Chris Long
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VL: To Those Who Thrive in The Dark, Ch. 7 - "The Ghastly Priest Doth Reign"
Patreon Supporters hear these mini-series episodes first. This episode kicks off part two of the miniseries and is shared with all. If you go hunting for gods,
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The 7th episode of my mini-series set in the world of the fantastic Victoria's Lift podcast has gone live.
I hope you like it. I had so much writing this story.
It was a privilege to be allowed to play in Victoria's world.
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I hope you like it. I had so much writing this story.
It was a privilege to be allowed to play in Victoria's world.
www.spreaker.com/episode/vl-t...
My amazing wife has bought me two decades worth of Peanuts books!
If anyone needs me, I'll be reading (& giggling) my way from the 60s to the 80s.
If anyone needs me, I'll be reading (& giggling) my way from the 60s to the 80s.
a cartoon of snoopy dressed as santa claus blowing a horn
Alt: Snoopy, dressed as Father Christmas, ringing a bell
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December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
My amazing wife has bought me two decades worth of Peanuts books!
If anyone needs me, I'll be reading (& giggling) my way from the 60s to the 80s.
If anyone needs me, I'll be reading (& giggling) my way from the 60s to the 80s.
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New Christmas episode up now! Asterix and the Roman Agent - and LOADS more Asterix books - with Louie Stowell, Robert Shearman, Una McCormack & Andy Miller. 🎄📚🎅
@robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
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@robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
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December 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New Christmas episode up now! Asterix and the Roman Agent - and LOADS more Asterix books - with Louie Stowell, Robert Shearman, Una McCormack & Andy Miller. 🎄📚🎅
@robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
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@robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
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Every year I make handmade crackers, and the kid moans about the “dad jokes”, so this year I have decided to talk more directly to Gen Z.
(Also: clipper lighters and scratch cards in every one. HAPPY CHRISTMAS!)
(Also: clipper lighters and scratch cards in every one. HAPPY CHRISTMAS!)
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Every year I make handmade crackers, and the kid moans about the “dad jokes”, so this year I have decided to talk more directly to Gen Z.
(Also: clipper lighters and scratch cards in every one. HAPPY CHRISTMAS!)
(Also: clipper lighters and scratch cards in every one. HAPPY CHRISTMAS!)
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Despite the title of this week’s @bigissue.com column , it is more about my love of Manchester than resigning from Monkey Cage - but here it is
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
Comedian Robin Ince: 'Why I had no choice but to resign from the BBC'
Robin Ince explains why he has stepped down from The Infinite Monkey Cage, after finding his values are at odds with the BBC.
www.bigissue.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Despite the title of this week’s @bigissue.com column , it is more about my love of Manchester than resigning from Monkey Cage - but here it is
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
With the wrapping done for another year, I thought I'd give myself a treat. A decent cup of tea & the #BrokenVeil ghost story for Christmas.
I'm glad I did the wrapping 1st. I'm bad enough at it without attempting it with my hands shaking.
TOND is going to be shivering down my spine until new year.
I'm glad I did the wrapping 1st. I'm bad enough at it without attempting it with my hands shaking.
TOND is going to be shivering down my spine until new year.
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
With the wrapping done for another year, I thought I'd give myself a treat. A decent cup of tea & the #BrokenVeil ghost story for Christmas.
I'm glad I did the wrapping 1st. I'm bad enough at it without attempting it with my hands shaking.
TOND is going to be shivering down my spine until new year.
I'm glad I did the wrapping 1st. I'm bad enough at it without attempting it with my hands shaking.
TOND is going to be shivering down my spine until new year.
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A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read about the best acid folk, prog rock, Robert Kirby-arranged protest album ever, support the podcast.
This week: Spirogyra, St Radigunds (1971).
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This week: Spirogyra, St Radigunds (1971).
www.patreon.com/backlisted
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read about the best acid folk, prog rock, Robert Kirby-arranged protest album ever, support the podcast.
This week: Spirogyra, St Radigunds (1971).
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Spirogyra, St Radigunds (1971).
www.patreon.com/backlisted
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Two of my upcoming 2026 releases highlighted here. (Also next year: Children of Strife, the gothic horror sf novella Preaching to the Choir and a short story collection, among others)
For this week's Waiting on Wednesday, I highlighted two 2026 releases from the always awesome @aptshadow.bsky.social, with Pretenders to the Throne of God and Green City Wars. Both sound like a ton of fun and I cannot wait to dive into them next year.
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Waiting on Wednesday – Pretenders to the Throne of God and Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Welcome to my weekly segment, Waiting on Wednesday, where I look at upcoming books that I am planning to order and review in the next few months and which I think I will really enjoy. Stay tuned t…
unseenlibrary.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Two of my upcoming 2026 releases highlighted here. (Also next year: Children of Strife, the gothic horror sf novella Preaching to the Choir and a short story collection, among others)
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Working on ideas for the cover and tagline for my next book which is published in February.
