This is what I'm trying to say

I posted a picture of a spider in the group chat and @leighamshardlow.bsky.social turned it into a goth album cover

Zohran's campaign was his determination to make New York a city everyone can afford to live in. Huge congratulations! His success will resonate throughout the world. A story where no one is left behind. It's time to write that story across England & Wales too.

Watched both Heretic (2024) and Sinners (2025) over the past couple of days. I was much more enamoured with the latter, though Heretic wasn't bad by any means. Sinners, though, was pure magic.

Happy Halloween!

Many thanks for including Glass Stories on this list!! 🖤

Pre-work doodle #learningtodraw #doodle

Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now? I was 13 or 14 when I came out as bisexual, I think. Hard to say. I was never really 'in' I just didn't have the language to describe things succinctly when I was younger than that. I'm 34 now.

Scarfolk with the best advice

Leaving the job I've done for the last 15 years, and the company I built, because of this "AI" bollocks. It was past time So, if you fancy buying any of my books for Halloween - individually, or in the kind of industrial quantifies that might keep the wolf from the door - Now's the time!

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

New entry on my personal blog! antonyfb.com/blog/blog-ta... #personalblog

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

I'm unreasonably excited about grabbing a pumpkin spice latté and going pumpkin picking later.

John Carpenter's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

These are basically identical to my last two attempts at self portraits

An autistic woman is using her name recognition to bring awareness about genocide and putting her own body in harms way because you don’t care about people getting tortured unless they’re white. Try that for a headline, chaps.

New entry on my personal blog! Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories. antonyfb.com/blog/nefario... #personalblog #horrorlit

#buymybooks THE BIG ONE. A double dose today because it’s important to note that this action-horror novella is out in less than a week from @tonyanuci.bsky.social. I mean, just check out that tentacular cover by @lynnehansenart.bsky.social. Can you punch your way past existential dread?

#horror #memes

This, right here, is absolutely outrageous. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Finished POSTHASTE MANOR by @jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social last night, and it hit all my buttons. From the actual story content to the structure - mosaic narratives, smashing together genres, scrapbook media, wild tonal shifts. Its all there!

I'll bring potato smileys

And less than 15 months in they've already doomed themselves simply by being themselves. All they had to do was not be monsters and the people who didn't know any better would have held them up as heroes but they just couldn't not be monsters.

always feels weird seeing horror people romanticize The Conjuring’s version of Ed and Lorraine Warren because like… do you guys not know, or…?

First look at the distillery in my short horror story, Old Tom. Available in full for free here: www.ferenbrooke.com/short-storie... #horrorfiction #horrorlit #WritingCommunity #shortstory

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

I have dealt with old fashioned madness which renders me resistant to computer madness. Bit of a cowpox/smallpox situation.

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

So, given that I post short horror stories on my own website, would the #webfiction hashtag be appropriate? Or is that usually just for serials in particular (SFF?) genres on platforms like Royal Road?

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

Three separate BBC News headlines thus far today on the shooting of a white nationalist misogynist in the US (with one of those guns he was so keen on everyone owning) And nothing, not a word on the landing page (as of 6.50pm tonight) on a racist sex crime - a racist *gang rape* - in the actual UK?

Today marks twelve years with my wife. I'm grateful for every day with her. Also, holy shit I'm getting old.

This is brilliant

Little sample from my short horror story, The Landlord. You can read it here on my website: www.ferenbrooke.com/short-storie... #horrorlit #WritingCommunity #horrorfiction

Given the people who run this place are transphobic crypto fascists who kick trans women. Let’s promote Gretchen’s work on here for her. She has a new book out. It looks really cool, you should grab a copy and help her out, and also you’ll get to read a cool book bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Lengths of Fiction Flash: Under 1,000 words. Short Stories: Longer than that, but still short. Novelette: *Frantically checking a magazine's guidelines* Novella: Too long ~and~ too short. Novels: Just one more moleskine. This will be the one.

New entry on my personal blog! antonyfb.com/blog/daily-d... #personalblog #openbsd

Are you looking for the kind of horror that leaves you staring at the wall? Well I have just the book for you!! 👀

SOMETHING PECULIAR is coming... Day four... please welcome @timjmajor.bsky.social's tale "Urchin Barren". SOMETHING PECULIAR will be released in October, and is available to pre-order now from the Black Shuck Books website.

Drafted a blog post about my favourite operating system. Gonna give it a polish and do a doodle for it, then I'll post it tomorrow. Also made some progress on a short story for an open call. I am legitimately more productive with my hobbies than my actual job at this point.

IT'S OUT TODAY! Ancient family lore. Secrets passed down through generations. A feeling of belonging...or, of not. Heritage and horror, ancestry, things we pass down through our bloodlines. Stories that have deep, foul roots. I'M SO PROUD OF THIS BOOK! GET YOURS: titanbooks.com/72017-roots-...

Coffin Moon is out today. Thanks to everyone that's reviewed the book, preordered it, told their friends about it. We had a sold out event at Hollywood Theatre last night, and Broadway Books sold every single copy of Coffin Moon they'd brought. I'm so lucky. Thank you all.

New episode of Cosmic Goblins out now! This episode features "Just Visiting" by Camden Rose (CHM #62), you can listen here: https://bit.ly/4lZR6zv

Started reading Shoot Me in the Face on a Beautiful Day by @emmaemurray.bsky.social – really strong opening. The prose is great. Looking forward to seeing how this one goes. #horrorlit #booksky

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

(trying to explain "fuck, marry, kill" to a black widow spider) no it's *three different* guys

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

I'll have a (probably vastly inferior) story in this about angry, uptight queers and Butoh dance, so bookmark and grab a copy!