Seán Padraic Birnie
@seanbirnie.bsky.social
Writer: I Would Haunt You if I Could. Stories in Fictionable, Cōnfingō, Best British Short Stories, Interzone, Black Static, The Dark, ergot.
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I Would Haunt You if I Could — Undertow Publications
COVER ART: Jana Heidersdorf
I would haunt you …
The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed
haunt. Sown with seeds of sorrow and grief, and imbued with disquieting
bod...
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First post on the new blue app: the wonderful @undertow.bsky.social’s published I Would Haunt You if I Could, my debut collection of short stories, in 2021, and it’s available here, among an absolute treasure trove of other titles: https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
My only contribution to the Bond discourse is that the real British spy he was based on was murdered in a forest by the Bolsheviks, which, if it were ever included in one of the films, would make it the only Bond movie I’d actually want to see.
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My only contribution to the Bond discourse is that the real British spy he was based on was murdered in a forest by the Bolsheviks, which, if it were ever included in one of the films, would make it the only Bond movie I’d actually want to see.
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"Yes, it ended one way – yet it could have been otherwise and the implication is, as true as this was for that time and that place, it remains equally true for us today." thehaunt.blog/2025/11/10/t...
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Yes, it ended one way – yet it could have been otherwise and the implication is, as true as this was for that time and that place, it remains equally true for us today." thehaunt.blog/2025/11/10/t...
it’s been a difficult week, and to make matters worse, my periodic desire to try my hand once more at Last of Us: Factions has resurfaced. I remain terrible.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
it’s been a difficult week, and to make matters worse, my periodic desire to try my hand once more at Last of Us: Factions has resurfaced. I remain terrible.
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Men, why try to look cool reading just any book when you can look bad ass as all hell with one of my book covers?
Art by Matthew Revert on both
Art by Matthew Revert on both
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Men, why try to look cool reading just any book when you can look bad ass as all hell with one of my book covers?
Art by Matthew Revert on both
Art by Matthew Revert on both
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📚 A STATE OF SIEGE by Janet Frame, with an introduction from Chris Kraus, is now available from our website 📚
‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’
— Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD
Read an excerpt and order a copy here: bit.ly/3X7fm97
‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’
— Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD
Read an excerpt and order a copy here: bit.ly/3X7fm97
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
📚 A STATE OF SIEGE by Janet Frame, with an introduction from Chris Kraus, is now available from our website 📚
‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’
— Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD
Read an excerpt and order a copy here: bit.ly/3X7fm97
‘She is a singular writer. No one is quite like her.’
— Eleanor Catton, author of BIRNAM WOOD
Read an excerpt and order a copy here: bit.ly/3X7fm97
If you can sign up online, you should be able to cancel online. No I do not want to call you on the phone. Yes I'll leave you a shitty review. And, come the revolution, you sneaky fuckers will find yourselves up against a wall.
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
If you can sign up online, you should be able to cancel online. No I do not want to call you on the phone. Yes I'll leave you a shitty review. And, come the revolution, you sneaky fuckers will find yourselves up against a wall.
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I've got a fresh batch of paperbacks in if anyone wants to buy directly from me for Christmas. Same deal as back in July: £13 each, or both for £25, including UK postage.
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A rare chance to buy books direct from me
I’ve got a limited supply of paperback copies of both Municipal Gothic and Intervals of Darkness ready to ship to anyone in the UK who wants to buy one. They’re £13 each including delivery in the U…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I've got a fresh batch of paperbacks in if anyone wants to buy directly from me for Christmas. Same deal as back in July: £13 each, or both for £25, including UK postage.
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
precastreinforced.co.uk/2025/07/25/a...
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No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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There is no new work up on ergot. today.
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
ergot.
innovative + experimental horror
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November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There is no new work up on ergot. today.
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
Instead, take a peek at our archive: www.ergot.press/authors
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The history of astrophotography is absurdly fascinating. This is a picture from the Orion Nebula taken in 1883 by Andrew Common.
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I'll have a new short story coming to my blog either later today or tomorrow, with notes on the anxiety of influence and questions of plagiarism, psychoanalysis, repetition, and history. Subscribe at seanbirnie.com if you'd like to read it. The story is titled 'Something New'. I'll inc. an .epub.
Seán Padraic Birnie
Writing, horror, chronic illness, self-publishing, publishing, chapbooks, photography
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October 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'll have a new short story coming to my blog either later today or tomorrow, with notes on the anxiety of influence and questions of plagiarism, psychoanalysis, repetition, and history. Subscribe at seanbirnie.com if you'd like to read it. The story is titled 'Something New'. I'll inc. an .epub.
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ICYMI - still on sale right now!
We're thrilled to announce that preorders for Violet Lichen's first novella are LIVE! Welcome to the world of @ivygrimes.bsky.social folk horror, THE CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR 🔮🪆🌌
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Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
Full Announcement HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...
Preorder HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/the...
October 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ICYMI - still on sale right now!
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‘An executive decided the extra liability for running the Idaho plant filterless would be worth it: “200 children” at “$5 to 10,000 [per] kid” was a small price compared to the money to be made from uninterrupted smelting.’
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun · American Berserk: Serial Killers in Seattle
For a period beginning in the 1960s and ending around the turn of this century, the preferred form of the homicidally...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
‘An executive decided the extra liability for running the Idaho plant filterless would be worth it: “200 children” at “$5 to 10,000 [per] kid” was a small price compared to the money to be made from uninterrupted smelting.’
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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ICYMI, I wrote a book about dragoners, refugees to our reality, set in 90s/00s Calcutta.
July 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
ICYMI, I wrote a book about dragoners, refugees to our reality, set in 90s/00s Calcutta.
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We each have our own work to do, and it might not make sense to anyone else, people might even think we're crazy, but it's our work. You might want to do something else, anything else, but the work doesn’t care, it stays until it’s done and then you can move on to the next work, and the next.
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We each have our own work to do, and it might not make sense to anyone else, people might even think we're crazy, but it's our work. You might want to do something else, anything else, but the work doesn’t care, it stays until it’s done and then you can move on to the next work, and the next.
Callipr.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Callipr.
Something grimly amusing in watching the likes of Wes Streeting congratulate Mamdani, while his domestic opponents furiously smash the big red ANTISEMITISM button Streeting's own faction helped design & implement.
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Something grimly amusing in watching the likes of Wes Streeting congratulate Mamdani, while his domestic opponents furiously smash the big red ANTISEMITISM button Streeting's own faction helped design & implement.
More Bad News for Rachel Reeves
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www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests
Astronomers cast doubt on Nobel prize-winning theory and suggest universe could end in ‘big crunch’
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
More Bad News for Rachel Reeves
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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(1/2) Speaking as a math person, I question the validity and rigor of the sample and study given who commissioned it. However, more writers/readers must adopt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to supporting OTHER writers using AI for fiction.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
New Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AI
A study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary.
www.publishersweekly.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
(1/2) Speaking as a math person, I question the validity and rigor of the sample and study given who commissioned it. However, more writers/readers must adopt a zero tolerance policy when it comes to supporting OTHER writers using AI for fiction.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Narrowly avoided putting some fried onions instead of granola on my oats this morning, in a rare early 1-0 lead in today’s match against the adhd.
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Narrowly avoided putting some fried onions instead of granola on my oats this morning, in a rare early 1-0 lead in today’s match against the adhd.
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Dick Cheney accidentally shooting his pal Lucifer
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Dick Cheney accidentally shooting his pal Lucifer
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Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.
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Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
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VP served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush
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Cheney will be remembered for key role after 9/11
The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Dick Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84.
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. Continue reading...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.