ReganMacArthur
@reganmacarthur.bsky.social
Writer of crime fiction under my own name. Published author (starting Sept. 8, 2023!) of morally-deficient pulp novels as Clint Reno.
"Discretion is a great killer of God's truth or the devil's. We must not wound, we must not discharge a nauseous stink in the nostrils of the hypocritical."
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Discretion is a great killer of God's truth or the devil's. We must not wound, we must not discharge a nauseous stink in the nostrils of the hypocritical."
I wrote a scene set in Edinburgh this week. I didn't even remotely do the city justice, unfortunately.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I wrote a scene set in Edinburgh this week. I didn't even remotely do the city justice, unfortunately.
Anthony Burgess. Now there's a writer who could do a fire scene. I felt my fingertips getting scorched from holding the pages.
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Anthony Burgess. Now there's a writer who could do a fire scene. I felt my fingertips getting scorched from holding the pages.
DRAGONSLAYER (1981)
A superb effort. The 1980s are littered with bold films in the sci fi/fantasy/horror genre that bombed at the box office. This sad fact prompts dark thoughts about the Baby Boom generation.
A superb effort. The 1980s are littered with bold films in the sci fi/fantasy/horror genre that bombed at the box office. This sad fact prompts dark thoughts about the Baby Boom generation.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
DRAGONSLAYER (1981)
A superb effort. The 1980s are littered with bold films in the sci fi/fantasy/horror genre that bombed at the box office. This sad fact prompts dark thoughts about the Baby Boom generation.
A superb effort. The 1980s are littered with bold films in the sci fi/fantasy/horror genre that bombed at the box office. This sad fact prompts dark thoughts about the Baby Boom generation.
He's retiring and this is the note he wants to end on? What a disgrace.
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
He's retiring and this is the note he wants to end on? What a disgrace.
Writers who can't write well about fire must study writers who can.
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Writers who can't write well about fire must study writers who can.
An embarrassing number of these to-be-donated books are the result of accidentally buying the same book twice.
November 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
An embarrassing number of these to-be-donated books are the result of accidentally buying the same book twice.
Photographer Andrew Harnik should get a Pulitzer for this one.
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Photographer Andrew Harnik should get a Pulitzer for this one.
Something insane
Behind his eyes
Tore off its straitjacket.
Behind his eyes
Tore off its straitjacket.
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Something insane
Behind his eyes
Tore off its straitjacket.
Behind his eyes
Tore off its straitjacket.
Under Troy's wall, in mid-battle,
Cygnus, the son of Neptune,
Had gone through the Greeks twice
And sent a freshly butchered thousand
Tumbling into the underworld.
(Love that "freshly butchered thousand.")
Cygnus, the son of Neptune,
Had gone through the Greeks twice
And sent a freshly butchered thousand
Tumbling into the underworld.
(Love that "freshly butchered thousand.")
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Under Troy's wall, in mid-battle,
Cygnus, the son of Neptune,
Had gone through the Greeks twice
And sent a freshly butchered thousand
Tumbling into the underworld.
(Love that "freshly butchered thousand.")
Cygnus, the son of Neptune,
Had gone through the Greeks twice
And sent a freshly butchered thousand
Tumbling into the underworld.
(Love that "freshly butchered thousand.")
But none of it was enough. Whatever he ate
Maddened and tormented that hunger
To angrier, uglier life. The life
Of a monster no longer a man...
Maddened and tormented that hunger
To angrier, uglier life. The life
Of a monster no longer a man...
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
But none of it was enough. Whatever he ate
Maddened and tormented that hunger
To angrier, uglier life. The life
Of a monster no longer a man...
Maddened and tormented that hunger
To angrier, uglier life. The life
Of a monster no longer a man...
"They should be paying attention to ME!"
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"They should be paying attention to ME!"
"Hoby's face was too much the painted devil's to summon a child's fear in daylight - an eye shut forever, cheek-scores that dust loved, black teeth showing their waists, a party beard full of crumbs. He grinned, a pirate. He stank of Banbury cheese. He belched forth the soul of an alehouse."
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Hoby's face was too much the painted devil's to summon a child's fear in daylight - an eye shut forever, cheek-scores that dust loved, black teeth showing their waists, a party beard full of crumbs. He grinned, a pirate. He stank of Banbury cheese. He belched forth the soul of an alehouse."
Pitch: Wizard of Oz reboot.
The new ruler is a New Yorker named Walter Skagg who has declared himself President for Life.
Dorothy asks the local elites: "Why don't you oppose Skagg?"
"Because he's all-powerful!"
"How do you know?"
"He told us so!"
"I regret to inform you that you're all morons."
The new ruler is a New Yorker named Walter Skagg who has declared himself President for Life.
Dorothy asks the local elites: "Why don't you oppose Skagg?"
"Because he's all-powerful!"
"How do you know?"
"He told us so!"
"I regret to inform you that you're all morons."
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Pitch: Wizard of Oz reboot.
