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Adam Hulse @adamhulse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What an honour to blurb such a terrific book. Keep an eye out for it and check out @danhowarth20.bsky.social if you haven't already. A truly gifted writer. #Booksky

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 04/10/2025

Vincent Price advertising monster-shaped vitamins.

Vincent price says
"Come a little closer, madam-I want to save you 25€ on Monster Vitamins"
Kids love Monster" Vitamins. They come in 7 monstrous shapes and colors. And they taste terrific. Even more important, Monsters contain 10 essential vitamins. Children should get vitamins by eating right, but when they don't, Monster Vitamins and Monster Vitamins Plus Iron sure help.

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The folkloric belief that reflections, portraits and shadows contain part of a person’s soul influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century. Read more in @coffinboffin.bsky.social ‘s piece for The Mirror Issue. Pre-order on helleborezine.com

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THE VAMPIRE'S
LOST REFLECTION
In 1890, Sir James Frazer recorded in The Golden Bough the belief across many cultures that reflections, portraits and shadows were thought to contain part of a person's soul. These folkloric notions influenced two of the greatest Gothic novels of the 19th century: Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most enduring of all fictional vampires, is a creature with virtually no representation: he doesn't have a reflection, his likeness cannot be painted, and he cannot be photographed.
Some modern vampires do have a reflection, but Dracula's lack of representation makes him a profoundly unsettling figure.
Linked with the realm of shadows, he remains the embodiment of an ancient evil who cannot be comprehended nor captured

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

If #HammerHorror is your thing, then you might enjoy this talk Lauren and I are giving as part of our annual Halloween celebrations. 🦇 Tickets are available via our website www.issegyptomania.com/events

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I had a short story published in the wonderful Blood Orange Zine this month and have another spookier tale coming out on a podcast next month. Happy Autumn! Working through redrafts this weekend and submitting submitting, submitting! #writing

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

🌟 OUT TODAY 🌟 Anthony Delaney's Queer Georgians: a MARVELLOUS, eye-opening new book on queer life & love in the Georgian era Hugely recommend to all interested in the 18th/19th centuries, LGBT+ history, social history, British history & the history of love ❤️ uk.bookshop.org/p/books/quee... #books

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Come join us and spread the word, please! (Feel free to share with your networks elsewhere too!)

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

North East weirdies, @bobfischer.bsky.social and I will be bringing our Folk Horror show to @arcstockton.bsky.social on Wednesday 10 September! Everything from The Owl Service to Enys Men, and all points in-between. Robes and goat masks optional. Tickets: bit.ly/44Jh9EJ

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

30 pages of script down. 60 to go. Absolute torture. Wouldn't have it any other way. Tomorrow is a new day. Although it is technically now today... because somehow it is 1am again. #WiP #writing #theatre #horror

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This weekend is all about locking myself away to get a massive chunk of my play done. The deadline approaches, rather too quickly. #writing #theatre #WiP #horror

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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Cause of death: Pedro Pascal for Vanity Fair

A black and white photo of actor Pedro Pascal wearing a white tee and black leather pants, reclining on a bed covered in a white sheet.

Pedro Pascal, a 50 year old Latino male with short dark hair is standing on a crumpled bed while wearing an oversized olive(?) sweater, no pants, grey boxers and black socks

Pedro Pascal stood in front of a full length mirror facing towards the camera. He has his arms folded and his biceps are full and obvious under his white tee that has the sleeves rolled up. He’s wearing grey dress pants and you can see his ass which is bulging against the fabric, in the mirror behind him.

Pedro Pascal sat slumped on a chair covered in a dusty rose coloured sheet, he has bare legs, maybe white boxers and a thick, full length military style coat on in olive green. He has a hand resting on his face and his eyes are closed.

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Craig Wallwork @craigwallwork.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

June 27th sees my fourth collection of stories released. THE SKIN WE FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE IN is a blend of horror and traditional stories that I consider some of my best. It’d mean the world if you could spread the word or even preorder: £1.99 U.K. amzn.eu/d/ibfaJoh $2.99 US: a.co/d/00cmHAt

Black and white book cover showing a girl in a pretty white dress missing her head. Where her head should be is the o in comfortable. The title of the book is The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In. In pink lettering is the author’s name: Craig Wallwork. There’s a quote also in the cover from author Kealan Patrick Burke that says, One of the most impressive books I’ve read in years.

Photo of author Kealan Patrick Burke: “Every now and again comes a collection that marks the arrival of a spectacular voice in horror fiction. THE SKIN WE FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE IN is such a collection. Like a nightmarish fusion of Poe, James Herbert, and Clive Barker, Craig Wallwork executes his stories with a ruthless, surgical precision, resulting in a veritable Grand Guignol of visceral delights that will truly get under your skin, and it'll do so with protracted glee. One of the most impressive books I've read in years."

- Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of KIN and SOUR CANDY

Photo of author Ross Jeffery: “The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In showcases a writer at the very peak of their undeniable talent, who weaves story after story of inescapable and insidious horror. Wallwork has the uncanny ability to write stories that not only leave you horrified, moved and forever changed, but ultimately render you awed at his gift as a raconteur. This collection further cements Wallwork as one of the best short story writers of our times, a national treasure and a true master of the genre.”

- Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Metamorphosis and The Devil’s Pocketbook

Photo of author Catherine McCarthy: “From the Gothic to the grotesque, this collection taps into the psyche with a hammer and chisel, leaving the reader raw from the flailing. There's heart here too though, heart and dark humour.”

- Catherine McCarthy, author of Mosaic and Death of a Clown.

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Laura ‘Infested’ Cathcart @cutfingers.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Excerpt from the wonderful @g0blinegg.bsky.social story, ‘John Barleycorn’. THE CLEANSING POWER OF FIRE OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥

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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 24/06/2025

Ongoing Submissions: GRADEside Middle Grade & Young Adult Horror via ‪@gravesidepress.bsky.social‬ horrortree.com/ongoing-subm... Payment: 50% royalties Theme: Short stories, novels, and novellas - Horror stories for younger readers (middle school to YA) #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

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Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

OUT NOW!! Sing and rejoice, brothers and sisters! Your redemption is here. Let fire purge whatever ails you. 🐁☀️🐀 Grab it in comments.

Cover image for The Cleansing Power of Fire anthology. Featuring a goats head through a red filter. Image by Cutfingers.

The full TOC for The Cleansing Power of Fire on a red background with a bowing skeleton.

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A very hot and sweaty weekend spent fanning myself constantly. Saw Pulp again which was magic. Didn't get much #writing done over the past few days. Only managed about 80 odd words this weekend but better than nowt. Onwards to a more productive week!

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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

CHILDREN AND DISUSED FRIDGES (1971): A classic PIF with a Cholmondley-Warner style voiceover telling us that, to a child, old fridges could be caravans, castles, and ships (to Indiana Jones, they were nuclear bomb shelters). Best practise is to get rid safely... "BEFORE IT KILLS A CHILD!"

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John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

On the anniversary of his birth, remembering with much love and respect, my dear friend and Egyptological mentor Professor Kenneth A Kitchen (1932-2025).

Professor Kitchen, smiling into the camera, in his Liverpool garden in 2008, standing next to the writer.

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Looking forward to sinking my teeth into this one by @verityholloway.bsky.social 🖤

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Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I'm posting a batch of books tomorrow! Vet's bills have now gone over £2000, so... yeah.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The famous Viking attack on Lindisfarne took place #OTD in 793, regarded as the start of the Viking age in Britain. ‘Never before has such a terror appeared in Britain as we have just suffered from a pagan people,' wrote the scholar Alcuin.

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

First fiction submission in a while boxed off. 3955 words that I'm very proud of. Mostly proud that I've started submitting again and am putting myself out there. A good feeling. 😌 Already started work on the next one and I'm feeling excited about the story! #writing

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Who wore it better, our book (featuring a 19th Century "ghost" photograph) versus Haute Couture. High Fashion: www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025... A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts: www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654158...

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Haunted couture: dressing like a ghost has captured the zeitgeist

From Dior and Chloé to Australia’s runways, a spectre is haunting fashion. But is it a sign of resignation or rebellion?

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Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

And we are OPEN for submissions for Issue Ten! Submissions will be open from JUNE 1st - JUNE 14th. We are accepting fiction and non-fiction between 800-4000 words.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I absolutely loved talking to Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney about the Paris Catacombs for After Dark. You can listen here! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC Sounds - After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal, Inside the Paris Catacombs

What's the dark history of the Paris Catacombs?

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

.@horrortree.com's Trembling With Fear is facing the Drabbler and fast running out of options. Help us to feed the beast by submitting your tiny tales of the dark & speculative - needs to be exactly 100 words & a recognisable story structure! Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions (or ask me)

A punk-style graphic of a woman looking like a zombie

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our @issegyptomania.bsky.social talk this evening. One cannot escape the name of Tut-ankh-Amen anywhere: Tutmania and the influence of Tutankhamun in pop culture by Valentina Santini was brilliant. We appreciate every single one of you who came 🥰

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Paul D Coombs @pauldcoombs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

My debut novel is a slow descent into madness, obsession, and secrets so terrible there can never be a way back. If you like Stephen King meets Agatha Christie, this could be your next nightmare... T H E G R E A T O R M E #BookSky 💙📚 #Wales #DarkThriller #Gothic

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

3k into a short story I started bouncing around when staying in @enola41.bsky.social 's spare room last year. Feeling pretty good about this one - I've sat on it for long enough!

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

New episode: Supernatural Feathers: Death Beds, Witchcraft and Angels The weird world of feather folklore: from cursed peacock plumes to angel relics to pillows that stop the dying from slipping away. Do feather crowns mean a heavenly reward or a witch’s curse? www.buzzsprout.com/1859647/epis...

Rooster headed winged creature chases weeping child down a hall.

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Julia Round @hypnojoo.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Time to shamelessly promote this new #comicsstudies collection ‘Horror and Comics’ - edited by me, @barbarachamberlin.bsky.social and @komkunyosying - and packed with #horror themed goodness and looking at a global selection of comics! Due to be published by university of wales press next month.

My hand holding a Hardback book entitled ‘Horror and Comics’ with a cover picture of some battered copies of creepy and various Spanish comics on a rack at a flea market

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Because sometimes, what you really need to see in this life is Vincent Price with an armload of extremely floofy cats. Well, I do. Love that man.

Vincent Price, with an armload of floofy cats. Two black, two grey-ish. Because he's Vincent Price, he's hamming it up like mad with a ridiculous scowl on his face.

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thanks to everyone who came along 🖤

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Hexham Heads anyone? Here's the @forteantimes.bsky.social feature I wrote about the unearthing of this notorious 1976 Nationwide report. It has Celtic mythology, poltergeists, werewolves and @bbcarchive.bsky.social's own @grzegster.bsky.social... hauntedgeneration.co.uk/2025/05/23/t...

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The Hexham Heads, Nationwide and Greg McKevitt

“The first I heard of the Hexham Heads was a couple of years ago, just through online chatter,” says Greg McKevitt, content producer for BBC Archive. “I saw mention of the footage existing in the a…

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I've got my scars ready 🫡 Can't wait for this.

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Manchester Ancient Egypt Society @maesegypt24.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

MAES Study Day at The Radisson Blu Hotel, Man. Airport: New Research on Ancient Egyptian Textiles. Non-MAES members can now book via Eventbrite here: bit.ly/ManchesterAE... Members can still book by sending off the form you received by email.

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

And here is the incredible replica which sits on one of the bookshelves in my living room. If anyone else would like me to give a talk on ossuaries or the danse macabre - either in person or online - please drop me a message.

A replica skull sitting on a shelf between two books on witchcraft. One the frontal bone is the name Wolfgang Stüger in old Germany script and the date 1855

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Agree with this sentiment one million percent. Cat is an incredible and knowledgeable public speaker. We love a Cat talk!

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Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This week's visual prompt is a Writing the Occult: Relics hangover. What worlds can you conjure from this image? Remember to save the date for our next editions: Belief on 6 September, and Creatures & Cryptids on 29 November. Tix for both are now on sale. More details: writingtheoccult.carrd.co

A wooden box with the camera-facing side in glass. Insight is a wooden carving of a human lying down with arms crossed across their belly. It is light with a spotlight, and the box has a white tablecloth draped over it.

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

#callforpapers The deadline for abstracts for our 2025 conference is 18 June 2025. We are looking for abstracts that cover the global histories of so-called 'Egyptomania' (cont) www.issegyptomania.com/virtual-conf...

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Could get used to this nice weather. Spent the afternoon in the sun beneath our apple tree #writing On today's agenda is the bones of a short story I'm prepping to submit 🌹

A red peony in bloom in a sea of green leaves.

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Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I can't quite believe I'm saying this but: I wrote a book! And it's being published this May! It's about Rome, its enduring appeal, the many different ways it has been interpreted, and how understanding this helps us see both the past and the world today more clearly. geni.us/AllRoadsLead...

Book cover for All Roads Lead to Rome by Rhiannon Garth Jones, in a mosaic frame like the one used on the book cover, with the text "Out May 2025"

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🦇Shell🦇 @lotnumber249.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

About to send off a roll of film. I've had a run of bad luck the past year or so shooting on film while testing out some old cameras. Jammed shutters, film disasters, film with just nothing on etc...so keeping everything crossed. This time I went for the Kodak Ekhtar half frame. 📸

Hand holding up a sage coloured camera in front of ancient arches

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