With the arrival of the latest Tales of the Weird from @blpublishing.bsky.social (Marion Fox’s eerie novella The Luck Of The Town) I thought I should rearrange my shelves to display the collection. Not quite every book in the series but almost!

Excellent book post today, "The New Flesh – Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformations" from @blpublishing.bsky.social's "Tales of the Weird" series. Complete with a story from @johnnymains.co.uk, and what I hadn't realised, Roald Dahl's "Royal Jelly".

🧚‍♀️Not just wings and wonder. Think tricksters, lovers and ancient spirits of shadow and shimmer. The Little Book of Fairies, available from the British Library Shop today! #fairytales #fairystories #britishlibrary #britishlibrarypublishing

Here is @shedworking.bsky.social at the beautiful Books on the Hill in St Albans today. We popped in to present them with a copy of his new book ‘The Philosophy of Sheds’ (out in May). The perfect gift for Father’s Day!

As a mask-maker in my spare time, I've been especially looking forward to the latest @blpublishing.bsky.social The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformation! Out today 🎉 and packed with strange and spooky tales of metamorphosis. #Horrorsky 💙📚🪐

My story 'The Girl on the Suicide Bridge' closes the anthology!

Three seconds is all it takes to become something else. From werewolves to stranger transformations, The New Flesh explores the horror of losing yourself, body and soul. Edited by Mark Morris with @johnnymains.co.uk Available online today. #weirdfiction #horrorfiction #britishlibrarypublishing

Finished: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr Another great reissue for the @blpublishing.bsky.social Crime Classics. The investigation itself is largely secondary here; what drives it along are the wonderful gothic descriptions and the fascinating play offs between two detective rivals ⚡️📚💙

March Tales of the Weird subscription drop from @blpublishing.bsky.social has arrived The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformations Authors incl, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Brian Lumley, Roald Dahl, Lucius Shephard and @johnnymains.co.uk #weirdfiction 🩸📚💙

Arrived today - "The New Flesh - Tales of Shapeshifters and Strange Transformation", edited by Mark Morris. Lates in the British Library @blpublishing.bsky.social "Tales of the Weird" subscription. Stories by Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joan Aiken, Mary Danby and many more. Good stuff!

A couple more photos from London Book Fair! The Crime Classics, Women Writers & Philosophy of… all looking splendid. @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social

Wow, over 1000 followers now, hello! Thank you @johnnymains.co.uk

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL PHOTO. To think that my work is now part of the British Library's history will forever be mindblowing and awesome.

The Gilded Nightmares & Tales of the Weird looking fine at London Book Fair! @johnnymains.co.uk

Explore sensation and soiled reputation in this month's Crime Classic: Airing in a Closed Carriage. Originally published in 1943 and based on the real murder trial of Florence Maybrick, read and determine for yourself - was she innocent or guilty? 🕵️ #crimeclassics #britishlibrary #mystery

We are at #LondonBookFair26 ! Find us at stand 2A71. We have many treasures in store…

Finished this yesterday. A 1960s pottery in Stoke seems an unlikely setting for a crime novel, but it absolutely works. An air of Endeavour about it in the vivid settings and characters, and the weary, unloved, but sympathetic narrator

Thank you to @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social of @blpublishing.bsky.social for sending copies of The Black Fox by Gerald Heard and The New Flesh edited by Mark Morris

On the blog today, another brilliant #CarolCarnac reissue from @blpublishing.bsky.social -such a clever and twisty one! @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/i...

If you've not read this yet - first published by @blpublishing.bsky.social back in 2017 but still very much in print - then I think you'll enjoy it for World Book Day today. A Book of Book Lists was my fourth book and marked the point where I felt this was the work path I wanted to take.

Something nasty on the bookshelf: my review of @tanyakirk.bsky.social's collection of stories about books and libraries for @blpublishing.bsky.social, ‘The Haunted Library’ drfrancisyoung.com/2026/03/04/s... 📚👻

I had a very jolly chat with the eminent David Marr on Australian radio's ABC Late Night Live slot yesterday about my latest book When Books Go Bad. You can hear me rambling on about feuds, fisticuffs and typos at www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

So Australia is enjoying a proper barage of me chatting about my latest book When Books Go Bad which has just been published there. Here I am talking to the Australian Writers' Centre about it and the mechanics of publishing and getting published in general www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/ep-706/

I’ve been very poor at sharing the most recent arrivals from the @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird series but here are four excellent editions, newly roosted on the shelves! @johnnymains.co.uk @ruthheholt.bsky.social

Nice write-up of my latest book When Books Go Bad in the Sydney Morning Herald www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

New on the blog today for #ReadIndies, I've written about TEA ON SUNDAY by Lettice Cooper. A very enjoyable 'closed circle' style whodunnit in which an elderly woman is bumped off in the run-up to her tea party on Sunday afternoon. #BookSky 💙📚 #CrimeFiction jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/t...

A very early contender, but it will take a *lot* to beat “Possessed” as my book of the year.

Oh this is absolutely going on top of my precariously teetering emotional support #TBR pile. #booksky #horror #weird

Possessed by Rosalie & Edward Synton (1927) @johnnymains.co.uk @blpublishing.bsky.social Astonished this was lost for so long, this powerful gothic occult romance whipped along at pace, got progressively darker and more tragic, and kept me gripped right through to the climactic revelations 🩸📚💙

Been really looking forward to this one . . .

Ooooh. I love the tales of the weird series!

Ooh, I do love a good shapeshifter story! 👀

Wow, 'The Girl on the Suicide Bridge' in the flesh in The New Flesh!

Sneak preview! Next months Tales of the Weird is ‘The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters & Strange Transformations’ Edited by the delightful Mark Morris & featuring a stunning list of authors including @johnnymains.co.uk 🖤Publishing March 19th! #talesoftheweird

We are thrilled to be a London Regional & County finalist for Small Press of the Year at the 2026! #Nibbies

Beautiful cover!

I swear, I'd buy every book in this range if I had the money and the shelf space (yes, I'd prefer physical copies for these, because they're such damn handsome volumes). It's an amazing collection.

I'm really enjoying the Tales of the Weird series from the British Library. Good mix of anthologies and neglected novels. #TalesOfTheWeird

Publishing today! The Black Fox: A Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies Do you dare to invoke the curse? Discover this brooding masterpiece oozing with inexorable dread. For those readers seeking out the unsettling… #talesoftheweird

Book mail: Tales of the Weird @blpublishing.bsky.social subscription February is… The Black Fox by Gerald Heard Victorian England, a Cathedral, black magic and occultism. I’m in! 🩸📚💙 #weirdfiction #horror #horrorbooks

❤️ Intelligent stories for Valentine's day (& not only) by the likes of Virginia Woolf & Malachi Whitaker! ❤️ British Library Women Writers series @blpublishing.bsky.social

Art world secrets. Religious mania. Demands of kinship. All this and more in this month’s Crime Classic, The Double Turn.

On today’s episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Zara-Louise Stubbs about animals and the ‘uncanny gastronomic’, focussing on her excellent 2023 @blpublishing.bsky.social collection. The episode is available below or in all the usual podcast places. knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-246-...

For #readindies today, a clever crime classic reissued by @blpublishing.bsky.social which has some wonderful echoes of the past. More here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/a...

New on the blog today I've written about STORIES FOR MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS, another excellent anthology from the @blpublishing.bsky.social Women Writers series. Featuring stories by Maeve Brennan, A.S. Byatt, Jeanette Winterson & more! #BookSky #ReadIndies 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/s...

Now available! Bird of Ill Omen: The Gothic Tales of Catherine Crowe. Edited by Ruth Heholt. As famous as Dickens in her day - but largely forgotten, it’s time to give Crowe the respect she deserves. #talesoftheweird