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Paul Ryan O'Connor

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Crime-writing blogger and award-winning mystery author. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place. https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · Mar 11

The cure for the blues, as a writer, is to write. Show up. Do the work. Submit. Repeat.

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Thursday By The Numbers — Paul O'Connor

The cure for the blues, as a writer, is to write. Show up. Do the work. Submit. Repeat.

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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 18h

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 17h

Frank Herbert - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 12h

If you were going to ask an engagement question to generate activity on your social media feed, with no intention of replying or having a conversation, what would it be?

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 14h

We used to say you can't push a piece of string.

And things often look better in the morning.

This was a good story that I wasn't particularly ready to write at that time. Live and learn, if you are lucky.

Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 16h

Using a superior mind-mapping tool as a pretty good outliner.

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Scapple Of My Eye — Paul O'Connor

Using a superior mind-mapping tool as a pretty good outliner.

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David @scarolinascorpio.bsky.social · 5d

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff during a break from The Black Cat 1934

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

If you are going to become what you measure, make sure you measure the right things.

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You Become What You Measure — Paul O'Connor

Make sure you're measuring the right things.

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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 12d

Creature From The Black Lagoon 1954 🖤🎬

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

I want to talk to the Russian railroad engineers that ran a spur line directly to the edge of the highest cliff in Siberia.

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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 1d

“The best part was pulling down the shades, stuffing the doorbell with rags, putting the phone in the refrigerator and going to bed for 3 or 4 days. And the next best part was nobody ever missed me.”

Charles Bukowski.

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 1d

Best scene is the end, after the mayhem and dismemberment is complete, when the young protege is reaching for relevance or a moral to the story, and Peter Cushing calmly sweeps up the broken glass so can open shop tomorrow.

Just another day as a mad scientist in an insane asylum. Take notes, son.

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David McMillion @dmreds.bsky.social · Jul 28

#Ransom

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

The "Golden Age" of everything is "12."

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Watched:

Poster for Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell.

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 7d

figcat.com/lists/metaph...

Metaphysical detective stories and other literary mysteries

A list of 100 novels and stories from the metaphysical or “anti-detective” mystery subgenre. Includes works by Auster, Eco, Pynchon, and Borges.

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Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.social · 2d

This was the first piece in my "Histories of Horror" column way back at Council of Zoom. Finally got it back online. A deep dive into the origins and inspirations behind THE MUMMY. medium.com/@nbrehmer/hi...

Histories of Horror: The Mummy

This article was originally written as the inaugural entry for my “Histories of Horror” column at Council of Zoom.

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Saw email from Down & Out Books saying they are closing after fifteen years.

This is terrible news for the publisher, my fellow writers, and even me (I had placed two stories in future anthologies over there, both now cancelled).

Condolences to all on the loss of another market.

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Thevaultoftheatomicspaceage @atomicspaceage.bsky.social · 2d

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Weaving in and out of multiple points-of-view, made to look effortless by a master of the craft.

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Viewpoint Shifts In The Thin Red Line — Paul O'Connor

The great ones make it look easy.

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 2d

Marquee of a movie theater showing ANNIE (1982) and SATAN'S MISTRESS (also 1982)

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

shortmystery.blogspot.com/2025/10/grea...

Great New Reads From the Short Mystery Fiction Society

About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.

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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · Mar 9

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Noir Haunted Shack🕸♬🎞🦇 @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday

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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social · 3d

I’d seen it once, probably 40y ago, as a 2nd feature at the Nuart in Los Angeles (probably paired with Citizen Kane). It’s a B-picture but Welles isn’t capable of making a B-picture so it soars into something more. Mostly what I remembered was the suspense, mostly what I saw was Welles’ performance.

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ljr2112.bsky.social @ljr2112.bsky.social · Aug 31

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