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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 14h

If I was Bic I’d seriously be marketing this as a Dracula lighter.

David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 15h

If you've read Twisted Pike and wondered what happens next... I'm going to include some exclusive content on my Patreon newsletter that almost made it into the book but didn't, which shows exactly what happens next. Sign up for free. www.patreon.com/cw/DavidBarn...

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 15h

Your Halloween pack is ready, ma'am.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's a work of seasonal genius!

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Out today!!

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good morning, Albion. It's a wet and wild Friday, but here's the very Autumnal local postbox topper.

A knitted/crocheted postbox topper with an Autumnal flavour, pumpkins and scarecrows and that, in shades of orange and green

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A builder once left a crowbar in my house years ago. I mean, I could have given it back but... I now have a crowbar.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This administration really is using The Handmaid's Tale as a guidebook, isn't it?

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Anneke @turningeyes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Twisted Pike kwam op het juiste moment binnen, ik heb zo veel zin om weer het folkhorror universum van @davidmbarnett.bsky.social binnen te stappen... #booksky

Mijn David Barnett collectie, vanaf linksboven met de klok mee: Withered Hill, Scuttlers Cove, Twisted Pike, Scratch Moss

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What, you think I'm some kind of badger or sumfink?

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Can anyone change two hedgehogs for a puffin?

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Let me hold that for you while you sign my Captain Marvels".

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There will be no announcement from NYCC this week that will top this.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Comics sales are up over a quarter of the total from this time last year. I know some of what's coming from most of the top companies. I think people are going to be surprised, in a good, good, good way, holy crap.

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Jodie Troutman @longtalljodie.com · 07/10/2026

Alright, I guess I'm doing this. I HAVE RETURNED TO PATREON. Most of you are aware that I lost my day job and have been unceremoniously thrust into the role of a full-time Comic Person. While my lettering work is certainly robust, I still need more help than that. www.patreon.com/cw/longtallj...

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My email is so pissed off with the spammers that it's now sticking any message even vaguely about books straight in the junk.

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Simon Bowland @simon.studiobowland.com · 05/10/2026

I still need to find 7-8 regular/monthly lettering gigs to enable me to continue paying my mortgage! My experience includes: • 23 years as a full-time letterer for Marvel, DC, Image, etc • 30 years handling print/pre-press/production tasks • 20 years hitting non-stop weekly deadlines for 2000AD

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As I explain more in-depth in the afterword, this was a tough book to write. Deadline came just as I got my cancer diagnosis, and I spent my first lot of chemo trying to write it. I had no idea when I'd finished if it even made sense, never mind if it was any good. But people seem to think it is...

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TWISTED PIKE has been out for six days and you are all being very lovely about it in the ratings and reviews. Thank you! www.canelo.co/books/twiste...

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

October reads #2: DARK ENTRIES by Robert Aickman

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Looks really good in the restoration! It's going into cinemas in a couple of weeks.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

American chums! Both SCUTTLER'S COVE and SCRATCH MOSS are currently on a limited-time $1.99 Kindle deal. Cement the special relationship with some British folk horror! Scuttler's Cove: a.co/d/090f5j0g Scratch Moss: a.co/d/0dxCRla1

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Amazon.com: Scuttler's Cove: A chilling, unputdownable folk horror thriller eBook : Barnett, David: Books

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They didn’t really make films before I was born.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Few pix from last night’s Dracula 4K restoration premiere in London.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m not sure I can think of an otherwise excellent movie that went more off the rails in the third act than TRADING PLACES.

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openbookposts.bsky.social @openbookposts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Twisted Pike by David Barnett @davidbarnettuk.bsky.social @canelobooks.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DeHsPFGFkH...

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Tony Jones @jonezyboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very sorry to see @davidmbarnett.bsky.social majestic folk horror quartet, which concludes with TWISTED PIKE end, but at least it does so in style! www.horrordna.com/books/twiste...

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Twisted Pike

David Barnett concludes the brilliant Withered Hill folk horror quartet in style.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ran into my old mate Caroline Munro.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Once again, I choose exactly the wrong moment to email out my ten pitches.

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

2000 AD Prog 2503 is out on 7th October - featuring HERNE & SHUCK: STORMING THE STONE, Part Four by: 📝 Script: @davidmbarnett.bsky.social ✏️ Art: @drawninthemargins.bsky.social 🎨 Colours: Quinton Winter 💬 Letters: Annie Parkhouse Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm doing October as a re-read month. At the moment it's Robert Aickman's DARK ENTRIES short story collection.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Almost certainly the witch in Lizzie Dripping.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good morning, Albion, get some Octoberish folk horror from me in your brain-pipe. TWISTED PIKE came out on Thursday. WITHERED HILL, SCUTTLER'S COVE and SCRATCH MOSS also available. www.canelo.co/books/twiste...

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There were four of us first time at #Glastonbury. I got two free press tickets. I worked at the time at the influential news organ the Chorley Guardian. One mate bought a ticket from a cafe in Glastonbury at face-value. The fourth paid a Scouser a fiver to go under a hole in the fence.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, was hoping to but sadly not this year.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Ian Duff @ianduff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fucking hell! @davidmbarnett.bsky.social has absolutely knocked it out of the park with this one. Scratch Moss had been my favourite read of the year so far. Until now. And the Author's Note at the end suggests there may be more to come. Bring it on!

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think not until next year! But I believe Blackwell's in the UK do free international shipping, or certainly used to.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, I'm veering to that, or Dark Entries.

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