The BHF Book of Horror Stories

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#gothicart

Picture of the author holding a copy of Gone But Not Forgotten. On the front cover a startled black cat stands atop a grave stone. At the foot of the grave lies a glowing Jack-o-lantern.

I’ve done it! I’ve entered “Gone But Not Forgotten” into SFINCS3! Good luck, Bill and Mere.

A happy belated birthday to the horror meister Dario Argento.

A living legend....

#darioargento #italianhorror #horrorlegend #horrordirector #horroricon

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1976: SCARBOROUGH Bank Holiday | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive

The Planet of the Apes gorilla, that scared the living shit out of me when I was a kid, features in this documentary at 7 minutes 41 seconds. #scarborough youtu.be/5KUz2rMdRds?...

Can anyone recommend Halloween events happening this year, preferably in the North-west of England or Wales?

We went to the Halloween Family Festival at Muncaster Castle last year.

Amazing 😆

They were playing this in Costa today.

#HorrorWritersChat

This week I became a member of the Society of Authors societyofauthors.org/soa-member/j...

Also, today I had some very exciting news relating to the horror fiction podcast to which I’ve contributed two stories so far. More details when I have them…

Watercolor sketch of a brown haired woman dressed in an old fashioned green dress with lace at the cuffs and neckline running in terror down a dark corridor, pursued by a huge, smoky, ghostly figure.

New sketchbook! New sketch. I think my use of watercolors is improving.

Day 15 #Frantic #AuGhost

#AuGhost2025 #TradArt

I've read most of Auster's stuff over the years and loved most of it, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance and Leviathan, especially. I struggled with his later work, like The Brooklyn Follies and Travels in the Scriptorium. I'm still halfway through Timbuktu, but I like it.

Do you like it? I gave up tbh, it didn't grab me like the original book. I'm a fan of Mazzucchelli's art for Daredevil and Batman, but I wasn't keen on the way he developed what felt like a self-consciously arty style.

Old but gold

Great book. I'll read anything about 70s / 80s Liverpool.

#HorrorWritersChat

I text the campsite warden and have the child safely collected and taken back to their parents, then get back to the business of skinning alive the man in the next tent to mine who was playing his transistor radio too loud.

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Care home. My WIP ‘Bit Parts’ is set in one. It’s about a faded horror film star failing to be recognised by the other residents. So he decides to reenact a famous scene from one of his films, with hilariously gruesome consequences.

CHRISTMASSY | Jez Conolly Get more from Jez Conolly on Patreon

CHRISTMASSY

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Interview with Iseult Murphy Find out what inspired "The Thing in Christmas Town"

Want to find out what inspired me to write "The Thing in Christmas Town"? Check out this interview from Silver Thistle Press.

open.substack.com/pub/silverth...

💙📚 #BookSky #HorrorWriter #ChristmasInJuly

Ozzy 😢

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I’ve just started putting stories on to Patreon. The first one is free. www.patreon.com/posts/134127...

Psychomania (1972) - Projected Figures Don Sharp's Psychomania is a hybrid exploitation film in which paganism and the occult ride pillion with a gang of delinquent bikers.

"paganism and the occult ride pillion with a gang of delinquent bikers, bringing two different exploitation motifs into unusual proximity": Don Sharp's PSYCHOMANIA (1972) screens 6pm tonight at The Nickel, London projectedfigures.com/2017/03/20/p...

I thought I’d post an update on my writing activity for anyone interested.

A thread

(1/4)

TIL The Salt Path is a remake!

The Seating Plan By Stephen Lang

dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/... The Seating Plan

Clown

Hippo

The Thing

Testcard

My writing project, CAPTURE SPIRAL, took a big leap forward today. More deets when I can share them, but for now, here are some teaser images…

RIP Martin Cruz Smith. His Arkady Renko novels were brilliant, he was pastiched by Michael Chabon, and he wrote one of the best novels ever set in Wigan.

Good question. I don't know if they're retiring the modern DC logo and returning to the circular version. They're certainly bringing back Vertigo. I really fancy rereading The Horrorist.

#HorrorWritersChat

We didn’t really touch on old age in the chat, which is something that preoccupies me. Here’s a fragment of a WIP you might like. open.substack.com/pub/conolly/...

Our Third Anthology: OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM Jendia Gammon published a post on Ko-fi

I have a story in this fine crowdfundy book.

ko-fi.com/post/Our-Thi...

'Terrifying' footage shows mystery cat man prowling near Wirral beach A MYSTERIOUS figure dressed in a black cat morph suit has been spotted prowling near Wallasey beach.

Bloody'ell

YouTube video by Dani Thompson S1, Ep26 Spoken in Whispers with Ian Taylor and Andrew Llewellyn

Our editors Ian Taylor and Andrew Llewellyn in conversation with Scream Princess Dani Thomson.

youtu.be/yBNLvp-Cmhk?...