Ah, the sweltering heat urge to shave your beard off which must then be tempered somewhat so that you don't just have a big red shiny face.

In celebration of the solstice vibe, check out @johnreppion.bsky.social's suggestions for the four folk horror films you should watch before you disappear into the woods! www.dailygrail.com/2024/06/four...

Storm Warning is coming back in a brand new series called SLAUGHTER HOUSE 🩸🩸🩸

A while ago Leah Moore and John Reppion adapted all the tales in Ghost Stories for an Antiquary by M. R. James, and if you missed the two separate volumes, both are being reprinted in one bumper booklater this year! www.moorereppion.com/complete-gho... #books #comics #GhostStories

This is awesome. While so many companies are just blindly embracing AI and sending the quality of their articles to shit, Food & Wine and others are putting more money than ever into test kitchens and real recipe writing. AI is not "inevitable".

The best British Celebrity Roast Battle would be a show where soap actors and ex kids TV presenters competed in a show to see who could do the best Sunday Dinner.

I remember an American describing the idea of a comedy roast special to me about 20 years ago. I remember saying that it sounded shit, and that a British person would probably just fight someone rather than sit and be "roasted". Mad to think that that's what most people's idea of comedy is now.

Happy Fathers' Day, dads.

I love the work I do. I got to spend a chunk of days this week with a brilliant artist who's created this absolute legend, Skalli, who's the winner of the Liverpool Sculpture Prize 2026 www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/art...

Well, that went incredibly well. Turns out I can write and teach a 2 hour "More than you knew you wanted to know about writing comics" crash course.

The Haunted Book Club live from the Wavertree Lock-Up. We read and discussed The Tower by Marghanita Laski. Recording is a little bit chaotic and rough and ready, but that's what happens when you're in a tiny historic building. youtu.be/XeVYX1ymX8s?...

Tomorrow I'm debuting a little 2 hour crash course in writing comics thing I've been working on. It's in person, but I'm thinking I might do an online version if anyone's interested.

The Haunted Book Club live from the Wavertree Lock-Up. We read and discussed The Tower by Marghanita Laski. Recording is a little bit chaotic and rough and ready, but that's what happens when you're in a tiny historic building. youtu.be/XeVYX1ymX8s?...

Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.

Tonight, Haunted Book Club will be coming to you live from inside an 18th-century Grade II listed village lock-up built to house drunks and used to quarantine cholera victims. It's probably alright now. Join myself @gavcross.bsky.social and the bookclubbers we've locked in linktr.ee/haunted_book...

Popped awake at 4 so I’m drawing of course. The birds are already in full symphony. Really enjoying drawing this.

Tonight, Haunted Book Club will be coming to you live from inside an 18th-century Grade II listed village lock-up built to house drunks and used to quarantine cholera victims. It's probably alright now. Join myself @gavcross.bsky.social and the bookclubbers we've locked in linktr.ee/haunted_book...

New Page of my Eisner Nominated Webcomic Terran Omega - read from the start here: www.pauljholden.com/patreon/?via=bsky it's FRREEEEEE!!!!

u r invited 2 join my secret club

Alistair Fruish talks to American underground comics artist Melinda Gebbie about retrospective Greatest Fits, plus her wild career from the burned and banned Fresca Zizis to vivid portraits Herbie Hancock, James Brown and Janis Joplin The Strange World Of… Melinda Gebbie buff.ly/SDOflmV

🎶Long legs, Big Webs🎶

An absolutely fantastic cover by @ffrancavilla.bsky.social. He's the absolute best.

Via www.instagram.com/p/DZNjZCnD0j...

I still don't know where they are. I have a lot of pitches and ideas and I have some very cool stuff to adapt.

The Complete Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Coming this Autumn from @selfmadehero.bsky.social www.moorereppion.com/complete-gho...

The Complete Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. Coming this Autumn from @selfmadehero.bsky.social www.moorereppion.com/complete-gho...

Have you ever listened to this? I wrote it! (The words, at least) youtu.be/v6BayFyRLXM?...

Kind of incredible that we should definitely be protesting and holding the UK police to account for their terrible, criminal methods and negligence, but that it's impossible to do that because you'd have to stand next to a "take are cuntry back" idiot throwing a brick and swigging a can of Stella.

Defying trends: www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

Have you ever listened to this? I wrote it! (The words, at least) youtu.be/v6BayFyRLXM?...

Had to work until she was 68, never saw a cent from her invention. None of the billionaires are inventors they are all the crooks that stole from the inventors.

99.9% of opinions right now seem to be "this effect might actually be the cause" and it's extremely tiring. Is that the problem? That the people who have to explain things to the idiots have grown tired of having to explain the same things over and over?. I certainly have.

I have some unsolicited advice and an unsolicited link rolled into one. AI-free Google search: udm14.com

guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here

This is a nice little BBC documetary from 1975 on Ghosts and Ghost Hunters #FolkloreThursday youtu.be/VTqtPtCy-NY?...

Pick it up

I just opened a doc from 2012 which I didn't recognise the name of, and this is all it says: That house on the corner you once knew was haunted, That tree where it's rumoured a body once hung. A factory accident closed down that building, The whispering wind using leaves for it's tongue.

Aren’t my folk horror novels pretty and just perfect for the time of year? Available now in paperback, ebook and audio from your favourite vendors. Gorgeous covers by Sarah Whittaker. More details at publisher Canelo’s website: www.canelo.co/authors/davi...

Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

I just got an email via Etsy from Angine de Poitrine's management saying to take down my Blobby de Poitrine t-shirt immediately. Its already gone, and I'm not about to argue, but it does feel like, because they almost certainly don't know who Mr Blobby is, this is even funnier.

"Excuse me, is this the right social media platform for an argument?" "I've already told you once."

I see that some people are arguing here that the safe space left wing bubble of Bluesky is a bad thing actually, to which I can only reply fuck you. It's like complaining that not inviting a random dickhead into your living room to shout abuse is actually bad for you.

Do you ever think about the fact that people being billionaires actually just proves that money isn't real?

I mean, my kid actually works with me developing ideas and concepts into projects we can sell to film/tv/other media, and is developing stuff on her own, some of which might become novels. It's not nepotism, writing is the family business around here. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

"AI can write that dreadfully worded social media post for you". ”No thanks, I can do an even worse job than that myself".

Thanks to everyone who came to Haunted Book Club last night at Blooming Skull Coffee in Bebington. It was our first intimate coffee shop gig, and it went brilliantly. There's a secret free gig coming up soon, if you search online for Haunted Book Club you will find a link to some free tickets.

If you're in #Manchester today, pop in to listen to a panel or buy some books! Tickets available on the door. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/headpress-... #indiepublishing #indiepublisher

Today is the day! The sun's shining. The birds are singing. It's time for creepy ghost stories in a lovely coffee shop.

Happening tomorrow!

It is crazy that they built machines that could research and write papers (badly), released them to everyone, and then started complaining that kids in schools/universities were using them to research and write papers. Its like saying they've been caught using vacuum cleaners instead of sweeping up.