Sam Weller
@samwellerauthor.bsky.social
Bestselling author. 2-time Bram Stoker Award winner. Ray Bradbury's authorized biographer. Posting about writing, music, pop culture, books, and beyond. Latest book—DARK BLACK (Hat & Beard Press, 2020).
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John Byrne, one of the greatest comic book artists EVER.
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
John Byrne, one of the greatest comic book artists EVER.
It’s #Godzilla Day, but did you know that Ray Bradbury’s 1951 short story was an influence on the creation of Japan’s most infamous Kaiju? Bradbury’s story influenced the film THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS which, in turn, influenced the OG GODZILLA!
#RayBradbury
#RayBradbury
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It’s #Godzilla Day, but did you know that Ray Bradbury’s 1951 short story was an influence on the creation of Japan’s most infamous Kaiju? Bradbury’s story influenced the film THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS which, in turn, influenced the OG GODZILLA!
#RayBradbury
#RayBradbury
Happy Halloween🎃
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Happy Halloween🎃
Despite all the KISStards and FAQers whining about his meet and greet demeanor, Ace was actually a very sweet and humble man the two times I interviewed him.
#AceFrehley
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#AceFrehley
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October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Despite all the KISStards and FAQers whining about his meet and greet demeanor, Ace was actually a very sweet and humble man the two times I interviewed him.
#AceFrehley
@shoutitoutloudcast.bsky.social
@threesidescoin.bsky.social
@kissfaq.bsky.social
#AceFrehley
@shoutitoutloudcast.bsky.social
@threesidescoin.bsky.social
@kissfaq.bsky.social
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Rest in Peace, Space Ace. I am sure your gravesite will become a shrine very soon.
#AceFrehley #KISS @kissfaq.bsky.social @shoutitoutloudcast.bsky.social
#AceFrehley #KISS @kissfaq.bsky.social @shoutitoutloudcast.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Rest in Peace, Space Ace. I am sure your gravesite will become a shrine very soon.
#AceFrehley #KISS @kissfaq.bsky.social @shoutitoutloudcast.bsky.social
#AceFrehley #KISS @kissfaq.bsky.social @shoutitoutloudcast.bsky.social
“𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝-𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝-𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.”
—𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐧, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍
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—𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐧, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍
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#griefhorror #PunkRock #fantasy #booksky #writerscommunity
October 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝-𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝-𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.”
—𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐧, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍
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—𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐧, 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝑮𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍
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#griefhorror #PunkRock #fantasy #booksky #writerscommunity
Thank you to all the heroes at the @stchlibrary.bsky.social for hosting me for two absolutely wonderful events! Always nice to meet so many great writers and readers and to share my love of creativity! And they sold out of my books!
#booksky #RayBradbury #libraries #writerscommunity
#booksky #RayBradbury #libraries #writerscommunity
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Thank you to all the heroes at the @stchlibrary.bsky.social for hosting me for two absolutely wonderful events! Always nice to meet so many great writers and readers and to share my love of creativity! And they sold out of my books!
#booksky #RayBradbury #libraries #writerscommunity
#booksky #RayBradbury #libraries #writerscommunity
If you have ever lived in Chicago, you know these 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔…
Here is the 1st page of my story, “Creepy Crawly” from the newly released, fantastic domestic horror anthology, COSTS OF LIVING. I was thrilled when KIRKUS REVIEWS singled my story out in its glowing review.
Happy October! 🎃
#horror
Here is the 1st page of my story, “Creepy Crawly” from the newly released, fantastic domestic horror anthology, COSTS OF LIVING. I was thrilled when KIRKUS REVIEWS singled my story out in its glowing review.
Happy October! 🎃
#horror
October 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If you have ever lived in Chicago, you know these 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔…
Here is the 1st page of my story, “Creepy Crawly” from the newly released, fantastic domestic horror anthology, COSTS OF LIVING. I was thrilled when KIRKUS REVIEWS singled my story out in its glowing review.
Happy October! 🎃
#horror
Here is the 1st page of my story, “Creepy Crawly” from the newly released, fantastic domestic horror anthology, COSTS OF LIVING. I was thrilled when KIRKUS REVIEWS singled my story out in its glowing review.
