My copies of House of Wyrd arrived today! Thanks to the team at PS Publishing for all their work, including my cover artist Lisa Laughy, editor @marieoregan.bsky.social and designer Mike Smith. You can buy the signed, limited edition hardback here: pspublishing.co.uk/house-of-wyr...

UK booklovers: preorder the Folklore Horror hardback from Flame Tree Publishing via the @waterstones.bsky.social website/app, and use the code SUMMER26 at checkout for 25% off. My story, 'Face Me. In Darkness.' is in it, along with a variety of terrific tales. #WPreorder

Today at 3 pm (Irish Time) I'll be in conversation with authors @helengrantsays.bsky.social and @tommeadauthor.bsky.social about the magic of writing novellas. Our novellas will be published from @pspublish.bsky.social this month, and we'll be doing a wee reading: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

The signing sheets for my occult mystery novella, House of Wyrd, have arrived from @pspublish.bsky.social! Thrilled! They use extra artwork that cover artist Lisa Laughy designed for the endpapers for the limited edition hardcover. Pre-order the volume here: pspublishing.co.uk/house-of-wyr...

Wishing everyone a Super Solstice, north or south. ✨️🌞✨️ May your holiday season be joyful and bright! 🎨 ‘Icebound’ by John Henry Twachtman, 1889.

I'm so pleased to have a video essay on the limited edition Blu-ray release of Nocebo (2022), directed by Lorcan Finnegan and written by Garret Shanley, and released by Viva Vision. Entertainment.https://viavision.com.au/shop/nocebo-2022-blu-ray-limited-edition-3d-lenticular-hardcase-art-cards/

What a treat for my story, 'The First and Future Forest', to be part of ParSec #13, with beautiful cover art by Vincent Sammy, stories by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social, Garry Kilworth, Paul Di Filippo, Cécile Cristofari, Kevin Burke, & @mikeowencarroll.bsky.social. pspublishing.co.uk/parsec-digit...

My weather app serenely informs me there is a moderate wind warning for tomorrow, while the Irish news shows our map dripping in red, and I imagine daggers chopping into the country as the 'killer' Storm Éowyn advances. I do not enjoy waiting to discover the truth of its effects.

Wishing all of you in the Northern hemisphere a Merry Midwinter! (Enjoy your Super Summer Solstice in the south.) I took this photo on a very frosty solstice morning years ago, as the sun rose over the peaceful landscape. The cycles turn and we move with them.

Happy Thanksgiving! I think the gist of a ‘giving thanks’ holiday is marvellous. I had lunch with a dear friend and I am grateful to have that support in my life. Wishing you all at least one understanding pal at this busy time. ‘Still Life with Cheese’ by Floris Claesz van Dijck, c. 1615.

Since it's Saturn's Day, here is 'The Throne of Saturn' by Eilhu Vedder, 1883-1884. Nothing says Saturday quite like the Ruler of Time tapping his foot and reminding you of all the errands/chores you need to accomplish when you're trying to enjoy a chill weekend morning.

The first Waterford International Comics Art Festival is taking place this weekend, with a terrific line-up of talent, showcasing the wide spectrum of comics / graphic novels / cartooning as an inventive and multifaceted artform. Details: wicaf.art

Happy New Year! May the stars align well with all your plans in 2024! 📷 globular cluster - NGC 2210 - in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), courtesy of NASA.

Last night's showing of The Outcasts ('82), the OG Irish folk horror film, impossible to find for decades and now restored, was a revelation. A peasants' eye view of Irish 18th century life in which difference marked you as suspicious in a world ruled by practical necessity. 1/2

Looking forward to this screening at the IFI Dublin: The Outcasts, introduced by filmmaker Paul Duane.

Suircon in Waterford is on! There's a lovely crowd coming in despite the icy conditions outside.

I'm going to be at Ballinasloe Library tomorrow at 2.15pm, on a Comic Book Creators panel, moderated by Gar O'Brien and with Paul Bolger, @paulcarroll.bsky.social and Fiona Boniwell. It's great to see Galway libraries celebrating comics and games! #comics

It's to be expected, but without the buffer of Thanksgiving in Ireland everything has switched from cool spooky stuff to buy, buy, buy Xmas gifts in the space of a few hours. However... I do like a mince pie, a warm fire and cheery lights on these short, cold nights... 📷 a local café, last year.

💀🦇 Happy Hallowe'en - Oíche Shamhna shona daoibh! 🦇💀 Wishing you all a fun and spooky day!

'Spooky Screens', my latest Substack newsletter is out, where I make some suggestions for film/TV watching as Halloween approaches. splinister.substack.com/publish/post...

I'm at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain where I'm on the Méliès d'Argent Jury, and later today I'll be moderating a conversation between Kyra Elise Gardner (director of Living with Chucky) and Katharina Kubrick (actress and art director) on ‘Exploring the Fantasy Legacy’.

Happy Publication Day for the anthology, Tales of the Otherworld, presented by Anne Doyle, and published by Gill Books 🥳 It's available in all good book stores now! It's a frightfully brilliant collection of supernatural stories (including one of my own). www.gillbooks.ie/stories/stor...

Hi, hope you're well! Blimey, there's a lot of you now. I was a bit hectic in August doing actual in-person stuff, and my social media impulse has withered to a vestigial pulse. No offence to you, my beauties, but I will have an erratic posting schedule. 🎨 'Women of Phoenicia', Robert Fowler.

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Hi all, I've started a daily practice for the month of June over on my Substack, called Reading the Signs. Here's the post explaining it all. Feel free to join in! https://splinister.substack.com/p/reading-the-signs-june-challenge

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There's at least a week of hot weather ahead of us in Ireland... beware the lobster people, soon they will be among us! 🎨 'Lobster salad' by George Hope Tait - 1900.

Wheeeeee! Maura flies across blue skies wondering if this will be a fun experience. Here's a photo from the Wild Atlantic Way yesterday, near the 'cliffs of insanity' (aka the Cliffs of Moher).