Russell Mardell

Storytellers...maybe consider allowing the pets in your stories to live and thrive? Especially Horror books, the Horror genre is exceptionally cruel to animals. I am so traumatized, daily, by the treatment of animals in real life...maybe just for once, LET THE DOG LIVE in fictional stories?? jfc

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

From July 25-31, join us for an 18-film retrospective celebrating Gene Hackman’s most treasured performances, tracing the evolution of the Academy Award winner who redefined American screen acting.

View the full screening schedule and secure your 🎟️ at filmlinc.org/gene

This is absolutely stunning! ❤️ If there are prints on their way, please count me in!

5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 June 2025 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Horror DNA take a deep dive into the work of author Ad…

I always appreciate @thisishorror.bsky.social supporting & promoting my articles on their excellent site. In my latest, I take a deep dive into the fiction of horror great Adam Nevill. Thanks to @kevharrison.bsky.social for lovingly curating the page.

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Bullitt - Opening Credits YouTube video by filmblogit

Just the coolest opening credits with Schifrin again delivering the goods youtu.be/S__L_OQe6NE?...

It Dances in the Shadows, Version 2: A Primer on the Fiction of Adam N Adam Nevill ranks amongst the absolute best writers of supernatural horror fiction and has no duffers in his back catalogue.

@jonezyboy.bsky.social has written an immense round up of the fantastic catalogue of Adam Nevill over on the brillaint @horrordna.bsky.social check it out below

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Movies are cool.

Cover reveal!! I can finally talk about the Top Secret project I've been working on with @deadinkbooks.bsky.social! Ten haunted house stories by modern masters of the #Uncanny, compiled and introduced by yours truly - all wrapped up in a glorious deluxe hardback edition. Full details below.

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

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In Praise of French Connection II Can we talk for a moment about just how good John Frankenheimer’s 1975 movie French Connection II is?

John Frankenheimer’s French Connection II is 50 years old. Can we talk for a moment about just how good it is? My latest Substack missive live and ready for your reading pleasure.

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Great book this. Deserved a much longer shelf life. Maybe buy a copy?

Thanks so much, Dan. Really appreciate your support

Copies of the novel, The Knock-Knock Man, on a bookshop table

The Knock-Knock Man is 3 today. It’s been a rocky road with the publisher going under 4 months later (not related) & hoped for sequel being shelved (for now) So grateful to those that have supported my little horror noir. Signed copies can still be bought here -> www.russellmardell.co.uk/more-info

Great news, Dan!

Back from the dead... Come Sing for the Harrowing returns! You might remember that my second short story collection, Come Sing for the Harrowing , was released by Weird Little Worlds in October 2024....

Website announcement on the return of my folk #horror collection Come Sing for the Harrowing - coming from @clashbooks.bsky.social next year!

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Walter Murch on Suddenly Something Clicked Writers on Film · Episode

It’s Walter Murch day on Writers on Film. The legendary editor on his new book: “Suddenly Something Clicked: the Languages of Editing and Sound Design” open.spotify.com/episode/3dM3...

Flat out the perfect summation:

"It is not ours to give away."

Short stories are great, like novels but without all the padding and descriptions of people's noses. Often a single idea, mood, or incident, delivered as a sharp hit. These particular collections of stories, wot I wrote, are very 'dippable'; read one story every now and then, in any order you like.

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

Data Bill's AI amendment to enforce copyright law on tech companies defeated in parliament An amendment backed by creatives that would ensure AI models obey copyright law has been defeated in parliament as the contentious Data (Use and Access) Bill proceeds towards its final stages.

As ever, if you're wealthy, the law is just guidelines.

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RISE: The Story of Augustines (Official Trailer 2019) YouTube video by ARCADE

If you don’t know the band, a perfect place to start is Todd Howe’s magnificent documentary about them, available on Prime youtu.be/zG5SgnlEc0M?...

The return of the greatest live band of their generation. Couldn’t be happier ✊❤️ Viva Augustines!

Writers on Film homework. It’s a biggie.

HELL TOR 2025 Special guest announcement - STEPHEN VOLK

"Stephen Volk has made a name for himself as one of the UK's leading purveyors of soul-chilling horror" - SciFi Now

More guest announcements soon.
Tickets will go on sale in June

#exeterphoenix #helltor

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MERE, Sorrow Spring, Greater Sins, Witch Bottle, Meet Me at the Surface, Barrowbeck, Secret Lives of the Dead

Harvest home the autumnal the ritual the twisted ones slew foot something in the walls ghost wall the plague stones never whistle at night the boatman's daughter white pines lost in the garden revelator gorse withered hill devil's day the only good Indians the bone mother the lottery double walker

I will be enjoying a Folk Horror Summer this year!