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Colin Harker

@lordsteerpike.bsky.social

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(she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / British lit PhD / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · Jan 1

If you love...
🦇 ruined castles with cursed secrets
🦇 charismatic characters with dark motives

...then you will love THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS!

#horror #gothic #thriller #bookstagram #readingcommunity #horrorreads #horrorauthor #horroraddict #gothic #gothicreads

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you so much for your vital work, Dr. Clemit! 💜

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 9h

First proofs have arrived (618 pages, excluding plates). Miles to go before I sleep ...

Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · May 3

Anarchy in the UK: OUP hoists its standard for radical polymath #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, 1793, & Caleb Williams, 1794; & (in timespan of this volume) Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century, Of Population, History of the Commonwealth of England; & many more works. At press.

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 7h

So I have been spending this Halloween season reading @haileypiperfights.bsky.social's cosmic horror novel THE WORM AND HIS KINGS and holy hell...I just love how she instantly jumps into the cult action and eldritch cosmology almost instantly. This is the stuff I crave the most from the genre! 🖤

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 7h

Autumn sunlight ✨

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 8h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 8h

One of my favorite dude behaviors is "I desperately want to attract a woman, so I will double down on the behavior that is proven to repel them, and then I'm going to complain about it." Absolutely undefeated dude brain

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 16h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 20h

I just want to skip to all the scenes with Robert Bloch.

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 20h

I read the novel earlier this year and loved it.

Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 21h

For some context, I’m a huge Burroughs fan and his lectures on the paranormal and occult are fascinating, so seeing this is just so damn cool.

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 22h

William S. Burroughs’ paranormal lectures just got a shout-out by George freaking Stark, I AM LOSING MY MIND HERE

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 22h

What writer’s block does to a man.

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 22h

The Dark Half or, The brief but shocking life and adventures of a high-toned son of a bitch 🤣

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Hardwick Hall, a masterpiece of Elizabethan symmetry designed by Robert Smythson, whose day is today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 1d

Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire. Begun in 1601, after a design by the great (and first!) English architect Robert Smythson. Today is his day.

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 1d

OMG this sounds amazing! I'll try to join in tonight!

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Fright Club @frightya.bsky.social · 1d

Join #FrightClub and post along Wednesday's feature, The Vault of Horror (1973), at 10:00 PM ET. Public domain film, available on YouTube.

You opened the wrong door. 🚪

Poster for The Vault of Horror (1973)
No "The" in the poster title, apart from a lead-in line, so we'll see what the title card says in the actual movie
Anyway it's a tomb with a giant crazy face trying to escape it, and assorted other characters, of reasonable proportions, scattered around area gravestones
We hope we're right about this being public domain; we looked really hard and couldn't find an active copyright

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 1d

New haircut!

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 1d

New haircut!

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 3d

The man, the myth, the cantankerous legend 🔥

Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 3d

He probably loved it that way 😂

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · Feb 20

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 6d

Billionaire Peter Thiel believes Greta Thunberg works for the Antichrist.

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Colin Harker @lordsteerpike.bsky.social · 7d

George Stark is the first Stephen King villain that I’ve had an “oh no, he’s hot” reaction to.

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 6d

I will do all I can to support and protect federal workers and contractors.

To those workers, I say again: you deserve so much better.

I know this is yet another dark moment in a dark year, but please do not lose hope.

The country still sees and values your service, and your work is not in vain.

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