Craig Wallwork
@craigwallwork.bsky.social
British author of the Tom Nolan horror thriller series, as well as Human Tenderloin, The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In, and The Instruction Manual to Being a Vampire (2026). Horror lover and movie geek.
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Craig Wallwork
@craigwallwork.bsky.social
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THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL TO BEING A VAMPIRE. It’s got teeth.
Spring 2026. @nwreader.bsky.social #booksky
Spring 2026. @nwreader.bsky.social #booksky
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The Lion of the Desert by MatthewJBenecke
Sick Girl Screams by @sjtownend.bsky.social
The World of Vile Wonder (antho), edited by @coyhall.bsky.social
Harrowfield by @stephellis.bsky.social
Mad Days by @elfordalley.bsky.social
The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In by @craigwallwork.bsky.social
Sick Girl Screams by @sjtownend.bsky.social
The World of Vile Wonder (antho), edited by @coyhall.bsky.social
Harrowfield by @stephellis.bsky.social
Mad Days by @elfordalley.bsky.social
The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In by @craigwallwork.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The Lion of the Desert by MatthewJBenecke
Sick Girl Screams by @sjtownend.bsky.social
The World of Vile Wonder (antho), edited by @coyhall.bsky.social
Harrowfield by @stephellis.bsky.social
Mad Days by @elfordalley.bsky.social
The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In by @craigwallwork.bsky.social
Sick Girl Screams by @sjtownend.bsky.social
The World of Vile Wonder (antho), edited by @coyhall.bsky.social
Harrowfield by @stephellis.bsky.social
Mad Days by @elfordalley.bsky.social
The Skin We Feel Most Comfortable In by @craigwallwork.bsky.social
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With Ravens Passing the Moon by @herebeshadows.com
Credenza by Wendy Dalrymple
All's Well That Ends Well by @vivalavivian.bsky.social
The Haunting of Wounded Birds by @beverleylee.bsky.social
The Owl Men of Shanidar by @coyhall.bsky.social
Credenza by Wendy Dalrymple
All's Well That Ends Well by @vivalavivian.bsky.social
The Haunting of Wounded Birds by @beverleylee.bsky.social
The Owl Men of Shanidar by @coyhall.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
With Ravens Passing the Moon by @herebeshadows.com
Credenza by Wendy Dalrymple
All's Well That Ends Well by @vivalavivian.bsky.social
The Haunting of Wounded Birds by @beverleylee.bsky.social
The Owl Men of Shanidar by @coyhall.bsky.social
Credenza by Wendy Dalrymple
All's Well That Ends Well by @vivalavivian.bsky.social
The Haunting of Wounded Birds by @beverleylee.bsky.social
The Owl Men of Shanidar by @coyhall.bsky.social
Reposted by Craig Wallwork
A selection of great indie books I read this year.
I highly recommend all of these!👇📚
(See list below, left to right)
I highly recommend all of these!👇📚
(See list below, left to right)
December 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A selection of great indie books I read this year.
I highly recommend all of these!👇📚
(See list below, left to right)
I highly recommend all of these!👇📚
(See list below, left to right)
Reposted by Craig Wallwork
I thought I'd seize the opportunity, in this festive heterotopia, to try to persuade you to read some of my books. If that's okay.
First off: Tradwife
Like "true crime without the ethical ickiness" (per @anna-orridge.bsky.social), and strongly *dislike* white Christian nationalism?
Cool. Me too
First off: Tradwife
Like "true crime without the ethical ickiness" (per @anna-orridge.bsky.social), and strongly *dislike* white Christian nationalism?
Cool. Me too
Tradwife
Family. Community. Tradition.Annihilation.Everyone remembers the Heart of Solomon murders: three young married couples slaughtered around the dinner table, their bodies desecrated, in the UK's first a...
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December 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I thought I'd seize the opportunity, in this festive heterotopia, to try to persuade you to read some of my books. If that's okay.
First off: Tradwife
Like "true crime without the ethical ickiness" (per @anna-orridge.bsky.social), and strongly *dislike* white Christian nationalism?
Cool. Me too
First off: Tradwife
Like "true crime without the ethical ickiness" (per @anna-orridge.bsky.social), and strongly *dislike* white Christian nationalism?
Cool. Me too
Still trying to figure out if when the kids pressed each other’s forehead, they farted. GOOD MORNING. #FilmSky
A ★★★½ review of Good Morning (1959)
Yasujiro Ozu’s, sweet, funny, story of intergenerational life, portents to the mind-mumbling technical revolution where kids need TV so bad they’ll take a vow of silence, and how hearsay can cause dis...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Still trying to figure out if when the kids pressed each other’s forehead, they farted. GOOD MORNING. #FilmSky
December 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You know, I didn’t realise Frank Darabont had retired.
He’s like the director equivalent of Daniel Day Lewis.
He’s like the director equivalent of Daniel Day Lewis.
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
You know, I didn’t realise Frank Darabont had retired.
He’s like the director equivalent of Daniel Day Lewis.
He’s like the director equivalent of Daniel Day Lewis.
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Everything I read in 2025…. Including books from @claymcleod.bsky.social @kevharrison.bsky.social @timmcgregor.bsky.social @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social @craigwallwork.bsky.social @ljdougherty.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @beverleylee.bsky.social here’s to 2026!
December 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Everything I read in 2025…. Including books from @claymcleod.bsky.social @kevharrison.bsky.social @timmcgregor.bsky.social @kealanpatrickburke.bsky.social @craigwallwork.bsky.social @ljdougherty.bsky.social @paultremblay.bsky.social @natcassidy.bsky.social @beverleylee.bsky.social here’s to 2026!
The only time I will allow my children to curse in front of me.
