@xdkerr.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Head of School of Art, Film and Media at Bath Spa University, UK. Co-director of screeningsex.com. Series Editor for EUP's Screening Sex book series. And a quiet author of short fiction inc NoSleep Podcast. Personal acc.
Such a great idea but a missed opportunity. Rich pickings from Kid A and Amnesiac as a score but instead it played out like random jukebox cinema. Desperately wanted to love this being a big fan of both. Oh well, got to support indie cinema in the meantime.
04.10.2025 07:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Hey, the ebook of Devil is only $2.99 for a limited time! Itโs a Stoker and Shirley Jackson winner and nominee for a bunch of cool stuff, but I know thatโs not enough to convince folks, so here are some 1-star reviews. Hope they help. Have an awesome day!
www.amazon.com/Devil-Takes-...
The Leftovers
The Outsider
Channel Zero - Candle Cove
Might not be your typical choice for a holiday read on the shores of Lake Garda but hey, horror is for all seasons. And what a belting opener! Thanks @johnlangan.bsky.social
20.07.2025 20:11 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I need a good audio book recommendation... something that was a surprise, a shocker, a treat. Have recently enjoyed @briankeene.bsky.social, @pfracassi.bsky.social, @claymcleod.bsky.social, @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social so if you have a suggestion of something that reeeeally works on audio, send it on!
26.06.2025 16:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Post-hardcore Welsh band Mclusky playing very, very loudly live on stage in Bristol, UK.
Absolute first rate gig last night watching #Mclusky at the Electric in Bristol.
01.06.2025 12:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I love it when a book has you in the first couple of pages. Looking forward to what's to come @lphernandez.bsky.social !
25.05.2025 12:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
OUR NEXT ONLINE EVENT: Join us Weds 18 June for a live-streamed performance of two original short ghost stories 'Girl, Dancing' and 'Plagued'. The event is Pay What You Feel. Tickets at 2ghoststories.eventbrite.com
23.05.2025 15:02 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Wonderful to see Carys Davies' fab book Clear win the Odaatje prize. Stunning stuff.
19.05.2025 13:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Image from Ghostwatch: Three presenters look at the camera with screens in the background with the show's title on
A man holds an ice cube in front of a blindfolded woman
Poster for The Stone Tape. A woman looks seriously at us.
A ghoulish, white face with wispy hair and a wide-open mouth. A death mask.
In S2 E8, recorded in 2021, I was joined by writer and academic @bronteschiltz.bsky.social
and we discussed Television Ghost Stories. Do you have any favourites? Listen and subscribe to The Ghost Story Book Club wherever you get your podcasts ๐ป
open.spotify.com/episode/7BpN...
Woo! NIGEL KNEALE AND HORROR just arrived, exciting to see my chapter! And I now have a pile of actual things that have my work in! It still feels early days for me as a researcher, so this is a nice reminder that I have Done Some Stuff that's out in the world. And I work with some amazing folk!
15.04.2025 11:27 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1Why should you buy direct from an independent publisher?
- Higher royalties (we don't have to give a 50-60% discount to retailers)
- Paid right away (otherwise we wait 60-90 days for payment from retailers)
- You get a groovy bookmark with your book post! (in the UK at least)
- We pay our taxes
Fab weekend on a self-directed collaborative writing retreat in the Cotswolds with my brother, working on an exciting horror project. Ended with a first draft of the first short story, which felt great.
14.04.2025 07:34 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hey people, I need help.
I am looking for an authenticity reader to help with a comic that involves a teenage girl with a prosthetic leg.
The ideal reader would:
1) regularly use a prosthesis
2) be female and at moderately concerned with fashion
3) be South Asian/Indian-American.
Any recs?
You're welcome! Is there somewhere that I can find your film work?
29.03.2025 09:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We ๐ค the crass degenerates over at @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social
We always love to check out @scaresshapedus.bsky.social
And @talkscaredpod.bsky.social is the big-gun go-to.
Who are some other podcasts currently in production that focus on Horror WRITERS?
Sound off, we wanna know!
It is #womeninhorrormonth
Help me to shine a light on the amazing women and female-identifying authors writing in the horror genre...
Are you one? Do you have a recommendation for one?
Get in touch with me and let's celebrate the genre. The podcast is open for reviews, features and more.
Reeeeally trying to take my time reading @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social's The Lamb as I know when I finish it I'll be desperate to find something as exquisitely dark and beautifully written (and will probably fail).
Recommendations would be very welcome!
Very pleased with my latest for this weekend's #Frome #WindowWanderland
28.02.2025 19:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
18th century cottage in England, whitewashed, roses round the door
The Hosking Houses Trust
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.
Details in link.
Please share :)
hoskinghouses.org.uk
Done and in!
05.02.2025 20:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Cover reveal for ROOTS OF MY FEARS edited by Gemma Amor. Shows a rustic style green tree with spreading branches and roots against a black background with a red beating heart forming the trunk, wrapped with banners reading Gabino Iglesias, Nuzo Onoh, Hailey Piper, Premee Mohamed, Ramsey Campbell.
I CAN FINALLY SHARE THE MOST GORGEOUS BOOK COVER REVEAL ARGH!
I am BESOTTED ๐
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, an anthology of ancestral horror stories edited by me.
Featuring: Onoh, Iglesias, Mohamed, Campbell, Piper AND MORE! Full TOC in next post.
Out September, Titan. Cover: Julia Lloyd.
shorturl.at/AzMj8
Hello, all. Sorry for the delay in updating you on the reopening of the Bristol Short Story Prize (bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk). Our university finance team needs time to process the entry fees received before reopening, so the prize will reopen from 00:00 to 23:59 BST on Wednesday 5 Feb! Get in!
03.02.2025 12:06 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So true!
02.02.2025 21:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New Episode S22E06
Will you endure the fear long enough to make it out? Or will you remain trapped with us forever?
Stories โ๏ธ Matthew Owen Jones, Manen Lyset, Darren Kerr, Venita Bonds, & EV Deal
๐ง www.thenosleeppodcast.com/episodes/s22...
@hasaniwalker.bsky.social
@brandonboone.bsky.social
Thanks Anna - it was a joy to write and the fab folk at @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social did a cracking job!
02.02.2025 21:56 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Absolutely delighted to have written my first piece for @thenosleeppodcast.bsky.social Let me know what you think โฌ๏ธ
02.02.2025 21:54 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
In the corner of a kitchen is a grey fridge with a microwave on top and on top of that a small digital radio. On top of the radio are three tiny ghosts. More importantly is that to the left of this is a long dark grey-blue kitchen cupboard fitted to the wall. Beneath the cupboard is a coffee machine. Sitting on top of the cupboard and therefore just below the ceiling you can make out the face of George the cat. A damn handsome cat who enjoys silently occupying high places.
New kitchen, new jump scare from George ๐
02.02.2025 21:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A tiny plastic Edgar Allen Poe figure has his arms in the air looking dismayed as he lies on an old green leather topped desk near a keyboard. He is missing a leg but it has been found and is near him ready to be reattached. The desk looks like it could do with a good scrub.
You'll be glad to know that after a bit of a tidy up in the writing shed I was finally able to reunite Edgar with his leg that had been missing for some time. (Btw now it's reattached he doesn't look nearly as distressed)
02.02.2025 21:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