The new ruler is a New Yorker named Walter Skagg who has declared himself President for Life.
Dorothy asks the local elites: "Why don't you oppose Skagg?"
"Because he's all-powerful!"
"How do you know?"
"He told us so!"
"I regret to inform you that you're all morons."
The new ruler is a New Yorker named Walter Skagg who has declared himself President for Life.
Dorothy asks the local elites: "Why don't you oppose Skagg?"
"Because he's all-powerful!"
"How do you know?"
"He told us so!"
"I regret to inform you that you're all morons."
Hercules himself was overtaken
By a whisper,
By rumor -
Rumor who loves to spice big bowls of the false
With a pinch of the true
By a whisper,
By rumor -
Rumor who loves to spice big bowls of the false
With a pinch of the true
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Hercules himself was overtaken
By a whisper,
By rumor -
Rumor who loves to spice big bowls of the false
With a pinch of the true
By a whisper,
By rumor -
Rumor who loves to spice big bowls of the false
With a pinch of the true
Art by Mead Schaeffer
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Art by Mead Schaeffer
There the Lord of Hell suddenly saw her.
In the sweep of a single glance
He fell in love
And snatched her away -
Love pauses for nothing.
In the sweep of a single glance
He fell in love
And snatched her away -
Love pauses for nothing.
November 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
There the Lord of Hell suddenly saw her.
In the sweep of a single glance
He fell in love
And snatched her away -
Love pauses for nothing.
In the sweep of a single glance
He fell in love
And snatched her away -
Love pauses for nothing.
One of the greatest pages in the history of comics.
Art by Kevin Maguire
Art by Kevin Maguire
November 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the greatest pages in the history of comics.
Art by Kevin Maguire
Art by Kevin Maguire
Beginnings are special
because most of them are false
The new person you become
with that first sip of wine
was already there.
because most of them are false
The new person you become
with that first sip of wine
was already there.
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Beginnings are special
because most of them are false
The new person you become
with that first sip of wine
was already there.
because most of them are false
The new person you become
with that first sip of wine
was already there.
"...and Achilles chopped his neck/ and his sword sent head and helmet flying off together/ and marrow bubbling up from the clean-cut neckbone."
"Challenge accepted, you magnificent Greek son of a bitch!" Clint Reno roared, then scurried off to research the color and texture of human bone marrow.
"Challenge accepted, you magnificent Greek son of a bitch!" Clint Reno roared, then scurried off to research the color and texture of human bone marrow.
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"...and Achilles chopped his neck/ and his sword sent head and helmet flying off together/ and marrow bubbling up from the clean-cut neckbone."
"Challenge accepted, you magnificent Greek son of a bitch!" Clint Reno roared, then scurried off to research the color and texture of human bone marrow.
"Challenge accepted, you magnificent Greek son of a bitch!" Clint Reno roared, then scurried off to research the color and texture of human bone marrow.
The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles long, over 25 feet tall, over 13 feet deep.
And how did Genghis Khan surmount this mammoth obstacle in his quest to conquer China?
Simple.
He bribed one of the gatekeepers and marched his army through at a stately pace.
And how did Genghis Khan surmount this mammoth obstacle in his quest to conquer China?
Simple.
He bribed one of the gatekeepers and marched his army through at a stately pace.
November 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The Great Wall of China is over 13,000 miles long, over 25 feet tall, over 13 feet deep.
And how did Genghis Khan surmount this mammoth obstacle in his quest to conquer China?
Simple.
He bribed one of the gatekeepers and marched his army through at a stately pace.
And how did Genghis Khan surmount this mammoth obstacle in his quest to conquer China?
Simple.
He bribed one of the gatekeepers and marched his army through at a stately pace.
"The merit of an action is in finishing it to the end"
-Genghis Khan, life coach
-Genghis Khan, life coach
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"The merit of an action is in finishing it to the end"
-Genghis Khan, life coach
-Genghis Khan, life coach
"The blow strikes a glowing anvil... The great figure -- is it Thor, the great god of fire, or Wotan, forger of the Universe? -- pounds down with the hammer again and again."
I imagine John Milius smiling the whole time as he wrote the script for CONAN THE BARBARIAN, don't you?
I imagine John Milius smiling the whole time as he wrote the script for CONAN THE BARBARIAN, don't you?
October 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"The blow strikes a glowing anvil... The great figure -- is it Thor, the great god of fire, or Wotan, forger of the Universe? -- pounds down with the hammer again and again."
I imagine John Milius smiling the whole time as he wrote the script for CONAN THE BARBARIAN, don't you?
I imagine John Milius smiling the whole time as he wrote the script for CONAN THE BARBARIAN, don't you?
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - ON STRANGER TIDES (2011)
The mermaid sequence is damn fine cinema.
The mermaid sequence is damn fine cinema.
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 AM
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - ON STRANGER TIDES (2011)
The mermaid sequence is damn fine cinema.
The mermaid sequence is damn fine cinema.