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Just to round things off, "Maleficium" (my novelette in the anthology *Discontinue If Death Ensues*) has made Ellen Datlow's recommended reading list. #KylaLeeWard #hwa #ahwa #DiscontinueIfDeathEnsues #horrorwriting #author #booksky
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Full list of BH #17 recommendations part 2
Hogan, Sean “Wassail,” Unquiet Slumbers. Holder, Nancy “The Captain’s Wife,” Where the Silent Ones Watch.Holi, Emily “Buttons,” Mother Knows Best.Hollingsworth, Matt “Zagreb,” Winter in the City.Ho…
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January 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Happy holidays! And a happy second book birthday to my novella *Those That Pursue Us Yet*
#author #hwa #horrorwriting #Gothic #darkfantasy #booktrailer #KylaLeeWard #booksky #nightmare #dreams #novella
December 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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December 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
theunamiable.bsky.social
Random note to say the the Underworld soundtrack is awesome.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
theunamiable.bsky.social
RIP our beautiful Mickey
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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kylaw.bsky.social
The Widow wishes you a happy Halloween! #RocksGhostTours #TheWomanInBlack #Gothic #VictorianCostume #authorphoto #AustralianHalloween #KylaLeeWard #ElegantHalloween
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
theunamiable.bsky.social
Wordle in 1. That's the post.
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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kylaw.bsky.social
My essay in JOURN-E 3.1, "Long Be-nightmar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird Fiction" has won the Australasian Shadow Award for Nonfiction! #AHWA #AustralasianShadowAwards #IWonThis #horrornonfiction #horroressay #dreams #nightmares #HWA #whatdreamsmaycome #happyauthor
October 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
theunamiable.bsky.social
Not the best week
The Wicked (aka Outback Vampires), The Amateur, Let the Wrong One In, Eenie Meanie
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
theunamiable.bsky.social
Apparently I have one (co-written) work potentially liable for damages, so sure. But likewise I'm not spending the money just yet.
September 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Possums on the roof
September 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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kylaw.bsky.social
There are six more performances of *The Shark Arm Case*, written by yours truly and brought to life at Sydney's Justice and Police Museum by a stupendous creative team. I believe some tickets are still available for the 8.00 pm sessions. #truecrime #Sydneytheatre
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The Shark Arm Case - Whats The Show
Sydney has always feared the shark; every Sydneysider’s felt some trepidation when venturing into the waters that surround our beautiful city. But as it tu...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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kylaw.bsky.social
The first week of *The Shark Arm Case* has gone exceedingly well! But don't just take my word for it. thescoop.au/review-the-s...
Tickets are still available! #DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #jumptheshark
Review: The Shark Arm Case Is Immersive True Crime at Its Finest • The Scoop
erformed within the eerie hallways of the Justice and Police Museum, The Shark Arm Case is a gripping and thought-provoking immersive theatre experience.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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kylaw.bsky.social
Your Guide awaits! *The Shark Arm Case* - immersive theatre at Sydney's Justice and Police Museum, opens 14th August 2025. Tickets available now! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...?
#DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #SharkArmCase
July 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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kylaw.bsky.social
It's 1935 at the Sydney Justice and Police Museum, and bookings are open for *The Shark Arm Case*, August 14 - 30.
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/shark-arm-...? #DeadhouseProductions #truecrime #australiantruecrime #sydneytheatre #immersivetheatre #jumptheshark
July 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
theunamiable.bsky.social
I am waiting for the Derry Girls crossover
stephenking.bsky.social Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Jul 11
All roads lead to Derry.

#ItWelcomeToDerry is coming this October to HBO Max.
July 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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kylaw.bsky.social
Looks like I can *finally* announce the new Tale from the Deadhouse. *The Shark Arm Case* commences 14 August 2025. Written by someone called Kyla Lee Ward who also returns as the Guide. #truecrime #Sydneytheatre #newplay #DeadhouseProductions #jumptheshark

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Shark Arm Case
1935. A Tiger Shark in Coogee Aquarium vomits up a severed human arm, bearing a distinctive tattoo. Who done it? The investigation begins.
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June 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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kylaw.bsky.social
And the winners of this year's Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology are Carol Gyzander and Anna Taborska for *Discontinue if Death Ensues - tales from the tipping point*. Ladies, it is a honour to have contributed. #StokerAwards #author #hwa #horrorwriting #newhorror
June 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Evil Dead The Musical | Teaser
YouTube video by Seymour Centre
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June 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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redheadfrommars.bsky.social
Reminder that BLISS (2019) is a badass, rock and roll, psychedelic blood fest. I love this movie. On Tubi. 🎥 #filmsky #horrorsky
Poster for the movie Bliss with Dora Madison in sunglasses covered in blood.
May 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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kylaw.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the Aurealis Award winners, to the judges and convenors, and everyone who did such an excellent job of running the ceremony online this time round.
aurealisawards.org/2025/05/04/2... #AurealisAwards #AustralianHorror
2024 Aurealis Awards Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Aurealis Awards, presented today in an online ceremony. A recording of the ceremony will be available soon at our YouTube channel. Thank you so much to ev…
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May 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Astonishingly, "Maleficium" is a finalist in the Australian Shadows Awards for best long fiction, along with my essay "Long Be-nightmar'd - on dreams in Gothic and Weird fiction" for Non-fiction and Criticism. #horror #author #horrorwriting #AustralianShadowsAwards #AHWA
April 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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My review of Leigh Blackmore's 2024 collection *Nightmare Logic*. #horror #bookreview #horrowriting #darkfantasy #Cthulhumythos
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Kyla Ward's review of Nightmare Logic
4/5: "He began to perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual in that habitually dolorous voice of his, vibrating the Divine Names with a nasal quality that always made me imagine his angels would appear clut...
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April 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM