James Everington

‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier From Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro

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

so it's a photo of the backs of a human and a dog looking out onto a view from like a hiking trail or something, the man has multiple thought bubbles above his head full of steely dan albums, the dog has one thought bubble and it's the cover of Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted and the text below says "This is why the dog is happier"

STRANGE LITTLE STORIES | David Surface | Substack A place where writers and readers can explore the connection between real life and imagination, and what it means to be haunted. I'm a writer, educator, and coffee lover living in a 160-year-old house...

I have a "Strange Little Story" coming soon in the substack of the same name from excellent writer and good egg David Surface. Make sure you're subscribed, if for some crazed reason you're not already: davidsurface.substack.com

Bethesda deletes Indiana Jones and the Great Circle "fascist" clip after accusations that it mocks Charlie Kirk Bethesda's now-deleted X post appears to have been part of a wider social media push for the new Indiana Jones and the Great Circle DLC.

It’s fundamental to the character of Indiana Jones that he *hates Nazis* and the idea that a clip of him hating Nazis is somehow offensive to MAGA Charlie Kirk fans is both hilarious and very telling…

www.pcgamesn.com/indiana-jone...

Yes thousands turned out - which is far more than I’d like - but that is dwarfed by the millions that understand real patriotism means loving your country as it actually is, not hating its diversity or trying to exploit its challenges. That’s what our flags actually represent

The good ol’ days

Fantastic collection of uncanny & messed up fiction from the Pine Arch Collec… sorry, from @michaelwehunt.bsky.social Lost myself for a moment there, don’t know what I was typing… But anyway yes, brilliant, go and read it!

Looking forward to it!

Sure am!

Cheers Dave. Hope you’re well mate

To the best of my knowledge none of my stories have been released in audiobook format before, so here’s a first: STRANGER from the fabulous Sans. Press is now out as an audiobook too. Contains my story ‘Self Expression’

books2read.com/sgsans

Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

"Ban* this sick filth!"
*read

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Russia seeks 'Ukraine's surrender, not peace,' Macron says ahead of talks with Trump "I don’t believe (Russian President Vladimir) Putin wants peace, Macron told reporters after co-chairing a meeting of the coalition of the willing. "I believe he wants Ukraine’s surrender."

⚡️Russia seeks 'Ukraine's surrender, not peace,' Macron says ahead of talks with Trump.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Aug. 17 following a meeting of the "coalition of the willing" that Russia is offering Ukraine's capitulation in its war against Moscow through its peace proposals.

It’s all downhill from here for us…

David Berman Was Alive and Living in Chicago A tribute to a late great from Meghan Harrison

discordiareview.substack.com/p/david-berm...

#MayMusicMasterpieces

15 May- The Persistence Of Memory, Dali

Memory Babe
The Boo Radleys

open.spotify.com/track/1RZ15G...

Two bits of Wales

YouTube video by Harys Rodriguez Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Imagine hearing this for the first time when it was released in 1970. I remember the impact it had on me twenty years later, but in 1970 nothing else like it existed youtu.be/vLC2qwFLbqc?...

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "Paranoid" (Official Video)

Fuck

youtu.be/0qanF-91aJo?...

Really thrilled that my story made the grade for this book of urban folk horror from Ian Whates of Newcon Press, and edited by Neil Williamson. Such a great lineup. Launching at World Fantasy Con in Brighton, but preorders for the hard book are live now.

I downloaded this image onto my phone/cloud over 10 years ago and it would be really nice if one day I could actually delete it because I never have to post it anymore

Top 10 Horror Reads 2024 It's been awhile since I did any book recommendations on here, so I thought I'd see if I could come up with my favourite horror reads of 202...

A repost of a piece from >10 years ago (blimey) that I was always fond of: jameseverington.blogspot.com/2025/06/repo...

(originally on the great @gnofhorror.com site)

Sounds a bit risky to be honest.