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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes
@unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social
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Stoker Award-nominated horror author.
rep: Oli Munson
she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty
Trans rights are human rights
End the genocide in Gaza 🍉
Posting from Greenwich, London
www.allywilkes.com
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This is the first year I've had enough short fiction out to want to do one of those eligibility posts! Truly grateful for all the opportunities I've had in 2025 🖤
AWARDS ELIGIBILITY POST: Ally Wilkes in short fiction. The graphic is creepy hands on a grey background and the titles in orange read: When the fox bells ring, The Earth Bleeds At Night In the high places, BOREAL: an anthology of Taiga Horror The Berg, Cosmic Horror Monthly #58 The Collector's House, Unquiet Guests Drop Shock, the Black Crow book of Best New Horror vol 1, Wild Edric's Ride, Tales of Occult Britain.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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The ideal reading experience feat. Miss Slugs
A very cosy looking tuxedo cat is curled up on my lap on a black and white and gold tarot card blanket, next to a red and gold copy of Kitchen Magic by Laura May.
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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70/2025 was The Wayfarer's Weird from @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird! Man, I love this series so so much. Some truly excellent stuff in here including from Lisa Tuttle, Ramsey Campbell and Alison Littlewood! And new-to-me authors like LTC Holt (Aickman's mate 😁)
A hand holding up a copy of the Wayfarer's Weird ed. by Weird Walk. It's a black paperback with a monochrome purple illustration depicting a rucksack leaning against a stone wall with some skulls, both animal and human. The book is from the British Library Tales of the Weird series.
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Be advised it is FIVE STARS and also VERY CREEPY AND GOOD, cheers Allison!
Screenshot of a five star Amazon review: "excellent creepy short story collection, very creepy and good! A micro-collection of 3 short scary stories, all atmospheric, well-written and carry a creeping menace that is perfect for the winter season."
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Morning all! Friday is the perfect day to pick up some lunch break or weekend reading, and I have the perfect bite-sized delight. My micro-collection LONDON WEIRD is only 0.99 on Amazon or free on Kindle Unlimited, I'd love for you to check it out!
www.amazon.co.uk/London-Weird...
A hand holds up LONDON WEIRD, a slim book with a black cover and a stylised London map on the cover, in front of a distinctive Tube logo.
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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With the addition of UNQUIET GUESTS (out 30th Oct from @deadinkbooks.bsky.social ed. @dancoxon.bsky.social) I have finally outgrown my brag shelf and now have a... brag stack, WTAF??
2020 - early October 2025.
A stack of books making up all the physical, well, books that my writing has been in since 2020. All The White Spaces, Where The Dead Wait, the best of Three Crows vol 2, It Calls From The Doors, The Earth Bleeds at Night, Darkness Beckons, FOUND: an anthology of found footage horror, Something Peculiar, Jamie Hallow and the End of the World, Cloisterfox zine, London Weird, Boreal: an anthology of Taiga Horror, and Unquiet Guests.
October 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Hello new followers! If you've joined me after my spooky settings task for @cbcreative.bsky.social, you might want to check out my micro-collection of three short horror stories with new twists on old settings. It's a lunch-break steal at 0.99 on kindle or free on Kindle U!
amzn.eu/d/b2ySJKM
Image is of Ally, a white-skinned person with long dark hair, wearing a black Harley jacket on a tube platform and holding up a copy of London Weird by Ally Wilkes.
October 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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TBT one of the best and weirdest days of my life, Luke Arnold dropping in on a panel @gavia.bsky.social, Cynthia So and I were doing at Nineworlds on marginalised identities in Black Sails 🖤
No really! It's a generic convention room with a table set up for panel guests in the foreground. L-R we have the inimitable Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Cynthia So, Luke Arnold (aka the most handsome man alive) and me!
September 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I'm wearing one of my hand-knitted cosy cardigans and eating broth with homemade bread. Sometimes the only thing that helps the SAD is to go full-on hashtag autumncore.
Ally wearing an immensely large RAINBOW CLOUD of a cardigan, now sewn up into a jumper for utility. Pattern is the Orenda cardigan from The Knit Edit and Ally has knitted it in one strand of multicolour scrap yarn held with one strand of black or navy scrap yarn and one of glittery black yarn. The sleeves may contain a portal to another dimension, they are PUFFY.
September 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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My entry for 'post a you from a different era'. On Wednesdays, we wear pink.
Two pictures of a much younger Ally wearing makeup, a bright pink top, a knee length skirt, and kitten heeled patent burgundy shoes. She's carrying a bright pink handbag. The look is very corporate lawyer meets Mean Girls.
September 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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SALE of Innsmouth surplus bookmarks! First come first served within the UK, and I'll cover shipping. All handmade by me, deets in alt text,ncomment/DM if interested.
Cross stitch bookmarks showing a pixel art-style design, one on black background and one on cream. The motifs (top to bottom) are tentacles, waves, skulls, Cthulhu on a throne contemplating a candle, and a book with a pentagram on the page. £20 each. Cross stitch bookmarks. Top one on coffee-stained brown and aged fabric reads Welcome to Innsmouth in drippy green script. Bottom one on subtly pink and blue Aida (reads white in photos) reads Live, Laugh, Lovecraft in gothic black script with black weathering. £10 each.
September 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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In case you were wondering yes I'm still thinking about SHY GIRL by Mia Ballard
Cover of SHY GIRL by Mia Ballard, a pastel blue book with "girly" fonts and a sad looking dog with a pink ribbon on it. One of the blurbs is from me and says: ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED.
September 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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STARTS WEDNESDAY! I'm working hard on content for this course rn, so you have a couple of days left to sign up... classes at 6:30pm BST, but fully recorded for those who can't make it! Plus optional feedback and zoom tutorials feat. Dr Bones 🖤
Promo image for WRITING HISTORICAL HORROR shows a happy looking skeleton on greige background. The text reads '4-week online writing course with Ally Wilkes starts Weds 24th September'.
September 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Finishing touches to my box of tricks for @innsmouthgold.bsky.social Literary Festival one weekend from now! These will be bookmarks - the camera doesn't really do them justice 🖤
A piece of whitish cross stitch fabric with LIVE LAUGH LOVECRAFT stitches repeatedly in black. The letters have then been painted over so they're dripping down the fabric.
September 17, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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There's still time to sign up for my thoughts on Writing Historical Horror! The course starts next week online and will be four Wednesday evenings (UK time) plus all sessions recorded for those who can't make it. Hope to see you there!
www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-hi...
Ominous and moody promotional image of a church tower in a misty blue background. Text reads: WRITING HISTORICAL HORROR, 4-week online writing course with Ally Wilkes, starts Weds 24th September.
September 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The Monday commute would be a class time to pick up a copy of my new micro-collection, LONDON WEIRD: three short stories. It's only 0.99 on Amazon (free on KU) and I've v much enjoyed this first dip into self publishing!
amzn.eu/d/cEFSv3h
Sales rankings on Amazon.co.uk showing LONDON WEIRD in at 50 in Horror Short Stories.
September 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Hi Gabino! I've just put out a micro collection of three short stories about weird, cosmic and horrific London: LONDON WEIRD is my first foray into self pub and it's 0.99 on kindle and free on Kindle U!
www.amazon.co.uk/London-Weird...
Ally holds up a copy of London Weird on a tube station platform.
September 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Avoiding #FaceFriday by taking pics with my new micro-collection! LONDON WEIRD is just 0.99 or free on Kindle Unlimited.

