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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer
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Novelist ‘as tart, dark and juicy as a summer pudding’. World Fantasy Award finalist. She/her.

Timeline cleanse queen.

The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj

Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v

Agent: Sophie Hicks.
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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · Nov 22
Art by my husband illustrating one of the creatures of my IN THE HEART OF HIDDEN THINGS. (tinyurl.com/nvvetupj)

The brambles had been talking to themselves for a while, but it’s only when someone uprooted one that they started to get really stroppy…
Pen sketch. Spindly bundle of spikes with a blackberry for a head rears up like a mantis. Text caption: ‘Scratchity GOWAY!’ Pen sketch. Skeletal bramble bushes all over spikes hunch like spiders.
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𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔱 𝔓𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔦𝔡𝔬𝔩𝔦𝔞
Text: Thicket Pariedolia Image: a creature resembling a deer made of twisted birch tree branches shedding golden leaves. It prances through an abstracted wood, a pale stag in a stand of summery green leaves.
November 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Moths are spared the anguish of memory. They do not recall how it felt to melt and unstring in the chrysalis.

Butterflies remember everything.
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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60 feet long. 38,000 dried flowers. 11 months in the making… This is the Cotehele Garland.
A hall with a huge garland of dried flowers hanging from the ceiling. It includes flowers of all colours, yellow, pink, white and purple. Around the hall on the wall are antlers and armour.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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S’cuse me guvnor? Spare a little cash for me Christmas offerings? A plethora of possibilities, all of them silly, sweary, naughty but niche…

Oh. And a fat redbreasted BORB…

All drawn by me using me paints and stuff (with some nods to pop culture here and there)

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Partridge in a tree with swearing pear dudes - saying words like WANKER, COCK, SHIT AND (my personal fave) MINGE! Rude-olph, Santa Cthulhu, Use the Fork Luke, Christmas KISS rockin’ robins, Derry Christmas from Pennywise, FAT WOBIN BORB, two Great White JAWSOME Cards and Walkies in a Winter Wonderland happy Christmas doggy card
November 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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'November' by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
Vintage photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, 1853-1941. In coppery sepia tones, we see a country road, bare trees leaning either side of it and a wooden fence running down the right. Shadowed against a rising or setting sun is an old-fashioned cart with a horse pulling it away from us; with his back to us, his hand on the cart, walks a farmer.
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Eligibility season us upon us again!

So if you're looking to nominate and are a fan of horror criticism, I present my essays for @gnofhorror.com: WHAT'S ON SHUDDER? In-depth film crit on what horror means to us all.

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The Heart and Soul of Horror Review Websites.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Carrying on with Instagram. Funny experiencing editing your own face, especially not reversed like a mirror. I can really tell that I had Bell's Palsy a while ago!

(My face mostly recovered, but yeah, I definitely smile more one side than the other. Sorry.)

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November 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Do you make art? Let’s see it! Post it here so we can admire it.
November 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Aw, look at this amazing person!
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RUN indeed. Run out and get this. One of my favorite books. HIGHLY recommended.
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#booksky #bookqw word: RUN

Journeyman fairy-smith Jedediah has been summoned to deal with a mist that came creeping in on white feet.

This turns out not to be a figure of speech.
November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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#booksky #bookqw word: RUN

Journeyman fairy-smith Jedediah has been summoned to deal with a mist that came creeping in on white feet.

This turns out not to be a figure of speech.
Jack Lenden had a great deal to say about the speed with which the mist had come in, running on white feet; in another man Jedediah might have taken this literally, but Mister Lenden was an excitable fellow and prone to a little trouble telling what he witnessed from what he feared. It was quite a surprise, therefore, to see the man had not been wrong: the mist hung over the northernmost field, which was scrubby and steep, and for that reason kept for sheep. The fact that the stone wolves were also to the north must have been an added worry for the Lendens, but this didn’t look like a wolf- mist. It was fringed all around with little white twists, thin enough to see through, but coiled into a pattern of unmistakable, delicate paws. They weren’t vulpine; they were soft-looking, with claws of pallid light. Seen individually they had a prettiness to them, like the foot of a cat or a stoat, but as they carried on around the entire blinding cloud, the whole thing had rather more the look of a woodlouse, a great hump of white carried along on infinite shifting toes.
November 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Working up my next @gnofhorror.com.

No, the dog doesn't die in GOOD BOY.

But it still has to be a dog.

Yeah, dog lovers are either going to love or hate me for this one...
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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This is partly for a @gnofhorror.com review and partly just a lost media request.

