UK might not have any universities in 10 years time, but on the bright side the National Trust will have some gorgeous new ruins.
Steve Toase
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Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany Fortean Times comics reviewer published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
We drive darkening, ghosted roads. In these last minutes of solar alchemy, every turn is towards folklore. We become one with the land's long memory. One with a hodology where every traveller is another time's temporal shade. We become high strangeness. – #DAKilroy, 1982
A really interesting World Fantasy Shortlist! Also I think I can get this one looked at too! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...
2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…
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New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
Spotted in the wild, the extremely rare, and rarely seen, three-legged Franconian tarmac spider. Weaving webs through reality in a road near you.
Who's involved? As usual with Writing the Occult, we're bringing you a sparkling schedule of some of the best writers in SFFH, plus academics and folklorists to shed light on various aspects of the theme. Where is it? On Zoom, from 1pm UK time (8am US east coast) on Saturday 5 September. 🧵⬇️
Evening! Just read Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire. I’m working my way through the series. They’re a favourite of my sons.
Runalong Womble@runalongwomble.bsky.social · 4d agoGood morning Blue Sky! Today I’m currently reading the last few chapters of This Is Where The Future Bleeds by Mike Brooks and it is an excellent smart and funny fantasy. What are you reading at the moment? Replies may be delayed as at the beach this morning - I suffer deep down
It's rumoured there was once a government team monitoring all of England's stone and wooden sleepers for signs of omenic twitching. While certain records do suggest that the Department Recording And Measuring Anomalous Statues (DRAMAS) once existed, there's no trace of it now.
I’ve seen Aliens, Aliens 3, played Aliens v Predator on the Jaguar games system after everyone else went to sleep at a party, but I’ve never seen the original. Time to remedy that.
Got to be honest, #YorkshireDay has always seemed a bit cruel to me. A whole day of reminding people they don't live here. Just feels a little mean.
It's the weekend! Do you want to read a thick mythic portal fantasy with sirens, mermaids, loving descriptions of food/food preparation and cozy scenes? 🧜♀️ 🧜♂️ 🧜 🏰 ☄️🐟 🌊
Anita 🧜🏽♀️🏴☠️🪐@mythopoetica.bsky.social · 2y agoAn epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜♀️ #Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...
A video 4 years in the making @solarisbooks.bsky.social @lunapress.bsky.social
GEOINT #86912 from NROL-129 (ACCM) 1. Hadean Commissary 2. Pagan Darkness Compute Facility
If you see 2 pairs of footprints in the sand and they suddenly give way to a single pair, that is when I stopped playing with your severed feet and tossed them into the ocean never to be found
I can find very little about this online, but I remember when I first went into halls at uni in 1997 there was a 24 hour internet room and I would go on a themed forum. I think it was Le Hotel. I remember there were a lot of Canadians on there and that a lot of people used Wu Tang inspired names.
The wonderful @treadwells-books.bsky.social have signed copies of 'Hookland Fragments Volume One' with a free Right To Reside card back in stock if you want to buy from one of my favourite bookshops. www.treadwells-london.com/product-page...
Hookland Fragments Volume One - David Southwell | Treadwells
Discover the Fortean mysteries and folkloric history of Hookland, England's lost county. Created by David Southwell and documented extensively on social media for many years, the fictional Hookland ha...
treadwells-london.com
The ultimate Folk Horror comic? TC Eglington & Simon Davis join @molcher.bsky.social & @cuntersthompson.bsky.social to talk THISTLEBONE! YouTube: youtu.be/ytB2zxn4Le8 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6PYVpeF... Or search "Thrill-Cast" on your fav podcast app!
Copies of Unearthed are here! Except I seem to have been sent a box full of dirt... Unearthed is out on 15 Sept from @titanbooks.bsky.social, edited by myself and @pfracassi.bsky.social. Enjoy the video, and preorder via the link below. titanbooks.com/72519-uneart... #horror #horrorbooks #unboxing
So, the band and I recorded this. It's the musical version of my novella THE BLUE SALT ROAD, with illustrations by @bonniehawkinsart.bsky.social. Check it out on Bandcamp... joanneharrisandthestorytimeband.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
The Blue Salt Road, by Joanne Harris and the Storytime Band
16 track album
joanneharrisandthestorytimeband.bandcamp.com
The talented illustrator / scholar Peter Connolly is remembered for his reconstructions of ancient armies But did you know that he frequently managed to get himself in the picture? Usually as an Iron Age chieftain, king or druid 😆👍 #FindingConnolly #Archaeology #HillfortsWednesday #AncientBlueSky
Alt text:, ‘Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term "dark matter," which is impressive; but he also coined the term "spherical bastard" to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and l think that should be celebrated more.’
I AM DAD@iamdad.bsky.social · last wk.