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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 5 is Irena from Curse of the Cat People (1944). 🕯️somehow has nothing to do with cat people 🕯️haunting your cheating husband’s daughter benevolently 🕯️and doing it in fantastically beautiful robes

Irena stands in a garden over Amy in a beautiful dress

Irena and Amy look out over the garden serenely

Post sponsored by Dead New World coming out 2026, a queer scifi book about hologram ghosts!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 4 is for The Others (2001) 🕯️Grace Stewart is in denial over her treatment of her children. 🕯️Her servants and husband are also mysteriously missing. 🕯️Her children are allergic to sunlight.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 3 is Joseph from The Changeling (80) 🕯️Spookily appears via audio of wheelchair wheels, rubber balls, and other childlike sounds in the house 🕯️a historical preservation society gets involved 🕯️speaks via ghost radio

A man looks up some stairs which are on fire

A dusty empty wheelchair looks down the stairs to a woman and man at the bottom

A woman looks at a dusty wheelchair in the attic

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 1 is from Throne of Blood (57)! 🕯️Japanese Macbeth only needs one witch 🕯️Just chillin in a bamboo hut in the woods 🕯️Weaving and weaving the strands of fate?!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm posting 31 Cinematic Ghosts for Halloween! October 1 is from The Innocents (1961): MISS JESSEL (left). 🕯️Shows up stylishly all over our classic Gothic manor, haunting the governess who replaced her. 🕯️Trying to possess a kid to get back with her lover. 🕯️MIGHT just be in Deborah Kerr's mind.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kind of both, in that it was absolutely bunk science, but standardized science was generally a new thing so they were kind of just trying things lol. Major universities stayed clear of it, but spiritualists did hold lectures and had tons of newspapers and things. THEY saw themselves as scientists.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They begin theorizing earnestly about ghost biology in the 19th century! The end result by the end of the century is ectoplasm, largely bc spiritualists believed ghosts could be manifested if the right test conditions for their biology could be established.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Admittedly I have skin in the game here but more scifi ghosts please ❤️

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#SFFChat i find it sooo interesting to think about ghosts in the future and how such an ancient concept adapts to technology. How will we conceive of the soul 1000 years from now you know?

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#SFFChat my name is Lin, I write queer genre bendy sff, and I love ghosts! I wrote my PhD dissertation on how ghosts get goopy in the 19th century thanks to science.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hey, so cool, Dead New World is being featured on the front page of NetGalley this week! If you're interested in Queer hopepunk cybernoir mysteries pitched as Murderbot meets Beetlejuice...? www.netgalley.com

A screenshot of NetGalley's front page featuring, amongst others, my book, Dead New World.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think there's a difference in writing between characters who are sexy and who are physically attractive and everyone assumes the first comes from the second but oh boy it DOESN'T.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Barnes and Noble is having a 25% off preorder sale and that includes my ghost-y noir book, DEAD NEW WORLD! Rewards nonmembers will need to enroll, BUT joining their rewards program is free! Link here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-new-w...

Barnes and Noble Preorder Sale for Premium and Rewards Members. Online Exclusive. 25% off Preorders. Use code Preorder25. Pre-Order sale runs September 9-11.

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Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Get DEAD NEW WORLD by @lindarrow.bsky.social at 25% off from 9/9-9/11 with @barnesandnoble.com's pre-order sale. Open to Rewards and Premium Members (who get an extra 10% off)! Use code: PREORDER25 at checkout! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dead-new-w...

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Apology accepted, thank you!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

pledging to the birds is a privilege😍

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Okay, champ. Hope this made you feel more important.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks for defending me here--the extra 'have' is definitely a typo but the asterisks are such common internet usage I was surprised about that part!

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Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Coming November 10th! This book is fire!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s really underrated as actual literature and not just Christmas feelgoodedness! I was looking at it through the lens of Thing Theory specifically (and just a chapter of my diss, sadly, I was going for brevity with my original comment) ❤️

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think the grey is especially found in how he unspools Scrooge’s self serving logic as invisibly exploitative, but it ruins his life, too! Hoarded wealth is anathema to true humanity! Like, rad!! Cool one Dickens!!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Still thinking about this hours later tbh! The scene where Scrooge’s own utilitarian arguments are thrown back against him seems so significant? “Are there not poorhouses?” Also “mankind was my business!” rejects the logic of the capitalist using the capitalist’s own language.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wrote a PhD dissertation on the book and I think the coolest thing it says is that you *will have actually have* 100 logical reasons to keep your wealth but none of them are good enough if they're causing suffering and pain and you could be preventing that. Did billionaires produce this?

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As someone who wrote a dissertation on A Christmas Carol... the point is not that Scrooge doesn't have technically LOGICAL reasons for exploiting his workers, but that we all have a MORAL responsibility towards our fellow man.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

resist AI melting your brain by reading books tbh

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Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Ringo would like you to know galleys arrived for the fabulous DEAD NEW WORLD by @lindarrow.bsky.social and that I'll have copies with me to give away at #FlameCon in NYC next weekend!

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Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

DEAD NEW WORLD by @lindarrow.bsky.social - "A triumphant work from a unique visionary" (Kirkus) - coming 11/10 from Podium! podiumentertainment.com/titles/13452...

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is going to sound like the most obnoxious humble brag but today I found out from my doctor that I literally gave so much blood it made me anemic. Six months recovery 💪💪💪 Hope they savour that B+ brew like fine wine. Blood Canada you are my revenant.

