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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 1h

"'What day is it?' asked Pooh. 'It’s our BIRTHDAY.' squeaked Piglet. 'My favorite day.' said Pooh." Happy 100 years 2 Pooh and gang - the Hundred Acre Wood, & the endearing little literary characters - A.A. Milne #OTD #BoTD 📖 Art Source: British Library, Maps 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com🌳 #silicasun📗🧡

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Happy #NationalDogDay 🐕 #writers #readers #authors 📚 Since it's also #WyrdWednesday 🦴 it's spectral hound day and haunting dread dogs, supernatural curses, eerie moors 🐩 the horrifying adventure of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles 🔍 silicasun.wordplace.com 📖 #silicasun 🐶📕💙

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LaffingKat @laffingkat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Two American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) walk past each in a parking lot. In many mythologies, crows are viewed as psychopomps or otherwise associated with the dead. #BirdOfTheDay #LookingDown #LookingUp #Corvids #Birds #31DaysofHalloween #Photography #EastCoastKin

Two black crows walk past each in a parking lot, one looking up and the other looking down. Both show signs of molting.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wednesdays in the Archive📜 The countdown to Halloween is on! Today we're sharing the recommendation letter Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, supplied to gain admittance into Marsh's Library 🦇

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Illuminati Ganga @illuminati-ganga.bsky.social · 10h

medium.com/luminasticit... The soul, an electrical representation of the mind, that could not be seen but could sense beyond itself and relay what it sensed back to the still living mind in the dead body. Such a strange mutation to develop #soul #horror #halloween #serialkilling #murder #carcosa

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THE WANDERVOGEL

There was a boy. A very strange, enchanted boy. They said he wandered very far, but that was because they did not know where he had gone…

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Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The light is on for Jess Simms! @jesssimms.bsky.social 💡 Love the supernatural? “Third Shift” is a fantastic urban fantasy that’ll grip you from the very first line. Read Jess’s amazing fiction over at the site!

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Third Shift - Jess Simms — Bulb Culture Collective

Annabelle kept strange hours.

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Jonathan B. Edvane @edvane.bsky.social · 3h

#vss365 The maid of Longwitton rubbed the ointment into her eyes and finally saw what guarded the dry well. She followed the demon, struck it with silver and watched it vanish. Water surged from the stones. They praised her #bravery Something below realised the guard was gone. #Edvane #DarkFantasy

Dark folkloric Gothic illustration of the Holy Well of Longwitton. A young maid stands beside an ancient stone well holding a silver blade and touching one eye. Behind her, the defeated demon looms as a huge black spectral figure, its body disintegrating into smoke. Water surges from the well, where two pale eyes reveal something older lurking far below. A parchment panel contains the story and #Edvane #vss365 #bravery.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 23h

Announcing the authors and table of contents for "Are You Everything Alright”.

Cover image: All gray and red tones, a figure stands bleeding in the middle of a road of red swirls in a busy city of traffic. Text blocks isolated in black.

Are You Everything Alright

Kintsugi Future — Jennifer R. Povey
The Gift — Michael Teasdale
In Another World, Another Life — Cynthia Zhang
You Can’t Eat Money — Diana Jing
How Our Space Station Recovered Your Echo — S. C. Williams
Classroon Resistance — Camden Rose
Any Colour You Like — Mia Dalia
Pri demon th — Die Booth
Forward — Ellis Nye
Fair Judgments of the New Consensus — Lily Lachance
The Fault Within — Pemry Janes
The Uncounted Rain — Shashi Kadapa
Address on the Occasion of Future Liberation Day, Year 396 — Anne E.G. Nydam
After Jacob — Lawrence Dagstine

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James Fine Art @jamesfineart.bsky.social · 6h

G. Cheese and wine, a party table with a selection of cheeses and wines, a basket of sliced bread, cheese knife, wine glasses with red and white wines poured. [ Prints : james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/che... ] #cheese #wine #party #bread #ArtShop #wineglasses #BuyIntoArt #redandwhite

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#MondayMagic - The woods are alive. 'Every morning is a new arrival.' --Rumi 📖 Foraging, picking, eating, cooking, writing, reading, drawing or doodling, it's #MushroomMonday 🍄 #writers 📚 pick your pick, some gorgeous finds, green elfcaps and more #nature 🍄 silicasun.wordpress.com🌳 #silicasun 🍄📗🧡

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Victoria aka Blaze @burrddoh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors #31DaysOfHalloween #ECK #Scape #BWFri #ImageAndVerse

Black and white photo of The Pearl Hotel with rolling clouds filling the background giving it a haunted feel

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ange Mlinko

AUBADE. You, my luculent one...
The sky, just restored to blue,
has in it a ghostly stone, blunted
to a pearl-like lumen I have hunted,
if not to possess, then construe
as my call to brighten . . .

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

'a deeply engaging, frankly beautiful read' - Fiona Sampson, @thetablet.bsky.social, on Tishani Doshi's @forwardprizes.bsky.social shortlisted fifth collection Egrets, While War. Register to read online for free. www.thetablet.co.uk/books/aglow/

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Aglow - The Tablet

TISHANI DOSHI(BLOODAXE BOOKS, 96 PP, £12.99)TABLET BOOKSHOP PRICE £11.69 • TEL 020 7799 4064

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Murder and madness in Victorian Kent

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A radical Rasputin

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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Next up on my @forwardprizes.bsky.social reading list has been Tishani Doshi’s ‘Egrets, While War’, which is shortlisted for Best Collection. One of my favourite things about this meditation on loss and survival is the birds that fill its pages,

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Tint Journal @tintjournal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Submit your short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash stories, and poems created in English as your second language or your artwork for a chance to be published in our Spring '27 issue! 🖊️ All subjects/contents welcome. Read the FULL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES at tintjournal.com/submit.

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Mike Funnell @mikefunnell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A White Faced Heron on Lord Howe Island. These are the same as the mainland ones, and seem to have made their way here all by themselves.

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Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Readers in the US, my publishers are doing a Goodreads giveaway of The Poison Palace, a retelling of Alexander's invasion of India told from the POV of a vishkanya, or poison maiden, sent to kill him. Twenty copies going: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

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Book giveaway for The Poison Palace by Shreya Ila Anasuya Oct 12-Oct 26, 2026

Enter to win one of 20 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 12-Oct 26, 2026. Enter for a chance to win an advanced copy!

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#MythologyMonday 📚 #Dragons 🐉creatures of magic, winged fire & fury in #legend #myth #literature (JRR Tolkien) 🪄Their pillow (today's theme) the spaces of earth & sky 🌆 #folklore tells of a brave knight slaying a dragon to save a princess 📖 Beowulf faces the fearsome dragon Grendel 🐲 #silicasun 🐉📕💛

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#SaturdayArchiveDrop for #BookWormSat 📗it's #BatmanDay 🦇 Good Morning, Gothamites #creatives everyone 📚 #HappyBatmanDay 🦇 it's #TheBats 🦇 day, #peace #love #gratitude and #Batman 🦇 Have a bat-errific day #twitterstorians 🦇 silicasun.wordpress.com 🦇 #silicasun 🦇📓💚

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 10/08/2026

“All we’ve got are our guts and integrity when we set out to write.” In this week’s #CraftCapsule, Sara Lippmann encourages writers to say what they need to say, regardless of industry trends. at.pw.org/LippmannCC3

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Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Submissions for Last Syllable are now open through October 15! We accept submissions for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and open genre pieces. Longform works ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 words for the fiction, nonfiction, and open categories are highly encouraged!

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NBCC poetry chair and board member David Woo wrote about Carl Phillips’ "In the Blood" for West Branch: westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective – West Branch

A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #womensart

Open sketch book with writing and paintings of zig zag designs

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bournemouthjournal.bsky.social @bournemouthjournal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

· Congratulations to the writers who have been longlisted for the 2027 Bournemouth Writing Prize!

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Wendy_Bayne CA 🍁 @wendybayne.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

@smartreads.bsky.social My review of The Barrier. This short story is an exceptional mystery by the brilliant writer MK Alexander. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#FridayFields - Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #remembrance #twentyfiveyears #silicasun 🙏🕯️🍂📗🧡

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wendell Berry #poetry Breaking Did I believe I had a clear mind? It was like the water of a river flowing shallow over the ice. And now that the rising water has broken the ice, I see that what I thought was the light is part of the dark. #nature #woods #ecology #environment #life #silicasun 🌳🍃🌱🎋📙💚

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

In the 1960s a Mrs Glasson, then working as a night nurse, settled down to her midnight meal in the canteen when she felt tiny teeth gnawing gently at her leg. She looked down and saw they belonged to a small black shaggy #dog. It let go of her leg and then melted away into thin air. #PhantomsFriday

A small black shaggy dog painted by Bryan Kneale, brother of the Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale. The accompanying story comes from 'Apparitions And Ghosts' by Andrew MacKenzie.

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not really ghostly but this is so cute I'm submitting it anyway - Demon Parade by Shigeru Mizuki #PhantomsFriday

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Strangely this post IS of Oct 2, and that's the part I don't get, weird, why call for subs when it's closed...

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#ThursdayTales - This poem #poem 📖 Anne Carson - Nobel Prize Winner Literature 2026 📚 #silicasun 🍂📙🧡

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#ThursdayThrowback - The mystery, the madness, the strangeness, the sadness of Edgar Allen Poe #EdgarAllenPoe death day #OTD for #FolkloreThursday 📚 Quoth #TheRaven The Raven NEVERMORE 🐦‍⬛ #books #novels #shortstories #poems #horror #literature #reads 📕 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐈‍⬛ #silicasun 🐦‍⬛📙🧡

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/10/2026

‘Some writers discover their powers gradually,’ Stephanie Burt wrote in a 2011 piece for the paper. ‘Others – Anne Carson for example – spring from the head of Zeus.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

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Stephanie Burt · Professor or Pinhead: Anne Carson

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 24/09/2026

The Autumn 2026 issue of The Poetry Review (116:3) is out now featuring new poetry from Grace Nichols, Fiona Benson, Nick Laird, Selima Hill, Jack Underwood, Rashed Aqrabawi, Oli Hazzard and many others. Check out the full contents at the link in ou bio.

The cover of the Autumn 2026 issue of the Poetry Review, featuring artwork called 'Park Dogs and Air Raid' by Rosie Wylie.

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Submissions for issue 23 (spring/summer 2027) are now open until 31 October! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays 🎃 bansheepress.org/submit

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Submit — Banshee Press

Submissions are open from 1\u201331 October 2026 for issue 23 (spring/summer 2027)

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WW - the final chapter, and the story ends... From Kane and Abel to Adam & Eve - Jeffrey Archer 📚 #RIP Art Source - Little Kingdoms: The Ridiculous Race 🏎️🚐 #JeffreyArcher #bookstoread #novels #thrillers #reads 📘 silicasun.wordpress.com 🚗 #silicasun🪑📙💚

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Emme Klama @emmeklama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

All the above! Getting ready for #Halloween - soon!

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#WW #soloareclipse #books #literature #folklorethursday #HappyViewing 🔭 Books 📚 Source : Project Gutenberg : Le Pays des Fourrures (The Fur Country) - Jules Verne King Solomon's Mines - Henry Rider Haggard A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain silicasun.wordpress.com 🪐☀️📙💙

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WyrdWednesday “Sometimes they come back” The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs (1902) An elderly couple possess a talisman that will grant three wishes. They are warned there will be dire consequences if they use it. Foolishly they wish for money & receive it as compensation for the death of their son.

Illustration for "The Monkey's Paw" by Maurice Greiffenhagen. A elderly couple are in great distress. The father holds up the monkey’s paw to wish their son back in the grave.

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1732 THE YEAR OF THE VAMPIRE 12 books and four dissertations were written on the vampire in this year. Flückinger's Visum er Repertum (Seen or Discovered) documented a vampire outbreak in Serbia; a full scale vampire panic erupted & the term 'vampire' entered the English language #WyrdWednesday

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 06/10/2026

For people who a) are habitually in the London area and b) love ancient languages and puzzles, do consider joining me and Daniel Harbour next Tuesday – we'll be two scholars in conversation, to celebrate his new and excellent book, in Waterstones on Gower Street. www.waterstones.com/events/the-b...

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The Book of Lost Languages: Daniel Harbour in conversation with Danny Bate | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about The Book of Lost Languages: Daniel Harbour in conversation with Danny Bate today.

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#TuesdayTidbit - and for #FairytaleTuesday not omitting the seasonal #Gothic supernatural masquerades of leftovers, this being #Spookytober the #seasonofsurprises mystery and magic all combined in the #Halloween rollover 🎃 silicasun.wordpress.com 🐦‍⬛ #31DaysofHalloween 🪦 #coterie 📚 #silicasun 🦇🗝️🕯️🐈‍⬛📕💛

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#Folklore to explore for #MythologyMonday 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit . . .' --JRR Tolkien #fantasy #classic novel The Hobbit #TheHobbit 📘 published #OTD by George Allen and Unwin publishers UK 📚 silicasun.wordpress.com 🌳 #readingismagic 📖 #silicasun ⛰️📕💚

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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

#MythologyMonday Chiron, the wounded centaur of Greek mythology struck by a poisoned arrow became at once a revered teacher and a wounded healer. His duality of great knowledge and inability to cure his own incurable wound which would not heal while healing others, symbolized struggle #silicasun 🐎🧡📘

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