Capricorn 15s! Happy #Rapture Day! Renew! Renew! (I'm just gonna dip out and get some nachos.) #sillyhumans #scifi #retrofuturism #scifimovies www.reddit.com/r/RetroFutur...

Garage Sale Guilty Pleasure: Do I need another copy of Stephen King’s first novel ‘Carrie’? No. Am I going to buy this 1978, movie tie-in, beat-to-hell, pocket paperback of ‘Carrie’? Yes. Or course. The darkness compels me. 🖤💙📚😱 #horrorfan #horrorstories #darkfiction #stephenking

The Demon whispered in my ear, 'You are not strong enough to withstand the storm.' I whispered back, 'I am the storm, brother... now, do you have any salami or mustard?'

It’s a great day at the mailbox when this lovely arrives. Can’t wait to dive in! 💙📚🖤@christinahenry.bsky.social #horrornovels #horrorfan #darkfiction

Fuck yes to this

I thought I'd take a break from dark fiction and read a non-fiction book as light palate cleanser. A momentary step away from the shadows. Perhaps a nice travelogue? Hmm... camping on an ice flow. Not a fan. (great book) 🖤💙📚

Why there aren't computers/robots in Frank Herbert's DUNE. “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” But our techbros would never let this happen, right?💙🚀 #ArtificialSuperintelligence

I rewatched "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" this weekend. A film I hadn't seen since 1983. So impressive to finally realise that the late great Ryuichi Sakamoto not only wrote the incredible soundtrack but played one of the leads as the obsessed Captain Yonoi. Good stuff. 💙🎥🎹 youtu.be/LGs_vGt0MY8?...

Page 290, “The End Of The World As We Know It” - “He wasn’t made for what the world was now. Haunted. Streaked with blood and bile. A smear over the map of what was once alive, vibrant – beautiful. This god-awful state. It just felt fucking endless.” 💙📚🖤😱 Alex Segura, ‘La Mala Hora’. #darkfiction

Thanks @markhamillofficial.bsky.social for modelling my next t-shirt purchase. Looking forward to "The Long Walk" with you as the big bad though you were top-shelf nasty in "The Fall of the House of Usher". Good stuff, mate. 🖤 #horrorfan #horrorfilm #horrornovel #dystopia @stephenking.bsky.social

I'm listening to the outstanding audio version of "The Buffalo Hunter Hunter" and digging the hell out of it! Shane Ghostkeeper is killing it as Good Stab. The history is as deep as the gore. IMO Stephen Graham Jones best novel! Superb. 🪶🖤💙📚 @sgj.bsky.social #darkfiction youtube.com/shorts/LhujL...

I wish to walk the dark and dreary moors and curse humanity. 🖤🐈‍⬛

I watch the news for five minutes and hear Shakespeare in my head, ‘These violent delights have violent ends’. Ours is a dark garden with a malignant harvest.

My dreams aren't big. I'd just like to see a "Wuthering Heights" that sticks with the race and class theme while remaining dark, creepy, hateful, and gothic AF. 🖤 #thisisnotalovesong

This is an amazing example of #sciart! "Behold an Anatomically Correct Replica of the Human Brain, Knitted by a Psychiatrist" www.openculture.com/2025/09/anat...

Just finished "Parable of the Talents". I don't know if I'm a follower of Earthseed yet, but I humbly bow down to the late great Octavia E. Butler. So much heart and intellect on every page. Yes, I'm tardy to the Octavia party, but wow, what a giant of speculative fiction.🙌💙📚 #scifi #darkfiction

This was sad news to come home too. RIP Graham Greene

A favorite clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QO...

It’s so nice to hear the clipity clomp of the Walking Dude’s boot-heels again. Viva Las Vegas! Cheers @briankeene.bsky.social & @cgolden.bsky.social #theendoftheworldasweknowit #thestand

What a lovely day at the mailbox. My pre-order has arrived! This is not the greatest book in the world, this is a TRIBUTE. 🙌🏾💙📚 #stephenking #thestand #constantreader #shortstories #speculativefiction

Some top shelf ranting against AI by Daniel Kraus. Good stuff and dead on. 💀 preview.mailerlite.com/w0k5m5k1n8/2... #techbrotyrants #killtheearthmakeabuck @danielkraus.com

Great Moments in Fatherhood. My son’s second modelling gig. 🙌🏾 #fashion #newzealand #wellington itsinterval.com/ode-to-hedi/

Politicians everywhere on the ‘cost of living crisis’: “We’re doing all we can to fix the problems left by that horrible other guy. You’ll see the results of our strong actions in the future, and then you’ll thank us.”

