Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Submitted a new story today - fully back in the swing of short fiction! 🤞 020
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 03/10/2026First official half marathon today - hard work, but I loved it… 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@greenmanfest.bsky.social tickets in the bag - 13th time since 2010… already Looking forward to lineup news. 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I first read Hawksmoor in my early 20s and I really enjoyed it, but this time round I am absolutely loving it. Gonna read London novels by Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock next… 020
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Have started another story - a new collection is taking shape! 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 15/09/2026just about finished my first short story in over 18 months, having been knee-deep in nonfiction. Looking forward to getting ’Disharged’ out there… #weirdfiction 040
Reposted by Tim CookeSeize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"There’s a real thrill to a well-deployed epigraph". If that doesn't get your blood pumping for Zach Gillan's review of Tim Cooke's collection Dark Play, I don't know what will. "This book exemplifies the use of vagueness and productive ambiguity. It lives in the ellipsis as much as the words."seizethepress.comLiving in the Ellipsis: a review of Dark Play by Tim Cooke, from Zachary Gillan - Seize The PressThere’s a real thrill to a well-deployed epigraph, particularly when it’s a theoretical concept used to set the stage for a work of fiction. For a particularly excellent example—of both use of epigrap... 0229
Reposted by Tim CookeTim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wow, have only just come across this fantastic piece on my weird little book, Dark Play. Thank you very much @seizethepress.bsky.social @megapolisomancy.bsky.social 185
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Latest short story: Man leaves hospital, gets bus halfway home, walks the rest… 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Home from a long summer holiday to a couple of great looking Nightjars to get stuck into… @nightjarpress.bsky.social 0133
Reposted by Tim CookeTim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026As I finish my first piece of weird fiction in ages, due to long-term PhD immersion, here’s a throwback to when one of my favourite writers reviewed my last collection. #finestmoment nation.cymru/culture/book...nation.cymruBook review: Dark Play by Tim CookeNiall Griffiths is engrossed and intrigued by a debut collection of stories full of deep oddness. Rural noir, folk horror, the new weird: constrained by word count here, I’d advise you to consult Wiki... 023
Reposted by Tim CookeZachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think this went out of print in the time it took to percolate to the top of my to-read pile but do track it down if you like things creepy and understated 2197
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Wow, have only just come across this fantastic piece on my weird little book, Dark Play. Thank you very much @seizethepress.bsky.social @megapolisomancy.bsky.social 185
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Oh wow! Thanks so much for this Zach - I’ve only just seen it. Made my week! 010
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 28/08/2026As I finish my first piece of weird fiction in ages, due to long-term PhD immersion, here’s a throwback to when one of my favourite writers reviewed my last collection. #finestmoment nation.cymru/culture/book...nation.cymruBook review: Dark Play by Tim CookeNiall Griffiths is engrossed and intrigued by a debut collection of stories full of deep oddness. Rural noir, folk horror, the new weird: constrained by word count here, I’d advise you to consult Wiki... 023
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Enjoying a long awaited holiday… and about to start some equally long awaited weird fiction. 010
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 04/07/2026After 7 years, the dissertation is done. Referencing has been quite the journey… 120
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Pamuk is fast becoming a real favourite. This book is beautiful… 020
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 24/05/2026My daughter found this very old-looking horse shoe in Epping Forest a while back - any thoughts on date or how to date it? 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Enjoying The Dark Wizard series about Dean Potter - reminding me, at points, of M John Harrison’s Climbers. What a novel that is. 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Nice Parkrun pb and now off to Cardiff for Super Furry Animals. Great Saturday! 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Just started reading this to my daughters - had almost forgotten how beautiful it is… 000
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 18/04/20262000 words in two days of writing that I’m relatively happy with - a feat rarely achieved. 010
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I’ve not finished it yet, but this has got about everything I want in a book. It’s about place, childhood (how odd it is), memory, history, family and more. It’s strange, poetic, unpredictable and scholarly. Seriously good writing… 010
Reposted by Tim CookeAngus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television. 8239111035
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Choosing four favourite writers is extremely tough. I’m just about happy with these, I think… 000
Reposted by Tim CookeTobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Really dug @justintaylor.bsky.social's review of a newly-translated Halldor Laxness novel. www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...harvardreview.orgA Parish Chronicle - Harvard ReviewThat Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u... 1134
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Love this. Independent People is one of the greatest novels I’ve read. I think I’m due another Laxness… 010