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It's endless. Bones everywhere you browse. Enough bones to build a hundred skeletons

Author: My book doesn't have a title.
Publisher: Think of some words and put 'Bones' in there. Bones sell. People like bones.
Author: But there's no bones in my story.
Publisher: PeOplE LikE BoNeS

For the love of god, will publishers please stop doing this. #booksky

Ooo... Did the album come with the booklet? I used to spend hours staring it & scaring myself stupid, the Horsell Common painting especially

Finally caught Coralie Fargeat's The Substance. Hard to believe this is from the same director of Revenge. Not remotely the film I was expecting & had me cackling like a hyena. Debt to Cronenberg, Yuzna's Society & Gordon's From Beyond but very much its own mutant. Loved every mad minute of it

Filled a literary blind spot this year. Only meant to read one Raymond Chandler. Binged the entire Philip Marlowe series + every short story. Books now lovingly scuffed & bedraggled. Farewell My Lovely his masterwork imo, weirder & more gothic than The Big Sleep. Phenomenal voice & laconic AF

Weather update. The spooky ghost-fog that's coated England since Christmas Eve is finally clearing on Sunday. Personally, I've thoroughly enjoyed seeing Xmas lights smeared in Hammer Horror mist, so enjoy the festive gloom while you can

Would add we used to eat these while playing Ghost Castle for 'atmosphere'. The '70s were truly the devil's decade

Off to see The Damned at the Roundhouse. Original lineup from 1976. New Rose! Eloise! Smash It Up! Nasty! Should be an epic, messy, epically messy night

OK, so it's official. The emaciated zombie in that heart pumping 28 Years Later trailer is not Cillian Murphy after all - it's newcomer Angus Neill. What hasn't been picked up on is the ferocious Jack O’Connell has a lead role in it. Honestly, this film's going to be feral AF. Genuinely can't wait

Post a VHS cover that scared you as a kid

The Stuff (which melted my 11-year-old brain - cover way scarier than the film)
and...
Halloween 3 (I swear I used to see those eerie stretched silhouettes behind my bedroom curtains)

If you see this, post a bunny

#FilmSky

So Amazon just listed my #horror anthology Silverweed Road as a health hazard #warning #donotreadnearoverheadpowerlines #WTAF

For reasons unknown, Rosemary's Baby prequel Apartment 7A intersperses its horror beats with song and dance numbers. And then, oh dear god no, misunderstands what made the original such a classic (implicit horror/paranoia) by blasting out explicit jump scares. An absolute unholy fustercluck.

Hard agree. Read this one!

If you're searching for a spooky read this #Halloween, I listed my top 10 #horror short stories for The Guardian. There are over 400 (!) recommendations in the comments, all excellent & well worth bookmarking as a horror short story resource. Link below!

www.theguardian.com/books/2022/o...

Moneysupermarket declaring Scott Derrickson's Sinister the Scariest Film Of All Time is the funniest thing I've read all week

1 cursed street. 10 twisted tales. A horror behind every door. My anthology Silverweed Road has just landed in all good & evil book shops - & is now in dev for TV. Features such shivery delights as vengeful urns, predatory swimming pools, demonic jackdaws & were-foxes. #Halloween innit 😱