I've been watching Eurovision since I was a wee boy, and I think this year's might have been the best ever. And the greatest song won. Make your morning 1000% better by listening to it right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mxq...

Sitting in the opticians, whilst my daughter has an eye test. Soaking up the FREE ASMR

The LRB excelling itself. Literally howling with laughter at this.

Happy solace house day to all who celebrate!

Haven’t had time to mention this today, such has this week been, but the wait is over! SOLACE HOUSE is out TODAY, thanks to Atlantic Books! Gorge yourself on its gorgeousness!

Hurrah! Miranda Swayer is lovely, and this is a great review. And yeah, apologies it's behind a paywall this time, but stuff costs money to make, I'm afraid.

It is! A strange, untameable beast! Can't wait for people to read it...

Episode 3 is here! We are on the hunt for otherwordly voices. Be careful what you wish for.

“I got chills, they’re multiplying”, “Anybody could be that guy” and “You’re just somebody that I used to know”. All song lyrics which could also be the tagline for The Thing.

A pattern is emerging... Episode 2 of series 2, out TODAY.

This is what we are doing every day for 12 hours straight at the moment, crouched at desks like monks, so I will keep reminding you of it. It bears the appropriate hallmarks of delight and madness; huge illuminated capitals, marginal beasts. Enjoy. Patreon.com/brokenveil

IT’S BACK. Joel and I take another deep dive into weirdness, this time beginning much closer to home…

IT IS RETURNING. Not long now.

Look at the women at NASA. They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points. And they are doing it all with joy.👇

Fundamentally I’m just a guy who wants to be left alone to look at pictures of mosasaurs

Uh huh

I mean, “Bits of an umbrella” is an odd choice for a puzzle theme but I kind of respect how mad it is

I love you @alcs.co.uk The annual ALCS easter egg is an invaluable salve at the most financially vicious time of the year.

Every day I put a banana in my daughter's school bag for a snack and every day I write something stupid on the skin in Sharpie, and today I wrote "The Fate of "I'll Peel Ya!" because she likes Taylor Swift and honestly I think this might be the best material from me in decades

Don’t believe I’ve posted this gorgeous thing yet - this is the fabulous cover of my new novel, Solace House, a strange and compelling thing which I’m delighted to say will be published in the UK by Atlantic on May 7th. Be careful in there…

Yes, it’s Mother’s Day. But let’s not forget our space brethren on this their special celebration - it’s World Contact Day! (If the aliens don’t like The Carpenters, we are screeeeeewwed) youtu.be/teBV0EoJJY8?...

Just time for a round up of those recovered Hartnell Doctor Who episodes. So far, it's eps 1-3 of Spacehorse, episode 9 of The Web of Webs, and all 144 remaining episodes of the historical Chippendale Makes a Chair in Real Time

I mean this would be amazing.

Idea: Great British cryptids on the banknotes. Nessie. Black Shuck. Blobby. All the greats.

Ask your smartspeaker to Please make it all stop all of it

@gralefrit.bsky.social and I were discussing Russ Hannemann from Silicon Valley yesterday at forensic length. Has there ever been a better music choice for a character in a sitcom than Russ's commitment to "Butterfly" by Crazy Town?

Well this sucks. Wishing the scourge of demons all the best. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

I may be overselling it here, and I *was* a bit amped up when I watched it, but I *think* I’m right in saying that Predator: Badlands is the greatest film ever made by human beings

"Alas, it seems that I shall not survive this battle of Trafalgar, Hardy, and e'en now, my precious life ebbs away by the second. But I would have you communicate a message to your mother. Tell her... tell her that I never make a wack jam"

Tomorrow! Thrilled to be taking part in the Broken Veil panel at Essex Podcast Festival... quizzing @gralefrit.bsky.social and @willmac23.bsky.social about their brilliant series, and we'll probably head off piste to discuss backrooms and the Usborne Book of Ghosts too. A few tickets left...

Unreasonably excited about this

For as little as £2 a month you can support and then hear the new series when it’s released — EXCLUSIVELY on the Broken Veil Channel. Plus one-off dramas, weird media podcasts, strange tales and more. patreon.com/brokenveil #brokenveil

I'm also doing THIS on Feb 27th/28th so please come along! Something for everyone! (Unless you're a fusty old Edwardian academic who deserves some kind of supernatural comeuppance)

Fighting in the Hundred Years War

TV Commissioner: I think the main problem with this IP is that the main character is not connecting with the key demographic. So, instead of “Auld” let’s call him “Incredible New” and instead of “Lang Syne” let’s call him “Shmoo”. Rabbie Burns: What

Have a jumpy, unsettling NYE, everyone! X

HAHAHA

He’s making a list, He’s checking it twice And a third time, And then he stands accused of losing the list Yet his is the only name on it, Franz Kafka is coming to town

It's here! Joel Morris and I wrote a ghost story for the long winter nights, and Rosie Cavaliero, Carrie Quinlan, Josienne Clark and Victoria Moss breathed strange life into it. Turn off the lights and gather round the fire's glowing embers...

"I need to tell this story..." Arriving this week - an all-new audio ghost story for Christmas starring Rosie Cavaliero and Carrie Quinlan, written by myself and Joel. Available wherever you get your podcasts. Dim the lights and prepare yourself...

Just got one of those AI-generated “let me promote your book” emails all writers are plagued with, only this time I am not the author of this work. Oh how I wish I were.

The ghost of Epworth Rectory, from Sacheverell Sitwell’s “Poltergeists”, 1940 #PhantomsFriday

Something different for #phantomsfriday - this HOT MALE ghost from the cover of Time Life’s Mysteries of the Unknown, 1989. Keep back ladies, he’s married! Sorry, “buried”. Because he’s dead.

Kat and Paula are doing all of Garth Marenghi's DarkPlace and I for one could not be happier. Do Blake's 7 next!!! #gallifreypals www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9b2...

Charlie Brown is the warmest place to hide

There is an idea of a Charlie Brown, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

For #PhantomFriday - a sad-looking ghost from Time Life’s book of Hauntings, from the 80s. What’s he got to be sad about, in the 80s?! Maybe he’s just watched Threads.

Storm Claudia today. A low fringe of high pressure accompanied by impressive bangs, with something something orange make up something traitors something see this joke all day over social media happy Friday everyone

Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em around like you just don't care! OK, now wave 'em around as if you care a bit, but can't show it. Now wave 'em around as if you're an illiterate peasant girl in 18th century Austria whose dog has just died. Yes I've never DJ'ed before you're quite right

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and take our money. And Nigel Farage is egging him on. All true patriots should tell them both: hands off our BBC.