Alec Worley
@agentofweird.bsky.social
Award-lacking writer of comics + fiction (Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Warhammer).
Curator of Agent of Weird, https://alecworley.substack.com, exploring the craft of fantasy, horror and sci-fi for readers, writers, role-players, connoisseurs and creators.
Curator of Agent of Weird, https://alecworley.substack.com, exploring the craft of fantasy, horror and sci-fi for readers, writers, role-players, connoisseurs and creators.
Some thoughts on what your story is really saying and why you need to stop saying it. Plus ego-grumbles about writing comics.
#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writing
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#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writing
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We Need To Stop Being Weird About Theme in Stories
What your story is really saying and why you need to stop saying it
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November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Some thoughts on what your story is really saying and why you need to stop saying it. Plus ego-grumbles about writing comics.
#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writing
alecworley.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
#writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writing
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What’s so scary about Hannibal Lecter anyway?
How horror/thriller author Thomas Harris generates terror in a key scene from his classic thriller Red Dragon (1981).
#writinghorror #hannibal #horrorfiction
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How horror/thriller author Thomas Harris generates terror in a key scene from his classic thriller Red Dragon (1981).
#writinghorror #hannibal #horrorfiction
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Lessons from Hannibal Lecter: How to Write a Human Monster
Can horror be scary without the supernatural?
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September 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
What’s so scary about Hannibal Lecter anyway?
How horror/thriller author Thomas Harris generates terror in a key scene from his classic thriller Red Dragon (1981).
#writinghorror #hannibal #horrorfiction
alecworley.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
How horror/thriller author Thomas Harris generates terror in a key scene from his classic thriller Red Dragon (1981).
#writinghorror #hannibal #horrorfiction
alecworley.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
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🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!
Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.
ukcomicscreators.org.uk
Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.
ukcomicscreators.org.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!
Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.
ukcomicscreators.org.uk
Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.
ukcomicscreators.org.uk
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Tales for a Halloween Night vol 11 coming to books stores in October.
Here is my @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social exclusive cover for @stormkingcomics.bsky.social
#johncarpenter #talesforahalloweennight
Here is my @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social exclusive cover for @stormkingcomics.bsky.social
#johncarpenter #talesforahalloweennight
September 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Tales for a Halloween Night vol 11 coming to books stores in October.
Here is my @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social exclusive cover for @stormkingcomics.bsky.social
#johncarpenter #talesforahalloweennight
Here is my @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social exclusive cover for @stormkingcomics.bsky.social
#johncarpenter #talesforahalloweennight
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OUTLAND. Cover art for a 4k restoration from Arrow Video
August 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
OUTLAND. Cover art for a 4k restoration from Arrow Video
“If this movie wasn’t a comedy, it would be unwatchable…”
Lessons on writing comedy-horror from John Landis's An American Werewolf in London (1981).
#writinghorror #americanwerewolfinlondon
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Lessons on writing comedy-horror from John Landis's An American Werewolf in London (1981).
#writinghorror #americanwerewolfinlondon
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The Best Scene in 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981) Isn't the One You Think
How to write a comedy of terrors
alecworley.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“If this movie wasn’t a comedy, it would be unwatchable…”
Lessons on writing comedy-horror from John Landis's An American Werewolf in London (1981).
#writinghorror #americanwerewolfinlondon
alecworley.substack.com/p/the-best-s...
Lessons on writing comedy-horror from John Landis's An American Werewolf in London (1981).
#writinghorror #americanwerewolfinlondon
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You have to sort the chocolate yourself.
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Award winning Script Writer, Novelist, and Games Designer - John French
John French is an Award winning Script Writer, Novelist and Games Designer, writing for a variety of works for fantasy and sci-fi genres.
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August 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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It’s got stories, and writing advice and articles and crunchy bits, but alas no chocolate.
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It’s got stories, and writing advice and articles and crunchy bits, but alas no chocolate.
You have to sort the chocolate yourself.
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@agentofweird.bsky.social regales us with the Sisyphean journey of what getting your first comics work entails, how it never ends, and how that's a good thing, actually.
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My Future Shock Hell! (Chapter 1 of 4)
How I broke into comics and why there's no such thing
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August 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@agentofweird.bsky.social regales us with the Sisyphean journey of what getting your first comics work entails, how it never ends, and how that's a good thing, actually.
alecworley.substack.com/p/my-future-...
alecworley.substack.com/p/my-future-...
Here's my 20-minute audio version of 'The Red Room' (1896), a classic ghost story by the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells.
Expect Victorian gothic, a haunted castle, and me doing my posh voice...
alecworley.substack.com/p/audio-of-w...
Expect Victorian gothic, a haunted castle, and me doing my posh voice...
alecworley.substack.com/p/audio-of-w...
Audio of Weird: The Red Room (H.G. Wells, 1896)
Listen to a classic ghost story from the father of science fiction
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August 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Here's my 20-minute audio version of 'The Red Room' (1896), a classic ghost story by the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells.
Expect Victorian gothic, a haunted castle, and me doing my posh voice...
alecworley.substack.com/p/audio-of-w...
Expect Victorian gothic, a haunted castle, and me doing my posh voice...
alecworley.substack.com/p/audio-of-w...
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The Judge Death Mega Special Descends this October
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@antonyjohnston.bsky.social
@alexdecampi.bsky.social
@mrleecarter.bsky.social
@mark-h-sexton.bsky.social
@taziobettin.bsky.social
@agentofweird.bsky.social
@2000ad.bsky.social
#judgedeath #comics #comicbooks
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@antonyjohnston.bsky.social
@alexdecampi.bsky.social
@mrleecarter.bsky.social
@mark-h-sexton.bsky.social
@taziobettin.bsky.social
@agentofweird.bsky.social
@2000ad.bsky.social
#judgedeath #comics #comicbooks
July 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Judge Death Mega Special Descends this October
comicbuzz.com/the-judge-de...
@antonyjohnston.bsky.social
@alexdecampi.bsky.social
@mrleecarter.bsky.social
@mark-h-sexton.bsky.social
@taziobettin.bsky.social
@agentofweird.bsky.social
@2000ad.bsky.social
#judgedeath #comics #comicbooks
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@antonyjohnston.bsky.social
@alexdecampi.bsky.social
@mrleecarter.bsky.social
@mark-h-sexton.bsky.social
@taziobettin.bsky.social
@agentofweird.bsky.social
@2000ad.bsky.social
#judgedeath #comics #comicbooks
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My second book, Within the Weeping Eye, is now out worldwide. Thanks in advance for support, shares, reviews.
💪 📖 ⚔️
If you send me proof of purchase, I'll DM you a personalized message from (an) Arnold Schwarzenegger (impersonator/me).
Shares appreciated 😉
🔗 a.co/d/93ij3fo 🔗
💪 📖 ⚔️
If you send me proof of purchase, I'll DM you a personalized message from (an) Arnold Schwarzenegger (impersonator/me).
Shares appreciated 😉
🔗 a.co/d/93ij3fo 🔗
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
My second book, Within the Weeping Eye, is now out worldwide. Thanks in advance for support, shares, reviews.
💪 📖 ⚔️
If you send me proof of purchase, I'll DM you a personalized message from (an) Arnold Schwarzenegger (impersonator/me).
Shares appreciated 😉
🔗 a.co/d/93ij3fo 🔗
💪 📖 ⚔️
If you send me proof of purchase, I'll DM you a personalized message from (an) Arnold Schwarzenegger (impersonator/me).
Shares appreciated 😉
🔗 a.co/d/93ij3fo 🔗
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Out November 12, 2025, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Ghost Ships of Labrador #1 (of 2) We have a cool variant cover from Matt Smith too.
July 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Out November 12, 2025, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Ghost Ships of Labrador #1 (of 2) We have a cool variant cover from Matt Smith too.
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Looks like this bas been announced. It’s a major thrill to be teaming up with newly Eisner-winning @getcampbell.bsky.social & the no doubt many Eisners winning @mikemignola.bsky.social on a HELLBOY & ABE SAPIEN two-part story.
July 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Looks like this bas been announced. It’s a major thrill to be teaming up with newly Eisner-winning @getcampbell.bsky.social & the no doubt many Eisners winning @mikemignola.bsky.social on a HELLBOY & ABE SAPIEN two-part story.
Felt cute. Might throw a priest out of a window later.
July 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Felt cute. Might throw a priest out of a window later.
A giant mechanical ant literally hanging around the workshop with a couple of unknown FX artists in this behind-the-scenes pic from monster-movie classic ‘Them!’ (Gordon Douglas, 1954).
Image sourced from Pinterest, photographer unknown, possibly lasered to death under a giant magnifying glass.
Image sourced from Pinterest, photographer unknown, possibly lasered to death under a giant magnifying glass.
July 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A giant mechanical ant literally hanging around the workshop with a couple of unknown FX artists in this behind-the-scenes pic from monster-movie classic ‘Them!’ (Gordon Douglas, 1954).
Image sourced from Pinterest, photographer unknown, possibly lasered to death under a giant magnifying glass.
Image sourced from Pinterest, photographer unknown, possibly lasered to death under a giant magnifying glass.
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We are officially open to submissions until August 7th! We want short stories 1k-10k words, poems of 50 lines or less. Dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, Arthuriana. We pay 9c a word, $50 for poems. More guidelines on our website!
www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions
www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions
Submissions | Old Moon Quarterly - Dark Fantasy Magazine
www.oldmoonpublishing.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We are officially open to submissions until August 7th! We want short stories 1k-10k words, poems of 50 lines or less. Dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, Arthuriana. We pay 9c a word, $50 for poems. More guidelines on our website!
www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions
www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions
Having greater firearms experience, producer Gale Anne Hurd stood in for Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez for this close-up shot in 'Aliens' (James Cameron, 1986).
Photographer unknown, though mostly came out at night. Mostly.
Photographer unknown, though mostly came out at night. Mostly.
July 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Having greater firearms experience, producer Gale Anne Hurd stood in for Jenette Goldstein as Vasquez for this close-up shot in 'Aliens' (James Cameron, 1986).
Photographer unknown, though mostly came out at night. Mostly.
Photographer unknown, though mostly came out at night. Mostly.
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What I drew for TSR's toy line—with constant demands for "more detail!"—and what they actually manufactured & sold.
July 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What I drew for TSR's toy line—with constant demands for "more detail!"—and what they actually manufactured & sold.
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are a driving force in the current Sword & Sorcery revival! Definitely worth supporting if you’re into heroic fantasy with a modern edge!
THREAD on why you should leap on the FINAL HOURS of the ⚔️SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS⚔️ crowdfund!
It is an outstanding Sword & Sorcery novel weaving escapist action with engaging themes, written by an author at the height of his craft, showing love for S&S on every page.
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It is an outstanding Sword & Sorcery novel weaving escapist action with engaging themes, written by an author at the height of his craft, showing love for S&S on every page.
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
July 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social are a driving force in the current Sword & Sorcery revival! Definitely worth supporting if you’re into heroic fantasy with a modern edge!
Review: Superman (James Gunn, 2025)
Telling a superhero story the DC way
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July 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Preview pages for the new 'Hawk the Slayer' strip by me (script), Simon Coleby (art), Gary Caldwell (colours) and Annie Parkhouse (letters).
Episode one lands today in legendary weekly anthology comic @2000ad.bsky.social
Even as we speak, the wizards gather in the south.
Episode one lands today in legendary weekly anthology comic @2000ad.bsky.social
Even as we speak, the wizards gather in the south.
December 18, 2024 at 9:41 AM
Preview pages for the new 'Hawk the Slayer' strip by me (script), Simon Coleby (art), Gary Caldwell (colours) and Annie Parkhouse (letters).
Episode one lands today in legendary weekly anthology comic @2000ad.bsky.social
Even as we speak, the wizards gather in the south.
Episode one lands today in legendary weekly anthology comic @2000ad.bsky.social
Even as we speak, the wizards gather in the south.
'OVER BY CHRISTMAS' (a free short story)
A Weird winter's tale of lost time, lost hearts, and a devil's bargain (20-minute read)
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A Weird winter's tale of lost time, lost hearts, and a devil's bargain (20-minute read)
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Over By Christmas (a short story)
A Weird winter's tale of lost time, lost hearts, and a devil's bargain - published here for the first time anywhere (30-minute read)
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December 17, 2024 at 9:39 AM
'OVER BY CHRISTMAS' (a free short story)
A Weird winter's tale of lost time, lost hearts, and a devil's bargain (20-minute read)
open.substack.com/pub/alecworl...
A Weird winter's tale of lost time, lost hearts, and a devil's bargain (20-minute read)
open.substack.com/pub/alecworl...
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A mysterious meeting as drawn by @vor-bokor.bsky.social, for a brand new story by @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 - available now! newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
December 12, 2024 at 4:38 PM
A mysterious meeting as drawn by @vor-bokor.bsky.social, for a brand new story by @matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 - available now! newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
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Jirel of Joiry as drawn by @saprophial.bsky.social, for a brand new story in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 - available now!
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December 10, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Jirel of Joiry as drawn by @saprophial.bsky.social, for a brand new story in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #3 - available now!
newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...