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Maura McHugh

@splinister.bsky.social

Writer. Works across media. Lives in the West of Ireland. https://splinister.com/easylinks

1,477 Followers  |  275 Following  |  174 Posts  |  Joined: 25.05.2023
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Premee Mohamed - The Bugge (We Contain Multitudes 1) Premee nerds out about a beloved (and well-used!) collection.

✨✨✨GLITTER CANNON DEPLOYED✨✨✨

S1 E1 is now live on @theincomparable.com!

with special guest @premeemohamed.com 🪲

Listen now!
Or bookmark this for later!

Whenever you need a hit of joy, we've got you covered!

Transcript: sgwong.com/blog/episode...

Subscribe/Follow the show! Share the joy ✨

14.01.2026 17:26 — 👍 52    🔁 28    💬 4    📌 14
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Wishing everyone a Super Solstice, north or south. ✨️🌞✨️ May your holiday season be joyful and bright!

🎨 ‘Icebound’ by John Henry Twachtman, 1889.

21.12.2025 16:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've an Anderson: Psi-Division story in this, drawn by Joe Currie with letters by Rob Steen. Called 'The Parade of Death', it features the Dark Judges. 💀🔥🤢🦇

12.11.2025 17:46 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Our #crime anthology #DeathComesatChristmas out now in paperback - the perfect gift at the link below 🎄 🎅

www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Comes-...

09.11.2025 21:24 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Both covers for the 2000 AD Annual 2026: Ladronn (l) and Simon Bisley (r)

Both covers for the 2000 AD Annual 2026: Ladronn (l) and Simon Bisley (r)

Ever wonder what a parade would look like in Mega-City One? The answers are in this interview with @splinister.bsky.social & Joe Currie, plus an exclusive preview of their story for this year's @2000ad.bsky.social annual: comicon.com/2025/11/05/e...

05.11.2025 18:14 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Ho Ho Ho... it's the season to be scary... get your @2000ad.bsky.social 2026 annual. It was such fun (and mayhem) to write the Dark Judges for an Anderson: Psi-Division script. Thanks to Joe Currie & Rob Steen for their excellent work.

04.11.2025 15:18 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Stunned, honoured and happy! Thank you to the jurors, and my editor @dancoxon.bsky.social and @pspublish.bsky.social. I'm so pleased that Heartwood also won the World Fantasy Award. What a night! 🌟

02.11.2025 20:42 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 0

Thanks, Karlin!

30.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
British and Irish Folk – World Fantasy Convention 2025

How lovely to be in Brighton! I'm at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social where I'm nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction! I'm on a 6pm panel about British & Irish Folk w Tristan Gray, Rhiannon A Grist, & Cardinal Cox. 😃https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk/programme/british-and-irish-folk/

30.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Congratulations!

16.09.2025 11:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
GAME - Official Trailer
YouTube video by InvadaFilmsOfficial GAME - Official Trailer

A group of us wrote/made a film. I wrote the screenplay. And here's the trailer. Exciting!

GAME

Produced by Geoff Barrow (Portishead, Ex Machina) for his Invada Films. Directed by John Minton. Starring Marc Bessant and Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbC...

16.09.2025 09:58 — 👍 85    🔁 30    💬 5    📌 3
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Doctor Who: What Still Remains Sophie Aldred reads this gripping new adventure for the Seventh Doctor and Ace. The TARDIS materialises on a research station, locked in a state of temporal displacement on the surface of Volkoff Eps...

My first official BBC Doctor Who story is out today!

WHAT STILL REMAINS is a Seventh Doctor and Ace adventure, and is read by Ace herself, @sophiealdred.bsky.social

Available as a physical CD or as digital audio from your favourite retailer.

Links at the link! www.penguin.co.uk/books/464137...

07.08.2025 10:13 — 👍 166    🔁 33    💬 3    📌 5
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Comics at the National Library of Ireland Join comic professionals as they discuss how items from the National Library’s collections reveal the history of comic books in Ireland.

I'm happy to see that this Friday's talk at @nlireland.bsky.social on Early Irish Comics is listed as sold out! How gratifying to see there is such interest! I'm looking forward to being back in the NLI to chat comics with my fellow obsessives. www.eventbrite.ie/e/comics-at-...

06.08.2025 12:56 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks, Karlin!

05.08.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Comics at the National Library of Ireland Discovering Irish comic book history

This most excellent panel on Irish comic book history is coming up Fri Aug 8th 1pm at the National Library @nlireland.bsky.social. Free, but book via the link. Looking forward to hearing (and seeing!) my talented Galwegian friend Maura McHugh
@splinister.bsky.social‬
www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

31.07.2025 14:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

If you've listened to an interview any time in the last year, you heard me tease there was something big coming.

WELCOME TO SOMETHING BIG.

Buffy was incredibly formative to me. She's one of my favorite heroines of all time. Writing this is the dream. The pitch is WILD, & I hope you guys love it. 🖤

23.07.2025 21:04 — 👍 392    🔁 60    💬 51    📌 8

I haven't been told if that's the case, so I suspect not.

23.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Comics at the National Library of Ireland Discovering Irish comic book history

I'll be part of a panel discussion on 'Comics at the National Library of Ireland: Discovering Irish comic book history' on 8 Aug 2025 from 1pm - 2.30pm at the @nlireland.bsky.social, 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin. It's free, but you need to book a ticket. Details here: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

23.07.2025 11:58 — 👍 10    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM: Kier-La Janisse Adapts Algernon Blackwood Ghost Story As First Narrative Feature HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN's Kier-La Janisse has wrapped principal photography on her first narrative feature THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, based on the classic Algernon Blackwood ghost story.

FYI: HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN's Kier-La Janisse has wrapped principal photography on her first narrative feature THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM, based on the classic Algernon Blackwood ghost story.

23.07.2025 11:36 — 👍 38    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Amazing work, Rachael. Much love.

08.07.2025 18:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Since I saw it half an hour ago I've been trying to find the words to express how I feel, but I've come up short.
I'm beyond thrilled that HEARTWOOD: A MYTHAGO WOOD ANTHOLOGY has made the shortlist for this year's World Fantasy Awards. I'll thank you all properly shortly, but for now I'm in shock.

07.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Thanks!

08.07.2025 06:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cheers!

07.07.2025 23:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks, John!

07.07.2025 23:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks again!

07.07.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cheers!

07.07.2025 23:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

07.07.2025 23:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks!

07.07.2025 23:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cheers!

07.07.2025 23:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
World Fantasy Awards Shortlists – World Fantasy Convention 2025

Stunned (but honoured) that my story, 'Raptor', which appeared in the Heartwood anthology, edited by @dancoxon.bsky.social and published by @pspublish.bsky.social, has been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. Congratulations to my fellow nominees!

07.07.2025 23:11 — 👍 35    🔁 7    💬 6    📌 0