Happy October! 🎃
#horror
40 freaking 6 years ago tonight, I saw my first KISS concert at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. Judas Priest opened. Incredible memory. Thank you @KISS. Photos are from that night.
September 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
40 freaking 6 years ago tonight, I saw my first KISS concert at the International Amphitheater in Chicago. Judas Priest opened. Incredible memory. Thank you @KISS. Photos are from that night.
Two absolute masters of their craft.
Ray Bradbury once told me he went to dinner at Hitchcock’s Hollywood Hills home and all the food on the table was dyed purple. “Why did he do that?” I asked.
“He didn’t say,” Bradbury responded.
#Hollywood #RayBradbury #horror #writerscommunity
Ray Bradbury once told me he went to dinner at Hitchcock’s Hollywood Hills home and all the food on the table was dyed purple. “Why did he do that?” I asked.
“He didn’t say,” Bradbury responded.
#Hollywood #RayBradbury #horror #writerscommunity
September 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Two absolute masters of their craft.
Ray Bradbury once told me he went to dinner at Hitchcock’s Hollywood Hills home and all the food on the table was dyed purple. “Why did he do that?” I asked.
“He didn’t say,” Bradbury responded.
#Hollywood #RayBradbury #horror #writerscommunity
Ray Bradbury once told me he went to dinner at Hitchcock’s Hollywood Hills home and all the food on the table was dyed purple. “Why did he do that?” I asked.
“He didn’t say,” Bradbury responded.
#Hollywood #RayBradbury #horror #writerscommunity
I worked hard to earn these. I never take these two gothic beauties for granted. #horror #horrorwriters @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I worked hard to earn these. I never take these two gothic beauties for granted. #horror #horrorwriters @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social
My story in COSTS OF LIVING is a rare venture into Chicago writing for me. It is about those grotesque Midwest millipedes that invade our homes every summer. I hope you will share this post and support this book!
#horrorsky #booksky #booklaunch #horror #anthology #shortstories #fiction
#horrorsky #booksky #booklaunch #horror #anthology #shortstories #fiction
September 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My story in COSTS OF LIVING is a rare venture into Chicago writing for me. It is about those grotesque Midwest millipedes that invade our homes every summer. I hope you will share this post and support this book!
#horrorsky #booksky #booklaunch #horror #anthology #shortstories #fiction
#horrorsky #booksky #booklaunch #horror #anthology #shortstories #fiction
Stoked to have a story in this monsterously cool anthology! The book is NOW available in fine bookstores everywhere! Glorious high-fives to Steve Capone @whisperhousepress.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors!
Please support indie publishers and get a copy today!
#horror #writing
Please support indie publishers and get a copy today!
#horror #writing
September 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Stoked to have a story in this monsterously cool anthology! The book is NOW available in fine bookstores everywhere! Glorious high-fives to Steve Capone @whisperhousepress.bsky.social and all the amazing contributors!
Please support indie publishers and get a copy today!
#horror #writing
Please support indie publishers and get a copy today!
#horror #writing
Thank you for celebrating Ray Bradbury’s birthday with me today. He will truly Live Forever!
#RayBradbury #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #WritersCommunity
#RayBradbury #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #WritersCommunity
August 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Thank you for celebrating Ray Bradbury’s birthday with me today. He will truly Live Forever!
#RayBradbury #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #WritersCommunity
#RayBradbury #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #WritersCommunity
Did you know that #RayBradbury never drove a car and didn’t fly on an airplane until he was 62?? Truth!
#writer #writerscommunity #sciencefiction
#writer #writerscommunity #sciencefiction
August 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Did you know that #RayBradbury never drove a car and didn’t fly on an airplane until he was 62?? Truth!
#writer #writerscommunity #sciencefiction
#writer #writerscommunity #sciencefiction
The man loved his cats. At one point, in 1958, the Bradbury family owned 22 of them!
#RayBradbury #Cats
#RayBradbury #Cats
August 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The man loved his cats. At one point, in 1958, the Bradbury family owned 22 of them!
#RayBradbury #Cats
#RayBradbury #Cats
I love this photo. Here is a teenage Ray Bradbury in the mid-1930s alongside actress Ida Lupino who would go on to a career as one of the first women film directors.
#Hollywood #RayBradbury
#Hollywood #RayBradbury
August 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I love this photo. Here is a teenage Ray Bradbury in the mid-1930s alongside actress Ida Lupino who would go on to a career as one of the first women film directors.
#Hollywood #RayBradbury
#Hollywood #RayBradbury
Ray Bradbury taking a stroll in the French countryside. Happy Birthday, Ray!
#sciencefiction #writerscommunuty
#sciencefiction #writerscommunuty
August 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Ray Bradbury taking a stroll in the French countryside. Happy Birthday, Ray!
#sciencefiction #writerscommunuty
#sciencefiction #writerscommunuty
That day I went to the White House with #RayBradbury and President George W. Bush asks me, “So, when you’re writing a biography, how do you decide where to start? At birth? Near the end of life looking back? At a turning point moment in life?” I was floored.
August 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
That day I went to the White House with #RayBradbury and President George W. Bush asks me, “So, when you’re writing a biography, how do you decide where to start? At birth? Near the end of life looking back? At a turning point moment in life?” I was floored.
My Bradbury Birthday celebration continues!
A teenage #RayBradbury Circa 1936 outside Paramount Studios with a Marlene Dietrich. He asked her to cross the street so the sunlight would be falling on them! She rolled her eyes and acquiesced.
#Hollywood
A teenage #RayBradbury Circa 1936 outside Paramount Studios with a Marlene Dietrich. He asked her to cross the street so the sunlight would be falling on them! She rolled her eyes and acquiesced.
#Hollywood
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My Bradbury Birthday celebration continues!
A teenage #RayBradbury Circa 1936 outside Paramount Studios with a Marlene Dietrich. He asked her to cross the street so the sunlight would be falling on them! She rolled her eyes and acquiesced.
#Hollywood
A teenage #RayBradbury Circa 1936 outside Paramount Studios with a Marlene Dietrich. He asked her to cross the street so the sunlight would be falling on them! She rolled her eyes and acquiesced.
#Hollywood
To commemorate Ray Bradbury’s birthday today, the trade paperback of my book, THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES: THE LIFE OF RAY BRADBURY is a bargain on Amazon today at $12!
#RayBradbury #WritingCommunity
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#RayBradbury #WritingCommunity
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August 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
To commemorate Ray Bradbury’s birthday today, the trade paperback of my book, THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES: THE LIFE OF RAY BRADBURY is a bargain on Amazon today at $12!
#RayBradbury #WritingCommunity
www.amazon.com/Bradbury-Chr...
#RayBradbury #WritingCommunity
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A young Ray Bradbury, roused from a nap by his Aunt Neva to take this photograph.
#RayBradbury #Birthday #Writer
#RayBradbury #Birthday #Writer
August 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A young Ray Bradbury, roused from a nap by his Aunt Neva to take this photograph.
#RayBradbury #Birthday #Writer
#RayBradbury #Birthday #Writer
Happy Birthday to the Maestro, the Great Ray Bradbury! Thank you for giving me the honor to serve as your biographer! #RayBradbury #Writingcommunity
August 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy Birthday to the Maestro, the Great Ray Bradbury! Thank you for giving me the honor to serve as your biographer! #RayBradbury #Writingcommunity
Happy Birthday, #RayBradbury! Born on this day, 1920. I love you!
#sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #writerscommunity
#sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #writerscommunity
August 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy Birthday, #RayBradbury! Born on this day, 1920. I love you!
#sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #writerscommunity
#sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #writerscommunity
Kolchak the Nightstalker’s office window at The Independent News Service. Image from the television show and how it looks today.
#horror #television #70s
#horror #television #70s
August 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Kolchak the Nightstalker’s office window at The Independent News Service. Image from the television show and how it looks today.
#horror #television #70s
#horror #television #70s