Kevin Beckett
@kevinbeckett.bsky.social
In a city sometimes colder than Mars. I write stories at Cliffhanger Magazine, Water Dragon Press, Bronze Knuckles Magazine and Swords & Sorcery. Coming up: "A Song for the Dead" appearing in NECRO SAPIENS.
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"A professional thief is hired to recover the stolen urn of a dead rock star."
Out now! My story "A Song for the Dead" alongside a fine group of authors!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1QW8LFV/
Out now! My story "A Song for the Dead" alongside a fine group of authors!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1QW8LFV/
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"A professional thief is hired to recover the stolen urn of a dead rock star."
Out now! My story "A Song for the Dead" alongside a fine group of authors!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1QW8LFV/
Out now! My story "A Song for the Dead" alongside a fine group of authors!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1QW8LFV/
My contributor's copy of Bronze Knuckles Magazine has arrived! Containing my story "The Purple Ghost Triumphant"
September 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My contributor's copy of Bronze Knuckles Magazine has arrived! Containing my story "The Purple Ghost Triumphant"
Soon to be available through Bronze Knuckles Magazine, a tale of Vegas showgirls, a "men's magazine" mogul, and the revenge of a masked supervillain.
Think of it as Die Hard at the Playboy mansion starring Lili St. Cyr with a machine gun.
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
Think of it as Die Hard at the Playboy mansion starring Lili St. Cyr with a machine gun.
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Soon to be available through Bronze Knuckles Magazine, a tale of Vegas showgirls, a "men's magazine" mogul, and the revenge of a masked supervillain.
Think of it as Die Hard at the Playboy mansion starring Lili St. Cyr with a machine gun.
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
Think of it as Die Hard at the Playboy mansion starring Lili St. Cyr with a machine gun.
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
A little bit of cozy fantasy whimsy discovered while out and about today.
August 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A little bit of cozy fantasy whimsy discovered while out and about today.
You are on the right track...
August 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
You are on the right track...
Oh hey! I have a new story coming out! "The Purple Ghost Triumphant" will be published in Bronze Knuckles Magazine #13. Ironically, the story is not Sword & Sorcery, but the cover sure is...
Find out more here:
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
Find out more here:
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Oh hey! I have a new story coming out! "The Purple Ghost Triumphant" will be published in Bronze Knuckles Magazine #13. Ironically, the story is not Sword & Sorcery, but the cover sure is...
Find out more here:
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
Find out more here:
bronzeknucklesmagazine.com
RIP Terence Stamp. General Zod, the Limey, Willie Garvin in MODESTY BLAISE, and my personal favourite: burnout actor Toby Dammit going insane in Federico Fellini's very VERY loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Never Bet The Devil Your Head" in SPIRITS OF THE DEAD.
August 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
RIP Terence Stamp. General Zod, the Limey, Willie Garvin in MODESTY BLAISE, and my personal favourite: burnout actor Toby Dammit going insane in Federico Fellini's very VERY loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Never Bet The Devil Your Head" in SPIRITS OF THE DEAD.
Saw a sub call for a retro 50s B-Movie anthology. I think it will be very hard to top Norman Partridge's Anthology IT CAME FROM THE DRIVE-IN. Just the story titles alone, you can't beat for hitting that trash vibe perfectly.
August 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Saw a sub call for a retro 50s B-Movie anthology. I think it will be very hard to top Norman Partridge's Anthology IT CAME FROM THE DRIVE-IN. Just the story titles alone, you can't beat for hitting that trash vibe perfectly.
To be fair, they listened as fans explained by L. Sprague De Camp and Lin Carter shoehorned themselves into the Conan books and later sold for Work For Hire continuations , while Howard's works languished. So first Wandering Star Press, then Del Rey released unexpurgated Robert E. Howard. (3/x)
August 14, 2025 at 12:48 AM
To be fair, they listened as fans explained by L. Sprague De Camp and Lin Carter shoehorned themselves into the Conan books and later sold for Work For Hire continuations , while Howard's works languished. So first Wandering Star Press, then Del Rey released unexpurgated Robert E. Howard. (3/x)
Another Sword & Sorcery thread:
The interesting legacy of Robert Jordan's Conan novels is that, despite not being well-regarded by Conan fans and Wheel of Time fans being lukewarm at best, it was due to his WOT fame that Rebellion apparently bought the Conan IP on a whim in the early 2000s. (1/?)
The interesting legacy of Robert Jordan's Conan novels is that, despite not being well-regarded by Conan fans and Wheel of Time fans being lukewarm at best, it was due to his WOT fame that Rebellion apparently bought the Conan IP on a whim in the early 2000s. (1/?)
August 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Another Sword & Sorcery thread:
The interesting legacy of Robert Jordan's Conan novels is that, despite not being well-regarded by Conan fans and Wheel of Time fans being lukewarm at best, it was due to his WOT fame that Rebellion apparently bought the Conan IP on a whim in the early 2000s. (1/?)
The interesting legacy of Robert Jordan's Conan novels is that, despite not being well-regarded by Conan fans and Wheel of Time fans being lukewarm at best, it was due to his WOT fame that Rebellion apparently bought the Conan IP on a whim in the early 2000s. (1/?)
