Colin Harker
@lordsteerpike.bsky.social
(she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / British lit PhD / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints
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Colin Harker
@lordsteerpike.bsky.social
· Nov 20
For lovers of folk horror and the British Gothic, a novel set in the midwinter of 1665, within a remote Scottish priory haunted by ancient sorcery and deadly secrets. Enter the Priory…if you dare.
amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD
#horror #gothic #thriller
amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD
#horror #gothic #thriller
I'm not going to have to watch Sex and the City because Mikhail Baryshnikov is hot, am I? Because man, that show sucks...
January 28, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I'm not going to have to watch Sex and the City because Mikhail Baryshnikov is hot, am I? Because man, that show sucks...
These stupid pictures make the DHS thugs look like Blair Witch extras. They actually think this makes protestors look bad and makes DHS look good? This shit is embarrassing...
I'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.
January 28, 2026 at 9:32 PM
These stupid pictures make the DHS thugs look like Blair Witch extras. They actually think this makes protestors look bad and makes DHS look good? This shit is embarrassing...
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Sometimes I'm tempted to compare the president to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen but then I remember that the Baron actually had his shit together mentally in a lot of ways that Trump just doesn't.
that the president is a rapidly decaying lunatic is the worst kept secret in the world right now
when It Happens, we are going to get countless accounts about how bad it was and how everyone knew and it's absolute malpractice that the same media that went full court press on Biden Old ignores it
when It Happens, we are going to get countless accounts about how bad it was and how everyone knew and it's absolute malpractice that the same media that went full court press on Biden Old ignores it
"A key European ally of Trump said he was 'traumatized' by a meeting where the president’s 'psychological state' came across as 'dangerous.’ Robert Fico, the populist prime minister of Slovakia … characterized Trump as being 'out of his mind,' per a diplomat."
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ally-s...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-ally-s...
January 28, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Sometimes I'm tempted to compare the president to Baron Vladimir Harkonnen but then I remember that the Baron actually had his shit together mentally in a lot of ways that Trump just doesn't.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
Ah screw it - why not?
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
Okay yeah this sounds really nice today 💖
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
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He had been obsessed with the idea that certain architectural designs, certain slants of light and shadow, of stone and wood, best “stirred and moved the blood” and prepared the supplicant or devotee to receive the overtures and ministrations of the Inamorata.
January 28, 2026 at 12:37 AM
He had been obsessed with the idea that certain architectural designs, certain slants of light and shadow, of stone and wood, best “stirred and moved the blood” and prepared the supplicant or devotee to receive the overtures and ministrations of the Inamorata.
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You came to me once as I dreamt,
And that once I could stand;
Then you came to me twice,
And now I am damned.
Your presence once was gossamer light,
And that I could spurn;
Then you pressed your iron against my heart
And now I burn.
And that once I could stand;
Then you came to me twice,
And now I am damned.
Your presence once was gossamer light,
And that I could spurn;
Then you pressed your iron against my heart
And now I burn.
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 PM
You came to me once as I dreamt,
And that once I could stand;
Then you came to me twice,
And now I am damned.
Your presence once was gossamer light,
And that I could spurn;
Then you pressed your iron against my heart
And now I burn.
And that once I could stand;
Then you came to me twice,
And now I am damned.
Your presence once was gossamer light,
And that I could spurn;
Then you pressed your iron against my heart
And now I burn.
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It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
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There was a mild smile on Lambton’s lips, but a fanatic’s fire in his blue eyes, blue as a drowning sea or the heart of a flame.
January 27, 2026 at 10:45 PM
There was a mild smile on Lambton’s lips, but a fanatic’s fire in his blue eyes, blue as a drowning sea or the heart of a flame.
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I now saw the truth: that though he had always done his best to veil the nature of his passion, that it yet remained hidden and close against his heart like a gloved hand, now and then striving and unclenching against its careful restraints to touch and feel me with a brutal finesse.
January 28, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I now saw the truth: that though he had always done his best to veil the nature of his passion, that it yet remained hidden and close against his heart like a gloved hand, now and then striving and unclenching against its careful restraints to touch and feel me with a brutal finesse.
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"Belong to me and you will possess everlasting power. And you shall drink down dreams like wine."
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 PM
"Belong to me and you will possess everlasting power. And you shall drink down dreams like wine."
This is really a vital point that people need to understand. It goes beyond familiar prejudices and divisions. They hate humanity. They genuinely think the world would be better off with more of their machines than of us.
no they hate all of them, they just hate some less than others
January 28, 2026 at 12:30 AM
This is really a vital point that people need to understand. It goes beyond familiar prejudices and divisions. They hate humanity. They genuinely think the world would be better off with more of their machines than of us.
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
Ah screw it - why not?
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
Okay yeah this sounds really nice today 💖
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
1 like = 1 random line from one of my WIPs/Published works
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Charles Laughton was not the only great actor of Classic Hollywood to direct a film no one appreciated at the time. Here’s my essay from last year about Peter Lorre’s The Lost One—unique, ill-fated, and now darkly relevant.
open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...
open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...
The Lost One's Long Journey
After 75 years, Peter Lorre's sole film as director finds its dark moment at last
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Charles Laughton was not the only great actor of Classic Hollywood to direct a film no one appreciated at the time. Here’s my essay from last year about Peter Lorre’s The Lost One—unique, ill-fated, and now darkly relevant.
open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...
open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...
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January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember and honor the six million Jewish lives and countless others murdered by the Nazi regime.
Today and every day, it’s on us to not only reflect but act to confront antisemitism and combat hate in all its forms.
Never again.
Today and every day, it’s on us to not only reflect but act to confront antisemitism and combat hate in all its forms.
Never again.
January 27, 2026 at 5:33 PM
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember and honor the six million Jewish lives and countless others murdered by the Nazi regime.
Today and every day, it’s on us to not only reflect but act to confront antisemitism and combat hate in all its forms.
Never again.
Today and every day, it’s on us to not only reflect but act to confront antisemitism and combat hate in all its forms.
Never again.
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Yes because then they’d have to face the reality of what people think of them
January 26, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Yes because then they’d have to face the reality of what people think of them
January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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People seem to have forgotten that the establishment of Homeland Security was highly controversial as it was seen as a danger to democracy. It was feared that it would one day be used AGAINST the American people. And here we are.
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
January 26, 2026 at 11:16 PM
People seem to have forgotten that the establishment of Homeland Security was highly controversial as it was seen as a danger to democracy. It was feared that it would one day be used AGAINST the American people. And here we are.
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming
We’re finally on our own
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The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
Everyone who knows me knows that one of my most consistent types is "short king with antifascist leanings."
maybe send a friendly text to a short king in your life, they're catching a lot of strays out here tonight
January 27, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Everyone who knows me knows that one of my most consistent types is "short king with antifascist leanings."
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Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry
January 27, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry
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