If you like historical horror, check out this anthology. Tales that explore the dark edges of emerging sciences in the 1500s & 1600s. Amazon & Kobo! ⬇️

If you have any spare money at all to help us here - we'll need between about £200 and £1000ish, and I'm afraid I don't know more than that until we see what the car needs or if we need a new one. paypal.me/anninyn. Please ignore the deadname.

A weasel demands sacrifice in the cemetery.

See a talk, share a talk! There's a whole list of upcoming free talks here. Please help me get the word out. Find one you're interested in and share :)

If you missed this weekend's talk on women writing Egyptianised Gothic... you can catch it here A REALLY good introduction with the fantastic @drjaysullivan.bsky.social youtu.be/llprkJHY2-8

Should I add more details or keep the airy feeling? I’m torn but will think about it. #art #oilpaint #whimsical

It's World Goth Day, let's see your gothic art 🖤

Today is the last day to comment to the FCC that LGBTQIA2S+ names, stories, identities don't need a warning label. This new potential rulemaking is an attempt at criminalizing the mere fact of being trans or otherwise queer, in the name of discrimination, bigotry, and persecution. Tell them no, now.

Nestled on the shores of Lake Geneva, the Château de Chillon is a breathtaking medieval castle with a centuries-old history. While its scenic beauty may deceive visitors, many claim that the castle is home to restless spirits. Stories of ghostly apparitions, strange noises, #PhantomsFriday 🧵

A terrifically terrifying set of tales, The Shadows That We Carry is a worthy tribute to #HorrorWritersChat founder MG Mason. Personal faves include The Second Shining Orb, Root, and The Bricked-Up Archway. However, there is something for all horror tastes. Check it out here: amzn.eu/d/00PGbwzF

Sharing a smaller moody painting for #scape day. Tisha Mark ©2026, Adrift, oil on gessobord, 8"x6" Original is available: tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #SciArt

send me good wishes and please recommend my books to your weird goth friends

There aren't quite as many phantom nuns as ghost monks (we're common as muck). They're usually a miserable bunch too - but then #folklore often tells us they are the shades of nuns walled up alive for some wickedness like cheeking the Mother Superior or not eating their gruel. [Cont: #PhantomsFriday

Here’s a fictional story featuring a ghostly nun that I enjoyed reading last year #PhantomsFriday

Payhip won't let me onto their marketplace until I make $10...I am at $4. So! If you want some weird, sad, more than a little gay #horror #ebooks, everything is 50% off over the weekend (someone yelled at me that my prices were too low so I changed em and am compensating). >.> payhip.com/AReinke

The gothiest of birds (paint-print experiments) and regular version

For #PhantomsFriday and #WorldGothDay, let's visit the historically significant Arbroath Abbey! Besides the stunning gothic ruins, there are also reports of disembodied plainsong, processions of ghost monks and the restless spirit of Cardinal Beaton, the last Abbot share.google/zA6seZVlYZS9...

owllog.itch.io/echoes-above... Play my journaling game. It's about UFOs, isolation, and a small fictional town in Ontario, Canada. It's easy and fun according to the reviews! IT'S ALSO FREE! (PWYW) #ufo #ufos #aliens #ttrpg #solottrpg #journalinggame #alien #xfiles #freedownload

Threw some color over these X-Files drawings

'O’er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted.' ~Thomas Hood 🎨'The Palace of the Spirits' by Romolo Tessari #PhantomsFriday

The house twitches in its sleep. The hall slowly consumes ghost hunters.

My giclée prints are priced at £30 each, the same price since I started selling them in 2018. This is to keep them as affordable as possible. If you love my work then buying a print is a great way of supporting me. I could definitely do with the support currently. claireleach.com/shop

"Last Friday night we were all sitting in the hallway of the house on the first floor, when we heard the mirror in the hallway rattle and saw a tongue of flame start from under the bottom of an icebox that was in the hall." — from the Morning Herald, April 21st, 1896 #PhantomsFriday cw: suicide

Morbid millinery for #WorldGothDay #ForteanFriday A Skull for a Bonnet: 1896 mrsdaffodildigresses.wordpress.com/2019/05/22/a...

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortabl

#ForteanFriday #WorldGothDay The tale of the Countess Elga, a vampire of the Carpathian Mountains, and her haunted portrait. hauntedohiobooks.com/news/the-cou... #PhantomsFriday

#PhantomsFriday Traffic not with ghosts Lest if you do You find their world More real than earth to you. From: Unsought Advice (Weird Tales, May 1937) by Dorothy Quick, used as the epigraph to Requiem for a Siren: Women Poets of the Pulps (From Beyond Press, 2024). Art credit in alt text.

