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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 12h

Ferdinand Keppler, 'Bocklin's Grave', 1902. #Bocklin #landscape #art #gothic #gothtober

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 16h

Coming to FantasyCon? Come say hi! I love to met new people, and I also baked SNAKESTONE COOKIES. Here's my schedule.

Kit Whitfield Schedule

Saturday 12-1pm
Drawing From Folklore panel

Saturday 5-6pm
Reading with Trip Galey, David Green and Juliet E McKenna

Sunday 10-11am
Witches And Wise Women in SFFH panel

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 17h

If you aren’t following @tinyangrywitch.bsky.social, you are letting what is best in life pass you by. A personal fave: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzbH...

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The Tiny Angry Witch eats jam

YouTube video by The Tiny Angry Witch

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I mean, I probably don’t NEED to bring ammonite cookies to FantasyCon, but darn it, I am doing the Snakestone Girl thing. There is a lot of Snakestone Shortbread chilling in my fridge right now, is what I’m saying. Now I can just manage not to burn them when I bake tomorrow…

Photo: unbaked cookies in the shape of ammonites.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Spider … spiderman … Goatman … diddley-bop!

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#booksky #bookqw word: PUSH. From THE SNAKESTONE GIRLS. Letty ran away. The local cunning woman helped her, but now she had to get up to her bedroom window ... somehow. Fun fact: the hare artist, Thomas Bewisk, is who Jane Eyre is poring over as her story begins. Pre-orders: tinyurl.com/nddx4d5p

Text: Letty felt something push her from below. It couldn’t have been the hare. No hare was strong enough to lift a girl on its back. But something dusty sprang under her feet, and Letty found herself up in the air as if she’d leaped there. Only when she thought to grab the ivy branches now in reach did the sensation, like a dream when you wake and remember you can’t fly, suddenly vanish.

Illustration: a woodcut print of a hare racing along.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Life moves in mystical cycles. Specifically, the season of I Forgot Marmite Even Exists and the season of A Day Without Marmite Is A Day Without Meaning. That’s how Marmite works, right?

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Out today, and to my unending and astonished pride, including a small piece from me! Don’t miss out - the list of fellow-contributors is amazing and the art is … well, fantasy art doesn’t get better than this.

Photograph of book: Brian Froud’s Green Women. Featuring a finally detailed image of a feminine “green man” laughing in mischief. Caption: words and stories of fantasy and myth from acclaimed women writers around the world, with provocative portraits from the “grandfather of faerie art” Brian Froud.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 06/10/2026

Ghuls are djinni or djinn-adjacent monsters of Arabia and the Muslim world, evil spirits that dwell in cemeteries and eat the flesh of the dead: they often disguise themselves as the living and engineer mass feats of death for feasts of their own. #FairytaleTuesday

"Amine discovers the Ghoul" from a version of the Thousand and One Nights, showing the servant Amine seeing a full-blown ghoul uncovering a dead body and revealing it to the woman courting his master, who is also herself a ghoul.

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David J. Stuart @djstu.art · 05/10/2026

What better way to spend your October than to curl up with several dozen horror books by your favorite and new-to-you indie authors! itch.io/b/3904/chill... 🎃👻🕷️🕸️☠️🧡🐈‍⬛🥀🍂😈

Graphic for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just sent off my next @gnofhorror.com essay! Are you a bit curious about Lizzie Borden fiction and not at all keen on the Ryan Murphy/Ian Brennan MONSTER series? This one's for you. Out on Friday...

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Though in each of these situations there is actually a way he has to be active: knightly courtesy. It takes verbal skill to stop Arthur going for the Knight without dishonouring someone. It takes tact to deflect your seductive hostess. It’s all about talk, but Gawain treats that as a real skill.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While at the same time Gawain was so alienating - in such a frustrating way to watch, because it’s all about selfishness and passivity, which are anti-story - that I didn’t feel intellectually simulated, just narratively disengaged.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

‘Reload, you just got another bad ending.’ And the encounters had a vibe that I think aimed for ‘dream quest’ but landed on ‘level design.’

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It felt like it was ‘debunking’ sentimental ideas of the chivalric age that I do not hold - and neither does almost anyone these days. Especially as it wasn’t interested in the reality either. Who is it actually challenging? I kept feeling, ‘I do not think what I think you think I think.’

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Interesting! I am an artsy-film person and to me missed because it wasn’t artsy enough. It felt like it was shooting for artsy but was mostly influenced by pop culture - which can be a great mix, but it felt like it lacked the nuance of the one and the vigour of the other.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, I wanted to like it more than I did. It looked great, but it was paced like a video game in a way that really distracted from the medieval mood.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also, why do more people not talk about the fact that it’s as much The Green Ribbon as The Green Knight?

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT when we live around cheeky urban foxes. That fox of Gawain’s carries its head way too upright. That’s a dog posture. Foxes SLINK. Trot on scuttly legs at the same time, but slink.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s almost sad how this little dude thinks the highest level of authority is ‘AI influencer’ or ‘local model runner’, not, you know, ‘owner.’

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Copy-edit gets handed in today! I have to say, I really am very pleased with this, so do check it out if you like witches, lyrical writing, dark diversions and happy endings.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gather round the fire and join us! It's a virtual event but promises to be very seasonal and very spooky. We're already working it up, and these are some extremely fun people...

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah, Janet has OPINIONS about whether this lad would make a good husband. How they'll stand up to the fiery Black Dog remains to be seen...

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#booksky #bookqw word: TREAT Janet, the fairy-smith's wife, is trying to talk her friend Franklin into forbidding his daughter's relationship with an unsuitable boy. She probably shouldn't be doing it in a fey-haunted forest. Buy Here: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj

Tellher how Ephraim Brady treats his wife, and tell her Anthony
will never stand up to him. Tell her she can get a better lover,
Mister Franklin. Take my advice.’
The wind sighed in the leaves overhead, and the forest rocked.
It was a gentle motion, not swaying the world, and the birds
cooed and chirruped to each other above them. Franklin still
hadn’t found an answer when they heard the sound of hooves.

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Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seeking a long-term gothic-fantasy-witchy horror-inflected read? I've been building a world for ages. The Sourdough Compendium collects 3 awarded and nominated mosaics. There are 5 novels out, 4 more to come & a novella. Plus more in the plot cauldron. www.instagram.com/reel/Dd0at09...

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They were teased for their taste early in life?

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, she’s a brilliant performer, you should definitely look out her doing other poems. They get twice as funny when she does them. Try this, it’s one of her best: youtu.be/h_E86M5U6sA?...

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Pam Ayres & The Embarrassing Experience With The Parrot

YouTube video by Pam Ayres MBE

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I often wonder what it must be like to be so strong, Infallible, articulate, self-confident and wrong.” Pam Ayres ripping the piss out of mansplaining before it was cool. youtu.be/qIxg0QE2GxQ?...

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Pam Ayres - They Should Have Asked My Husband

YouTube video by Pam Ayres MBE

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To help set the mood for SLEEPERS IN THE SNOW, I've drawn up a list of my favourite horror movies of all time... www.joanne-harris.co.uk

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Joanne Harris | Website of the author, Joanne Harris

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

High-resolution 3D models of over 60 ceiling carvings in Oxford's Divinity School have been published online. The 15th-century carvings include religious symbols, mythical animals, and coats of arms, but there is still debate over their interpretation. sketchfab.com/ARCHiOx/models

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I knew the phrase 'queen of air and darkness', but didn't know Housman came up with it. Pretty metal poem.

Her Strong Enchantments Failing
AE Housman

Her strong enchantments failing,
Her towers of fear in wreck,
Her limbecks dried of poisons
And the knife at her neck,

The Queen of air and darkness
Begins to shrill and cry,
'O young man, O my slayer,
To-morrow you shall die.'

O Queen of air and darkness,
I think 'tis truth you say,
And I shall die tomorrow;
But you will die to-day.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I understand foot fetishists have their own wiki called Wikifeet. Wikipodia was right there, guys, and it breaks my heart that you missed it.

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#booksky #bookqw word: KNEW. Bear with me, trying a new format! (Grappling with Insta.) Caroline has been arrested for witchcraft and held prisoner. She's close to confessing - but she's always had an affinity for fossils, and someone has just slipped one into her hand.

Text against a seashore background: "Caroline was too mad with thirst to think of it very much for the moment, but she knew without looking, just by the feel of it, what it was. A circle twining in on itself. A stone shaping perfect mystery.

You whirl inward, Henry had said. She whirls outward.

A snakestone."

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I mean, if you can’t stand the guy, Collateral will definitely agree with you…

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Who would you imagine? And how would you imagine him playing it? 8/8

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Joaquin Phoenix: carrying a story he's not about to share with you, but which makes perfect sense of the horrible things he's doing. Robert Mitchum: hulking, shameless, an eerie relish in his contemplation of a heartless world. 7/

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Robert Shaw: icy calm and blazing threat, possessed of a raw animal intelligence and equally animal morality: this is predation and he's good at it. Andy Serkis: a genuine force of amoral chaos, passionately assured this is serving the greater deity. 6/

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scott Ryan: every speech he makes a masterclass in pure, assured hostility. Christopher Lee: dapper, calm, obviously ex-military; genteelly surprised you'd disagree with him about whether you could survive disobliging him. 5/

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mark Strong: coldly pragmatic, the killing and coercion as natural to him as walking. Charles Dance: smouldering contempt, punishing the entire world for being so bloody stupid as to think their lives are worth fighting for. 4/

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Robert Carlyle: all restless intelligence and coiled violence, overspilling with more talk than his job needs and genuinely anxious to persuade poor Max he's right. Oliver Reed: bitter anger packed so tight he feels dense as lead and just as poisoned, ready to strike out at any instant. 3/

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cruise plays him as a force of cool, blank selfishness: his philosophical talk comes over as the rationalisations of a man who compartmentalises and dismisses whatever's inconvenient to think about too hard. But let's imagine the same lines from a different actor, living or dead... 2/

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

COLLATERAL popped up on Netflix. It's hard to imagine a better-played hero Max than Jamie Foxx, but while Tom Cruise gives one of his best performances as the hitman Vincent - he's always good as a villain - it's such an archetypal role I'm now imagining other Vincents. Who can you picture? 1/

Poster for the movie Collateral. On the left, Tom Cruise sits poised in a grey silk suit, a long handgun held in his lap. From the right, Jamie Foxx looks at him with deep disapproval.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did you know The Librarian has an arch nemesis (in reality actually an X-Men villain) named The Vanisher? I usually post this comic book panel when talking about him but it is part of a full page comic spread and could be mini Librarian story in of itself.

The Vanisher in an orange scaled jumpsuit and outlandish pink cowl holds a stack of books and proclaims "I am the Vanisher and I take what books I want". A jeans jacket dude looks on in askance

Full 5 panels showing the Vanisher interacting with an African American woman librarian who wants his library card. Another guy in a jeans jacket with patches and a slouchy hat is complaining the Vanisher is taking all the book. Vanisher says his catch phrase "I am the Vanisher and I take what books I want". She says - "Not without a library card!" and in the final panel he disappears with the books in a cloud of poof and she says "Oh, no! First the Bookworm, now this!"

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It does make sense. Caroline only starts calling him Harry once he’s become … well, sort of her brother, though I believe ‘queerplatonic’ is a way to describe the relationship. You can count the people who ‘Harry’ him on one hand - they’re just all major characters!

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