Why do I forget every time how hard this is? Anyway, expect CHAOS soon.
Why do I forget every time how hard this is? Anyway, expect CHAOS soon.
elmo says welcome to chaos in front of a background of fire
ALT: elmo says welcome to chaos in front of a background of fire
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Working on ideas for the cover and tagline for my next book which is published in February.
Why do I forget every time how hard this is? Anyway, expect CHAOS soon.
Why do I forget every time how hard this is? Anyway, expect CHAOS soon.
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American Dreamer podcast looks at the claims made by small time bootlegger Max Gerlach, that he was the inspiration for Jay in The Great Gatsby (I think it was several people)
December 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
American Dreamer podcast looks at the claims made by small time bootlegger Max Gerlach, that he was the inspiration for Jay in The Great Gatsby (I think it was several people)
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Lissa's Literary Advent calendar is a highlight of Christmas for me in much the same way as Fanny Cradock's Festive Cookery *wasn't*.
(My mother made a lot of Fanny's Yuletide recipes and they were uniformly horrible)
(My mother made a lot of Fanny's Yuletide recipes and they were uniformly horrible)
Well, I seem to be back on Blue Sky, so straight into a catch up of my #LIteraryAdventCalendar2025.
Day 1, and it's one of my all-time favourites: journalist Lynn Barber attempts to interview Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, (ultra posh, with a scandalous past) about her book on dinner parties.
Day 1, and it's one of my all-time favourites: journalist Lynn Barber attempts to interview Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, (ultra posh, with a scandalous past) about her book on dinner parties.
December 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Lissa's Literary Advent calendar is a highlight of Christmas for me in much the same way as Fanny Cradock's Festive Cookery *wasn't*.
(My mother made a lot of Fanny's Yuletide recipes and they were uniformly horrible)
(My mother made a lot of Fanny's Yuletide recipes and they were uniformly horrible)
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December 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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🎙️ CALLING ALL VOICE ACTORS!
We’re opening a public casting for A.L.F.-RED - Agent THUNDER’s AI companion.
While everyone debates AI in games, we chose a different path:
our AI will be voiced by a real human.
If you’ve ever wanted to be an AI without being replaced by one - this is your moment. 🤖
We’re opening a public casting for A.L.F.-RED - Agent THUNDER’s AI companion.
While everyone debates AI in games, we chose a different path:
our AI will be voiced by a real human.
If you’ve ever wanted to be an AI without being replaced by one - this is your moment. 🤖
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🎙️ CALLING ALL VOICE ACTORS!
We’re opening a public casting for A.L.F.-RED - Agent THUNDER’s AI companion.
While everyone debates AI in games, we chose a different path:
our AI will be voiced by a real human.
If you’ve ever wanted to be an AI without being replaced by one - this is your moment. 🤖
We’re opening a public casting for A.L.F.-RED - Agent THUNDER’s AI companion.
While everyone debates AI in games, we chose a different path:
our AI will be voiced by a real human.
If you’ve ever wanted to be an AI without being replaced by one - this is your moment. 🤖
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In the Observer! As with all interviews there was much more in here that's been cut out, including a lengthy piece on POSSESSED.
Article should also be in Sunday's hardcopy.
Article should also be in Sunday's hardcopy.
For the @theobserveruk.bsky.social I’ve written about Christmas ghost stories, the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, and how literary detectives such as @johnnymains.co.uk are digging up lost tales.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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In search of the ghosts of Christmas past | The Observer
Stories of spirits and ghouls were a fixture of winter long before Dickens. Now intrepid historians have taken it upon themselves to resurrect forgotten yarns
observer.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
In the Observer! As with all interviews there was much more in here that's been cut out, including a lengthy piece on POSSESSED.
Article should also be in Sunday's hardcopy.
Article should also be in Sunday's hardcopy.
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Our new production COUNT MAGNUS is out now!
In a police interview room, a young woman is counting everyone she sees, trying to find someone hidden in plain sight... Before she's finished, this station will discover the difference between a witness & a warning.
🎧 Listen wherever you catch podcasts.
In a police interview room, a young woman is counting everyone she sees, trying to find someone hidden in plain sight... Before she's finished, this station will discover the difference between a witness & a warning.
🎧 Listen wherever you catch podcasts.
December 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our new production COUNT MAGNUS is out now!
In a police interview room, a young woman is counting everyone she sees, trying to find someone hidden in plain sight... Before she's finished, this station will discover the difference between a witness & a warning.
🎧 Listen wherever you catch podcasts.
In a police interview room, a young woman is counting everyone she sees, trying to find someone hidden in plain sight... Before she's finished, this station will discover the difference between a witness & a warning.
🎧 Listen wherever you catch podcasts.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Want to try my sketch podcast Crowley Time but not sure where to start? Well here it is, a brand new Best Of with a difference! Finally, me, Tom Crowley, is made to answer for his crimes by the highest authority: aliens. Available on your podcast app and at crowleytime.com now!
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Want to try my sketch podcast Crowley Time but not sure where to start? Well here it is, a brand new Best Of with a difference! Finally, me, Tom Crowley, is made to answer for his crimes by the highest authority: aliens. Available on your podcast app and at crowleytime.com now!
I'm currently wearing a cardigan & slippers.
Which only goes to show that you can cross some bridges without ever seeing them coming.
Which only goes to show that you can cross some bridges without ever seeing them coming.
December 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I'm currently wearing a cardigan & slippers.
Which only goes to show that you can cross some bridges without ever seeing them coming.
Which only goes to show that you can cross some bridges without ever seeing them coming.
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40 tickets sold, would be great if we can make 50+
Christmas ghosts!
Christmas ghosts!
Today's the day! I'll be doing a talk on ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, my other British Library books, POSSESSED, and how I go about finding lost horror stories. Tonight from 7pm, tickets £8.83. Hope to see you there!
LINK BELOW
LINK BELOW
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
40 tickets sold, would be great if we can make 50+
Christmas ghosts!
Christmas ghosts!
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This is so, so good. With a very strong M.R. James/Nigel Kneale weird fiction vibe.
More, please.
More, please.
OUT NOW
A #BrokenVeil ghost story for Christmas.
Rosie Cavaliero and Carrie Quinlan in
TOND
pod.link/1745494718/e...
A #BrokenVeil ghost story for Christmas.
Rosie Cavaliero and Carrie Quinlan in
TOND
pod.link/1745494718/e...
December 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This is so, so good. With a very strong M.R. James/Nigel Kneale weird fiction vibe.
More, please.
More, please.
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Just bought Lullaby by Together For Palestine - many great artists including Brian Eno, Nadine Shah, and Neneh Cherry - let’s get this to the top of the charts - please buy, please share - please help show that peace and camaraderie are vital values
togetherforpalestine.org
togetherforpalestine.org
TOGETHER FOR PALESTINE: LULLABY - THE NEW SINGLE
Together for Palestine aims to raise millions for the Palestinian-led organisations at the frontline of the crisis, such as Taawon, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and the Palestine Medical Reli...
togetherforpalestine.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Just bought Lullaby by Together For Palestine - many great artists including Brian Eno, Nadine Shah, and Neneh Cherry - let’s get this to the top of the charts - please buy, please share - please help show that peace and camaraderie are vital values
togetherforpalestine.org
togetherforpalestine.org
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By now, you know how important preorders are for a book’s success. With only 11 weeks until the release of JITTERBUG from @titanbooks.bsky.social, can I gently encourage you to get your orders in ASAP. Trust me, you’re not going to want to miss this one!
Links: www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
Links: www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
December 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
By now, you know how important preorders are for a book’s success. With only 11 weeks until the release of JITTERBUG from @titanbooks.bsky.social, can I gently encourage you to get your orders in ASAP. Trust me, you’re not going to want to miss this one!
Links: www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
Links: www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/
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Our new production COUNT MAGNUS releases publicly this Thursday 19:00 GMT 🔓
The classic ghost story by M.R. James, now retold for the brave. The original famously inspired @rustyquill.com when choosing the name for THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.
Can’t wait? You can listen *right now*, ad-free, on Patreon!
The classic ghost story by M.R. James, now retold for the brave. The original famously inspired @rustyquill.com when choosing the name for THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.
Can’t wait? You can listen *right now*, ad-free, on Patreon!
December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Our new production COUNT MAGNUS releases publicly this Thursday 19:00 GMT 🔓
The classic ghost story by M.R. James, now retold for the brave. The original famously inspired @rustyquill.com when choosing the name for THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.
Can’t wait? You can listen *right now*, ad-free, on Patreon!
The classic ghost story by M.R. James, now retold for the brave. The original famously inspired @rustyquill.com when choosing the name for THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES.
Can’t wait? You can listen *right now*, ad-free, on Patreon!
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Tond: a ghost story for Christmas.
patreon.com/brokenveil
A new one-off audio drama, from the Broken Veil channel.
Support weird content, from as little as £2.
Available Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
#BrokenVeil
patreon.com/brokenveil
A new one-off audio drama, from the Broken Veil channel.
Support weird content, from as little as £2.
Available Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
#BrokenVeil
December 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Tond: a ghost story for Christmas.
patreon.com/brokenveil
A new one-off audio drama, from the Broken Veil channel.
Support weird content, from as little as £2.
Available Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
#BrokenVeil
patreon.com/brokenveil
A new one-off audio drama, from the Broken Veil channel.
Support weird content, from as little as £2.
Available Thursday, wherever you get your podcasts.
#BrokenVeil