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Books, Toys, Games UK Personal library of SFF/Pulp/Gothic/Weird/Classic Crime/Kaiju No to AI. No to policing others' reads and recommends. Opinions are my own https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/127259529-kds https://www.librarything.com/profile/KevDS

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · Nov 8

Book shelves pin. This is about a third of my physical. I collect and read SFF, Pulp, Gothic, Weird Fic, Penny Dreadfuls, Adventure, Kaiju and some Horror

I primarily post pictures of book mail, reading progress, action figure collections, trading cards, reviews, video games, RPGs and board games

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1h

I’ll be reading this as part of “dinovember” I’ve seen mentioned, poss alongside the Professor Challenger stories

What I’d like to track down is Subterrania by Harl Vincent, but no copies seem to exist in the UK or to import

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A dinosaur eating a person with Subterrania written in pump style across the top

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing thread, thank you

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 1d

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

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Alt: a cartoon of a wizard holding a wand and conjuring books into a purple bag

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 2h

Mild, uneventful weather here. Also the perfect situation to just read all day!

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Marvellous, thank you!

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Quick Q. Someone said this was a follow up. Does that mean I need to read his previous book before or is it standalone?

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Frasier D&D @frasierdnd.bsky.social · 11h

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “Oh! I’m in a Dungeons & Dragons group, too. But we’re doing an official, prewritten adventure.”

[FRASIER SCOFFS]

FRASIER: “Prewritten! The storyteller’s crutch.”

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN: “I’m the storyteller.”

FRASIER: “… And what is a crutch if not a timeless and wonderful invention?”

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 4h

A very exciting and rare book mail today!

A pulp #dinosaurs lost world book from 1936, republished in the Lost World-Lost Race Classics series

Inland Deep by Richard Tooker

With its 40ft high, bipedal, hopping #dinosaur, I imagine the attention to scientific accuracy is going to be amazing!

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Inland Deep showing a carnosaur being attacked by a pteranodon whilst big game hunters look on from a cliff

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 18h

A good lesson in ensuring careful proof reading to correct these errors afterword

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(sorry...)

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 18h

No worries. I love your marketing. Get as many UK people to check it's there as poss, let them see it is 99p and tempt them to order it there and then 😅

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 19h

A Song of Wind and Fear

(it’s about farting)

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 21h

That was one of the most fun John Cena matches I’ve ever seen.

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 22h

I listed my boxset with all 3 in for some stupid reason with a load of old dvds. They rejected it then I realised later they binned it and now I have none of the films. Sad times :(

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Nice. Standalone? Or series potential?

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I moved this onto my SF soon-tbr from the masterworks shelves on your rec

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

And yet I am dying to know...

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I enjoyed seeing the player’s approach to this opening scenario and I’m looking forward to the next session and seeing how things further unfold

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I loved them in the Raven. They were fun together

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

I searched for Dragon Reich and it was the first entry. Because it’s kindle I can’t check orderability on the app, but the book is there

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

#roleplaying night: Case 4 of City of Rains

Leading 1940s movie actor Jon Chinnery was brutally attacked whilst rehearsing alone, by a tame lion used in his latest film

Accident? Suicide? Or was it more sinister?

But just why would anyone use a lion for a murder?

To be continued..

#ttrpg #noir

A detective reading a paper from the Maltese falcon cover of 1929s black mask

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! Yes!

KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Damn green blooded, pointy eared hobgoblins…

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KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 🎃 @kdsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Roleplaying night.

But first…

Sherbet and the gremlin in nightmare at 20,000 feet

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