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Benedict Anning
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Horror/SF writer, occasional artist, general creative chump. Creature of the abyss and dedicated cat dad.🐈 Rep: @jjbker.bsky.social at Bell Lomax Moreton. benedictanning.carrd.co
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 11h
some neat sky stuff today
Distant birds flying in patterns in the clear blue sky, preparing for migration The moon sits in the clear blue sky above a treeline
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 21h
News is inherently gonna be mostly bad but these are giving me life youtu.be/0azyWMvmLDw?...
Everything was golden
YouTube video by GAKHED
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Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social · 2d
Book cover release day!! I'm thrilled to share this absolutely fantastic cover illustrated by @sorenhaxan.bsky.social. I feel so incredibly lucky!

THE WARDS WILL FALL is a fantasy novel with a mm relationship releasing October 27, 2025. Read for free on my newsletter.

www.oleandercraw.com
Book cover for the wards will fall. It features a man with dark curly hair and olive times skin on the front. He is looking concerned with a hand raised. Golden wards are tattooed on the side of his head and back of his hands. He is wearing an elaborate coat covered in silver rocs. A shadow is behind him with many horns and a golden eye. The title says the wards will fall. Underneath it says oleander craw.
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 1d
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It's release day for the delicious follow-up to Gorse!! Highly highly encourage you nab a copy from the inimitable worldly wordsmith @samkhorton.bsky.social ✨
Ragwort
Check out Ragwort - A year on from the loss of Lord Pelagius Hunt of Mirecoombe, new Keeper Nancy Bligh is still struggling. She can banish the spirits and keep peace between the spriggans and piskies...
uk.bookshop.org
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 2d
For our next Solaris Presents event we've come over all spooky!

In a fortnight, we'll be welcoming @isabelcanas.bsky.social & @mkhardywrites.com to talk all things gothic romance and celebrate their latest books:

Watch FREE live or on catch up anywhere in the world: geni.us/SPGRICMKH
Against a red background, white text "Solaris Presents... Gothic Romance with Isabel Canas and MK Hardy. Wednesday 22nd October 2025 BST. Free - watch on Crowdcast live or on catch up! The book covers for THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DIAZ and THE NEEDFIRE next to headshots for the authors.
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 2d
Massive agree. Such a classy vanilla, not overly sweet, barely dips into gourmand territory at all. A really comforting one!
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 3d
putting sunflower seeds in a mini-tin of baked beans and pretending it's a tiny açaí bowl - but, like, bad
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 4d
a really terrific little lady
Penny - the best calico cat in the world - sits slumped in a blanketed desk chair, gazing up at the viewer, utterly beautiful and super cute
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sunyi @handle.invalid · 4d
Happy Mid Autumn Festival! 🥮 I’m thrilled to share the cover of #TheGirlWithAThousandFaces, coming 5 May 2026 from @torbooks.bsky.social! ⭐⁣The Girl with a Thousand Faces is a Chinese-Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong.

Cover art by Lindsey Carr, Cover design by Shreya Gupta
A ghostly Chinese woman with dead white eyes stares out from a stylised black and green ocean, her face surrounded by billowing gold foam THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK EATERS A haunting dark urban fantasy set in a historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story of ghosts, grief and women who will not forgive. Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place. But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy—and her forgotten childhood. As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 6d
First he was Minimus
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Shannon Lawson @nanlawson.bsky.social · 8d
October 🦇
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 10d
Are you ready to return to the Undermoor?

@samkhorton.bsky.social's Eythin Legacy began with GORSE and continues next month with RAGWORT!

Tickets are now available for multiple events, snap them up before they're gone!👉 geni.us/SKHEvents
14th October 7pm Waterstones Truro 17th October 7pm Black Cat Books, Launceston 23rd October 7pm Rossiter Books, Ross on Wye 7th November Time TBC @ Spencer Thorn, Bude 20th November 7pm @ Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street.
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 10d
Me too thanks
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 10d
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Penny - the cutest calico cat in the world - sits in a cardboard box, staring wideyed at the camera
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11d
Some interdimensional portals I found on walks yesterday and today.
A hedge portal at Montacute, Somerset (aka Wolf Hall) A mysterious circular portal in a granite wall A classic tunnelled footpath portal A particularly attractive ruined barn portal
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 11d
the tragedy of having a nap on a sunday is that 2pm on a monday ur brain n body is like "hey? :) nap? :)" n u have to be like "no :( work :("

why must everything have a cost under capitalism
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 11d
Scrupulous micromanager
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 11d
a man in a blue shirt says " you 're such a nerd " in front of a window
Alt: Scene from supernatural, Dean says "you're such a nerd" to Sam before leaving the room
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Benedict Anning @benedictanning.bsky.social · 14d
I am silly levels of excited for this follow-up to my favourite read last year 🧑‍💻💣
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David Goodman @davegoodman.bsky.social · 14d
I'm delighted to share the cover reveal trailer for SOLITARY AGENTS from @headlinebooks.bsky.social! Huge thanks also to @harryillingworth.bsky.social and @dhhlitagency.bsky.social

Available to pre-order from all major retailers (and local independents), Solitary Agents is out on June 4th 2026.
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🌿Rowynn Ellis @rowynnellis.bsky.social · 15d
'Trickster' - 2021
www.rowynnellis.com

#fox #foxart #knotwork
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Randy Flynn 🔜 PAX Unplugged @rf-seattle.bsky.social · 17d
The pre-launch page for Cascadia: Alpine Lakes is up! Click that button to be notified when it goes live.

@flatoutgames.bsky.social @fanfactories.bsky.social @boardgameghee.bsky.social @bethsobel.bsky.social @dylanmangini.bsky.social
Coming soon: Cascadia: Alpine Lakes
A standalone puzzly tile-layering follow-up to the award-winning game Cascadia, with beautiful artwork from Beth Sobel!
www.kickstarter.com
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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 16d
late night snack
drawing of a dark room. almost half of the room is a huge water tank. a big eel-type fish is swimming in, and a character is throwing fish food into the water to lure smaller fish in
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Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social · 19d
Quint Buchholz
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 22d
I know a fae trap when I see one
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Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social · 22d
This crazy sci fi noir crime thriller is out today in the UK and I can't wait for you all to read it!

Available in hardback, ebook, and audio from all reputable retailers (and probably some disreputable ones too!)

If you can, support your local indie!
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