Stephen Baird

small hours big time putting lots of shapes together until a suggestion is revealed moon on the hill - a dark room Phobos in the middle of the garden

5/3/26 - nocturn

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I'm off for eight days on Saturday and I can feel that sore throat from all the germs on public transport beginning, better not get ill

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MEET THE BÀRD: Stu Hennigan | Bard Books We are delighted to be hosting the first London event for Stu Hennigan's hotly tipped debut novel 'Keshed', a brutally poetic examination of class, belonging, masculinity, addiction and fatherhood. St...

This time next week i'll be in London for this one, would be great to see loads of you there given that between the train, travelodge and two days off work, it's costing me more than HALF the advance just to come and do it 😳😳😳😳😳😳

www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-detail...

finite space, we don’t have access to L-Space

and cool your cookies

and fuck retail and public transport

The cat’s outta the bag: I’ll be conversing with filmmaker Mick Garris at this year’s Salem Horror Fest. I’ve been dying to go for years now, so this is a special treat. Rue Morgue’s got the scoop right here: bit.ly/3N2BnEv

Scratch Moss by David Barnett | Canelo Paperback and Ebook

SCRATCH MOSS by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social is out today with @canelobooks.bsky.social!

A devastating, five-timeline tale centred on a community first invigorated, then devastated by the coal mining industry in the most original folk horror novel of the year.

www.canelo.co/books/scratc...

“A family wakes up dead. Heaven & Hell have questions.” I sat down with narrative legend Richard Dansky (Assassin‘s Creed, White Wolf) to discuss his new novel GHOSTS OF SMOKE AND FLAME, self-publishing epiphanies, and why Lovecraft knew less is more. 🔗👇

gnofhorror.com/richard-dans...

Kinks and kuddles

Snoggers and sniggers

had it and now am no longer a children’s bookseller

give me smut

Oooh I’ve got magic

Oooooh magical school

Oh friends

Ah enemies

DESTINY!

That would certainly add to a night of Lex Arcana

Delilah is pictured looking pictured among 8 of her Horror novels: Ride or Die, Mine, It Will Only Hurt for a Moment, The Violence, Camp Scare, House of Idyll, Guillotine, and Bloom. Now that you've read this alt text, you are legally required to buy one (or more). Sorry, those are the Women in Horror Month rules, and they are binding.

It's Women in Horror Month, and I myself am a woman in Horror. For great recs in female-written Horror, check out Feral and Hysterical by @sadiehartmann.bsky.social. Call it Pink Horror if you buy more of it, make sure that Horror antho TOC is 50% women, and keep it inclusive. #WomeninHorror

not on my threads

The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells Before the 19th century, painting was the art of silence. Painters of antiquity, of the Renaissance, of the 17th and 18th centuries, never envisaged the possibility of rendering sounds, noises […]

Before the 19th century, painting was the art of silence. Painters of antiquity, of the Renaissance, of the 17th and 18th centuries, never envisaged the possibility of rendering sounds, noises […]

flip flop that’s my name

A DNF on World Book Day

Last few days for our 3-hardbacks-for-£32 offer. Three 'watery' books: Steve Ely's 'Eely' (the Sargasso Sea to the English fens); Fay Musselwhite's 'Contraflow' (Sheffield's river valleys); Matthew Clegg's 'The Navigators' (the Lake District to the North Sea).

Preface to Der Blaue Reiter Almanac A great era is beginning and by this time has begun: the spiritual “awakening,” the emerging inclination to regain “lost balance,” the inevitable necessity of spiritual cultivation, the unfolding of […]

A great era is beginning and by this time has begun: the spiritual “awakening,” the emerging inclination to regain “lost balance,” the inevitable necessity of spiritual cultivation, the unfolding of […]

1950 Allarme UFO! 1st ed by Antonello Lotronto (1996) Qualitygame An Italian-language sci-fi RPG based on the 50’s alien invasion B-movies, part of the “I Giochi del 2000” collection. Description A Sci-fi RPG set […]

1st ed by Antonello Lotronto (1996) Qualitygame An Italian-language sci-fi RPG based on the 50’s alien invasion B-movies, part of the “I Giochi del 2000” collection. Description A Sci-fi RPG set […]

I'm assuming

SCRATCH MOSS by David Barnett with a miner's lamp and a magpie linocut

It is publication day for SCRATCH MOSS. Please be buying it from your vendor of choice, or ask your local library to get it in. Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook.

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How I feel when someone blocks me.

Remind me to stock more kids Darth Vader books next year, had a run on them yesterday

Mystery of the Midnight Cartographers by Barry Nugent — Runalong The Shelves I would like to thank the author for an advance copy of this novel in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Batten Press Published – Out Now Price – £16.99 hardback via https:/...

New Review - Appropriately for World Book Day a fantasy story that all ages should have fun with. The 1980s, magic, secrets and did I mention the talking hamster? I strongly recommend Mystery of the Midnight Cartographers by @geeksyndicate.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/3/...

If you like Japanese food there is a great one called Vegan Japaneasy, we're working our way through start to finish and not a bad recipe yet

bigbeardedbookseller.uk/vegan-japane...

Join Us: Twenty of the Creepiest Cults in Horror Fiction Beware strange or persuasive men and women who insist they have all the answers!

Coming soon is part one of another fantastic list of recommended books by @jonezyboy.bsky.social. This time, it's gonna be about haunted houses! This one might be bigger than his piece on creepy cults!

www.horrordna.com/features/joi...