You Too Can be This Cool

Well actually Frankenstein is the name of the movie that the doctor saw when he was a child that inspired the Frankenstein toy line.

I cringe at the train coming at me in movies. I have never watched a train that was actually imperative to the story. It always makes me feel like the producer is trying to run me over with the train

Katharine was so kind and adventurous. You could see that just from talking to her, she had an amazing outlook to tackle every new experience. I always knew I was in the best hands with her at big cons. It was all just another new thing to do. I'm going to miss her. All the love to her family 🖤

Titan Publishing is devastated by the loss of Katharine Trowbridge (Carroll), our US Publicity Director. "A consummate professional, she coupled charm and grace with an infectious sense of humour. She will be missed terribly."—Laura Price, Editorial Director of Titan Books

Bostonians, next Thursday at 7pm I'll be in conversation with @boneysoups.bsky.social about her new novel, THE RED SACRAMENT, which is without exception the greatest vampire novel of the 21st century so far. RSVP and come hang out with us! brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-0...

"If you have ever worked somewhere that called itself a family right up until the moment it cut you loose, you will feel the cold logic of it in your gut." Thanks so much to Jim Mcleod at @gnofhorror.com for this wonderful review:

Watching the video from The Ring on my phone so she comes out of my screen real tiny and I can just put her in a mug

We are so excited to reveal the cover for YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW by @adenpolydoros.bsky.social! 🖤 An unsettling horror in which a young man returns to his Pennsylvania hometown to confront the traumatic demons of the past... Coming in February 2027 🩸

Very pleased with this beautiful cover for The Clockwork Leviathan! #booksky

We are over the moon to reveal the cover for THE CLOCKWORK LEVIATHAN by Philip A. Suggars! 💙 Return to the world of the bestselling The Lighthouse at the End of the World in this standalone adventure, and prepare to immerse yourself, once more, in a multiverse of Londons. Coming in April 2027 ♣️

Perfect opening sentence to a Ray Bradbury short story.

A huge thank you to @dailydead.bsky.social for helping reveal the cover for THE FLESH I WANT by @toddsjordan.bsky.social, coming in February 2027🩸 A captivating horror about the gory lengths we will go to satisfy our hunger...

This cover is everything. @toddsjordan.bsky.social is a rockstar! (A real one!)

THE RUNNING MAN continues Edgar Wright's pretty poor post-Cornetto phase (Sparks Brothers notwithstanding, that film rules). Miscast, low energy and not particularly funny. Domingo is maybe the only saving grace, and Powell just keeps on losing star power with every film.

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

Blown away by this blurb for HUNTING BY THE RIVER from Sunday Times bestselling author Jake Arnott.

Presenting the Met Gala outfit that best matches my debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

Thanks to @keithrosson.bsky.social for the kind words on my debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER.

lmao poor yorick. they got his ass

Thanks to @keithrosson.bsky.social for the kind words on my debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER.

Thrilled to share that THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT got a STARRED review from Publishers Weekly 🤩 calling my cursed film book a "triumphant horror outing" and more below! Our feature presentation hits September 15 from @titanbooks.bsky.social 📽️ www.publishersweekly.com/9781835411483

Perhaps the most prophetic sci-fi film of all time, 12 Monkeys is about a millennial who wishes it was the mid-90s again.

SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THIS: “In partnership with @titanbooks.bsky.social and in celebration of Sara Hinkley's The Red Sacrament, Jean Robert presents THÉÂTRE SAINT-SIMÉON, a fragrance inspired by the novel’s gothic setting…"

got to chat with Fiona Denton at @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social about THE RED SACRAMENT, showbiz, writing during covid lockdowns, and the Anne Rice of it all:

Now reading. If nothing else, it's worth it for the story RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, which is the unholy mix of YESTERDAY and 11/22/63 and is a far, far more accomplished story about the Beatles than the former. What a fantastic piece of short fiction. @natcassidy.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social

🧵England players who don't look like footballers. 1. DAVID SEAMAN. Looks like your mate's dad at primary school. Has a Vauxhall Carlton and when he drives you both home he says "Guess what mum's got for afters? Angel Delight!" and laughs when you both cheer (met him recording a pilot btw).

okay but what if a 10-year-old thinks moby dick is better than middlemarch, what then. where are they supposed to go

The Blart is a Lonely Mall Cop

The Blart is a Lonely Mall Cop

Parents are having a clear out of my stuff at their house and they have found my origin story.

The success of Backrooms is fantastic, and I love to see it. But you just know that Hollywood is going to learn all the wrong lessons from it, and in less than a year we're going to get Mr Beast: The Movie.

ICYMI: @titanbooks.bsky.social has acquired Usman T Malik’s debut dark fantasy novel, A Dark and Narrow House, as well as his award-winning short story collection and one further novel. 👇

Parents are having a clear out of my stuff at their house and they have found my origin story.

Rotating guest stars in every episode play the Doctor who is caught in a weird regeneration flux. Get huge names in to play the Doctor for one episode, half an episode, just a cold open and constantly fuck with the viewers about when they will regenerate.

Thrilled to share the final cover of my cursed film novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT, now sporting a quote by the incredible "wins two major awards for the same book in one night" author, Stephen Graham Jones 🤩 opening September 15 from Titan! 📽️ www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...

WHALEFALL TEASER 🐳🦑💥 youtu.be/67ho3OxCmmM?...

THAT'S WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT 🤩 Congratulations @usmantm.bsky.social 🎉

A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE is a masterpiece of fantasy literature. I've never read anything quite like it and you are all going to love it.

Back in England after a week in the US. So nice to be surrounded by so many people who have seen a big tesco

Stokercon was fantastic. Inspiring, thrilling, and extremely enjoyable in equal measure. This picture represents both a highlight and my current state of being.

Whoah, wow: thrilled, floored, and honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award last night! Thanks, all. Signed, a horror writer stumbling around Edinburgh, Scotland.

I wrote the first draft of this book in 2021 and it will be in readers' hands in only 30 days! I'm so excited gooped gagged thrilled about it! My debut novel! out July 7! How crazy is that!

Stokercon day 2, begin!

Stokercon is excellent, as always. As always, I don't take nearly enough photos.

"I was told that “the original thoughts and opinions of the piece” were the writer’s, but “the support of AI was used to help structure and organise his original thoughts into a draft format”. Tell us if we’re wrong, but at City AM we call that process writing."

I'm up to that bit in the novel edit where I discover that I renamed one of the characters halfway through and forgot to change the earlier versions. GO, PAST DAN, GO.

Stokercon, here we go