"It is a trust to control ghosts. Communication with the spirit land is to be tied up in monopolistic style, and 'independent' mediums are to be crowded out." — from the Mansfield Daily Shield, July 13th, 1899 #PhantomsFriday

"A pale and nervous woman ran into Supt. O'Mara's office at police headquarters early this morning, and with some difficulty managed to say: 'Send the police to 199 First Avenue. The house is haunted.'" — from The Pittsburg Press, July 8th, 1893 #PhantomsFriday

To Whom It May Concern: I would love to share that post, but you didn’t do alt text, so I won’t. Sincerely, Me

In #JapaneseFolklore there is a strange tale of a ghostly sake drinking binge. One day an antique dealer discovered a very realistic painting of a ghost. That very day a customer agreed to buy it for ten times what he had paid, saying he would return the next day with the money. #PhantomsFriday 1/6

'The Mother's Ghost' William Bell Scott 1844 #phantomsfriday

“There were rumours that the Mortzestus was haunted. But when she had sailed 2 weeks out of 'Frisco before a fair wind, the crew dismissed them. Until unaccountably, the rigging went slack. A ghostly form was seen to climb up from the sea.” ~ The Ghost Pirates (1909), W.H. Hodgson. #PhantomsFriday

For #PhantomsFriday: 'William and Margaret' by Joseph Wright Of Derby (18th Century). The painting shows the moment in a poem by David Mallet (1723) when the #ghost of Margaret, who died of a broken heart, returns to reprimand her faithless lover. He is driven mad with grief and later dies. #Gothic

"The Ghost Scene from 'The Castle of Otranto'". Here, a sigh is heard from the portrait and his noble grandfather descends from it, warning the tyrannical lord to cease his pursuit of innocent Isabella. 🎨Susanna Duncombe (1725–1812) #PhantomsFriday

As #SherlockHolmesDay #WorldGothDay and #PhantomsFriday all fall on the same day, why don't you go and play with your dog in the moors.

Want to help me do something small to celebrate my birthday in four (4) days? Get something from my Payhip! Everything is pay-what-you-want if not otherwise marked. payhip.com/ezraarndtwrites

ICYMI (I wrote this)

Anyone use Hoopla and want non-ai books? I've got a few there now! Here's my queer Gothic Dark Fantasy featuring allosexual bi aromantics, my very dark Beauty and the Beast retelling: www.hoopladigital.com/title/19476954 #Hoopla #eBooks #Fantasy #Gothic #LGBTQ

"Bud-dy" Check out the prickly sloth with'em teeth. This thorny buddy was enjoying maple buds on my front yard. #Animals #WildlifePhotography #Porcupine #HangOn #PhotoHour

FIYAH is going on hiatus. More here:

"Now Jacob Dibert woke one night from a strange and eerie dream / He saw a path between two hills near a dark and swollen stream..." The song "Jacob's Dream," performed by Allison Krauss & Union Station is inspired by the strange, sad, true story of George and Joseph Cox. (1/2) #WyrdWednesday

In 1810, the body of Mary "Polly" Williams was found at White Rocks in Fayette County, PA. Her lover, Philip Rogers was suspected of the murder and tried, but ultimately acquitted. Community grief and outrage resulted in a number of songs, poems, and stories written about it. (1/3) #WyrdWednesday

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

BEWARE OF LOG

Local musician Ben Valasek wrote and produced “Hoist the Cone,” a squeezebox-infused anthem designed to rally Pirates fans.

Let's put a📍in it! Currently working on: Editing my debut novelette KNOCK-OFFS – a trans story of vampires, losers, and fighting to keep the part of yourself that makes you uniquely you Previously, my writing appeared in a 2021 Christmas anthology by Ghost Orchid Press 🔗🌐 linktr.ee/livgraves

THE SHADOWS THAT WE CARRY is out now! A charity horror anthology featuring 20 stories from Horror Writers Chat members. All profits go to Macmillan Cancer Support in memory of Matt "MG" Mason. ebook & paperback: amzn.eu/d/098CFL12 paperback: ko-fi.com/s/c24c7af3a0 #TheShadowsThatWeCarry 💙📚 🩸📚

“We don’t expect anything good to come out of the kind of people that Trump puts in charge of these agencies, or Trump himself, but it’s like, what is the constituency for ‘Kill More Coal Miners’?” - @kimkelly.bsky.social