Shona Ray

Never forget: Art matters.

Ooh good idea!

At the moment, I’m regrettably not reading Edgar Allan Poe whilst having cappuccinos and croissants in a dimly-lit quaint café on a cobblestone street in Prague during a snowstorm, so no, I’m afraid your email did not “find me well.”

Looks like a good read! Great to see our real life being portrayed without the ubiquitous ending 'ooh look, I'm cured!'

Who will wear the 👑?

A huge bookstore with a tiny/nonexistent horror section is a shitty, incomplete bookstore. I said what I said.

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

Thanks! Yeah it's pretty specific! I'll keep searching then (this could take some time...)

My hubby saw your reply before I did and he's v impressed! He spends a LOT of time coding in R. I guess these stories have a limited audience... we might have to start our own lit mags!

Pseudotooth paperback (signed) - Verity Holloway's Ko-fi Shop The debut novel from Verity Holloway, Pseudotooth is an adult take on ‘portal fantasy’, boldly tackling issues of trauma responses, social difference ...

You can buy my out-of-print portal fantasy, Pseudotooth, directly from me, all signed and doodled in. This book made at least two readers miss their stops on the train.

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You might come to regret that offer! 😆

Winter conducts its slow seduction. It has disrobed the trees, its cold kisses make them shiver. Revelation of their wooden bones offers us a new, intimate language. They speak of swelling dark and coming ice. They speak their lover's secret names. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #Winter

So can anyone recommend the right lit mag for a satirical dystopian fairy tale told in the form of legislation? No? Oh. Well, it seems I wrote it anyway 🙄 #WritingCommunity #writersky #litmags
@chillsubs.bsky.social

Cowled elderly female figure in the brambles, permeated by bramble, producing bramble. Pencil drawing with added colour.

She is still here.

Interesting! I should probably know this, but what is the difference? (Clearly I have some reading to do)

Ooh lots of good stuff to read there. Well done!

Stop what you're doing and watch these sleepy chaps.

She's amazing isn't she? Every time I think she won't be able to top the last album, she creates something incredible yet again.

November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan

Our forthcoming #BeyondandWithinWitchcraft hits Forbidden Planet for pre-order. Link below 🧙

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Here’s some (more, I shared her work back in May) Dead Seagull art to make your Saturday a little better.

My staff picks are up on the website!! The northern weird Project by @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
includes books by @talkscaredpod.bsky.social
and @jodierobins.bsky.social
was my favorite thing in publishing this year, and @rachelharrison.bsky.social
Play Nice is in my top five of the year!

a woman is sitting on a couch clapping her hands and smiling . Alt: Florence Welch is wearing a black lace dress, sitting on a couch clapping her hands and smiling.

While being ill this past year, I listened to Florence's entire back catalogue, two songs at a time, which frankly was the best possible use of my very limited energy
#florenceandthemachine #fatm #pwme #everybodyscream

Art by Fidelia Bridges. Title: November. Painting of two blackbirds in a November, autumn landscape.

The blackbird sings to him, 'Brother, brother,
If this be the last song you shall sing,
Sing well, for you may not sing another;
Brother, sing.'
-Julian Grenfell

@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat.

Creep factor is fine by me! I LOVE Catriona Ward. Aiming to read all of hers, this will be my third. Great to hear it's a good one!

John Langan - The Fisherman book cover. A painting of a tempestuous sea and dark stormy clouds.

'A Bram Stoker Award winning novel, The Fisherman is a masterpiece of cosmic horror that contains elements of Lovecraft, Moby Dick and the ghost stories of M.R. James.'

#JohnLangan's The Fisherman is No 16 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century so far

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I haven't even bought the album yet and that song is living in my head already. SO excited to hear the rest!

There's still time to participate in this month's #WriteCBC 🙂

A pile of books - The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward, The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan.

Hmmm... which book to read next?
#booksky #horror #gothic #writers