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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A little reminder that it’s still out there….

Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m being inundated by scammers pushing fake reading clubs, authir promos, amazon optimisation schemes etc etc. It’s tiresome. But I just got one from ‘Isaiah Archibong’, who sounds like a character from a Thomas Pynchon story, which made me smile…

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Dear story readers and writers, if you don’t know about this wonderful project, check it out!

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It’s really starting to grind me down

The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My story ‘Unhomely’ is included in the new issue of Interzone, alongside some brilliant writers. A funny one this (funny peculiar, not funny ha ha). I took an aside by Freud in his essay ‘Das Unheimliche’, in which he describes reading a ‘thoroughly silly story’ in the Strand Magazine, as a prompt….

Cover of Interzone #305 with list of contributors

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Timby2 @timby2.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Rose Ferraby & the @ukri.org Rewilding Later Prehistory project has 19 new words for mud!

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

#OwlishMonday The dust jacket of Woodland Birds by Phyllis Barclay-Smith (King Penguin 1955) Art by Peter Shepheard.

The back cover - a repeated pattern of a tawny owl in ivy leaves

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

On 4 June I’ll be at The BookHive in Norwich, chatting to @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social about ‘Paradise’ and ‘Dead The Long Year’. I imagine a conversation about landscape, thresholds, Modernism, art, magic and much more. Come join us! It’s free - reserve your place at www.thebookhive.co.uk/evebnts/

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m heading west this week, for studio visits, meetings, an exhibition opening AND a book event at The Bookshop in Helston. Looking forward to talking about my weird tomes, The North Shore and Paradise. Come and say hello! Reserve your space at www.ticketsource.co.uk

An add for an event with Ben Tufnell at The Bookshop in Helston on Thursday 21 May - including pics on Ben and his books Paradise and The North Shore

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I’m heading up to King’s Lynn…. If you love Norfolk’s wild coastline and fiction that gets under your skin, this is for you. An evening with Ben Tufnell, exploring his two extraordinary novels: The North Shore, a gothic, unsettling tale rooted in the Norfolk coast, and new eco-thriller, Paradise…

A flyer for an event with Ben Tufnell in King’s Lynn in 14 May 2026….

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Today’s book post. New stories by @andrewhook.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social and Aliya Whiteley. These are from a very handsome new series of single-story chapbooks called ‘ Infidelities‘, from the excellent @salopress.bsky.social….

Chapbooks by Dan Coxon, Andrew Hook and AliyaWhitley, with very cool b&w photos of, respectively, a row of books (spines not showing), a vintage car and a pile of knobbly pinecones…,

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

When the ‘omnilingual’ Anthony Burgess met Jorge Luis Borges, they apparently ‘chatted in Anglo-Saxon’! From ‘Visiting Mrs Nabokov’ by Martin Amis

The first page of a piece on Anthony Burgess by Martin Amis, with the information that when the ‘omnilingual’ Burgess met Borges, they ‘chatted in Anglo-Saxon’!

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Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

New episode of Uncanny Landscapes is out now. On alls the platforms. Ben Tufnell discusses his new novel Paradise - a brilliant slice of pastoral-noir fiction inspired by his decades as a curator of contemporary landscape art in London.

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is a great initiative by @uncertainstories.com - a series of beautiful little chapbooks each containing a single short story, given away for free in independent bookshops. I picked up this spooky tale by the great @daveyfrankel.bsky.social in @goldenharebooks.bsky.social in Edinburgh….

The cover of The Crossing by David Frankel - the silhouette of a figure against snow, with a dark forest and sky in the background.

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Phil Norman @mrphilnorman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Any writers currently feeling less than productive can thank themselves they're not in the shoes of pulp author Alfred J Burks, who at his peak in the 1930s set himself a target to write 18,000 words a day. A day.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It is here! Huge thanks to @influxpress.bsky.social @dan.coxon.belly.social @charlotteseymour.bsky.social, Luke Bird and Vince Haig, and profound gratitude to the blurbers: @aetwigg.bsky.social @charlieratpig.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, James Miller and Aliya Whiteley In bookshops now!

