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I caught the BBC radio version a few years ago, but I’d love to see it on the big screen!

Diana is such an unexpected character - I’d forgotten how unusual she is until I reread Trouble last year!

It’s always been my favourite. The mental images of the tide lapping in Trafalgar Square, and the utter horror of the bathy tentacle attacks. Also, Phyllis.

Happy Sunday Womble! Not reading much this week, but have just picked up The Kraken Wakes to scratch my John Wyndham itch

Chilling Lit: Six Novels in Translation That Blend Folktales and Horror Togetherness that’s on the side of suffocating, history that won’t stay put or past, and nature that doesn’t just exist, benignly, but watches and waits….Folk horror deals in dissonance, drea…

@missadadoom.bsky.social recommends chilling tales of folk horror in translation by Zuzana Ríhová, John Ajvide Lindqvist, and more!

Reflexively link sharing without checking to see if we’re already following each other over there 😂 …I really don’t use it to its full capabilities.

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Is an assassin really an elite operative if he doesn’t have a cat in his life to keep him grounded?

The new editions include bonus stories and new forewords, and will be out on March 10 2026.

Preorders are love!
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Why do I love these books? Wonderful characters, delicious spin off novellas, and big questions about the price of power and peace. Will love redeem or damn? And did I mention that atmosphere? I’m going to mention it again…

New cover art for: The House of Shattered Wings The House of Binding Thorns The House of Sundering Flames Text reads: available in ebook and paperback from March 10 2026

I missed the fun yesterday but you bet I’m bouncing to hear about new US editions of the Dominion of the Fallen trilogy coming out next year. Fallen angels, a magical apocalypse, haunted Paris, politics and shapeshifting dragons collide in this atmospheric trilogy by @aliettedebodard.com

Always here to support you with a certain Gothic series :D I can drop you an email (since I’m not engaging with the age verification nonsense forced on us in the UK if we want to receive DMs 🙄)

That casual mention halfway through: ‘so we strapped it to the ISS’ hell yes fungus as radiation shielding

November was busy with work and fun - time to look back at my (re)reading and adventures before I hunker down for winter...

Why yes, it makes me exceedingly grumpy.

Seconded. It's lazy tv / film making that just says fuck you to a portion of your audience.

BOOK REVIEW: Project Hanuman, by Stewart Hotston Teaser The Arcology is a utopian state, based not in the physical world, but in information space. But when the Arcology disappears, it falls to a few scattered survivors in the physical world to s…

One final review for the month, and it's a belter!

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, our #ScifiMonth2025 read-along. It’s been wonderful to rediscover it and I’m excited to continue the trilogy in the new year!

Ancillary Justice: week four It is the finale of our ScifiMonth read-along of this modern classic. Fair to say we have relished the read and the discussions, as it was an almost unanimous YAY when the question was asked about continuing the trilogy in the new year. Consequently this isn't the last week of the Radch read-along - just the last for now...

Ancillary Justice: week four

It is the finale of our ScifiMonth read-along of this modern classic. Fair to say we have relished the read and the discussions, as it was an almost unanimous YAY when the question was asked about continuing the trilogy in the new year. Consequently this isn't the last…

A map with gritters on it called William Wall-ice, grit tok, Gritney Spears and The Grittist Snowman

A map with gritters on it called I've grit a crush on you, grit a bit, polar patroller, I want to break freeze

A map with gritters on it called bear chills, thistle do icely

A map with gritters on it called Gritallica, Olaf snow free roads, salt shaker and sled zepplin

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊

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Happy Sunday Womble! Hunkering down here, feels like a quiet winter Sunday coming on. I’m just starting Sisters of the Forsaken Stars by Lina Rather, and listening to Cold Eternity by SA Barnes

Oh hey who would like a Gothic in space with a creepy spaceship that disappears children?
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Books featured include: The Witch of Willow Sound by Vanessa F. Penney, The First Thousand Trees by Premee Mohamed, Seventhblade by Tonia Laird, Veal by Mackenzie Nolan, She's a Lamb! by Meredith Hambrock, and Other Evolutions by Rebecca Hirsch Garcia.

This selection of books is perfect for the person who starts planning their next Halloween costume on November 1, is waiting for S3 of Interview with a Vampire, and loves an unreliable narrator.

Enter the code HAPPYHOLIDAYS2025 for 30% off this year’s releases!

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Ooh I started to watch Pandorum recently and I should go back to it (in daylight, preferably 😅)

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‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’: Printed Version An opportunity to be part of history. Help us print a nationally important book that will transform our understanding of the Picts.

We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so!
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Also the person I know always gets me when I have Finrod Felagund feels ✨

Becky Chambers (and Twitter) has a lot to answer for