Anyone who was a kid in the 80s, do you remember a kids series where they filmed animals doing natural behaviour and then added human voice-overs, different animals and story each time? 1/
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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An eerily numinous Monday morning to you all.

Artist: Luke Hillstad
Painting. A dark, shaded forest with ragged pines receding in the distance. On a bare branch in the foreground sits a great white peacock, its tail sweeping down towards us and its head regarding us with confident contemplation.
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
Print featuring a forest slope in snow with trees trunks causing long shadows in the low winter light
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I mean.
Two bananas on a wooden table with the text ‘Banana for scale.’ The left banana is more than twice the size of the right banana.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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My favourite illustration from childhood.

Jill Murphy, A Bad Spell For The Worst Witch
Line drawing. A witch’s broomstick, held together by a bundle of tape in the middle. At the end huddles and adorable tabby cat with white socks, not sitting up but lying flat and clinging with desperate terror, its little eyes screwed shut.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Historians and naturalists, please help. What did they call a jellyfish around 1600?
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Whooo wants a horror workshop! @alexdavis1981.bsky.social always does great events.

My workshop is 12pm Saturday 7 December, where we'll experiment with Christmas spookiness in stories of community.

Title: "Can't Survive With Em, Can't Survive Without Em."

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Join us for two days of online folk horror events, with workshops and interview from an exciting variety of writers in the genre.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Fantasy idea:

A crown’s shows power though stillness. Can I fight or work in it? Sirrah, I do not need to.

So imagine the monarch chained into a vast, locking cage of gear. Gold ribs fixed to the wall snap around his chest. His feet encased in pearled tarsals. The king isn’t crowned, he’s bound.
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Stop advertising me ear drops, algorithm. I don’t have wax build-up, I’m just not listening to you.
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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You know people debate whether Shakespeare called his witches the ‘weird’, ‘wayward’ or ‘wayward’ sisters?

I say we resolve this with a Geordie accent, which gives ‘weird’ two syllables anyway. Someone tell the RSC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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#booksky #bookqw word: JAM. Tricky in this story!

Ephraim Brady, unpleasant landlord, has come to the fairy-smiths with a problem: his tenants the Porter family own a cat, and the cat has started talking.

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‘I did not witness the origin of its speechifying,’ Ephraim said tightly. ‘I came in during the talk of Little Tomkin and suchlike. Then I told Porter that I’d have no unkenned doings on any property of mine, and,’ he added through his teeth, ‘Porter said that the cat was a good beast and he begged me not to hurt it, that his children loved it and it was a fine hunter and I should consider the safety of my stores from mice. And then the animal said that the mice were all very well but that it was no common hireling and would catch coneys if it chose, and that it dearly loved a fine fat haunch fed on grass, such as noblecats should eat.’ Dislike of the grotesquerie was stiffening Ephraim’s every line, but evidently his memory of this politically minded mog’s opinions was rather good. John was bouncing up to ask more on the subject, but at this point there was a knock upon the jamb.
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'jam' #BookQW
To say Dan and Fin are in right pickle doesn't begin to cover the challenges they're facing. Has Dan had an idea how to get them out of this sticky situation?
Modern fantasy rooted in British myths and folklore, widely available from retailers.
Cover art by Ben Baldwin shows a creature crouching in a low tunnel entrance lined with grey stones and partly hidden by green undergrowth and white flowers. The creature has pale skin covered in sparse black hair and it looks a bit like an ape, a bit like a bear, and completely unlike either of those. Book extract reads: I looked up and stared at nothing. An idea was floating just out of reach. A moment later, it hit me like a smack in the face. I ran up the stairs, taking them two and three at a time. In the front bedroom, I emptied Fin’s suitcase onto the bed. I turned over her clothes, raking them apart with my hands. Nothing. I realised anyone outside would be able to see what I was doing. They’d also see I’d lost the towels I’d been wearing on the stairs. I quickly drew the curtains. Fin had hung the dress bag for her bridesmaid’s frock on the front of the wardrobe. I pulled the zip down so hard it jammed. I forced myself to go more slowly. Taking the frock out of the bag, I shook it. The shoes and the headdress of silk flowers fell onto the floor. I didn’t care about them. I carefully turned the dress inside out. I saw a fleck of white caught in a seam. A tiny, downy feather.
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I swore I'd master Instagram this year. Just posted my second reel and already I can see how it's going to BREAK MY BRAIN: you can't even look at what you posted without being offered metrics. This is wild stuff.

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