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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 12h

Signups for October's Naturalist Art Mail Club end tomorrow!! We're celebrating the wonderful biodiversity of jumping spiders with a peacock spider sticker, postcard, and a vinyl sticker sheet! 🕷️ Check out my mail club here: patreon.com/fossilforager 💌

A mockup image showcasing the Naturalist Mail Club rewards for October, showcasing jumping spiders! The vinyl sticker features 3 dancing peacock spiders on a light orange background, while the postcard features many species of spiders on a light orange background. The bonus rewards feature a clear vinyl sticker sheet with 16 species of jumping spiders.

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The Martian Diaries 👽 The War Of The Worlds Sequel @martiandiaries.bsky.social · 16h

"The narrators, the background music, the sound effects, all made me nostalgic for those 'simpler times' of my youth." (Goodreads) The War Of The Worlds continues in The Martian Diaries thrilling #audiobooks w/music & sound effects. See website (bio) for more info, samples & retailers. #SciFiBooks

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WittnerCinetec.com @wittnercinetec.bsky.social · 15h

If you're familiar with the Pomona Pack, you absolutely need to watch this. 👍 And if you have no idea what the Pomona Pack is, that's even more reason to check it out! 🤩 youtu.be/0xrdczVHvts

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Mystery Super 8 Film - Never Seen! Just Developed! | Found Film 141

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Catarina @catarinaeusebio.art · 17h

Throwback to when I treated myself to some bubble tea with homemade tapioca bobas that were delicious #urbansketchers

Photo of a painting of a door to a building, showing some planta hanging off a railing. The painting is in soft pastel colours.

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SMR 🎧 Rejoin Radio @smrrejoinradio.bsky.social · 12h

NEW! This week on SMR, we're all over the BIG question on everyone's lips: Is it INEVITABLE we're gonna REJOIN the EU? Please help! Subscribe from just £1 a month and help us keep #RejoinRadio FREE for everyone! 👉 www.TheRejoiners.co.uk

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Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social · 20h

Spook season is coming. (I might get this on a shirt. Art by @jordancollver.bsky.social I love the little guy. The Raven, I mean. JC is palatable)

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WittnerCinetec.com @wittnercinetec.bsky.social · 20h

Huge thanks for the mention! An absolutely gorgeous production: beautifully directed, perfectly shot, and masterfully edited. The commitment to creating it on Super 8 and 16mm film shines through in every frame. 🎬🎞️✨ www.instagram.com/reel/DXZcGzV...

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Mobius @enneadgames.com · 19h

Free pro-tip to new app-makers/site designers etc : If your app/site 100% doesn't use Gen-AI in any way whatsoever, then ffs STOP making the layout or UI in the "new" way that Gen-AI uses, it just makes your thing look fake and like every slop site/app... Just...stop...for your own sake

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House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · 18h

[1/3] Want to play? 🔪 Our August reading list collects six nonfiction books exploring our relationship with dolls, puppets, marionettes, and more in horror. Follow the Grim Reader for more details: holpublishing.com/grimreader! 🪱 #booksky #horrorsky #bookrecs #dolls #horrormovies #grimreader

Cover image uses part of the poster from Child’s Play, a close-up of Chucky with a knife (1988).

Text: Grim Reader's Syllabus; Dolls in Horror; reading list

Six book covers on background using part of the poster from Child’s Play, a close-up of Chucky with a knife (1988):

Puppet Master Complete: A Franchise History
McFarland (2021)
Nat Brehmer

A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls: From Real Life to Literature and Movies
Llewellyn Publications (2025)
Fiona Dodwell

Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life
The University of Chicago Press (2011)
Kenneth Gross

Reign of Chucky: The True Hollywood Story of a Not So Good Guy
Harker Press (2022)
Dustin McNeill + Travis Mullins

The Secret Life of Puppets
Harvard University Press (2003)
Victoria Nelson

No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes
Vernon Press (2024)
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar (Ed.)

Text: Dolls in Horror

Grim Reader worm designed by Jessica Rose on part of the poster from Child’s Play, a close-up of Chucky with a knife (1988).

Text: Bookworms!; Follow the Grim Reader for more book recs; holpublishing.com/grimreader

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John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 17h

Strands #940 “Have a heart” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just been told its a coloured pencil picture not watercolour!

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Marilyn Owl' Homage to Andy Warhol and all owls #OwlishMonday 🤍

Four squares featuring the same portrait of a barn owl looking out at the viewer in different colour combinations. Top left: purple on yellow orange. Top right: red on light blue. Bottom left: pink on light blue-turquoise. Bottom right: dark green on light pink. Linocut, Maria Strutz

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I reviewed @profdarryljones.bsky.social's new biography of M. R. James. Long-awaited by fans, and surely the most important book about MRJ yet to appear this century: drfrancisyoung.com/2026/09/28/r... 📚👻📜

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Review: ‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ by Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones, For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James (Oxford University Press, 2026), 437pp. M. R. James did not make it easy for anyone to write his biography. He introduced this difficult…

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John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Strands #939 “A form of art” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵🔵

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Catarina @catarinaeusebio.art · 28/09/2026

Commissions for @letoofthecrows.bsky.social of Ruaer and Kádhira, who are childhood friends and different types of chaos gremlins #art #pathfinder

Sketch of a man with a hand on his hip and the other held up in a peace sign. He is grinning. His hair is in a ponytail with some small braids.

Sketch of a tiefling woman with an old fashioned gun pointed up. She is standing up in a casual pose, her hair in a long braid falling over her shoulder.

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House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sep. 28. Daylight. The monsters have overtaken the city. Somehow... I'm still alive. To mark this eventful date, a wee reminder that pitches for our #ResidentEvil anthology are due 12 Oct—submission details: holpublishing.com/contact! Tag a horror writer, fiends! #booksky #horrorsky #writersky

Text in typewriter-style font on black background, with close-up of Jill Valentine from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (September 28. Daylight. The monsters have overtaken the city. Somehow... I'm still alive.).

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John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wordle 1,927 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Strands #938 “It's skin deep” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 💡🔵🔵

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And now for some good news: "Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years. New figures show that almost 16 million visits were made to Ireland's libraries in 2025, compared with nearly 14 million in 2023." www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

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Public library visits increased by two million nationwide

Visits to public libraries around Ireland have increased by two million in the last two years, new figures show as National Public Libraries Open Day takes place nationwide.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Istrian GOAThic" 🐐 never drew an anthro/furry goat but saw some absolutely awful generated slop so had to make a cute version as Istrian grandparents the goat is our national animal en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istria

silly little redraw of the american gothic image, but with two little Istrian white goats wearing traditional Istrian clothes, the left one is an old grandma goat holding a yellow chicken and a basket of eggs wearing a headscarf, blouse, brown skirt and apron, right is an old grampa with huge horns holding a pitchfork, wearing a little brown jacket with white shirt and light brown pants, the background is top blue bottom green on white behind them and the text below says "Istarska GOATika"

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Mighty Lancer Games @mightylancergames.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We have both digital and physical Gift Vouchers available so you can always get them something they actually want 😂 www.mightylancergames.co.uk/products/gif... #lgs #flgs #hobbyshop #miniatures

A black background with red stars at the top, a black and gold bow is in the middle and the words Mighty Lancer Games Gift Vouchers available in store and online in gold

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Catarina @catarinaeusebio.art · 27/09/2026

If you colour any of these, I'd love to see them!

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The Martian Diaries 👽 The War Of The Worlds Sequel @martiandiaries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Martian cylinders and a sinister green comet - but can you trust the newspapers? If you love The War Of The Worlds, why not check out The Martian Diaries, an exciting 3-part sequel, in books & audiobooks w/music & sound effects 👽🎧📚 More at website (in bio) #SciFiBooks #AlienInvasion #Audiobooks

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Owen Staton - Time between Times @owenstaton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

👻 THE TONDU SPECTRE In 1904, a death-like figure haunted the dark roads of Tondu… and attacked a man. Ghost or something stranger? I tell the tale on Time between Times, with writer & researcher Rachel Taylor discussing her research into the ghosts of Bridgend open.spotify.com/episode/5acO...

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Time between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton . The Terror of the Tondu Spectre a Welsh Ghost story. Also a conversation with Storyteller Rachel Taylor

Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton · Episode

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An autumn leaf mari

A mari in a patterned cloak magicking some leaves

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A constant recommendation.

J is for …
Jansson
One of my favourite imagined places to inhabit as unhappy
child was Moominvalley. I am still an unofficial ambassador
for it, telling young writers I mentor that they will struggle
to find a better constructed fictional world. I push those
writers into reading Tove Jansson because she makes
words dance, because she makes locations shimmer with
a sense of nature holding within it the not-quite-real that
may manifest at any moment. I push because she is one
of the finest storytellers, because her imagination still
pushes me. I hope that is all in Hookland, as no book ever
taught me more about the power of dark absence in a text
than Moominvalley In November. While the Moomins may
sometimes overshadow Jansson’s stunning lines as illus
trator, the sheer fairytale menace of her early paintings,
they cannot obscure her power to create spaces where the
mind may walk in hope of wonder

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Duddo Stones: five strange megaliths on a hilltop in Northumberland. Sometimes they even sing. #StandingStoneSunday

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 27/09/2026

Paris Todd Webb, 1950. art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/4904...

Dubonnet – Vin Tonique au Quinquina on a brick wall, layered with mid-20th-century French cinema posters featuring films like Tarzan (with Johnny Weissmuller) and La Pernety

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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A Year in Willerby. 12 stories from a haunted village. Locally printed, bound with original lino cuts and sent individually numbered with a handwritten note. Sales picking up again. Only around 30 copies left online. Make great presents.. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Photo of two copies of our book on brown card envelopes with vintage postcards and an uncapped fountain pen.

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John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wordle 1,926 4/6 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026

‘Tobias and the Angel’ Leonard Baskin, 1958

a large-winged, bald angelic figure with a solemn expression walking alongside a young Tobias, who holds a fish by his side. Baskin used intricate, web-like black lines and stark contrasts to create a dramatic and haunting atmosphere across the landscape

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026

‘Wicked Witch of the West’ “Imps, Demons, Hobgoblins, Witches, Fairies & Elves” Leonard Baskin, 1984

Features a green-skinned witch with dark flowing hair, a tall blue-and-gold pointed hat, a red crescent moon shape, and a red robe.

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Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Our Mari of the pumpkin patch

A mari holds a pumpkin in a patterned cloak

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Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Now bringing you the final reveal of issue 2 contributors:

Purplish black background with white rustic font:
CROSSROADS
FOLK HORROR IN THE UNITED STATES
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ISSUE 2 CONTRIBUTORS
PART 4 >>>>>

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John Wilkinson @john-wilkinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Strands #937 “A breath of fresh air” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 26/09/2026

I should really stop making these.

Wooden cut outs of a cat sat on a crescent moon.

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh! Tis #Caturday. Have I got a cat for you! thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/products?cat... (also, a solution for your yule card choice)

A vast shaggy black cat towers over an old Icelandic village in the snow. At the bottom of the composition, Viking/Celtic zoomorphic knotwork. Pencil and mixed media on toned paper. Colour applied.

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The village pond & the lake at the Big House are still completely dry. Before we wander into the autumn in our climatical fugue state, let’s not forget this summer of 2026. An Ecology of Love & Ruin. (Blog & Substack /2.) nicolachester.com/2026/09/13/a...

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House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Harvest Moon marks the balance between light and dark, a time of reflection and gratitude. 🌕 Meditate on your growth, celebrate your achievements, and reap the rewards of hard work. How are you celebrating? 🖤 #horrorsky #writersky #autumnequinox #booksky #mabon #witch #journal #harvestmoon

Cover image: moon through flower (photo by MAK on Unsplash).
Text: Writing prompts inspired by the Harvest Moon; Meditate on your achievements. This is a period of celebration and gratitude for all that you’ve grown and created this year.

Prompt image: moon through flower (photo by MAK on Unsplash).
Text: Harvest Moon; writing prompts:
Write the recipe for a recent success—what were the key ingredients in this magical brew, and how can you implement them in future?
Spend some time revisiting the fruits of your labour by reading completed and unfinished drafts to inspire, reflect, and celebrate your beautiful braiiiinnnssss!
Create a horror-themed gratitude page in your journal, filled with your highlights from the year.

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Mighty Lancer Games @mightylancergames.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

youtu.be/O7MskKoalsg It's time to pick some more real customer orders. This week we've got Warhammer, Necromunda, Blood Bowl, Bolt Action, Battletech, RPGs, comics, board games, hobby supplies and plenty more. Plus Mr MLG, Gizmo and an oversized Batman comic 😁 #nerdlings #LGS #Miniatures

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Real Customer Orders at Our UK Hobby Shop | Warhammer, Necromunda & More

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