Daniel Carpenter
@dancarpenter.bsky.social
Senior Fiction editor at Titan Books. Debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER out now from Black Shuck Books.
https://linktr.ee/dancarpenter85
https://linktr.ee/dancarpenter85
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social
- queer MC
- vampire moon cult? vampire moon cult!
- fuck the vampire hunters and all this terran nonsense
- let's build wings and fly to the moon
- especially before the humans catch and experiment on us
- queer MC
- vampire moon cult? vampire moon cult!
- fuck the vampire hunters and all this terran nonsense
- let's build wings and fly to the moon
- especially before the humans catch and experiment on us
A Blood as Bright as the Moon
Check out A Blood as Bright as the Moon - <b>A vampire, desperately torn between worlds, is hunted down by a secret society bent on his destruction, in this timeless and unsettling queer gothic horror...
bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON by @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social
- queer MC
- vampire moon cult? vampire moon cult!
- fuck the vampire hunters and all this terran nonsense
- let's build wings and fly to the moon
- especially before the humans catch and experiment on us
- queer MC
- vampire moon cult? vampire moon cult!
- fuck the vampire hunters and all this terran nonsense
- let's build wings and fly to the moon
- especially before the humans catch and experiment on us
A really beautifully written book all about the vanishing sounds of the coastline, and the echoes that live on in popular culture.
Somewhere at the intersection of folklore, the intrusion (and decline) of technology, and nature writing.
Really quite something.
Somewhere at the intersection of folklore, the intrusion (and decline) of technology, and nature writing.
Really quite something.
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A really beautifully written book all about the vanishing sounds of the coastline, and the echoes that live on in popular culture.
Somewhere at the intersection of folklore, the intrusion (and decline) of technology, and nature writing.
Really quite something.
Somewhere at the intersection of folklore, the intrusion (and decline) of technology, and nature writing.
Really quite something.
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE exists in the shadow of three far superior films, THREATS, MIRACLE MILE and DR STRANGELOVE.
A disjointed structure which manages to wring some terrific moments of tension, it never quite sustains itself, or commits to having much to say about anything at all.
A disjointed structure which manages to wring some terrific moments of tension, it never quite sustains itself, or commits to having much to say about anything at all.
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE exists in the shadow of three far superior films, THREATS, MIRACLE MILE and DR STRANGELOVE.
A disjointed structure which manages to wring some terrific moments of tension, it never quite sustains itself, or commits to having much to say about anything at all.
A disjointed structure which manages to wring some terrific moments of tension, it never quite sustains itself, or commits to having much to say about anything at all.
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
Horror film of the year. Hands down.
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Horror film of the year. Hands down.
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
I do think if you're looking at the publishing landscape, and the Booker winner and your first thought is, "oh my god, FINALLY a man is able to see success in this godforsaken industry," then you're an idiot.
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I do think if you're looking at the publishing landscape, and the Booker winner and your first thought is, "oh my god, FINALLY a man is able to see success in this godforsaken industry," then you're an idiot.
This is one of my favourite films. So eerie and strange.
Woke up thinking about Onibaba (1964).
What a film.
Two women survive in warring feudal Japan by tricking and murdering samurai, and stealing their belongings.
But when someone gets between the two women, the eldest tells of an evil curse that may be on them both...
Machete's way up for this one.🔪🔪
What a film.
Two women survive in warring feudal Japan by tricking and murdering samurai, and stealing their belongings.
But when someone gets between the two women, the eldest tells of an evil curse that may be on them both...
Machete's way up for this one.🔪🔪
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This is one of my favourite films. So eerie and strange.
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Top 5 Film Genres:
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
Top 5 Film Genres:
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Top 5 Film Genres
Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again
This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again
This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Top 5 Film Genres:
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
Top 5 Film Genres:
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
Top 5 Film Genres:
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Top 5 Film Genres
Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again
This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
Fuckup Arrogant Male Saved By Smarter Woman, Again
This Guy Isn't The Hero, It's That Guy Over There!
It's All Meat Really, Why Aren't You Horny?
Really Good At Our Jobs, Then Shit Goes Wrong
Why Oh Why Did You Bring A Catholic Priest To Exorcise A Pre-Christian Entity?
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Top 5 Film Genres:
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
One crazy night
A true story about a group of people who are VERY GOOD at their jobs even if said job drives them to lose everything in their lives
2 hours of lingering dread that will haunt you for the rest of your life
Nihilistic urban horror
Directed by David Lynch
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.
The UK Ghost Story Festival 2026 line-up is up, and I'm thrilled to have been invited to run a workshop on experimenting with form in stories.
Guests also include @catrionaward.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social!
www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/
Guests also include @catrionaward.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social!
www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/
UK Ghost Story Festival 2026 Archives | Derby QUAD
View our latest season/festival: . See what the available times are for this event.
www.derbyquad.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
The UK Ghost Story Festival 2026 line-up is up, and I'm thrilled to have been invited to run a workshop on experimenting with form in stories.
Guests also include @catrionaward.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social!
www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/
Guests also include @catrionaward.bsky.social @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social @dancoxon.bsky.social @willmac23.bsky.social!
www.derbyquad.co.uk/ukgsf/
The brilliantly anarchic THE CAPTIVE by Kit Burgoyne (aka Ned Beauman) is a Waterstones Best Horror Book of 2025! www.waterstones.com/book/the-cap...
The Captive by Kit Burgoyne | Waterstones
Buy The Captive by Kit Burgoyne from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
www.waterstones.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The brilliantly anarchic THE CAPTIVE by Kit Burgoyne (aka Ned Beauman) is a Waterstones Best Horror Book of 2025! www.waterstones.com/book/the-cap...
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Convincing you to read my short story collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER with the first paragraph. Share yours if you want!
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Convincing you to read my short story collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER with the first paragraph. Share yours if you want!
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
Extremely unfair that John Darnielle is one of the great modern songwriters AND novelists.
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Extremely unfair that John Darnielle is one of the great modern songwriters AND novelists.
Always, always The Wasp Factory at 15. An English teacher handed it to me after reading something I'd written, saying "i think you'll like this" and it blew my tiny teenage mind.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Always, always The Wasp Factory at 15. An English teacher handed it to me after reading something I'd written, saying "i think you'll like this" and it blew my tiny teenage mind.
Convincing you to read my short story collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER with the first paragraph. Share yours if you want!
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Convincing you to read my short story collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER with the first paragraph. Share yours if you want!
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
And if you want the collection, go buy it here:
blackshuckbooks.co.uk/hunting-by-t...
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Signed editions of ACQUIRED TASTE are available in the US and UK nomnomnom order here:
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Jv53bl
BAM: bit.ly/3WpKiRg
UK: bit.ly/4gXB5cF
Nomnomnom @titanbooks.bsky.social nomnomnom
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Jv53bl
BAM: bit.ly/3WpKiRg
UK: bit.ly/4gXB5cF
Nomnomnom @titanbooks.bsky.social nomnomnom
October 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Signed editions of ACQUIRED TASTE are available in the US and UK nomnomnom order here:
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Jv53bl
BAM: bit.ly/3WpKiRg
UK: bit.ly/4gXB5cF
Nomnomnom @titanbooks.bsky.social nomnomnom
Barnes & Noble: bit.ly/3Jv53bl
BAM: bit.ly/3WpKiRg
UK: bit.ly/4gXB5cF
Nomnomnom @titanbooks.bsky.social nomnomnom
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
Baby Carrots. You know, the small little carrots that your toddler devours. What if I told you Clay McLeod Chapman wrote an effective short story about...baby carrots; well, he did in his short story collection Acquired Taste. #MutantBookClub #MutantFam
Harless🥷/ @jonharless21.bsky.social
1/3
Harless🥷/ @jonharless21.bsky.social
1/3
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Baby Carrots. You know, the small little carrots that your toddler devours. What if I told you Clay McLeod Chapman wrote an effective short story about...baby carrots; well, he did in his short story collection Acquired Taste. #MutantBookClub #MutantFam
Harless🥷/ @jonharless21.bsky.social
1/3
Harless🥷/ @jonharless21.bsky.social
1/3
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3!
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3!
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
Reposted by Daniel Carpenter
You should do this.
My debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER is massively discounted today on Amazon. You can pick it up for less than £3!
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
www.amazon.co.uk/Hunting-Rive...
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Hunting by the River : Carpenter, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
You should do this.