interviews with Strange as Folk, running on 9th May! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #folkhorror #horror #writing #writers #authors #fiction #books #events #onlinevents #novels

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

Today I learned that part of the hand is called the anatomical snuffbox, and my brain made several assumptions why before reading the fairly mundane truth.

All eight #SmallProphets covers are available as a pack of postcards. Buy here: colemandesign.co.uk/shop and love them. Forever. 9/

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

It’s time for a new #projectrepoman post. This week, we move on from westerns to that other staple of United States culture - political assassinations with The Parallax View stevetoase.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/p...

@stevetoase.bsky.social gets in the chair to share how Crawl Space was formed

Fresh off a British Fantasy Award nomination for his collection of archaeology short stories, Dirt Upon My Skin, weird fiction writer @stevetoase.bsky.social has unleashed his first longer work. He tells us more about his novella Crawl Space, out now. britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...

This afternoon's writing music is KIIOTO, featuring Lou Rhodes from Lamb, and Rohan Heath (Urban Cookie Collective) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQT4...

Yes! This is a thing! I've been looking forward to HOME SICK for ages and if you like quality British horror, you really need to check it out. Come and join us in July!

These are wonderful. I found the whole set here: briansibleysblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/eric...

Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.

I recently talked to the The British Fantasy Society about Crawl Space, my writing process, and why a motorbike is an important part of my writing kit. britishfantasysociety.org/from-pen-to-...

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

Had a great chat to Kayleigh at Happy Goat Horror about archaeology, writing, and worms! youtu.be/X4qdcKYFrlE?...

The Hobbit, of all books, actually has another great quote like that. "His rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."

Nearly half an hour of Lamb playing live, including one of my all time favourite songs youtu.be/-Tun1nt3Qhg?...

I'm writing my own eulogy because I don't want my family to say I was a control freak.

I encourage you all to read this brilliant collection.

A quick thread introducing my published work. If you like to read horror short stories that cover subjects from vets to flowers and expressionist art, read To Drown In Dark Water, published by @undertow.bsky.social undertowpublications.com/shop/to-drow... 1/4

Really looking forward to this. Not going to give away the topic I'm talking about, but in preparation I'm reading China Miéville, @terriwindling.bsky.social, @ellenkushner.bsky.social, and local history around where I live.

Our next hit of folk horror comes up this May with STRANGE AS FOLK, where I'll be joined by Andrew Michael Hurley, Dan Howarth, Ellis Saxey and Steve Toase for a day of interviews and workshops! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/strange-as... #folkhorror #horror #folklore #fiction

I wanted it to look like CLAYFACE had a hammer for a hand, but it looks like he's on his way to work