What an honour to blurb such a terrific book. Keep an eye out for it and check out @danhowarth20.bsky.social if you haven't already. A truly gifted writer. #Booksky

Vincent Price advertising monster-shaped vitamins.

The folkloric belief that reflections, portraits and shadows contain part of a person’s soul influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century. Read more in @coffinboffin.bsky.social ‘s piece for The Mirror Issue. Pre-order on helleborezine.com

If #HammerHorror is your thing, then you might enjoy this talk Lauren and I are giving as part of our annual Halloween celebrations. 🦇 Tickets are available via our website www.issegyptomania.com/events

Check the comments to see what you get in this limited edition bundle. This @jvgachs.bsky.social collection releases October the 27th but you have a chance to grab it NOW! 🐁🖤🐀 www.infestedpublishing.com/product-page...

I had a short story published in the wonderful Blood Orange Zine this month and have another spookier tale coming out on a podcast next month. Happy Autumn! Working through redrafts this weekend and submitting submitting, submitting! #writing

🌟 OUT TODAY 🌟 Anthony Delaney's Queer Georgians: a MARVELLOUS, eye-opening new book on queer life & love in the Georgian era Hugely recommend to all interested in the 18th/19th centuries, LGBT+ history, social history, British history & the history of love ❤️ uk.bookshop.org/p/books/quee... #books

Come join us and spread the word, please! (Feel free to share with your networks elsewhere too!)

North East weirdies, @bobfischer.bsky.social and I will be bringing our Folk Horror show to @arcstockton.bsky.social on Wednesday 10 September! Everything from The Owl Service to Enys Men, and all points in-between. Robes and goat masks optional. Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

30 pages of script down. 60 to go. Absolute torture. Wouldn't have it any other way. Tomorrow is a new day. Although it is technically now today... because somehow it is 1am again. #WiP #writing #theatre #horror

This weekend is all about locking myself away to get a massive chunk of my play done. The deadline approaches, rather too quickly. #writing #theatre #WiP #horror

Cause of death: Pedro Pascal for Vanity Fair

June 27th sees my fourth collection of stories released. THE SKIN WE FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE IN is a blend of horror and traditional stories that I consider some of my best. It’d mean the world if you could spread the word or even preorder: £1.99 U.K. amzn.eu/d/ibfaJoh $2.99 US: a.co/d/00cmHAt

Excerpt from the wonderful @g0blinegg.bsky.social story, ‘John Barleycorn’. THE CLEANSING POWER OF FIRE OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥

Ongoing Submissions: GRADEside Middle Grade & Young Adult Horror via ‪@gravesidepress.bsky.social‬ horrortree.com/ongoing-subm... Payment: 50% royalties Theme: Short stories, novels, and novellas - Horror stories for younger readers (middle school to YA) #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

OUT NOW!! Sing and rejoice, brothers and sisters! Your redemption is here. Let fire purge whatever ails you. 🐁☀️🐀 Grab it in comments.

A very hot and sweaty weekend spent fanning myself constantly. Saw Pulp again which was magic. Didn't get much #writing done over the past few days. Only managed about 80 odd words this weekend but better than nowt. Onwards to a more productive week!

Join us on 15 July at 7pm for an online session all about the language and scripts of #ancientegypt Tickets £5 or free for members www.eventbrite.com/e/of-signs-a...

CHILDREN AND DISUSED FRIDGES (1971): A classic PIF with a Cholmondley-Warner style voiceover telling us that, to a child, old fridges could be caravans, castles, and ships (to Indiana Jones, they were nuclear bomb shelters). Best practise is to get rid safely... "BEFORE IT KILLS A CHILD!"

On the anniversary of his birth, remembering with much love and respect, my dear friend and Egyptological mentor Professor Kenneth A Kitchen (1932-2025).

Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one by @verityholloway.bsky.social 🖤

I'm posting a batch of books tomorrow! Vet's bills have now gone over £2000, so... yeah.

