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.
Having listened to various conversations about annual awards: preorder my SciFi thriller, Recency Bias, coming out end-of-November 2026.
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Having listened to various conversations about annual awards: preorder my SciFi thriller, Recency Bias, coming out end-of-November 2026.
New year ushered in by startled crows and distant sirens.
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
New year ushered in by startled crows and distant sirens.
Slipping a bit of short fiction in before the year ends. I'm delighted to be in Baffling. This is set in the summer but it's about change and estrangement, so a decent fit for NYE.
Whew, here it is, the last 🪶 @bafflingmag.bsky.social 🪶 issue of the year! A DOUBLE ISSUE on the theme of STRANGE FORMS.
Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social
Check it out here:
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Cover by the incomparable @gnarlyghost.bsky.social
Check it out here:
www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Slipping a bit of short fiction in before the year ends. I'm delighted to be in Baffling. This is set in the summer but it's about change and estrangement, so a decent fit for NYE.
Happy Newt Year, everyone.
December 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Newt Year, everyone.
Favourite thing about daylight foxes is when they pass someone very close by who is totally oblivious. Feels like a massive ginger demonstration of the fallibility of our senses/attention.
December 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Favourite thing about daylight foxes is when they pass someone very close by who is totally oblivious. Feels like a massive ginger demonstration of the fallibility of our senses/attention.
Any suggestions for a Goodreads alternative? Mainly to keep a record of what I read, and short thoughts. I've not used anything similar, so not sure what additional features might appeal.
December 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Any suggestions for a Goodreads alternative? Mainly to keep a record of what I read, and short thoughts. I've not used anything similar, so not sure what additional features might appeal.
If you want to buy a gift for a writer, this collection is a steal and a trove. You may end up beta-reading their uncanny scifi magical murder mystery in six months' time, but wouldn't that be fun?
(From @deadinkbooks.bsky.social - many other 50% off deals.)
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(From @deadinkbooks.bsky.social - many other 50% off deals.)
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Writer's Bundle - Dead Ink Books
Whether you're looking for the ideal gift for your favourite writer or just love listening to writers talk about writing, this is an essential collection to have in your library.
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December 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you want to buy a gift for a writer, this collection is a steal and a trove. You may end up beta-reading their uncanny scifi magical murder mystery in six months' time, but wouldn't that be fun?
(From @deadinkbooks.bsky.social - many other 50% off deals.)
deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...
(From @deadinkbooks.bsky.social - many other 50% off deals.)
deadinkbooks.com/product/writ...
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A Romancing the Gothic first!
I have put the whole schedule for 2026 up in advance!
You can already book tickets through March but you can see what's coming (and note it in your diary!) for the whole year!
What a talk schedule!
romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...
I have put the whole schedule for 2026 up in advance!
You can already book tickets through March but you can see what's coming (and note it in your diary!) for the whole year!
What a talk schedule!
romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...
Class Schedules
For classes that have already happened, you can click on ‘Online Here’ to see a recorded version. Check out the YouTube channel for earlier classes as well! Sign up here Date (All times…
romancingthegothic.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A Romancing the Gothic first!
I have put the whole schedule for 2026 up in advance!
You can already book tickets through March but you can see what's coming (and note it in your diary!) for the whole year!
What a talk schedule!
romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...
I have put the whole schedule for 2026 up in advance!
You can already book tickets through March but you can see what's coming (and note it in your diary!) for the whole year!
What a talk schedule!
romancingthegothic.com/class-schedu...
Message from the 1940s, feel free to use widely in 2026.
December 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Message from the 1940s, feel free to use widely in 2026.
SPACE CRONE space crone
December 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
SPACE CRONE space crone
Have an old tree for a short day. May be pre-Norman conquest.
December 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Have an old tree for a short day. May be pre-Norman conquest.
Just found out that my childhood home has no foundations. Just stone resting on earth. Clumsy metaphor? (@romgothsam.bsky.social?)
December 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Just found out that my childhood home has no foundations. Just stone resting on earth. Clumsy metaphor? (@romgothsam.bsky.social?)
This year I made a tiny booklet of linocuts with @chrissywilliams.bsky.social, Fight the Moon.
Chrissy supplied the maxims and requested crude icons that you might carry into battle for that cause.
Chrissy supplied the maxims and requested crude icons that you might carry into battle for that cause.
December 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This year I made a tiny booklet of linocuts with @chrissywilliams.bsky.social, Fight the Moon.
Chrissy supplied the maxims and requested crude icons that you might carry into battle for that cause.
Chrissy supplied the maxims and requested crude icons that you might carry into battle for that cause.
My online storage is suggesting I delete blurry photos but they're my best photos.
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
My online storage is suggesting I delete blurry photos but they're my best photos.
Novellas continue to make great gifts! But go for the first one in the series, if you're gifting. Honestly ideal for your closest wry mathmo.
it wouldn't be christmas without me badly photoshopping my book into something in a shameless attempt to convince you to buy it for yourself or an unsuspecting recipient
(Triggernometry Finals! Available on kindle or DRM-free via Payhip!)
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(Triggernometry Finals! Available on kindle or DRM-free via Payhip!)
payhip.com/StarkHolborn
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...
December 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Novellas continue to make great gifts! But go for the first one in the series, if you're gifting. Honestly ideal for your closest wry mathmo.
Take the train from Charing Cross into London Bridge, hear the Doppler effect on church bells from 1734.
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Take the train from Charing Cross into London Bridge, hear the Doppler effect on church bells from 1734.
Belatedly enjoying Cold Tapes - audio murder mystery - and its parade of characters who should never have been sent to an Antarctic base. Eighteen suspects! Twice as many ruinous traits! Defensive/shirty; much too chirpy; Machiavellian schemer; Fortean believer; profoundly paranoid (but justified).
December 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Belatedly enjoying Cold Tapes - audio murder mystery - and its parade of characters who should never have been sent to an Antarctic base. Eighteen suspects! Twice as many ruinous traits! Defensive/shirty; much too chirpy; Machiavellian schemer; Fortean believer; profoundly paranoid (but justified).
Novellas make good gifts!
Good morning! If you're looking for a quick boost to your 2025 reading goals, might I suggest whisking yourself away to "dark and fantastical places" with my award-winning novella THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS.
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Novellas make good gifts!
"A really good photograph might become in the end a snare, a horror, and an obstacle."
~ C.S. Lewis
~ C.S. Lewis
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
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December 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
"A really good photograph might become in the end a snare, a horror, and an obstacle."
~ C.S. Lewis
~ C.S. Lewis
My thoughts with the bereaved today but also my goodness
December 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
My thoughts with the bereaved today but also my goodness
Cecil Sharp House also has a queer folk festival in May next year, which looks excellent.
There’s still time to donate as part of @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge
help us to raise vital funds to support our youth folk activities.
Young folk musicians will get what could be a life-changing
opportunity.
Donate by midday today, for the future of folk.
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help us to raise vital funds to support our youth folk activities.
Young folk musicians will get what could be a life-changing
opportunity.
Donate by midday today, for the future of folk.
bit.ly/4pT7C6V
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Cecil Sharp House also has a queer folk festival in May next year, which looks excellent.
I am going to make it
Through this joke about the Mountain Goats
If it kills me
Through this joke about the Mountain Goats
If it kills me
I have a joke about Alanis Morissette, but it’s ironic.
I have a joke about Avril Lavigne, but it's complicated.
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I am going to make it
Through this joke about the Mountain Goats
If it kills me
Through this joke about the Mountain Goats
If it kills me