Will Wiles
@willwiles.bsky.social
"The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt) is out now! Author of several novels, most recently "The Last Blade Priest" (Angry Robot), which won best novel at the 2023 Kitschies. Its sequel, "The Dead Man's Empire", coming 2026. He/him
I do not have two wolves inside me, I have an unending struggle between Fraggles and Doozers
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I do not have two wolves inside me, I have an unending struggle between Fraggles and Doozers
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if your toddler asks for his scissors ALWAYS ASK WHY
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
if your toddler asks for his scissors ALWAYS ASK WHY
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November 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Wait, wait wait wait - *50th* anniversary? Surely it's 25th or 30th? If CofC is 50, that would make me ... (-1d6 SAN)
A special treat for Call of Cthulhu fans is coming later this week!
Who is excited for the special Chaosium 50th Anniversary edition slipcase set?
Who is excited for the special Chaosium 50th Anniversary edition slipcase set?
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Wait, wait wait wait - *50th* anniversary? Surely it's 25th or 30th? If CofC is 50, that would make me ... (-1d6 SAN)
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Lucky enough to have been able to read this ahead of publication (Feb 26). It is extraordinary, one of his very best works.
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Lucky enough to have been able to read this ahead of publication (Feb 26). It is extraordinary, one of his very best works.
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International Criminal Court judge, "sanctioned" by the USA for doing his job, blocked from using internet services worldwide, credit cards, banking... And nobody cares...
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
International Criminal Court judge, "sanctioned" by the USA for doing his job, blocked from using internet services worldwide, credit cards, banking... And nobody cares...
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Today is my birthday! 🎂
If you like my work and want to make my day, I only ask that you share my art and stories with someone who might enjoy them :)
Or trick your gullible friend for a minute. That's also a good one.
If you like my work and want to make my day, I only ask that you share my art and stories with someone who might enjoy them :)
Or trick your gullible friend for a minute. That's also a good one.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Today is my birthday! 🎂
If you like my work and want to make my day, I only ask that you share my art and stories with someone who might enjoy them :)
Or trick your gullible friend for a minute. That's also a good one.
If you like my work and want to make my day, I only ask that you share my art and stories with someone who might enjoy them :)
Or trick your gullible friend for a minute. That's also a good one.
First and last word on the "men in books thing". I, a man, wrote three very male literary novels about men being male. Averaged out, they did fine. The only thing that makes we feel ignored or erased is a bout of people shouting "WHERE ARE ALL THE MEN". Uh, hello?
November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
First and last word on the "men in books thing". I, a man, wrote three very male literary novels about men being male. Averaged out, they did fine. The only thing that makes we feel ignored or erased is a bout of people shouting "WHERE ARE ALL THE MEN". Uh, hello?
It gets dark early now and the country is raked by rain, so if you're the protagonist in an M John Harrison novel now is the right time of year to take a slow train to an unfamiliar town to check on an old friend who hasn't been doing so well
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It gets dark early now and the country is raked by rain, so if you're the protagonist in an M John Harrison novel now is the right time of year to take a slow train to an unfamiliar town to check on an old friend who hasn't been doing so well
I could recommend "A Personal Anthology" every week but this week's, by @iancritchley.bsky.social , is a particular treat. How could you not love a selection that includes the short story that was printed in the manual of the 1984 space trading game "Elite"?
open.substack.com/pub/apersona...
open.substack.com/pub/apersona...
A Personal Anthology, by Ian Critchley
I recently stopped reviewing books.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I could recommend "A Personal Anthology" every week but this week's, by @iancritchley.bsky.social , is a particular treat. How could you not love a selection that includes the short story that was printed in the manual of the 1984 space trading game "Elite"?
open.substack.com/pub/apersona...
open.substack.com/pub/apersona...
Congratulations Steve!
Well that's a lovely thing! I'm honored and grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for publishing my essay, and for this nomination. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/issue-2...
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Congratulations Steve!
Grim and stupid times, but "Amid surge in bear attacks" is a simply unbeatable way to start any headline. "Amid surge in bear attacks, BoE holds steady on interest rates." "Amid surge in bear attacks, JWST sheds light on distant nebula."
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Grim and stupid times, but "Amid surge in bear attacks" is a simply unbeatable way to start any headline. "Amid surge in bear attacks, BoE holds steady on interest rates." "Amid surge in bear attacks, JWST sheds light on distant nebula."
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Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
Int. MI6. M is briefing an agent who we cannot see.
M: ...nanobots or somesuch, I don't know I didn't watch it. But he's definitely 100% dead. But you would know all about that. Anyway, congratulations on your promotion 006 ... or should I say 007?
(Pan out to reveal SEAN BEAN)
M: ...nanobots or somesuch, I don't know I didn't watch it. But he's definitely 100% dead. But you would know all about that. Anyway, congratulations on your promotion 006 ... or should I say 007?
(Pan out to reveal SEAN BEAN)
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Int. MI6. M is briefing an agent who we cannot see.
M: ...nanobots or somesuch, I don't know I didn't watch it. But he's definitely 100% dead. But you would know all about that. Anyway, congratulations on your promotion 006 ... or should I say 007?
(Pan out to reveal SEAN BEAN)
M: ...nanobots or somesuch, I don't know I didn't watch it. But he's definitely 100% dead. But you would know all about that. Anyway, congratulations on your promotion 006 ... or should I say 007?
(Pan out to reveal SEAN BEAN)
The boy (13) is doing gothic literature in English and has to write a gothic story. This has several promising elements - burning abbey, nuns, senseless murder - "but," he says, "I keep worrying it's turning into a comedy." So begins the most important lesson of the gothic.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The boy (13) is doing gothic literature in English and has to write a gothic story. This has several promising elements - burning abbey, nuns, senseless murder - "but," he says, "I keep worrying it's turning into a comedy." So begins the most important lesson of the gothic.
This is Thursday! Join us! Joooooin uuuuus
The BFS and Waterstones Covent Gdn is excited to bring you Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy Religion on Thursday 13th November at 6pm.
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfswatgod
@stewarthotston.com @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfswatgod
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November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is Thursday! Join us! Joooooin uuuuus
Taking psychoactive mushrooms and thinking you're immortal, eh? Someone should write an epic fantasy series about why that's a bad idea
Over on X, the weird life extension guy just did a heroic dose of magic mushrooms (5g), and someone is live tweeting it for him.
Clearly someone misguided him along the way, though, because he seems to be under the impression he’s peaked after just one hour.
Bad news for you, buddy…
Clearly someone misguided him along the way, though, because he seems to be under the impression he’s peaked after just one hour.
Bad news for you, buddy…
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Taking psychoactive mushrooms and thinking you're immortal, eh? Someone should write an epic fantasy series about why that's a bad idea
But if Dr Frankenstein is supposed to be the *real* monster then why is the book called "Frankenstein's Monster" eh answer me that
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
But if Dr Frankenstein is supposed to be the *real* monster then why is the book called "Frankenstein's Monster" eh answer me that
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Remembering William Hope Hodgson, author of 'The House on the Borderland', 'The Night Land' and other celebrated works of weird fiction. Killed in action at the Fourth Battle of Ypres on 19th April 1918, aged 40.
#RemembranceSunday
#RemembranceSunday
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Remembering William Hope Hodgson, author of 'The House on the Borderland', 'The Night Land' and other celebrated works of weird fiction. Killed in action at the Fourth Battle of Ypres on 19th April 1918, aged 40.
#RemembranceSunday
#RemembranceSunday
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Kill the Gods: Marvellous Michael Anson, Stew Hotson, Anna Smith Spark and WP Wiles in conversation with Alexandra Beaumont | Events at Waterstones Bookshops share.google/yoVXxRescCJh...
Kill the Gods: Marvellous Michael Anson, Stew Hotson, Anna Smith Spark and WP Wiles in conversation with Alexandra Beaumont | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Kill the Gods: Marvellous Michael Anson, Stew Hotson, Anna Smith Spark and WP Wiles in...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Kill the Gods: Marvellous Michael Anson, Stew Hotson, Anna Smith Spark and WP Wiles in conversation with Alexandra Beaumont | Events at Waterstones Bookshops share.google/yoVXxRescCJh...
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Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy and Religion. Alexandra Beaumont, Marvellous Michael Anson, Stew Hotson and Will Wiles in conversation.
Waterstones Covent Garden, Thursday 17th November, 6pm.
Waterstones Covent Garden, Thursday 17th November, 6pm.
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy and Religion. Alexandra Beaumont, Marvellous Michael Anson, Stew Hotson and Will Wiles in conversation.
Waterstones Covent Garden, Thursday 17th November, 6pm.
Waterstones Covent Garden, Thursday 17th November, 6pm.
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New #Shelfies alert! This week, it's @willwiles.bsky.social on the agony of choosing a shelf!
Shelfies #61: Will Wiles
I’ve been agonising over what shelf to share with you far longer than any reasonable human being should, and it’s ridiculous.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New #Shelfies alert! This week, it's @willwiles.bsky.social on the agony of choosing a shelf!
Come to this great event next week! Now with added @annasmithspark.bsky.social ! Doctors do recommend five @britfantasysoc.bsky.social authors a day
Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy Religion - @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social in conversation with @annasmithspark.bsky.social , @justmarvewrites.bsky.social, @willwiles.bsky.social and me. 6pm, Waterstones Covent Garden, 13th November
#SciFi #London @waterstones.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social
#SciFi #London @waterstones.bsky.social @britfantasysoc.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Come to this great event next week! Now with added @annasmithspark.bsky.social ! Doctors do recommend five @britfantasysoc.bsky.social authors a day
A last shout for my Apollo piece on the demolition of the East Wing and the coming Trump ballroom, the third of a loose trilogy of pieces on Trump and classical architecture ...
‘The heavily gilded renderings of ballroom interior owe far more to the baroque, even the rococo, than to Thomas Jefferson. It sits on the city limits between Las Vegas and St Petersburg. It is, quite simply, not the sort of thing democracies build.’
— Will Wiles on the White House
— Will Wiles on the White House
So, goodbye East Wing. What’s next for the West Wing?
The dissolution of certainties about American power now has its perfect visual emblem – in the form of bulldozers reducing part of the White House to rubble, writes Will Wiles
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November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A last shout for my Apollo piece on the demolition of the East Wing and the coming Trump ballroom, the third of a loose trilogy of pieces on Trump and classical architecture ...