Ray Newman
@raynewman.bsky.social
He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, editor, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text, no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Intervals of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY
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Ray Newman
@raynewman.bsky.social
· Mar 22
Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...
👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...
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A magnificent set of choices led to this. What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Amazon delivery van 'stuck on The Broomway after following GPS'
HM Coastguard Southend says the van driver had been trying to get to Foulness Island.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
A magnificent set of choices led to this. What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Right, I've got to go out and meet my mum in the pub, where she's heading after watching Bristol City WFC play. What a nice thing to be able to do. I don't take it for granted.
February 15, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Right, I've got to go out and meet my mum in the pub, where she's heading after watching Bristol City WFC play. What a nice thing to be able to do. I don't take it for granted.
Now watching: ‘Ju-On: The Grudge’, dir. Takashi Shimizu, 2002. Opens with scenes set in a wonderfully beige social welfare office, where everybody wears beige, and has beige faces. 🎥🎬
February 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Now watching: ‘Ju-On: The Grudge’, dir. Takashi Shimizu, 2002. Opens with scenes set in a wonderfully beige social welfare office, where everybody wears beige, and has beige faces. 🎥🎬
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Today in 'sentences I'm glad I've lived to see written':
'...the controversy that has divided the curling community...'
'...the controversy that has divided the curling community...'
February 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Today in 'sentences I'm glad I've lived to see written':
'...the controversy that has divided the curling community...'
'...the controversy that has divided the curling community...'
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You can only leave Feet Foremost in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday.
#feetforemost #lphartley
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#feetforemost #lphartley
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Feet Foremost
Wyrd Britain reviews Shades of Darkness Feet Foremost.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:24 PM
You can only leave Feet Foremost in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday.
#feetforemost #lphartley
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#feetforemost #lphartley
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Everything is bad, but my copy of the Capitol edition of Help! (with only the Beatles songs from the film plus bits of Ken Thorne's score), which used to skip on Another Girl, no longer does after going through the record washer. So that's nice.
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Everything is bad, but my copy of the Capitol edition of Help! (with only the Beatles songs from the film plus bits of Ken Thorne's score), which used to skip on Another Girl, no longer does after going through the record washer. So that's nice.
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I found it immensely satisfying mixing @raynewman.bsky.social’s story with his own music and field recordings. Why not pop some headphones on and enter the soundscape of The Interchange?
I'm thrilled to welcome guest author @raynewman.bsky.social to Listen with Other. In series 5, Ray reads his new story The Interchange, with his own original music and location recordings. Find it at listenwithother.co.uk and wherever podcasts are found.
#podcasts #fiction #writing
#podcasts #fiction #writing
February 15, 2026 at 10:34 AM
I found it immensely satisfying mixing @raynewman.bsky.social’s story with his own music and field recordings. Why not pop some headphones on and enter the soundscape of The Interchange?
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This is a matte painting by Ralph McQuarrie btw.
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 AM
This is a matte painting by Ralph McQuarrie btw.
Taking a moment to marvel at the photography of Harry Gruyaert.
February 14, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Taking a moment to marvel at the photography of Harry Gruyaert.
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I once got a shouted ‘whatthefuckyuhthinkyerdoin?’ From an upstairs window of a house. ‘Your house got bombed on the 27th April 1942, I’m recording the evidence.’ ‘Oh, did it? blimey, that didn’t come up in the survey.’
February 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
I once got a shouted ‘whatthefuckyuhthinkyerdoin?’ From an upstairs window of a house. ‘Your house got bombed on the 27th April 1942, I’m recording the evidence.’ ‘Oh, did it? blimey, that didn’t come up in the survey.’
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Second, is its distinctive graphic design style: the mid-Century post-war ethos of the Festival of Britain, Abram Games and so on. It makes heavy use of the infographic throughout. The abundance of colour must also have challenged the prevailing mood of austerity.
February 14, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Second, is its distinctive graphic design style: the mid-Century post-war ethos of the Festival of Britain, Abram Games and so on. It makes heavy use of the infographic throughout. The abundance of colour must also have challenged the prevailing mood of austerity.
On this, I also often get asked if I'm "from the council" when I'm out with my camera. And, to be fair, I am a from-the-council looking MF.
I still get asked why I'm photographing things, sometimes quite aggressively, but usually when I say something like "Because the interplay of the sunlight with the texture of the stonework delighted and intrigued me" I get left alone.
February 14, 2026 at 9:18 AM
On this, I also often get asked if I'm "from the council" when I'm out with my camera. And, to be fair, I am a from-the-council looking MF.
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NEW flash fiction. Under 600 words. It’d make my weekend if you gave this a read. Hope you like it! With thanks to Lauren Bacall on Valentine’s Day.
kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
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On new flash fiction: To Have and Have Not
A new piece of flash fiction titled ‘To Have and Have Not’.
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February 14, 2026 at 7:19 AM
NEW flash fiction. Under 600 words. It’d make my weekend if you gave this a read. Hope you like it! With thanks to Lauren Bacall on Valentine’s Day.
kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/o...
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#SteepleSaturday
High in the Cotswolds, close to the source of the river Frome, lies the small village of Brimpsfield. There was once a castle there, the seat of the Giffard family. It was slighted on the order of Edward II in 1322. Next to the castle site is the church of St Michael & All Angels
High in the Cotswolds, close to the source of the river Frome, lies the small village of Brimpsfield. There was once a castle there, the seat of the Giffard family. It was slighted on the order of Edward II in 1322. Next to the castle site is the church of St Michael & All Angels
February 14, 2026 at 7:49 AM
#SteepleSaturday
High in the Cotswolds, close to the source of the river Frome, lies the small village of Brimpsfield. There was once a castle there, the seat of the Giffard family. It was slighted on the order of Edward II in 1322. Next to the castle site is the church of St Michael & All Angels
High in the Cotswolds, close to the source of the river Frome, lies the small village of Brimpsfield. There was once a castle there, the seat of the Giffard family. It was slighted on the order of Edward II in 1322. Next to the castle site is the church of St Michael & All Angels
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Crossing the bridge over the railway line just as a freight train went past - box after box after box after box of cold gun metal grey, stretched around the corner and out of sight. Looking like a calendar of 2026 as seen from space.
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Crossing the bridge over the railway line just as a freight train went past - box after box after box after box of cold gun metal grey, stretched around the corner and out of sight. Looking like a calendar of 2026 as seen from space.
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Something spooky for the weekend?
I'm thrilled to welcome guest author @raynewman.bsky.social to Listen with Other. In series 5, Ray reads his new story The Interchange, with his own original music and location recordings. Find it at listenwithother.co.uk and wherever podcasts are found.
#podcasts #fiction #writing
#podcasts #fiction #writing
February 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Something spooky for the weekend?
It are not raining here also. I might actually get to go for a walk with my camera. Or cameras.
February 14, 2026 at 7:45 AM
It are not raining here also. I might actually get to go for a walk with my camera. Or cameras.
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The idea of writing weirdly to differentiate ourselves from AI, like fremen walking arhythmically to evade Shai-Hulud is certainly intriguing and perhaps an amusing basis for an OuLiPo exercise, but imagine having to do that all the time. If I were to write again all I'd want to do was to find the
February 14, 2026 at 6:43 AM
The idea of writing weirdly to differentiate ourselves from AI, like fremen walking arhythmically to evade Shai-Hulud is certainly intriguing and perhaps an amusing basis for an OuLiPo exercise, but imagine having to do that all the time. If I were to write again all I'd want to do was to find the
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Wind in the Willows becomes more poignant when you know that Mr Toad died in WW1
February 13, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Wind in the Willows becomes more poignant when you know that Mr Toad died in WW1
This starts out as yet another article that makes you roll your eyes and think, "Jeez, get a grip..." But then gives examples towards the end of how AI has actually felt helpful to specific individuals with various conditions and needs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
She didn't expect to fall in love with a chatbot, and then have to say goodbye
Rae began speaking to Barry after a difficult divorce, but Barry lives on an old model of ChatGPT that's being shut down.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 14, 2026 at 5:56 AM
This starts out as yet another article that makes you roll your eyes and think, "Jeez, get a grip..." But then gives examples towards the end of how AI has actually felt helpful to specific individuals with various conditions and needs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I was only trying to describe to my partner the other day how amazing I found this technique when I first noticed it as a kid in episodes of Ulysses 31 on Children's BBC.
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous.
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
February 14, 2026 at 5:39 AM
I was only trying to describe to my partner the other day how amazing I found this technique when I first noticed it as a kid in episodes of Ulysses 31 on Children's BBC.
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It's always a bit jarring when I'm birdwatching and I spot a bird with tiny binoculars staring right at me crossing "big nerd" off his list.
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
It's always a bit jarring when I'm birdwatching and I spot a bird with tiny binoculars staring right at me crossing "big nerd" off his list.
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Babe come over, we’re melancholiamaxxxing, we’re sadgooning our crypipes
February 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Babe come over, we’re melancholiamaxxxing, we’re sadgooning our crypipes