Daniel Pietersen
@pietersender.bsky.social
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Thought I’d do a wee intro thread.
I am a writer, critic and the editor of I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R Murray Gilchrist for the British Library’s excellent Tales of the Weird series 1/x
I am a writer, critic and the editor of I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R Murray Gilchrist for the British Library’s excellent Tales of the Weird series 1/x
A lovely Hand of Glory cross-stitch, spotted this weekend in Whitby
December 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A lovely Hand of Glory cross-stitch, spotted this weekend in Whitby
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The storm-wracked shore below the crag of Castle Pieterstein is the grave of sailors now so old that even their ghosts have begun to petrify. Occasionally some ill wind will blow one up onto the beach, a curio for eagle-eyes visitors.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The storm-wracked shore below the crag of Castle Pieterstein is the grave of sailors now so old that even their ghosts have begun to petrify. Occasionally some ill wind will blow one up onto the beach, a curio for eagle-eyes visitors.
Argonaut are absolutely bang up folk and do huge amounts of work for the local book community. Hopefully this news will help them breathe a bit easier and enjoy the run up to Christmas!
Thank you all, the update than we can barely believe we get to make.
To everyone who supported us through this last month, we couldn’t have even come close to this outcome without you all.
Have a peaceful festive period, we’ll see you in the bookshop soon 🧡
To everyone who supported us through this last month, we couldn’t have even come close to this outcome without you all.
Have a peaceful festive period, we’ll see you in the bookshop soon 🧡
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Argonaut are absolutely bang up folk and do huge amounts of work for the local book community. Hopefully this news will help them breathe a bit easier and enjoy the run up to Christmas!
The storm-wracked shore below the crag of Castle Pieterstein is the grave of sailors now so old that even their ghosts have begun to petrify. Occasionally some ill wind will blow one up onto the beach, a curio for eagle-eyes visitors.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The storm-wracked shore below the crag of Castle Pieterstein is the grave of sailors now so old that even their ghosts have begun to petrify. Occasionally some ill wind will blow one up onto the beach, a curio for eagle-eyes visitors.
Good morning from Coco!
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Good morning from Coco!
Possessed spotted in the Whitby Bookshop @johnnymains.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Possessed spotted in the Whitby Bookshop @johnnymains.co.uk
Brutal sass from St Mary’s church in Whitby.
THERE ISN’T ONE, SANDRA
THERE ISN’T ONE, SANDRA
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Brutal sass from St Mary’s church in Whitby.
THERE ISN’T ONE, SANDRA
THERE ISN’T ONE, SANDRA
Absolute five year old when-I-am-king behaviour. Maybe we should look again at the sexual assault allegations against Lonsdale. To protect the vulnerable.
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Absolute five year old when-I-am-king behaviour. Maybe we should look again at the sexual assault allegations against Lonsdale. To protect the vulnerable.
Portrait of the artist as an old tit
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Portrait of the artist as an old tit
Our night at the Schooner Inn was spectre-free but still weird. The place was patently shut down and it took some door-rattling to get someone to open up for us. We were the only people in the hotel and the desk guy disappeared after giving us his phone number “in case anything…happens”. Great fun.
December 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Our night at the Schooner Inn was spectre-free but still weird. The place was patently shut down and it took some door-rattling to get someone to open up for us. We were the only people in the hotel and the desk guy disappeared after giving us his phone number “in case anything…happens”. Great fun.
Spending tonight in the UK’s most haunted hotel, with more than 60 spooks in residence. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow then, as I have long prophesied would happen, I have been strangled off of a ghost.
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Spending tonight in the UK’s most haunted hotel, with more than 60 spooks in residence. If you don’t hear from me tomorrow then, as I have long prophesied would happen, I have been strangled off of a ghost.
Someone
I tell you
will remember us
even in another time.
Sappho, 6thC BC
I tell you
will remember us
even in another time.
Sappho, 6thC BC
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Someone
I tell you
will remember us
even in another time.
Sappho, 6thC BC
I tell you
will remember us
even in another time.
Sappho, 6thC BC
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What an excellent seasonal gift for the book lover in your life...
Come join me in reading and learning about a whole range of women's writing in the long eighteenth century!
It's online, it's only $55 and it runs all year! It is an absolute steal.
(And yes, there will be Gothic! As well as plenty of other things)
regencyfictionwriters.org/academe/12-b...
It's online, it's only $55 and it runs all year! It is an absolute steal.
(And yes, there will be Gothic! As well as plenty of other things)
regencyfictionwriters.org/academe/12-b...
12 Books Your Regency Heroine Should Read – Regency Fiction Writers
regencyfictionwriters.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
What an excellent seasonal gift for the book lover in your life...
