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Oxford, UK. When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? No pasarán. He/him. https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com
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Review - The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church
The Sound of the Dark Daniel Church Angry Robot, 28 October 2025 Available as: PB, 400pp, e Source: Advance copy ISBN(PB): 9781915998408 ...
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Today, I’m reviewing The Sound of the Dark by @dannnythechurch.com, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to whom I’m grateful for a copy. Add a bit of #horror to your Christmas and let this book whisper in your ear. 📚💙 #Booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
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If Keir Starmer doesn't have the guts to defend the elected mayor of his own capital from the insults of a loathsome foreign autocrat, he doesn't deserve to live in the great city of London, let alone occupy the building in Downing Street that should house the nation's leader.
December 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
If Keir Starmer doesn't have the guts to defend the elected mayor of his own capital from the insults of a loathsome foreign autocrat, he doesn't deserve to live in the great city of London, let alone occupy the building in Downing Street that should house the nation's leader.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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"I loved both of my grandmothers, but I never fully knew them. [...] I was the one who was afraid to look in the dark places. Of them, of myself, of everyone." 🌌
Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze Of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept In The Dark - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Ivy Grimes: The Deep Freeze of Memory: What My Grandmother Kept in the Dark
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December 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"I loved both of my grandmothers, but I never fully knew them. [...] I was the one who was afraid to look in the dark places. Of them, of myself, of everyone." 🌌
Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
Wonderful new feature article by CELLAR BELOW THE CELLAR author @ivygrimes.bsky.social for @gnofhorror.com! ⬇️
ICYMI…
Today, I’m reviewing The Sound of the Dark by @dannnythechurch.com, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to whom I’m grateful for a copy. Add a bit of #horror to your Christmas and let this book whisper in your ear. 📚💙 #Booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review - The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church
The Sound of the Dark Daniel Church Angry Robot, 28 October 2025 Available as: PB, 400pp, e Source: Advance copy ISBN(PB): 9781915998408 ...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
ICYMI…
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Looking for your next Frankenstein-adjacent read?
The Path of Thorns won the Aurealis & Australian Shadows Awards & been translated into Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Croatian & Complex Chinese. Like Jane Eyre & Frankenstein go to a bar & shenanigans ensue? Murdery, witchy, wolfy shenanigans.
The Path of Thorns won the Aurealis & Australian Shadows Awards & been translated into Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Croatian & Complex Chinese. Like Jane Eyre & Frankenstein go to a bar & shenanigans ensue? Murdery, witchy, wolfy shenanigans.
December 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Looking for your next Frankenstein-adjacent read?
The Path of Thorns won the Aurealis & Australian Shadows Awards & been translated into Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Croatian & Complex Chinese. Like Jane Eyre & Frankenstein go to a bar & shenanigans ensue? Murdery, witchy, wolfy shenanigans.
The Path of Thorns won the Aurealis & Australian Shadows Awards & been translated into Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Croatian & Complex Chinese. Like Jane Eyre & Frankenstein go to a bar & shenanigans ensue? Murdery, witchy, wolfy shenanigans.
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*NEW BLOG POST*
Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #TopTenTuesday post. The theme for this week is 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐘 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒 ❄️📚⛄
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Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #TopTenTuesday post. The theme for this week is 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐘 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒 ❄️📚⛄
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December 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
*NEW BLOG POST*
Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #TopTenTuesday post. The theme for this week is 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐘 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒 ❄️📚⛄
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#BookSky #skybrarians #books #top10 #list #bookrecommendation #bookish #whattoread
Today on #damppebbles I am sharing this week's #TopTenTuesday post. The theme for this week is 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐘 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐒 ❄️📚⛄
Check out my list here...
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#BookSky #skybrarians #books #top10 #list #bookrecommendation #bookish #whattoread
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Today, I’m reviewing The Sound of the Dark by @dannnythechurch.com, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to whom I’m grateful for a copy. Add a bit of #horror to your Christmas and let this book whisper in your ear. 📚💙 #Booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review - The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church
The Sound of the Dark Daniel Church Angry Robot, 28 October 2025 Available as: PB, 400pp, e Source: Advance copy ISBN(PB): 9781915998408 ...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Today, I’m reviewing The Sound of the Dark by @dannnythechurch.com, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to whom I’m grateful for a copy. Add a bit of #horror to your Christmas and let this book whisper in your ear. 📚💙 #Booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
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David is reviewing The Sound of Dark today!
Today, I’m reviewing The Sound of the Dark by @dannnythechurch.com, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to whom I’m grateful for a copy. Add a bit of #horror to your Christmas and let this book whisper in your ear. 📚💙 #Booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review - The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church
The Sound of the Dark Daniel Church Angry Robot, 28 October 2025 Available as: PB, 400pp, e Source: Advance copy ISBN(PB): 9781915998408 ...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
David is reviewing The Sound of Dark today!
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New on my blog- Books of the Year 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/book... #BookSky
Books of the Year 2025: Part One - A Life in Books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New on my blog- Books of the Year 2025: Part One alifeinbooks.co.uk/2025/12/book... #BookSky
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Oooh, this is gorgeous
An illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from County Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. 🌌
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Prints available here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Oooh, this is gorgeous
Today, I’m reviewing The Sound of the Dark by @dannnythechurch.com, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to whom I’m grateful for a copy. Add a bit of #horror to your Christmas and let this book whisper in your ear. 📚💙 #Booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
Review - The Sound of the Dark by Daniel Church
The Sound of the Dark Daniel Church Angry Robot, 28 October 2025 Available as: PB, 400pp, e Source: Advance copy ISBN(PB): 9781915998408 ...
bluebookballoon.blogspot.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Today, I’m reviewing The Sound of the Dark by @dannnythechurch.com, out now from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social to whom I’m grateful for a copy. Add a bit of #horror to your Christmas and let this book whisper in your ear. 📚💙 #Booksky bluebookballoon.blogspot.com/2025/12/revi...
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The #CompulsiveReaders #ChrisCarter #Blogathon reaches book 10 this month and #HuntingEvil. Hunter's old nemesis Lucien escapes prison and heads to LA looking for revenge. Published by @simonschusteruk.bsky.social Audiobook narrated by Thomas Judd
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December 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The #CompulsiveReaders #ChrisCarter #Blogathon reaches book 10 this month and #HuntingEvil. Hunter's old nemesis Lucien escapes prison and heads to LA looking for revenge. Published by @simonschusteruk.bsky.social Audiobook narrated by Thomas Judd
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Do you like to read spooky stories during winter months?
Come see why you might love The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights!
#booksky #bookblogger #ghoststories #scarystories #shortstories
Come see why you might love The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights!
#booksky #bookblogger #ghoststories #scarystories #shortstories
Reposted Book Review: The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
The tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries. These twelve stories – authored by some of today’s most loved and lauded writers of historical and gothic fiction –…
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December 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Do you like to read spooky stories during winter months?
Come see why you might love The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights!
#booksky #bookblogger #ghoststories #scarystories #shortstories
Come see why you might love The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights!
#booksky #bookblogger #ghoststories #scarystories #shortstories
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Make a cuppa, grab a biscuit, and join me for today's slice of cosiness.
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Advent 2025 Day 9 | Tea and Sanctuary
Find out what was in day 9's advent calendar envelope!
Please note that I am unwell, so there has been zero editing.
Em x
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December 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Make a cuppa, grab a biscuit, and join me for today's slice of cosiness.
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Richard Gadz’s new one is a Jekyll & Hyde remix with a gloriously gruesome basement. A masterclass in Gothic horror that’s both smart and seriously fun.
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The House Of All Sorrows Review: A Jekyll Of A Good Read (Or A Hydeous One?) - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
Is Richard Gadz's The House of All Sorrows a brilliant Gothic horror remix or a monstrous mess? Our review unpacks the mad science, Victorian manners.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Richard Gadz’s new one is a Jekyll & Hyde remix with a gloriously gruesome basement. A masterclass in Gothic horror that’s both smart and seriously fun.
gnofhorror.com/the-house-of...
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Story.
So you have to understand that there's a standard Prayer for the Royal Family inserted into Anglo-Orthodox prayerbooks. It begins "He who giveth salvation unto kings and dominion unto princes, Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom…"
1/8
So you have to understand that there's a standard Prayer for the Royal Family inserted into Anglo-Orthodox prayerbooks. It begins "He who giveth salvation unto kings and dominion unto princes, Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom…"
1/8
I am hoping the second line is approximately coherent and intelligible
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Story.
So you have to understand that there's a standard Prayer for the Royal Family inserted into Anglo-Orthodox prayerbooks. It begins "He who giveth salvation unto kings and dominion unto princes, Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom…"
1/8
So you have to understand that there's a standard Prayer for the Royal Family inserted into Anglo-Orthodox prayerbooks. It begins "He who giveth salvation unto kings and dominion unto princes, Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom…"
1/8
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Another locked room (albeit a whole prison-turned-hotel) mystery. Spooky, twisty, impossible to put down.
@victoriagoldman.bsky.social's Little Secrets should definitely be on your lists
@victoriagoldman.bsky.social's Little Secrets should definitely be on your lists
Getting back on my reviewing thing with Little Secrets by Victoria Goldman. A locked room mystery, strange murders, spooky prison, cracking plot. What more could you want from a book? espressococo.com/2025/12/01/l... @victoriagoldman.bsky.social
Little Secrets – Victoria Goldman
Welcome to the true-crime controversy that’s divided the media for the last twenty years. To discover the truth, we need to delve back into the past…
THEN: In June 1999, the last five prisoners a…
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December 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Another locked room (albeit a whole prison-turned-hotel) mystery. Spooky, twisty, impossible to put down.
@victoriagoldman.bsky.social's Little Secrets should definitely be on your lists
@victoriagoldman.bsky.social's Little Secrets should definitely be on your lists
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This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
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Rare mosaic in Rutland reveals forgotten Trojan War tale - BBC News
A paper by experts at the University of Leicester has been described as a "fascinating development".
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December 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is such brilliant archaeology. There's a bit of a persistent story that Britain was somehow culturally separate from europe in the Roman empire when it was so intertwined and connected by people and goods travelling.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lovelies, it's dark outside, so why not get a cup of something warm and comforting and join me for today's Tea and Sanctuary advent calendar?
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Advent 2025 Day 8 | Tea and Sanctuary
In today's advent calendar, I found a mysterious teabag and also a link to some traditional carols that you can find here: https://tidal.com/album/325660910
Em x
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December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovelies, it's dark outside, so why not get a cup of something warm and comforting and join me for today's Tea and Sanctuary advent calendar?
teaandsanctuary.com/e/advent-202...
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That “which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?” Thing.
For me, these days, it’s increasingly “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
For me, these days, it’s increasingly “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
That “which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?” Thing.
For me, these days, it’s increasingly “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
For me, these days, it’s increasingly “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
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Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
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Phernḗ is the Ancient Greek word for a dowry, derived from the common verb phérein 'to bring', as it's what a wife brought with her.
Parápherna were a wife's property separate from a dowry. This term was adopted into Latin, and from the Latin adjective paraphernālis, English gets 'paraphernalia'.
Parápherna were a wife's property separate from a dowry. This term was adopted into Latin, and from the Latin adjective paraphernālis, English gets 'paraphernalia'.
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Phernḗ is the Ancient Greek word for a dowry, derived from the common verb phérein 'to bring', as it's what a wife brought with her.
Parápherna were a wife's property separate from a dowry. This term was adopted into Latin, and from the Latin adjective paraphernālis, English gets 'paraphernalia'.
Parápherna were a wife's property separate from a dowry. This term was adopted into Latin, and from the Latin adjective paraphernālis, English gets 'paraphernalia'.
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Lately? Honestly?
"That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
Though sometimes I swap out "England" for somewhere else.
"That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
Though sometimes I swap out "England" for somewhere else.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Lately? Honestly?
"That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
Though sometimes I swap out "England" for somewhere else.
"That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
Though sometimes I swap out "England" for somewhere else.
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I’ll be so glad when 2025 is finally over so I can begin a new year with fresh fear and dread.
December 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’ll be so glad when 2025 is finally over so I can begin a new year with fresh fear and dread.