Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes

A relic of horny Hollywood: why The Mummy remains a classic bisexual awakening movie A floppy-haired Brendan Fraser, a smokey-eyed Rachel Weisz, some grisly scarabs and biblical plagues? Hail to a lost era of multiplex entertainment

"From Oded Fehr as a desert warrior to an oily-pecced Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep, every character on screen – regardless of gender or narrative affiliation – exudes sweaty sexual energy. What’s more, there is unfakeable chemistry between the romantic leads."

1/ It looks like something from a galaxy far, far away, but this is the Harvest Moon rising over Titterstone Clee. The sky was a vivid blend of pink and purple, contrasting with the cool tones of the radar dome below. I had reached the summit with plenty of time to spare and... #Shropshire

Ah, presumably this is something I need to do, as I've never heard of storygraph 😬

Thank youuuuuuuuuu

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What a blessed time! 🖤

This is high up on my TBR. I love a bit of found footage (and was in the first antho!)

Just started reading London Weird , a micro-collection of horror by @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social ! It’s very creepy and good!

Awww, thank you! 'enjoy'!

Thank you! Hope you have a good / terrible time reading

Also the microwave I bought when I moved into my first studio flat in 2007 (a classic 'mattress on a shelf = 'mezzanine level'' affair) has finally cracked in half, so if you were minded to pick up some stories, now (soup season) would be a LOVELY time to do so!

A stack of books making up all the physical, well, books that my writing has been in since 2020. All The White Spaces, Where The Dead Wait, the best of Three Crows vol 2, It Calls From The Doors, The Earth Bleeds at Night, Darkness Beckons, FOUND: an anthology of found footage horror, Something Peculiar, Jamie Hallow and the End of the World, Cloisterfox zine, London Weird, Boreal: an anthology of Taiga Horror, and Unquiet Guests.

With the addition of UNQUIET GUESTS (out 30th Oct from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social ed. @dancoxon.bsky.social) I have finally outgrown my brag shelf and now have a... brag stack, WTAF??
2020 - early October 2025.

Image is of Ally, a white-skinned person with long dark hair, wearing a black Harley jacket on a tube platform and holding up a copy of London Weird by Ally Wilkes.

Hello new followers! If you've joined me after my spooky settings task for @cbcreative.bsky.social, you might want to check out my micro-collection of three short horror stories with new twists on old settings. It's a lunch-break steal at 0.99 on kindle or free on Kindle U!
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The Titans of Terror Tour continues ... London, TOMORROW, @cgolden.bsky.social and I are joined by @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @vlatinalondon.bsky.social and @manylittlewords.bsky.social where we'll talk all things horror! Please come along!

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66/2025 was The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett, just a delight from start to finish. I can't believe it's taken me so long to discover the Tiffany Aching books. A witchy oversight!

“Mary Shelley has released a new title!”

She hath risen.

They are called writers

There's a certain sort of person who'll always see women as just visually-pleasing wallpaper

Where you can encounter me, October edition:
💀 Tues 7th Waterstones Trafalgar Square for TITANS OF TERROR tour
👻 Tues 28th Waterstones Islington for UNQUIET GUESTS antho launch
🎃 Fri 31st Titan party @ World Fantasy Con
🦇 Sat 1st Black Crow antho launch @ World Fantasy Con

Leviathan @l3vlat4an X.com Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an "AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla. What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt? AUTISM

That she's cool as fuck?

Right? It's like the funhouse mirror distorted version of Lolly Willowes

65/2025 was Tales Accursed: a folk horror anthology ed. @slipperyjack.bsky.social, who was fucked over by the Unbound debacle and deserves to SELL OUT of this gorgeous and beautifully-chosen anthology. Each one a delight, but The Country-Side by Elinor Mordanut was new to me and !!! I loved it

I AM a horrible queer, how did you know?
All links at www.allywilkes.com 🖤

SHROOM SUNDAY 2025 | londonfungusnetwork A day of mushroom-inspired fun at London's secret nature reserve

Any East London friends want a free ticket to a mushroom-themed day out in Chingford tomorrow?
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Of course I will be, see you there!

I'm going to the Titan party and also the Black Crow book launch!

I have several novellas currently in mind DON'T TEMPT ME

Ha ha HA this is exactly what I like to see too (and why I included one in my debut)

We're all pretty confused

Perhaps... a novella... a very thin novella...