Sam Flynn - MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING out now!
@samflynnwrites.bsky.social
A godforsaken author (He/Him). Fantasy-horror novella THE MYSTERY OF THE PALE KING, first half of the DEADLIGHTS DUOLOGY, out now via Timber Ghost Press. Sequel DWELLER IN DARKNESS out Q4 2026: https://linktr.ee/samflynn7
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Two books you should absolutely add to your TBR is The Neon Revelation by @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social (out in one week!) and In This City, Where It Rains by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social. These are authors you cannot and should not miss out on.
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Two books you should absolutely add to your TBR is The Neon Revelation by @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social (out in one week!) and In This City, Where It Rains by @lyndseycroal.bsky.social. These are authors you cannot and should not miss out on.
Final author newsletter of 2025 has an early synopsis for my next book #DwellerinDarkness as well as the biggest inspirations for the forthcoming sequel to #TheMysteryofthePaleKing
December 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Final author newsletter of 2025 has an early synopsis for my next book #DwellerinDarkness as well as the biggest inspirations for the forthcoming sequel to #TheMysteryofthePaleKing
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
A Hitchcockian noir about a concerned uncle who believes but cannot prove his recently-widowed sister-in-law intends to murder his niece for her inheritance. Crackling good thriller at 73 minutes.
A Hitchcockian noir about a concerned uncle who believes but cannot prove his recently-widowed sister-in-law intends to murder his niece for her inheritance. Crackling good thriller at 73 minutes.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
A Hitchcockian noir about a concerned uncle who believes but cannot prove his recently-widowed sister-in-law intends to murder his niece for her inheritance. Crackling good thriller at 73 minutes.
A Hitchcockian noir about a concerned uncle who believes but cannot prove his recently-widowed sister-in-law intends to murder his niece for her inheritance. Crackling good thriller at 73 minutes.
Tension (1949)
What crime stories and noir offered was a chance to inhabit the mind of antiheroes and villains, often watching the transition from one to the other, as here where a mousy, put-upon pharmacist snaps and plots his wife's murder.
What crime stories and noir offered was a chance to inhabit the mind of antiheroes and villains, often watching the transition from one to the other, as here where a mousy, put-upon pharmacist snaps and plots his wife's murder.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Tension (1949)
What crime stories and noir offered was a chance to inhabit the mind of antiheroes and villains, often watching the transition from one to the other, as here where a mousy, put-upon pharmacist snaps and plots his wife's murder.
What crime stories and noir offered was a chance to inhabit the mind of antiheroes and villains, often watching the transition from one to the other, as here where a mousy, put-upon pharmacist snaps and plots his wife's murder.
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
I love a well-documented procedural like this one, which follows a US narcotics agent in pursuit of a shipment of opium who uncovers the burgeoning worldwide post-WW2 network of drug trafficking.
I love a well-documented procedural like this one, which follows a US narcotics agent in pursuit of a shipment of opium who uncovers the burgeoning worldwide post-WW2 network of drug trafficking.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
To the Ends of the Earth (1948)
I love a well-documented procedural like this one, which follows a US narcotics agent in pursuit of a shipment of opium who uncovers the burgeoning worldwide post-WW2 network of drug trafficking.
I love a well-documented procedural like this one, which follows a US narcotics agent in pursuit of a shipment of opium who uncovers the burgeoning worldwide post-WW2 network of drug trafficking.
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Not a fan of melodrama per se, but I couldn't get enough of this one about the long-term toxic relationship between a mother and a daughter, even with the noir stylings more or less tacked onto this literary adaptation. Nonetheless, those stylings hooked me in the story.
Not a fan of melodrama per se, but I couldn't get enough of this one about the long-term toxic relationship between a mother and a daughter, even with the noir stylings more or less tacked onto this literary adaptation. Nonetheless, those stylings hooked me in the story.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Not a fan of melodrama per se, but I couldn't get enough of this one about the long-term toxic relationship between a mother and a daughter, even with the noir stylings more or less tacked onto this literary adaptation. Nonetheless, those stylings hooked me in the story.
Not a fan of melodrama per se, but I couldn't get enough of this one about the long-term toxic relationship between a mother and a daughter, even with the noir stylings more or less tacked onto this literary adaptation. Nonetheless, those stylings hooked me in the story.
Phantom Lady (1944)
One cinematic trick I'll always be a sucker for is when a movie flips its script and becomes a different movie in its second or third act, as happens here in this suitably entertaining mystery.
One cinematic trick I'll always be a sucker for is when a movie flips its script and becomes a different movie in its second or third act, as happens here in this suitably entertaining mystery.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Phantom Lady (1944)
One cinematic trick I'll always be a sucker for is when a movie flips its script and becomes a different movie in its second or third act, as happens here in this suitably entertaining mystery.
One cinematic trick I'll always be a sucker for is when a movie flips its script and becomes a different movie in its second or third act, as happens here in this suitably entertaining mystery.
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The tech fascist anti-human ideology, their paralyzing fear of death symbolized by a murderous contempt for children and the innocent in general. Excerpt from #TheMysteryofthePaleKing
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The tech fascist anti-human ideology, their paralyzing fear of death symbolized by a murderous contempt for children and the innocent in general. Excerpt from #TheMysteryofthePaleKing
Was just chilling on the couch and Harley curls up on my shoulder like this. We raised this girl right.
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Was just chilling on the couch and Harley curls up on my shoulder like this. We raised this girl right.
My dark fantasy/horror book #TheMysteryofthePaleKing came out last year! It is the first half of the #DeadlightsDuology with the sequel #DwellerinDarkness due out Q4 next year
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
My dark fantasy/horror book #TheMysteryofthePaleKing came out last year! It is the first half of the #DeadlightsDuology with the sequel #DwellerinDarkness due out Q4 next year
Noah Smith, a proud recipient of this classic meme
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Noah Smith, a proud recipient of this classic meme
Timeline comes thru once more @gabino.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Timeline comes thru once more @gabino.bsky.social
Some much needed moral clarity
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Some much needed moral clarity
60 ratings! Thank you to everyone who read my novella #TheMysteryofthePaleKing and shared their thoughts. Check out some review samples and see what you fantasy/horror nerds are missing out on. Anticapitalist and anticolonial themes! Secret matriarchal societies! LGBTQ-friendly! Exclamation points!
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
60 ratings! Thank you to everyone who read my novella #TheMysteryofthePaleKing and shared their thoughts. Check out some review samples and see what you fantasy/horror nerds are missing out on. Anticapitalist and anticolonial themes! Secret matriarchal societies! LGBTQ-friendly! Exclamation points!
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Convincing you to read my novel with the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
(Here's the opening of "The Mystery of the Pale King")
Eldest pet Honey Badger is near the end of her life. She made it even longer than we hoped when we adopted her. Fifteen years old and we had her for ten. Give your Honey an ear scratch for her.
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Eldest pet Honey Badger is near the end of her life. She made it even longer than we hoped when we adopted her. Fifteen years old and we had her for ten. Give your Honey an ear scratch for her.
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Two hours. Never moved. Never blinked. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Two hours. Never moved. Never blinked. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
October 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I do not regret making you all jealous of my badass (and devilishly attractive 😈) wife who set PRs in lifting yesterday.
October 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I do not regret making you all jealous of my badass (and devilishly attractive 😈) wife who set PRs in lifting yesterday.
October 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM