When reality grows more terrifying than any fiction, writing horror becomes an act of resistance; a way to contain unspeakable violence and, on the last page, decide who survives. gnofhorror.com/writing-horr... @titanbooks.bsky.social @amyjanestewart.bsky.social

Book clubs are good for the soul 💙📚 Thank you to @claymcleod.bsky.social and @novelnightmares.bsky.social for hanging out and talking all things Bodies of Work 🦋🦋

I really enjoyed @boneysoups.bsky.social's deliciously lush vampire novel, The Red Sacrament. It's a killer debut.

Put it in your calendars: me and @boneysoups.bsky.social, Brookline Booksmith, July 9th at 7pm, for the release of her novel THE RED SACRAMENT. This is the greatest vampire novel of the 21st century so far, bar none. www.eventbrite.com/e/sara-hinkl...

I’ve done an inexplicable thing.

The seven-year-old is writing her first play.

The seven-year-old is writing her first play.

Sad

When ChatGPT calls you Shirley instead of your real name, check if your phone is in airplane mode.

I’m sad to announce that, after the police deployed facial recognition technology at yesterday’s Unite The Kingdom march, my thumb has been arrested.

Some blurbs for THE RED SACRAMENT that have me chewing on rebar / absolutely beside myself with excitement and gratitude:

FACE OUT

That Guardian 100 best books doesn't even have the best Hilary Mantel on it. Ridiculous.

Delving back into the novel this morning for another bunch of edits. One thing's for sure, everyone should have an @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social in their lives to point out exactly how nonsensical some of your writing is.

LONDON EVENT NOW ON SALE! 🚨 Join @stephengrahamjones.com in conversation with @manylittlewords.bsky.social on Thursday, June 11th at London Film School, to celebrate THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER and look ahead to OFF THE RESERVATION 🖤 🎟️ UK tour tickets and details: bit.ly/42Ql1TD

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, and Grubb

Delving back into the novel this morning for another bunch of edits. One thing's for sure, everyone should have an @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social in their lives to point out exactly how nonsensical some of your writing is.

Is that Chekhov’s Gun in your pocket or will you just be pleased to see me later?

THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT opens September 15th from @titanbooks.bsky.social 📽️😈 Only four months until we go to the movies and never come back ... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-movie...

From time to time I come back to the question of what might be considered modern hauntology (HT Stefan Mohamed). I'm pretty sure algorithm-chasing animated social media videos, increasingly created using AI, might be one answer. There'll be people in 20 years' time saying to friends...

Final Destination: Bloodlines - Extremely enjoyable installment that manages to be the funniest and most engaging film in the series to date. Come for the gnarly MRI death, stay for the genuinely emotional Tony Todd cameo.

Genuinely, if all of this leads to Streeting far away from cabinet and an Andy Burnham PM then that's not an awful outcome really. Not enough to make me vote Labour. But still.

What are the best 17th Century swears in The Lighthouse at the End of the World? #booksky #authorlife #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #fantasyfiction

Can't explain it but ACAB also includes Wes Streeting

Me: the term romantasy is bad enough, we don't need more--- Publishing: HORROMANCE! SCIMANCE! ME: No, please,wai--- Publishing: COSIMANTACY! FORROR! HOSY! COSICOSIRPGEESEE! YOUCANTSTOPMESY! Me: *crawls into hole to die* Publishing: HORROBBIT!

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

I'm honestly running out of things to post about this book, so let's ignore I used this before; here's the first page of CABARET IN FLAMES, along with one of the original cover sketches by @creepcaptain.bsky.social. The book has been out for two months now, and you can buy it pretty much anywhere

ACQUIRED TASTE by Clay McLeod Chapman is out in paperback next month! 🩸 A startling, witty and downright terrifying collection of 25 short stories from the mind of one of modern horror's finest authors.

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

A brand new horromance from the acclaimed author of Ghost Eaters and Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. 💘🔪 DEVIL INSIDE by @claymcleod.bsky.social is coming August 2026! Pre-order your copy now https://tinyurl.com/9sd37zhw

Thrilled to wake up to this killer review of The Hive from the fine folks at @gnofhorror.com

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

Fred Durst recruiting a guitarist in '94:

Happy tenth anniversary to the greatest correction in a newspaper, ever.

Happy tenth anniversary to the greatest correction in a newspaper, ever.

No *your* number one goal of going to the US next month is to pick up a copy of @natcassidy.bsky.social's collection at a B&N.

Finally, finally watching this. Maybe the best horror musical since The Wicker Man??? Incredible.

Artwork inspired by BODIES OF WORK from Levi Valen. I love it when stories inspire art, or vice versa, and that we get to share it. Thank you so much, Levi. @titanbooks.bsky.social

Amy Jane Stewart’s Hex House isn't a safe space. It's a trap disguised as hospitality. We talked about vessels of revenge, the Scottish Borders, and why some wounds never heal. Read the interview #HexHouse @titanbooks.bsky.social @amyjanestewart.bsky.social

Ref*rm are upsetting cos it’s the lazy politics of division. For their supporters, they say “you can’t trust outsiders”. And for the rest of us, every time they do well in polling, they say “you can’t trust your neighbours.” Whatever happens, they split us up, and make us dislike one another.

we never see any polls at dogging stations

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A couple flee London—only to find a cave & witch bottle in their new home. Dark magic, a sinister occultist’s ghost, and Aleister Crowley’s shadow unleash hell. For fans of Hurley & Toon. 🖤🔮 #Netherwood @titanbooks.bsky.social

This is the most incredible thing I have ever seen.