E.Saxey
@esaxey.bsky.social
Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22
They/them.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22
They/them.
These are both just lovely. If you're feeling romantic but not saccharine, snap them up.
So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
These are both just lovely. If you're feeling romantic but not saccharine, snap them up.
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My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3!
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3!
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
The poster image for a horror movie for mice.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The poster image for a horror movie for mice.
Book launch! (Blood launch / brick launch)
A fistful of urban horrors!
My story's about the hope that art will save us, and says: what if it doesn't? What if you get stuck in a horrible mews, with a horrible muse?
Massive thanks to Neil for making it happen, and my co-contributors, who I fear.
A fistful of urban horrors!
My story's about the hope that art will save us, and says: what if it doesn't? What if you get stuck in a horrible mews, with a horrible muse?
Massive thanks to Neil for making it happen, and my co-contributors, who I fear.
It's officially launch day for Blood In The Bricks! It's folk horror, but right here in our towns and cities, written by some of my absolute favourite contemporary writers. Get it now (or They'll pay you a visit).
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Book launch! (Blood launch / brick launch)
A fistful of urban horrors!
My story's about the hope that art will save us, and says: what if it doesn't? What if you get stuck in a horrible mews, with a horrible muse?
Massive thanks to Neil for making it happen, and my co-contributors, who I fear.
A fistful of urban horrors!
My story's about the hope that art will save us, and says: what if it doesn't? What if you get stuck in a horrible mews, with a horrible muse?
Massive thanks to Neil for making it happen, and my co-contributors, who I fear.
This code is still working, for a very tasty discount on this monstrous collection!
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
Good idea.... if you use code REDFLAGS you can have 75% off the ebook of THE CRAWLING MOON for the next week.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This code is still working, for a very tasty discount on this monstrous collection!
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
My story has two queer women separated by the generations (and by resentment, and being self-centred, and a spot of violence).
Also includes talking animals.
I've been enjoying this book, and its cheerful redistribution of body parts and fluids.
A friend looked up hellebore and found it defined as a 'shade-loving perennial', which he is interpreting as 'non-stop gossip-hound'.
A friend looked up hellebore and found it defined as a 'shade-loving perennial', which he is interpreting as 'non-stop gossip-hound'.
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I've been enjoying this book, and its cheerful redistribution of body parts and fluids.
A friend looked up hellebore and found it defined as a 'shade-loving perennial', which he is interpreting as 'non-stop gossip-hound'.
A friend looked up hellebore and found it defined as a 'shade-loving perennial', which he is interpreting as 'non-stop gossip-hound'.
This is excellent but if you've not Golden Raged before, I'd start with the first collection. Then double back for the one with the screaming baby.
GOLDEN RAGE: MOTHER KNOWS BEST is out in comics shops today!!! Waaaaahhhhhhh!!!! Love to the whole Golden Rage team - @laurenknight.bsky.social @sofiedodgson.bsky.social @beccasee.bsky.social @joamettegil.bsky.social @erikaschnatz.bsky.social @imagecomics.com ❤️❤️❤️
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is excellent but if you've not Golden Raged before, I'd start with the first collection. Then double back for the one with the screaming baby.
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Good idea.... if you use code REDFLAGS you can have 75% off the ebook of THE CRAWLING MOON for the next week.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Good idea.... if you use code REDFLAGS you can have 75% off the ebook of THE CRAWLING MOON for the next week.
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
www.neonhemlock.com/ebooks/crawl...
If you're returning to the train station from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social remember to leave extra time because it's uphill, you didn't get enough sleep last night and you're carrying more books than when you arrived.
November 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you're returning to the train station from @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social remember to leave extra time because it's uphill, you didn't get enough sleep last night and you're carrying more books than when you arrived.
Crossing the Scoville Scale with Adam Scovell to measure the spiciness of folk horror.
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Crossing the Scoville Scale with Adam Scovell to measure the spiciness of folk horror.
I'm dissatisfied with my skulls/skills. But happy Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I'm dissatisfied with my skulls/skills. But happy Halloween.
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The wonderful @esaxey.bsky.social reading from the crewpy AF Open Studios (in Blood In The Bricks) at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The wonderful @esaxey.bsky.social reading from the crewpy AF Open Studios (in Blood In The Bricks) at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
Listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour @npr.org on Halloween songs. Two of my favourites with'ghost' in the title.
youtu.be/ZfW4-nP2G1Q?...
youtu.be/9yaEwcmrR4Q?...
youtu.be/ZfW4-nP2G1Q?...
youtu.be/9yaEwcmrR4Q?...
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour @npr.org on Halloween songs. Two of my favourites with'ghost' in the title.
youtu.be/ZfW4-nP2G1Q?...
youtu.be/9yaEwcmrR4Q?...
youtu.be/ZfW4-nP2G1Q?...
youtu.be/9yaEwcmrR4Q?...
Remembering Prunella Scales for After Henry, the radio comedy. Three generations of women in one house, getting under each others' feet / in each others' business. It contrasts generational gendered expectations, and now is also a time capsule for those things in the 1980s. Deft and excruciating.
October 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Remembering Prunella Scales for After Henry, the radio comedy. Three generations of women in one house, getting under each others' feet / in each others' business. It contrasts generational gendered expectations, and now is also a time capsule for those things in the 1980s. Deft and excruciating.
Realised that I'm going to look more like this at #WorldFantasyConvention2025 because the UK's been quite full of Covid lately (although probably down from the early-October peak). Pack masks/nasal sprays if you use them. And let me know if I'm inaudible, happy to find workarounds.
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Realised that I'm going to look more like this at #WorldFantasyConvention2025 because the UK's been quite full of Covid lately (although probably down from the early-October peak). Pack masks/nasal sprays if you use them. And let me know if I'm inaudible, happy to find workarounds.
Supermarket parlour kids, courting the air
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Supermarket parlour kids, courting the air
An Eng Lit lecturer told me that it's hard to create a simile which *doesn't* work. We always find an apposite point of comparison.
I'd like to show him this poster, because it's stumping me. Every girl is an invaluable source of info? Every girl costs about $25,000 annually?
I'd like to show him this poster, because it's stumping me. Every girl is an invaluable source of info? Every girl costs about $25,000 annually?
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
An Eng Lit lecturer told me that it's hard to create a simile which *doesn't* work. We always find an apposite point of comparison.
I'd like to show him this poster, because it's stumping me. Every girl is an invaluable source of info? Every girl costs about $25,000 annually?
I'd like to show him this poster, because it's stumping me. Every girl is an invaluable source of info? Every girl costs about $25,000 annually?
Delighted that @kjcharleswriter.com liked my unspeakable story: "Takes Anglo-Saxon poetry and crosses it with modern dystopian/doomsday obsessions to spectacular effect."
I also love the rest of this queer gloomy tome - as Austen puts it, they're all horrid.
share.google/Gb21cHGFt46a...
I also love the rest of this queer gloomy tome - as Austen puts it, they're all horrid.
share.google/Gb21cHGFt46a...
October 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Delighted that @kjcharleswriter.com liked my unspeakable story: "Takes Anglo-Saxon poetry and crosses it with modern dystopian/doomsday obsessions to spectacular effect."
I also love the rest of this queer gloomy tome - as Austen puts it, they're all horrid.
share.google/Gb21cHGFt46a...
I also love the rest of this queer gloomy tome - as Austen puts it, they're all horrid.
share.google/Gb21cHGFt46a...
What became of the *old* family?
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
What became of the *old* family?
The Myth of Disenchantment (Josephson Storm, 2017)
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Myth of Disenchantment (Josephson Storm, 2017)
These are visually sumptuous and textually unsettling! I'm in issue 3, with a bit of West Country post-apocalyptic chicken farming. And it's romantic!
15% off all Cloisterfox zines from now until Halloween! We've got stories by Robert Shearman, Ally Wilkes, Malcolm Devlin, and many more. Give one to a child instead of sweets and completely derail their psychological development.
www.etsy.com/shop/cloiste...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM
These are visually sumptuous and textually unsettling! I'm in issue 3, with a bit of West Country post-apocalyptic chicken farming. And it's romantic!
I'll be at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social, say hi!
Friday 9pm, NewCon Press launch: Blood in the Bricks
Come mingle with urban folk-horror folk
Saturday 10am, Dark Academia: The Lure of Evil Institutions
Talk awful profs and arcane pedagogy
Books for sale: weird queer shorts, gothic Victoriana
Friday 9pm, NewCon Press launch: Blood in the Bricks
Come mingle with urban folk-horror folk
Saturday 10am, Dark Academia: The Lure of Evil Institutions
Talk awful profs and arcane pedagogy
Books for sale: weird queer shorts, gothic Victoriana
October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'll be at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social, say hi!
Friday 9pm, NewCon Press launch: Blood in the Bricks
Come mingle with urban folk-horror folk
Saturday 10am, Dark Academia: The Lure of Evil Institutions
Talk awful profs and arcane pedagogy
Books for sale: weird queer shorts, gothic Victoriana
Friday 9pm, NewCon Press launch: Blood in the Bricks
Come mingle with urban folk-horror folk
Saturday 10am, Dark Academia: The Lure of Evil Institutions
Talk awful profs and arcane pedagogy
Books for sale: weird queer shorts, gothic Victoriana
The Song Exploder episode about A-ha's 'Take on Me' is delicious. I tend to scuttle away from advice to ✨stick at it, keep creating, don't give up✨. But this demonstrates that, without glossing over the hard work and luck involved.
Also, the original chorus is hilarious.
Also, the original chorus is hilarious.
October 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Song Exploder episode about A-ha's 'Take on Me' is delicious. I tend to scuttle away from advice to ✨stick at it, keep creating, don't give up✨. But this demonstrates that, without glossing over the hard work and luck involved.
Also, the original chorus is hilarious.
Also, the original chorus is hilarious.
Neighbours often leave small unwanted objects in front of their houses, for passersby to take (clothes, books, ornaments).
Local foxes are abundant.
Often, I'll pass a sign which says "🌸❤️HELP YOURSELF! 🌸😀" with an arrow which now points only at some fox poo.
Local foxes are abundant.
Often, I'll pass a sign which says "🌸❤️HELP YOURSELF! 🌸😀" with an arrow which now points only at some fox poo.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Neighbours often leave small unwanted objects in front of their houses, for passersby to take (clothes, books, ornaments).
Local foxes are abundant.
Often, I'll pass a sign which says "🌸❤️HELP YOURSELF! 🌸😀" with an arrow which now points only at some fox poo.
Local foxes are abundant.
Often, I'll pass a sign which says "🌸❤️HELP YOURSELF! 🌸😀" with an arrow which now points only at some fox poo.