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ali maloney
@alimaloney.bsky.social
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pleasing taste, some monsterism

Likes: decadent food, witchy ritual, noisy music, 80s horror on VHS, woodland walks, RPGs, David Lynch, Jan Švankmajer, industrial-strength performance art / physical theatre, books.
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TBR well stocked up for winter.
A pile of books: Plunderphonics, Children of the New Flesh, In The Mouth of Madness, Barrowbeck, Cyclonopedia, The Works of Vermin, How to Build a Haunted House, and Art! Trash! Terror! Adventures in Strange Cinema. In the background, more books.
November 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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It has blown their wee minds that they can just put a game up on @itch.io and that people will download it and play it. They are always making up tabletop games but this is the first they have put out their in the world. Honestly, among the top moments of fatherly pride.
The FolkloreJam2025 itch.io feed, showing REDCAP ROAD as second most popular entry 🥳
October 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The kids and I did our first game jam. If anyone wants a fast-paced, trick-taking, social deduction game based on gruseome folklore, you may wish to risk a journey down REDCAP ROAD.

stickytoffeelavahell.itch.io/redcap-road
A King of Diamond playing cards....except the King has been brutally usurped. He has fallen. Standing over him and taking his place is a vicious Redcap, scythe dripping with blood.
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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I mean, as far as opening lines go, it's very distracting. Of course I am going to go listen to Liquid Swords before continuing.

(From Steven Hall's (excellent, so far) "Maxwell's Demon")
The first few lines of chapter 1: Roses In particular, "When I was little, my father was famous".
October 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Fixed it!
September 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Up for preorder, out Oct 1.

Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horror, in aid of @mind.org.uk

mybook.to/SilentScream...
Title: Silent Screams: An Anthology of Quiet Horror, A delierious collage of a screaming face with circles of eyes radiating out; a patchwork of strange yellow curls and indechipherable text.
September 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
alimaloney.bsky.social
Quick! Does anyone know how to fix a CD player that won't accept its own tray?
A dismantled CD player and a yellow screw driver. Not present: some immediately obvious fix.
September 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Well this is heartening to stumble across.

Thank you for the shout out @erikmchatton.bsky.social 🖤

ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...
“Who are some up and coming horror writers out there you think people should look out for?” I’ll pick a few that haven’t had many books published: Perry Ruhland, Ali Maloney, RSL, Timaeus Bloom, Elou Carroll, and Max D. Stanton.
September 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Pizza Lasagna 2.0 — now with a layer of spaghetti carbonara* as well as the 8-hour ragu.

I hope my kids appreciate me following through with their cockamamie culinary fever dreams.

*Obviously not 100% authentic as I suspect that would turn nasty in the oven, but close enough to stay true.
A pizza lasagna slice. It looks exceptionally gooey and ridiculously decadent. In the background, the rest of the pie — I guess that's what it can be called here — and some out-of-focus recipie books.
August 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Hungry, Hungry Carnivore has caught something far bigger than its usual prey and I am fascinated by this bug battle.
A chonky Daddy Longlegs caught in in sprawling venus-fly trap type mass of tendrils.
August 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Sunday morning chilli oil.

As my kiddos have a severe peanut allergy and a hunger for new delicious foods, I'm learning to do everything from scratch. It's awesome.
Hmmmm, a pyrex dish filled with homemade chilli oil. It looks delicious. I don't know if i can wait for it to cool to try it. In the background, Sichuan pepperconrs fished out of the oil. mmmmmmmmm chilli oil
August 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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The storm's hand
Lying in windswept grass and leaves, by the kerb: 10 of clubs. Lying in windswept grass and leaves, by the kerb: 2 of diamonds.
August 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Been experimenting with soy curing egg yolks. These things are decadent AF.

#food
Luscious, almost erotic, yellow gooey spread across bread studded with kalamata olives. Also on the plate, tomatoes, avocado slices, cress, some smoked whitefish. I don't know what the fish is but it was a gift from some Romanian visitors and it too also is incredible, as well.
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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THE CLEANSING POWER OF FIRE. A searing anthology of cosmic, folk, and religious horror out tomorrow from @infestedpublishing.bsky.social

Want a small sample of my story, TWO SEVERED FINGERS IN THE RAMSGRAFT STIGMATA? Here you go...

#folkhorror #spokenweird
June 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Ritual ready
A rather large lecture theatre, mics being placed
June 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Ia! Time for CARTOGRAPHY OF LARVAE to shine!

"Ligotti goes to Scotland" - Twitter review

Bleak baroque DIY zines FTW (but also in need of a more permanent edition)
A zine subtitled "burlesque grotesqueries & mischiefs". Cover is a collage of vintage pin-up legs and fish parts. Phwoar, if you like that kind of thing.
June 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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If anyone is going to the Unquiet Shores conference this week, Writers' Bloc will be there on Wednesday with some watery gothic spoken weird & stand-up horror.
An Ableton live controller and laptop, surrounded by notebooks, coffee, and script pages.
June 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Never thought I'd get these through the door.

Not letting their ill-fated journey from 2020 Kickstarter dampen my excitement over such lush editions of my two favourite collections of weird.

@mattmbartlett.bsky.social , @grimscribepress.bsky.social - You are truly dapper chaps to get this sorted!
The ill-fated Secret Gateways boxset, originally funded 5 years ago: Gateways to Abomination by Matthew Bartlett The Secret of Ventriloquism by John Padgett The Latham-Fielding Liaison by both of them
May 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Scene from The Wickerman: a nursing heathen holding out an egg. Frank Reynold's words: "can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?" She's right. These are trying times. Take the egg. Go on. Touch it.
April 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Really should let them design all our meals
A taco filled with carne asada and a dazzling colour contrast of salsa verde and pink pickled onions.
April 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Not quite the originally planned pizza lasagna, but 9yo's two-layer pizza is ludicrously outstanding.
An utterly ridiculous two-layer pizza, oozing with ragu and cheese.
April 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Guess who strayed from the path without considering how fast dusk is settling.
Deep in the woods, rapidly darkening. Is that something moving over there? Nevermind, I think I see a chicken leg house. Maybe whoever is in there can give me directions out of here
April 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I mean, I believe Alex Sanders and Ol'Dirty Bastard make a good pairing. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who'd group them together.
Table of contents, showing a section called THE LAW OF OCTAVES: ESOTERIC MUSIC, with chapters on the two wacky gents mentioned in the post.
April 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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With sympathies to the delivery folk, a pretty awesome day for getting cool books in the post.

Can I just take a day off work to read?

FTW: @headpress.com , MonkeyDM, Alan Moore,
An absolute bounty of cool books: The Moon & Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore & Steve Moore (no relation, apparently) Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt Art! Trash! Terror! Gathering of the Tribe: Music and Heavy Conscious Creation Noise Receptor: Sound with Impact
April 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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CAST THE GODS OF WOE INTO FLAMES

Coming soon from @infestedpublishing.bsky.social

Image by @cutfingers.bsky.social

#horror #ritual #books #writing
Image of a window to the awesome power of the sun, which looks like an evil eye surrounded by cloud. Text is The Cleansing Power of Fire and its release date 21st June 2025.
April 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM