theprofrog.bsky.social
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
👤 Joined on 15 November 2024
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@theprofrog.bsky.socialOut today: Best British Short Stories 2026, edited by Nicholas Royle. Sixteen years on, the annual guide to the very best new fiction includes a Graham Greene discovery, ‘Reading at Night’. £10.99. www.saltpublishing.com/products/bes...
Show PostGreat practice show last night in Austin! We’re off to the UK in a couple of days to practice some more over there.
Show PostCover art at the pencil stage for our next wee book. (The Kraken's Lullaby: An Incomplete History of the Great Kraken & Why We Should Fear Her) Colours soon and original available to a good home.
Show PostBut what have they done with Horror? Is that in the sub-basement, and nobody should go there alone?
Show PostBeing only 150+ pages into Miéville's monster & wishing to let it spring itself on me unannounced, I've read @theprofrog.bsky.social's sharp review trying to avoid being snagged too much by it. This is bang on: 'it is weird fiction because it is about what obtrudes from another world into our own'.
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