Happy and proud to make @ellen_datlow's recommended list for 2025 with three stories (as my alter-ego, Simon Bestwick. In very good company, too! Links to the full list: ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f... ellendatlow.com/2026/01/03/f...

The Venezuelan government has been saying for decades it’s the victim of American aggression and sabotage because the US wants to steal its natural resources, so it’s clarifying that the US is now bombing the country while the President and senior officials say they are going to steal it’s resources

Pretending you don’t understand *and* falling over and pretending to be injured? And it’s only the second day of the year. Start as you mean to continue, if guess.

I know Christmas is over, but here's a free ghost story to round out the year... www.patreon.com/posts/short-...

If you crawl for years on your stomach to people who hate you, begging for their indulgence, while relentlessly insulting and deliberately offending people who might be inclined to support you - while offering almost nobody anything they want - then you are going to be deeply unpopular.

Do you notice how, the higher the evidence stacks up that our ruling class is basically just a gaggle of coercive arse-grabbers covering up for each other, the more extreme their terror of foreign sex criminals and transgenders lurking in toilet cubicles grows

The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.

My story 'Polodski's Bride' appears in #TheJoining, a brilliant new anthology of wedding-themed horror from editor Jacob Steven Mohr, out today from Crystal Lake Publishing. www.crystallakepub.com/out-today-th...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

If the lads are finally asked whether they’d rather put the boot into Farage or Polanski, I wouldn’t be confident that it’ll the former they’ll find truly unacceptable.

If I can sell 100 tickets, you'll have a fucking BRILLIANT time listening to me talk about finding lost ghost stories and reading one and I'll be able to have a comfortable Xmas and make sure that most of January's bills are taken care of.

There are always going to be people who, sincere or otherwise, want all art to conform to their controlling bland "manager policing their workers' bodily autonomy" perspective. And it's important to shut those people out in the cold and create art of wild indulgence and freako obsessions 🤘

We do this constantly in Britain, usually by saying: “My new book is coming in April! ‘Travesty of Horseshit: How everyone was lying about the catastrophic events, and we all knew but repeated their drivel and kept quiet for five years about the bad stuff’, at all good bookshops RRP £14.99”.

Thrilled with this fabulous blurb for my upcoming novel Lionhearts from the majestic @dannythechurch.bsky.social mybook.to/Lionhearts

Tonight was a very bad night.

The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.

Lovely to see that it's now considered cool and good to be a vehement lefty who loves socialism but if you called people like me a stupid naive cunt and dick-rode the reasonable centre between 2016 and 2024 I DO remember because I'm not above petty fuckery. Anyway. Welcome, comrade.

"[An] oppressive, dread-inducing tale full of eerie imagery and tension." Big thanks to @booksbonesbuffy.bsky.social for this terrific review. #horrorfiction #horrorbooks #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social booksbonesbuffy.com/2025/11/06/t...

THE SOUND OF THE DARK by Daniel Church - Blog Tour Review @dannythechurch.bsky.social @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

These buggers are always threatening us with a good time, but they never follow through....

The new novel from @dannythechurch.bsky.social is out now. You press PLAY. You hear the hiss of the tape. Then the echoes of something else. The sound of the dark. You press STOP. Too late.

Thank you to everyone at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social who cam to the launch for project Hanuman - it was so much fun :-) We did sell out so now you’ll have to wait until the 11th November. Which feels unreal.

Happy Halloween! The Sound of the Dark is out now, today's your last chance to buy The Hollows on Amazon for only 99p, and tomorrow The Ravening's up for the British Fantasy Award! Quite a month... #horrorbooks #horrorfiction #thesoundofthedark #theravening #thehollows @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Halloween. Suppertime 🎃 BENNY ROSE THE CANNIBAL KING has become a holiday reread for some but new meals might wonder where to find this chompy guy now? In TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, that's where 😈 So a big thanks to returning readers, a dinner bell to newcomers, and to everyone, Happy Halloween!

Here I am talking to the nice people at @freshfiction.bsky.social about The Sound of the Dark, Chinese food, Wales, egg custard tarts and more... #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening #horrorbooks #horrorfiction @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social freshfiction.com/page.php?id=...

A mix of folk horror and true crime - if you’re me, that’s enough to draw you in - but what makes #TheSoundoftheDark by @dannythechurch.bsky.social special is the characters - especially relatable heroine Cally Darker. #BookSky TY to #NetGalley and @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social for the ARC. Review:

The Churchman Chattereth... Here I'm interviewed by the excellent Karen Docter at Karen's Killer Book Bench - talking horror fiction, Pepsi Max, killer slugs and more... www.karendocter.com/karens-kille...

We’re over the moon to share that Marianne Gordon’s ALISTAIR FALL AND THE RESTLESS DEAD has sold to Del Rey in a two book deal! Read more: www.ki-agency.co.uk/post/deal-an...

Who told the public that he embodied the system? Who was it that said they were the real conservatives, and who said this was *precisely* what Britain needed, very enthusiastically cheering all of that on every step of the way?

📚💀🔊 New Review 🔊💀📚 The Sound of the Dark by @dannythechurch.bsky.social "A perfectly paced descent into a chilling cosmic pit of madness, putting the truly sinister into true crime & making you forsake your headphones until you can be sure something unspeakable won’t happen when you put them on."

Thanks again to my total lack of organisation, I failed to trumpet Happy Goat Horror's awesome review of The Sound of the Dark! Thanks, Kayleigh, you're a star! happygoathorror.com/2025/09/30/t... #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening #horrorbooks #horrorfiction @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

I love Thompson's response (though I recommend turning this crap off as I have done) but whenever someone brings up the slop machine or calls it a revolution as Colbert does here, replying with "oh, the thing that convinces kids to kill themselves" is also an appropriate response.

Due to general disorgansation on my part, I'd completely forgotten to share this interview with The Story Blender where we talk about The Sound of the Dark, among other things. Many thanks for having me, Steve! #thesoundofthedark #horrorbooks #horrorfiction www.thestoryblender.com/past-recordi...

No, not Tuesday, but rather @dannythechurch.bsky.social's new novel, The Sound of the Dark.

TODAY IS THE DAY! The Sound of the Dark is finally loose! If you're in Liverpool, drop by @writeblendbookshop.bsky.social tonight - I'm in conversation with the lovely @catcavendish.bsky.social.... @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social #thesoundofthedark #horrorbooks #horrorfiction #thehollows #theravening

A very happy book birthday to THE SOUND OF THE DARK by @dannythechurch.bsky.social, out today from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social!

New Review Happy publication day to this exciting supernatural occult tale that has a fascinating premise and lead character - The Sound of The Dark by @dannythechurch.bsky.social is out now and highly recommended - many thanks @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

Happy publication day to @dannythechurch.bsky.social with The Sound of the Dark, a delightfully creepy tale that I enjoyed a great deal uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

A cracking publication day review for @dannythechurch.bsky.social's new novel, The Sound of the Dark. Do. Not. Press. Play.

1 MORE DAY TO GO! The Sound of the Dark is published tomorrow, with a launch at @writeblendbookshop.bsky.social! What's the book like? Let's ask bestselling novelist @samanthaleehowe.bsky.social... #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening #horrorfiction #horrorbooks @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Today I'm guest blogging for The Nerd Daily, highlighting a few lesser-known horror movie gems in order to darken up this time of year. Among them, @thegeorgepopov.bsky.social's THE DROVING .. Have you seen any of these? Any favourites of your own you'd like to list? thenerddaily.com/daniel-churc...

Today I'm guest blogging for The Nerd Daily, highlighting a few lesser-known horror movie gems in order to darken up this time of year. One such film is Stephen Volk's The Awakening... Have you seen any of these? Any favourites of your own you'd like to list? thenerddaily.com/daniel-churc...

3 days and counting... Or is it 2? Because after tomorrow it's Tuesday the 28th, when The Sound of the Dark IS OUT! Here's what @marieoregan.bsky.social had to say about the book... #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening #horrorbooks #horrorfiction @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

4 days and counting! One weekend and a Monday to go, and then The Sound of the Dark will be let loose on the world! Here's what it did for horror and noir maestro @salavaria.bsky.social... #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening #horrorbooks #horrorfiction @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social

Happy to say my li’l sci-fi/weird horror film AFTER THE FALL (based upon an incredible short story by Jeffrey Thomas) will be playing the LA Fantasia Festival in mid-November. These folks really focus on international films, so we feel lucky to be among the other great projects. #filmsky

Shaping up to be a real How It Started/How It Ended type year, isn’t it

Do none of these people actually read these newspapers and magazines? This isn’t even slightly out of character, they’ve been behaving like this for years.

5 days and counting! Nearly the weekend, then Tuesday the 28th will soon be upon us - and with it, The Sound of the Dark! And @timlebbon.bsky.social, for one, certainly recommends it... @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social #thesoundofthedark #thehollows #theravening #horrorfiction #horrorbooks

Don't press play! For those online on either side of the pond here are the dates for the online tour for @dannythechurch.bsky.social's new novel The Sound of The Dark. Published October the 28th. Just when you the thought the horrors of the 80s were dead...