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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 9h

BBC Archive just uploaded The Lonely Shore (1962), a surreal 15-minute short that takes the form of a scientific report from an abandoned and desolate future Britain. Written by Jacquetta Hawkes, an actual archaeologist, and directed by Ken Russell, an actual madman.

1962: An Expedition to Post-Apocalyptic Britain | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 8h

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · 13h

New review for Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs, up at Publishers Weekly!

"14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural world"

"Inventive concepts and haunting, dreamlike imagery will appeal to horror fans."

www.publishersweekly.com/9781445220055

Happy Bunny and Other Mischiefs by Rebecca Gransden

Gransden (Anemogram) brings together 14 surreal and eerie stories mining scares from technology, domestic life, and the natural ...

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X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 2d

Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social introduces Logan Berry's new book 'Doom is the House Without a Door' !!

writing as architecture + emily dickinson + "a visual and verbal fantasia of money, meat, and misery" + a good playlist to listen to

click the link !

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'DOOM IS THE HOUSE WITHOUT A DOOR' BY LOGAN BERRY: AN INTRODUCTION by Kathleen Rooney

Introduction for Logan for his Reading from ‘Doom Is the House Without a Door’ at Comfort Station on Saturday, August 16, 2025 –Kathleen Rooney Book launch playlist: DOOM UNLEASHED Logan Berry’s lat...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 4d

The Hum summoned us to march the electric ley of the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, it called us onwards. Each pylon a portal deeper into its mysteries. To follow The Hum was to be transformed by it. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH #WrydWanderings

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · 8d

Pleasure to speak with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about the probing The Surrender of Man. Out from @incastellated.bsky.social. Check the interview at @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...

THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden

With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...

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CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social · 8d

That’s my goth lit sister 🥲 love that book so much!

X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 8d

we have a great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview, this time with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about her new book about art, 'The Surrender of Man'

it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop

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THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden

With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...

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X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 8d

we have a great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview, this time with Naomi Falk @celardolor.bsky.social about her new book about art, 'The Surrender of Man'

it's got one of the coolest book covers of the year !! read & cop

xraylitmag.com/the-surrende...

THE SURRENDER OF MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH NAOMI FALK by Rebecca Gransden

With The Surrender of Man (Inside the Castle, 2025), Naomi Falk examines twenty works of art, using each as both touchstone and springboard for scrutiny of modernity. An exhibition of the psychic spac...

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Kathe Koja @kkoja.bsky.social · 11d

@kaaronwarren.bsky.social says #DarkMatter is "A wild ride" and @rgransden.bsky.social says "accelerating towards a destination unknown" and J. Ashley-Smith says "ecstatic, apocalyptic" and I say THANK YOU 🙏
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@meerkatpress.bsky.social #darkfactory #darkmatter

Dark Matter Coming 2025

The world has ended. What are you going to do? Bunny Graves knows, and she wants Ari Regon to help her do it, as Ari

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · 16d

Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!

“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”

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Figures Crossing The Field Towards The Group, Rebecca Gransden

You ever muse on the most courageous thing you’ve ever done? Was it quitting a job because there was no toilet paper and you had to wipe with your bifocals? Or was it when you called your high schoo...

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · 16d

Another encouraging review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, this time at the wonderful TriYou!

“it felt as if I was reading a dream, or reading while I was dreaming, dreaming of a beautiful but terrifying wasteland”

triyou.com/f/figures-cr...

Figures Crossing The Field Towards The Group, Rebecca Gransden

You ever muse on the most courageous thing you’ve ever done? Was it quitting a job because there was no toilet paper and you had to wipe with your bifocals? Or was it when you called your high schoo...

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 25d

A review of Rebecca Gransden's novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...

A review of Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group

In Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, an unidentified blight spreads from the south of England, driving refugees northward. Our hero, a girl named Flo, walks n…

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · 24d

Fresh review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group over at the mighty @biblioklept.bsky.social. Many thanks to Edwin Turner for casting his astute eye over the book.

“Strange, gnarly, alive”

biblioklept.org/2025/09/21/a...

A review of Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field towards the Group

In Rebecca Gransden’s novella Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, an unidentified blight spreads from the south of England, driving refugees northward. Our hero, a girl named Flo, walks n…

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HÆLÏCK (hr_freud) @ocean37.bsky.social · 25d

full thing now posted.
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HÆLÏCK (hr_freud) @ocean37.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Green Knight (1/8)

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O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · 29d

It's my birthday!!! Buy one of my spooky books!

O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social · Sep 13

Sapphic September and it's my birthday month-- you are now honor bound to buy my books. One is a historical fiction novel about a conspiracy theory to control the minds of children with pop music and the other is a collection of short stories. Both gay. Buy Backmask. Buy Lockdown Laureate

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · 29d

Happy Birthday!!

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Dave Fitzgerald @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social · Sep 16

New Xray Recommends is live - a paean to Brandi Homan’s Burn Fortune, Kristin Garth’s Daddy, Danielle Chelosky’s Pregaming Grief, and the 1969 movie musical Paint Your Wagon! @clashbooks.bsky.social @anxietypress.bsky.social @whiskeytit.com @xraylitmag.bsky.social

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DAVE FITZGERALD RECOMMENDS: Brandi Homan’s 'Burn Fortune', Kristin Garth’s 'Daddy', and Danielle Chelosky’s 'Pregaming Grief'

Paint Your Wagon, the 1969 Western musical starring Jean Seberg, Clint Eastwood, and Lee Marvin, was a historic commercial flop, by turns both mindbogglingly strange, and mind-numbingly dull in its de...

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · Sep 16

Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group once again spotted out at roam, this time under the watch of Mark Andrew Johnston. Instagrammed as avrelonian.

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · Sep 15

These are now sold out - thank you to all who showed an interest!

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thrilled to announce “Nature Cards” - A Naturalist’s Guide, collectable set conceived as an accompaniment to Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Ltd to 30 sets, signed, featuring flora and fauna from the book. Includes exclusive short prose. thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-NC/

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thrilled to announce “Nature Cards” - A Naturalist’s Guide, collectable set conceived as an accompaniment to Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group. Ltd to 30 sets, signed, featuring flora and fauna from the book. Includes exclusive short prose. thetangerinepress.com/FICTION/RG-NC/

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · Sep 8

“Eerie strangeness is abroad” - a wonderful review for Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group, up now at The Brazen Head. Many thanks to Derek Turner for such an incisive and revealing examination of the book. brazen-head.org/2025/09/04/a...

Anglo-apocalypse

John Martin, ‘Apocalypse’ Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group Rebecca Gransden, London: Tangerine Press, 2025, 93pps., £15 DEREK TURNER reads a story of a domain’s downfa…

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Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social · Sep 5

Had the pleasure of speaking with Sienna Liu about the musing Specimen, out now at @splitlippress.com. Head over to @xraylitmag.bsky.social! xraylitmag.com/near-miss-in...

NEAR-MISS IN A STRANGE LAND: A CONVERSATION WITH SIENNA LIU by Rebecca Gransden

Sienna Liu’s Specimen (Split/Lip Press, 2025) seeks to articulate the ineffable facets of desire. A fragmentary and lyrical hindsight finds lovers in an entanglement as fragile as it is seemingly unwi...

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · Sep 5

What a great interview with Sienna Liu & @rgransden.bsky.social:
"So much of Specimen is about the near-miss: people circling each other, reaching, misunderstanding, saying almost but not quite what they mean. I wanted to write into that space of near-miss, not to resolve it, but to give it form."

X-R-A-Y Literary Press @xraylitmag.bsky.social · Sep 5

we have another great Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social interview !

Rebecca talks with Sienna Liu about her book 'Specimen' -- read it !

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NEAR-MISS IN A STRANGE LAND: A CONVERSATION WITH SIENNA LIU by Rebecca Gransden

Sienna Liu’s Specimen (Split/Lip Press, 2025) seeks to articulate the ineffable facets of desire. A fragmentary and lyrical hindsight finds lovers in an entanglement as fragile as it is seemingly unwi...

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