Oliver Sheppard
@oliversheppard.bsky.social
“The earth is a tomb, the gaudy sky a vault, we but walking corpses."
—Mary Shelley, 𝘖𝘯 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 (1824)
—Mary Shelley, 𝘖𝘯 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 (1824)
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My new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY, can be bought here:
TheFuneralColony[dot]com
330 page, 84+ poemS. If you want to wait until Tues, July 28, I’ll have copies available on me to buy, can sign, etc., and you can buy one off me directly then.
#thefuneralcolony #darkpoetry #darkpoems
TheFuneralColony[dot]com
330 page, 84+ poemS. If you want to wait until Tues, July 28, I’ll have copies available on me to buy, can sign, etc., and you can buy one off me directly then.
#thefuneralcolony #darkpoetry #darkpoems
The little-known, original “Unknown Pleasures” artwork.
#itstotallytrue #joydivision #unknownpleasures #tonywilson #factoryrecords #postpunk #postpunkhistory #punkhistory
#totallytruetalesofpostpunkhistory
#itstotallytrue #joydivision #unknownpleasures #tonywilson #factoryrecords #postpunk #postpunkhistory #punkhistory
#totallytruetalesofpostpunkhistory
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The little-known, original “Unknown Pleasures” artwork.
#itstotallytrue #joydivision #unknownpleasures #tonywilson #factoryrecords #postpunk #postpunkhistory #punkhistory
#totallytruetalesofpostpunkhistory
#itstotallytrue #joydivision #unknownpleasures #tonywilson #factoryrecords #postpunk #postpunkhistory #punkhistory
#totallytruetalesofpostpunkhistory
Two seasonal albums that go together perfectly in November. (Like wine-pairing.)
Listening to both these LPs back-to-back, it’s almost like listening to a single 2x12” concept LP about the darkest parts of Halloween and Fall. Perfectly complementary. 🎃🍂🍁
#killingjoke #samhain
Listening to both these LPs back-to-back, it’s almost like listening to a single 2x12” concept LP about the darkest parts of Halloween and Fall. Perfectly complementary. 🎃🍂🍁
#killingjoke #samhain
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Two seasonal albums that go together perfectly in November. (Like wine-pairing.)
Listening to both these LPs back-to-back, it’s almost like listening to a single 2x12” concept LP about the darkest parts of Halloween and Fall. Perfectly complementary. 🎃🍂🍁
#killingjoke #samhain
Listening to both these LPs back-to-back, it’s almost like listening to a single 2x12” concept LP about the darkest parts of Halloween and Fall. Perfectly complementary. 🎃🍂🍁
#killingjoke #samhain
Claws out! 😾
Tickled to find this passage of Charlotte Brontë throwing shade at Jane Austen. Didn’t know she disliked her. Austen, Brontë says, is a writer of dull, lifeless “commonplace” trifles. 😏
Bring it, Charlotte! 😾
#CharlotteBrontë #janeausten
Tickled to find this passage of Charlotte Brontë throwing shade at Jane Austen. Didn’t know she disliked her. Austen, Brontë says, is a writer of dull, lifeless “commonplace” trifles. 😏
Bring it, Charlotte! 😾
#CharlotteBrontë #janeausten
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Claws out! 😾
Tickled to find this passage of Charlotte Brontë throwing shade at Jane Austen. Didn’t know she disliked her. Austen, Brontë says, is a writer of dull, lifeless “commonplace” trifles. 😏
Bring it, Charlotte! 😾
#CharlotteBrontë #janeausten
Tickled to find this passage of Charlotte Brontë throwing shade at Jane Austen. Didn’t know she disliked her. Austen, Brontë says, is a writer of dull, lifeless “commonplace” trifles. 😏
Bring it, Charlotte! 😾
#CharlotteBrontë #janeausten
In from France today--an EXCELLENT adaptation of Baudelaire's poems into French coldwave-esque music. The band is SPLEEN XXX.
Finally bought both their 12-inchers. On Meidosem Records. Chuffed to have them finally.
#frenchcoldwave #darkwave #meidosem
Finally bought both their 12-inchers. On Meidosem Records. Chuffed to have them finally.
#frenchcoldwave #darkwave #meidosem
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
In from France today--an EXCELLENT adaptation of Baudelaire's poems into French coldwave-esque music. The band is SPLEEN XXX.
Finally bought both their 12-inchers. On Meidosem Records. Chuffed to have them finally.
#frenchcoldwave #darkwave #meidosem
Finally bought both their 12-inchers. On Meidosem Records. Chuffed to have them finally.
#frenchcoldwave #darkwave #meidosem
So who’s going to debut a black chewy licorice candy for me, on Etsy, called THE MORBS? 🍬
Victorian script, individually wrapped, etc. I can write the copy. 🖤🍬
If you do it, Etsy entrepreneur, cut me in! DM me. Let’s make money! 🤑
#poe #eapoe #edgarallanpoe #themorbs
Victorian script, individually wrapped, etc. I can write the copy. 🖤🍬
If you do it, Etsy entrepreneur, cut me in! DM me. Let’s make money! 🤑
#poe #eapoe #edgarallanpoe #themorbs
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
So who’s going to debut a black chewy licorice candy for me, on Etsy, called THE MORBS? 🍬
Victorian script, individually wrapped, etc. I can write the copy. 🖤🍬
If you do it, Etsy entrepreneur, cut me in! DM me. Let’s make money! 🤑
#poe #eapoe #edgarallanpoe #themorbs
Victorian script, individually wrapped, etc. I can write the copy. 🖤🍬
If you do it, Etsy entrepreneur, cut me in! DM me. Let’s make money! 🤑
#poe #eapoe #edgarallanpoe #themorbs
And his wife’s Texan, ya’ll—watch out. ❤️🔥🤠
#zohranmamdani #eugenedebs #mandani #democraticsocialism #iww #dontmournorganise #industrialworkersoftheworld
#zohranmamdani #eugenedebs #mandani #democraticsocialism #iww #dontmournorganise #industrialworkersoftheworld
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
And his wife’s Texan, ya’ll—watch out. ❤️🔥🤠
#zohranmamdani #eugenedebs #mandani #democraticsocialism #iww #dontmournorganise #industrialworkersoftheworld
#zohranmamdani #eugenedebs #mandani #democraticsocialism #iww #dontmournorganise #industrialworkersoftheworld
🔥🔥🔥#killingjoke #jazcoleman #dcpunk #ianmackaye #henryrollins #innerear #voodooorchestra #donzientara #dischordrecords #postpunk
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Reposted by Oliver Sheppard
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
A note apropos of the new US govt policy of defunding food stamps for 42 million Americans the month before winter begins.
“Destitute Mother, Frozen to Death, Holding Her Sleeping Child in Winter," by Octave Tassaert, ca. 1850.
“Destitute Mother, Frozen to Death, Holding Her Sleeping Child in Winter," by Octave Tassaert, ca. 1850.
November 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A note apropos of the new US govt policy of defunding food stamps for 42 million Americans the month before winter begins.
“Destitute Mother, Frozen to Death, Holding Her Sleeping Child in Winter," by Octave Tassaert, ca. 1850.
“Destitute Mother, Frozen to Death, Holding Her Sleeping Child in Winter," by Octave Tassaert, ca. 1850.
Even when she didn’t look like Vampira, Maila Nurmi stood out.
She was credited as VAMPIRA and not Maila Nurmi when she played an avant-garde poet (“The Poetess”) in 1959’s THE BEAT GENERATION.🦇
#vampira #mailanurmi #thebeatgeneration #thepoetess
She was credited as VAMPIRA and not Maila Nurmi when she played an avant-garde poet (“The Poetess”) in 1959’s THE BEAT GENERATION.🦇
#vampira #mailanurmi #thebeatgeneration #thepoetess
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Even when she didn’t look like Vampira, Maila Nurmi stood out.
She was credited as VAMPIRA and not Maila Nurmi when she played an avant-garde poet (“The Poetess”) in 1959’s THE BEAT GENERATION.🦇
#vampira #mailanurmi #thebeatgeneration #thepoetess
She was credited as VAMPIRA and not Maila Nurmi when she played an avant-garde poet (“The Poetess”) in 1959’s THE BEAT GENERATION.🦇
#vampira #mailanurmi #thebeatgeneration #thepoetess
October 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Check out this unusual pic of Fugazi. Halloween show, Leeds, UK, 2002.
One of their last shows. It’s a little depressing to think that 2002 was 23 years ago.
#fugazi #punkhistory
One of their last shows. It’s a little depressing to think that 2002 was 23 years ago.
#fugazi #punkhistory
October 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Check out this unusual pic of Fugazi. Halloween show, Leeds, UK, 2002.
One of their last shows. It’s a little depressing to think that 2002 was 23 years ago.
#fugazi #punkhistory
One of their last shows. It’s a little depressing to think that 2002 was 23 years ago.
#fugazi #punkhistory
Reposted by Oliver Sheppard
Eight German Expressionist horror poems are here, translated to English, to kick off the Halloween season.
You’re welcome.
They’re here: tr.ee/C6ZwNW
#germanexpressionism #halloween
You’re welcome.
They’re here: tr.ee/C6ZwNW
#germanexpressionism #halloween
October 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Eight German Expressionist horror poems are here, translated to English, to kick off the Halloween season.
You’re welcome.
They’re here: tr.ee/C6ZwNW
#germanexpressionism #halloween
You’re welcome.
They’re here: tr.ee/C6ZwNW
#germanexpressionism #halloween
Had to get a screenshot to mark the occasion! 🤘
Up to 669 subscribers when I last looked a second ago. (Nice.) Never really imagined it’d get this large. A few academic and literary heroes subscribed, in the past few months—which blew me away, when I realized who they were.
Life is good.
Up to 669 subscribers when I last looked a second ago. (Nice.) Never really imagined it’d get this large. A few academic and literary heroes subscribed, in the past few months—which blew me away, when I realized who they were.
Life is good.
October 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Had to get a screenshot to mark the occasion! 🤘
Up to 669 subscribers when I last looked a second ago. (Nice.) Never really imagined it’d get this large. A few academic and literary heroes subscribed, in the past few months—which blew me away, when I realized who they were.
