It's the end of the month and I've got shopping to do, so I'm shamelessly busking! :) If you enjoy this eerie tale for a hot summer's day you're under no obligatiion, but feel free to make a donation if you're so inclined. ko-fi.com/Post/From-Th...

A Game In Yellow by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social. This really is something just extraordinary. Like The King In Yellow, this book has done something to my head. In a good way. I think. Not for the first time, I am in awe and envy of this writer.

Free book! Download the 2013 collection THE CONDEMNED (long out of print) absolutely free of charge! But please consider making a donation to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) if you do. www.patreon.com/posts/136304...

Paul Pinn, who passed away in 2016, was a terrific and highly original author of horror fiction, and deserves to be remembered far more widely than he is right now. I talk a bit about him over at Marni Scofidio's website. www.forattentionpress.com/post/paul-pi...

I don’t want to deter people who are finally waking up to how bleak and disastrous this shit is - hooray, wow etc - but it is monstrously aggravating that they were all told this at length ten years ago, and reacted much like they were being mooed at by annoying cows. *No shit* lads, do you think?

In which I'm interviewed by the magnificent Marni Scofidio! www.forattentionpress.com/simon-bestwi...

Coming next month: @ememess.bsky.social says RESURRECTION BLUES is “Rich and uncanny, melancholy yet uplifting, a tale of redemption and renewal that – like the blues itself – manages to feel both fresh-minted and as old as time.” Preorder from blackshuckbooks.co.uk/resurrection...?

The new issue of Nightmare Abbey is out now, featuring my story 'The Hadrian Hornpipe' alongside that of many other cool writers like Stephen Volk, Steve Rasnic Tem, Helen Grant, Gary McMahon, John Llewellyn Probert and more! simon-bestwick.blogspot.com/2025/04/nigh...

Yer uncle explaining why the lady he met on the internet hasn’t arrived and also why he doesn’t have any money left

It is imo not great that we just had several years of political commentators congratulating Labour for their excellent bullshitting of the electorate to get elected, and that their polling since the public discovered what it is they had bought has been a rocket-propelled plummet.

Indeed. And, sadly, the people who were most likely to lob this at me were female relatives. They were very strongly of the opinion that women should be looking busy and bustling.

In something of a labour of love, @gemmafiles.bsky.social & I step through the dimension fork to talk about AN ENTIRE HORROR FRANCHISE: Don Coscarelli's 'Phantasm' films, in an episode dedicated, with love, gratitude and admiration, to the one and only Reggie Bannister. youtu.be/TfxuEPZZJu8

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I might see if I can set this thing to post "You should have voted for Corbyn, you nitwits" as a status each day automatically, as it will almost certainly be relevant to at least one current UK news headline.

The kind of thing you would read in the bombed-out basement of a building called “Agricorp HQ” in Fallout: New Vegas, and in Britain this is just what you should expect on any random Friday.

Excellent news to wake up to from Joe Manco of @littlesparkfilms - the movie I wrote, The Torturer, is now streaming on the Cineverse streaming platform! The same people who are about to release the new Toxic Avenger movie! 🎥 🔨

Re: that M*ta/LibGen piracy post... SINCE YOU'VE FUCKING NICKED MY FUCKING ECKO BOOKS, MAY YOU FUCKING CHOKE ON EVERY LAST FUCKING USE OF THE FUCKING WORD 'FUCK'. Fuckers.

As ever, I’d ask: What counts as “ideology” in year 17 of there being no alternative to everyone’s lives getting shittier, and what is “radicalisation” when the government is aiding and abetting genocide and almost nobody will concede that this is what it’s doing?

As a socialist, I had bugger-all expectations of Keith Stalin and Ratched Reeves, but they've actually managed to fall short even of those.

It’s worth repeating that when an anti-austerity movement finally arose organically from the public, these politicians worked hand-in-glove with Britain’s national news outlets to destroy it and hound it as far out of public life as possible. So that they could do this, to everyone you know.

Yes: important to understand that none of these people or the reporters explaining what happened now were hoodwinked at the time: all of them fully understood it was bullshit, reckless destruction, fraud, lying, defamation, bullying, stitch-ups and corruption. They approved of it and joined in.

Do you notice how all this is deeply evil, but also banal? I wonder if there’s been any study into this phenomenon.

What an absolute bellend Peter Hitchens is. A horrible, horrible person.

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Long before Donald Trump was anything other than a punchline or the terms 'fake news' or 'alternative facts' were ever coined, Joe Straczynski anticipated them. And reminded us how to fight them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7uq...

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This was one of the minor epiphanies of my life. I felt disgusted by my essential timidity and lack of courage. But courage isn't a characteristic, it's a skill... a muscle even. Well done to the bishop for flexing it.

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Islam’s account got closed and as you can see from the footage, he still really needs the support.

@gemmafiles.bsky.social and @thebestwick.bsky.social pay tribute to the genius, work and legacy of David Lynch on @nodarknessbutours.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji_S...

haha he even looks like a loser nerd who can't eat his dairylea lunchables without having a coughing fit doing a sieg heil

Don’t listen to people who dismiss your fears. You’re right to feel dismayed and overwhelmed, especially if you’re marginalised. But also try to heed the voices that suggest strategies, point to useful examples from past and present, not those that simply pile on the fear and feed on it.

AOC: “We are on the eve of an authoritarian administration.” 🇺🇸

Hate to do this, but we've just learned our rent is being hiked by £100 a month... I try to post at least one piece a month and am serialising an unpublished novel, The Teardrop Girl, at a chapter per month. If you'd like to subscribe, you can do so below. www.patreon.com/SimonBestwick

I think "Don't you dare turn your eyes away from history, even the awful, scary parts" would apply somewhat better to what's happening in Palestine than the upcoming inauguration.

I hate it when people say "we all have to tighten our belts" in defence of Labour. a) We hated austerity under Tories. b) Why do we have to tighten our belts? It literally means "eat less" and I don't want to eat less, cheers! c) Why do the mega-rich never get asked to tighten their poxy belts!?

And… we’re off! 3k wds done on the sequel short to The Weeping Woman (which was the basis for the movie).

The far right are cowards as well as being incompetent. Roar loud and early enough and they'll go cower and snipe from their stinking lairs. But the *early* bit is important. Allow them to squat on power for long enough start to accrue layers of bureaucracy and societal inertia.

I'm not actually bothered about the fact Biden is going to pardon his son. What *does* bother me is that he couldn't relent even an inch and show compassion to the starving and exhausted people of Gaza. If your principles are suddenly flexible, how about bending in that direction?

Don't worry, guys, I've looked in to this and throughout history when there's a rise of the far-right it's important to absolutely THRASH the left coz they are a threat to the centre/centre-right whereas the far-right are easily controlled NO WAIT I JUST FOUND A WORRYING BIT OH N

I cannot stand Keir Starmer and history will judge him appallingly. But a petition to have him removed as PM via a GE coz he "broke promises" is pretty funny. Wait til you hear about previous PMs, you dummy-spitting losers.

🧵When I was 16 I got a summer job working in McDonald’s. I lasted 6 weeks. Here are the fun tales of working on the tills at McDonalds.

Please join myself and @thebestwick.bsky.social on Our Lives in Horror as we discuss everything from world politics to queer representation in horror fiction (if anyone from the horror communities out there would like to come on for a chat, drop me a message). youtu.be/UdBtkSlmGoc?...

Well, this could be interesting.... (opens popcorn)

A huge thank you to everyone who pre-ordered our 50th Anniversary Edition of Cold Hand in Mine yesterday! The book will be available to pre-order from 5pm uk time today! We only have around 35 copies of the slipcased edition remaining and plenty of signed/limited nepenthepress.co.uk/cold-hand-in-m…

🚨 A year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s. I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever. Here is a snippet of them: 1/

*Opens popcorn*

Well, I've nuked my Sh!tter account, so here I am. Hello, everybody. So far it all seems very nice. :)