Pete
@phenryward.bsky.social
Books, art, theatre. I mainly use social media to tell people that I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic / Noir short stories in Thin Veil Press and Bristol Noir, forthcoming in Macabre Magazine and Gavagai.
This brought a wild proustian rush - read this exact edition when I was ten.
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This brought a wild proustian rush - read this exact edition when I was ten.
I sheltered from the storm on Friday in a pub which had the most amazing collection of tight, mostly unread 60-70s sf and fantasy paperbacks, donated by an old regular. Landlord told me I could help myself if I fancied, and I did...
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I sheltered from the storm on Friday in a pub which had the most amazing collection of tight, mostly unread 60-70s sf and fantasy paperbacks, donated by an old regular. Landlord told me I could help myself if I fancied, and I did...
Delighted to be today's Editor's Pick on @gavagai.com - it's a new platform for writers and writing and if you want to join I've got registration codes! www.gavagai.com/posts/801
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Delighted to be today's Editor's Pick on @gavagai.com - it's a new platform for writers and writing and if you want to join I've got registration codes! www.gavagai.com/posts/801
Exactly how I felt when I saw this. Like I know trumpets were involved, but still...
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Exactly how I felt when I saw this. Like I know trumpets were involved, but still...
This made me think of Peter Singer and got to to this fantastic article title:
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This made me think of Peter Singer and got to to this fantastic article title:
I'm always recommending this one:
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I'm always recommending this one:
Thanks for this. On "modes of English imperial boosterism", I run a charity for young people and one of our critical thought / communication sessions is to attend a gallery, pick an artwork and then present on it in public. Notably, one young man picked this, and opened with "Why is Jesus GINGER?"
October 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thanks for this. On "modes of English imperial boosterism", I run a charity for young people and one of our critical thought / communication sessions is to attend a gallery, pick an artwork and then present on it in public. Notably, one young man picked this, and opened with "Why is Jesus GINGER?"
An interesting moment. There's always framing for the film-as-aphorism: "You know, doing my PhD I read a paper that..." "My dad used to say..." "When I pulled that boy out of the wreckage, he looked me in the eye and said..."
I don't know what to make of this framing in terms of characterisation.
I don't know what to make of this framing in terms of characterisation.
October 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
An interesting moment. There's always framing for the film-as-aphorism: "You know, doing my PhD I read a paper that..." "My dad used to say..." "When I pulled that boy out of the wreckage, he looked me in the eye and said..."
I don't know what to make of this framing in terms of characterisation.
I don't know what to make of this framing in terms of characterisation.
Often, when people see my bookshelves, they say "Have you read all of these?" which makes as much sense as looking at a cupboard and saying "Have you eaten all of this?"
(yep, double layered, one of five equivalent set ups throughout the house)
(yep, double layered, one of five equivalent set ups throughout the house)
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Often, when people see my bookshelves, they say "Have you read all of these?" which makes as much sense as looking at a cupboard and saying "Have you eaten all of this?"
(yep, double layered, one of five equivalent set ups throughout the house)
(yep, double layered, one of five equivalent set ups throughout the house)
Delighted to have a second publication (though of my first acceptance) at Thin Veil Press: thinveilpress.co.uk/the-appraisal
It's a weird tale of the workplace and the way it changes us - it's also maybe about freedom.
The Thin Veil team were lovely and perceptive and made it a great experience!
It's a weird tale of the workplace and the way it changes us - it's also maybe about freedom.
The Thin Veil team were lovely and perceptive and made it a great experience!
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Delighted to have a second publication (though of my first acceptance) at Thin Veil Press: thinveilpress.co.uk/the-appraisal
It's a weird tale of the workplace and the way it changes us - it's also maybe about freedom.
The Thin Veil team were lovely and perceptive and made it a great experience!
It's a weird tale of the workplace and the way it changes us - it's also maybe about freedom.
The Thin Veil team were lovely and perceptive and made it a great experience!
New bar set for how writers handle poor sales
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New bar set for how writers handle poor sales
First experience tonight of both the amazing HAXAN and the very excellent AUTOHAUs - thanks to Screen B14, @hareandhounds.bsky.social for putting together
October 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
First experience tonight of both the amazing HAXAN and the very excellent AUTOHAUs - thanks to Screen B14, @hareandhounds.bsky.social for putting together
It's so good. On demand on Channel 4 in the UK.
Pairs well with Rian Johnson's BRICK
Pairs well with Rian Johnson's BRICK
September 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's so good. On demand on Channel 4 in the UK.
Pairs well with Rian Johnson's BRICK
Pairs well with Rian Johnson's BRICK
Literal Larry the Cover Designer: "No, it's okay, don't tell me what happens in the book, I've got this."
September 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Literal Larry the Cover Designer: "No, it's okay, don't tell me what happens in the book, I've got this."
Dammit, because I've got some paranoid strangeness *and* uncanny dream logic for you
September 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Dammit, because I've got some paranoid strangeness *and* uncanny dream logic for you
Really enjoying Why didn't You Just Leave from the @cursedmorsels.bsky.social bundle. @sloiaconi.bsky.social's 'Your Application to Vacate 372 Wicker Avenue is Still Pending' is a great idea, handled with wit: "there are few monsters in this world more frightening than government bureaucracy..."
September 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Really enjoying Why didn't You Just Leave from the @cursedmorsels.bsky.social bundle. @sloiaconi.bsky.social's 'Your Application to Vacate 372 Wicker Avenue is Still Pending' is a great idea, handled with wit: "there are few monsters in this world more frightening than government bureaucracy..."
And in real life. Thanks @sonnyross.bsky.social!
August 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
And in real life. Thanks @sonnyross.bsky.social!
The "I loved WEAPONS and wish there were some books like that first bit" starter pack:
August 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The "I loved WEAPONS and wish there were some books like that first bit" starter pack:
Slightly manic title, there. Reminds me of:
August 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Slightly manic title, there. Reminds me of:
I think about the title of this @leopoldmuseum.bsky.social exhibit all the time: "And yet there was art! Austria 1914–1918"
And yet there was art.
And yet there was art.
July 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think about the title of this @leopoldmuseum.bsky.social exhibit all the time: "And yet there was art! Austria 1914–1918"
And yet there was art.
And yet there was art.
*Some* of this week's purchases. (Friends and family concerned for wellbeing, mental health, connection to real world etc)
May 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
*Some* of this week's purchases. (Friends and family concerned for wellbeing, mental health, connection to real world etc)
Excited to find this, but not, in the end, very good. It tries to read like the experience of watching Stalker - boring stretches, digressions (four page foot-notes), weird hyperfocus on seeming ephemera - without being, like Stalker, a towering, miraculous work, somehow stronger for its flaws.
May 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Excited to find this, but not, in the end, very good. It tries to read like the experience of watching Stalker - boring stretches, digressions (four page foot-notes), weird hyperfocus on seeming ephemera - without being, like Stalker, a towering, miraculous work, somehow stronger for its flaws.
I'm overwhelmingly a secondhand-first book buyer, so when I get @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social it means I can buy the authors (@johnlangan.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, Mariana Enriquez) I never find because they're clearly too good to give away...
May 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I'm overwhelmingly a secondhand-first book buyer, so when I get @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social it means I can buy the authors (@johnlangan.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social, Mariana Enriquez) I never find because they're clearly too good to give away...