David Barnett

IT’S WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH!
Be bold
Take up space
Ask for more money
Closed mouths don’t get fed
Follow your intuition
You are enough
Authenticity is enough
Ditch those self limiting beliefs
Do it scared
Don’t give up

I can't quite believe it's actually not illegal.

If I caught anyone using these things to film me or anyone I know they'd shortly be getting a free colonoscopy.

The Colour of Magic! Picked up at the shop knowing nothing at all about it, around the time it came out in paperback.

Totally loved it!

Cornish folklore art by Charlie Barnett

Cornish folklore art by Charlie Barnett

Cornish folklore art by Charlie Barnett

Cornish folklore art by Charlie Barnett

Charcoal artworks by number one son Charlie Barnett, part of a series he’s developing on Cornish folklore. Originals, prints and postcards soon available from Sailors Jail gallery in Falmouth.

sailorsjail.com/collections/...

Good call indeed.

I like that very much.

I've read a couple of reviews of Scratch Moss where people said "they saw the ending coming". I wonder... do horror novels necessarily need a devastating twist that nobody is prepared for? Or is the journey -- if told well -- enough?

Oh, I hope you like it!

Hope you enjoy it!

Hope you enjoy it!

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As well as being out in paperback and ebook tomorrow, SCRATCH MOSS is also out in audiobook, narrated by the brilliant Will Edgerton who, it turns out, grew up not far from me in Ince, the basis for Scratch Moss itself! Have a little preview here:
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Scratch-M...

Ince Moss Colliery, winding gear

Ince Moss Colliery

Ince Moss Colliery, pit brow lasses

Ince Moss Colliery, near where I grew up in Wigan, on which the pit in SCRATCH MOSS is loosely based. My folk horror novel is out tomorrow.

PAINKILLER JANE: UNCOVERED A collection of 30 years of PAINKILLER JANE cover art by the greatest names in the business

MY NEWEST KICKSTARTER IS UP AND LIVE featuring 30 years of the best cover art from the greats in comics, All books limited editions to the campaign and this one is ADULTS ONLY. Featured artists are : QUESADA-CONNER -MURPHY- MOMOKO-SIENKIEWICZ-and so many more.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/cre...

Vertigo comics THE PERIL OF THE BRUTAL DARK (@christophcondon.bsky.social, @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social), BLEEDING HEARTS (denizcamp.bsky.social, @stipanmorian.bsky.social) END OF LIFE (@thekylestarks.bsky.social, @stevepugh.bsky.social) @conroyforreal.bsky.social

In “comics people are the BEST people” news, a gobsmackingly generous post-cancer surgery care package from @okcomics.bsky.social means I am now totally Vertigo’d up.

Two in the front, two in the back.

There may be an inordinate amount of SCRATCH MOSS spam and promo in the next 48 hours. Please ignore or mute if supremely-written and original folk horror with a strong social conscience is not your thing.

Probably difficult to find two attractions in England that are actually further apart.

Jake's Kilimanjaro Climb for Cancer Research UK Help Jake Caldwell raise money to support Cancer Research UK

In two days my madcap nephew is off to climb Kilimanjaro to raise funds for cancer. His dad (my brother Adrian) died at age 47 from the disease. Wishing #Jake huge luck on his quest (and for a safe return home!) If you can donate (even a quid) that would be brillo. www.justgiving.com/page/jakes-k...

SCRATCH MOSS by David Barnett, alongside a miner's lamp and a picture of a magpie

Trouble at t'pit in SCRATCH MOSS, released in two days' time! Get this post-industrial folk horror from wherever you normally buy your post-industrial folk horror!

Someone here went back in time around late 2015 and stepped on a prehistoric butterfly, I'm convinced of it, and be assured I will hunt you down and make you pay.

my mini review, my only five star read of the year (so far)

bigbeardedbookseller.uk/scratch-moss/

Scratch Moss: The most original folk horror novel of the year from the author of Withered Hill The most original folk horror novel of the year from the author of Withered Hill

Why not get yourself a copy of Scratch Moss?

folk horror down t'pit - out on Thursday - the third part of @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Withered Hill series

uk.bookshop.org/a/140/978183...

Thank you, Stephen!

Utterly gorgeous work.

I’ve been doing drawings in a series called Galaxtonbury off and on for years now.

Oh, I love these!

I made the mistake of watching it again last year. Wouldn’t advise.

Threads; the closest you ever want to be to nuclear war - Silver Magazine Revisit the impact Threads, nuclear war film had on children of the 80s and culture as a whole ahead of it's airing on BBC4 this October.

I did an 80s Armageddon playlist to accompany this piece on the nuclear docudrama Threads a couple of years back - it’s embedded somewhere in the middle

silvermagazine.co.uk/threads-the-...