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Why is the killing of a spider considered bad luck? Popular belief suggests it’s because they are great at pest control, but perhaps it is because the weaving of webs links them to the Fates. Be wary on your next encounter #SpookySunday

B/w photo of an angel grave marker (close-up of face). A web has been spun down the side of the face, anchored in the hair, on the cheek, and on the shoulder.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One Inch - a #poem about not giving up. I live with a poet, she wrote the words that #CultureMatters have just published, it's good and you should read it. www.culturematters.org.uk/one-inch/ #poetry #poetrysky

Illustration of the Guy Fawkes mask from Alan Moore's comic, V is for Vendetta

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Bringing in some great reviews (see pic) and a #book just right for #spookyseason A collection of stories exploring the many ways we are #haunted May contain #ghosts CORPSE ROAD BLUES: amzn.eu/d/0j8ORPrx

Cover of Corpse Road Blues by Eric Nash.

Image depicts a procession of skeletons walking out of the winter woods and heading towards a distant city in the background underneath a dark sky, laden with storm clouds.

5 star review of Corpse Road Blues (shortened to fit Alt Text word count):

"I genuinely enjoyed each and every story. In fact it took me a long time to finish this book as I was eking it out and restricting myself not to read it all at once (unfortunately I don’t do this with chocolates), but alas all good things must come to an end.

This book is a modern collection of stories about ghosts and the things that haunt us and there’s a few factors that make this such a great collection, there are some really original ideas as well as new takes on more familiar tropes and these touch on a range of different social issues/themes plus the author has a distinctive voice that shines through all these stories. But, the two things that really elevate it for me are the descriptions of places which are so rich and evocative, and the dialogue, whether it’s between characters or inner monologues, the dialogue is authentic and makes the characters so believable and real.

It’s hard to pick a favourite (peanut butter cups or your own personal preference) as I enjoyed them all but, the story that was the absolute stand out for me is ‘On Midwinter Hill’. This is about a lonely single mother visiting her parent’s graves on Christmas Eve. The ideas in this story were so original and the description of the cemetery was really beautiful (I am a self confessed taphophile so this was perfect for me), and while the story was sad and touched on loss it was also shot through with bursts of humour which contrasted well. Also being able to sum up the essence of grief in one sentence is a testament to how good the writing is. This is one of the best short stories I have ever read.

Ironically, for stories of ghosts and hauntings they are so very human and so very full of heart. I can’t wait to see what comes next from this author.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When you come home to find your partner has gifted you a copy of the book you'd been secretly wanting for weeks.

PB copy of Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba. A cream-coloured background with a reddish-brown illustration of a lycanthrope with a long-haired woman in a gown between its jaws.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One Inch - a poem about not giving up. I live with a poet, she wrote the words that Culture Matters have just published, it's good and you should read it. www.culturematters.org.uk/one-inch/

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is an eeriness to Rutland Water (one of England's largest reservoirs) due to the remains of a village underneath the placid water. What secrets cling to those submerged walls? It reminded me of the novels, The Fisherman by Langan & A House at the Bottom of the Lake by Malerman. #SpookySunday

Rutland Water. On the right-hand side is the deconsecrated St Matthews Church, Normanton, built on the site of an earlier medieval church. In the foreground is the new shoreline revealed by the much-depleted water supply. Under a sunny October sky, the water appears a stunning blue.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Worship in the House of Our Bugs

On the left is a bug house replica of Normanton Church, Rutland Water. On the right in the background is the church itself overlooking the reservoir.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A closed library helps no-one

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This made my week. It's wonderful to know, not only is one's work being read, that it's appreciated by another reader. If you've enjoyed a book recently consider sharing the love by leaving a review somewhere. 🖤👻🖤👻🖤👻🖤👻🖤

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The sacred chants and solemn prayers of monks long-dead chase the howling, whipping winds through the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. The monks themselves appear among throngs of tourists, or as spectres haunting holiday pics to be remembered in a digital age. #SpookySunday #ghosts

Black and white image of the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. Warning: may contain ghosts

Black and white image of the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey in front of a line of trees in the distance. Warning: may contain ghosts.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

After a full day writing my new novella, I took a pleasant stroll into the country to visit these #weird giants striding across the landscape #pylonlove #writerslife

BW image of a pylon, its cables stretching behind to the next pylon in the distance.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

👋 #SpookySunday lot, Bull Bay Hotel, Porth Llechog, Anglesey, '22. At the time we were unaware of the many ghosts that were said to wander the rooms, but the creepiness of the place lingered in our bones. The hotel has been demolished, now holiday lets haunt the landscape. But what of the ghosts?

you are at the edge of the road, standing in front of old pallets on their ends blocking the immediate entrance through a latticed metal archway. Beyond, steps rise up toward an imposing ghostly-white building about 100m away, set high in a commanding position near the cliff edge.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The Hunting Zone - Working title of current WiP

Laptop screen showing Word document. Text: The Hunting Zone

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Evergreen by An Wo Long. Well this went places I wasn't expecting. Gonna try more if this writers work. 4⭐️ 💙📚

Book cover- Evergreen by An Wo Long. Close up colour photo of pinevtree branches

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#SpookySunday Sally in the Woods: a wooded stretch of the A363 near Bath, UK. It’s earned a grisly reputation as a ‘death’ road, due to rumours of a ghostly girl in white appearing in front of drivers. Another tale is of Sarah Gibson, a widow, and reputedly a witch, who lived alone in the woods.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#pretendpanel August 7th: Does your writing environment/software UI/font choice have a significant impact for you? If so, what aesthetic options help you write? I aim for simplicity. Just me and my laptop. My partner writes longhand in bustling places, but I'd be too busy watching the world go by.

B/W photo of my makeshift study. Bespoke wooden desk, laptop, and mug of coffee in the foreground. Bookshelf and window in the background

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

WE BURY THE DEAD (2026). Tender, beautiful, and very cool. 5⭐

We Bury The Dead movies poster. View from the tarmac on a road littered with abandoned cars and a body. A woman i sstanding holding an axe at her side, her back to us, facing a man running toward her and the camera. The sky is red and a plume of black smoke is in the distance.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#SpookySunday The Dolphin Inn, Derby's oldest pub, has its fair share of spectral sightings

B/W photo of exterior of The Dolphin Inn, situated in the Cathedral Quarter

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Loved Sébastien Vaniček's directorship and thought the editing was impressive. The previous movie (Rise) entertained more, but didn't stay with me like Burn's seems to be.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie released the year you turned 18? 🎬

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is a necessity 👇

KEEP BOOKS DANGEROUS
Support small press publishers, writers, & artists.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The Instruction Manual To Being a Vampire by @craigwallwork.bsky.social is a TERRIFIC read! I've got to Chapter 5 and am loving it. It's laugh out loud funny too. 🩸📚💙📚😱📚

The Instruction Manual To Being a Vampire cover. Background: handwritten notes on a page of a manuscript. Foreground: a naked person in a bloody hue suspended upside down

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

BACKROOMS next up on the big screen. Could the hype be right about this one, too? Y'know, I haven't been to the cinema this much to watch my beloved genre EVER. It's GLORIOUS! #horror

Backrooms movie promo image. Majority of pic is a yellow wall. Squeezed in on the right border is a woman pressing against the wall, hand flat against it, mouth open, sweaty hair across her face.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Avebury. Captured on a ride to Salisbury. #StandingStoneSunday

Stone in right foreground on a green field, behind it yellow agricultural land, above that blue sky filling with storm clouds

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

From Memes, Dreams, Reflections: "Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56 "Her graphic novel series, published in English in 2003, followed an Iranian girl through the Islamic revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. The work helped millions relate to Iranians."

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Working on new novella today, wrote other words too #poetry

Beating hearts and | newborn breath | fill empty spaces | whilst fingertips tap | alphabet keys

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Off to see Obsession in a few hours. Heard lots of good things about this one, hoping it lives up to the hype.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Such beautiful prose. I highly recommend this novella for the darklings that wished to be wooed. 🩸📚 #horror #booksky

Cover of Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw. Portrait of a woman, her long turquoise hair fans out behind her, her face is simply a gaping mouth full of teeth

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Proud to be part of the charity horror anthology, THE SHADOWS THAT WE CARRY, raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support UK. My short story, Always By Your Side, features alongside 19 great horror tales. FUCK CANCER

First page of the story Always by Your Side.

Front cover of the Horror anthology The Shadows That We Carry

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

BOOK MAIL! Banging anthology by a bunch of indie horror writers

Front book cover of The Shadows That We Carry depicting a campfire and a person's head within the flames.

Back book cover of The Shadows That We Carry showing blurb and author names

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Spent Saturday in London checking out the new Tracey Emin exhibition (so good!) at the Tate, then over to Knightsbridge for the #FreeVerse poetry fair where I picked up Necrosmologies by Anthony Cartwright (an absolute dark gem of a book published by @thebraag.bsky.social)

Necrosmologies b/w cover: dark skies over a town.

B/W photo of a warship anchored in front of Tower Bridge on the river Thames

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just started reading this and if the first story is anything to go by, then I'm in all the way! Exquisite prose transforms reading 💙📚🩸📚😱📚👀 Gore Poetics by Samir Sirk Morató, pub. @cursedmorsels.bsky.social

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

One of my all-time favourite photos. Filip Jandourek - Wild boar love at the Buriganga river, Bangladesh, 2017. #art of the day.

Two black boars mating on a rubbish heap against an industrial backdrop.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Nice one, Mary. CORPSE ROAD BLUES could do with some love, and has its first birthday soon www.amazon.co.uk/Corpse-Road-...

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#HorrorWritersChat I grab a lift in time with this guy 👇

Mr Benn, time travelling cartoon character, dressed in bowler hat and suit stood in fancy-dress shop waving

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#art of the day Spotted at the Tabby Terrace Cat Cafe, Dorchester.

Simple illustration of a black cat sat at a table next to a cup of expresso. Colour scheme: marine green background, black table with sandy coloured top surface matching the cup and saucer and the cat's eyes.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

SPILL INK. NOT BLOOD. (captured at Rockaway Park, Somerset)

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Sorry to miss #HorrorWritersChat tonight, but I'm attending something related to the topic. Have fun!

Stage set for a talk on The History of Folk Horror with Prof Marisa Linton.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Had a great evening in Bath yesterday listening to Joe Abercrombie chat with Christopher Buehlman about the latter's historical horror novel, Between Two Fires. Excellent questions from the audience, too.

Relaxed in armchairs Joe Abercrombie chats with Christopher Buehlman on stage at St Swithans Church, Bath

Cover of Between Two Fires. Etching-style skeleton dressed in a medieval knight's armour behind the the title written in a white medieval font. All against a red background.

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Let's give this a go. Expecting good things.

Bride! movie poster in cinema, showing Frankenstein's monster and his bride in an embrace

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Thank you for hosting, Eryn. Cool questions. Is it ghosts haunting us, or are we haunting the dead? My collection CORPSE ROAD BLUES 👇 🩸📚 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FC...

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks, Eryn. Cool questions. Is it ghosts haunting us, or are we haunting the dead? My collection CORPSE ROAD BLUES 👇 🩸📚 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FC...

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Just back from a lovely and inspirational weekend in Derby at the Ghost Story Festival. Huge thanks to @alexdavis1981.bsky.social and team for organising the fest, and all the speakers, panelists, and guests who made it a success. Now to take stock of my notes and work on a new ghastly tale of woe 👻

The big wheel decoration in the window of the Book Cafe, Derby

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Thanks, Mary. It's about burying your dead proper. A haunting is a choice. My collection CORPSE ROAD BLUES 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FC...

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Nash @ericnash.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Thanks, Mary. Good questions It's about burying your dead proper. A haunting is a choice. My collection CORPSE ROAD BLUES 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FC...

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