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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’ve not done enough to remind folks what Mythic Delirium Books has done for the Halloween season — so here’s a start: the new issue of @locusmag.bsky.social (w/ interview w/ STEPHEN KING) holds a STUNNING review of Haralambi Markov’s horror collection THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES 🎃 bit.ly/SpeakKnives

“In her excellent introduction to Haralambi Markov’s debut collection, The Language of Knives: Stories, Ann VanderMeer compares Markov’s fiction to that of Clive Barker. The likeness lies less in voice or structure—though the grisly ‘The Midnight Feast’ would fit seamlessly into Books of Blood—than in the transgressive, fearless, and intense nature of their fiction. VanderMeer remarks: ‘It’s a delight for me to encounter such formidable prose and storytelling just when I thought I had seen it all.’”
—Ian Mond, Locus

With an image of the Locus Oct 2026 issue cover

“I agree. Markov approaches horror and dark fiction without flinching. If a story has a ‘happy ending’ (and few do), that ending has been earned, often brutally. That isn’t to say Markov is gratuitous or that they turn to violence merely to generate tension and shock. What makes these tales so powerful is less the gore and more the emotional ties between the characters, whether it’s the connection between lovers, siblings or, more often, a parent and child . . . I know it’s not all about prizes, but the Bram Stoker and the World Fantasy Awards would be missing a trick if The Language of Knives: Stories wasn’t on their shortlists.”
—Ian Mond, Locus

With an image of THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES cover

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Reading a lot of these back to school/dorm room renovation posts, and it is clear that a lot of these parents never wanted to raise functional adults. They wanted to raise little toys to give themselves a lifetime of peculiar entertainment.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

R.T. is an author I found through Clarkesworld who's always putting out consistent high-grade SF work. If you like his stories also check out his novel, THE GANYMEDAN. I am basic so want to draw comparisons to something like Banks' The Culture but that is prob too superficial. Worth checking out!

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The Ganymedan

A dark science fiction debut examining agency and sacrifice through one man’s desperate attempt to reach home after he murders his tyrannical employer.Verden Dotnet made an easy living mixing drinks f...

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I use the Surfshark app on my iPhone. It’s part of my subscription.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Can you use a VPN on your phone?

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

You know you've made some peak new tech when you have the exact same fine print disclaimers as Miss Cleo.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Gris-Gris has a phenomenal gumbo (also, their rabbit & dumplings is life changing).

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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️‍🔥 @amandamakepeace.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Let’s have more straight talk. We are way past political differences. It’s us against the fascists.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Just found out this dude’s store is called Dreamhaven Books. dreamhavenbooks.com

Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I was going on the books, but it has been quite a minute since I’ve read them.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

hey, media / journalists wtf is wrong with you. how effin fucked up in your own head do you need to be to frame some of these issues as basically differences of opinion?

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Thanks. I was wondering what was on fire. Hazy in the Lower Garden.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Congratulations! Atchafalaya is a great restaurant.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

the world in general would be in a far better place if more people simply read Pratchett and internalised what "just because it's funny doesn't mean it isn't serious" actually means

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Are you looking for a stack of genre-convention defying Premee-ium speculative fiction? Look no further! Come get @premeemohamed.com's military Pteranodons, REALLY messed up co-dependent friendships, searingly prescient examinations of war and pacifism, eldritch cosmic horrors and SO much more!

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

We had just discovered that place a year or so before they closed. The food was amazing.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Congratulations, Thomas! I just picked it up and am really looking forward to reading.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

A pile of Uncertain Sons, just a lot of uncertainty and a lot of sons

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I don’t think I have seen any eggs, but there does seem to be a lot of very tiny ones this season.

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 26/07/2025

Something to make you think - from Robert Heinlein.

Against a blue background, the text:
""Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms
such as you have named... but a dying
culture invariably exhibits personal
rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of
consideration for others in minor matters...

This symptom is especially serious in that
an individual displaying it never thinks of
it as a sign of ill health but as proof of
his/her strength".

Robert Heinlein - 'Friday' (1982)"

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City trilogy, some of the best fantasy novels of all, are about resisting both literal fascists and the figurative fascists in our heads, and how much work is necessary for both. I have a long essay about that coming soon, hopefully.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I sat in a waiting room at Mass Eye and Ear with Jack Klugman.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Brian Wilson was my favorite musician. I was lucky enough to see him play live many times. He will be missed.

Pet Sounds and Smile Album covers and Brian Wilson posters

Backstage signing at Tanglewood, Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, and Blondie Chaplin

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Reading through the comments and I was entirely incorrect.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I have a vague sense, but have never heard the phrase. (US)

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That article is beyond foolish.

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Tim Deal (Unreliable Narrator) @un-narrator.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I’m brand new to BlueSky. Would love to be part of a positive, creative community. Will always follow back!

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I saw one today in front of the Walgreens on Magazine.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Wash your hands before eating. And wash your hands many, many times after.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Zulu was amazing. Caught my first coconut, and got two more.

Guy with a bunch of beads of various sizes and shapes on the Avenue balcony watching Zulu. He is smug because he caught three Zulu coconuts.

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Roby Davies @robydavies.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We’re trying to find you. Amazing costume!

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nolafredo.bsky.social @nolafredo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The sun is shining. Kids are throwing footballs. A group of complete strangers gathered to do the Wobble like a flash mob. Theres to-go plates, chicken and snacks everywhere. I haven't been to heaven. But I've been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. And if it ain't like this, I don't want it.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"The great appeal of Gormenghast has nothing to do with what happens in it. It’s all about those great intangibles that you cannot quite put your finger on." Author @premeemohamed.com examines the endurability of Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast series: reactormag.com/the-great-in...

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The Great Intangibles of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Series - Reactor

The other day I made a note in my book review spreadsheet to the effect that if I had read that book aged (say) ten, I would have been doomed with a very particular doom—I would have made it my entire...

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