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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Coming Soon: The Ally of Madness and Related Horrors Dacre Stoker & I have signed with @hellboundbooks.bsky.social to bring you our new book. T.E.D. Klein (Dark Gods &The Ceremonies) says it is a "richly atmospheric saga [that] left me wondering what about Dracula was fiction and what was real?"

Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Mark your calendar for Wed. 9/16 (4-6pm) to meet the monstrous authors on Kolchak Eras at Dr. No's Comics & Games Superstore. Meet me, @bobbynashwrites.bsky.social , and @crutledge.bsky.social and editor James Aquilone as we sign copies of the latest Kolchak book, Eras.

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Charles R. Rutledge @crutledge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Mark your calendar for September 16th 4-6pm for a multi-author signing of Kolchak: Eras, at Dr. No's Comics in Marietta Georgia with me, @bobbynashwrites.bsky.social @levbutts.bsky.social and Editor James Aquilone.

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Received my contributor’s copy of the new Kolchak Anthology: Eras, published by @monstrousverse.bsky.social and edited by @jamesaquilone.bsky.social . 13 tales of Carl’s adventures from WWII-the 1990’s. Coming 1/27/26 to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and anywhere good books are sold.

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS West Ga Indivisible” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My pal @cheriepriest.com ‘s second Eden Moore novel, the sequel to Four and Twenty Black Birds, is on sale. Get it now! www.amazon.com/Wings-Kingdo...

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Wings to the Kingdom (Eden Moore Book 2)

Amazon.com: Wings to the Kingdom (Eden Moore Book 2) eBook : Priest, Cherie: Kindle Store

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Here, have something adorable this morning.

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Fabio Thurderdick @livelaughloathe.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I just read Kant’s quote “not every extravagance of opinion deserves the trouble of a careful refutation.” and sweet fuck the man would absolutely hate the Internet.

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Tina and I visited the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Libray this morning. I got type in a replica of Vonnegut’s Barnstable, Massachusetts office. www.kvml.org

Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Conservative talking heads: The new Superman movie is too woke about immigrants and is clearly an unfair critique of Trump's immigration policies. Superman was never meant to be that political. Superman in the 1950's:

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

January, 2026: in a bookstore near you: from James Aquilone & Monstrous Books: The paperback edition of "Kolchak Eras", collecting prose stories (including my "Wolf's Clothing" in which Carl hunts the Georgia Werewolf) covering Carl's life. As Carl said: "Kolchak's coming back in style!"

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

That’s why they’re fake.

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

One of our students suffered an unthinkable tragedy. Her parents drowned last week & she’s left as the sole provider for her grandmother and special needs brother. Please consider helping her w burial & living expenses & please share the link with people who might also consider helping.

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Donate to Stand by Sara: Family Needs Your Help, organized by Lisa LeBlanc

Help Sara Care for Her Family After Both Her Parents Drowned On May 27th, Sara'… Lisa LeBlanc needs your support for Stand by Sara: Family Needs Your Help

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I taught @tcboyle.com’s “Greasy Lake” to my ENGL 1102 class a few weeks ago, and showed the kids this picture. They asked if I hoped to be that cool when I was in my seventies. I said I’d be happy if I were half that cool.

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

RIP Norm… I hope everybody knows your name there and they’ve saved you a corner stool.

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George Wendt, a.k.a. Norm From ‘Cheers,’ Is Dead at 76

Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Started a new story this week: “Dragon Country,” a rural fantasy ( as opposed to urban fantasy) retelling of Robert Penn Warren’s poem of the same name. This is the third project I’m working at the same time, something I’ve never done before.

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

and now this, my attempt at what I call rural fantasy (as opposed to urban fantasy) and prose adaptation to a Robert Penn Warren poem: 2/2

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I’m doing a thing I've never done before: working on three stories at one time. "Good Night, Sweet Prince," my hardboiled retelling of Hamlet; "A Graveyard of the Dead," a sequel to the Count Orlok, PI, story from the Nosferatu Unbound anthology, 1/2

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I always feared I’d live to see the rise of an American dictator. As a child I feared I’d live to see the coming of the Antichrist. I never dreamed either of them would be such dumbasses, though….

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Happy Tax Day to those who celebrate.

Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

For those of you with Audible accounts, two books by my friend @almakatsu.bsky.social are on the 2-for-1 sale: Red Widow & The Hunger.

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Reading this now, it is fantastic!

Doctor’s Office music playing classic rock and easy listening. Not gonna lie: “Mr. Bojangles” may be the saddest song of the seventies. Followed by almost anything by Gordon Lightfoot.

Nowadays, my debts bled me like I would a back-alley tough. I paid the light bill and the phone. Neither was overdue, but it made me feel industrious. 3/3

I was sitting at my desk looking at the balance of my checkbook. Business had been slow, and I was about to have to dip into my not inconsiderable meagre savings. Time was I had but to snap & my seneschal would scratch out a promissory note for anything, and I’d never feel the bite. 2/3

Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New story started: tentatively titled “Graveyard of the Dead”. A follow-up to last year’s “The Last Dead Girl” in which “Nosferatu”’s Count Orlock is a private eye in Savannah Georgia. 1/3

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MAGA Republicans: Quit calling us fascists. Every single time you disagree with us you call us Nazis. Also MAGA Republicans:

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’ll be your Huckleberry…

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I just contributed to this. So should you.

Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

March is Women’s History Month. In no particular order here are some of my favorite women writers: @cheriepriest.com Shirley Jackson Mary Shelley @almakatsu.bsky.social Eudora Welty Flannery O’Connor Carson McCullers Sue Townsend Mary Stewart

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Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Because he is the first of Roland’s friends betrayed by the man in black. At least that is my interpretation.

Lev Butts @levbutts.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Isn’t he the Cook that helped shape Roland as a child but ultimately turned out to be a tool of the Man in Black? Roland had to turn him in even though he loved him, because that’s the kind of ethics he had instilled in the child?