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YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic Author Showcase: C M Rosens - The Punch and Judy Man of Hangman's Walk

This week's Saturday Romancing the Gothic blast from the past!

We were joined by author CM Rosens to read her story 'The Punch and Judy Man of Hangman's Walk'

It actually freaked me right out!

youtu.be/uIDg-UkEAUE

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A stack of the giveaway books against an orange fabric background. The books are: 💀 SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER by C. S. E. Cooney 💫 AN UNBREAKABLE WORLD by Run Hutchings ☠️ THE VENGEANCE by Emma Newman ☂️ SINOPHAGIA edited by Xueting C. Ni 👑 QUEEN OF FURY by Natania Barron 🐲 A COVENANT OF ICE by Karin Low 🚀 THE GANYMEDAN by R. T. Ester 🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell AND... A hardcopy ARC of 🐺 THE GODS MUST BURN by @authortrmoore! At the bottom, white text: "8K Giveaway!"

Against an orange and black fabric background, white text: A hardcopy ARC of Below, the books cover for THE GODS MUST BURN by T. R. Moore!

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A haunted house with red windows floating in a void.

I don’t remember what year I made this but happy Halloween!

1805 engraving of a Long Eared Bat and a Ternate Bat.

engraving of multiple bat species in flight, from the Edinburg Journal of Natural History, 1835

Illustration of a Serotime Bat, flying through a forest. From HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS, 1910

Some last minute vintage illustrations, of bats, from 1805, 1835, and 1910 for #AScareADay

#bats

If you're not willing to let Halloween go... why not join us tomorrow for some Gothic!

Saturday 1st November at 4 and 9pm GMT

“Girl’s Best Friend”: Tracing the Animal Companion in Haunting Ground and Fran Bow

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Thank you @romgothsam.bsky.social for curating another excellent list of stories and poems to celebrate spooky month. I can't believe we are at the end already!

Now I need to mull over which ones are going in my top 5 - the truly difficult part!

When the cold mist comes with its needle-fine teeth, you must lie very, very still. You must close your eyes and silence your breath. Empty your mind of everything, save images of darkness. Think of night and rain and worms crawling through earth. The coldness of marble tombs. The breath of ancient sepulchers. Imagine yourself dead. Pretend to be dead. This is the only way to survive.

#AScareADay Day 31 – The Path She Sings by Vanessa Fogg

This was so sad and beautiful...and also just the right amount of chilling. 🖤

Exciting news!! 🖤

A robot in the form of a pumpkin with a smiling little face near the bottom and two banded legs. Its face is actually carved out like a jack-o-lantern's face in a pumpkin, revealing a darkened interior. The stalk of the pumpkin is also banded, like the antennae on other robots.

1060) Pumpkinbot. Smol squash pal that has some important information about seasonal drinks. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

It's not #buyastrangerabook day, but Melissa will buy THREE people a BOOK each.

The rules.

Wanna book?
Not sure what?

Let @melissaschuh.bsky.social know the kinda stuff you like reading.

Melissa will give you a choice of 4 books.

Pick your favourite & Melissa will pay for it!

UK only

GO!

#AScareADay Day 30 – Bleeding Hearts by Suzan Palumbo

Not a scary one but I did love it. I really like the idea of all the plants growing from thr pain that people want to let go of.

I would also very much recommend the author's short story collection, Skin Thief. Tis excellent

The Bayou illustrated cover art: a minimalist black church surrounded by bare trees in front of a full moon or a pale sun, with a staring alligator underneath. Queer 1930s southern gothic horror.

In the Pit of Your Stomach: An Interactive Horror Story illustrated cover art. Comic book style drawing of a ramshackle house and shed in an overgrown yard. Stone steps lead to a pit under the house where a giant skeleton lays. A skinny humanoid figure creeps out from behind the house. Colours are solid blacks and sickly yellow-greens. A CYOA choose-your-path horror story.

Flesh and Bone: an MM horror romance novella by Arden Powell. Cover art: yellow silhouettes of two cowboys on horseback ride inside the body of a huge black dog on a crimson background under an outline of the Rocky Mountains. Gay 1800s gothic western horror-romance with werewolf body horror.

The Faerie Hounds of York illustrated cover art: a woodcut-style wolf rearing up against a dark green background. Gay 1800s gothic romance with a bittersweet ending.

It's Halloweentime! Come get some queer horror for the weekend! Southern gothic, historical western, horror-romance, folkloric fae, and it's all gay 🖤🎃🍂

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I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Image: The library of an ancient castle. A full moon shines through a gothic window. A vampire creeps up behing a carpenter. Caption: "It had not been easy, but the Count was glad that he had resisted drinking the carpenter's blood until his beautiful new bookshelves were complete."

A halloween books cartoon for @theguardian.com

🎶 On the fourth day of Spook Week / Pietersender brought to me 🎶

It’s time (oho!) for Time! Even I think my reading of Back To The Future as a terrifyingly Sisyphean loop of despair is pretty wild…

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This is it. We know exactly how to fix the climate crisis. We have all the technology and we know what actions we need to take. What people are hoping for is a technology that will fix everything without us having to change anything at all, and that's a fantasy. We have to do the work.

A huge, rounded robot with a cluster of writhing, banded tentacles at its base, each tipped with a clawed, shapeless hand floats in space. It has odd fins on its body and looks like it just woke up. It's looking balefully down at the tiny form of Spacebot - a spherical robot with solar panel wings, like a satellite - drifting across its bulk.

929) Eldritchbot. Spacebot investigates a signal in the cold void of space and there it finds, drifting and quiescent, a vast and terrible being, a slumbering star-god of unfathomable antiquity which now turns its malign indifference towards this mote of life. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween

#BookSky I made a trailer... 🌈📚💙📚😱🩸📚👀

You can't choose your family... but you can eat them

Adult #Horror novel, eldritch family drama with dark humour and bite. OUT NOW from Canelo Horror - get it for Halloween.

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#AScareADay Day 29 – The Portrait of Sal Pullman by Lonnie Nadler & Abby Howard

A little change of pace today with a webcomic where an artist is tormented by his own creation. Loved the art work...the splashes of red in a mostly black and white comic was well done.

Illustration by Lawrence, from A 1946 issue of FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES. Seen from behind, a figure in military-style dress stands atop a high rocky pinnacle. A huge spectral figure of Death, depicted as a skeletal Grim Reaper with scythe, towers in the sky before him.

#AScareADay

(Illustration by Lawrence, from A 1946 issue of FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES.)

Bead woven teal rose gold earrings

A strand of olivine pearls

Earrings with stars and teal and black beads

Ace pride paracord adjustable bracelet

Two: NEW STUFF.

LGBTQIA+ staff of 11, all money goes directly to queer artists, so thank you!

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Two things.

One, we have a Clearance page with 30+ items at 40% off to move them out for new inventory for holiday. Check it out? Pendants, pins, earrings, bracelets.

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Come join us! Free online!

I would heartily recommend anything that David Demchuk has written, but Red X and Bone Mother are two particular favourites of mine 🖤

The ‘Scare a Day’ Challenge – October 2025 It’s almost October, which means it’s almost time for the #AScareADay challenge! One poem or scary short-story a day for a whole month. You can read along with us using the links below.…

How do we only have 3 #AScareADay stories left??! 😭

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#AScareADay – Day 28 – Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnibar Island by Nibedita Sen #AScareADay - Day 28 - One of my absolute favourites from the challenge so far, today's story is incredibly rich and layered. I've got my own attempt at using fragments of media to tell a story down below my thoughts on this story.

#AScareADay – Day 28 – Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnibar Island by Nibedita Sen

#AScareADay - Day 28 - One of my absolute favourites from the challenge so far, today's story is incredibly rich and layered. I've got my own attempt at using fragments of…

I definitely checked the DOI for one of the articles...just in case 😂

#AScareADay Day 28 – Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnibar Island by Nibedita Sen

The only one so far that has been a re-read for me. I am not complaining. Every time I read this I find something new to delight in.

Another #buyastrangerabook offer!

Yesterday, @jenillustrates.bsky.social sent me £20 so someone could get their Xmas pressie buying started early.

So, if you're planning on getting someone a book for xmas (of course you are), let us know what it is, and Jen will buy it!

UK only