Benedict Anning

putting sunflower seeds in a mini-tin of baked beans and pretending it's a tiny açaí bowl - but, like, bad

Penny - the best calico cat in the world - sits slumped in a blanketed desk chair, gazing up at the viewer, utterly beautiful and super cute

a really terrific little lady

A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive. Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place. But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood. As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta

First he was Minimus

October 🦇

14th October 7pm Waterstones Truro 17th October 7pm Black Cat Books, Launceston 23rd October 7pm Rossiter Books, Ross on Wye 7th November Time TBC @ Spencer Thorn, Bude 20th November 7pm @ Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street.

Are you ready to return to the Undermoor?

@samkhorton.bsky.social's Eythin Legacy began with GORSE and continues next month with RAGWORT!

Tickets are now available for multiple events, snap them up before they're gone!👉 geni.us/SKHEvents

Me too thanks

Penny - the cutest calico cat in the world - sits in a cardboard box, staring wideyed at the camera

🎁

A hedge portal at Montacute, Somerset (aka Wolf Hall)

A mysterious circular portal in a granite wall

A classic tunnelled footpath portal

A particularly attractive ruined barn portal

Some interdimensional portals I found on walks yesterday and today.

the tragedy of having a nap on a sunday is that 2pm on a monday ur brain n body is like "hey? :) nap? :)" n u have to be like "no :( work :("

why must everything have a cost under capitalism

Scrupulous micromanager

I am silly levels of excited for this follow-up to my favourite read last year 🧑‍💻💣

'Trickster' - 2021
www.rowynnellis.com

#fox #foxart #knotwork

Coming soon: Cascadia: Alpine Lakes A standalone puzzly tile-layering follow-up to the award-winning game Cascadia, with beautiful artwork from Beth Sobel!

The pre-launch page for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes is up! Click that button to be notified when it goes live.

@flatoutgames.bsky.social @fanfactories.bsky.social @boardgameghee.bsky.social @bethsobel.bsky.social @dylanmangini.bsky.social

drawing of a dark room. almost half of the room is a huge water tank. a big eel-type fish is swimming in, and a character is throwing fish food into the water to lure smaller fish in

late night snack

Quint Buchholz

I know a fae trap when I see one

This crazy sci fi noir crime thriller is out today in the UK and I can't wait for you all to read it!

Available in hardback, ebook, and audio from all reputable retailers (and probably some disreputable ones too!)

If you can, support your local indie!

Best Audiobook: Young Adult Books Shortlist | The British Audio Awards The shortlist for the Best Audiobook: Young Adult Books category at The British Audio Awards - aka The Speakies - organised by The Bookseller and The Stage

Yay!

The Shape of Monsters has been shortlisted for a Speakie (audio book award) 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Definitely helps that voice actor Omari Douglas is fantastic

www.thebookseller.com/british-audi...

Biggest congrats!!! 🎉

Sobering and heartbreaking writing

𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶

Mock cover for Dark Waters by Marco Rinaldi - Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect winner 2025, featuring painting of the Grand Canal by Canaletto

A murdered child. A grieving father. A city under siege. Venice, 1849. The still nascent Republic of San Marco cowers nightly under attack from Austrian artillery. But for Detective Luca Marangon, the battle for the city pales in comparison to the daily battle to just keep going. Only months ago, his daughter died, and he has been drowning ever since. When he’s called to the scene of an infant’s gruesome murder, he discovers a connection to his own loss: a strange symbol carved at the scene: the same one that has haunted his dreams. Could it be his daughter’s killer? Impossible — that man is already dead by his own hand.

Ignoring calls to step aside, Luca throws himself into the case, his grief twisting into obsession. A bloody trail of bodies and whispers of forbidden texts and things long forgotten lead him to an asylum on the edge of the Venetian lagoon, where he suspects something more than medical care is being provided. Instead of answers, he stumbles across a girl on the run, and is soon confronted by an eerie vision of his daughter with a warning: something horrifying is awakening in the depths of the lagoon. The murders are but one piece of a larger, terrible jigsaw, with this runaway at its centre. Desperate for some form of absolution, he vows to keep her safe at all costs. But as his sanity fractures, that promise forces him to take lives of his own. Can he save this girl from his daughter’s fate and stop the monstrosity rising from the dark waters of the lagoon before becoming a monster himself?

Here's my winning pitch from @bloodyscotland.bsky.social (still seems mad saying that!)

Sinners meets the gothic unease of Don’t Look Now with the broken investigators of True Detective. At its heart, it's not just about a monster that may destroy a city, but the trauma that can destroy a man.

Post a mage! ✨

Oh lord the panic, the PANIC

BBC Radio Scotland - Afternoons, The Arts Mix Len Pennie on what's happening in the arts and culture scene across Scotland.

I'll be appearing on BBC Radio Scotland on The Arts Mix with @lenniesaurus.bsky.social this afternoon, from 3.30pm (not sure precisely what time) - tune in live or via iPlayer

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Marco standing with the Pitch Perfect prize judges

Marco and Tariq - somehow both winners?! A mad weekend!

This week @bloodyscotland.bsky.social just keeps getting better - after @tariqashkanani.bsky.social's amazing McIlvanney Prize win on Friday, @marcorinaldi.bsky.social has one gone and won the Pitch Perfect prize!

A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading "Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,"

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

木から落ちた雛鳥、嵐に巻き込まれた鳥 彼の身体はそういった者たちで産まれた

落鳥の竜　幻獣展7