Colin Harker
@lordsteerpike.bsky.social
(she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / British lit PhD / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints
Pinned
For lovers of folk horror and the British Gothic, a novel set in the midwinter of 1665, within a remote Scottish priory haunted by ancient sorcery and deadly secrets. Enter the Priory…if you dare.
amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD
#horror #gothic #thriller
amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD
#horror #gothic #thriller
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It's almost Thanksgiving and that's the time for crime novels featuring teenage protagonists in 1984, trying to solve a murder, recover a missing friend and tangling with everyone from school bullies to a brutal Russian assassin. It's not October, but it's my book THAT OCTOBER!
Like a lot of you, hopefully, I'll be spending a lot less with huge corporations during the economic blackout that's covering Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
So here's a couple of good ways to buy my 1984-set high school crime novel THAT OCTOBER from other than the usual suspects. (more)
So here's a couple of good ways to buy my 1984-set high school crime novel THAT OCTOBER from other than the usual suspects. (more)
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It's almost Thanksgiving and that's the time for crime novels featuring teenage protagonists in 1984, trying to solve a murder, recover a missing friend and tangling with everyone from school bullies to a brutal Russian assassin. It's not October, but it's my book THAT OCTOBER!
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
I take a break from reading Harlan to finally start reading Poppy Z. Brite, only to get jumpscared by Harlan in the acknowledgments page.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I take a break from reading Harlan to finally start reading Poppy Z. Brite, only to get jumpscared by Harlan in the acknowledgments page.
This is a pretty flawed argument. "You should be grateful that people want your work enough to steal it." Would someone say that to a sculptor or a creative who made material art? I don't think so. It's in vogue now to denigrate written art.
piracy is a completely aspirational problem for any author in america to have and i think anyone trying to stake out an anti-piracy position is a demon full stop
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is a pretty flawed argument. "You should be grateful that people want your work enough to steal it." Would someone say that to a sculptor or a creative who made material art? I don't think so. It's in vogue now to denigrate written art.
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Just another poem.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just another poem.
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My soon to be 12 year old niece just showed me this animated cartoon she’s really into (she went as one of the characters for Halloween) and it’s pretty cool but I’m like “wow this is a little bleak” and looked it up and apparently it’s based on Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My soon to be 12 year old niece just showed me this animated cartoon she’s really into (she went as one of the characters for Halloween) and it’s pretty cool but I’m like “wow this is a little bleak” and looked it up and apparently it’s based on Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
I really was born in the wrong time.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I really was born in the wrong time.
I NEED a horror movie adaptation of Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I NEED a horror movie adaptation of Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner.
Just another poem.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just another poem.
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Especially not after this paragraph on violence in media 🤣
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Especially not after this paragraph on violence in media 🤣
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Okay, I’m sorry, Harlan, you are NOT convincing me that you’re a mild-mannered pussycat.
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Okay, I’m sorry, Harlan, you are NOT convincing me that you’re a mild-mannered pussycat.
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It’s kind of scary how much of this commentary on the hypnotic propagandizing and lulling effects of television applies (perhaps even more so) to social media.
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
It’s kind of scary how much of this commentary on the hypnotic propagandizing and lulling effects of television applies (perhaps even more so) to social media.
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"Last quarter, the average job opening received 242 applications — nearly triple the amount in 2017, when the unemployment rate was at a comparable level. That means that when someone submits a resume today, they have the abysmally low 0.4% chance of actually getting the job."
The real reason the job market is totally broken
Exclusive new data proves it: Applying to a job in 2025 is the statistical equivalent of hurling your resume into a black hole.
www.businessinsider.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"Last quarter, the average job opening received 242 applications — nearly triple the amount in 2017, when the unemployment rate was at a comparable level. That means that when someone submits a resume today, they have the abysmally low 0.4% chance of actually getting the job."
Every day I thank God that Harlan Ellison didn’t have to bear witness to this shit.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Every day I thank God that Harlan Ellison didn’t have to bear witness to this shit.
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I mean at least it wasn't called Skynet.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I mean at least it wasn't called Skynet.
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No comment necessary.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
No comment necessary.
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Does this sound creepily similar to what the current administration is doing to universities right now, to force them into following right wing ideology? Especially the threats re: withholding funding?
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Does this sound creepily similar to what the current administration is doing to universities right now, to force them into following right wing ideology? Especially the threats re: withholding funding?
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Starting a thread for Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat because holy hell are some of the observations in this book wildly applicable to our current historical moment.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Starting a thread for Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat because holy hell are some of the observations in this book wildly applicable to our current historical moment.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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It's kinda miserable watching what happened to musicians happen to authors. Traditional publishing getting less and less interested in doing the things that help people starting out and instead looking to parasitise the work they do to build their own audiences is the record company model.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It's kinda miserable watching what happened to musicians happen to authors. Traditional publishing getting less and less interested in doing the things that help people starting out and instead looking to parasitise the work they do to build their own audiences is the record company model.
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RIP Udo Kier.
Apparently I must watch the Netflix Scooby-doo!
"Noted speculative fiction author &…curmudgeon Harlan Ellison voicing himself in a cartoon! I love that they used his cool early '70s wardrobe too; &…his rival was an HP Lovecraft homage voiced by Jeffery Combs!"
AdamInvader, Reddit
Apparently I must watch the Netflix Scooby-doo!
"Noted speculative fiction author &…curmudgeon Harlan Ellison voicing himself in a cartoon! I love that they used his cool early '70s wardrobe too; &…his rival was an HP Lovecraft homage voiced by Jeffery Combs!"
AdamInvader, Reddit
I am being completely sincere when I say that Udo Kier’s performance as Professor Pericles on SCOOBY-DOO: MYSTERY INCORPORATED is easily in his top 5 best roles.
RIP to one of the greats.
RIP to one of the greats.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
RIP Udo Kier.
Apparently I must watch the Netflix Scooby-doo!
"Noted speculative fiction author &…curmudgeon Harlan Ellison voicing himself in a cartoon! I love that they used his cool early '70s wardrobe too; &…his rival was an HP Lovecraft homage voiced by Jeffery Combs!"
AdamInvader, Reddit
Apparently I must watch the Netflix Scooby-doo!
"Noted speculative fiction author &…curmudgeon Harlan Ellison voicing himself in a cartoon! I love that they used his cool early '70s wardrobe too; &…his rival was an HP Lovecraft homage voiced by Jeffery Combs!"
AdamInvader, Reddit
Starting a thread for Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat because holy hell are some of the observations in this book wildly applicable to our current historical moment.
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Starting a thread for Harlan Ellison’s The Glass Teat because holy hell are some of the observations in this book wildly applicable to our current historical moment.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
November sunlight ✨
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
November sunlight ✨
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The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long…
—James “B.V.” Thomson, “The Wine of Love”
#poem #poetry
3/4
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50320/...
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long…
—James “B.V.” Thomson, “The Wine of Love”
#poem #poetry
3/4
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50320/...
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The wine of Love is music,
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long…
—James “B.V.” Thomson, “The Wine of Love”
#poem #poetry
3/4
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50320/...
And the feast of Love is song:
And when Love sits down to the banquet,
Love sits long…
—James “B.V.” Thomson, “The Wine of Love”
#poem #poetry
3/4
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50320/...