Antony F.

Happy Halloween!

Many thanks for including Glass Stories on this list!! 🖤

A sketch of a fox

Pre-work doodle

#learningtodraw #doodle

Queer Bluesky: how old were you when you came out and how old are you now?

I was 13 or 14 when I came out as bisexual, I think. Hard to say. I was never really 'in' I just didn't have the language to describe things succinctly when I was younger than that. I'm 34 now.

Scarfolk poster in the style of an old 70s PSA picture. Warning: People are dangerous. If you know any people report them at once to the authorities

Scarfolk with the best advice

Nefarious Bat Press We're a female-owned independent publisher specialising in queer horror, crime and dark fiction

Leaving the job I've done for the last 15 years, and the company I built, because of this "AI" bollocks. It was past time

So, if you fancy buying any of my books for Halloween - individually, or in the kind of industrial quantifies that might keep the wolf from the door -

Now's the time!

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula

Blog Tags! In which the author presents his latest JavaScript fingerpainting in the hopes you'll stick it on the fridge.

New entry on my personal blog!

antonyfb.com/blog/blog-ta...

#personalblog

With the right panache:harm ratio, many crimes can get downgraded to shenanigans IMO.

COVER REVEAL AND RELEASE

WE WILL SPEAK AGAIN OF THE RED TOWER is a tribute anthology of stories inspired by Thomas Ligotti’s “The Red Tower” and it’s out NOW: dl.bookfunnel.com/zum1k2dg9b

I'm unreasonably excited about grabbing a pumpkin spice latté and going pumpkin picking later.

I can't imagine anything better/worse

John Carpenter's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Writing Exchange A small, intentional community for poets, authors, and every kind of writer.

Well, in case you do decide to explore the fediverse a bit, I'd probably start somewhere like writing.exchange/about for your interests.

Right now I'm mainly using bluesky, but it's always good to have a plan B.

On a technical level I much prefer it (it's actually decentralised, you can't be banned from Mastodon, only from a particular server). It isn't as easy to use however (you've got to choose a server to start with) and the writing community is small/mostly SFF.

These are basically identical to my last two attempts at self portraits

An autistic woman is using her name recognition to bring awareness about genocide and putting her own body in harms way because you don’t care about people getting tortured unless they’re white. Try that for a headline, chaps.

Nefarious Narratives on the Net In which the author provides links for some (mostly horror) stories he's found on the web recently.

New entry on my personal blog!

Buncha links to some cool seasonally-appropriate stories.

antonyfb.com/blog/nefario...

#personalblog #horrorlit

The Big One (preorder: releases 10/7) | Anuci Press "Daddy's coming home." That's the promise Hank, a widowed ambulance driver finishing up his shift in San Francisco, makes to his two kids who are trapped in the ruins of their destroyed apartment buil...

#buymybooks THE BIG ONE. A double dose today because it’s important to note that this action-horror novella is out in less than a week from @tonyanuci.bsky.social. I mean, just check out that tentacular cover by @lynnehansenart.bsky.social. Can you punch your way past existential dread?

#horror #memes

Just one, a lonesome chap with only his extraneous limbs for company.

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat The Normal People author can no longer safely enter the UK without potentially facing arrest, according to a statement read out by her publisher at the prize ceremony

This, right here, is absolutely outrageous.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Finished POSTHASTE MANOR by
@jolietoomajan.bsky.social & @carsonwinter.bsky.social from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social last night, and it hit all my buttons. From the actual story content to the structure - mosaic narratives, smashing together genres, scrapbook media, wild tonal shifts. Its all there!

I'll bring potato smileys

Not just you. My wife's black and she's been getting a lot more racial and misogynistic bullshit in public/at work recently. It's bad out there.

Seeing how things have been for my white collar friends in recent years has made me thankful that I work in a wax factory with machines from the '70s.

And less than 15 months in they've already doomed themselves simply by being themselves.

All they had to do was not be monsters and the people who didn't know any better would have held them up as heroes but they just couldn't not be monsters.

always feels weird seeing horror people romanticize The Conjuring’s version of Ed and Lorraine Warren because like… do you guys not know, or…?

A screenshot of some text from the story linked above. It reads: Blackwell Road branched off Stone Street on the other side of the bridge. The old distillery was just a short ways up the road, visible from Stone Street proper. I had vague recollections of standing outside it as one of a clutch of teenage boys, sharing a cigarette after youth club. Just one of many disused relics, its fallow grounds and chipped bricks hadn’t seemed worthy of note to my young mind. Indeed, until we rounded the corner onto Blackwell Road and it filled the sky in front of us, I couldn’t quite conjure a solid image of the place. Even now, looking back, the exact angles elude me. The slope of the roof surely wasn’t as steep as I remember it, the angles at which the walls met could not have been as sharp as my mind’s eye holds them to be.

First look at the distillery in my short horror story, Old Tom. Available in full for free here: www.ferenbrooke.com/short-storie...

#horrorfiction #horrorlit #WritingCommunity #shortstory

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day

We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.