Bryon Valencia

Lest We Forget by Adam Burn

Lest We Forget

#Art by Adam Burn

All roads lead to Derry.

#ItWelcomeToDerry is coming this October to HBO Max.

Our delivery of the 40th anniversary edition of LEGEND by David Gemmell turned up yesterday. And it is just gorgeous. Look at it.

We've been super busy here at IQ over the last couple of months (despite how quiet we've been on socials!)

Something awesome this way comes...

#BookSky #FantasyNovel #ShopIndie #IndiePress

A pair of Process 2 Technicolor screen shots from The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Above: Lon Chaney as The Phantom in his Red Death costume (skull mask, bandana, broad-brimmed hat, scarlet robes, staff topped with a snake holding a skull in its jaws) curling his left hand into a fist. Below: The Phantom's words to the assembled revellers (in white type over red curtains): "Beneath your dancing feet are the tombs of tortured men — thus does the Red Death rebuke your merriment!"

Multi-purpose sub-tweet/skeet/whatever…

Dead horse skeleton with 4 black crows on it

Dead Horse

#Art by Rostyslav Zagornov

The debut issue of American Gothic Studies has now been published! To access, join The Society for the Study of the American Gothic at www.americangothicsociety.com. Free article from this issue at scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/ags/art....

The cover of Frédéric Gros’ book, The Philosophy of Shame

I feel bad about how many books I buy

First edition cover of To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.

I went to the zoo earlier in the week. the gorillas were hot and leaning against the cool glass. It was a hot but fun day with the family.

Onmyoji Exorcist, a wraith skully hovers over steaming bowl

Onmyoji Exorcist

#Art by Tanmay Mandal

#booksky #writingsky

The Unfinished Business by Stephanie Campisi being held up by an author. The cover shows a night-time cityscape with ghost floating above it and a girl staring up out from a top-storey window.

It's (almost) a real book! Hooray!

@regalhouse.bsky.social

www.stephaniecampisi.com/the-unfinish...

#booksky #kidlit

Just under two weeks left in our summer reading period! 👇📚💙

Dark demon in the throes of death, disintegrating into oblivion

Death Process

#Art by Rob Stanley

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

If you can’t spare a room, fill a pillar.

#booksky #books #design #writingcommunity

A genuinely amazing book.

The Dead of Summer...gorgeously gold embossed blood red cover of strange tales in a new anthology from British Library Publishing edited by Johnny Mains

Midway between May Eve, Walpurgis Night, and the Summer Solstice the Wonderful @hatchards.bsky.social held their annual highly celebrated gathering of stoytellers... amongst the partygoers of course was Joan Aiken, in this ghostly anthology thanks to @blpublishing.bsky.social and @johnnymains.co.uk

This is what a Cold Air Front looks like from Space

At the start of June, we'll be announcing the theme and submissions window for our first short fiction anthology. Sign up to our newsletter at buttondown.com/carnyx to get notified.

If you'd like to get notified when our submissions open (and be the first to find out the theme for our debut anthology) you should sign up to our newsletter!

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I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC

📚 ¿y tù? 📖

Original cover to Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, the 3rd book Of The Hunger Games. All blue cover with a mockingjay from the books in flight.

“Frankly, our ancestors don’t seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars and the broken planet. Clearly, they didn’t care about what would happen to the people who came after them.” -Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins.

Something about this piece just speaks to my inner horror writer.

the front cover of a book called the whispers of rock: stories from the earth. behind the text is a multicoloured sandstone rock with lots of bands.

Welcome to The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth. A secret world that whispers stories of creation & destruction, of magic & mystery, of beauty & power. The keepers of such extraordinary tales are the rocks around us. Out 4th Sept 2025, pre-order: tinyurl.com/3m3vnzex
#naturewriting #geology

Today’s the day!