LAST CHANCE for the Little Ghosts’ NO RETURNS sale! 10-65% deals automatically applied at www.littleghostsbooks.com until MIDNIGHT. Chris will be in the shop packing your sale orders for pickup & shipping bright and early tomorrow. Thanks everyone for supporting us through our annual hibernation!

Well, this was just great.

Now that's January, just a reminder that this event is coming up. Happy new year and see you next week!

A new year? In this economy?

I thought of something that will make this draft even more fucked up that hopefully family will stop asking me about my writing

Today is the deadline for nominations for the Splatterpunk awards- if you read InhuMANities and liked it, please send in a nomination. You can send it to [email protected] and nominate InhuMANities by Andrew Robertson for Best Collection. Stay gory! #horror #horrorcommunity #queerhorror

Toad took his clothes out of the closet and put them on. Then he crossed out: Get Dressed.

While waiting for the subway I heard someone at the other end of the platform repeatedly call out, "Candy cane!" like John Cleese with an albatross. Not sure if they were selling them, giving them out, or just searching for their friend Candace 🤷‍♀️

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains. Absolutely no contest

Late in the day but happy December 27th! The Boxing Day of Boxing Day. (From the BBC sketch comedy radio show John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. FYI John Finnemore is not the one singing.)

Early morning thought: grunge was a boon to those on the spectrum in the 90s, you could have messy hair and wear your fave baggy ripped jeans and tees to threads and still be acceptable. Also flannel, which is nice and soft on the skin.

I am Toad.

Wait - how did I not realize before that Eli Wallach, the best thing in THE HOLIDAY, also played the art-collecting American tycoon in HOW TO STEAL A MILLION? 🤯

Watching IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE for the first time in years and now that I'm older, Mary ending up as a spinster who works at the library doesn't sound like that bad a fate

Merry Christmas Eve! Am now off work until January. Peace on earth, goodwill toward men* and all that. 🥂 *exclusions apply

Cashier scanning my groceries this morning like they owe him money and slept with his mom and it's not even 9am yet. Popping briefly out of Bsky hiatus to remind you to be nice to retail workers, esp this time of year

Going offline for the rest of December to focus on some work. Happy holidays and see you in the new year!

Re: last reskeet: If reviews freak you out—and I get it, I ran a bookstore for decades and some of my clerks were *AMAZING* at hand-selling and froze the moment they were handed a shelf-talker cue card—here’s an easy trick for three short sentences that make a useful review:

In books vampirism is wasted on angsty beautiful people. Nobody turns single moms. OMG, all the shit I could get done. I could finish my TBR pile! Catch up on TV and movies! Finally organize the hall closet! Maybe clean the bathrooms more than once in a dog's age

Home sick and watching MOONSTRUCK, which I haven't seen since I was a kid. Highly amused that Cher's 37-year-old widow is supposed to be frumpy with a few grey hairs, gets a makeover and still looks the same (i.e. amazing), only with bigger hair

I have watched this about 20 times in a row, and I'm not even looking at the character, I'm staring at the movement of that hem. My god, the fluid way it lags behind the character's movements. Just *chef's kiss*

Aspiring authors, let me help. I've written 20+ trad published books and I'm also an editor at an indie press. If there's something you want to know about writing or publishing, reply to this post with your question and I'll see if I can give you a useful answer. #writing

Same, Murderbot

Love to see the Sedgwick County Zoo putting out a good explainer on why GenAI slop videos of animals are a problem & how to identify them! It’s succinct, easy to read, and doesn’t shame people for not knowing better. A+ useful link to share with family and friends. scz.org/blog/the-rea...

One of your New Year's resolutions is to read more books, right? RIGHT?? Why not get an early start by discovering some local horror authors? @hwaontario.bsky.social is hosting a New Year's Levee on Jan 6 2026 at the Caledonian, 6:30pm. Put it in your calendar now! 💀🎊

For the early morning crowd: I'm on the last day of my rent's grace period and still trying to make something, anything, work. If anyone has writing or editing they need done, I need whatever people can send my way. See the QP below:

Just a normal Saturday night, leaving a comment in my ms for an eagle-eyed copyeditor explaining where the blood drooling down a character's chin is coming from

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

"I'm just going to grab one for my son," I say, taking a candy cane from the candy dish at my building's front desk, knowing full well he'll turn it down and I'll get to eat it 👀

"Vaccines do not cause autism. Vaccines let autistic children live long enough to become autistic adults. Autism is not a tragedy to be prevented; it is a way of being deserving of support and respect." From @autisticadvocacy.org: autisticadvocacy.org/2025/12/asan... #autism #VaccinesWork

Psst, might be a good idea to get a flu shot

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

It is still Bandcamp Friday.

Story Day! The Teleporting Disaster Fairy is now live @uncannymagazine.bsky.social - one hapless but hopeful human against the absurdity of the universe. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Schrodinger the pigeon has been dropped off safely. Again, consider donating to your local wildlife rehab centre today!

This Giving Tuesday, why not donate to your local wildlife rehab centre? You don't know how needed they are until a pigeon won't budge from your freezing balcony and next thing you know you have a pigeon in a box and you need someone to take it 😬

Alexander Skarsgard's getting a lot of attention for playing a hot gay biker in PILLION, but I'm glad to see Harry Melling stretch his wings. He's turned into an excellent character actor e.g. QUEEN'S GAMBIT THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME. Also I'd no idea he was Patrick Troughton's grandson. 🤯

Don't break the silence

Join me for our latest Interstellar Flight Press book launch! This one features a reading and discussion with Italian horror translator J. Weintraub! www.eventbrite.com/e...

If you had to take care of humans, it was better to take care of small soft ones who were nice to you and thought you were great because you kept preventing them from being murdered.

I mean, sure, Jem and the Holograms' messages of love and kindness were important but by today's standards the Misfits' self-aggrandizing are anthems of feminist power thank you for attending my TED talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRk...

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

All weekend, 50% off my most recent title, InhuMANITIES, both print and Kindle on the Zon. The profits from this and any other GLHC books sold over the weekend will go to support local food banks. . . : #horror #horrorbooks #booksale #blackfriday

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times Joel Plaskett The New Pornographers Hot Chip Nicole Atkins Sharon, Lois and Bram

Here are some avoidable issues that may upset autistic people to the point of self-injury or aggression, yet parents or caregivers might be told such behavior is “just autism,” or that the autistic person needs behavioral conditioning therapy. At TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti... 1/

perfect example of what I mean when I say "Canada is fucking weird", this pineapple taught me french

people always stereotype Canadians as being polite, and its not true at all. We are passive-agressive weirdos who live in isolated weird places and the sooner we make peace with that the better

An older Belgian lady I worked with, who had very discerning tastes, told me, “You are an original” 🥹

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

Post a famous bathroom scene.