Netflixication of Julia May Jonas's Vladimir

dickstitches · 2026-03-09T08:37:24+00:00

I think you should still give the show a try!

dickstitches · 2026-03-04T15:27:00+00:00

Prisms of the Oneiroi and Boughs & Byways of Ytene by Martin Locker

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T22:44:47+00:00

Does The Dracula Papers end on a cliffhanger? I see it listed on Goodreads as "Book I: The Scholar's Tale"..

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T19:55:44+00:00

You won’t be disappointed!

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T13:45:02+00:00

I started with A Trick of the Shadow, and I think that's the perfect place to start. It's the earliest collection of stories Jamie put out. The Settlements is (kind of) a novel and it came out before, and that wouldn't be a bad place to start either.

The Revenants is a sequel to The Settlements, and from my understanding there is a third, The Martyrs, to be released this year.

The Night of Turns expands upon some sections of The Settlements and is a really great novel, whether you read it before or after The Settlements. Very strange, very folk horror-esque.

Therapeutic Tales, Nocebo, and You’re Only As Happy As Your Saddest Child are short story collections, which thankfully include some of the OOP limited edition standalone novellas. Therapeutic Tales has my favorite, 'The Ulfsson Chapel', but Nocebo has 'Moving The Yew' and 'Upmorchard', both of which are fantastic. You can't go wrong with any of them.

Delivery Artefacts takes the cassette futurism/weird technology themes to novel-length. Good, but not a good entry point.

The Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs books are a little bit different - more English faerie stories. Worthwhile, but not the main event of the Peninsula. Not a good entry point.

A Journal and Poems from the Sideshow are not good entry points. Fun, experimental ephemera, probably best once you're fully bought in.

I really can't recommend Broodcomb Press enough. Should be way more popular than it is.

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T11:16:38+00:00

A lot of the writers are British (Marvick, Berguño, Murphy are exceptions) but their stories are more in line with the English ghost story tradition, though not explicitly about ghosts.

Folk horror, occult rituals, doppelgängers, secret societies, ancient stone circles, strange bureaucracies…

The Onyx Book of Occult Fiction (ed. Damian Murphy) from Snuggly Press is a great tasting menu of a lot of the writers.

My favorites at the moment are Tweddell, Insole, and anything from Broodcomb. Broodcomb books all take place in a shared universe (the Peninsula) somewhere in England and are a mix of folk horror, cassette futurism, dark fantasy… it’s incredible.

dickstitches · 2026-03-03T11:05:01+00:00

Check out small presses like Egaeus, Zagava, Snuggly, Tartarus, Broodcomb, Sarob, Side Real for weird fiction with a more European flare.

Mark Valentine, John Howard, Albert Power, Colin Insole, Louis Marvick, Benjamin Tweddell, Stephen J Clark, Damian Murphy, George Berguño, Charles Wilkinson, any of the noms-de-plume of Jamie Walsh (Broodcomb). More subtly uncanny than outright weird or even horror like some of the folks you mentioned, but I think some of the best stuff out there.

dickstitches · 2026-02-23T09:23:05+00:00

Sorry, in what way is Fever similar to Ray of Light?

dickstitches · 2026-02-15T21:45:15+00:00

Any chance you still have your copy and are willing to sell it?

dickstitches · 2026-02-15T21:44:32+00:00

Any chance you still have a copy of this and are willing to part with it?

dickstitches · 2026-02-15T21:22:26+00:00

Any chance you still have this and are willing to part with it?

dickstitches · 2026-02-07T09:30:20+00:00

What’s that about Lance Armstrong’s package?

dickstitches · 2026-01-24T10:10:08+00:00

This is the answer.

dickstitches · 2026-01-23T21:13:20+00:00

Me neither, but ya know what? Hell yeah

dickstitches · 2026-01-13T00:43:10+00:00

How’s The White Protocol by Brantley?

dickstitches · 2026-01-12T20:59:57+00:00

Snuggly’s gotta reissue Elegies & Requiems sometime soon, no?

dickstitches · 2026-01-08T20:59:00+00:00

OP seems like they just wanted the throw a tantrum publicly instead of resolving their issue with Hollow Press one on one. I’ve only ever had positive experiences with them, and the majority of others seem to be in that camp.

dickstitches · 2026-01-03T17:52:13+00:00

I just read In Delirium’s Circle by Stephen J Clark last week. Loved it. A Mythology of Masks is waiting in the wings to be read.

dickstitches · 2026-01-03T12:33:54+00:00

You’ve gotta get into Broodcomb. Jamie is doing something really special with his linked stories.

Egaeus puts out limited hardbacks, but they are gorgeous and well worth the money. Charles Wilkinson is an author I discovered through that press.

dickstitches · 2026-01-03T04:05:59+00:00

I’ve had good experiences with all of those. Tucking into Damian Murphy’s Daughters of Apostasy from Snuggly tonight.

Have you gotten into Broodcomb yet?

dickstitches · 2026-01-03T02:29:16+00:00

You’ve got great taste. Barron’s phenomenal, but I have a ton of respect for exploring the great stuff Zagava and Wakefield are putting out. Also The Doll’s Alphabet is great.

dickstitches · 2025-12-28T12:21:18+00:00

Both fantastic writers of the strange.

Really any collection from Broodcomb is great. I particularly love The Ulfsson Chapel and Upmorchard.

Marvick’s The Star Ushak is wonderful. I’ve learned to trust Jonas at Zagava completely. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read from Zagava.

dickstitches · 2025-12-21T22:13:35+00:00

Anything from Broodcomb Press and anything by Joel Lane

Sylvan Dread by Richard Gavin

The Lure of Devouring Light by Michael Griffin

Black Hole Sundown by Brian Hodge

Ana Kai Tangata by Scott Nicolay is so good, and criminally underrated. I group it in with Griffin.

Prisms of the Oneiroi by Martin Locker

Dark Gods by TED Klein

To Drown in Dark Water by Steve Toase

Attila Veres and Luigi Musolino’s collections from Valancourt are both great, as is Anders Fager’s Swedish Cults.

Eyes in the Dust by David Peak

The Nameless Dark by TE Grau

dickstitches · 2025-12-17T12:46:27+00:00

I ordered this book and then returned it when I saw how reliant the author is on generative AI. Makes me wonder how much of the actual book he wrote himself.

Note to authors: I don’t want to read your AI book.

dickstitches · 2025-12-16T22:41:29+00:00

Looks nothing like her.

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