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The only time I will allow my children to curse in front of me.
Landed a couple more @criterion.bsky.social for Christmas. #FilmSky
December 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Landed a couple more @criterion.bsky.social for Christmas. #FilmSky
To avoid me getting mawkish because I’ve had too much to drink, I’m going to bed now. But I do want to say to those that continue to like my posts, you’re beautiful people.
Thank you for remembering me. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
Thank you for remembering me. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
To avoid me getting mawkish because I’ve had too much to drink, I’m going to bed now. But I do want to say to those that continue to like my posts, you’re beautiful people.
Thank you for remembering me. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
Thank you for remembering me. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas.
Thanks to the two people who bought my books this month.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. And yes, this is the reality of being an indie writer.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. And yes, this is the reality of being an indie writer.
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Thanks to the two people who bought my books this month.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. And yes, this is the reality of being an indie writer.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. And yes, this is the reality of being an indie writer.
What would you do to make a movie? BAGHEAD, a movie by the Duplass Brothers. 2008. #FilmSky
A ★★★½ review of Baghead (2008)
Filmed in 2008 but looks more like a product of 1988, the Duplass brother’s comedy come horror come romance is indie filmmaking personified. Presumably shot for very little, it’s a simple story about ...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What would you do to make a movie? BAGHEAD, a movie by the Duplass Brothers. 2008. #FilmSky
In addition to my #LastFourWatched, this week I have been mostly watching…
MEMORIES OF MURDER
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
HELLAPOPPIN’
THE ICE STORM
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
BANDÉ A PART
#LetterBoxdFriday
MEMORIES OF MURDER
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
HELLAPOPPIN’
THE ICE STORM
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
BANDÉ A PART
#LetterBoxdFriday
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In addition to my #LastFourWatched, this week I have been mostly watching…
MEMORIES OF MURDER
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
HELLAPOPPIN’
THE ICE STORM
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
BANDÉ A PART
#LetterBoxdFriday
MEMORIES OF MURDER
THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT
HELLAPOPPIN’
THE ICE STORM
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
BANDÉ A PART
#LetterBoxdFriday
Don’t follow the narrative. Follow the blood. THE SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES. 1971. #FilmSky
A ★★★ review of The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)
There’s little point in trying to follow the narrative of a Jean Rollin movie. All you need to understand is that he likes vampires, pretty French women, nudity, and castles. They work on a purely emo...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Don’t follow the narrative. Follow the blood. THE SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES. 1971. #FilmSky
The one before the Warren Beatty one. HERE COMES MR. JORDAN. #FilmSky
A ★★★★ review of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
I’m a sucker for a ghost story. Warren Beatty did a fine job in remaking this back in the 1980s, keeping pretty much to the script save for swapping pugilist to American footballer. I was a little hes...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The one before the Warren Beatty one. HERE COMES MR. JORDAN. #FilmSky
The dictionary definition of ménage à trois. JULES et JIM. #FilmSky
A ★★★★ review of Jules and Jim (1962)
There's a line in Jules and Jim, and I'm pharaphrasing here, when Jules says to Jim that a man's infidelity doesn't mean as much as a woman's. This sums the tone of Truffaut's lauded and most famous f...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The dictionary definition of ménage à trois. JULES et JIM. #FilmSky
The numbness of youth personified. JEUNE & JOLIE. #FilmSky
A ★★★½ review of Young & Beautiful (2013)
In its simplest form, this movie is about a young woman trying to find a connection to anything, or anyone. And in doing so loses what most older people envy - youth. Isabelle is 17, and to subsidise ...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The numbness of youth personified. JEUNE & JOLIE. #FilmSky
Warner Bros rejects $108bn Paramount bid. If nothing else, I hope this rejection sours Trump and Kushner’s day.
Warner Bros to reject $108bn Paramount bid, reports say
Warner Bros will reportedly advise its shareholders to vote against the offer as early as Wednesday.
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December 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Warner Bros rejects $108bn Paramount bid. If nothing else, I hope this rejection sours Trump and Kushner’s day.
Mexican crime drama at its best by the undervalued Alex Cox. EL PATRULLERO (1991). #FilmSky
A ★★★★ review of Highway Patrolman (1991)
Pedro Rojas is a good guy. He wants to clean up the Mexican highways of wrongdoers, drug cartels, and traffickers in their varying forms. So he signs up and joins the Mexican police highway department...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Mexican crime drama at its best by the undervalued Alex Cox. EL PATRULLERO (1991). #FilmSky
What did I just watch? HELLZAPOPPIN (1941). #FilmSky
A ★★★½ review of Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Imagine Vaudeville performed by the SNL team, where breaking the fourth wall, in jokes (Rosebud), talking animals, slapstick shenanigans, musical numbers that are just as good as any Gene Kelly could ...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What did I just watch? HELLZAPOPPIN (1941). #FilmSky
It’s insensitive and diabolical to pour scorn on a beloved celebrity and humanitarian following his passing, but for Trump to double down and not offer any apology following his remarks toward Reiner optimises how much of a parasite he is to this planet.
December 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s insensitive and diabolical to pour scorn on a beloved celebrity and humanitarian following his passing, but for Trump to double down and not offer any apology following his remarks toward Reiner optimises how much of a parasite he is to this planet.
Baby it’s cold outside. Ang Lee’s THE ICE STORM. 1997. #FilmSky
A ★★★★ review of The Ice Storm (1997)
While some of what makes this 1970s is a little on the nose (adverts, products, keys in a bowl), Lee’s melodrama about a family and their associated friends detaching from each other, or trying to nav...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Baby it’s cold outside. Ang Lee’s THE ICE STORM. 1997. #FilmSky