A story I've written has just been described as "Robert E. Howard's Pontypool" and I am just over the moon with that quote.
August 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
A story I've written has just been described as "Robert E. Howard's Pontypool" and I am just over the moon with that quote.
Laying eyes on this today has filled me with absurd delight. Art by Earl Norem.
August 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Laying eyes on this today has filled me with absurd delight. Art by Earl Norem.
July 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
RiP George Wendt, who had small but fun roles in the classic horror movie HOUSE, then later starred & produced the bleak crime film KING OF THE ANTS, played a serial killer in the TV Show MASTERS OF HORROR, and was in the stage show "Re-Animator: The Musical"
Plus, you know, Norm from CHEERS.
Plus, you know, Norm from CHEERS.
May 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
RiP George Wendt, who had small but fun roles in the classic horror movie HOUSE, then later starred & produced the bleak crime film KING OF THE ANTS, played a serial killer in the TV Show MASTERS OF HORROR, and was in the stage show "Re-Animator: The Musical"
Plus, you know, Norm from CHEERS.
Plus, you know, Norm from CHEERS.
The Tourism Bureau for Portmeiron, Wales could not be reached for comment.
May 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Tourism Bureau for Portmeiron, Wales could not be reached for comment.
You wanna know how to get the orange bastard?
They pull a tariff, you pull a tithe. He posts an AI meme, you excommunicate his VP. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get him. Now, do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
They pull a tariff, you pull a tithe. He posts an AI meme, you excommunicate his VP. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get him. Now, do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
May 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
You wanna know how to get the orange bastard?
They pull a tariff, you pull a tithe. He posts an AI meme, you excommunicate his VP. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get him. Now, do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
They pull a tariff, you pull a tithe. He posts an AI meme, you excommunicate his VP. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get him. Now, do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
It's May the First. When Pagan Rites are committed, even during the time of the English Civil War. Read about a fanatical judge's attempt to destroy the Old Ways once and for all with the assistance of an outlaw sorcerer and a heretic girl.
TO KILL TITANIA by me.
www.amazon.com/Kill-Titania...
TO KILL TITANIA by me.
www.amazon.com/Kill-Titania...
May 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It's May the First. When Pagan Rites are committed, even during the time of the English Civil War. Read about a fanatical judge's attempt to destroy the Old Ways once and for all with the assistance of an outlaw sorcerer and a heretic girl.
TO KILL TITANIA by me.
www.amazon.com/Kill-Titania...
TO KILL TITANIA by me.
www.amazon.com/Kill-Titania...
Looking thru TSR modules for the old Marvel Super Heroes RPG and not sure how I feel that two secret villains in two separate adventures are (even then) out of fashion Yellow Peril villains. (Yellow Claw in an Fantastic Four module; Fu Manchu in Night Moves.)
Once is whatever, twice is, well...
Once is whatever, twice is, well...
April 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Looking thru TSR modules for the old Marvel Super Heroes RPG and not sure how I feel that two secret villains in two separate adventures are (even then) out of fashion Yellow Peril villains. (Yellow Claw in an Fantastic Four module; Fu Manchu in Night Moves.)
Once is whatever, twice is, well...
Once is whatever, twice is, well...
Anyone else hoping the new Fantastic Four movie being a retread of the Galactus trilogy is a big swerve?
Like halfway through Reed Richards figures things out that they're trapped in a virtual reality in Latveria?
Then the second half Dr. Doom appears an shows he's the Big Bad for MCU (take 2)
Like halfway through Reed Richards figures things out that they're trapped in a virtual reality in Latveria?
Then the second half Dr. Doom appears an shows he's the Big Bad for MCU (take 2)
April 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Anyone else hoping the new Fantastic Four movie being a retread of the Galactus trilogy is a big swerve?
Like halfway through Reed Richards figures things out that they're trapped in a virtual reality in Latveria?
Then the second half Dr. Doom appears an shows he's the Big Bad for MCU (take 2)
Like halfway through Reed Richards figures things out that they're trapped in a virtual reality in Latveria?
Then the second half Dr. Doom appears an shows he's the Big Bad for MCU (take 2)
Five Years Today with this jerk of a roommate.
April 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Five Years Today with this jerk of a roommate.
For Joanna Lumley's Sapphire: Samara Weaving.
For David McCallum's Steel: Chiwetel Ejiofor
For David McCallum's Steel: Chiwetel Ejiofor
April 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For Joanna Lumley's Sapphire: Samara Weaving.
For David McCallum's Steel: Chiwetel Ejiofor
For David McCallum's Steel: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Samara Weaving and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Samara Weaving and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Had my first Mai Tai in a long while.
April 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Had my first Mai Tai in a long while.
Well, algorithm, three of the four movies I plan to watch.
Care to guess the one I plan on skipping?
Care to guess the one I plan on skipping?
April 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Well, algorithm, three of the four movies I plan to watch.
Care to guess the one I plan on skipping?
Care to guess the one I plan on skipping?