My new book on sale at the museum in Bexhill - home town for Augusta Victoria College, Hitler's finishing school
Paul StJohn Mackintosh
@pstjmack.bsky.social
Poet, writer of weird, dark, fantastic, historical and horror fiction, historian, journalist, TTRPG creator, francophile 🏴 🇨🇵
Pleased to report wearing my new Occult Detective Magazine Associate Editor hat that the Kickstarter for the new Sherlock Holmes/Carnacki anthology is already oversubscribed with over a fortnight to go. Sign up to join the ghost hunt! #SherlockHolmes www.kickstarter.com/projects/bel...
The Detective and the Ghost-Finder
Sherlock Holmes and Carnacki the Ghost-Finder team up in an all-new anthology!
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All, happy to announce that henceforth I'll be Associate Editor at Occult Detective Magazine, joining John Linwood Grant and Dave Brzeski. First order of business will be to pass the finalists for the upcoming folk horror special, so watch this space... #occultdetection #OccultDetectiveMagazine
My review of China Miéville's monumental... er, well, very long... new novel The Rouse, has just gone public. And yes, it is surprisingly Jamesian in parts. #TheRouse #ChinaMiéville #MRJames #ghoststories
Epeolatry Book Review: The Rouse by China Miéville - The Horror Tree
Book review of The Rouse by China Miéville. It was Published by Picador on September 17th, 2026!
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A first review of my new book on fascism putting on a friendly face in 30s seaside Sussex www.theargus.co.uk/news/2664434...
New book explores Sussex finishing school for daughters of Nazi leaders
A finishing school that trained the daughters of Nazi leaders on the Sussex coast is the subject of a new book.
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Just had a massive weekend at FantasyCon 2026 in Glasgow. Great con, global scale - over 800 attendees - at the venue of venues! #Fantasycon
Jumping Jack by Paul Klee, 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137467
All, I've created an open FB group for Cthulhu Eternal, the free and open source d100 system for cosmic horror TTRPG play, with free SRDs. Compatible with early edition #callofcthulhu materials. Uses public domain creations of #HPLovecraft and other cosmic horrors. www.facebook.com/groups/16105...
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It got a little beat up in the post but I'm still very glad to get my copy of this... @datlow.bsky.social
Took a long while for my author copies to arrive, but very glad now they have
Not quite back to full function yet but getting there - complete with improvised pressure bandage cut from an old sock
The point of legislated dehumanization is never just the law itself but the creation of a climate in which institutions become more timid and companies more cautious. Erasure of a people under capitalism arrives first as a thousand risk calculations.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4mo ago@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...
I'm delighted to launch the 2026 Best of British bundle today! storybundle.com/bestof w/ @ianmcdonald.bsky.social @julietemckenna.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social & more! Just $30 for 15 books! Plus supporting @locusmag.bsky.social! Reposts appreciated!
The end of reading is soon followed by the end of thinking www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
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Mathematics refutes bogus AI hype. "Language models cannot learn all computable functions. As soon as they are tasked with solving a broad spectrum of issues, they will inevitably hallucinate. There is no training method, no architectural variant, and no amount of data that can shift this limit."
How Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI
Hallucinations of language models are not an engineering problem: they stem from mathematical limits proven since the 1930s.
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Installed Fedora Linux on my old HP netbook, and the thing's never been faster or more responsive. Linux is rapidly leaving Windows 11 far behind.
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Jo Walton's "Everybody's Perfect"; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/30/s... #Pluralistic 1/
I'm definitely on board with this response as regards Runequest
Rob Donoghue@rdonoghue.bsky.social · 5mo agoWell, god dammit, I'm mad that there's nothing to get mad about here! :) More seriously, great follow up, and I'm especially glad that Mark took my response as discussion, not as "DIE IN A FIRE, INFIDEL"
A very iäppy birthday to Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan, one of the absolute best living authors of Lovecraftian fiction and fantastic fiction in general. And many more, because how could we do without them. lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Caitlin...
Caitlin R. Kiernan
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (26 May 1964 - present) is an Irish-born American author of weird fiction, much of which includes Lovecraftian themes. They have published over 10 novels in the science fiction...
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It is a scandalous offence, look you! The good Welshman Ruadri Cadwallader, god of the dancefloors of Leith! 🏴
Waters of Leith Season 2 (Act 5): The Fairy Mound (part 1) | Rivers of London Actual Play
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Roland Banks and Trish Scarborough investigate a nautical mystery in Alaska in the first chapter of a new Arkham Horror serial...
The Beginning…of the End?
As promised, my follow up to Shadows of the Drowned City, Call of the Cursed Sea, started last week. The first chapter drops our intrepid duo, Roland Banks and Trish Scarborough, into a nautical mystery in Alaska. What secrets does an abandoned Russian merchantman hold, and what does it have to do with the enigmatic Randall Tillinghast? Read on and find out! And if you enjoy these serials, why not check out my Arkham Horror novels, featuring the exploits of gentlewoman thief and adventuress, Countess Zorzi?
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British Fantasy Society@britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe shortlisted works for the British Fantasy Award 2026 in the category of Best Magazine or Periodical are: 📚 Ginger Nuts of Horror / @gnofhorror.com 📚 Remains 📚 Phantasmagoria 📚 Strange Horizons / @strangehorizons.bsky.social 📚 Mythaxis Magazine / @mythaxis.bsky.social
Been enjoying a terrific stay at the Ultharian Embassy - a.k.a. TL Wiswell's great place in South London. Great food, great books, great hospitality and feline overlords!
A great evening at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk, with Ben Adam Sohawon reading "The Haunter of the Dark", then TL Wiswell's poignant and chilling mini-opera "The Dunwich Horror Picture Show". The audience woofed, chirped, and chanted on cue & had a fantastic time. Great work the creators! @Lovecraft
The very remarkable Atlantis Bookshop in Bloomsbury goes Spare - Austin Osman Spare to be exact
NEW: The Starforged Asset Deck Assets are a key component of your Starforged character, and represent your background, skills, traits, companions, vehicles, and resources. Whether playing solo, co-op, or guided, one deck is all you need for everyone at the table. from @shawntomkin.bsky.social
