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The original magazine of the unique, fantastic & bizarre...since 1923. Still luring the unwary into the shadowy places between dream and reality…

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Weird Tales
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NECROTEK by @JonathanMaberry IS HERE!! And when you order it (or have ordered it) you can enter our contest to win wonderful prizes. Go to our website to find out more. Congratulations to Jonathan, artist Jeff Wong, and to our good friends at @BlackstoneAudio
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This changes everything.
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It seems to work. . .
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This is the new official portrait of King Charles of England. We are considering it for the next Weird Tales cover.
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What are you reading?
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Our newest issue has a Hellboy story and cover by @artofmmignola ,and is shipping right now.  
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RIP Brian Lumley. The grandmaster of horror has entered eternity. We haven’t announced our new issue yet, but it features what may be his final story.
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Oh, and we also had a PACKED Sword and Sorcery Issue with a tribute by @neilhimself , to Michael Moorcock—who contributed an Elric story. Also a sick tale by @TheKJA and a cover by @BobEggleton1 among the other treats
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Rejection letter from the 1920's. http://t.co/GFUiz1a89Y
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Any ideas?
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Our newest issue will have you slithering through the back alley to uncover the most demented secrets known to our species. The Occult Detective issue has arrived! Preorder and read more about it here
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This piece by Nicolas Delort is the illustration of your Weird Tale. What is the Title? What is the Plot?
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1 year
Wow wow guys!! @BlackstoneAudio did an amazing job printing our 100th anniversary book!! It’s 500 pages of full color illustrations, mind bending stories from new and classic authors, brilliant essays, and sick poems. Did you pre order this yet? We are so excited to share it.
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@weirdtales
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Our 100 years of Weird book officially launches tomorrow! Here’s @BlakeNorthcott s take on it. Her story “The World Breaker” is killer and you will love it.
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What would you drink out of this?
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@weirdtales
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Our special #StokerCon issue has sold out at StokerCon!! But you can pre-order at our website. If you are at stokercon, go to Marie Whittaker and Jonathan Maberry’s booth and get a special code that gives you magical powers.
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If you want a steady stream of the best weird fiction books from all eras, @Weird_Friction is a great follow!
@Weird_Friction
Weird Friction
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I extend my gratitude to all those who have recently followed. This account is non-personal & anonymous, dedicated to sharing mostly vintage Weird Fiction, Cosmic Horror & Occult books. Occasionally, living writers send me their modern books, which I happily share free of charge.
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@weirdtales
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Time to write. What are you working on?
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@weirdtales
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1 year
It lives!!
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Keith R.A. DeCandido
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IT'S A BOOK! The book fairy has blessed me with a copy of WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF WEIRD. Edited by @JonathanMaberry it's 500 pages of awesomeness, celebrating a century of @weirdtales with stories, essays, poems, and illustrations, both new and classic. 1/2
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Never ever stop. The will to work is all.
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Victor LaValle
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Today, in an old box, I found my first submission letter sent when I was 16. I wrote @EllenDatlow , editor at Omni magazine. It didn’t work out then but she did edit The Ballad of Black Tom years later. I love the earnestness of my 16 yr. old self. Took time, but he made it.
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@weirdtales
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8 years
The magazine that never dies is waking up . . .
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Brian Keene is opening a bookstore with @marysangiovanni . Let’s fund it!
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Brian Keene
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Paperwork is signed. Building is secured. We can now officially announce that @marysangiovanni and I are OPENING AN INDIE BOOKSTORE. Vortex Books & Comics is coming next Spring. You can read all about it here:
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Weird Tales family member Weston Ochse has passed away. He was battling an intense health issue with grace and might and was writing to the end. More information as it comes in. Enjoy eternity, Wes.
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June 1938.
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1 year
New T-Shirt just emerged (link in the comments)
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@weirdtales
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1 year
What are you writing?
@SteveNiles
Steve Niles
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Wrightson
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July 1953.
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@weirdtales
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Necrotek launched with great success yesterday! Here’s a creepy video of the books being built.
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May 1950
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@weirdtales
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Happy 105th birthday to August Derleth! http://t.co/VXcmfSwF4P http://t.co/6MikjEQ7Q5
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@weirdtales
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10 months
Very grateful for this review and for everyone who supports us. It’s a great gift too!
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Pre-order the 100th anniversary book here! It comes out in October. Francesco’s cover is demented and brilliant!!
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Francesco Francavilla
1 year
Latest addition to my library: 1988’s WEIRD TALES HC. Always loved this cover (from Weird Tales Magazine Nov 1948) cuz it reminds of me at work at my desk 😆 Can’t wait for the new @weirdtales HC with my cover to come out!
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We are 100 years old and have learned some things in our time. 1) Make stuff. Make stories, make art, make kids—make terrifying and wonderful objects for each other. 2) You are doomed to be eaten by interdimensional monsters beyond your comprehension. Shut up and accept this fate
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This is the first novel in our new collaboration with @BlackstoneAudio . And it’s epic.
