The Wandspringer published by @foolscapquill.bsky.social. A middle-grade novel about the importance of family and friends and also the dangers of totalitarian governments. www.robertcedgar.com

A video with the sample from the audiobook The Crack in the Lens. This is the first video about our books. If you are interested in seeing more please subscribe to our channel on Youtube. youtu.be/LzqtqgQeoOM?...

I can highly recommend! A wonderful take on Holmes. A great novel and beautifully read.

The Wandspringer is a middle grade time travel adventure available from Bookshop.org and many other booksellers worldwide. #kidlit #timetravel #scifi #middlegrade 📚💙#booksky 🪐📚

I know I'm banging on. But we have to because we're a small press and need this limelight to let readers know about our books. From Hebden to Hollywood via Dublin. As Rónán said. 'It's like throwing a dart from Dublin and hitting the bullseye in New York.' www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

There's nothing better than opening a parcel of books! @foolscapquill.bsky.social The Wandspringer- available now.

Wandspringer is a German word that means "wall jumper." It is used to refer to some spiders. In this book "The Wandspringer" is a spy who helps people cross the Berlin Wall.

I'm very pleased to announce that my novel, The Wandspringer, is now available in print and ebook. Published by the fantastic Foolscap & Quill (foolscap-quill.com/wandspringer.html) The Wandspringer is a middle-grade time-travel/cold war espionage story.

The first of the Orion Labauve series books, Search for the Signet, is available on Amazon & Kobo in paperback and ebook. 2nd book coming next month. Delve into this magical realism series! 🪐📚 #magic #ghosts #fantasy www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNKXLRM9

The Wandspringer - Ellie must travel through time to East Berlin to save her father. Now available on Bookshop.org #middlegrade #scifi #kidlit #timetravel 🪐📚 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Wandspringer - Ellie must travel through time to East Berlin to save her father. #middlegrade #scifi #kidlit #timetravel 🪐📚

A middle grade time travel, science fiction adventure story #booksky #childrensbooks #history

Ellie’s world has shifted. Her father has disappeared. She lives with her uncle who spends his nights working with machinery in his cellar. Now there is a new teacher at school & a radical change in the lessons. What is the connection? Who is the Wandspringer? 💙📚🪐 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMJRX4JW/

Hellllooooo Brick and Mortar stores! If you list our books on your website, we link to your website! foolscap-quill.com/marketplace....

For everyone who's attended the conference... (meme by Lowen Frampton, polaroid by Edie Owczarek-Palfreyman)

BONUS EPISODE - Folklore in the Field FOLK HORROR with @robertedgar.bsky.social Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/folk-horror.... or on your podcast app Recorded live at this year's UK Ghost Story Festival @ghoststoryfest.bsky.social, I chat with Prof Bob Edgar about Folk Horror

Very pleased to have a chapter on CUD: Rich and Strange @cud.bsky.social (thanks to @williampotter.com) in Rereading Musicians and their Audiences edited by @profkirsty.bsky.social, Tom Attah and Christian Lloyd

Sneak peak at another book coming out this summer: The Wandspringer

Looking for reviewers, bloggers & podcasters! We are publishing two books in August. One is a mid-grade time travel adventure about a girl looking for a hero to save her father who finds the hero in herself. The other is a magical realism story about an old curse & a new hero. DM for review copies.

Discussing hauntology at the Ghosts in Britain and Ireland 1500-1950 Conference, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

Folk horror isn't dead (HOST) except when it is (CANDYMAN) and sometimes it's fake (ANTRUM). "The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror" has essays on those & other films, plus literature, music and history. Now in paperback. Eds @robertedgar.bsky.social Wayne Johnson www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

A slight update to our CFP! Were please to announce that this year’s conference will have limited hybrid capacity! See our CFP for details!

WE'RE MOVING! After our founding in late 2020 in SE London, we're bidding farewell & waving hello to our new HQ in West Yorkshire. We'll be joining the already amazing indie publishing scene in the North of England and can't wait to worm our way in with the cool book kids.

A suitable reading stack for #folkhorrorweek! Featuring @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social, @andydrewz.bsky.social, and @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social. #hauntology #folkhorror #folklore #nigelkneale

Congratulations to the Luna family on their BSFA Shortlist! And congratulations to all finalists!!!! ❤️🥳 @jennicoutts.bsky.social @neilwilliamson.bsky.social @tiffaniangus.bsky.social @vallescurarule.bsky.social www.lunapresspublishing.com/shop

There’s 22% off our #FolkHorror anthology at the moment at the link below. Cracking stories, a lovely edition - fill your boots! www.amazon.co.uk/Horror-Short...

First up on day 2, and waking me up, it’s the good professor himself: @robertedgar.bsky.social leads us through rooting your spectral stories with believability. Great workshop!

Out now in paperback - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/thomas-ha...

CFP: The Uncanny in Language, Literature & Culture 22–23 Aug 2025 – University of Malta & online This multidisciplinary conference invites scholars to engage with the uncanny in its myriad forms, exploring how it shapes & is shaped by language, literature, & culture. uncanny.lcir.co.uk

WING IT starts tonight on Radio 4! It's a brand new improv show where I (ABK) set challenges for some of the UK's top improvisors. If you want to hear me laugh and ring a little bell, this is your chance. Tonight at 11pm and on BBC Sounds after.

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"Folk horror is ambient" You'd be hard pressed to find a more thoughtful & nuanced discussion of what folk horror is anywhere on the internet than in this delightfully entertaining & informative conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/3Oeq... #FolkHorror @dogearedpodcast.bsky.social

If you're anywhere near London, we're doing a special Writing the Uncanny/Future/Murder live event at Waterstone's Islington on the 22 January. Myself, @robertshearman.bsky.social, Aliya Whiteley & Barry Forshaw. Tickets available now! www.waterstones.com/events/writi...

Quick reminder that this 15% discount ends at midnight tonight!

I'm thrilled with some of the reviews we've received for COME SING FOR THE HARROWING. People seem to be connecting with it, which is all an author can really hope for! There's a link below to check it out on the publisher's site, or it's on Amazon too. #horror weirdlittleworlds.com/product/come...

Great job going here 👇🏽

I asked @robertedgar.bsky.social of the Hauntology & Spectrality Research Group for recommendations to get in a hauntological mood ahead of Writing the Occult: Hauntology. He had loads, obvs. I'll share them individually. 1st: the Scarred for Life books by Stephen Brotherstone & David Lawrence. 🧵⬇️

🇺🇸 In all the excitement I forgot to announce: TALES ACCURSED (my illustrated Folk Horror anthology, you know the one, I don't shut up about it...) is officially published in the United States TOMORROW! Americans, tell your American friends! Go hunt it down in an American bookshop, etc! Thank you..!

We are very pleased to announce a new Bloomsbury Academic series. Spectres, Hauntings and Horrors The series editors are Dawn Keetley, Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social and myself. More information below. Logo & illustrations by the fantastic Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social

Owen Archer 15, A Snake in the Barley, is available for preorder! Where is taverner Tom Merchet? Owen Archer unearths a series of troubling secrets & a dangerous foe intent on retribution when his good friend goes missing. #mystery #historicalfiction 💙📚 #medieval buythebook.online/a-snake-in-t...

Tonight's the night! The first of our two-night stay at HOME Manchester as me and @bobfischer.bsky.social delve deep into the history of folk horror. Tickets on the door for tonight, and four places have opened up for tomorrow night. Get 'em while you can!

It's World Teachers' Day! If you're a teacher, let's hope you're enjoying this school year and got no "Horrifying Children" or "Monstrous Youth" in your classes 😉- such as the kids in these 2 new books on #horror, #ChildrensLiterature, comics, TV & film! 👻 #WorldTeachersDay

Our trilogy of books make for perfect summer reading! Get a 10% discount with the case-sensitive code SUMMERSUN10 till Friday August 16, and wallow in the dark, scary, and strange pop culture of the 70s and 80s... Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

- As with my previous anthology Damnable Tales, each story will be accompanied by one of my lino printed illustrations. Here’s an initial page spread concept I’ve boshed together for Margery Lawrence’s wonderfully evocative 1925 tale Morag-of-the-Cave…

Been so busy the last couple of weeks I haven’t had time to post about this exciting new arrival: love the way the cover makes it look like an original 1970s textbook, Scarfolk style. Must have been an epic feat of editing - 40 contributors. Congrats @robertedgar.bsky.social and Wayne Johnson!