Thanks for enjoying spooky stories with me tonight!

Jack Sharkey sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/sharke... died on this day (28th), so here's interior magazine art for some of his 1961/1962 stories (Artist: George Schelling, George Schelling, Lloyd Birmingham and George Schelling) 1&2 for "Arcturus Times Three"; 4 for "A Matter of Protocol":

In a spooky mood? I’ll be reading a weird and wicked short story followed by more of The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hodgson! Stream will start shortly after 4PM Pacific! www.twitch.tv/cidermarten

float

Day 23 - European Mink #Maystelid

This has been the worst month of my life. Short version: we need to raise money to make a housing payment, here is the link, if you cannot help directly please spread this to anyone who can: gofund.me/ee369fe61 For the long version, buckle up.

Day 27 of #septempera - the connoisseur.

Vintage book cover #40 from my collection: The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI, edited by Gerald W. Page. Cover art by Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)

haunted house

Digging through fandom zine archives like a ferret in packing peanuts

Forest keeper 🌿

Vintage book cover #40 from my collection: The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI, edited by Gerald W. Page. Cover art by Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)

He may play a CREEP but Mark Duplass is a stand-up guy, as Duplass Brothers Productions is teaming up with the Transgender Film Center to launch the Found Footage Fund for trans filmmakers.

Have you checked your pockets for stoats recently?

Learning about pre-2000 sci-fi/fantasy fandoms. It’s cool that some people used internet-style pseudonyms in fandoms even in the ‘60s! I’d like to track down old zines

Have you checked your pockets for stoats recently?

Vintage book cover #39 from my collection: Fantasy Annual IV, edited by Terry Carr. Cover art by Lisa Falkenstern

Cryptids-a-plenty

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Don’t forget, decades of convention panel recordings from all over the world can be found online! There’s even many floating around from before 2000!

I will be streaming Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley on Thursday afternoon/evening, Pacific. Get ready for moomins!!

Don’t forget, decades of convention panel recordings from all over the world can be found online! There’s even many floating around from before 2000!

I will be streaming Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley on Thursday afternoon/evening, Pacific. Get ready for moomins!!

Happy to announce that my poem "Perish and Live Forever," which first appeared in MEXICANS ON THE MOON, has just won the @sfpoetry.bsky.social 's Dwarf Star Award for poetry. This award is for best micro poem of 10 lines or less. Many thanks to members who voted. It is a big honor. Much love!

a soirée of seals!! ✨🦭🌊 new poster done just in time for Illo Mart this weekend!! I had fun looking up so many different species 🥹💙 blobs of the sea… #art

Trip trap trip trap

Hiroo Isono

Happy fall stoat day

Vintage book cover #39 from my collection: Fantasy Annual IV, edited by Terry Carr. Cover art by Lisa Falkenstern

Vintage book cover #38 from my collection: Dragon’s Eye, edited by Christopher Stasheff. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet

Listening to old lectures and interviews with authors I’ve read. I’d like to attend more author events in my area

I had some tasty shrimp gyoza and cookies with little skulls on them this evening!

OCTOBER ROADMAP Nature! Headliners: - Resident Evil 4 w/ @outcaststars.bsky.social - Little Nightmares 3 w/ @cidermarten.bsky.social - MartenVania #17 - Islets - MartenVania #18 - Aquaria Extras: - NAIAD - Sword of the Sea - Botanicula - RE4: Separate Ways www.twitch.tv/weyland_here

This is the start of Sea Otter Awareness Week. Please be aware of sea otters at all times.

Maneater 🩸

Vintage book cover #38 from my collection: Dragon’s Eye, edited by Christopher Stasheff. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet

I had super tasty Chinese food as a late birthday dinner!

Vintage book cover #37 from my collection: Weird Tales, edited by Leo Margulies. Cover art by Virgil Finlay

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Vintage book cover #37 from my collection: Weird Tales, edited by Leo Margulies. Cover art by Virgil Finlay

It's that time of the year again.