Claire Waller / Ellie Graves/ Claire Lunn

Doilies are also involved somewhere. And possibly some kind of china ornament involving either a milkmaid, or small children in whimsical Victorian dress in pastel shades.

I think my mother still has them somewhere (and I have a horrible feeling they’re coming to me next)

I know exactly how this house is laid out, what it smells like and what sweets are the the dish on the table (they’re hard ones, minty humbugs if he’s anything like my great auntie and uncle (I didn’t really have grandparents until I was an adult as my family are Complicated - yay!)

Grampy and Grandpa 🥲

Now *that* is a quality joke

The cover for the horror fantasy novel THE CHANGE (depicting a jacketed figure slinging a guitar scrawled with "This Machine Kills Zombies") is overlaid on a green wood background. Text reads as follows: "Zombies Faith Rock & Roll On Sale Now Oddity Prodigy Productions"

Thanks Gabino!

We'd like to wish everyone a Happy Halloween, and also boost our horror fantasy THE CHANGE (the debut novel of
@shoutingstreet.bsky.social) from earlier this year! This tale of zombies, hope and rock & roll is available at Bookshop.org and also the official OPP shop!

#FridayReads

Happy #FridayReads, Gabino! The El has arrived at all platforms!

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Cover for Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

Hi Gabino! Thanks as always. Popping in again with my novel-in-obituaries REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE because it's spooky season and who doesn't want to think about death, the future of humanity, and the ways we try to care for each other through art and rebellion?? bookshop.org/p/books/reme...

Jackanapes Press is having a Halloween sale. 30% off everything with code GHOST at checkout. Includes the upcoming GHOST CONFESSIONS by @johnshirley2024.bsky.social !
www.jackanapespress.com

In the House of In Between Check out In the House of In Between - <p>The Backlund House is haunted, but no one knows why. No violence has taken place there, no one has died inside its walls. Over the course of a century, what-o...

What’s better for Halloween than a haunted house? A house where no one has died, yet has a looping chase of specters, murder, blood, and fire… Check in with five eras over a century as each try to solve and survive the mystery of Backlund House.
#FridayReads

Tracing The Shape - Matthew Jackson and The Scares That Shaped Us

Thanks, Gabino, and Happy Halloween!

I wrote 31 essays, one every day this month, on John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN, and they're all available to read for free at my newsletter!

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A Body Haunted I know all too well that “nothing wrong” is not always good news. It’s not good news for the patients with no further insight into what is disrupting their life, causing them pain, and wearing them ou...

Happy Halloween, Gabino! I did the thing! My personal essay on how living with chronic illnesses is like a horror movie was published on @frivolouscomma.bsky.social earlier this week. You can find it here: www.frivolouscomma.com/a-body-haunt...

Book cover. A young jackdaw on a dark, misty background with red fly agaric mushrooms to the foreground. Themes/vibes surround the cover. The Haunting of Wounded Birds by Beverley Lee.

Thank you, Gabino!
The Haunting Of Wounded Birds, my coming-of-age folk horror releases in 12 days and I'd love to get to 40 preorders (currently at 38). If you love dark forests, black birds, old rituals and haunted boys, this is for you!
mybook.to/woundedbirds

Promo image for A Press of Feathers, featuring the strapline: There's A Little Rage In All Of Us And a cover of the book, showing a harpy eagle with glowing eyes and a woman with fire in her hand superimposed on a suburban housing estate background Plus blurbs from Daniel Barnett ("super unique, wickedly intelligent") and Kev Harrison ("a must read")

Cheers Gabino! Since it's Halloween, I'm wheeling out A Press of Feathers - my haunted house whodunnit in the suburbs (with some Zimbardo-style social experimentation unpleasantness and a bit of grisly body horror thrown in)

It's basically The Shining, but perimenopausal

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Front cover for the advanced proof copy of my latest novel, NANEATER, depicting an iced white cake made of raw meat in a fridge, with the title in red letters and the tagline Revenge is tough to swallow

The back cover of MANEATER, which reads: Things for Renee Landis are finally looking up. She just quit her dead-end job at a chicken shop after landing the coveted role of junior chef at London’s pristine NOVA restaurant. But it's not the restaurant that draws Renee in - it's the executive chef. Gracie Fitzgerald is as legendary as she is secretive, known for her succulent, signature dishes and the notorious methods in which she runs her kitchen. No one can touch her workspace with bare hands. No other chef can taste her signature dishes. And no one, under any circumstances, is allowed to enter her personal freezer…

Thank you Gabino, and Happy Halloween to you, too! I’m very excited today, because I’ve literally just received my advance proof copies for my latest horror/thriller MANEATER (under pseudonym Ellie Graves for Bantam - EEK! My first Big Grown Up Publisher! 😱😍)

It’s #FridayReads time and Halloween! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I bring you magic, vengeance, ghosts, friendship, a hurricane, and creatures from beyond the reef…and it’s all 45% off because Halloween!🎃
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MANEATER advance proofs are here… and they’re GORGEOUS! So naturally I had to do something unhinged with them.

(No delivery people were harmed in the making of this video 😅)

They’re very tasty 😋

I’m still finding sticky red stuff in my kitchen 🤣

MANEATER advance proofs are here… and they’re GORGEOUS! So naturally I had to do something unhinged with them.

(No delivery people were harmed in the making of this video 😅)

Front cover of the advanced proof copy of my next book, MANEATER (under my pseudonym Ellie Graves) depicting a perfectly iced cake with a meat interior in a fridge, with the tagline ‘Revenge is tough to swallow’

The back cover of the advanced proof copy of my next novel MANEATER. The blurb reads: Things for Renee Landis are finally looking up. She just quit her dead-end job at a chicken shop after landing the role of junior chef at London’s pristine NOVA restaurant. But it’s not the restaurant that draws Renee in - it’s the executive chef. Gracie Fitzgerald is as legendary as she is secretive, known for her succulent, signature dishes and the notorious methods in which she runs her kitchen. No one can touch her workspace with bare hands. No other chef can taste her signature dishes. And no one, under any circumstances, is allowed to enter her personal freezer… 26 MARCH 2026 This is an uncorrected proof not for sale or quotation

Look, I’ll do the tarted up special aesthetic stuff later… BUT LOOK WHAT JUST TURNED UP!!

Doesn’t matter how many times this happens, I’ll NEVER tire of receiving arc copies of my books 🥰🤓❤️

My poor mum. Only yesterday she was saying he was just a silly boy, nothing more than a scamp, really, and that everyone just needed to leave him alone…

… lol

(What’s it called when you both love and hate being right? I’m pretty sure the Germans have a word for it)

(I will be honest, I didn’t listen to him because his voice makes me want to stick pins in my eyes)

Look, I’m just a stupid outsider from the UK, but… ‘Democratic policy demands’ like, uh, feeding hungry children and affordable healthcare? Swearing in that lady they don’t want to sign that thing for the Epstein files to be released?

Am I missing something here?

I think someone has been a bit of a naughty boy.

And by naughty boy, I mean ‘done something so unspeakably cretinous that even the *royals* won’t defend him’ 😬

Front cover of the advanced proof copy of my next book, MANEATER (under my pseudonym Ellie Graves) depicting a perfectly iced cake with a meat interior in a fridge, with the tagline ‘Revenge is tough to swallow’

The back cover of the advanced proof copy of my next novel MANEATER. The blurb reads: Things for Renee Landis are finally looking up. She just quit her dead-end job at a chicken shop after landing the role of junior chef at London’s pristine NOVA restaurant. But it’s not the restaurant that draws Renee in - it’s the executive chef. Gracie Fitzgerald is as legendary as she is secretive, known for her succulent, signature dishes and the notorious methods in which she runs her kitchen. No one can touch her workspace with bare hands. No other chef can taste her signature dishes. And no one, under any circumstances, is allowed to enter her personal freezer… 26 MARCH 2026 This is an uncorrected proof not for sale or quotation

Look, I’ll do the tarted up special aesthetic stuff later… BUT LOOK WHAT JUST TURNED UP!!

Doesn’t matter how many times this happens, I’ll NEVER tire of receiving arc copies of my books 🥰🤓❤️

Unless it’s big enough to beat the people who are unfortunate enough to irritate me today (form an orderly queue) to a bloody pulp or is coated in some kind of soothing, vaguely alien-esque gel (tmi, sorry-not-sorry), I’m not interested. Now excuse me. I have things to maim and men to frighten.

We don’t care (but I’m also pretty fucking furious too, I just don’t care about hiding any of it anymore - you have been warned) 😂

I hit 45, shot past not giving a fuck and hit being fucking furious at everything instead (I now have a special patch that keeps me out of prison - perimenopause is FUN)

They tend to just look at surface ops, think OMG THAT LOOKS COOL then get upset when they’re told creators tell them they’re wrong and to please gtfo, this not for you, it was never for you, it’s for the people you oppress. See also: music. Jello Biafra and Al Jourgensen are VERY tired.

Even when they’re the ones in power, they’re still the Oppressed Victims Fighting Evil. Remember, they think Rage Against The Machine is on their side 🫠