Oh, Happy End of Days! My pre-order of "The End Of The World As We Know It" has shipped. I love that Stephen King is here to read these 'New Tales from The Stand'. Tell them you love them while they're still around. Bumpity bumpity bump, my life for you... well, at least a tribute anthology. 💙📚😱

💙📚 #newzealandfiction #speculativefiction#shortstories

Just finished ‘The Unworthy’. 🔥🙌🏾 Agustina Bazterrica may not be for everyone but she is definitely for me. 🖤 Her writing packs a punch; artfully dark and disturbing for those who enjoy peering into the abyss. 💙📚😱🖤

Just finished ‘The Unworthy’. 🔥🙌🏾 Agustina Bazterrica may not be for everyone but she is definitely for me. 🖤 Her writing packs a punch; artfully dark and disturbing for those who enjoy peering into the abyss. 💙📚😱🖤

I support my cat and her dark agenda. 💙🐈‍⬛🖤🔥 #catlover #evilcatally

Home with the flu (again). A bad season of it here in Aotearoa NZ. So, perfect time for editing? Well, maybe not perfect but the time is available. 🖤✍️📝✏️📚

If you see this, post a bad woman you love.

Wow. This poem was published in 1968 and feels like today. 'The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen. I would call my friends on other devices; They would be more or less mad for similar reasons.'💙📚 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

Totally and I try to help fuel it with peanuts

I never thought of myself as an ‘up at 5 am to do yoga before work’ type of guy. But after 60, my back and knees require maintenance. It turns out that flexibility is quite handy if you want to keep doing your favourite things. 🖤

Some skirmish inside me, turning intolerable, gets me out the door. Those friends and strangers, they were more you than yourself. They kept you from hardening into a poor clutch of desires. - Joanna Klink #poetry 💙📚 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

‘Moby Dick’ took me months to read and tasked me as the Great Whale did Ahab. To read it aloud in one long sitting fills me with dread. Melville’s classic novel almost convinced me that great literature was beyond my grasp, and certainly, beyond my ability to remain conscious throughout. 🐋🐋⚓️💙📚

I have been a listener for 40 years, a supporter whenever I can, and a public radio wife for 17 years. Public media is a public good.

See, I learned my catechism well. Learned to offer my cloak and coat, my cheek again and again as the skin was splayed from my body. - Jacqueline Allen Trimble #poetry #poemoftheday #blackvoices 💙📚 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I’m extremely late to this but what an incredible collection of short stories. Smiles, laughs, and tears all the way through. Masterful. 🙌🏾💙📚🇳🇿#maoristories #childhoodmemories #nativevoices

They float out of their bodies And light on the ceiling like a moth, Watching the efforts of everyone around them. The voices and the images of the living Fade away. - Frank Stanford #poetry #poemoftheday #ilovepoetry 💙📚 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52933/...

Thank you Octavia Butler

‘I don't know if the good times will come back again. I only know that we must survive these times.’ Octavia E. Butler What a novel! I’m terrified that Butler nails how late-stage capitalism will react to climate change and mass unemployment via company towns and debt slavery. All too real. 💙📚❤️🖤

Facts. Pesky old facts.

For I know I will be loosened From bonds that hold me fast The chains all hung around me Will fall away at last And on that fine and fateful day I will take thee in my hand I will ride on the train I will be the fisherman With light in my head And you in my arms ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIil...

I read a much better definition of MILF today - Manuscript I’d Like To Finish.

Landis, Carpenter, Cronenberg, Oh my! Be still, my dark heart. 🖤🎥🦇🐺🪓🧛‍♂️ #horrormasters #horrorfilms #horrorfan #horrorstories youtu.be/F9VfvUVrlgs?...

‘I don’t want no peace. Give me equal rights and justice.’ - Peter Tosh

I believe the women

My latest Short Fiction Treasures column at @strangehorizons.bsky.social !

Man’s best fiend. Love that film. 🖤 #horrormovies #goat

I'm thrilled to have the lead story in this month's edition of Aurealis #182, Australia's Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. "Land of the Long Black Cloud" is my first story set in Wellington, NZ, albeit 160 years from now. Illustration by Kim Lennard. 💙📚🚀 #scifi Subscribe at www.aurealis.com.au