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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Charley from the Sunken Library
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Charley the spy
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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yesterday was the first day that looked and felt like Autumn here. I did experience fierce and subtle joy.
a witch appearing in a tangle of branches, candles and blowing leaves. Two black cats guard the space in the foreground. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's finally October and it's time for #31DaysofGraves 🪦💀 ⚰️ A huge thank you to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for putting this together 🪦 #History
An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:

#31 Days of Graves

Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori
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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Steel" (October 4, 1963), a Season 5 Twilight Zone episode about a future when only robots can box, represented a second trip to the fifth dimension for both of its main stars. Joe Mantell was in "Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room," while Lee Marvin was in "The Grave."
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Scooby Addicts | Scooby Museum @scoobyaddict.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
11 years ago today, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo premiered on Cartoon Network! Do you love it or hate it? #ScoobyDoo #SeriesPremier
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🦇 Awake at Midnight 🦇 @awake-at-midnight.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn! This going on the shelf right next to my Berni Wrightson!
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Amanda Hunt @thenextgenlib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A fantastic follow up to the #MG #horror #book Mystery James! Spooky, heartfelt, & thrilling—I don’t want this to be the end 😩 bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #library #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #librarian #librarians #books #bookrecommendation 
Mystery James returns from the grave by ally russell
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Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally got UNNAMED BONES by @lorasenf.bsky.social !!!!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
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Aaron Starmer @aaronstarmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A fun interview I did on YOU ARE NOW OLD ENOUGH TO HEAR THIS. I always appreciate the chance to look deeper into the themes, inspirations, and process of writing my books because it gives me a chance to ask myself, "Yeah, where the heck DID that nonsense come from?" Thanks, Betsy!
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🦇 Awake at Midnight 🦇 @awake-at-midnight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone got MY number...
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Immigrant Boo👻 @porcupunk.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
When I grow up, I want to be a "radical street librarian" too!
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This Woman Is Bringing Free Books to Hundreds of Kids With Magical Trolley
Ms. Maze, who calls herself a “radical street librarian,” tells TODAY.com how she is working to eliminate book deserts around Baltimore “in a fun and magical way.”
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The Twilight Zone @thenightgallery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
September 22, 1971: One of Night Gallery's best episodes features E.G. Marshall as a strange undertaker ("A Death in the Family"), and Vincent Price as a teacher at a bizarre school ("Class of '99"), in two top-notch Serling scripts.
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Mary Averling @maryaverling.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BURN BEAST RELEASE DAY!!!! 🥳❤️🍂🖤 That makes THREE middle grade books out in the world!!! Always surreal, always unsure how to properly celebrate having something I've sunk my heart into out in the world, but today, Pira & the Firefighters become yours. Welcome to Eyrewood, friends.
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Scott M | Haunted Edition 🎃 @voxparlour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're curious as to what The Terror Beneath is all about, this page should be useful
The Terror Beneath Reading List If you’re less familiar with Machen’s tales of horror it’s recommended you read the following (most, if not all, are available to read free online):
• The White People • The Great God Pan • The Novel of the Black Seal • The Novel of the White Powder • Ornaments in Jade • The Inmost Light • Out of the Earth • The Lost Club • The Terror • The Shining Pyramid • The Hill of Dreams • The Red Hand • A Fragment of Life • The Green Round • N WHAT IS WEIRD FOLK HORROR?
The taxonomy of horror subgenres is admittedly a bit of a mire. Machen’s stories are especially difficult to categorise, with hallmarks of cosmic horror intertwined with the rustic chills of folk horror and the science fiction trappings of weird fiction. 
The Terror Beneath uses the term ‘weird folk horror’ to describe this particular ‘Machenesque’ genre, encompassing strange Otherworldliness, pagan terror and science gone awry. Because this game expands on Machen’s mythos, for want of a better word, having a term such as weird folk horror makes it easier to understand what sort of stories and monsters fit into this world. A ghost haunting a mansion isn’t weird folk horror, but a scientist building a machine to communicate with an ancient horned god is. A weird folk horror mystery will likely have a mix of the following:
• Contacting an ancient pagan deity in one of its forms (The Great God Pan).
• The slow realisation that the world isn’t as it seems, with the mundane giving way to the fantastic (A Fragment of Life).
• Discovering murderous hidden beings of folklore lurking in the countryside (The Shining Pyramid).
• Traversing the Veil between Earth and the Otherworld (The White People).
• Scientists mixing technology and occult rites with disastrous consequences (The Inmost Light).
• Discovering strange places that exist outside of space and time (N).
• Secret societies with bizarre and frightening rituals (The Lost Club).
• Ancient beings arriving in industrialised London (T…
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John L. Walters @johnlwalters.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Whenever someone smart says, ‘I asked ChatGPT and it said xyz,’ I’m reminded of Baldur Bjarnason’s excellent article ‘The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con.’ softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme... #quitgpt #TheAICon @baldurbjarnason.com
The intelligence illusion seems to be based on the same mechanism as that of a psychic’s con, often called cold reading. It looks like an accidental automation of the same basic tactic.

