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E.Saxey
@esaxey.bsky.social
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Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet": https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives": http://tinyurl.com/saxey22
They/them.
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Sometimes in a film, one character has such a terrible time that I have to watch a happier film with the same actor.
David Jonsson playing a sad android in Alien Romulus, looking so worried. Davin Jonsson again but looking so happy in the sunshine in Peckham, talking to a lady in the film Rye Lane. Justice Smith in the film I Saw the TV Glow looking pretty sad. Justice Smith looking a bit happier with a magic staff, in the film Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The poster image for a horror movie for mice.
A ribbon with a bell on it lying on a wall, no longer attached to a cat.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Handsome tome, unbloodied bricks.
A photo of the book "Blood in the Bricks" against a brick wall, with ivy curling round it. The front cover shows a rough-looking man with the head of a rat.
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I've been enjoying this book, and its cheerful redistribution of body parts and fluids.
A friend looked up hellebore and found it defined as a 'shade-loving perennial', which he is interpreting as 'non-stop gossip-hound'.
A book, titled "The Library at Hellebore" by Cassandra Khaw. A dark cover with lush flowers, a rotting fig with a fly, and a bit of carved stonework round the edge. Subtitle: "This school will eat you alive".
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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👍
A Moorcock novel on a secondhand stall with a multicoloured dinosaur, and a sort of stick with eyes.
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I'm dissatisfied with my skulls/skills. But happy Halloween.
Two skulls carved on a pumpkin, slightly wonky.
October 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour @npr.org on Halloween songs. Two of my favourites with'ghost' in the title.

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youtu.be/9yaEwcmrR4Q?...
Kristin Hersh with a guitar and Micheal Stipe next to her singing, in black and white, and blurry. Someone standing on a car roof at dusk in silhouette, they look fighty or lonely, it's hard to say.
October 29, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Realised that I'm going to look more like this at #WorldFantasyConvention2025 because the UK's been quite full of Covid lately (although probably down from the early-October peak). Pack masks/nasal sprays if you use them. And let me know if I'm inaudible, happy to find workarounds.
White person with grey crewcut and a black mask hastily applied using Microsoft Paint.
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Not really showing up the static images, but there's a ghost of a resemblance.
Massively muscley white wrestler with a beard and no hair
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Supermarket parlour kids, courting the air
A cluster of people standing outdoors, one of them dives off a brick flowerbed.
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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An Eng Lit lecturer told me that it's hard to create a simile which *doesn't* work. We always find an apposite point of comparison.
I'd like to show him this poster, because it's stumping me. Every girl is an invaluable source of info? Every girl costs about $25,000 annually?
A poster on an outdoor wall reading "every girl is a Bloomberg terminal"
October 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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What became of the *old* family?
Am estate agents' board, reading 'ready for a new family'.
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The Myth of Disenchantment (Josephson Storm, 2017)
A white wall at dusk, with black marker pen graffiti on it: Bring back the magic.
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I'll be at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social, say hi!

Friday 9pm, NewCon Press launch: Blood in the Bricks
Come mingle with urban folk-horror folk

Saturday 10am, Dark Academia: The Lure of Evil Institutions
Talk awful profs and arcane pedagogy

Books for sale: weird queer shorts, gothic Victoriana
White person with crewcut grey hair wearing black. Two books: Lost in the Archives with stylised bookshelves on the cover, and Unquiet with mist and creeping plants.
October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Amid a sea of ginger hair, a woman's face and arms emerge. Still from the music video Subway, a song by Chappell Roan.
October 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Just started All of Us Murderers (by the excellent @kjcharleswriter.com) and it's set in a Gothic pile - built to look older than it is, with an octagonal central tower.
Is that echoing, and thus foreshadowing? 🤔
(I don't want to spoil anyone via architectural history trivia, so no placenames.)
Engraving of a massive Gothic building, like a cathedral glued to a castle, with an octagonal central tower. No label to say where it is, because that might be a spoiler.
October 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Seeking a hair product I used in 2022ish, the internet offers me horse grooming goop. Briefly offended, I soon think: horses are huge! I bet you get more horse shampoo, per pound, than human.
Expect to see me shortly in fine fettle.
An online listing for oh so silver coat conditioner. This product enables the colour of your grey pony and horse.
October 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A similar feeling. Bothered by death.
A painting, often referenced online, of a bored (mourning?) young woman on a train with a man leaning over the back of her seat to bother her. Titled 'The Irritating Gentleman' - Berthold Woltze, 1874 Painting of a tired and gaunt Queen Elizabeth the first, with a skeleton leaning over her shoulder at just the same angle as the irritating gentleman.
October 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Book Quote Wednesday! Today’s word is “hard.”
Moving into spooky season: What if Queen Elizabeth I never died, and is languishing in a bricked-up chapel?
She's tiring of talking to pompous History professors. She's changing.
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#BookQW
A painting of an aging Queen Elizabeth the first, and a quote from a novella: "“We thank you,” said the Queen. Other tongues rattled their gratitude in the shadows. Sophia let go, stepped away. She gulped in the sickly air and looked for the Queen. She had to be standing further in, in the nave of the chapel. There was a figure there, but it was hard to make her out. Cloaked, certainly. Hooded, perhaps. Stiff drapery distorted her silhouette."
October 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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The Rose in New Cross Gate is seeking an assistant manager - apologies if that's wide of the mark, and good luck.
September 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I'm enjoying long enigmatic titles in excellent small-press horror. More to follow as I remember them, suggestions welcome.
www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/this...
www.hauntpublishing.com/books/p/laur...
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A book cover, the title 'This house isn't haunted but we are' appears over the silhouette of a small house, windows glowing like eyes. Author is Stephen Howard. Book cover, title is "When other people saw us they saw the dead". It is a black, indigenous and people of colour anthology, edited by Lauren T Davila. There's a spooky heap of items: a candle, a ghost, a skull and a scroll with a quill.
September 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Discovered you can carve a conker.
Conker with a little skull design carved into it, pale brown against the rich brown conker skin.
September 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Release it all! Release the minutiae of my crimes to my enemies, release my firstborn to the fae, release the rope that suspends me above the abyss. But do not, I beg of you, ask me again.

(It's going to ask me again, tomorrow.)
A computer tickbox: I have selected 'do not ask me again - I agree that ALL of my information will be released to ANY service'.
September 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This was the one! I remember it as excellent, and exploring the tension between wanting plot to continue (because that's pleasurable in itself) and wanting it to conclude (because that's satisfying). It's been a while, and I might have boiled Brooks down past recognition.
A book cover, stark stylish letters on plain background. Title: Reading for the Plot: design and intention in narrative. Author: Peter Brooks.
September 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Thinking it through, but this might be useful in the interrim.
Book cover, rusty and murky patterns. Title: The sense of an ending, studies in the theory of fiction. Author: Frank Kermode.
September 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM