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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 4d

www.strangelibrary.com/post/7970611... New review up on the site!

You Know You Do It To Yourself: A Review of The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria

The Twenty Days of Turin is a warning. Giorgio De Maria's novel— which has influenced everything from death metal to Junji Ito (Uzumaki takes heavy influence from Turin, especially the image of the...

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 1h

Neither side seemed to realize, much in the history of literally everything on the internet, that all they were doing was posting.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 1h

Oh, the "why are there potatoes in LOTR" people and the "no black elves" people were fighting each other.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 1h

Doubtful. It's a lot of ideas, but it doesn't flow the way Hollow Knight did. I just beat the Celeste riff for the double jump and it's been fucking me up when combined with the glide skirt.

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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social · 1h

Do you like archaeology? Do you like horror? Do you like archaeological horror?* I have the book for you. Ten stories, £5.99 for the paperback or £1.49 for the ebook.

blackshuckbooks.co.uk/shadows-37/

*different from horror archaeology like a winter watching brief in the snow, finding nowt.

The cover of Dirt Upon My Skin by Steve Toase, featuring a black background and a circle with a pattern made up of brown trowels in the centre

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 1h

Let's see...writer that started June of this year, insane volume of articles, post-sale from Vox to Valnet, I'd have to say it's pretty likely.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 2h

ValNet's slipping

James Beckett @kickthebeckett.com · 13h

I cannot stress enough that Wes Craven did not have a single goddamned thing to do with Freddy's Nightmares, and I have no fucking clue what Polygon is smoking with this article

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

I thought of Vern from Hey Vern, personally. Who knows what works Ernest kept interrupting with his incessant pitches for dairy products?

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

I feel bad because I'd rather read the former than the latter. Sure, The Works of Vermin is great, but who the hell is Vernon and what are his works? I wanna know!

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

It'll be hard NOT to compare The Works of Vermin to Perdido Street Station, but I have the tiniest fingernail's-width of faith in reviewers that they can stick that landing.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

I swear I bought these in a library book sale in the late '90s, never read them, and then gave them away a decade later

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

It's because the execution was performed by those who lack imagination

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 5h

You misread, they meant IMMORAL

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

Oh yeah this thing has y'all written all over it. Just check out the "Overture" section in the current ebook preview

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

So uh

If you were wondering where the high-test good shit weird fiction went these days, Hiron Ennes's The Works of Vermin has you covered. Seriously. I'd review it if I wasn't already in the hole on Ken Liu and one other book

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 6h

www.nytimes.com/1992/10/30/o... One of the very few good things the Opinion section at NYT has ever published

Opinion | Hermione and the Moon (Published 1992)

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 7h

It's good to know bald he'll look like a puppet used by his voters' favorite comedian

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 7h

Your assignment for October is to read "Hermione and the Moon" and tell me all about it. There. You do the close-reading for once. It's one of my favorite Clive Barker stories, see if you can figure out why.

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 7h

Mm. This predates that aesthetic era.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 7h

NO major publisher should ask more than ten dollars for an ebook and should have their asscheeks nailed to a coffee table if they do.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 9h

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Spock's Brian @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 17h

Too many amazing stories from Gallup, and almost none I will repeat here. However I will talk about what I myself experienced. There was Something in the basement at the Old Rehoboth Church

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 9h

Most people aren't mainlining this stuff or online much at all

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Steve Rasnic Tem @stevetem.bsky.social · 13h

My 3 novels from Solaris. Deadfall Hotel & Ubo are available in ebook & paperback from the usual online retailers (Deadfall Hotel is also in audio). Blood Kin, winner of the Stoker Award, can be purchased as an ebook, although used pbs are available. www.amazon.com/stores/Steve...

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Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 12h

Oh, yeah, it's a thing people with NPD and/or neurological issues do, they capitalize the words they find important.

Sam Reader, Antiochean Pope @strangelibrary.com · 12h

TO BE CLEAR this is not a patch on Hailey or her work. This is merely me being brain-poisoned by watching White Worm, Gothic, and The Boy-Friend too many times when I was younger.