By using validation statements, such as sentences that use the Forer effect, the chatbot and the psychic both give the impression of being able to make extremely specific answers, but those answers are in fact statistically generic.

The psychic uses these statements to give the impression of being able to read minds and hear the secrets of the dead.

The chatbot gives the impression of an intelligence that is specifically engaging with you and your work, but that impression is nothing more than a statistical trick.

This idea was first planted in my head when I was going over some of the statements people have been making about the reasoning of these ‘AI’.

I first thought that these were just classic cases of tech bubble enthusiasm, but no, ‘AI’ has both taken a different crowd and the believers in the ‘AI’ bubble sound very different from those of prior bubbles.
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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love!
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Gormenghast trilogy. Mervyn Peake. I have loved these books for so long. If you haven’t read them, please do. You won't be disappointed at the world and the glorious characters Peake created. Steerpike and Barquentine. Swelter. Fuschia Groan. Lady Clarice and Lady Clara Groan.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Within Lake Ontario, according to First Nations mythology, a great serpent lives under the waters. Known as Gá:šöje:ta’ (Gaasyendietha), the serpent is said to have arrived on Earth in a meteor. This is the story of the Meteor Dragon. 📸 NASA 🧵 1/6
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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 11/09/2026
Reminder: Hellboy in Hell: Nothing but Blood begins in October! Details: bit.ly/43Yoost This 2-issue series takes place after the death of Satan and the fall of Pandemonium in Hellboy in Hell #8. By @mikemignola.bsky.social, Cyrille Pomès, & Dave Stewart. With covers from Pomès and Mignola
Base cover of Hellboy in Hell: Nothing but Blood issue #1, illustrated by Cyrille PomèsVariant cover of Hellboy in Hell: Nothing but Blood issue #1, illustrated by Mike Mignola
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🦇 Awake at Midnight 🦇 @awake-at-midnight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sweet! This hearkens back to the Point Horror covers of the '90s!
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Process video- this originally had a border but the band requested it be removed! Love working for Metallica, I’ve been making art for them since 2019 and I was lucky enough to meet some of their staff over the summer and I got invited to a show which was incredible!!
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How do things like this just not get publicised anymore (rhetorical).
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Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Spooky Season means Billy Buttons comes out of the attic to play. His favorite game is to sneak around the house and surprise you when you open a door or turn a corner. We love Billy. Billy is our friend. We are not afraid of Billy. We do not upset Billy. We are very quiet around Billy. Shh.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pretty much done the inks. I’ll sit on this tonight and see if it needs anything tomorrow. I’ll post the inks here and Patreon tomorrow. After the inks are dry I’ll try colouring it
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Anna K. @annakkowalkowski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Be cunning and full of tricks, Watership down Illustration
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Ally @allyoutthere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There are only TWO days left to preorder MYSTERY JAMES RETURNS FROM THE GRAVE if you want to receive cool book swag. Details on my IG. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/752057...
Stacks of Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave and Mystery James Returns from the Grave behind a fake skeleton leg covered with fake worms.
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Ms. Yingling @msyingling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's hot and muggy, and it's hard to get motivated to read JANUARY 2026 titles. BUT! Progress must be made! Starting with @lindsayncurrie.bsky.social Delacorte Press MIDNIGHT AT THE VAMPIRE INN.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 05/09/2026
An early fright 🐈‍⬛ "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu is coming this October in a gorgeous leather-bound special limited edition from Lyra's Books. I made 14 illustrations that are hand-tipped into each copy. This was a dream project, and I can't wait to share more info in the coming weeks!
Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a young blonde girl curled up in bed looking at something out of frame. Two long shadowy hands reach toward her.
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Ryker @witchofthewaist.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Just received The Vampire's Tale Tarot deck...and oh my gods. It's STUNNING and the vibes are immaculate. @abigaillarson.com you've really outdone yourself. Thank you for blessing us with your wonderful art.
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🦇 Awake at Midnight 🦇 @awake-at-midnight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Time to start October backyard campfires! Bring all your books over for spooky reading out loud!
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Lora Senf @lorasenf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In my house fall starts today so I'm bringing the spooky season promo. My personal marketing team (aka The Girl Child) is back and this time she made me a video and I love it. 🖤🖤🖤
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yvonne De Carlo was born today in 1922. Resharing my humble tribute #botd aurorasginjoint.com/2017/09/01/y...
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Yvonne De Carlo, The Movie Star Munster
When the Harvard educated, classically trained stage actor Fred Gwynne heard that Yvonne De Carlo was to be his co-star in The Munsters he balked. Al Lewis, a showbiz veteran since the days of vaud…
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🦇 Awake at Midnight 🦇 @awake-at-midnight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You can never have too many gothic books for kids.
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Hillary Busis @busis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is a wonderful appreciation of John Klassen. There are no better books for turning your toddlers into soft goths
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🦇 Awake at Midnight 🦇 @awake-at-midnight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Love this cover!
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🦇 Awake at Midnight 🦇 @awake-at-midnight.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Love this discussion on the art of scaring children!
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Jeff Strand @jeffstrand.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Happy one-week anniversary to TERROR FROM THE CAVE!
Dorky author holding new yeti book.
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Be the reading counter culture
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Happy Summerween! 🧛🏼‍♀️🎃 @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls @editrixemma.bsky.social’s LOVE NEVER DIES “a trenchant ode to all things steamy and scary.”
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Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies by Emma Cole
Cole, a romance editor at Harlequin, delivers a comprehensive study of romance tropes in horror films. While genre purists may b...
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Cindy Schwind @cindyschwind1.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Loved this one-especially the theatre setting!! And it’s haunted! A great mystery from the past that demands to be solved & 3 kids who are up to the task! Mark your calendars! You are going to want this for your libraries! 2/23/27! @katemessner.com #bookposse #mgbooks
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes? 

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library 

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)
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Ms. Yingling @msyingling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Happy #BookBirthday to Roche's @SimonKIDS LITTLE MONSTERS, a reimagining of Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN. 👍📚 msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2026/08/litt...
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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thread icon thingie. Here is the First illustration I completed for this new collection of the work of Lord Dunsany. Sharing this on the day that I complete the drawing of the final one. The final illustration is for The Sword of Welleran. This is the story I read in Providence Rhode island, age 19.
A vast ominous figure moves between a full red moon and a desert landscape of ruined temples and shattered statuary. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.
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Smash Pages @smashpages.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Lady Baltimore returns in new series by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden + Bridgit Connell: smashpages.net/2026/08/15/l...
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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Charlie and the ritual skull
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Lauren Stoolfire @sunsoar25.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Happy Thursday! Today's neglected Books From The Backlog pick is The Graverobber's Apprentice by Allan Stratton. Have you read it or would you recommend it to me? #booksky #bookblogger never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2026/08/book...
The Graverobber's Apprentice by Allan Stratton book cover
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