@alimaloney
pleasing taste, some monsterism Likes: decadent food, witchy ritual, noisy music, 80s horror on VHS, woodland walks, RPGs, David Lynch, Jan Švankmajer, industrial-strength performance art / physical theatre, books.
A script: CALEDONIAN GOTHIC presents: SIX SONGS FOLK HISTORIANS DON’T WANT YOU TO HEAR!! THIS MELODY WILL SHOCK YOU!! Around it: a brass pen, a microphone, a smashed cassette, yellowing bones and rusted nails, a very dusty tape player
Begins Fools' Day
Let's goooooo.
Trailer drops next week.
Time to revisit absolutely banging beats as a weird fiction delivery system.
#weirdfiction #cosmichorror #techno
blacklanternmusic.bandcamp.com/track/crimso...
Dude carrying way too many things, labeled "writer/artist" with the stack of stuff labeled "side WIP, WIP from 3 months ago, passion project, imaginary project, WIP I keep open in the background so I don't feel guilty, the WIP I'm actually "working on""
Yeah, I heard it was adapted into a film, including some of the real-life events that surrounded its publication.
Hey it's *Bandcamp Friday* again. The best day to go find that artist who was top of your Spotify unwrapped and actually buy their music, because all the proceeds go to them today. And by god do musicians need it.
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
Bring back getting horror zines by post.
Near a skip, a smashed toilet. Someone has scrawled on it "R. Mutt 1917".
Binstallation
Sadly, legal disputes meant that all references to Hasbro IP were removed from the cover and linear notes, but "The Platinum Album" from Vengaboys was composed to be the soundtrack to Monopoly.
My personal top use case for YouTube is for 80s Halloween broadcasts, complete with spooky episodes, schlocky station idents, and creepoid commercials.
youtu.be/DSmIolKETsQ
Appreciate it!
It's been a brilliant year for selling stories and this is a great place to round it all out.
👀 who's that on the cover?
A pile of books: Plunderphonics, Children of the New Flesh, In The Mouth of Madness, Barrowbeck, Cyclonopedia, The Works of Vermin, How to Build a Haunted House, and Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema. In the background, more books.
TBR well stocked up for winter.
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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A moon behind trees, bats and gravestones, with the Haunt logo (a black arch with a white H in the middle). The text reads "Happy Halloween. Treat yourself to 33% off all books! Use Code HALLOW33 at checkout."
🎃 HAPPY #HALLOWEEN! 🎃
We are celebrating by offering 33% off ALL our books!
Gothic, horror & dark fiction paperback, ebooks & audiobooks.
We got all you ghouls covered like a duvet tent in the dark.
Use code HALLOW33 at the checkout! Ends Sun 2 Nov 11:59pm GMT.
www.hauntpublishing.com/books
The FolkloreJam2025 itch.io feed, showing REDCAP ROAD as second most popular entry 🥳
It has blown their wee minds that they can just put a game up on @itch.io and that people will download it and play it. They are always making up tabletop games but this is the first they have put out their in the world. Honestly, among the top moments of fatherly pride.
A King of Diamond playing cards....except the King has been brutally usurped. He has fallen. Standing over him and taking his place is a vicious Redcap, scythe dripping with blood.
The kids and I did our first game jam. If anyone wants a fast-paced, trick-taking, social deduction game based on gruseome folklore, you may wish to risk a journey down REDCAP ROAD.
stickytoffeelavahell.itch.io/redcap-road
COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE
WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b
That has to be deliberate, right?
The first few lines of chapter 1: Roses In particular, "When I was little, my father was famous".
I mean, as far as opening lines go, it's very distracting. Of course I am going to go listen to Liquid Swords before continuing.
(From Steven Hall's (excellent, so far) "Maxwell's Demon")
The cover wrap for Silent Screams, An Anthology of Quiet Horrors - featuring a striking, surreal illustration by Eric Brenner, depicting a screaming face with far too many eyes. The book blurb states: The most terrifying horror stories don't churn your stomach. They creep like shadows, chilling with a touch. They build dread through atmosphere and emotion, rather than splatter and gore. Welcome to Silent Screams, an anthology of quiet horror stories. Within these pages, you will face strange and twisted scenes, dark and demonic characters, nightmares great and small, written by a host of talented authors from around the world. These are shattering tales of grief and loss, visitations from strange folk, troubled dreams, and cursed artefacts. These are whispers to make your skin crawl and your toes curl. Words to catch your breath and smother screams.
Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
I'd love to do a wee promotional reading of a snippet of this story but, honestly, I don't even know how it could exist outside of the page.
Get it. It's a doozy.
Out now!
Fixed it!
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
I recently read an article that positioned Skinamarink as a sort of point'n'click game, with the viewer constantly scanning the screen for clues and keys to other scenes. That perspective really stays with me.
