Sean McNulty

Buy my novel, EXCAVATUM: a metaphysical fantasy, comic fable, and folk horror adventure about faith, grief, sex, and sea monsters. Moby Dick meets Father Ted. amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HCHG7PM6

Delighted to have some tasters for my work-in-progress about Yeats and the occult.

Work-in-progress about Yeats and the occult. www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Little poets, country cures, and mellow times.

Bonfire-night then and now. Powerful words of warning from Celticman: www.abctales.com/story/celtic...

This haunting and wonderfully written story by TOMCRA, set in an utterly believable and disturbing world, is Wednesday's Pick of the Day: www.abctales.com/story/tomcra...

This moving story from Marandina brilliantly captures a life in 400 words. It is Pick of the Day! Please do share, if you can www.abctales.com/story/marand...

Story: The Lonely Saints www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Blotches, broad swords, and gingham.

Story: Whitechapel Via Monto www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Widows, fiddle players, and assassins

Story and Poem of the Month for September, LIVE on ABCTales now!: www.abctales.com/blog/insertp...

Today's Pick of the Day is a relative rarity, a #poem from Celticman. A very fine one it is too. Do share it if you like it too. www.abctales.com/story/celtic...

Delighted with the pick.

Story: Say No To Him www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Dust, rhubarb, and rebellion

Our current Inspiration Point is all about myths. Here's Lille Dante's very clever entry: www.abctales.com/story/lille-...

Story: Messages www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Flatbreads, fenians, and blind bastards.

My two chapbooks: YOU: From Pissed to Publication @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social Gregor @sunburntsaints.bsky.social www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store... sunburntsaints.co.uk

Delighted to be picked. Work in progress. War of independence. Yeats and the occult etc.

Our Saturday Pick is another of Sean McNulty's beautifully written and acutely observed slices of life. A family reunion that somehow emphasises distance: www.abctales.com/story/sean-m...

Story: For Present Company www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Reunion, perversion, and lackeys.

Another "Kind of" Review: Altered Images, The Picturedrome, Holmfirth ewanlawrie.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/a...

Story: The Failing Heads www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Aboard a train in the west of Ireland in the 1920s.

Look what turned up in the post this morning: In the Shadow of Gods, a poetry collection by Rachel Deering. Looking forward to reading it @racheldeering.bsky.social #poetrycommunity

Staying fit in Glasnevin, Dublin. Trying to burn off excess hair. A decent 3-4m today.

Latest article. On Vacances. In Nice. Some reading. Some writing. A new fiction prize. Cheese. Wine. Iron men. @renardpress.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-vacance...

Thank you so much Paul @marandina.bsky.social for your thoughtful and perceptive review of my new poetry book Contemplation of Roses which is available from: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4 #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #blueskypoets #poetryreviews

My latest poem: 'The Call of the Night' Creature comforts www.abctales.com/story/marand...

Very happy to review Drew Gummerson's wonderful reinterpretation of Kafka. From @sunburntsaints.bsky.social @drewgum.bsky.social seanmcnulty1.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/a...

A huge thank you to @thispersona.bsky.social for this fine review of Gregor @sunburntsaints.bsky.social “Subversive and hilarious, this is a study of body and soul, an audacious retelling of an old classic which Kafka himself would surely endorse.” www.abctales.com/blog/insertp...

All these have been sent out now. So if you’re a subscriber, don’t go too far from your letterbox, there’s a chapbook on its way. And if you’re not, we have a few copies still needing a home. Not many, though. £20 gets you this and three more during the year. Head to Sunburntsaints.co.uk Thank you!

Tentative work-in-progress. Delighted to be picked.

Tentative work-in-progress. Delighted to be picked.

Story: The Murder of the Lord Mayor of www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Political heroes, mistaken identity, and parasol patents

Story: The Murder of the Lord Mayor of www.abctales.com/story/sean-m... Political heroes, mistaken identity, and parasol patents

Like Wil E. Coyote on Roadrunner Short Story September is upon us. Here I talk all things short story, practice, a festival, favourite collections, and the @galleybeggars.bsky.social short story prize drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-short-s...

“One morning as Gregor awoke from beautiful dreams he found his mother and father transformed into the most horrible vermin…” Kafka. But not as you know it. Gregor. Coming soon from sunburntsaints.co.uk @sunburntsaints.bsky.social

What do you do when a writer you admire greatly reviews your book? You shout it from the rooftops, of course. odonnellgrunting.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/s...

A playlist I use for writing when I feel like going out-of-body. open.spotify.com/playlist/66O...

A playlist I use for writing to create a pleasant, wistful mood. open.spotify.com/playlist/3rc...

I've said it before. Trash Theory @trashtheory.bsky.social is arguably the greatest YouTube channel. Short, cleverly made music documentaries, often positioned around one particular song, or genre, or era, or gimmick. Extremely entertaining. I've been waiting on this one. youtu.be/oCatW6UaCv0?...

Latest substack is up: On rewriting Kafka. Featuring: Kafka Metamorphosis. Or transformation. Hotdog stories. Prague. Mission Impossible Bugs. Or cockroaches. Or filthy vermin. drewgummerson.substack.com/p/on-rewriti...

A playlist I use for writing when I feel like going out-of-body. open.spotify.com/playlist/66O...

A playlist I use for writing to create a pleasant, wistful mood. open.spotify.com/playlist/3rc...

A great feeling to be read. Thank you.

And the last of my author interviews. Here talking short stories with shout outs to @sunburntsaints.bsky.social @abctales.bsky.social Pistol Jim Press, Punk Noir Press, Revolution John. youtu.be/liY_zc-BhNk?...

Inspired by Sinatra's Three Coins in the Fountain and part of our current writing challenge, a two part masterpiece by one of our most talented writers: www.abctales.com/story/airyfa...

And here it is, part 1 of my interview with Rae Toon, talking about my first book from 2002, The Lodger - how I wrote it and how it came to be published. Filmed on the rooftop of my local independent cinema Phoenix Arts. youtu.be/RE--W04EHWY?... youtu.be/RE--W04EHWY?...

I'm a guest poet at Mad Swirl with this poem about memory and Belfast. madswirl.com/poetry/2026/...

I found my old tape of John Waters' Desperate Living. It's as filthy and trashy as I remember. The looks I must have got buying this stuff back in the day. And the excuses I made. Until finally: there were none.