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michaelsellars.bsky.social
Author of HYENAS, a Liverpool-set apocalyptic horror novel, out now from Northodox Press: https://amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09WKKCN4Y Rep'd by The Liverpool Literary Agency. #horrorwriter #writingcommunity #horror
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Hi @slimyswampghost.bsky.social. Today's Strands is right up your street. www.nytimes.com/games/strand...

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Lime nail galls (AKA bugle galls) in Childwall Woods this evening. They're created by a particular mite (Eriophyes tiliae) and don't harm the tree.

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Born on this day: Richard Clifton-Dey (1930-1997). Here's his cover art for the 1988 Grafton edition of Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides. #Horror #HorrorArt #HorrorWriters

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Born on this day: Ken Kelly (1946-2022). Here's his cover art for the 1984 DAW Books edition of Michael Shea's The Color Out of Time. #Horror #HorrorArt #HorrorBooks #HorrorWriting

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Walking by art gallery in French Quarter and saw this amazing Swamp Thing piece. Artist is Mei Mei and card says it's "needle felted merino wool." #comics #art

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Born on this day: Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989). Here's the 1978 Avon edition of Echoes from the Macabre, with cover art by Norman Adams. #Horror #HorrorWriters #HorrorArt

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Using AI to 'create' something is like teleporting to the top of Everest and comparing yourself to Edmund Hillary. The AI 'creator' has risked nothing, achieved nothing, has not been forced to dig deep, and is unchanged by the experience.

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A useful guide to overused literary and cultural eponyms and what they mean in a social media context.

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Some books I’ve read of late. 3’s, 4’s, and one 5 bagger. Go on, get some @jmacfee.bsky.social @robdsmith.bsky.social @keithrosson.bsky.social @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social @cbjones.bsky.social @michaelsellars.bsky.social Black Crouch, James Sallis and Mo Hayder. Fun was had! #BookSky 📚

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Manifesting that this will be a bestseller, but that needs YOU! Preorder, share, like, recommend, do all the things! I know there's a billion of us on here asking the exact same but help a girl out before the world collapses/Skynet replaces me/I succumb to fungus: www.waterstones.com/book/itch/ge...

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Born on this day: Karel Thole (1914-2000). #Horror #HorrorArt

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Hey, here’s another book I liked. You might like it too. Go on, get some @michaelsellars.bsky.social Fun was had! #BookSky 📚 #WednesdayRecs

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Born on this day: Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977). Here's a link to his macabre short story 'Rhythm'. First published in Rob Wagner’s Script, a literary film magazine (1929 to 1947). Later republished in Peter Haining's Greasepaint and Ghosts (1982). www.charliechaplinarchive.org/en/collectio...

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Born on this day, the great and sorely missed James Herbert (1943-2013). Here's the first edition UK paperback with cover art by W. F. Phillipps. #Horror #HorrorWriting #HorrorArt

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Born on this day: Robert Bloch (1917-1994). Here's the 1977 Corgi edition of Chamber of Horrors. #Horror #HorrorWriting #HorrorBooks

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Born on this day: Herbert van Thal (1904-1983). #Horror #HorrorWriting #HorrorArt

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Four of my books are currently free on Amazon. UK: amazon.co.uk/stores/autho... US: amazon.com/stores/autho... Reposts/shares very much appreciated! #horror #freebooks #horrorwriting

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Four of my books are currently free on Amazon. UK: amazon.co.uk/stores/autho... US: amazon.com/stores/autho... Reposts/shares very much appreciated! #horror #freebooks #horrorwriting

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Born on this day in 1947, Joe DeVito. #Horror #HorrorArt

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Born on this day: William Teason (1922-2003). #HorrorArt #HorrorBooks

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Born on this day in 1943, David Cronenberg. #Horror #HorrorMovies

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Born on this day in 1943: Peter Tremayne. #Horror #HorrorArt #HorrorWriters

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There's an Uzumaki tree in my local woods.

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