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Finished a collection of Joseph Payne Brennan's stories. Fun, pulpish, but nothing outstanding. 'The Horror Chilton Castle' is probably the best of the bunch, although I smirked a lot at 'Killer Cat', 'The Vampire Bat' and 'The Man Who Feared Masks'. Riddled with typos. Bad publisher! #booksky

Scream At Midnight. Shows a painting of a screaming face in swirls

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Mono X @monolithx66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The 1st October marks the start of #SpookySeason Whilst it’s a fun communal way of connecting with lovers of folkloric horror and weird fiction, it’s also the month I listen to old time radio shows like Wyllis Cooper’s “Quiet, Please! And Orson Welles. #Radio #Horror

Quiet Please! A skull resting on parchment and a lit candle and hourglass are next to it

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Still working on the blogging backlog with no end in sight! In September '23 I did only 4 first plays and played a total of 30 different games. A relatively quiet month! The breakdown can be seen at: www.3spellcastersandadwarf.com/gaming-blog/... #BoardGames #BoardGaming #TabletopGaming

Photo of a scene from HeroQuest: Kellar's Keep.

A Skeleton card from the game DIG UP Adventure.

Some destination cards from the game Knarr.

A filled out score board from the game The Number.

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Controllers were hurled during certain end bosses of Diddy Kong Racing. Goldeneye 007 ranks right in there, as does 6 straight hours of Spellbound Dizzy (Amstrad), only to crash near the end.

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Reading Arthur Machen’s ‘The Terror’ feels like reading a Quatermass film, more so than a John Wyndham or John Blackburn story. This might be my favourite story of his. After I finish this book today, I’m going to dig out ‘N’ from another collection before moving on. #Booksky

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Any writers or artists who follow me and use AI might as well turn around and go the other way. It saves me blocking, which requires multiple clicks and more energy than I care to spend when I’ve better things to do.

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@voxparlour.bsky.social Whilst I await my copy of Terror Beneath to arrive, are there any purchasable adventures that you have written? I normally write my own for light TTRPG games, but sometimes it's good to see a reference point or use one as a starter.

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#Bookmail The Supernatural & Weird Fiction of Sabine Baring-Gould A 19thC Devonshire author, mostly known for writing hymns, but he also wrote some supernatural stories and notably a book on were-wolves (recently republished with a foreword by @stephengrahamjones.com ) #booksky 🩸📚💙 #devonbookhour

Paperback with a cover showing a skull, open book and quill pen

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Joining this week’s #WyrdWednesday which is: “Modern Stone-Ages: Dinotopias, Lost Worlds & supermodern Saurians!” Not sure about modern, but I have a bookcase dedicated to “Lost Worlds.” A selection below which feature “Terrible Lizards”. #booksky 🪐📚💙

Dinotopia
Hollow earth tales vol 1-5 and 7
Tarzan and the for Ogden city
A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
Panic in Paris
Inland deep
The lost world

All with pulp dinosaur covers!!

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As #spookyseason gets underway on #booksky and I finish collections of the works of Arthur Machen and Joseph Payne Brennan, I ask myself who or what is next? Some choices below. Others may switch in to replace at whim. Exciting! 🩸📚💙 #horror

Krelloy
The historian
Catherine Crowe
The cormorant
A plagued sea
The beast of gévaudan
The tower of love
The cook
Darker than you think
The complete valentine

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Settled my sick family member for the afternoon, so it’s outside chores and book shopping! I found a Jack Vance in a secondhand shop I’d never heard of, but it was in too dirty a condition. Went to my local indie and bought a @blpublishing.bsky.social crime book instead! #booksky #ChooseBookshops

The magic lantern murders by Carter Dickson and a hazelnut latte

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‘The Great Return’ is the first Machen story not to click with me as I near the end of this collection. Might just be increasing outside distractions and worries seeping in, but there’s something about the writing here I can’t quite grab onto.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the rest of the book mail. Well, almost all.. (ALT text for titles). #booksky 🪐📚💙 🩸📚💙 #bookmail #books #horror

Beatrice the sixteenth
A dream of Wessex
Heartwood
Waiting for the end of the works
Cold War Cthulhu
Stance gateways
Shadowplays
To Charles fort with love
Disintegrationthe mad butterfly’s ball
Three volumes by Ramsey Campbell
Three volumes of the best of world SF
9 volumes of the best of new horror
Turtles the mirage years
John Carter of Mars card decks

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Tom Bombadil waves his old battered hat as Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin ride away up the slope behind his house. They say farewell to Goldberry when they reach the ridge, then ride their ponies north into the hills and hollows between the Barrow-downs and the Forest.

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Delivery of winter fuel due at 10am Actual time of arrival… 8am.. Ugh

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I think “A Fragment of Life” might be my favourite Arthur Machen story so far in this collection. #Booksky

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spooky season gaming! I bought the second one too as it’s the only one I never finished of the three.

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Hadn’t seen this! Thank you. While researching the film, twelve years ago, I discovered I’d already collected several mentions of it through the years. My illustrated blog post from 2014… blackholereviews.blogspot.com/2014/07/drak...

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DRAKULA HALALA (1921) - a Dracula movie before NOSFERATU

Since 2005, BLACK HOLE REVIEWS recommends movies - horror, sci-fi, cult, Euro, US, Japanese, silent, monster... without spoilers, but with photos.

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"You cannot have too many books" This is a lie. I went over capacity some time ago, have no room and 3 boxes of arrivals to find homes for. It's fine. #BookSky

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Thought I’d try this #SpookySunday I’ve been reading Arthur Machen this week as part my ghost story season, but last night I delved into the classic gothic story ‘The Horror at Chilton Castle’ by Joseph Payne Brennan I’ve added a pic of more books by classic authors of the supernatural #booksky

Arthur Machen weird stories
Scream at midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan

Collections by
Emma Frances Dawson
A C benson
W w Jacobs
Bessie kyffin Taylor
Florence Marryat

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 26/09/2026

Glancing through my shelves I am reminded of this Hungarian fiction translated into English: The novelisation of the first movie to feature Dracula, in 1921, and was an Hungarian silent film. Any relationship to Bram Stoker’s story is basically zero though. 🩸📚💙 #booksky #SFinTranslation #vampires

Dracula’s Death. Translated by Lázló Tamásfi

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1859. 𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐓 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐒: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐙𝐙𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐒 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/soviet-... This new book sets out to explore the geopolitical and legal history of the bestselling videogame Tetris. @mitpress.bsky.social #Gaming #Tetris #Booksky

Book cover for “Soviet Blocks.” Blue, red, and white Tetris blocks fall into place to form a flag resembling the United States flag, against a completely black background, with the book’s title in red at the top.

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Diving into a collection of stories by Weird Tales writer Joseph Payne Brennan. #booksky 🩸📚💙

Scream at midnight with a painting of a swirling, screaming face

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two hours to double mow the lawn due to its length and fiddliness. Knackered...

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just started ‘The White People’ by Arthur Machun now part of ‘The Three Imposters’ is done. Apparently I’ve read ‘The Great God Pan’ previously in this anthology. Can’t say I remember anything about it though. #booksky 🩸📚💙

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My book mail from PS Publishing was almost too heavy to lift into my house 😆

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The next six weeks of book posts related to what I'm actually reading will be horror themed, mostly classic and weird from 19th/early 20thC. With some translated stuff thrown in (mostly French and Korean). #Booksky 🩸📚💙

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finished: Galactic Pot-Healer by Philip K. Dick My 8th PKD summed up the good and bad in his writing. Great ideas and humour, but his writing isn’t strong enough to mesh it into a story with his tangled philosophical and theological musings. Fun, but that one great novel remains elusive. 🪐📚💙

Scene shows a black and red cathedral underwater with a pot caught in coral

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Must be new

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Missed from yesterday, another Christopher Priest for my reading pile. #booksky 🪐📚💙

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Enjoying Prince of Persia, but I needed something a bit more colourful so I re-started Zelda: The Wind Waker for the 3rd or 4th time. It’s the inferior GameCube version, but I’ll see how I go.

Link on his island with a bridge across a small stream leading to the sea and seaside wooden huts beyond. A small kid blows a snot bubble beside him. It’s gross.

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Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think the universe moved again or I’ve slipped into a new reality. I’m enjoying reading a Philip K. Dick…

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Mono X @monolithx66.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gaming half-marathon; day 7, game 16. I ran episode 4 of Ladies D&D today. #BoardGames #BoardGaming #TabletopGaming #Roleplaying #RPG #TTRPG

Photo of the adventurers encountering a statue of a kobold with 28mm miniatures.

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The first third of the #bookmail I’ve included some from the week before Scifi, weird fiction and comics! Any gems you’ve read? 🪐📚💙 #booksky #comicsky #scifi #sciencefiction #weirdfiction

Fury
Greeting up weightless
Gate to woman’s country
Alien emergencies
Carter heard the devil
Mirror in the mirror
Weird tales of Tanith lee
Ring shout
Batman long Halloween
The rocketeer
D4ve
Episodes

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Mono X @monolithx66.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gaming half-marathon, day 6. Games 13-15. Go Nuts for Donuts Machi Koro 2 Point Galaxy #BoardGames #BoardGaming #TabletopGaming

Photo of my cards at the end of a game of Go Nuts for Donuts.

My cards at the end of a game of Machi Koro 2.

My cards at the end of a game of Point Galaxy.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Redownloading the Switch 2 Gamecube app for reasons.. Hopefully I can get past the old control system this time. Really need a memory card though to get some space back. No space for my remastered Resident Evil. #zelda #starfox #videogames #videogaming

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I'd forgotten Modiphius charges excessively for shipping. Sheesh...

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Fully agree with this rec. it’s a book/trilogy not talked about enough. If you like dystopian and post apocalyptic horror, then give this a whirl. The oppressive atmosphere and dark, claustrophobic world is quite something to experience. #booksky 🩸📚💙

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