Helen Grant

Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice

Memento mori plus Ghosts and Scholars

Ghosts and Scholars' final issue visits the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice

Very happy to be sharing the pages of Ghosts and Scholars 50 with @helengrantsays.bsky.social! My story The Trojan Revenge is inspired by a medieval book of recipes in @theul.bsky.social that also inspired M. R. James's 'The Experiment' - MS Dd.11.45, if you're feeling brave...

Ghosts and Scholars and aubergine parmigiana

Ghosts and Scholars and tiramisu

Took the last ever issue of Ghosts and Scholars out for dinner in Venice

Ghosts and Scholars magazine with canal and gondolas

Got the bit between my teeth now

Ghosts and Scholars and a caffe latte!

Shaping up to be the Ghosts and Scholars valedictory tour of Venice!

Small press mag plus hotel room key and bag of coffee from Caffe del Doge in Venice

Ghosts and Scholars visits Venice!

Thank you, Dan! I have not read G&S yet but am looking forward to yours!

😂

Atmospheric Disturbances | Swan River Press “In its dim depths living things scurried and fluttered, but human voices were very rarely heard.” – The West Window A glimpse of a grotesque illustration combined with the onset of fever instigate a ...

New review of ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES by @helengrantsays.bsky.social :

“Grant’s tales invoke that atmosphere of genius loci, that sense of the uncanny central to the successful weird tale.” – Ghosts & Scholars

Signed, limited hardback available here: swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/at...

Doesn't Chinese cuisine include a thing called the 1000 year egg?? I'd have thought pickled ones would be right up their street!

Right? Who eats them????

Pickled eggs in jars in a chip shop window

If there is ever a zombie apocalypse and we have to live on what we can scavenge, I might eat these. But otherwise, really not.

Yeah - he is the Law in Mega City One, and you'd better believe it, perps.

He doesn't sit around emoting over a cup of herbal infusion.

Anyway, the very last Ghosts and Scholars includes a short story of mine, which begins with the slap of a letterbox as a new issue of a small press magazine is delivered to our hero's house. And here he was, thinking that it had been discontinued...

Ghosts and Scholars magazine

This arrived - I grieve to say, the last issue ever. 😢

Haha! Tailored marketing

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Received an email from Dunelm: "Get darkness on demand". I was getting quite excited about that until I opened the email and discovered that it was about blackout curtains rather than

It's actually Les Misérables' Monster

Gosh is it really 30 days since I muted that one annoying person on FB

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How I arrived on Bluesky

I thought it was brilliantly effective and it manages to be starkly chilling without showing anything unpleasant at all.

The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.

There are wonderful things in this world and the fish doorbell is one.
A nice Dutch bloke explains.
visdeurbel.nl/en/

As if recent news had not made me despair of our species, I watched THE ZONE OF INTEREST yesterday.

Also "pawing and whining" makes me very sad.

My daughter told me about some woman who buys up old Nintendogs games and cares for the abandoned dogs.

This was me, exactly. I thought: I probably ought to use the scissors instead, and then... ouch.

Just stabbed myself in the hand with a kitchen knife while trying to remove the film from a bottle of squash. Recycling is a dangerous business...

Headline: the public are finally waking up to the monstrous reality of green tea and a monkey

I mean

Headline: Britain's green tea and a monkey obsession is a symptom of a deep, collective death wish

I'm on a roll now Le Fanu fans...

Mocked up headline: Sheridan Le Fanu is a Trojan horse for the complete dismantling of capitalism

Hey @swanriverpress.bsky.social here's one for you: