Tom Coombe

I was right to hate 90% of my classmates.

PI and FOLLOWING both came out in 1998 and it’s so funny 25+ years later that Christopher Nolan is editing a huge blockbuster epic shot entirely on film with IMAX cameras for cinemas while Darren Aronofsky is using AI to produce some dogshit special called “Thomas Edison: The Light Bulb Boy!”

It reviews software code, apparently.

Yeah, let's all listen to the guy still young enough to be covered by his parent's insurance.

The janitor who carved “Remember the story of Bluebeard” into all the fifth floor closets has been fired.

Five ‘70s flicks that you love and return to time and again:

Black Christmas
Taxi Driver
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A Clockwork Orange
The Taking of Pelham 123

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1. Shamelessly plugging my newest story "Onions" out on The Brussel's Review Dark Anthology.⤵️

Just finished up my proofreading round of IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT. Coming soon April 2026!

-THE NANNY DIARIES x HOSTEL 2
-Extreme horror/splatterpunk
-Music box ballerinas and teddy bears, in the worst way
-The rich really are different

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Thanks for the fun chat!

Plugging my drabble which won the December drabble contest from Anomaly and is up today!

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Thanks so much Gree! Very good questions that make me think!

As usual I have stories on my Itch page for those interested. Two short stories and my book The Assassins Raven, all free to download. (Hopefully more to put on there soon).

anna-verner.itch.io

My dark little voice thanks you, Gree!

My new post-apocalyptic novella, Rat-She, is out 21st Feb.

After an attempted cull of the human population, horrific mutations send sufferers on the trail of the Surgeon. But does he exist?

mybook.to/Rat-She

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A town embraces weird new Halloween traditions. A city succumbs to a plague of insomnia. And a clown costume lets one man be a better person as everyone else embraces their worst selves.

All these stories and more.

Thank you!

The dagger does not budge. The skull might as well be filled with cement.

"Think of this as a 'sword in the stone' situation," the darkness says. "It turns out this dagger isn't for you. The one who can wield it, he's on his way. You should leave now. Go home. Hoard food."

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Few of my characters "embrace" darkness. It usually comes for them. And the transformations tend to be permanent. #HorrorWritersChat

It really depends on the character, but typically my stories are about people confronting an external or internal darkness, and not often succeeding.

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Tom Coombe, writer of many short stories, living with a deep, deep well of anger.

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Failing that, a long, slow shot of the woods taken by a drone.

The shortest-lived career at my high school was the music teacher who told us that George Bush took the “thousand points of light/kinder, gentler” lines from this song, and not the other way around.

Twin Peaks reference on the Simpsons: The Giant dancing with the white horse under a traffic light

A fun thing about watching Twin Peaks was realizing “Oh, this was a specific reference, not just them saying ‘what a weird show.’”

"The G.I. Joe guy I lost in 1987!"

Yeah, there's a third season I've still never seen.

It seems like it's only available on DVD now. There's some sort of rights issue that caused them to pull it from Amazon.

A horror show disguised as a Nordic mystery. Some really unhinged body horror in the first season.

If nothing else, read Tiptoe.

Seriously, fuck these people. I would hide additional ducks.

From the people who brought you "I'm going to subtract a dollar from your tip every time you do something I don't like"

We could learn about entertainment. Tonight and on subsequent nights.

My prediction: a new entertainment-focused format, allowing viewers to "access" Hollywood.

Please help the Nashwan family.

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