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
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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
Hahaha brilliant!
Vincent price says "Come a little closer, madam-I want to save you 25€ on Monster Vitamins" Kids love Monster" Vitamins. They come in 7 monstrous shapes and colors. And they taste terrific. Even more important, Monsters contain 10 essential vitamins. Children should get vitamins by eating right, but when they don't, Monster Vitamins and Monster Vitamins Plus Iron sure help.
Vincent Price advertising monster-shaped vitamins.
Hellebore - cover of The Mirror Issue
Sam George THE VAMPIRE'S LOST REFLECTION In 1890, Sir James Frazer recorded in The Golden Bough the belief across many cultures that reflections, portraits and shadows were thought to contain part of a person's soul. These folkloric notions influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century: Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most enduring of all fictional vampires, is a creature with virtually no representation: he doesn't have a reflection, his likeness cannot be painted, and he cannot be photographed. Some modern vampires do have a reflection, but Dracula's lack of representation makes him a profoundly unsettling figure. Linked with the realm of shadows, he remains the embodiment of an ancient evil who cannot be comprehended nor captured
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
Thank you, Mary! :)
Thanks Jim! 😁 Quite looking forward to having a period of uninterrupted focus this weekend!
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
A black and white photo of actor Pedro Pascal wearing a white tee and black leather pants, reclining on a bed covered in a white sheet.
Pedro Pascal, a 50 year old Latino male with short dark hair is standing on a crumpled bed while wearing an oversized olive(?) sweater, no pants, grey boxers and black socks
Pedro Pascal stood in front of a full length mirror facing towards the camera. He has his arms folded and his biceps are full and obvious under his white tee that has the sleeves rolled up. He’s wearing grey dress pants and you can see his ass which is bulging against the fabric, in the mirror behind him.
Pedro Pascal sat slumped on a chair covered in a dusty rose coloured sheet, he has bare legs, maybe white boxers and a thick, full length military style coat on in olive green. He has a hand resting on his face and his eyes are closed.
Cause of death: Pedro Pascal for Vanity Fair
Black and white book cover showing a girl in a pretty white dress missing her head. Where her head should be is the o in comfortable. The title of the book is The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In. In pink lettering is the author’s name: Craig Wallwork. There’s a quote also in the cover from author Kealan Patrick Burke that says, One of the most impressive books I’ve read in years.
Photo of author Kealan Patrick Burke: “Every now and again comes a collection that marks the arrival of a spectacular voice in horror fiction. THE SKIN WE FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE IN is such a collection. Like a nightmarish fusion of Poe, James Herbert, and Clive Barker, Craig Wallwork executes his stories with a ruthless, surgical precision, resulting in a veritable Grand Guignol of visceral delights that will truly get under your skin, and it'll do so with protracted glee. One of the most impressive books I've read in years." - Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of KIN and SOUR CANDY
Photo of author Ross Jeffery: “The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In showcases a writer at the very peak of their undeniable talent, who weaves story after story of inescapable and insidious horror. Wallwork has the uncanny ability to write stories that not only leave you horrified, moved and forever changed, but ultimately render you awed at his gift as a raconteur. This collection further cements Wallwork as one of the best short story writers of our times, a national treasure and a true master of the genre.” - Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Metamorphosis and The Devil’s Pocketbook
Photo of author Catherine McCarthy: “From the Gothic to the grotesque, this collection taps into the psyche with a hammer and chisel, leaving the reader raw from the flailing. There's heart here too though, heart and dark humour.” - Catherine McCarthy, author of Mosaic and Death of a Clown.
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
Cover image for The Cleansing Power of Fire anthology. Featuring a goats head through a red filter. Image by Cutfingers.
The full TOC for The Cleansing Power of Fire on a red background with a bowing skeleton.
OUT NOW!!
Sing and rejoice, brothers and sisters! Your redemption is here. Let fire purge whatever ails you.
🐁☀️🐀
Grab it in comments.
Woman with red lipstick holding a fan
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!"
Professor Kitchen, smiling into the camera, in his Liverpool garden in 2008, standing next to the writer.
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.
