@daniel-fox.bsky.social
Writer of Horror, Thrillers, Fantasy, and children's books. I also created a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style horror game. Wow, I should really focus. My Books: https://shorturl.at/lzUBW
Marty McFries?
Tater Todd?
Russet Crowe?
Marilyn Mashroe?
Tater Swift?
"I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov was published on this day in 1950. ๐ค
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3 big author birthdays today! Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), was born in 1874. Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain 9The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) was born in 1835. And Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels) was born in 1667.
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"As You Pike It"?
"The Taming of the Shrimp"
"Romeo and Fillet"
Ummm...
"Trout Night"?
Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was first published on this day in 1865. It would gain enough notice and praise to kick off his fiction-writing career.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky ("Crime and Punishment," "The House of the Dead") was sentenced to death on this day in 1849 for belonging to a radical, anti-government, intellectual group.
They put him in front of a firing squad before his sentence was commuted to 4 years hard labour in a prison camp.
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"Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson was published in novel form on this day in 1883. Apparently it was responsible for shaping a number of pirate archetypes like one-legged peg-leg pirates, parrots on shoulders, X marking a spot on a map, etc.
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"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad was published in its novella form on this day in 1902 (it was previously published in serialized form). ๐ฅ๏ธ
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of "Crime and Punishment," "The Brother Karamazov," "Notes From the Underground," and more was born on this day in 1821.
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Benjamin Franklin founded the first public library in the U.S., The Library Company of Philadelphia, on this day in 1731. You had to pay a deposit, but you got the money back when you returned the book.
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Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" was published this day in 1899, and ever since then every dream you have means you want to have sex with your mom.
04.11.2025 18:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The very first "Godzilla" movie premiered in Japan on this day in 1954!
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"Whatever you do, don't believe the legs."
28.10.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0John Carpenter's "Halloween" was released on this day in 1978! ๐๐ช
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You know what's super fun around this time of year? If you said, "Reading Halloween-themed horror anthologies," then HECK YA! You were right. A bunch of us inkspillers contributed to this bad boy of a book which is available now!
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"The Return of the King" was published on this day in 1955.
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Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" was published this day in 1847. TIL that it was originally criticized for being anti-Christian because of Jane's rebellious nature.
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Will a propellor-hat be seen as disrespectful or as lighthearted fun?
16.10.2025 17:06 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" was published on this day in 1952! ๐ธ๏ธ๐ท๏ธ๐ธ๏ธ
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Hey gang, do you like anthologies with the theme of diabolical deals? Of course you do! And would ya look at that, here's an anthology that I contributed to about that very thing! A whole whack of short stories about bargains made with devils.
www.amazon.ca/Unseen-Agree...?
TIL that originally Edgar Allen Poe didn't have a raven saying "Nevermore," it was a parrot. He needed a bird that could repeat the word over and over, and a parrot fit the bill. However, a parrot wasn't melancholy enough, so he swapped in a raven and the rest is history.
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Happy Birthday to author Anne Rice who was born on this day in 1941.
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"Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott was published on this day in 1868. Or at least half of it was. The first half was put out with only 2000 copies and nobody expected much. But those copies sold out quickly. The second half came out the next year and became a critical and commercial success.
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Truman Capote was born on this day in 1924. He gave us the character Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and the chilling nonfiction account of two murderers in "In Cold Blood."
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T.S. Eliot was born on this day in 1888. He would go on to write "The Waste Land" and the screenplay for 2019's "Cats". (It's possible that some of the above is not totally accurate.)
26.09.2025 18:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's William Faulkner's birthday today. Born in 1897, he would go on to write "The Sound and the Fury," "Light in August," "As I Lay Dying," and the short story "A Rose for Emily." He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
25.09.2025 17:22 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on this day in 1896. He was one of the great writers depicting the Jazz Age, writing "The Great Gatsby," "Tender Is The Night," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."
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It's Stephen King's birthday today! Born on this day in 1947, Stephen would go on to star as Jordy Verrill in the "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" segment of 1982's "Creepshow." He also wrote some books.
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It's George R.R. Martin's birthday today! Born on this day in 1948, George would write "The Pear-shaped Man" and, I don't know, maybe some other books.
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man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going
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