Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 06/10/2026Ready for this to start up tomorrow. Ahead on my reading like a keener, and I've moved this guy over by the computer to generate mood. 110
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 05/10/2026Pretty sure it was the space vampire on Buck Rogers. I would have been... six years old? 100
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 03/10/2026I was really not expecting a delicious fresh strawberry cocktail to be handed to me in OCTOBER, but Dr. Wife has strange and mysterious ways. 170
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 01/10/2026The guest star this time is Ray Walston. Fans of classic cinema might think of him as J. J. Singleton. People substantially older than me will remember him as their favourite Martian. But to people my age he is eternally "Mr. Hand". 010
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 01/10/2026Lunch time TV is another Friday the 13th episode, this one about a cursed comic. Episode starts in an 80s comic shop, and since the show filmed in Toronto someone who follows me probably knows if it was a set, or if they filmed in a real shop. 110
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 01/10/2026Good old Laser, SF from Harlequin. I've got a couple of those on the shelves here... 110
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 01/10/2026Oh man, even if this doesn't kickstart my spooky season vibes, I'm going to enjoy the Keith Mars circa 1987 thing. 120
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 01/10/2026Still not technically October, eh? Well, I'm getting a jump on it. 230
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 01/10/2026If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula. 372
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 30/09/2026What's a poster you had in your room growing up? I was introduced to Kate in Grade 9 drama, and the world never went back. 110
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 28/09/2026Those are all good, but my favourite "the devil built it" story is the one about the church in Trois Pistoles. And not only because the art on the beer named after the story is VAN WORTHY. (And not only because a bottle of that stuff kicks like a devil horse, either.) 030
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026OK, things are getting a bit ridiculous now. A truck just pulled up (on Sunday) and left this here for me. Now I have to start thinking about assembling the right table of folks. 010
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026Don't usually get mail on Sunday but I guess, given the load of stuff that showed up yesterday, it's a rains/pours situation. Anyway, this just arrived, and I'm delighted. Can't go wrong with @stephengrahamjones.com . 0182
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026The last prose book in this latest drop of stuff isn't either a small press edition or a crowd-funder, it's the 2nd book in the City of Shadow series. I've been reading Turtledove since he was Iverson, and I have a soft spot for noir/fantasy mashups but this wasn't available in Canada, so… 010
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026I mentioned some crowd-funding things also landed in this set of books. * A collection of stories inspired by Gemma Files' EXPERIMENTAL FILM * A collection of stories arising from the "Alleyman" mythos that Seven Dane Asmund has built up across projects. * Quantick/Barker having a laugh about film 000
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026Also from Subpress in this drop of books * The Wisdom of Crowds, the third Age of Madness book from Joe Abercrombie -- my grimdark for this period * The World We Make, follow-up to The City We Became, from N.K. Jemisin, books that deserve fancy editions * The Road To Roswell from Connie Willis 071
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026And now we get to @subpress.bsky.social, the company that gets the largest portion of my "fancy books" dollars. * A collection of @tkingfisher.com's three Alex Easton novellas * The sequel to @marthawells.com's WITCH KING * The second in @fondalee.bsky.social's Green Bone Saga * The latest Dresden 1174
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026New from Centipede in this latest drop were: * their edition of Zelazny's ROADMARKS (foreshadowing, one hopes, fancy editions of a lot of the slim Zelazny stand-alones) * the latest book in the effort to publish everything Woolrich * their edition of The LIttle People (with a subtler cover) 020
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026Over the last couple of years Weird House Press has published a number of limited editions of interest to me, notably including a whole lot of Jeffrey Thomas. In this drop of books there were two from them: their latest Jeffrey Thomas, and the latest story collection from Brian Evenson. 000
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026A couple of years ago Valancourt put out a book from an Italian horror author Luigi Musolino, and a number of people I trust really talked it up. So I got a copy and they were right. And now Earthling has done a lovely limited hardcover of that same collection... 030
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026I've been following Ian Rogers since we returned to ON—he's part of the relatively small Canadian horror scene (he lives in the same town as my in-laws). When Thunderstorm said they were going to do a big HC of his 1st Felix Renn/Black Lands novel I jumped on. Can replace the old Cemetery Dance TP. 110
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026After reading THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET a few years back I put Catriona Ward on The List. Which meant I later read her SUNDIAL among other things. Lividian has done a lovely limited edition of that, which will now replace my Tor Nightfire HC. My first purchase from Lividian. 000
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026I can't resist a fancy edition of a beloved volume, and @theauthorguy.bsky.social's book LAMB is one that both Dr. Wife & I love. (I've been a fan of his since his first book back in 1992--I'm NOT doing that math--and it's been a wild ride the whole time). From Suntup. 000
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026In from Ireland: the 10th anniversary HC of A MAN WITH ONE OF THOSE FACES. Just in time for the RTE adaptation to air, starting... today? 000
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026For my pretty complete collection of the works of @lairdbarron.bsky.social, the delightfully dark limited edition of stories that @badhandbooks.bsky.social put together... 061
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026Got a whole bunch of small press and crowd-funded books yesterday. Let me show you some of them. These are the new Meteor House books to complement my heart PJF collection. Random fact: I have reread Burton's Kasîdah A LOT more times than I have reread the Riverworld books. 241
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026It might be a mistake, but I'm starting Sunday morning off with The Little People, in the new Centipede Edition (which looks much more respectable than the old pulp "Nazi Gnomes" one.) 020
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026Another thing showed up today. A year ago this caught my eye, since--after Minneapolis--Boston is my second favorite American city. 100
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 27/09/2026Got some specialized literature in the mail today. 120
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 26/09/2026Box of nice copies of books I've already read arrived today. They look very nice AND no new shelf space is required because this is a "replace the old copy" situation. 120
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 25/09/2026Four answers: 1) If I see him on stage, the show will be great 2) Master who has most utterly blown my mind 3) 🤘 4) Badass punk who could herd drunken cats while laying it down 010
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 24/09/2026repost with an image of your favorite James Bond (wrong answers only) 220
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 23/09/2026While excitedly reading about Saul Rubinek's triple headliner status at the 2027 Stratford Festival, I accidentally also ran into the line shown below. I'm not exactly an expert on Hollywood inside baseball, but am I the only person who didn't know this? That "not too subtle" seems to suggest it 010
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 22/09/2026Learned to write my first BASIC on this guy, and played some video games with utterly dire graphics. But also got hooked on the idea of "theatre of the mind" games, which may have lead into my TTRPG habit years later. 3211
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 21/09/2026This is a dance off. If you see this, post a dance! 010
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 20/09/2026Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe. (What can I say, I was a child of the 80s.) 030
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 20/09/2026Oh course, right there on the same page he has a suggestion for how to solve the problem. If you had suggested this to me in the 90s I would have looked at you like you had two heads, but a couple of additional decades of concentration of capital and it's starting to seem less mad... 140
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 20/09/2026Seems pretty grim, DH, how do you see this ending up? 120
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com · 20/09/2026I had find the source, since most of the "quote sites" on the Net are just garbage, and of course the slop machine is trained on them. Finding the source of quote is sometimes tricky, but this one is from LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER. And looking at in in context another bit from just before leapt out: 120
