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Law of Names Media @lawofnames.com · 26/05/2026

para/Normal S2 casting call! A bite-sized anthology of horror that isn't. Seeking VAs of any experience level, but especially interested in hearing from new folks! Open May 25 - June 8 More info here: tinyurl.com/2mynjd39

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

So as part of my job I end up reading an unpleasant amount of the London Times and I am somehow still surprised that these reporters are not embarrassed to have their names attached to this nonsense.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

A pair of silver aluminum barbecue tongs on a white background .

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Googling "SCP Mean Cereal Box" on the work computer for reasons that I swear are relevant and work-related

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

So the Edinburgh Horror Festival is just around the corner! My Grandmother Taught Me To Knit will be returning - original horror storytelling on knitting, grief and perfection. We run from October 23rd to the 26th, with a streamed version on the 23rd! #horror #theatre #edinburgh #knitting

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

its the FABULOUS BODIES cover reveal, my latest horror journey arriving next summer. buckaroos are calling it DRIVE MEETS BEETLEJUICE (but COLLATERAL in palm springs with an undead queer icon also works). PREORDER NOW BUCKAROOS LETS TROT us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

cover of FABULOUS BODIES by chuck tingle it is greenish blue background with large pink text in the middle there are heart shaped sunglasses with pool reflection and at the bottom it says 'never meet your heroes'

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

"A House With Good Bones" by T. Kingfisher is book #43. A haunted house story about a woman staying with her mother, who has inexplicably started living according to the rules set by her long dead grandmother #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher, featuring a brass doorknocker in the shape of a skull, surrounded by pink roses

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Book #42 was "Hollywood Gothic" by David J Skal, a non-fiction looking at the history of Dracula in adaptation. #booksky #sanderreads

The audiobook cover of Hollywood Gothic by David J Skal, which features a photograph of Bela Legosi as Dracula overlayed with the white lines of cracked glass or possibly a spiders web

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Anusia Battersby @anusiabattersby.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Eternity down, one month to go ... UNMASKED. @edhorrorfest.bsky.social 28th - 30th October. TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE! 📸 @lysanderthenerd

A photograph of a mask, resting on a vintage telephone, sitting on a round table. The entire scene is flooded with orange light.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Book #41 was "Camp Damascus" by Chuck Tingle (again)(in audiobook this time!) #booksky #sanderreads

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"The Grip of It" by Jack Jemc was book #40. A tense haunted house horror about a couple trying to leave their problem behind in a move to a small town. #booksky #sanderreads

A photo of a hand holding a copy of Jac Jemc's "The Grip of It", a white cover featuring a rough simple scribbled picture of a house surrounded by indistinct scribbled text in grey.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Book #39 was Merlin Sheldrake's "Entangled Life", a fascinating look at the world of fungi. #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of Merlin Sheldrake's "Entangled Life", featuring bright illustrations of fungi in primary colours on a black background

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism" by Amanda Montell was book #38, a non-fiction book looking at the linguistics of cults and similar groups. #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of Amanda Montell's Cultish, featuring a vintage black and white illustration of a UFO on a solid beige background, with geometric waves coming in from two opposite corners

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Book #37 was Nick Cutter's "The Deep", a horror novel set in a research station at the bottom of the Mariana Trench #booksky #sanderreads

A photo of a hand holding a copy of Nick Cutter's novel "The Deep", a black cover with bubbles rising from the bottom and the blue glow of light from the surface at the top.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"Harrow Lake", by Kat Ellis was book #36. Following a teenager who's father (a famous horror director) is attacked in their home and she is sent to stay with her grandmother in the town where he filmed his most famous film. #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of Kat Ellis's novel "Harrow Lake", which is bright yellow, and features a patchy black silhouette of a marionette puppet with a simple smiley face.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Book #35 was Iain Reid's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things", a short thriller that honestly didn't really work for me. #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of Iain Reid's audiobook "I'm Thinking of Ending Things", featuring a photograph of an uncomfortable looking woman sat at a dinner table and holding a wine glass, in front of a busy floral wallpaper.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

"The Mist" from Stephen King was book #34. This was only the 3rd King novel I've read (the others being Carrie and It, both a long time ago) and this one sits solidly between the two in terms of my enjoyment. #booksky #sanderreads

A photograph of a hand holding a copy of Stephen King's "The Mist" the cover is a purple illustration of a massive of tentacles over misty silhouettes of buildings. A dinosaur bookmark pokes out the top of the book

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Realised I accidentally fell waaay behind on my little book reviews 😄 so brace yourselves for the last month or two of books I've finished!

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Stepping out into the rain with my tote bag full of bath bombs At least if it goes poorly it'll look gorgeous

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Book #33 was Pageboy, by Elliot Page, a memoir focusing on Page's life through the lense of his gender and sexuality. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Pageboy by Elliot Page. The cover features a photograph of Elliot Page sitting in a white tank too and blue jeans against a read background, a thick white border carried the title and author in a black font.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Book #32 was Jeff VanderMeer's "Annihilation", a tense sci-fi following an expedition into the mysterious Area X #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. An abstract image of swirling white lines and starbursts on a black background. The title written in lime green and the authors name in white.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Book #31 was Chuck Tingle's "Bury Your Gays", an incredibly pointed horror novel about Hollywood's relationship to queerness #sanderreads #booksky

A photo of a hand holding a copy of Chuck Tingle's "Bury Your Gays". The author and title are printed on a black background, a saturated LA sunset in the titles lettering and a bloody sledgehammer cutting across the whole thing.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Book #30 was "Off The Edge" by Kelly Weill, my first non-fiction of the year, was a look at the flat earth movement from its origins in the 1800s, to the present day. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Kelly Weill's book "Off the Edge". A fuzzy green and blue line extends most of the way across a bright pink background, the black silhouette of a sailboat tipping off the edge.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Guest List by Lucy Foley was book #29, a murder mystery set at a wedding on a remote island that I've seen a lot of people compare to an Agatha Christie novel. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Lucy Foley's novel, The Guest List. A minimalist design, a black silhouette of an island on a white background, the text in a textured red and black.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Book #28 was "The Sun Down Motel" by Simone St. James, a murder mystery/ghost story following a now disappeared woman in the 80s, and her niece in the 2010s trying to find out what happened to her. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of "The Sun Down Motel" by Simone St. James, a picture of an 80s style motel sign featuring the title, weathered like an old photograph.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman is book #27 this year. A quietly eerie short novel about a teenage couple who find... Well... A house at the bottom of a lake. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Josh Malerman's "A House at the Bottom of a Lake". The cover features an illustration in muted greens and yellows of a ramshackle house on a light dappled lakebed, one window illuminated in yellow. Two tiny figures in diving gear swim down towards it, streams of bubbles rising behind them.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey was book #26 of the year. An absolutely gnarly (complimentary) book following a demon hunter in New York trying desperately to claw her life back on the rails. #sanderreads #booksky

A photograph of a hand holding a copy of The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey. The cover is an illustration in bright saturated colours on a black background, the statue of liberty is split in two, a head emerging from between the halves. It's humanoid, except for the mouth which hangs open revealing rows of sharp teeth and long pink tendrils.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Book #25 was John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, which means I have actually already hit my reading goal for the year, which is Super Exciting! #booksky #sanderreads

The audiobook cover for John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, which features a black and white image of a hand holding a small stick sprouting leaves with the title overlaid in bright green.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Horowitz Horror, by Anthony Horowitz is book #24 this year. This short story collection (or collections, I had it in two volumes as a kid) was the very first horror book(s) I ever read. #sanderreads #booksky

A photo of a hand holding a copy of Horowitz Horror, The Ultimate Collection, by Anthony Hororwitz.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Book #23 was Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle. Safe to say this is an instant favourite, I absolutely devoured this book in a single evening. #sanderreads #booksky

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Book #22 is The King In Yellow, by Robert W Chambers. Been in a bit of a reading slump the past couple months but I was reminded that I had this on my To Read Shelf and finally got into it. #booksky #sanderreads

A photograph of a hand holding a copy of The King In Yellow, by Robert W Chambers. The cover features artwork of a seated human figure covered in a yellow sheet, tall antlers protruding from his head, wearing a crown that is gilted to be a shiny silver, the background is a blotchy dark blue. Across the top reads "mystery and supernatural", the title is written in the middle, over the centre of the figure, and the authors name at the bottom. All the text is in the same shiny silver as the crown.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

On my knees begging knitting people to actually learn the tells of ai generated knitting images, and not just call anything with weird cables ai

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

More like The Gaslighthouse am I right?

A black and white still of Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake in The Lighthouse, he is laughing but the dark background and the low angle of light thrown on his face suggests a sinister tone

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Nicholas @thekroog.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Ready to fight god

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Book 21 of the year is "Ghost Camera" by Darcy Coates. A re-release of the novella Ghost Camera, with another novella (A Box of Tapes) and a collection of short stories. #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of Darcy Coates's "Ghost Camera". All in shades of black, red and a grungy off white, the title is written in a smeary blood red on a pale background. Blood drips from the top and below the title are a stack of Polaroid photos, the top showing an indistinct human silhouette reflected in water. Above the title is the authors name in black, and beside the Polaroids reads "Beautifully written and sure to keep readers guessing - Rebecca Taylor, author of The Secret Next Door, for The Haunting of Leigh Harker".

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"Temporary" by Hillary Lichter makes my 20th book of the year. This was a fantastic and strange novella, following a temp working her way through a series of bizarre placements in search of her Permanence. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Hilary Lichter's "Temporary". A stylised drawing of a woman on a yellow background, a mask resting on her forehead to reveal her face as she looks off to the side. The lines are thin and wobbling, the colours bright and saturated. The author name and title are written along the bottom in handwritten block letters.

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🎮 Dr. Gremlin 😈 (they/she/any) @colorless.green · 21/04/2025

so they're mycoblogging

Headline that says mushrooms may talk to one another with up to 50 words

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Book 20 in 2025 is Adam Nevill's "Last Days". A documentary maker is sent to investigate a cult from the seventies and uncovers some spooky shit. I had a lot of fun with this one, and I'm really glad I picked up another of his books. #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of Adam Nevill's "Last Days". The cover is a grainy black and white close up of a door handle, which fades into indistinct texture, the keyhole and the old key in it are coloured in a bright turquoise. The authors name is written across the top and the title along the bottom, both in a bold, grungy white font. In the middle is "Britain's answer to Stephen King - Guardian".

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Section of the book I'm reading (Last Days, Adam Nevill) describing the character's listlessness that I enjoyed: "Books were picked up & put back down again, a Woody Allan film was started & stopped, dishes were washed & even dried & put away, the cat was fed again, but didn't mind." #booksky

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

One thing you don't realise when you start knitting is just how much you'll start caring about mathematical factors.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

18th book of the year was The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, which also completes my goal of reading all of the Sherlock Holmes cannon. I went with the version with Stephen Fry and honestly it's the books he was born to narrate. #booksky #sanderreads

The cover of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes audiobook. The top half is a image of the skyline of Victorian London. The bottom, upside down as if a reflection of the top, is a negative image of the modern London skyline. The colours are all desaturated shades of grey and teal. In a plain block font is the text "Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Definitive Audio Collection Part Nine". To the left are the logos for Audible and Bolinda Audio.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Paul Tremblay's "Horror Movie" is my 17th book of the year. A novel about the making and cult following of an unreleased indie horror film who's production ended in tragedy, interwoven with the films screenplay. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Paul Tremblay's "Horror Movie". The title and author name are printed in a bold red font textured with VHS scanlines over a black background. In between them is the picture of a cracked VHS tape with "a novel" written on it. In a smaller white font "new York times best seller" is written at the top and "bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World" at the bottom.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"Have no fear," says Sherlock Holmes, "Dr Watson is the very soul of discretion! You would know that if you read any of the many times he has published the exact details of cases we worked on for public consumption."

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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

#ArchivesToday deal with a wide range of digital formats from the earliest days through to dynamic web pages and social media #DigitalPreservation isn’t making sure things are backed up, it's maintaining and making accessible resources for 21st century history for future generations #Archive30

Photograph of a room filled with large upright machinery, some with large tape reels visible and more tape reels in racks on the wall. A woman sits on a stool inputting data via a keyboard. The whole room is a mainframe computer system dating to the late 1960s/early 1970s and the image is entitled “The University Computer”.

Modern colour photograph of a pile of 3.5 inch floppy disks sitting on some archival Tyvek wrapping.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Just saw an ad on YouTube that was like "oh, you don't think medication should be used for weight loss? Would you tell a diabetic not to use insulin??" And I think I need to go stare at a wall for a minute.

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

"The Night Guest" by Hildur Knútsdóttir, #16 in 2025. Another novella, following a woman trying to find the cause of her extreme fatigue who discovers she's somehow walking tens of thousands of steps in her sleep. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of "The Night Guest" by Hildur Knútsdóttir. A bright pink background with the title in simple white, handwritten style lettering. Overlaid on top of the title is a photograph of a wine glass, with red wine pouring down into it from an unseen source. Below is the authors name, and under that reads "translated by Mary Robinette Kowal". On one side is the quote "Wraps it's icy fingers around you and pulls you in." From Rachel Hawkins and on the other "a genuinely heart pounding read" from Olivie Blake

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Sander Townshend @lysanderthenerd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Book #15 in 2025 is "Mr Cables" by Ronald Malfi. A novella about an author who discovers a novel with his name on it, that he never wrote and that seems to terrify anyone but him who reads it. #sanderreads #booksky

The cover of Ronald Malfi's novel "Mr Cables". The cover is the image of an old book on a wooden surface. The book cover is worn and browned with age and features a high contrast black and white drawing of a street of houses with an indistinct figure of a man in front of them. The title of the novel and author name are above the street picture on the book. Across the top of the image in white is the quote "In Ronald Malfi's haunting new novella Mr Cables, the past has teeth and bites deep. Another winner from a modern master of contemporary horror!" From "Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Tim Waggoner".

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