We had a trip to Barter Books today where I picked up a treasure and Coco browsed the shelves
@theprofrog.bsky.social
@theprofrog.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We had a trip to Barter Books today where I picked up a treasure and Coco browsed the shelves
@theprofrog.bsky.social
@theprofrog.bsky.social
Wes Streeting looks like what happens when a witch turns a Minecraft character into a real boy.
December 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Wes Streeting looks like what happens when a witch turns a Minecraft character into a real boy.
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Good morning! Today is the publication day of the 1927 occult novel POSSESSED by Rosalie and Edward Synton, discovered by me and reprinted by the British Library for their Tales of the Weird line.
There now follows a thread about the authors. If you buy a copy, use the hashtag #SYNTONSPOSSESSED
There now follows a thread about the authors. If you buy a copy, use the hashtag #SYNTONSPOSSESSED
December 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Good morning! Today is the publication day of the 1927 occult novel POSSESSED by Rosalie and Edward Synton, discovered by me and reprinted by the British Library for their Tales of the Weird line.
There now follows a thread about the authors. If you buy a copy, use the hashtag #SYNTONSPOSSESSED
There now follows a thread about the authors. If you buy a copy, use the hashtag #SYNTONSPOSSESSED
As someone who’s being told that my office attendance is lacking I can already see that “your AI usage is lacking” is around the corner.
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
As someone who’s being told that my office attendance is lacking I can already see that “your AI usage is lacking” is around the corner.
There is a light that only shines through grave stones / a shadow that only calls their bones
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
There is a light that only shines through grave stones / a shadow that only calls their bones
An advent calendar of other, smaller advent calendars which themselves contain you guessed it you’re in the Adventverse
advent calendar of unaccomplished new year's resolutions
Advent calendar of the stuff your cat has thrown up
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
An advent calendar of other, smaller advent calendars which themselves contain you guessed it you’re in the Adventverse
Amazing scenes here at Castle Pieterstein as our one (1) decoration goes up.
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Amazing scenes here at Castle Pieterstein as our one (1) decoration goes up.
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This was a really good and challenging talk which has implications for talking about haunting in lots of ways, but which gave me new eyes on the case-study films and the specifics of the intersections of caste and horror.
Recommend.
Recommend.
If you missed yesterday's fantastic talk on
Haunting, Caste Aesthetics and South Asian Horror
with Ishan Tripathi
You can catch it here
youtu.be/Grocj_pUIeI
Haunting, Caste Aesthetics and South Asian Horror
with Ishan Tripathi
You can catch it here
youtu.be/Grocj_pUIeI
Haunting, Caste Aesthetics, and Violence in South Asian Horror with Ishan Tripathi
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This was a really good and challenging talk which has implications for talking about haunting in lots of ways, but which gave me new eyes on the case-study films and the specifics of the intersections of caste and horror.
Recommend.
Recommend.
I can’t make the afternoon slot for today’s Romancing the Gothic talk so I’m going to watch last week’s one on Bengali Horror this evening instead
youtu.be/bgmV4Sz1AC8
youtu.be/bgmV4Sz1AC8
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I can’t make the afternoon slot for today’s Romancing the Gothic talk so I’m going to watch last week’s one on Bengali Horror this evening instead
youtu.be/bgmV4Sz1AC8
youtu.be/bgmV4Sz1AC8
Julius Caesar walks onto the set of Wutherimg Heights, turns to the camera and says “Et tu, Brontë?”
Topical joke for the kids, there.
Topical joke for the kids, there.
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Julius Caesar walks onto the set of Wutherimg Heights, turns to the camera and says “Et tu, Brontë?”
Topical joke for the kids, there.
Topical joke for the kids, there.
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I got hit with an unexpected $200 expense today! I need to buy software to keep my new freelance job. It would be amazing to sell some books or get some new patrons to help cover it 😬
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I got hit with an unexpected $200 expense today! I need to buy software to keep my new freelance job. It would be amazing to sell some books or get some new patrons to help cover it 😬
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ardenpowell
Exclusive fiction: www.patreon.com/ardenpowell
Books on Itchio: ardenpowell.itch.io
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Einstürzende Neubauten
The Orb
Lingua Ignota
Philip Glass
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Einstürzende Neubauten
The Orb
Lingua Ignota
Philip Glass
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Mazzy Star
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Cocteau Twins
Curve
Kraftwerk
Mazzy Star
Godspeed You Black Emperor
Cocteau Twins
Curve
Kraftwerk
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Toots and the Maytals
PJ Harvey
Patti Smith
Mark Lanegan
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
#MusicSky
Toots and the Maytals
PJ Harvey
Patti Smith
Mark Lanegan
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
#MusicSky
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Einstürzende Neubauten
The Orb
Lingua Ignota
Philip Glass
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Einstürzende Neubauten
The Orb
Lingua Ignota
Philip Glass
Ned’s Atomic Dustbin