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A Slightly Different End-Of-Year Top Five
I noticed a few people have been marking the year’s conclusion by reposting their most-read pieces on Substack.
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Now Get Back To It, You F***ing Baby
Six New Stories
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8 Questions for... Tom Cox
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The Cat: A Folk Tale For Midwinter
Once upon a time, a man, a woman and a cat were walking through a deep forest.
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A Newsletter Where I Write In A Fairly Chaotic Way About Several Ostensibly Unrelated Things, Some Of Which Are Depressing And Worrying…
As (to say the least) an unfestive sort of person, who would ideally prefer to be temporarily deactivated, C-3PO-style, during this darkest, most…
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The Don't Mind Me Decade
Today’s newsletter is an excerpt from my most recently published novel, 1983. Told in the voice of one of the book’s many narrators, it’s the final…
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Some Photos From My Family's Archive And The Cult Low Budget Horror Films They Became
This is a free post, but taking out a paid subscription here helps me write more of the stuff I love to write, and will give you access to lots of…
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The True Story Of How Julian Cope Licked My Entire Face And Hypnotised Me Into An Occult Life On The Margins Of Society
A lot of people ask me why I am the way I am, so, after many years of holding back, I thought it was time to come clean.
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Houses In Motion
The Pain Of Knowing You Can't Go Back
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The House That Books Held Together
This is a piece I wrote eighteen months ago, when I had relatively few readers on Substack.
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Some Ghosts I Have Known Who Turned Out To Be Massive Pricks
Ghost hunters in Somerset’s Quantock Hills have reported that the spectre of Jane Walford, who was murdered by her husband John in 1789, can often be…
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