www.amazon.co.uk/London-Weird...
Ally, a white skinned person with long dark hair, holds up a copy of London Weird in front of a Tube tunnel.
September 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Very bewildered to see my micro-collection LONDON WEIRD has made it into the top 50 of horror short stories! It's 0.99 for three dark and unsettling tales of modern-day London, also free on Amazon U - perfect lunch break reading 👀
amzn.eu/d/cEFSv3h
Ranking data for London Weird on Amazon, it's 74,225 in Books (lol), 50 in Horror Short Stories and 222 in Horror Occult and Supernatural.
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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I guess I am now a HYBRID AUTHOR: here's my first foray into self publishing (on the micro scale!) with LONDON WEIRD, a three-story collection about cosmic, Weird and haunted London. The ebook is 99p / 99c / free on Kindle Unlimited 🖤
Copies of LONDON WEIRD in a paper box: it's a slim collection with black cover and a map of London with a pink/purple ombre fade in the centre.
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Pssst... can I interest you in a tasty little micro-collection of three of my short stories for 99p / 99c or FREE on Kindle Unlimited?

amzn.eu/d/5M3NUlh
Cover of London Weird, a micro-collection by Ally Wilkes. The cover is black and has an ombre fade pink/purple map of London at the centre. The graphic reads OUT NOW! and AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.
September 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Just finished some cross-stitch bookmarks to take to @innsmouthgold.bsky.social! I think the Cthulhu is really cute 🖤
A pile of bookmarks stitched on black or ecru canvas with motifs of waves, skulls, candles, books, and Cthulhu.
September 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Hi hello just a reminder that JAMIE HALLOW exists and I'm very very very proud of it! Absolutely no-one is calling it the unholy lovechild of MEAN GIRLS, HP Lovecraft, and Hugh Howey's WOOL. But they might.

cemeterygatesmedia.com/2023/05/04/j...
Promo image showing the cover of Jamie Hallow and the End of the World by AV Wilkes, an 80s style neon artwork by Ben Baldwin in which a teenage boy stands on the staircase of a nuclear bunker and tentacles, sparks fly up from below. The tropes are listed around the cover: Lovecraft Mythos, Mean Girls, exes and hexes, ancient cults, #shoggoths, queer teens, UK setting, Ooooh it's the Mi-Go! and nuclear apocalypse.
August 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Coming SOON to your bookshelves: UNQUIET GUESTS, a gorgeous new hardback antho of haunted house studies with a social inequality theme... coming SOON to your local bookshop (if you live near Islington that is) are some fab authors including me!
www.waterstones.com/events/unqui...
Promotional graphic on pale background showing the green hardback cover of UNQUIET GUESTS (largely plain with a spiderweb covered window as a graphics in white) and author headshots. The text reads: DAN COXON, CLAIRE FULLER, WILL MACLEAN & ALLY WILKES in conversation at Waterstones Islington Tuesday 28 October, 6:30pm. The booking link is in the post text.
August 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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As the nights start to draw in, why not join me for a historical horror writing course? We'll be looking at immersion, research, approaches to verisimilitude, and how to use the past to hold up a mirror to the present. Link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-hi...
Promo image for Writing Historical Horror, showing an ominous looking metal helmet with empty eye sockets and strips of beaten metal over the mouth and nose. The text reads: 4 week online writing course with Ally Wilkes, starts 24th September. There's a QR code but the link is also in the post text.
August 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM