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Charlotte Tierney
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Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Galley Beggars Prize 2023 / Nightjar / Weird Horror.

All ‘moor, no snore.
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Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social · Sep 9
I have a book to sell and a friend who can use a computer, good morning
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I have seen the greatest minds of my generation radicalised into flat earth trutherism by the comment section of a Smashing Pumpkins Facebook fan page.
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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For 2 + years now, when asked for a blurb from me, the writer requesting the blurb must confirm that they did not use AI/LMMs in the writing/researching of the book.

If I blurb something and find out later that the author lied to me, I will loudly retract my support. I don't support scabs.
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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paultremblay.bsky.social
(1/2) Speaking as a math person, I question the validity and rigor of the sample and study given who commissioned it. However, more writers/readers must adopt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to supporting OTHER writers using AI for fiction.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI
A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
This is tomorrow, I know it is staying in, eating soup, watching telly weather but do please come along, we promise to do our utmost to delight you & tickets are free, although you can also order a book with one included
regretteruane.bsky.social Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 28d
Glasgow loves please join me & @benpester.bsky.social at Mount Florida Books on the 6th of November to talk about the marvel that is The Expansion Project.
Everyone* is saying it’s going to be the real fireworks night

*No one is saying that. But it will be good
mountfloridabooks.com/products/the...
Green text on cream background reads The Expansion Project, Ben Pester, 6th November with Rose Ruane
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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The BFS Award for best novella went to the excellent The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson and you will not forget this story in a hurry www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/2/...
The Last To Drown by Lorraine Wilson — Runalong The Shelves
I would like to thank Luna Press Publishing for an advance copy of this novella in exchange for a fair and honest review Publisher – Luna Press Publishing Published – 19/2 Price – £8.99 paper...
www.runalongtheshelves.net
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Picked up some #BookPost The Best Weird Fiction of the Year Vol 1 edited by Michael Kelly looks very interesting
An eye with a skull at the centre on the cover Joe Koch Uchechukwu Nwaka • Kelly Robson Nicholas Royle Kristina Ten Natalia Theodoridou Charlotte Tierney Shaoni C. White Kaaron Warren Zachariah Claypole White Greg van Eekhout Mia Xuan Welcome, once again, to the weird. Joanne Anderton Jason Baltazar Seán Padraic Birnie Chris Campbell F.E. Choe Kay Chronister Dominique Dickey Diana Dima Hiron Ennes Richard Gavin Elliott Gish Thomas Ha Rachael K. Jones A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Piction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor,
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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New from @undertow.bsky.social, THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR, VOL. 1, edited by Michael Kelly! weightlessbooks.com/the-best-wei...
Cover art for THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR VOL. 1, curated by Michael Kelly, featuring a weird wrinkly face looking out of the pupil of a huge eyeball
October 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...
Limited edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol, illustrated by me. It's bound in red leather with embossed gold wreath and lettering, and the box is lined by and illustration of a snowy night time Dickensian city scene. Surrounded by stuff on my desk (pens, glasses, glue etc). The standard edition of the Folio Society's A Christmas Carol illustrated by me. The book itself featured a view of Scrooge in a long black coat with a top hat and red scarf from the back, surveying the snowy London skyline. The slip case is green and has vignettes of relevent scenes and motifs in the style of Georgian wallpaper. One of the vignettes is a circular cut out, so when the book is in the slipcase you can see Scrooge's head through it. Surrounded by the loads of rubbish I have on my desk. An illustration from the first stave of A Christmas Carol. Scrogge is sat by his fire eating his gruel when across his large but shabby drawing room, Marley's ghost appears. An illustration of the fourth stave, featuring Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas yet to come (who is a Victorian widow in high mourning, completely draped and almost invisible in black net and bombazine). They are in a graveyard, which is based largely on St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in Edinburgh. She points to his grave, and he looks at it in horror. There is a smaller gravestone to his right, capped with snow which features a skull in bas relief and the words 'MOMENTO MORI' in a motto scroll over the top. The moon shines from an Atkinson Grimshaw-esque greenish winter sky, illuminating the dome of St Paul's Cathedral.
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN

Forget what you know. This is the most faithful and most gorgeous take on Shelley's novel.

Gothic splendour, glorious excess, and a true compassion for the monster.

gnofhorror.com/guillermo-de...

#GuillermodelToro #Frankenstein

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Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein: A Monstrous Masterpiece Of Heart And Horror - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein arrives not as just another adaptation, but as a culmination of almost a century of cinematic Frankensteins.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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More Book 📚 recommendations for 🎃the Spooky Season #UKKidLit #Librarians #BookBloggers #ReadingRecommendations 📚💀👻🎃 #SpookyBooks @michellepaver.bsky.social @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social @spookypurcell.bsky.social
Dark blue background with flowers, creatures & symbols. Churchyard with graves & house in grey at top of cover. Green & yellow. Black rose, lake with spooky cowled figure rising from whirlpool, creepy house in background & full moon in top right hand corner. Darkening sky. Green leaves. Black background, gold edging of flowers , single eye 👁 in cameo at top, house below. Gothic style cover. Blue background. Troubled girl in white with flowing hair. Black writing.
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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ICYMI, I’m writing a quarterly column on collections of weird fiction. So far we’ve got an intro, one on Steve Rasnic Tem, Ananda Lima, and Christi Nogle, and another on John Langan, Rebecca Campbell, and B. Catling. There’s a lot of weird theorizing and words like “apophatic” and “genric”.
Profane Illuminations – Ancillary Review of Books
Posts about Profane Illuminations written by Zach
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October 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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charlieratpig.bsky.social
If you buy a copy of my nineties, gothic, cat-lady novel ‘The Cat Bride’, you are supporting independent publishing.

If you have bought it - thank you! - even better, read it! See what you think…

Perhaps leave a review! It helps so much if there is no massive marketing budget to prop it up. X
Cover of The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney with text “HAVE A BREAK HAVE A BIG CAT”
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
charlieratpig.bsky.social
If you buy a copy of my nineties, gothic, cat-lady novel ‘The Cat Bride’, you are supporting independent publishing.

If you have bought it - thank you! - even better, read it! See what you think…

Perhaps leave a review! It helps so much if there is no massive marketing budget to prop it up. X
Cover of The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney with text “HAVE A BREAK HAVE A BIG CAT”
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...
October 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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For those on the other side of the moor, Emma will also be talking about Dartmoor myths & legends with author & broadcaster @smpierce.bsky.social on 9 October in Ashburton. To book tickets: www.dartmoortorsfestival.co.uk
Event poster: 'Tall Tales and Strange Stories' at St Lawrence Chapel, Ashburton, TQ13 7DD, on 9 October at 7 pm. Explore Dartmoor's legends with guide & author Emma Cunis and writer Sophie Pierce, delving into the moor's best-known myths, their origins, and their deep connection to the land and roots. The image is a drawing of a ghostly coach crossing the Dartmoor landscape. Art by Gina Hemery.
October 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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For those within traveling distance of #Dartmoor, this #nature & #folklore event is coming up in Chagford soon: a talk with Dartmoor historian & guide Emma Cunis, with art by Gina Hemery. Emma's people have lived on the moor for generations; her knowledge of this land is deep and wise.
Image: The poster for "Magical Myths & Moorland Legends" at Endecott House, Chagford, TQ13 8AJ, on 17 October, 7PM: an evening of Dartmoor tales and enchantment with local historian Emma Cunis, folklorist Terri Windling, and art by Gina Hemery. The evening celebrates the publication of Emma's new book, Dartmoor Myths & Legends. For tickets, visit Emma's Dartmoor's Daughter website: www.dartmoorsdaughter.com. The art on the poster is a Dartmoor landscape by Gina Hemery.
October 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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October 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Nineties parenting is in the news again. Pls buy my bk.
Screen shot of Independent article “Why everyone is turning to the 90s for parenting tips” and the cover of The Cat Bride
October 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Sadness.
October 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Charlotte Riddell: Queen of Ghost Stories honoured with blue plaque in Carrickfergus
Her more than 50 stories explored moral ambiguity and an obsession with the supernatural in the Victorian age.
www.bbc.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Cover of The Cat Bride by Charlotte Tierney
October 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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CONGRATULATIONS TO @benpester.bsky.social

(and everyone else)
goldsmithsprize.bsky.social Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · Oct 2
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!

Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
October 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
charlieratpig.bsky.social
Made a badge out of some amazing wisdom @jolloyds.bsky.social once offered me.

Advice for life, not just paras.

(Should obviously have cited her as the source. It is v tiny badge tho.)
Small badge reading “Consider whether you really need both a colossal and giant squid”
October 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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New on the blog today, I've written about UNDER THE EYE OF THE BIG BIRD by Hiromi Kawakami (tr Asa Yoneda).

A thought-provoking, speculative novel about evolution, societal structures & the possible extinction of humanity. Lots of interesting ideas here. 💙📚

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Asa Yoneda)
The award-winning Japanese writer Hiromi Kawakami first came to prominence with her beautiful, meditative novella Strange Weather in Tokyo (tr. Allison Markin Powell), which was shortlisted for the…
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October 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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“A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE HAUNTED HOME” was described by J C Oates, here, in these very hallowed character counts, as an “absolutely original & delightful; a most unique (sic!) ghost story for our time.”

Available now in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year from @undertow.bsky.social
Cover of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year from Undertow Publishing
October 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM