What books did I get for Christmas, you ask??? These two :) ( @jeffreyford8.bsky.social / @stevetoase.bsky.social )

Christmas horror reading: Dirt Upon My Skin, a haunting collection of stories written by @stevetoase.bsky.social. Go, buy, read. Support indie horror. #read #horror #indiepublishing #booksky blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows-37/

A very apt #HillfortsWednesday Oswestry in all its majesty in the snow ❄️❄️❄️ Merry Christmas all 🎄❤️🎁 #Archaeology #History

The Ghost Story, Alfred Bestall, 1930 #Christmasghoststories

Now watching the Johnny Cash 1977 Christmas Special. Even though he was very much not at the height of his abilities (something that returned with the American Recordings) it’s still bloody brilliant. youtu.be/kth-dqq00bs?...

If you need a little treat this morning, this poem about Black immortality by PC Verrone will do you good. www.nightmare-magazine.com/poetry/blacu...

The last of my 12 year Bunnahabhain, Yule cake with a good cheddar, and a ghost story. Perfect for a bitterly cold Christmas Eve.

This is the barn owl stained glass window in St Thomas’s Church at Harty on the Isle of Sheppey. Sure did hear those last night in the moments when I drifted in and out of sleep! #NightInAChurch #Sheppey #WinterSolstice

My #jolabokaflod and #solstice #bookhaul Already read the Tove Jansson book, which was wonderful, and The Witch by Shirley Jackson. Really looking forward to Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and Cathedral of the Drowned by Nathan Ballingrud

New story out in Chthonic Matter Quarterly! This one’s about a cursed art exhibit of statues made from the reclaimed wood of haunted houses and the poor docent that has to deal with them :) Fun stuff! chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/chthonicmatt...

Goodnight from the Billington family, spending yet another the night at the Shangri-La motel to avoid the poltergeist that’s troubling their home. Goodnight from Florrie Sump, heading out towards Loathing Pool to make an offering of comb and looking glass. Goodnight from Hookland.

I wrote about 28 Years Later

Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain. 👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com

Mikko Lagerstedt

Guess what's out today: www.skyhorsepublishing.com/978194910278...

Just read The Witch by Shirley Jackson. Such a menacing story for six pages.

My reaction to getting Nathan Ballingrud’s Cathedral of the Drowned for Winter Solstice: A Photo Essay

I like this poster that looks like Frankenstein is skanking.

Journal rehoming: I have large collections (2 boxes each) of Saga och Sed gustavadolfsakademien.se/en/tidskrift... & Revue Historique en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revue_h... Can cover postage for a UK based charity/ CIC. Otherwise it costs £22 to post in the UK #history #academia

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Mordörhead

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...

The log is never wrong ...

Day 19 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. Time for modernist ornaments. We take the chain of electrical pylons from box, the silver wires between them pulled tight. Under them we scatter repurposed dolls and action figures into a march of ragged walkers, Children of The Hum.

If I have a superhero origin, it’s the 24th July 1994 episode of Moviedrome youtu.be/5zX7jVFBVOM?... youtu.be/P0DeDXHSH3Y?...

#TheFullLid - 19th December 2025 - Happy Friday! We're looking at the @escapeartists.net end of year campaign, talking blood, love and rhetoric, @pseudopod.org 's @thisishorror.bsky.social win, visiting with spirits and spending Christmas in Hollis. See you next year! mailchi.mp/a448db9dec34...

#proofoflife finished my none writing work for 2025, so now to relax, write and watch the year turn.

The pre-Christmas glimpse of the @romanpalace.bsky.social Ceefax page is undoubtedly the top @bsky.app highlight of 2025. More of this please 🥰🥳 #VillaNotVilla

Pre-order Luna Novella 2026! In This City, Where it rains by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social In an alternative Edinburgh, Maggie is haunted by ghosts that only appear in the rain - and it always rains in this city. ☔︎ www.lunapresspublishing.com/lunanovella

Had a quick visit to Toxic Toast record shop in Coburg. Very pleased with this pre-Christmas vinyl haul as a present to myself, Especially the Tricky, and Judgement Night soundtrack.

Last year a good friend passed away. He was a Viking reenactor. There is a very famous photo of him, often used as source material for tattoos and motorbike tank paintwork. I keep encountering it randomly online and it always brings me up short, but it’s definitely an unusual type of immortality

I’d appreciate some #bonsai advice, please. I dug this young oak from my parents’ garden about 18 months ago and haven’t done anything since apart from watering in the summer. It’s about 50cm tall, and has sent up some new shoots from the base. Should I remove them? Do any other work this winter?

🎨Liz Wright - Sunset through the Trees in Winter, 1989.

Becky Spratford is, if I may use some technical terminology & librarianship jargon, A BADASS. Take a minute to read this even if you don’t read/realize you read horror, bc it’s a marvelous tribute that also sheds light on the invaluable service skilled reader’s advisory librarians do for readers.

A reminder that Thursday is the last day before our Christmas holiday. If you were thinking of placing an order, now is the time! All orders placed from Friday the 19th will be shipped in the New Year. Thank you everyone for your support and your love! 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

NEW Wooden foundation under the #BronzeAge settlement mound of Tabakoni, Georgia. Preserved in the waterlogged soil of subsequent layers built onto the mound, radiocarbon and dendrochronological dating find Tabakoni was re-used over 1.5 millennia. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Thanks to @acwise.bsky.social for shouting out my story The Ballad of Easy Deaths in @3lobedmag.com. This was a very personal challenge as I wanted to write a biker story that didn't feel like a stereotypical biker fiction story, but still tried to tap that cinematic, nostalgic, Americana.

The notion that "95% of people who responded to the survey are against this" can be glossed as "no clear consensus" is even more absurd than the usual "pretty damn absurd" usual baseline for uk politics.

Happy birthday, #PhilipKDick— superfriends with #UrsulaKLeGuin, another universal gift:

Just watched Mad God, and that was definitely a thing. Grotesquely beautiful in places. Amazing sound design (for example on the plague doctor character). I can think of several short stories I’d loved to see filmed in the same style.

Here in our part of Germany, a lot of people live in apartments, and I kept seeing these very narrow, wooden, ramps running up to windows. Then I worked out they were so cats could easily get into and out of the apartment.

If Britain's Most Upright Man could get down with Fleischerei, so can you. Delighted to be among Ray's picks of 2025.

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

Good morning! If you're looking for a quick boost to your 2025 reading goals, might I suggest whisking yourself away to "dark and fantastical places" with my award-winning novella THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS.

I'm not sure if this is how Frederick Oakeley, or any of the attributed authors, would have imagined O Come All Ye Faithful being played, but here we are. It's not Christmas until Twisted Sister has terrorized some straights into loosening up with carol singing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV-S...

The mystery of the bare-assed dolmen dancers. irishimbasbooks.com/the-mystery-...

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

Watching Klein gegen Groß, the show that keeps on giving. The current challenge is to identify objects by the sound they make when sucked up by a vacuum cleaner.