And the award for most Avant Garde Bristol pavement parking 2023 goes to... #Bristol

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 BARGAIN KLAXON: My collection of ghost stories is on sale for Kindle for the next few days. That's 13 spooky tales for just 99p!

 (You don't need a Kindle, the phone/tablet/desktop app works really well.)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Gothic-Thirteen-ghost-stories-ebook/dp/B09XLGNF1H/

#horror #books

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 Oh, good: burning desire to write, bursting with ideas and energy, but I have to spend 8 hours doing my actual job instead. The one that pays for my food and house and all that, to be fair, but, still, I should be allowed to claim an unscheduled “writer day”. #writing 

 What I read on the train yesterday, from 1992. Notable for having more people called Ian among the contributors than women. In one story a character dons a “neural induction snood” to “jack into the infonet”. 

#books #sf

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 Pulp from the charity bookswap at Westbury station. #books

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 A Spectre, c.1900

#ghosts #photography 

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 An interesting question from critic Andrew Male yesterday: who is currently writing quietly unsettling horror fiction in the mode of Robert Aickman? Rather than grimness, gore, cults, abuse, etc.. Like, Aickman has a story about a man whose wife has too many clocks, and someone is coming round to repair the clocks when he's out at work. That sort of thing. #horror #fiction