Looking forward to an evening in by the fire, having a delve into this. @helleborezine.bsky.social Tales of Occult Britain

Listening to Florence and the Machine’s “Everybody Scream” and thinking of Lucille Clifton’s “It was a Dream” Poems are spells, songs are spells, screams are the most primal of spells What should you do about the nightmare we find ourselves in? This This This

So far this morning I've made friends with a Magpie and received some wonderful post from @helleborezine.bsky.social! Quite a day so far! 🖤

Ooh, look what's just arrived. @helleborezine.bsky.social

Ten tickets sold so far - only 90 more to go before my self-imposed target has been reached...😂

We have just a few signed copies of the book Britain's Folklore Year left from last night's event. It's a really lovely little hardback from @nationaltrust.org.uk publishing, packed with interesting lore and traditions throughout the year and ideal as a gift! 💙📚🪐 #SignedBooks

I do not need another coffee table art book. And yet. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cen...

Frankenstein is available to stream on Netflix today, so expect a bunch of “I don’t get the big deal” takes from people uninterested in the movie who half-watched it on their phones.

Me sitting with Florence’s lyrics about communing with her ancestors and them only wanting gin and lithium.

I lived in Ipswich for years, and there was a piece of graffiti by the docks that said “Top tip! Recharge your dead batteries in the microwave.”

HELLEBORE x TATE BRITAIN Save the date: 7.11.2025, 6-10pm Founder @mjpcuervo.bsky.social will guide you into HELLEBORE’s Cave of Mysteries as part of the Hidden Folklore celebrations.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what supposed "educationalists" are currently raking in money for suggesting we force-feed to millions of students at a stressful time in their young lives.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

The swelling in my subluxated shoulder has finally come down enough that it no longer looks like I've just staggered off Bosworth field. Eleven days of this!

IT’S HERE! Our first volume of strange and supernatural stories for the darker half of the year. Nine new tales by masters of the genre: Ramsey Campbell, Helen Grant, Reggie Oliver, Ally Wilkes, Steve Toase, Verity Holloway and more. 👉🏼 Get your copy on www.helleborezine.com

Let's go, girls.

So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?

Looking forward to a brief dip in the waters of WRITING GHOST STORIES with this one-off session for Nottingham Writers Studio, running in three weeks' time! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-gh... #ghosts #ghoststories #ghoststory #writing #writers #writingworkshop #writingworkshops

@stoneclub.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/_OcI3Zy...

'Remember, remember the 5th of November!' 🔥 These are thought to be the earliest photographs of a bonfire. These photographs were taken in 1853 by John Dillwyn Llewelyn at Penllergare in Swansea 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #BonfireNight #History

Watching workplaces during the pandemic quickly adapt to the remote working solutions disabled people have been pleading for for years, and then watching those same workplaces whip those accommodations away now abled people no longer need them has been... suboptimal.

On BBC news this morning this was framed as "disabled people are going to cause a recession" and talking about how to make disabled people get jobs. There was no mention of how the govt has restricted covid vaccinations so most of us have to pay £100 if we want one.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

the Pope could do the funniest possible thing to J.D. Vance

With apologies to the RAF, I tell the story of my own Rendlesham Forest incident, back in the year 2000. It's £1 to join my Patreon, and it keeps me afloat. www.patreon.com/posts/with-a...

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Bombarded so throughly by Black Friday emails, I not only don't know when Black Friday is, I've also lost track of when to expect regular Friday.

Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

Inspired by Mia Goth sending Jacob Elordi vitamin C pills and ginger juice in an effort to foster their characters' tenderness in Frankenstein, I will henceforth whisper to myself, "Mia Goth doesn't want this for me" whenever I'm tempted to just have a Cup-a-Soup and a nicotine lozenge for lunch.

This looks INCREDIBLE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRQr...

The land was stolen 900 years ago. The Percy family are worth £500 million. There should be an act of Parliament to secure this land for the country.

I've made 8k in 5 years of paid writing including 3 book deals. The non-fic book i have out in 2027 will have taken me 4 years work, at least f/t hours, on top of a f/t day job, 2 kids and a band; for this, the equiv of less than a MONTH's wages on a public librarian salary. I am half-dead, always.

David Lynch altar for the Día de Muertos celebration at Hollywood Forever.

There's loads to be said on this subject - horror does have a huge ableism problem - but reading Frankenstein as a disabled teenager felt like being looked in the eye and understood. I loved the new adaptation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre....

Well now. It appears I won a World Fantasy Award. I knew I should have put a shirt on.

Big congratulations to Steve Shaw of Black Shuck Books on his World Fantasy Award!

in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory

[an awkward minute passes as Death struggles to pick up change from the countertop] Death: (embarrassed) ha ha slippery coins Drugstore Clerk: nah man it’s cuz you got them bone hands

Who doesn't want to sip hot gin punch in a Georgian hospital chapel while Dr Rory MacLellan tells you all about enchanted jumping bread? Me and @rlsummerling.bsky.social got to go down into the crypt and see the graves of eminent surgeons. Obsessed with this jolly little skelly lad and his mad hat.

A mate of mine agreed to do a well-paid corporate gig supposedly about art & diversity but really about branding. They gave him a script, he departed from it a bit, they made a video of the event and used an AI imitating his voice to speak the bit of their script he had skipped. Without asking him.

Environmental storytelling in the London Bridge station ladies’:

November 1st

A toddler dressed as a pumpkin just offered me a sweetie from his bucket when I gave him one from mine, and I think I might be levitating.

"When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: whenever you want it to be." Happy Halloween!