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Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And it's AWESOME! The characters are amazing. The banter is to die for. Coming this November!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was inspired to do this vibe comp grid for my upcoming book, Dead New World! It's spooky, it's noirish, it's funny, it's Queer, it's romantic, it's got ghosts AND cyber kidnappings... I was really trying hard to bend every genre.

Dead New World. Nov 2026. Vibe Comp Grid.
The grids:
1) The cover of Murderbot, a cyborg looking at the viewer.
2) A screenshot from The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, where a ghostly figure gestures to a dinner party on the moon.
3) A screenshot from the terror, when a diver goes beneath the artic sea and is surrounded by eerie colors and floating ice.
4) A screenshot from Tron of a man in a holographic suit.
5) A blurb that reads Queer, Funny, Romantic, Ghostly, Cybernoir, Mystery.
6) A screenshot from Bladerunner 2049 of a giant holographic woman pointing.
7) A screenshot from Beetlejuice of a book that reads HANDBOOK FOR THE RECENTLY DECEASED.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hahaha I’ll get that one over here eventually!!

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Alex Assan @alexassan.com · 10/07/2026

Mine and @lindarrow.bsky.social 's webcomic Shaderunners is now available to read in vertical format on Webtoon Canvas as well as Tapas 🍸 💚 Webtoon: buff.ly/97QDtve 💛 Tapas: buff.ly/3N5TOih There will be an update every Friday on both platforms, starting from the very first page!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Some exciting Shaderunners news! Alex has been working really hard to make sure the comic flows for the vertical format.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's wild because on paper Atlantis is sooooo my jam. In execution though I just wanted to know way more about the Atlantian perspective.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Everyone who works in visual mediums needs to rediscover old technicolor films and realize they don't just pulse with color and fashion and stylization, they also sometimes have plots that involve things like cursed marriages, champagne beds and Paul Newman exploding. (What A Way to Go!, 1964)

Poster for 1964's What a Way to Go!, featuring Shirley Maclaine in a glittering dress surrounded by several husbands in striped colors of red, yellow and grey.

A man and woman embrace in a champagne glass bed.

A woman in a yellow fur embraces her lover before a white car and blue background.

A woman lounges by a pool on a lounger, everything except her is monochrome pink.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Academic Disney Con't. Alright did you guys know that there's a Macbeth quote in Disney's Beauty and the Beast and it's used in such a rich and layered and gendered way I actually had to break out the timestamps for this one. Review: letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

A review of Beauty and the Beast available at the link.

Gaston grins evilly as he towers over the villagers he's manipulating, including three women and a baby.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just dropping this here for anti-Prime day, with a discount on Bookshop.org! Still in preorder mode but preorders help out new authors a loooot! I will post about something non-book related and weird again soon like the history of spoons or something. Link: bookshop.org/p/books/dead...

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Dead New World: A Cozy Sci-Fi Adventure

A Cozy Sci-Fi Adventure

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Pride month! My book is very Queer and features demisexual librarians wooing reformed gangsters AND nonbinary musicians falling in love with emotionally repressed polar explorers. Also they're all technologically-resurrected ghosts.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

if in 2026 we could kill the trope of "corsets are the ultimate symbols of patriarchal oppression" i'd really love that or at least, if you REALLY want to go for it, you should write an essay on why your 21st century underwear are superior soldiers in the gender war

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Spook-ass, Christ oh boo! boo! @loukas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

One of my favorite pictures is this one by Whitey Schafer from 1940. It was created to break all of the Hays Code in just one frame.

Image of woman in revealing dress holding a gun over a body of a police officer. Rules are on a notice board, framed as Commandments saying thou shalt not

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Anders Edwards @andersedwards.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Some books entertain you. Some books quietly rewire a small part of your brain. I love both, but the second kind is rarer. #booktok #amreading #booksky #booklover

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They are now live!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This just made a list erupt in my head of Criterion movies I'd kill for rule 63 versions of: The Apartment, Le Circle Rouge, Creature from the Black Lagoon!!! Dunno why my mind went to those three specifically.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Because it just tracks so well to the themes of performativity and love and the rituals of heterosexual desire!! That to me would be a genuinely interesting way to Queer the text (not to shade the National Theater here but). Please somebody in the theater take this on and film it!!

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I am actually desperate for an Importance of Being Earnest adaptation where Jack and Gwendolyn are played by women and Algernon and Cecily are men (or visa-versa) without changing anything in the script. And Lady Bracknell is a nonbinary actor.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Curious if there are any enemies to lovers books out there where they STAY enemies because they actually genuinely like being at-odds? Or do the romance genre rules imply the enmity is smoothed out?

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Now available for preorder at Audible! Preorders help authors SO much so if Queer cyber-ghosts and funny noir appeal to you... Audio or Paperback: Podiumentertainment.com/titles/134527/dead-new-world Ebook: books2read.com/deadnewworld

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Dead New World - Audiobook | Podium Entertainment

Technology has raised the dead, but their new lease on life isn't all it's cracked up to be, in the first book of this cozy cyber-noir duology.

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thanks! Excited to post that one (I'm cheating a bit since it's from a real academic article I wrote ages ago)

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Lin Darrow @lindarrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Academic Disney Con't. Okay I wrote so much about PROFESSOR RATIGAN as the embodiment of internalized Otherness and the moral degradation required to rise socially. I can't even fit the whole thing in a single screencap. TOO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT THIS RAT. Full review: letterboxd.com/wisteriajone...

A review of Great Mouse Detective that can be read in full at the link.

The same as the prior screencap, too long to fit in the Alt Text description box.

Ratigan ratting out in the Big Ben clock tower.

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