Russell Mardell
@russellmardell.bsky.social
Writer. Latest novel, The Knock-Knock Man https://rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/product/the-knock-knock-man-signed-by-the-author/ Also bookseller and dog greeter at The Rocketship Bookshop. Lover of films, books, dogs, and calm www.russellmardell.co.uk
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A folk horror noir, a dystopian ghost story and a collection of short, weird fiction? Signed? If that sounds your thing, you can now get signed paperbacks of three of my novels exclusively with @rshipbshop.bsky.social, the best indie bookshop around. Info here - www.russellmardell.co.uk/more-info
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Storytellers...maybe consider allowing the pets in your stories to live and thrive? Especially Horror books, the Horror genre is exceptionally cruel to animals. I am so traumatized, daily, by the treatment of animals in real life...maybe just for once, LET THE DOG LIVE in fictional stories?? jfc
July 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Storytellers...maybe consider allowing the pets in your stories to live and thrive? Especially Horror books, the Horror genre is exceptionally cruel to animals. I am so traumatized, daily, by the treatment of animals in real life...maybe just for once, LET THE DOG LIVE in fictional stories?? jfc
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NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
July 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**
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From July 25-31, join us for an 18-film retrospective celebrating Gene Hackman’s most treasured performances, tracing the evolution of the Academy Award winner who redefined American screen acting.
View the full screening schedule and secure your 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/gene
View the full screening schedule and secure your 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/gene
July 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
From July 25-31, join us for an 18-film retrospective celebrating Gene Hackman’s most treasured performances, tracing the evolution of the Academy Award winner who redefined American screen acting.
View the full screening schedule and secure your 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/gene
View the full screening schedule and secure your 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/gene
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I always appreciate @thisishorror.bsky.social supporting & promoting my articles on their excellent site. In my latest, I take a deep dive into the fiction of horror great Adam Nevill. Thanks to @kevharrison.bsky.social for lovingly curating the page.
www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...
www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...
5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 June 2025
Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to. Without further ado: Horror DNA take a deep dive into the work of author Ad…
www.thisishorror.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I always appreciate @thisishorror.bsky.social supporting & promoting my articles on their excellent site. In my latest, I take a deep dive into the fiction of horror great Adam Nevill. Thanks to @kevharrison.bsky.social for lovingly curating the page.
www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...
www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-...
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Just the coolest opening credits with Schifrin again delivering the goods youtu.be/S__L_OQe6NE?...
Bullitt - Opening Credits
YouTube video by filmblogit
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June 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Just the coolest opening credits with Schifrin again delivering the goods youtu.be/S__L_OQe6NE?...
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@jonezyboy.bsky.social has written an immense round up of the fantastic catalogue of Adam Nevill over on the brillaint @horrordna.bsky.social check it out below
www.horrordna.com/features/it-...
www.horrordna.com/features/it-...
It Dances in the Shadows, Version 2: A Primer on the Fiction of Adam N
Adam Nevill ranks amongst the absolute best writers of supernatural horror fiction and has no duffers in his back catalogue.
www.horrordna.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@jonezyboy.bsky.social has written an immense round up of the fantastic catalogue of Adam Nevill over on the brillaint @horrordna.bsky.social check it out below
www.horrordna.com/features/it-...
www.horrordna.com/features/it-...
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Movies are cool.
June 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Movies are cool.
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Cover reveal!! I can finally talk about the Top Secret project I've been working on with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social! Ten haunted house stories by modern masters of the #Uncanny, compiled and introduced by yours truly - all wrapped up in a glorious deluxe hardback edition. Full details below.
June 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Cover reveal!! I can finally talk about the Top Secret project I've been working on with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social! Ten haunted house stories by modern masters of the #Uncanny, compiled and introduced by yours truly - all wrapped up in a glorious deluxe hardback edition. Full details below.
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“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
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John Frankenheimer’s French Connection II is 50 years old. Can we talk for a moment about just how good it is? My latest Substack missive live and ready for your reading pleasure.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
In Praise of French Connection II
Can we talk for a moment about just how good John Frankenheimer’s 1975 movie French Connection II is?
andrewnette.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
John Frankenheimer’s French Connection II is 50 years old. Can we talk for a moment about just how good it is? My latest Substack missive live and ready for your reading pleasure.
andrewnette.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
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Great book this. Deserved a much longer shelf life. Maybe buy a copy?
The Knock-Knock Man is 3 today. It’s been a rocky road with the publisher going under 4 months later (not related) & hoped for sequel being shelved (for now) So grateful to those that have supported my little horror noir. Signed copies can still be bought here -> www.russellmardell.co.uk/more-info
May 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great book this. Deserved a much longer shelf life. Maybe buy a copy?
The Knock-Knock Man is 3 today. It’s been a rocky road with the publisher going under 4 months later (not related) & hoped for sequel being shelved (for now) So grateful to those that have supported my little horror noir. Signed copies can still be bought here -> www.russellmardell.co.uk/more-info
May 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Knock-Knock Man is 3 today. It’s been a rocky road with the publisher going under 4 months later (not related) & hoped for sequel being shelved (for now) So grateful to those that have supported my little horror noir. Signed copies can still be bought here -> www.russellmardell.co.uk/more-info
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Website announcement on the return of my folk #horror collection Come Sing for the Harrowing - coming from @clashbooks.bsky.social next year!
www.dancoxon.com/2025/05/back...
www.dancoxon.com/2025/05/back...
Back from the dead... Come Sing for the Harrowing returns!
You might remember that my second short story collection, Come Sing for the Harrowing , was released by Weird Little Worlds in October 2024....
www.dancoxon.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Website announcement on the return of my folk #horror collection Come Sing for the Harrowing - coming from @clashbooks.bsky.social next year!
www.dancoxon.com/2025/05/back...
www.dancoxon.com/2025/05/back...
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It’s Walter Murch day on Writers on Film. The legendary editor on his new book: “Suddenly Something Clicked: the Languages of Editing and Sound Design” open.spotify.com/episode/3dM3...
Walter Murch on Suddenly Something Clicked
Writers on Film · Episode
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May 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It’s Walter Murch day on Writers on Film. The legendary editor on his new book: “Suddenly Something Clicked: the Languages of Editing and Sound Design” open.spotify.com/episode/3dM3...
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Flat out the perfect summation:
"It is not ours to give away."
"It is not ours to give away."
Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
May 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Flat out the perfect summation:
"It is not ours to give away."
"It is not ours to give away."
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Absolutely thrilled to be a Guest of Honour at the brilliant Edge-Lit conference on 20th September! It's always a great day out, so come and join us, ask questions, get books signed, and throw stuff!
Delighted to confirm our first Guest of Honour for Edge-Lit 11 is a firm favourite of the event, and a multi-talented author - Tim Lebbon is our first name on the bill for 2025! We'll be running on the 20th September, with loads more announcements to come... www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/edgel...
May 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Absolutely thrilled to be a Guest of Honour at the brilliant Edge-Lit conference on 20th September! It's always a great day out, so come and join us, ask questions, get books signed, and throw stuff!
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Short stories are great, like novels but without all the padding and descriptions of people's noses. Often a single idea, mood, or incident, delivered as a sharp hit. These particular collections of stories, wot I wrote, are very 'dippable'; read one story every now and then, in any order you like.
Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
May 12, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Short stories are great, like novels but without all the padding and descriptions of people's noses. Often a single idea, mood, or incident, delivered as a sharp hit. These particular collections of stories, wot I wrote, are very 'dippable'; read one story every now and then, in any order you like.
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Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
May 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
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The return of the greatest live band of their generation. Couldn’t be happier ✊❤️ Viva Augustines!
May 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The return of the greatest live band of their generation. Couldn’t be happier ✊❤️ Viva Augustines!
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I write books!
I direct stuff!
I can also help produce/advise on crowdfunding/indie film stuff.
I write essays for physical media releases!
I edit scripts and give feedback!
Please hire/commission/recommend me for things and I will be so grateful.
Someone must need me for something *sob*!
I direct stuff!
I can also help produce/advise on crowdfunding/indie film stuff.
I write essays for physical media releases!
I edit scripts and give feedback!
Please hire/commission/recommend me for things and I will be so grateful.
Someone must need me for something *sob*!
May 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I write books!
I direct stuff!
I can also help produce/advise on crowdfunding/indie film stuff.
I write essays for physical media releases!
I edit scripts and give feedback!
Please hire/commission/recommend me for things and I will be so grateful.
Someone must need me for something *sob*!
I direct stuff!
I can also help produce/advise on crowdfunding/indie film stuff.
I write essays for physical media releases!
I edit scripts and give feedback!
Please hire/commission/recommend me for things and I will be so grateful.
Someone must need me for something *sob*!
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Writers on Film homework. It’s a biggie.
May 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Writers on Film homework. It’s a biggie.
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HELL TOR 2025 Special guest announcement - STEPHEN VOLK
"Stephen Volk has made a name for himself as one of the UK's leading purveyors of soul-chilling horror" - SciFi Now
More guest announcements soon.
Tickets will go on sale in June
#exeterphoenix #helltor
"Stephen Volk has made a name for himself as one of the UK's leading purveyors of soul-chilling horror" - SciFi Now
More guest announcements soon.
Tickets will go on sale in June
#exeterphoenix #helltor
May 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
HELL TOR 2025 Special guest announcement - STEPHEN VOLK
"Stephen Volk has made a name for himself as one of the UK's leading purveyors of soul-chilling horror" - SciFi Now
More guest announcements soon.
Tickets will go on sale in June
#exeterphoenix #helltor
"Stephen Volk has made a name for himself as one of the UK's leading purveyors of soul-chilling horror" - SciFi Now
More guest announcements soon.
Tickets will go on sale in June
#exeterphoenix #helltor
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