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Josh Reynolds

@jmreynolds.bsky.social

Freelance Author; Occasional Editor; Semi-professional Monster Movie Enthusiast.

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Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · 11h ago

A new Liber Obscurorum entry today! This time we take a look at the artefact known as the Saaamaaa Disc...

The Saaamaaa Disc

Instrumenta Magicae Strange Artefacts of the Royal Occultist Mythos. 4. The Saaamaaa Disc The Saaamaaa Disc is a disc of beaten silver, engraved with the signs of the ancient Saaamaaa Ritual by unknown hands. The disc itself is tiny, barely larger than a pocket-watch and most often residing in a teakwood box made by special appointment sometime during Victoria's reign. The box, in turn, is often to be found in the battered Gladstone bag carried by Charles St. Cyprian during his investigations. The disc has proven useful in driving back various lesser Saiitii manifestations encountered by St.

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Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · 2d ago

Watching Night of the Demon (1980) and this professor and his students are absolutely terrible at - well - everything. Re-traumatise a lonely woman? Check. Dig up a dead baby? Check. Set fires in the woods and let them go out of control? Check. I'm honestly hoping the Bigfoot kills them all.

Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you didn't manage to secure a preorder copy of Ancient Tracks in time, fear not! There's a handful left...

Get ’em While They Last

I'm pleased to say that my new collection, Ancient Tracks, is now winging its way to the hands of those who preordered a copy. But if you'd still like to buy a copy, never fear, I'm told there's a few left. Robert Morgan, over ay Sarob Press, says he has three copies left, and the good folks over at Cold Tonnage - a book dealer I highly recommend, by the way, having bought a good many books from them over the years - have five copies for sale. So, eight chances to grab a copy of…

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Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sunday Soul Man Sam & Dave were the soundtrack to my childhood. I've been listening to them since I was my daughter's age, if not younger. I have my dad to thank for that; he passed his love for classic soul and R&B music on to me, and it continues to be a comfort to me in stressful times. "Soul…

Sunday Soul Man

Sam & Dave were the soundtrack to my childhood. I've been listening to them since I was my daughter's age, if not younger. I have my dad to thank for that; he passed his love for classic soul and R&B music on to me, and it continues to be a comfort to me in stressful times. "Soul Man" is probably the best known of their catalogue, which isn't really a surprise. It's a great song, and it's been widely covered, parodied and included on a variety of soundtracks. I highly recommend you track down their 1967 album, …

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Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · 4d ago

You, a pleb: The recent work of Al Ewing and Donny Cates on Venom is some of the best work with the character since his first appearance... Me, an aesthete: Venom - Deathtrap: The Vault is the best Venom has ever been or will be.

Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · 5d ago

Other horror author: [crafts subtle sense of the world being askew, creeping horror, conflicts of faith, upended certainties, etc.] Me: Punchy-punchy-run-run. Big monster go crash.

Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today's review is the 1953 kaiju-classic, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms!

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) is another old favourite. It's a sort of proto-Godzilla, appearing a year prior to the king kaiju. I first saw it on television on a Saturday marathon and then, once I realised what I'd seen, I spent almost a decade trying to find a copy in order to watch it again. Ostensibly based on Ray Bradbury's "The Fog Horn", it diverges almost entirely from the source material and into similar territory (and a decidedly similar plot) as The Deadly Mantis (1957), i.e. a prehistoric horror, freed from the ice by man's hubris and set loose to terrify the modern world.

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Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Lucas Tieman@lucastieman.bsky.social · 6d ago

There would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.

Kaleidotrope@kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 6d ago

Even their name—Science Fiction Weekly—is unoriginal, the same name as the Sci-Fi Channel magazine edited back in the day by @scottedelman.bsky.social. (Even more aggravating, they've reprinted some of Scott's own DSF stories, and they're the first result when you Google their and his name.

Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

Coy Hall@coyhall.bsky.social · last wk.

I have a new story out this month in the first issue of Ogerog Annual. It’s called ‘Not Since the Tragic Astronauts of Old.’ Check it out. Link below.

Cover of Ogerog Annual features an illustration from Stephanie Ellis’ story called Eye of the Giant
Josh Reynolds@jmreynolds.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote a new thing for Arkham Horror, and it's about vampires!

The Ravenous Undead

In a surprising turn of events, I have written something for Arkham Horror. Shocking, I know. Anyway, I recently had the pleasure of contributing a bit of vampire lore for folklorist Kōhaku Narukami’s Book of Living Myths, which you can read right here, if you're interested. I don't know what it might portend for Arkham or its citizens, but it's probably nothing good, I can tell you that. This one was fun. I got to dig out some of my older research books - if you're writing about a folklorist in 1920-something, you have to use sources from the period, which I happen to have quite a few of.

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering@jeanneologist.bsky.social · last wk.

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.