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@jcmrva.bsky.social
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Computer programmer, tsundoku, concert goer, urban cave dweller.
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Read in November

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A stack of books: The Sad Eyes of the Lewis Chessmen by George Berguño Children of the Crimson Sun by Karim Ghahwagi The Employees by Olga Ravn The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson The Unclean Force by Avalon Brantley The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt Exhalation by Ted Chiang Oneironauts by Douglas Thompson, art by Pamela Tait Fabulous Aesop: Classic Tales Revisited by Baby Dee and Friends How Many Times? by Rhys Hughes The Moon in a Silver Bag by Colin Insole
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Boris @ Gothic Theater
The three members of Boris on stage, bathed in pink light.
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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October 👻

... @timlebbon.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social
A stack of books: The Tower of Love by Rachilde Mills of Silence by Charles Wilkinson Mesmer by Tim Lebbon Witch-Cult Abbey by Mark Samuels Pictures of Apocalypse by Thomas Ligotti The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction anthology edited by Damian Murphy Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates The Five of Cups by Caitlín R. Kiernan
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Four Words by @cschneiderart.bsky.social
I saw a dog today with raw and bloody Glistening beads for eyes. Horrified, I asked the pitiful beast's raggedy owner, "What's wrong with his eyes? Is he blind?" "Does he act like he's blind?" he testily replied. "No..." I answered truthfully. Before moving on, He spoke four words. Troubles me often. "Those aren't his eyes."
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Got a brick in the mail today. @sgj.bsky.social
Earthdivers omnibus, limited hardcover edition, by Stephen Graham Jones. It weighs about 4 lbs.
October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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In your defense, it really does.
An open can of brown paint. It looks like melted chocolate.
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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"That's the Chicago way"
Screenshot of The Untouchables. Sean Connery's character is holding a club.
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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@swanriverpress.bsky.social makes gorgeous limited edition hardcovers with complementary artwork under the jacket.
A row of 21 books, followed by 7 issues of The Green Book magazine: The Lure of the Unknown by Algernon Blackwood A Mystery of Remnant by B. Catling The Satyr and Other Tales by Stephen J. Clark Bending to Earth: Strange Stories by Irish Women anthology edited by Gia/Showers Atmospheric Disturbances by Helen Grant A Vanished Hand by Clotilde Graves Insect Literature by Lafcadio Hearn Uncertainties volume 7 anthology edited by Carly Holmes Written by Daylight by John Howard Treatises on Dust by Timothy J. Jarvis Lucifer and the Child by Ethel Mannin Eyes of Terror by L. T. Meade Not to be Taken at Bedtime by Rosa Mulholland The Ruins of Contracoeur by Joyce Carol Oates Sparks from the Fire by Rosalie Parker The Dummy by Nicholas Royle You'll Know When You Get There by Lynda E. Rucker Agents of Oblivion by Iain Sinclair The Death Spancel by Katharine Tynan Lost Estates by Mark Valentine Leaves for the Burning by Mervyn Wall The first seven books from the previous photo, in the same order, but shorn of their dust jackets. The Lure of the Unknown by Algernon Blackwood A Mystery of Remnant by B. Catling The Satyr and Other Tales by Stephen J. Clark Bending to Earth: Strange Stories by Irish Women anthology edited by Gia/Showers Atmospheric Disturbances by Helen Grant A Vanished Hand by Clotilde Graves Insect Literature by Lafcadio Hearn The next seven, likewise denuded. Uncertainties volume 7 anthology edited by Carly Holmes Written by Daylight by John Howard Treatises on Dust by Timothy J. Jarvis Lucifer and the Child by Ethel Mannin Eyes of Terror by L. T. Meade Not to be Taken at Bedtime by Rosa Mulholland The Ruins of Contracoeur by Joyce Carol Oates The last seven books from the first image. Sparks from the Fire by Rosalie Parker The Dummy by Nicholas Royle You'll Know When You Get There by Lynda E. Rucker Agents of Oblivion by Iain Sinclair The Death Spancel by Katharine Tynan Lost Estates by Mark Valentine Leaves for the Burning by Mervyn Wall
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Under the Manchester bridge in Richmond, VA (2011).
A wide gravel path, shaded by the road above, leads ahead and to the right. Small trees, shrubs, and rocks are on both sides. Buildings on the other side of the James River can be seen in the distance.
October 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Read in September:

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A stack of books: The Plotinus by Rikki Ducornet The Children's Crusade by Marcel Schwob Ellis Island by Georges Perec Água Viva by Clarice Lispector Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica The Bella Vista by Emma Ruth Rundle Transcensience by Avalon Brantley The Light Inaccessible by Peter Bell Raising Goosebumps for Fun and Profit by T.E.D. Klein The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Swans @ Bluebird Theater
The seven members of Swans, albeit not easily visible, on stage, lit red and blue.
September 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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On the Pike's Peak cog railway.
September 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Read in August - featuring an atypically large number of @snugglybooks.bsky.social

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A stack of books: Inn of the Survivors by Maico Morellini Chess Story by Stefan Zweig No Room at the Morgue by Jean-Patrick Manchette In the Stillness of Marble by Teresa Wilms Montt Munky by B. (Brian) Catling The Drone Outside by Kristine Ong Muslim The Sons of Ishmael by George Berguño Metrophilias by Brendan Connell Pleasant Tales II by Justin Isis Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos edited by Justin Isis The Red Labyrinth by Ben Peek The Confession of a Madman by Léo Trézenik A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez The Ghostwriter by Zoran Živkovic The Ideal Candidate by Damian Murphy Urx Quonox by Adam S. Cantwell The Fortunate Isles by Lisa L. Hannett
August 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Read in July.

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Trafik by Rikki Durcornet Ghost Signs by Sonya Taaffe The Glamour by Christopher Priest The Rise of Life on Earth by Joyce Carol Oates Zoetrope Bizarre by Caitlín R. Kiernan Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica The Man Who Murdered His Muse by James Champagne Miss Homicide Plays the Flute by Brendan Connell The Aristocracy of Weak Nerves by Justin Isis Ikaho by Quentin S. Crisp The Second Mask by Louis Marvick Aornos by Avalon Brantley
July 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The Dillinger Escape Plan
with Converge @ Mission Ballroom
Five members of The Dillinger Escape Plan on stage under green lighting. Ben Weinman is standing on a tall amp or something. Four members of Converge on stage. The yellow cones of light flooding the stage look almost solid. Jacob Bannon is screaming in my approximate direction.
July 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A small selection of PS Publishing's enormous output over the years.
Pennies From Heaven by James P. Blaylock The Broken Man by Michael Byers The Village Killings by Ramsey Campbell The Metanatural Adventures of Dr Black by Brendan Connell Shrike by Quentin S. Crisp Uncommon Miracles by Julie C. Day The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories by Andy Duncan The Best of Jeffrey Ford White Spawn by Marc Laidlaw Edge of Dark Water by Joe R. Lansdale Rime by Tim Lebbon The Sins of Angels by Keith Miller The Black Heart by Patrick O'Leary Other Stories by Paul Park Through the Storm by Rosalie Parker Waiting For the End of the World by R. B. Russell Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes by Mark Samuels Dagger Key by Lucius Shepard The Sleep of Reason by Michael Swanwick Martian Sands by Lavie Tidhar Dark Dreams, Pales Horses by Rio Youers Impossible Stories by Zoran Živkovic
July 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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It's #worldsnakeday! My dad, a herpetologist, didn't read much fiction but I think he would've enjoyed this, the snakes' oral history of their expulsion from Ireland. - from @nightjarpress.bsky.social
Snake Tale, a chapbook by Philip Terry. There's a snake on the cover, as you would expect.
July 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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A row of books standing between two bookends: Taboo by Kim Scott Lamb by Christopher Moore Portal Darkness by Thomas Phillips Manifesto (McSweeney's Issue 73) Hogsbane by Erik Bagger Hviid Third Eye: A Punktown Anthology edited by Jeffrey Thomas Bliss by Jeff Vandermeer Neom by Lavie Tidhar Each book's title has the letters arranged vertically.
July 1, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Thanks buddy. I was already planning to rob everyone in this town, but your cooperation is noted.
A screenshot of the RPG Fantasian: Neo Dimension, taken on the Switch. Leo, the protagonist, is talking to an NPC who says "Please, feel free to take anything from this house that you need!"
June 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Napalm Death with Melvins @ Summit
The four members of Napalm Death on stage, viewed from house left. The band's logo is visible on a screen behind them. The stage is mostly lit in white light with a bit of red. The four members of Melvins on stage, viewed from house left. The whole stage is bathed in fuchsia light and there's a static image of a woman on the screen behind them. She has the look of someone in a 1950s sitcom.
June 3, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Read in May 🌻 🐝 🫐 🐦

> @glasgowsurrealist.bsky.social @strangelymagic.bsky.social @kijjohnson.bsky.social @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social
A pile of books: Pollen by Beresford Egan Gateway to the Bird Kingdom by Douglas Thompson The Haunting Scent of Poppies by Victoria Williamson The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer I'll Bring You the Birds From the Sky by Brian Hodge The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai A Flowering Wound by John Howard At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson The Book of Flowering edited by Mark Beech The Flowering Hedgerow by Quentin S. Crisp La Belle Fleur Sauvage by Caitlín R. Kiernan Beware us Flowers of the Annihilator by Alexander Zelenyj
June 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Chapter 1 of the Star Wars novelization describing Tattooine as casting "a light of lambent topaz into space".
May 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Hastily edited tweet from Mike Primavera: "My neighbor told me Poseidon keeps eating his F/A-19 jets so I asked how many jets he has and he said he just goes to the Pentagon and gets a new jet afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding jets to Poseidon and then Pete Hegseth started crying."
May 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Read in April.

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A stack of books: Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim Now It's Dark by Lynda E. Rucker The Rimini-Ferrara Line by Brendan Connell The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector The Beauty of the Death Cap by Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny The Exalted and the Abased by Damian Murphy The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias
May 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Looks like someone was casting a spell on the sidewalk outside my building.
A sloppy pentagram inside a circle. Each point of the star contains a smaller symbol but it's hard to tell what they are. A shiny penny resides in the center, Lincoln facing up. "Love" is written above the circle and there's a squiggle on the right that might be a 3.
April 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM