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Gareth Hanrahan

@mytholder.bsky.social

He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, PISCES, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh

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Gareth Hanrahan@mytholder.bsky.social · 9h ago

There is a new Bobby Fingers video so you should watch the new Bobby Fingers video and if you have not watched the other Bobby Fingers videos you should go back and watch the other Bobby Fingers videos and even if you have watched the other Bobby Fingers videos already you could watch them again

Tim Clare@timclare.bsky.social · 11h ago

I might start circulating accounts of terrifying near-misses involving my books via press release. Wait... is this what the Necronomicon & The King in Yellow were doing all along? Did we get doom-trolled?!

Gareth Hanrahan@mytholder.bsky.social · 10h ago

It has, already, been a morning (sleepless child bouncing around the house at 4am, a power cut just as I’m about to have a shower, deadlines upon deadlines), and now I find that there is *almost* no milk in the house. Am I desperate enough…?

A newly made cup of tea without milk, and a carton of chocolate milk.
Quinn Giguiere@quinngiguiere.com · 2d ago

I just finished The Sword Triumphant by @mytholder.bsky.social and I have no words. It's the first book I've read in a long time that makes me want to sit in my chair and think about it for hours, but also get up immediately and not stop talking about. This one will stay with me for a very long time

An old man with long white hair and beard kneeling in front of a glowing red sword planted in the ground
Richy Craven@richycraven.bsky.social · last yr.

Weirdly AI is making me a more productive writer because any time I get stuck, or run out of momentum on a document, I ask myself "What are you going to do, Richy? Ask the machine for help?" and then I'm suddenly fueled by sufficient spite to keep going.

Gareth Hanrahan@mytholder.bsky.social · 3d ago

Did the random draw for these: Winners are @ladynuala.bsky.social (sky), @natural20.bsky.social (fb) and Chlor Bookdragon on insta.

Gareth Hanrahan@mytholder.bsky.social · 3w ago

So, THE DUNGEON BOOK (out August 11th) has chapter art by @edelrh7.bsky.social, and we’ve put it on cards. If you’ve preordered the book, reply to this thread with proof (or a blood oath to that effect); I’ll randomly pick a reply or two and send out a set of cards…

The Dungeon Book, covered in lovely cards
Gareth Hanrahan@mytholder.bsky.social · 3d ago

From what I recall from working on DRACULA DOSSIER - our best guess was that the 'sees a man seemingly dead and says "no"' is a reference to a planned scene in the Munich Deadhouse. thevictorianbookofthedead.wordpress.com/2022/08/03/i...

In a Munich Dead-House

In this, our second in the occasional series, “Little Visits to the Great Morgues of Europe,” we find ourselves in Munich. I will point out that the “waiting mortuaries” of Germany represent a sepa…

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Anthony Oliveira@meakoopa.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am going through Bram Stoker’s earliest notes on DRACULA today - they include a list of the powers and features of the Count (then named “Wampyr” before Stoker stumbled on “Dracula”), many of which are never elucidated in the book…

• panters cannot pant hım; looks like someone else (38b) • insensitive to music (38b) • despises death and the dead (38b) . is affected only by relics that are older than he is (38b) • can create evil thoughts in others, banish good ones, and destroy will (38b) • cannot be photographed; photographs come out black or like a skeleton corpse (4, 38b) • can tell if bodies are dead or alive (4) • sees man semingly dead and says "no" (4) • has to be brought or carried over threshold. Dracula visits an asylum where he stumbles on the threshold (4, 16) • named "Count Wampyr" (1) • can determine and prove if people are sane (24) green taper with blue flame in Count's house (43va)
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you’re a Gondorian soldier your experience with hobbits is a tiny guy shows up with a wizard and is immediately taken in the Steward’s counsel. He saves Faramir when the Steward goes mad. A second tiny guy arrives with the Rohirrim and kills the Witch King. The first one then goes on campaign …