Laura Elliott

To celebrate Black History Month in the UK, we're resharing our curated reading list exploring Black horror (across film + beyond): holpublishing.com/grimreader! [Ctd. in comments: 1/4] #BlackHistoryMonth #blackhorror #bookrecommendations #horrormovies #grimreader #booksky #filmsky #horrorsky

the fact the ‘journalist’ who began the Jason Arday witch hunt has been shortlisted here, even though a fourth investigation has now found there was no evidence of plagiarism, is a shameful indictment of our media and imo his inclusion cheapens the work of other great journalists shortlisted today

it’s Halloween soon so i suppose i should share Awakened for its 2nd ever spooky season! if you’re looking for a slow, anti-capitalist gothic horror set in the Tower of London then my tale of bad tech, bad medicine & complicated monstrosity may be for you linktr.ee/lauracelliott

took a photo of a shoe to send to james to check if it was the chew-shoe and not one benni shouldn’t have and the low light setting on the phone camera has made it look at though there’s a ghost dog standing beside it

Our story game is now released into the wild for Halloween: A deepsea weird fantasy for enjoyers of indie games, zines, my gamebooks, or whalefall - free - play in browser (incl on your phone) - go on. abandon society. join us in the ocean dark haridraws.itch.io/the-murmurin... #TheMurmuringDepths

hey all i dont know what authorsdaily dot com is? but they have an "Interview" with me posted that i - never gave - is full of lies - has my wrong pronouns - is full of things i dont do - or would never say? so i emailed them and told them to take it down but jfc, i am tired

that’s it, drastic measures have been taken let’s see the Great Houndini get out of THIS

WE CEMENTED TWO MORE BRICKS INTO THIS GAP YESTERDAY AND HE STILL GOT OUT i just watched him turn himself sideways and hook one side of his legs over this gap like a spider to slip through my dog is a non-Newtonian fluid istg

Children without a manglewurzels find other beets or squashes to carve into spirit lanterns for Mad Punkle night. Those with newfangled pumpkins carry them along the lanes like glowing orbs in some coronation procession for ancient kings and queens. – Joanna Vickers, 1982 #VOH

Still looking for your Halloween read? 👀

#MarkedForDeath, a new supernatural teen thriller from @melindasalisbury.com, is out January 2027! "In just 100 pages, Salisbury manages to build suspense & explore ideas of permission in the age of smartphones in this creepy cautionary tale" @thebookseller.com's Top 10 Children's Books for January📱

Looking for a spooky read in the lead up to Halloween? Why not read The Needfire, a slowburn sapphic Gothic set in the far North of Scotland, where family curses run deep and the angry earth will have its revenge... Buy here: geni.us/needfire

If you haven’t bought this book already, you should. It’s really good and perfect for scary season.

don’t listen to me, listen to Emma!

Congratulations to all the winners of the World Fantasy Awards! Including @renanbernardo.com, @thomasha.bsky.social, @tanaudel.bsky.social, @wnwagner.bsky.social, @carinabissett.bsky.social, and @edenriverstrust.bsky.social!

it’s Halloween soon so i suppose i should share Awakened for its 2nd ever spooky season! if you’re looking for a slow, anti-capitalist gothic horror set in the Tower of London then my tale of bad tech, bad medicine & complicated monstrosity may be for you linktr.ee/lauracelliott

starting to say that Benni the pup has ‘a touch of the vapours’ as though he’s a Victorian invalid whenever he gets particularly overexcited, and i can confirm that the storm has increased the incidence rate of the vapours by about tenfold

By me for today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social: Why horror fiction is having a moment, with @gnofhorror.com, @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social, @jamieleenardone.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Big love and respect to @chrishaughton.bsky.social and Nicola Davies (who may be on here but cannae spot her)

Oh good, another storm? Another storm, just for me? Just for me and the hole in my kitchen wall? Ambassador!

often i think hercule purrot’s desire for belly rubs makes him more like a dog than a cat

according to my watch my average resting heart rate has been lower by an average of 12bpm (coming out at about 72bpm now) for the last 30 days. it’s amazing what handing book two in & therefore reducing daily stress significantly does for a woman’s (my) health 😬😅

"Nobody gets to 30 without a few skeletons in the closet – or in Lara’s case, butlers in the freezer." The ever-hilarious Ellie Gibson celebrates Lara Croft by digging up her most embarrassing moments: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/o...

Okay, looking for books publishing between January and April of 2027. Thrillers, mystery, horror, science fiction, literary fiction, true crime, etc. Your own and books you’re excited about. Go!

Set in a near-future York and the Pennines of the Bronze Age, Parch Marks sees Eva Sinclair, archaeologist turned TV presenter, excavate a mysterious massacre site amidst the political instability of a climate ravaged Britain. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... Pumpkin by @motiblackart.bsky.social

Happy Friday and some good news to share! Thrilled to have received an award grant from @creativescots.bsky.social to write my next book! This one's inspired by Scottish folklore, specifically Orcadian, and I'm excited the grant will also support a research trip next year to Orkney! Can't wait! 🌊✨

This won’t be reported widely, but Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a second time. Still nobody has been held accountable for this man’s death.

benni awaiting his humans’ return!

friends fear she’s writing fanfic again

‘but in the minutes before dawn there is peace in the Tower and this moment is all that there is…’ if the below is your vibe then Awakened may be for you!

i love making things cosy when the nights close in

the last few times i’ve had to show ID every single person checking it has exclaimed, in genuine surprise, ‘you look so much younger than that!’ and once again i’m forced to ask what people think happens in your 30s. it’s not that huge a change i swear!

still not over it sorry

Yn honor of Bioware, todaye Ich am goinge to weare a stylish item of clothinge that doth give me a +2% statistic boost.

This review of BEASTS OF THE WILD BLACK absolutely slayed me. Just sat here giggling. Well played Amazon reviewer. TBF, pretty much nailed my process. I feel seen.

"Datacentres ultimately have very little benefit for others except the datacentre operator.” I just asked the government in #HouseofLords HOW MUCH of these technologies we can afford? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So the "advice" doled out in this column makes me INCREDIBLY fucking angry as a former kid who was repeatedly taken to task by teachers for "inappropriate" drawings, culminating in a 9th-grade suspension spurred by Columbine paranoia and residual Satanic Panic. Arionne here says that was JUSTIFIED.

IT'S alive!!! This is an absolute dream come true and a hight point of my long art career. You should absolutely get a copy! pspublishing.co.uk/the-kith-of-... pspublishing.co.uk/the-kith-of-...

very sad over this 😭 DA will always be embarrassingly important to me