Life is good.
Up to 669 subscribers when I last looked a second ago. (Nice.) Never really imagined it’d get this large. A few academic and literary heroes subscribed, in the past few months—which blew me away, when I realized who they were.
Life is good.
Um, Happy October 1st? 🎃👻 #halloween #rocktober
October 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Um, Happy October 1st? 🎃👻 #halloween #rocktober
Ordered these 5 titles from some friends of mine who recently started a pretty great secondhand online bookstore, Batwing Books. (Link in comments.)
Great place to buy your next favorite read! 🦇
#bibliophile #bibliophilia #bibliomania
Great place to buy your next favorite read! 🦇
#bibliophile #bibliophilia #bibliomania
September 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ordered these 5 titles from some friends of mine who recently started a pretty great secondhand online bookstore, Batwing Books. (Link in comments.)
Great place to buy your next favorite read! 🦇
#bibliophile #bibliophilia #bibliomania
Great place to buy your next favorite read! 🦇
#bibliophile #bibliophilia #bibliomania
Another collection of Georg Trakl translations I just picked up. 2011 translations by Stephen Tapscott.
Cover image is a self-portrait Georg Trakl painted himself.
I've made several posts about Trakl at my Substack. My most recent SUbstack piece about Trakl is here: tr.ee/gNoCNv
#georgtrakl #
Cover image is a self-portrait Georg Trakl painted himself.
I've made several posts about Trakl at my Substack. My most recent SUbstack piece about Trakl is here: tr.ee/gNoCNv
#georgtrakl #
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Another collection of Georg Trakl translations I just picked up. 2011 translations by Stephen Tapscott.
Cover image is a self-portrait Georg Trakl painted himself.
I've made several posts about Trakl at my Substack. My most recent SUbstack piece about Trakl is here: tr.ee/gNoCNv
#georgtrakl #
Cover image is a self-portrait Georg Trakl painted himself.
I've made several posts about Trakl at my Substack. My most recent SUbstack piece about Trakl is here: tr.ee/gNoCNv
#georgtrakl #
September 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This was a great night. 7 years ago at Sundown at Granada in Dallas, Texas.
Youth DJing. Jaz and Geordie and Big Paul hanging out like locals.
Great memories from a brilliant band we’ll never see play live again. Dancing to music played by Youth! Bittersweet now.
#killingjoke #postpunk
Youth DJing. Jaz and Geordie and Big Paul hanging out like locals.
Great memories from a brilliant band we’ll never see play live again. Dancing to music played by Youth! Bittersweet now.
#killingjoke #postpunk
September 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This was a great night. 7 years ago at Sundown at Granada in Dallas, Texas.
Youth DJing. Jaz and Geordie and Big Paul hanging out like locals.
Great memories from a brilliant band we’ll never see play live again. Dancing to music played by Youth! Bittersweet now.
#killingjoke #postpunk
Youth DJing. Jaz and Geordie and Big Paul hanging out like locals.
Great memories from a brilliant band we’ll never see play live again. Dancing to music played by Youth! Bittersweet now.
#killingjoke #postpunk
Happy 71st bday today—Tuesday Sept 16–to #ColinNewman of #Wire.
I forget who I got this image from. I think it was from DJ Joey Seeman.🩶
I forget who I got this image from. I think it was from DJ Joey Seeman.🩶
September 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Happy 71st bday today—Tuesday Sept 16–to #ColinNewman of #Wire.
I forget who I got this image from. I think it was from DJ Joey Seeman.🩶
I forget who I got this image from. I think it was from DJ Joey Seeman.🩶
Watching #WEAPONS. Witch, please. #Endora would like a word with “Aunt Gladys.”
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
September 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Watching #WEAPONS. Witch, please. #Endora would like a word with “Aunt Gladys.”
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
Watching #WEAPONS. Witch, please. #Endora would like a word with “Aunt Gladys.”
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
September 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Watching #WEAPONS. Witch, please. #Endora would like a word with “Aunt Gladys.”
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
#weaponsthemovie #auntgladys
My new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY, is out now. Link to purchase in comments.
My two poetry collections, Thirteen Nocturnes (2018) and The Funeral Colony (2025), are pictured.
#darkpoems #darkpoetry #weirdhorror #weirdpoetry #gothichorror #gothicliterature #gothicpoems
My two poetry collections, Thirteen Nocturnes (2018) and The Funeral Colony (2025), are pictured.
#darkpoems #darkpoetry #weirdhorror #weirdpoetry #gothichorror #gothicliterature #gothicpoems
September 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My new collection of verse, THE FUNERAL COLONY, is out now. Link to purchase in comments.
My two poetry collections, Thirteen Nocturnes (2018) and The Funeral Colony (2025), are pictured.
#darkpoems #darkpoetry #weirdhorror #weirdpoetry #gothichorror #gothicliterature #gothicpoems
My two poetry collections, Thirteen Nocturnes (2018) and The Funeral Colony (2025), are pictured.
#darkpoems #darkpoetry #weirdhorror #weirdpoetry #gothichorror #gothicliterature #gothicpoems