The cover of ‘Paradise’ by Ben Tufnell, depicting a dense forest

'An unsettling novel of juxtapositions and surprises, Paradise moves between city and forest, bringing both to teeming, violent life. Tufnell creates landscapes that work upon us on the deepest level.'
- Aliya Whiteley,
author of The Beauty and Skyward Inn

'A powerful novel of psychogeography set between two landscapes, urban and rural, in a world palpably on the brink of collapse.
Febrile with paranoia and alienation, Paradise confronts the crucial, intimate matter of our time: how 'to be' at the end of all things.'
- Charlotte Tierney, author of The Cat Bride

'Paradise begins as an engrossing neo-noir before pivoting into something considerably stranger, in a manner that recalls a peculiar array of other works: Ben Wheatley's Kill List, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, Michael Ende's children's novel Momo. A Kafkaeseque end-times parable of acceleration and collapse, violence and repair, it is a resonant page-turner fit for the Capitaloscene. '
- Séan Padraic Birnie, author of I Would
Haunt You If I Could

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Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I was just wondering what to read next when this popped through the door. Will read straightaway! @bentufnell.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social

Front cover of Paradise by Ben Tufnell, published by Influx Press. Cover shows a dense forest under an apocalyptic sky.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by the cyanotype process were the first ever to be published #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

@bentufnell.bsky.social chooses six books that influenced the upcoming PARADISE for Interzone www.patreon.com/posts/six-bo...

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

THE NORTH SHORE TO PARADISE @bentufnell.bsky.social will be appearing at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May, in conversation with Tracee Findlater about his two books, THE NORTH SHORE and his brilliant new novel, PARADISE. Thursday 14 May 6pm 🎟️ £15 nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/the...

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

PARADISE, the new genre-defying eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing by @bentufnell.bsky.social, is published early March! Interested reviewers please get in touch. Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Excited to have a story in the new issue of @the4facedliar.bsky.social Thanks to Roisin and everyone at the magazine!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 07/01/2026

an incredible window from the Church of St John in Whitbourne, Herefordshire

trefoil stained glass window, an owl perches on w winding branch at the center of the design

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We asked Aliya Whiteley for her best books of 2025, a book she'd love for Xmas & her anticipated reads of 2026. Read the full article geni.us/SolarisBks2025 to find out why she picked @vajra.me @bentufnell.bsky.social & @annecharnock.bsky.social ! geni.us/misheardw

The author and their books:
Aliya Whiteley, author of THREE EIGHT ONE and THE MISHEARD WORLD

The book they'd love for Xmas
HAMMER HORROR

Their favourite read of 2025
THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS
RAKESFALL

Their anticipated read of 2026
PARADISE
ALSTON MOOR

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

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Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026 www.influxpress.com/paradise

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Paradise — Influx Press

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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Avoid Amazon. Shop Small! Tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. We hope you can get down to a brilliant local indie bookshop. If not, snap up a book and support indie booksellers with us - and you're in with the chance of winning a £250 Bookshop.org gift card. Support bookshops, not billionaires.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006: themarginalian.org/newsletter

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If you yearn for depth and delight without the distraction of a social media feed, if you are weary of algorithms deciding what you see and read and constellate into reality, try the Marginalian Su…

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Salvador Dali, ‘Portrait of Luis Bunuel’ (1924), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Royal Natural History, Richard Lydekker, originally published in 1893. #OwlishMonday

Illustration of type of fish owl. The owls have prominent ear tufts and are perched on rocks. In the foreground, a small fish lies on a rock between the two birds. The background includes various plants, such as a palm frond and a cattail-like plant, suggesting a wetland or riverbank environment.

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Ben Tufnell @bentufnell.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Excellent book post thanks to @undertow.bsky.social and @uncertainstories.com. Looking forward to these. And ‘Broken Ground’ came with a free single story booklet by @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social!!

Copies of ‘The Best Weird Fiction of The Year Vol. 1’, ‘Broken Ground’ and ‘Chalklands’ by Richard Smyth

The back covers of ‘The Best Weird Fiction of The Year Vol. 1’ and ‘Broken Ground’

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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