As it’s #NationalPoetryDay, I give you this dark, apocalyptic offering from W.B Yeats. My favourite poem from my favourite Irish poet. It always seems prescient, but even more so these days. Enjoy… #TheSecondComing

Anything better than after a day doing close textual analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, sitting back with some Clive Barker and Books of Blood? “The creature had taken hold of his lip and pulled his muscle off his bone, as though removing a balaclava.” #CliveBarker #Horror #Walden #BookSky

Well it’s #ShakespeareSunday, so we have this little ditty from Macbeth…

I watched The Birdcage last night, for the first time. Yes I know, shame on me. Definitely late to the party. Just going to say that I thought I was going to pass out from laughing so much. Or at the very least lose bladder control. It was amazing 🤩 #TheBirdcage #RobinWilliams #NathanLane

Fresh coffee brewed? Check. Housework done? Check. Now about to make a start on this 😃 #MildredTaylor #RollOfThunderHearMyCry

Happy #ShakespeareSunday

I’m just going to go out on a bit of a limb here, but I think when all is said and done…John Steinbeck is better than Ernest Hemingway. #JohnSteinbeck #ErnestHemingway #BookSky

youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?... Electric Nebraska! Thank you Boss for making this year that little bit brighter. My favourite album 😎 #BruceSpringsteen #ElectricNebraska

Found online. Not sure who created it, but really made me giggle. #CliveBarker #Hellraiser #Garfield

New book day. Bought spur of the moment and am going in blind, but still, you can’t really go wrong with #MargaretAtwood. #Booksky #Amreading

Constant Reader Adam Page (@adam-page.bsky.social) shares the 10 Stephen King horror novellas he thinks EVERYONE should read! horrorfam.com/stephen-king... #horrorsky

I think we can all relate… 😁 #BookThreads #AmReading

Rewatching Rango, and this part always makes me smile. Saw it in the cinema, and there were single little cheers as older people got it and the kids didn’t 😂 #Rango #HunterSThompson #FearAndLoathing

The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50: How A Musical Awoke A Generation www.flickeringmyth.com/the-rocky-ho...

And there's no dark like a winter night in the country. And there was a wind like this one tonight, howling and whistling in off the sea. You hear it under the door and it's like someone singing. Singing in under the door at you. It was this type of night now. Am I setting the scene for you? 1/

I’ve been feeling pretty good lately. So some Cormac McCarthy should fix that right up. Outer Dark, Blood Meridian or The Road. Decisions, decisions…🤔 #BookSky #CormacMcCarthy

Yes I already have his complete works. But this “Globe Illustrated Shakespeare” is something to behold. Leather bound, annotated and just brilliant to hold. Already inscribed, so I’ll have to add my John Hancock to it. This is something you pass down. #shakespeare #literature #BookSky

I haven’t read Lolita in a while. Oh, wait…that’s not Lolita. Hmm something seems off…🤔 #Booksky #BookCovers #WTF

Do you read Sutter Cane?

I’ve just started drinking tea. Only one I like is Earl Grey. And it really is nice. But I’d be a dirty liar if I said I didn’t love, when someone asks if I want tea, replying “Tea? Early Grey. Hot” Hoping they get the reference and don’t think I’m just being a rude twat. #Tea #Picard #EarlGrey

youtube.com/watch?v=RIgY... I was around 11 when I saw this. I loved Quantum Leap. I didn’t quite understand this episode when I first saw it. They spelt Sam’s name wrong. IYKYK. But I get a tear in the eye and lump in the throat every time I see this. Every single time. #QuantumLeap #ScottBakula

I finished #Stoner, by John Williams, and just wow. It was incredible. The story of a life but it totally enthrals you. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read. I can’t recommend it highly enough. #BookSky

On my #TBR list: Stoner by John Williams. A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. #Booksky #AmReading

Every now and then, for no reason, the last line of Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Nine Billion Names of God” runs though my head. It’s a very frightening story. “Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.” #Booksky #ArthurCClarke #Horror

Writer Adam Page ( @adam-page.bsky.social ) shares how he got into #horror, his love for Stephen King, how attitudes towards horror fans have evolved in the UK over the past 40 years, how to introduce new/young audiences to the genre, and more! horrorfam.com/adam-page

25 years on, Stephen King’s memoir is still the best guide for writers

“Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler…welcome to Jurassic Park.” Im 40 and will never forget seeing this in the cinema as a kid. Even now, i feel a lump in the throat. When people say ‘movie magic’ it’s this. youtube.com/watch?v=VzZN...

I’ve been reading “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler. Went into it blind and loved it. And yet… am I being dense? Who the hell killed the chauffeur? Is it explained and I just missed it? Bloody good read, though. #BookSky #RaymondChandler #PhillipMarlowe

This Friday on the HorrorFam.com Podcast: Writer Adam Page (@adam-page.bsky.social) discusses #horror literature, video nasties, Stephen King, and the United Kingdom's evolving attitude towards horror!

Having a conversation with someone and they mentioned when they get a hardback book, they throw away the dust jacket. Like it was the most normal thing in the world. Got me thinking. I don’t throw them away. Does anyone else? Is this a thing? I’m curious. #Booksky #DustJacket #Reading

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Going to France for a few days. So needed some holiday reading material. Something light, relaxing. So I chose Solzhenitsyn’s “Cancer Ward” An allegory of life in the Soviet Union under Stalin, set in Cancer Ward 13 of a hospital in Tashkent. #RussianLiterature #BookSky #AleksanderSolzhenistyn

“That woman deserves her revenge. And…we deserve to die.” He was just so effortlessly cool. On screen, you couldn’t take your eyes from him. He’ll be missed. #MichaelMadsen

🎬✍️ NEW FE ONLINE ARTICLE! Adam Page takes on cinema’s nonlinear narrative, exploring how the cult classics Pulp Fiction and Memento embrace the puzzle of disjointed storytelling Read the full article for FREE on Film East’s website: www.film-east.com/s/stories/pl...

Two more for my ever growing @chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social collection. It’s coming along nicely 😎 #ChuckPalahniuk #BookSky

horrorfam.com/stephen-king... Check out my latest piece for @lovehorrorfam.bsky.social on the 10 best Stephen King short stories. From the bloody and violent, to the emotional, there’s something here for everyone. #horror #StephenKing

It’s June 21st. The summer solstice. So you know what you have to watch? “Sumer is i-cumin in/Lhude sing, cuccu!” #TheWickerMan #Horror

“Every body is a book of blood; Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.” I love Clive Barker. That’s all. Just putting that out there. Back to your regularly scheduled programming. #Booksky #Horror #CliveBarker

With the bad craziness happening in Los Angeles, and reporters being shot and detained, it seems an unfortunately appropriate time to revisit one of Hunter S. Thompsons finest works. #LARiots #HunterSThompson

“Buck Melanoma. Moley Russels Wart.” Shakespeare couldn’t have come up with that. #IYKYK #UncleBuck

“There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.” I haven’t read this in so long. Sitting down with a coffee and my towel to get lost in Douglas Adams’ hilarity. #HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy #DouglasAdams #Booksky

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www.film-east.com/s/stories/pl... Sit back with a Royale with cheese and enjoy my latest piece for @filmeast.bsky.social #Moviesky #PulpFiction #Memento

I’ve never read #Dune, nor seen any of the adaptations. Thinking of getting the book but keep going back and forth on it. I do enjoy sci-fi, but is it worth it, or has it been overhyped? Any recommendations? #FrankHerbert #Booksky

New book delivery. Came in two large boxes. Just the best kind of mail 😀 Some are for study, but all are something to get lost in. #Booksky

I’m fashionably late to the party, but recently started watching #OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding. Up to season three now, and for two days I’ve been singing “Which of the Pickwick triplets did it?/Who of the crew would commit this crime?” It’s so addictive. #OMITB

🚀 A fresh feature from @adam-page.bsky.social, as he hops in a time machine to compile a top ten of brilliantly complex sci-fi movies for MM. 💫 Give it a read HERE: moviemarker.co.uk/top-10-brill...

In Frasier, one of the darkest jokes is in “There’s Something About Dr. Mary.” Frasier wants Mary off his show, and this exchange happens: Frasier: They're looking for a replacement for "Lets Go Camping, with Dan and Jenna". Martin: What happened to them? Frasier: They don't know. #Frasier

It’s a rainy Monday morning, so why not some hot coffee and kick back with William S. Burroughs definitive novel “Junky”? #Junky #WilliamSBurroughs

When the whole Andrew Twat case is finally resolved, I’m really starting to think it will emerge that he and his idiot brother were ‘breaking biblical laws’ close. Something so deeply wrong with both of them.