Stephen J Carver

Irene Carver 1925-2000. My beautiful Mum. #WorldCancerDay #fuckcancer

Many Happy Returns John Lydon!

I'm being swarmed...

Via con Dios Paul Sample 1947-2026. #ogri #paulsample #bikers

Finished two book projects this month so could finally get out today. Harley Sportster: Ride it like you stole it! #harleydavidson #bikers #motorcycles

Oh boy, a big box of books! I selected, edited and introduced both these collections for Wordsworth Editions - you can find them in bookshops, on Amazon, or purchase direct from the publisher here: wordsworth-editions.com #writing #poetry #ghoststory

Many Happy Returns to Dr John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, born today in 1949. #poetry #Salford

'I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it.' The toast is: 'Absent Friends.' We lost Mark E. Smith today in 2018. #TheFall

When Poe Met Dickens A new post for the Wordsworth Editions blog In the United States, one of the first – if not the first – critics to discover the talented new British author Charles Dickens was Edgar Allan Poe. Poe …

One more! This is what happened when Poe met Dickens... ainsworthandfriends.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/w...

The Gothic Life of Edgar Allan Poe. 💀 wordsworth-editions.com/the-gothic-l...

Ten Creative Writing Tips from Edgar Allan Poe First off, let me just thank each and every one of you for such a positive and enthusiastic response to my post on ‘Top Ten Writing Mistakes.’ For a new blog the response was overwhelming – I think…

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'Sensations are the great things after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations — they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet.' Edgar Allan Poe born today in 1809.

Many Happy Returns Caroline Munro!

I'll just leave this here then. 😉

Batman premiered on ABC 60 years ago today.

On the whole, I think there are worst ways to spend a wintry weekend than indexing a book about biker movies...

‘The Angel of Death was summoned. He cannot return empty handed…’ Dennis Wheatley born today in 1897. #Horror #Occult

To hell with 'Happy New Year.' I'm gonna go with: 'We Survived 2025.' Good luck.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, 28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025.

The Imaginary Girlfriend A ghost story for Christmas… I saw this post on Facebook the other day asking, ‘What’s the worst thing that ever happened to you?’ Well, this didn’t exactly happen to me, but it’s the worst t…

This is the story by yours truly that won the British Vault of Horror Christmas Short Story Competition on Christmas Eve. 👻💀🕷️ stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/t...

Happy Holidays, everyone. Have a good one!

Protesters in the US outside a showing of the original Silent Night, Deadly Night in 1984.

‘Woman of Stone’: Ghost Stories for Christmas A new post for the Wordsworth Editions blog ‘The ghost is innately conservative,’ Professor Clive Bloom once wrote, in an uncompromising essay on M.R. James. A bold claim in gothic theory, it makes…

My attempt at a history of the BBC's 'Ghost Story for Christmas' series for Wordsworth last year, built around the then forthcoming 'Woman of Stone'. Not long after this I curated a new collection of E. Nesbit's horror stories. ainsworthandfriends.wordpress.com/2024/12/23/w...

#AChristmasCarol was the first in a series of Christmas books by Dickens. Here's something I wrote a few years back for
Wordsworth Editions on #Dickens' other #Christmas stories... wordsworth-editions.com/dickens-othe...

The Watch House: A Ghost Story for Christmas It was Angie – or ‘Angelique’ as she now styled herself – who first figured out that the old watch house on the Spit would make a great venue for a Christmas party. An early adapter to acid house, …

This was another one of my better #Christmas #ghoststories, about a young man in love with a gothic girl in the Eighties. It's therefore dedicated to my lovely wife, Gracie, who appears in the feature image. New one coming soon! 👻 💀🕷️ stephencarverauthor.wordpress.com/2021/12/16/t...

#AChristmasCarol was the first in a series of Christmas books by Dickens. Here's something I wrote a few years back for
Wordsworth Editions on #Dickens' other #Christmas stories... wordsworth-editions.com/dickens-othe...

Classic Hollywood actors posing with stuffed reindeer, Part 2: Yvonne de Carlo. #Christmas

Classic Hollywood actors posing with stuffed reindeer, Part 1: Myrna Loy. #Christmas

I know I should be listening to Christmas music but TBH I can't be arsed...