The famous Viking attack on Lindisfarne took place #OTD in 793, regarded as the start of the Viking age in Britain. ‘Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain as we have just suffered from a pagan people,' wrote the scholar Alcuin.

First fiction submission in a while boxed off. 3955 words that I'm very proud of. Mostly proud that I've started submitting again and am putting myself out there. A good feeling. 😌 Already started work on the next one and I'm feeling excited about the story! #writing

Who wore it better, our book (featuring a 19th Century "ghost" photograph) versus Haute Couture. High Fashion: www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025... A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts: www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654158...

Pimlico street (London, UK, ca 1952) Gelatin silver print © David Moore.

And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Ten! Submissions will be open from JUNE 1st - JUNE 14th. We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.

I absolutely loved talking to Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney about the Paris Catacombs for After Dark. You can listen here! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

[email protected]'s Trembling With Fear is facing the Drabbler and fast running out of options. Help us to feed the beast by submitting your tiny tales of the dark & speculative - needs to be exactly 100 words & a recognisable story structure! Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions (or ask me)

Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our @issegyptomania.bsky.social talk this evening. One cannot escape the name of Tut-ankh-Amen anywhere: Tutmania and the influence of Tutankhamun in pop culture by Valentina Santini was brilliant. We appreciate every single one of you who came 🥰

Me waiting for my husband to finish reading my latest short story and tell me what he thinks. #writing

My debut novel is a slow descent into madness, obsession, and secrets so terrible there can never be a way back. If you like Stephen King meets Agatha Christie, this could be your next nightmare... T H E G R E A T O R M E #BookSky 💙📚 #Wales #DarkThriller #Gothic

Quite chilling, really.

3k into a short story I started bouncing around when staying in @enola41.bsky.social 's spare room last year. Feeling pretty good about this one - I've sat on it for long enough!

New episode: Supernatural Feathers: Death Beds, Witchcraft and Angels The weird world of feather folklore: from cursed peacock plumes to angel relics to pillows that stop the dying from slipping away. Do feather crowns mean a heavenly reward or a witch’s curse? www.buzzsprout.com/1859647/epis...

Švankmajer forever 🖤. youtu.be/7abCEq0Qla4?...

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.

Because sometimes, what you really need to see in this life is Vincent Price with an armload of extremely floofy cats. Well, I do. Love that man.

Thanks to everyone who came along 🖤

Hexham Heads anyone? Here's the @forteantimes.bsky.social feature I wrote about the unearthing of this notorious 1976 Nationwide report. It has Celtic mythology, poltergeists, werewolves and @bbcarchive.bsky.social's own @grzegster.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/05/23/t...

I've got my scars ready 🫡 Can't wait for this.

MAES Study Day at The Radisson Blu Hotel, Man. Airport: New Research on Ancient Egyptian Textiles. Non-MAES members can now book via Eventbrite here: bit.ly/ManchesterAE... Members can still book by sending off the form you received by email.

And here is the incredible replica which sits on one of the bookshelves in my living room. If anyone else would like me to give a talk on ossuaries or the danse macabre - either in person or online - please drop me a message.

Agree with this sentiment one million percent. Cat is an incredible and knowledgeable public speaker. We love a Cat talk!

This week's visual prompt is a Writing the Occult: Relics hangover. What worlds can you conjure from this image? Remember to save the date for our next editions: Belief on 6 September, and Creatures & Cryptids on 29 November. Tix for both are now on sale. More details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co

#callforpapers The deadline for abstracts for our 2025 conference is 18 June 2025. We are looking for abstracts that cover the global histories of so-called 'Egyptomania' (cont) www.issegyptomania.com/virtual-conf...

Could get used to this nice weather. Spent the afternoon in the sun beneath our apple tree #writing On today's agenda is the bones of a short story I'm prepping to submit 🌹

I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May! It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly. geni.us/AllRoadsLead...

About to send off a roll of film. I've had a run of bad luck the past year or so shooting on film while testing out some old cameras. Jammed shutters, film disasters, film with just nothing on etc...so keeping everything crossed. This time I went for the Kodak Ekhtar half frame. 📸