Two seasonal albums that go together perfectly in November. (Like wine-pairing.) Listening to both these LPs back-to-back, it’s almost like listening to a single 2x12” concept LP about the darkest parts of Halloween and Fall. Perfectly complementary. 🎃🍂🍁 #killingjoke #samhain

Claws out! 😾 Tickled to find this passage of Charlotte Brontë throwing shade at Jane Austen. Didn’t know she disliked her. Austen, Brontë says, is a writer of dull, lifeless “commonplace” trifles. 😏 Bring it, Charlotte! 😾 #CharlotteBrontë #janeausten

In from France today--an EXCELLENT adaptation of Baudelaire's poems into French coldwave-esque music. The band is SPLEEN XXX. Finally bought both their 12-inchers. On Meidosem Records. Chuffed to have them finally. #frenchcoldwave #darkwave #meidosem

So who’s going to debut a black chewy licorice candy for me, on Etsy, called THE MORBS? 🍬 Victorian script, individually wrapped, etc. I can write the copy. 🖤🍬 If you do it, Etsy entrepreneur, cut me in! DM me. Let’s make money! 🤑 #poe #eapoe #edgarallanpoe #themorbs

And his wife’s Texan, ya’ll—watch out. ❤️‍🔥🤠 #zohranmamdani #eugenedebs #mandani #democraticsocialism #iww #dontmournorganise #industrialworkersoftheworld

🔥🔥🔥#killingjoke #jazcoleman #dcpunk #ianmackaye #henryrollins #innerear #voodooorchestra #donzientara #dischordrecords #postpunk

DR SEUSS HAS A MESSAGE FOR YOU. www.artsy.net/article/arts...

A note apropos of the new US govt policy of defunding food stamps for 42 million Americans the month before winter begins. “Destitute Mother, Frozen to Death, Holding Her Sleeping Child in Winter," by Octave Tassaert, ca. 1850.

Even when she didn’t look like Vampira, Maila Nurmi stood out. She was credited as VAMPIRA and not Maila Nurmi when she played an avant-garde poet (“The Poetess”) in 1959’s THE BEAT GENERATION.🦇 #vampira #mailanurmi #thebeatgeneration #thepoetess

These 4 12” LPs were just left on my doorstep. They’re back in print. For awhile. #danzig

Currently reading. #thomaspynchon #shadowticket #pynchon

Check out this unusual pic of Fugazi. Halloween show, Leeds, UK, 2002. One of their last shows. It’s a little depressing to think that 2002 was 23 years ago. #fugazi #punkhistory

Eight German Expressionist horror poems are here, translated to English, to kick off the Halloween season. You’re welcome. They’re here: tr.ee/C6ZwNW #germanexpressionism #halloween

Had to get a screenshot to mark the occasion! 🤘 Up to 669 subscribers when I last looked a second ago. (Nice.) Never really imagined it’d get this large. A few academic and literary heroes subscribed, in the past few months—which blew me away, when I realized who they were. Life is good.

Um, Happy October 1st? 🎃👻 #halloween #rocktober

Ordered these 5 titles from some friends of mine who recently started a pretty great secondhand online bookstore, Batwing Books. (Link in comments.) Great place to buy your next favorite read! 🦇 #bibliophile #bibliophilia #bibliomania

Another collection of Georg Trakl translations I just picked up. 2011 translations by Stephen Tapscott. Cover image is a self-portrait Georg Trakl painted himself. I've made several posts about Trakl at my Substack. My most recent SUbstack piece about Trakl is here: tr.ee/gNoCNv #georgtrakl #

This was a great night. 7 years ago at Sundown at Granada in Dallas, Texas. Youth DJing. Jaz and Geordie and Big Paul hanging out like locals. Great memories from a brilliant band we’ll never see play live again. Dancing to music played by Youth! Bittersweet now. #killingjoke #postpunk

Happy 71st bday today—Tuesday Sept 16–to #ColinNewman of #Wire. I forget who I got this image from. I think it was from DJ Joey Seeman.🩶

Watching #WEAPONS. Witch, please. #Endora would like a word with “Aunt Gladys.” #weaponsthemovie #auntgladys

Watching #WEAPONS. Witch, please. #Endora would like a word with “Aunt Gladys.” #weaponsthemovie #auntgladys

My new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY, is out now. Link to purchase in comments. My two poetry collections, Thirteen Nocturnes (2018) and The Funeral Colony (2025), are pictured. #darkpoems #darkpoetry #weirdhorror #weirdpoetry #gothichorror #gothicliterature #gothicpoems

A quote from Marcus Manilius’ ASTRONOMICON (ca 40 CE) that I used as an epigraph in my first poetry collection, 2017’s DESTRUCTION: TEXT I (from which this picture is taken). Theory is that #HPLovecraft got the idea for his #NECRONOMICON from Manilius’ work. #astronomicon #weirdhorror

Happy Birthday today, Sept 10th, to Georges Bataille. I found this copy of his LITERATURE & EVIL at Dallas’ Dolly Python store. . . #georgesbataille #thestoryoftheeye #literatureandevil #acephalé

From my new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY. It can be purchased here: TheFuneralColony.com #thefuneralcolony #mywork #darkpoems #darkpoetry #weirdpoems #weirdpoetry #horrorpoetry #horrorpoems #gothichorror #gothicliterature #gothicpoems #gothicpoetry #oliversheppard

Recommending this gorgeously-designed 38-page poetry + photography chapbook by Sean M. Huber and Chris Friel (photos). HECATOMBS, by Infinity Land Press, 2025. The book is a wonderful objet d’art (Karolina Urbaniak deserves credit for this fantastic design). #seanmhuber #infinitylandpress

Heck yeah! Phenomenal mail day: Got in this book + signed photographic print from Killing Joke archivist (of their early years, at least), Mr. Frank Jenkinson ! #killingjoke #postpunk #darkwave #tradgoth

Happy belated 64th Birthday to cosmic horror schizo-punk outsider artist NICK BLINKO. A martian among men. (In the best way.) His bday was yesterday, September 4th, 2025.. 🎂 🖤 (Note: This pic is about 15 years old.) #anarchopunk #rudimentarypeni #nickblinko #whenyouareamartianchurch #outerhimalayan

Attn spudboys and girls: DEVO nerd audiophile question. Halp! #devo #dutynowforthefuture #dutynowforthefuturespuds #dutynowforthefuture1979 #devomusic #markmothersbaugh

New Substack piece about Alfred Lichtenstein's more ghoulish poems. Includes his "The Fog” from 1913, which treads similar thematic territory to Stephen King & John Carpenter. It's here: tr.ee/AzspzQ at Dammerung.substack.com #darkpoetry #horrorpoetry #horrorfiction

Happy Birthday today, August 30, to Mary Shelley. "The earth is a tomb, the gaudy sky a vault, we but walking corpses." —Mary Shelley, "On Ghosts" (1824) #maryshelley

Recently came across (and have here translated) this prescient German #sci-fi short story about AI and replicants, from the 1910s! “Automaton,” by Hermann Kasack from 1916, broaches the idea of android “duplicates” superseding mankind. Here: tr.ee/4qb1se at Dammerung.substack.com #scifi #dystopia

Wow, nice. I think! Just got this notification from Substack. Maybe my slogging away on there is paying off! 😊 #substack #writerlythings #writinglife

Nabbed this cool Gloria Stuart autograph + glossy! Image from the 1932 horror-comedy THE OLD DARK HOUSE. Boris Karloff’s arm there. You may know this pre-Code film inspired the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but that’s not Gloria Stuart’s fault and you shouldn’t hold it against her. 🫠 #gloriastuart

I wrote “Entropy Engine” in early 2024. It’s one of 84 new poems in #TheFuneralColony. “’The heavens roll open (here, the membrane splits) / In the operating theater of infinity— / But heaven was become a morgue of broken theorems.” At: tr.ee/FnU05N at NineBurningVisions.substack.com

JUST NOW on my Substack: Georg Trakl’s nightmare-meditation on the dark spirit(s) of Autumn. From Summer’s slow death to Autumn’s crisp twilight—Trakl’s verse is “haunted by the ‘cold radiance’ of death.“ New post at: tr.ee/gNoCNv at Dammerung.substack.com #georgtrakl #trakl #darkpoetry #autumn

New post at my Substack about German-American poet Franz Werfel, featuring his nightmare-vision poem “The Ride” from the 1910s. It’s at: tr.ee/Dm7PcN at dammerung.substack.com #franzwerfel #germanexpressionism #darkpoems

Happy Birthday today (Wednesday, August 20) to fellow ailurophile HP Lovecraft. Statue of him with some of the feral cats he took care of, the “Kappa Alpha Tau” (K.A.T.) fraternity. Rudimentary Peni have a song w/ this title.😻 #hpl #hplovecraft #kat #kappalphatau #rudimentarypeni #nickblinko

On my Substack, a look at Gottfried Benn’s MORGUE II from 1913. This oft-overlooked follow-up to his controversial MORGUE chapbook of poems from 1912 treads similarly macabre themes, albeit with a touch of black humor. At: tr.ee/MORGUE2 at Dammerung.substack.com #gottfriedbenn #germanexpressionism

“Heeeyy…!!” Just realized I’ve had Theda two whole years! Can’t believe it. Adopted her in August of 2023. Always still talkative (pictured) after a nap. Happy 2-year adoption anniversary, sweet girl! She’ll get people tuna and catnip, maybe silvervine, tonight. 😻 #ailurophile #thedathebombaycat

From my Substack piece, “The Forgotten Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche,” which is here: tr.ee/Nietzsche #nietzsche #friedrichnietzsche #nihilism #germanexpressionism #philosophy

New post at my Substack, about one of Georg Heym’s most violent poems, “Demons of the Cities,” written not long before his untimely death at age 24. It’s here: tr.ee/AF66RM at Dammerung.substack.com #georgheym #germanexpressionism #darkpoems #darkpoetry #gothicpoems #gothicpoetry

Here, a poem of mine from The Funeral Colony, with backstory. “De Sade & The Abyss” was written during the latter days of the pandemic, inspired by late Surrealist poet Annie Le Brun’s (pictured) 1986 book Sade: A Sudden Abyss. It's at: tr.ee/pAz0St at Nineburningvisions.substack.com #annielebrun

THE KINKS - Best of the big 4 so-called British Invasion bands, to my mind. Just got this. Not a bad anthology, from their early garagey proto-punk stuff to just before their 1970 "comeback" success with "Lola" and the like. As far as lyrics go, I think Ray Davies was the best of them all. #thekinks

NOW #fridaynachtkabarett on le flommus músik blog: flommischen.tumblr.com #cabaret #burlesque #vaudeville #weimar #berlin #newmusic

TheFuneralColony.com This weekend I’m looking forward to working on putting together audio tracks for the audiobook version of The Funeral Colony! 🩶 #funeralcolony #darkpoetry #darkpoems #gothicpoetry #gothicpoems #weirdpoetry #horrorpoems #weirdpoems #horrorpoetry #oliversheppard #texaspoets #rip

First stanza of one of the 84 poems in The Funeral Colony. #funeralcolony #thefuneralcolony #gothicliterature #gothicpoems #darkpoems #darkliterature #darkliterature #darkromanticism #horrorpoetry #horrorpoems