Colin Harker
@lordsteerpike.bsky.social
(she/her) THE FEAST OF THE INNOCENTS (2022) / British lit PhD / Gothic cosmic horror author / William Godwin and Charles Maturin are my patron saints
Pinned
For lovers of folk horror and the British Gothic, a novel set in the midwinter of 1665, within a remote Scottish priory haunted by ancient sorcery and deadly secrets. Enter the Priory…if you dare.
amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD
#horror #gothic #thriller
amazon.com/Feast-Innocents-Novel-Astonishing-Terror-ebook/dp/B09SYG7XTD
#horror #gothic #thriller
Is this true, men? 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Is this true, men? 🤣 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/s...
All right, I’m curious because I don’t think I swear all that much 😂 @profanity.accountant
November 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
All right, I’m curious because I don’t think I swear all that much 😂 @profanity.accountant
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Probably the single best example I can think of of business type weather vanes switching against Trump.
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Probably the single best example I can think of of business type weather vanes switching against Trump.
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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I wrote a poem. ✨
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I wrote a poem. ✨
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this isn't how it works, president dementia is having a crashout day because he's losing control of both the republican party and his own presidency and he knows it
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
this isn't how it works, president dementia is having a crashout day because he's losing control of both the republican party and his own presidency and he knows it
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"Write the torture scenes you wish to see in the world" Gandhi, I think
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"Write the torture scenes you wish to see in the world" Gandhi, I think
Trump and his administration have so much blood on their hands.
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump and his administration have so much blood on their hands.
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Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
She didn't want to deploy to D.C.
"She hated it. She cried about it."
But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.
May she rest in peace.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Trump drops 11 points - 11 points! - in the past month in Gallup. Just a staggering decline. 1/
I wrote a poem. ✨
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I wrote a poem. ✨
this is me except with Instagram because I'm too lazy to create a physical scrapbook with pictures of my favorite dead writers and random 19th century paintings interspersed with poetry
i can understand this urge a lot because i have never been one to keep a diary consistently. a lot of things other people use diaries for, i can only get out in conversations with others as audiences
November 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
this is me except with Instagram because I'm too lazy to create a physical scrapbook with pictures of my favorite dead writers and random 19th century paintings interspersed with poetry
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Join #FrightClub and post along Thursday's special Udo Kier double feature starting with Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) at 10:00 PM ET. On Fandango & Roku.
Then join us at 11:50 PM ET for Swan Song (2021). On Prime & Fandango.
This makeover is going to hurt.
Then join us at 11:50 PM ET for Swan Song (2021). On Prime & Fandango.
This makeover is going to hurt.
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Join #FrightClub and post along Thursday's special Udo Kier double feature starting with Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) at 10:00 PM ET. On Fandango & Roku.
Then join us at 11:50 PM ET for Swan Song (2021). On Prime & Fandango.
This makeover is going to hurt.
Then join us at 11:50 PM ET for Swan Song (2021). On Prime & Fandango.
This makeover is going to hurt.
Why does YouTube think I want to watch this while I cook Thanksgiving dinner? youtu.be/tPhL15aV_PY?...
The Full Timeline of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (1962 - 2080)
YouTube video by 1045HourVitality
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Why does YouTube think I want to watch this while I cook Thanksgiving dinner? youtu.be/tPhL15aV_PY?...
I just read about that creep Forrest Ackerman and what he did to Robert Bloch on his death bed, asking for his last autograph. Thinking about it makes me sick. I do love that Bloch’s wife asked Harlan Ellison to reply to Ackerman; I can only imagine the level of righteous anger in that reply.
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I just read about that creep Forrest Ackerman and what he did to Robert Bloch on his death bed, asking for his last autograph. Thinking about it makes me sick. I do love that Bloch’s wife asked Harlan Ellison to reply to Ackerman; I can only imagine the level of righteous anger in that reply.
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I did not expect to read a paragraph of Harlan waxing poetical on horror. I’ve never seen him talk like this about sci-fi…
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I did not expect to read a paragraph of Harlan waxing poetical on horror. I’ve never seen him talk like this about sci-fi…
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It's almost Thanksgiving and that's the time for crime novels featuring teenage protagonists in 1984, trying to solve a murder, recover a missing friend and tangling with everyone from school bullies to a brutal Russian assassin. It's not October, but it's my book THAT OCTOBER!
Like a lot of you, hopefully, I'll be spending a lot less with huge corporations during the economic blackout that's covering Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
So here's a couple of good ways to buy my 1984-set high school crime novel THAT OCTOBER from other than the usual suspects. (more)
So here's a couple of good ways to buy my 1984-set high school crime novel THAT OCTOBER from other than the usual suspects. (more)
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It's almost Thanksgiving and that's the time for crime novels featuring teenage protagonists in 1984, trying to solve a murder, recover a missing friend and tangling with everyone from school bullies to a brutal Russian assassin. It's not October, but it's my book THAT OCTOBER!
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
I take a break from reading Harlan to finally start reading Poppy Z. Brite, only to get jumpscared by Harlan in the acknowledgments page.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I take a break from reading Harlan to finally start reading Poppy Z. Brite, only to get jumpscared by Harlan in the acknowledgments page.
This is a pretty flawed argument. "You should be grateful that people want your work enough to steal it." Would someone say that to a sculptor or a creative who made material art? I don't think so. It's in vogue now to denigrate written art.
piracy is a completely aspirational problem for any author in america to have and i think anyone trying to stake out an anti-piracy position is a demon full stop
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This is a pretty flawed argument. "You should be grateful that people want your work enough to steal it." Would someone say that to a sculptor or a creative who made material art? I don't think so. It's in vogue now to denigrate written art.
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Just another poem.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just another poem.
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My soon to be 12 year old niece just showed me this animated cartoon she’s really into (she went as one of the characters for Halloween) and it’s pretty cool but I’m like “wow this is a little bleak” and looked it up and apparently it’s based on Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
November 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My soon to be 12 year old niece just showed me this animated cartoon she’s really into (she went as one of the characters for Halloween) and it’s pretty cool but I’m like “wow this is a little bleak” and looked it up and apparently it’s based on Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream”
I really was born in the wrong time.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I really was born in the wrong time.