Daniel Carpenter

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Commissioning editor at Titan Books. Debut collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER out now from Black Shuck Books. https://linktr.ee/dancarpenter85

The Blue Mask by Joel Lane
you wouldn't young a sheldon
Bring Her Back
"Unflinchingly weird and threaded with equal parts melancholy and menace, Carpenter's HUNTING BY THE RIVER reads like dark and sorrowful treatises penned in the world next to this one. Wholly unique and unlike anything I've ever read before."—Keith Rosson
I Know a Place by Nat Cassidy
Movie monster book
A zombie in the living dead museum
A coffee cup in a diner
Inside a bar in Pittsburgh
Welcome to Pittsburgh
The opening of the fog
Assorted Crisis Events book
My Stokercon schedule.
Jurassic world rebirth poster
Friendship poster
Angel Down on a table next to Milkman, Beloved and a bunch of other classics
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping
The sushi that screamed
I finally understand the ending of The Sixth Sense. Those names are the people who worked on the movie.
Best correction ever.
Sinners
the opening line of High Rise
A skyscraper at the met gala. What else were you expecting?
"That's Republican. We count those"
In the hills, the cities (and also a big tesco)
Wrecks, Japanese Gothic, and North Woods
Updating my job title to Commissioning editor
A dodo
The cover of Once in a House on Fire
King Alfred pub in Winchester
Storyland by Amy Jeffs
A row of books!
A very very very red hotel corridor.
Dead Weight
Illustration from Shrek
Bodies in the Bookshop bookstore
Screenshot from Riven
Star wars poster with bad typography
Ghost train!?
Play Nice by Rachel Harrison.
People are pumping themselves with fat from corpses. That's all you need to know, man.
A complete novel draft. Argh.
Jake Arnott blurb
movie poster for 1000 Women in Horror
Station 11 cover
Kurt Russell in the Thing
Apologies
Peep show gif
Poster for Bodycam.
A laptop screen.
A laptop in a nice cafe.
James Patterson has cowritten a book with Mr Beast
A ghost
The artist pictured with a ghost.
Appearances at the Ghost story festival
What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done. There are those moments when we sit before a blank page, but mostly we’re adjusting that which is already there. The writer revises, the painter touches up, the director edits, the musician overdubs. I write, “Jane came into the room and sat down on the blue couch,” read that, wince, cross out “came into the room” and “down” and “blue” (Why does she have to come into the room? Can someone sit UP on a couch? Why do we care if it’s blue?) and the sentence becomes “Jane sat on the couch – ” and suddenly, it’s better (Hemingwayesque, even!), although … why is it meaningful for Jane to sit on a couch? Do we really need that? And soon we have arrived, simply, at “Jane”, which at least doesn’t suck, and has the virtue of brevity.
An extract of the very good article below.
Cover of Strange Pictures by Uketsu
Decapitated vampire Henry VIII
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