Will Wiles
@willwiles.bsky.social
"The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt) is out now! Author of several novels, most recently "The Last Blade Priest" (Angry Robot), which won best novel at the 2023 Kitschies. Its sequel, "The Dead Man's Empire", coming 2026. He/him
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If you are still looking for a "stocking filler" please bear in mind that "The Anechoic Chamber" is a slimline A-format paperback, so it fits snugly in a standard men's sock or the pocket of a winter coat. This also means savings on wrapping paper, postage, etc. and it's only £9.99.
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The subject of this painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but the work will always have a strong family connection for @willwiles.bsky.social
‘It’s not Grandma. But it also is’: Will Wiles on a family portrait of sorts
The subject of this painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but the work will always have a strong family connection for Will Wiles
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December 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The subject of this painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but the work will always have a strong family connection for @willwiles.bsky.social
"Inferior artists are continually trying to escape from the necessity of sound work, and either indulging themselves in their delights in subject, or pluming themselves on their noble motives for attempting what they cannot perform ... 1/2
December 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"Inferior artists are continually trying to escape from the necessity of sound work, and either indulging themselves in their delights in subject, or pluming themselves on their noble motives for attempting what they cannot perform ... 1/2
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The contents of Frederic Leighton’s Holland Park house were sold after the artist’s death. Now Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – and Will Wiles finds her spectral creations well suited to the festive season
The long-lost collection of Frederic Leighton
The contents of the artist’s house were sold after his death and the artist Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – to wonderfully spooky effect, writes Will Wiles
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The contents of Frederic Leighton’s Holland Park house were sold after the artist’s death. Now Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – and Will Wiles finds her spectral creations well suited to the festive season
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A huge thank you to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com, @thelincolnreview.bsky.social, @vikshirley.bsky.social & @sublunary.bsky.social for publishing (nominating) my work in 2025. To Rossi Contemporary & Claire Oberst, for exhibiting it & @lauradavispoems.bsky.social for carrying it!
December 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A huge thank you to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com, @thelincolnreview.bsky.social, @vikshirley.bsky.social & @sublunary.bsky.social for publishing (nominating) my work in 2025. To Rossi Contemporary & Claire Oberst, for exhibiting it & @lauradavispoems.bsky.social for carrying it!
I thought I was handling the festive responsibilities rather well but yesterday I found I was watching YouTube videos about being a lighthouse keeper
December 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I thought I was handling the festive responsibilities rather well but yesterday I found I was watching YouTube videos about being a lighthouse keeper
In the bumper Christmas issue of @litreview.bsky.social I review Dan Cruickshank's "The English House", which has affability and and erudition in abundance, and occasional longueurs: literaryreview.co.uk/door-to-door
Will Wiles - Door to Door
Will Wiles: Door to Door - The English House: A History in Eight Buildings by Dan Cruickshank
literaryreview.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
In the bumper Christmas issue of @litreview.bsky.social I review Dan Cruickshank's "The English House", which has affability and and erudition in abundance, and occasional longueurs: literaryreview.co.uk/door-to-door
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The contents of Frederic Leighton’s Holland Park house were sold after the artist’s death. Now Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – and @willwiles.bsky.social finds her spectral creations well suited to the festive season
The long-lost collection of Frederic Leighton
The contents of the artist’s house were sold after his death and the artist Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – to wonderfully spooky effect, writes Will Wiles
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December 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The contents of Frederic Leighton’s Holland Park house were sold after the artist’s death. Now Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – and @willwiles.bsky.social finds her spectral creations well suited to the festive season
Surgeons general, Tescos Express
December 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Surgeons general, Tescos Express
Those COLOURS. There's an artist who knew how to force four-colour printing to get up early and do a full day's work.
Artist Ron Turner sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/turner... died on this day, so here's some of his cover art from 1951:
December 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Those COLOURS. There's an artist who knew how to force four-colour printing to get up early and do a full day's work.
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The contents of Frederic Leighton’s Holland Park house were sold after the artist’s death. Now Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – and @willwiles.bsky.social finds these spectral creations well suited to the festive season
The long-lost collection of Frederic Leighton
The contents of the artist’s house were sold after his death and the artist Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – to wonderfully spooky effect, writes Will Wiles
buff.ly
December 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The contents of Frederic Leighton’s Holland Park house were sold after the artist’s death. Now Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – and @willwiles.bsky.social finds these spectral creations well suited to the festive season
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What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
What’s good about Walliams is we don’t have to separate the art from the man
A ghost story for Christmas (kind of) - the "Ghost Object" paper sculptures at the Leighton House Museum, marking lost treasures that the curators hope to find again
The contents of Frederic Leighton’s house were sold after his death. The artist Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – and Will Wiles finds them wonderfully spooky
The long-lost collection of Frederic Leighton
The contents of the artist’s house were sold after his death and the artist Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – to wonderfully spooky effect, writes Will Wiles
buff.ly
December 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A ghost story for Christmas (kind of) - the "Ghost Object" paper sculptures at the Leighton House Museum, marking lost treasures that the curators hope to find again
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Here are some more photos. We really want to share this book with readers.
December 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Here are some more photos. We really want to share this book with readers.
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Christmas has come early for me, thanks to my friend, the brilliant @zaraslattery.bsky.social. One of the v few self-printed copies of volume one of our graphic novel, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS. A labour of love for both of us.
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Christmas has come early for me, thanks to my friend, the brilliant @zaraslattery.bsky.social. One of the v few self-printed copies of volume one of our graphic novel, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS. A labour of love for both of us.
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*
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It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.
December 11, 2024 at 9:03 AM
It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.
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he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
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New Year's Resolution: Petition Blackburn borough council to erect somewhere a titanic metal pyramid that will mark the town as one of the birthplaces of cosmic horror.
December 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New Year's Resolution: Petition Blackburn borough council to erect somewhere a titanic metal pyramid that will mark the town as one of the birthplaces of cosmic horror.
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William Hope Hodgson inventing cosmic horror in Blackburn is as pleasingly unlikely as Mervyn Peake writing the early chapters of Titus Groan on Blackpool's North Pier, which is a thing that also happened.
December 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
William Hope Hodgson inventing cosmic horror in Blackburn is as pleasingly unlikely as Mervyn Peake writing the early chapters of Titus Groan on Blackpool's North Pier, which is a thing that also happened.
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itch.io
December 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
#TTRPG persons: you have until Christmas Day to get hold of our beloved and acclaimed TEETH zines of 18th century horror, lost pigs, and ballgowns, at a bold 50% off!
It's the incredibly toothsome TEETHAZINE Bundle: itch.io/s/167336/tee...
It's the incredibly toothsome TEETHAZINE Bundle: itch.io/s/167336/tee...
I don't use Word (alternatives are available!) but I have noticed that opening and searching a pdf on a Windows computer has slowed waaaaay down since AI was wedged into things
December 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I don't use Word (alternatives are available!) but I have noticed that opening and searching a pdf on a Windows computer has slowed waaaaay down since AI was wedged into things
(flirtatiously) and is there a lord gaga....?
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
(flirtatiously) and is there a lord gaga....?
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Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."
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I thought about saving "stolen squalor" to use in a novel featuring someone who grew up comfortably middle-class but claims hardscrabble working-class roots, but then I remembered I'd have to write the whole novel first, so I'm just posting it.
December 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I thought about saving "stolen squalor" to use in a novel featuring someone who grew up comfortably middle-class but claims hardscrabble working-class roots, but then I remembered I'd have to write the whole novel first, so I'm just posting it.
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In an ominous ruined harbor, Saint Augustine of Hippo encounters a tiny child trying to empty the sea. Wonderfully chilling scene from 1623 by François de Nomé, whose day is today.
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In an ominous ruined harbor, Saint Augustine of Hippo encounters a tiny child trying to empty the sea. Wonderfully chilling scene from 1623 by François de Nomé, whose day is today.
A persistently underrated writer - "The Ophiuchi Hotline" would be in the 20th-century SF top 10 for me.
We mourn the passing of SF great John Varley with a look back at his impressive body of work, from the Eight Worlds series to his brilliant short stories. What was the first Varley story you ever read? Which books are your favorites?
Looking Back at the Work of John Varley, 1947-2025 - Reactor
Where to start reading — or rereading — Varley's many series and stories.
reactormag.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A persistently underrated writer - "The Ophiuchi Hotline" would be in the 20th-century SF top 10 for me.