@JonathanMaberry
Jonathan Maberry
7 months
NECROTEK....Coming to get you.... May 28. First in a new series of deep space cosmic horror. This book kicks off a brand new novel imporint: WEIRD TALES PRESENTS. @BlackstoneAudio and @weirdtales
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James Moore’s short story “Three Winters” is a highlight of last year’s Swords and Sorcery issue, and he also contributed a fantastic essay on the genre to our 100th Anniversary book. Enjoy eternity, James. Well earned.
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Jonathan Maberry
6 months
The world has lost another one of the truly good guys. My dear friend James Moore passed this morning. He was one of the very first friends I made in the fiction world. A gentleman, a superb writer, a decent human being. Happy journeys, my brother. #RipJamesAMoore
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Hailey’s 100th story is brilliant and we are so proud to host it in our new book!
@HaileyPiperSays
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈
1 year
Same day as A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL next week (10/10), my 100th short story appears in WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF WEIRD 🤩 look at that beautiful cover!
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@weirdtales
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10 years
We are back in control of our FB page! The Weird Tale of Facebook has a happy ending. http://t.co/1vtOAXh9xC
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1 year
Our editor @JonathanMaberry wrote a fantastic article for the #SDCC2023 Comic-Con souvenir book celebrating our first 100 years. You can download it at their website!
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Something in your refrigerator is alive and hates you.
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This is the cover image for your Weird Tale. What is the title? What is the plot?
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1 year
A massive win for our community.
@DanielDKraus
Daniel Kraus
1 year
Here’s what hitting me this morning about the @nytimesbooks cover. THEY PUT A HORROR WRITER ON THE COVER. We’re doing it, horror folks. 🐳👹
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And this excellent story is in our 100 Years Of Weird anthology!
@Weird_Friction
Weird Friction
6 months
Happy birthday to famous fiction, stage, and screen writer, Tennessee Williams, born March 26, 1911. Although not widely recognized as a writer of Weird Fiction, his first published work, "The Vengeance of Nitocris," appeared in the August 1928 issue of 'Weird Tales' magazine.
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Necrotek is a deep space war novel with giant Mechs, Lovecraftian monsters, and spaceships piloted by ghosts. It’s also the first novel in our imprint with @BlackstoneAudio . It’s also beautifully written. Pre-order a first edition - be part of history!
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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury
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1 year
Facts?
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Who is in?
@JonathanMaberry
Jonathan Maberry
4 months
I'm planning on doing a book discussion Zoom event next month for NECROTEK. Who here might want to join us? @BlackstoneAudio @weirdtales #necrotek
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Clarkesworld is a magazine that anyone who loves science fiction would enjoy. If you love short speculative fiction, you will dig it!
@clarkesworld
clarkesworld
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I've been monitoring the rebuilding subscriptions post-Amazon for the magazines that have been impacted. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that survival depends on us being more shameless. So... If you like what we do, maybe it's time to subscribe:
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Necrotek by @JonathanMaberry is out on audio, narrated brilliantly by @Ray__Porter ! When you get your copy, go to our website and enter the early order contest! (Link in comments)
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@weirdtales
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10 years
We are working with Facebook now to bring our page back. Nobody go insane yet please.
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Weird Tales
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We are proud to present NECROTEK, the first book in our new imprint with @BlackstoneAudio ! Preorder it here:
@JonathanMaberry
Jonathan Maberry
9 months
Book Cover Reveal!! NECROTEK is the first novel in a brand new imprint --Weird Tales Presents, from @BlackstoneAudio This is a deep-space cosmic horror thriller involving weird science, space battles, and the evil Outer Gods. The audio will be read by @Ray__Porter
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VOTE NecroTek for best Sci-Fi book of 2024!
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Jonathan Maberry
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If you're a NECROTEK fan, vote for it for the Best Sci-Fi book of 2024: @BlackstoneAudio @weirdtales
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NYCC! We will be at the @BlackstoneAudio Conic Con booth- #3524 . Come say hi and check out our 100 years of weird book!
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Happy Birthday to the Queen!
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Raise the children strange!
@prosepilot
Suds Williams
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⁦⁦ @weirdtales ⁩ Approriate reading for my 4 year old…? She braved ⁦ @RL_Stine ⁩’s “Disappear Donna” with precocious fortitude.
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We are sending out Stokecon issues for attendees and Oreo the cat has captured the packaging material!
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@Gabino_Iglesias Thanks Gabino! The first book in our new line of novels is on pre-sale, and it’s epic. NECROTEK by @JonathanMaberry
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@weirdtales
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FDNY Hook and Ladder 8 put this up today. #HaroldRamis http://t.co/JKIFjOe6ND
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What is the most important book in your life?
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Weird indeed.
@horrormuseum
Hollywood Horror Museum
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You want weird? We will give you freaking weird! Fred Astaire as Mad Magazine's Alfred E Neuman in 1959
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Thanks Cristopher! You are an amazing fan.
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🔮 Christopher 🔮
1 year
Bought Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird today, and everyone involved did a beautiful job commemorating a century of this fantastic magazine. Been reading @weirdtales since childhood, and I owe it for introducing me to so many horror and fantasy tales and writers over the years.
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Hey, @ChristophGolden had some good things to do with that Hellboy story too. @ramseycampbell1 and @timlebbon also spit some sick fire in this issue. @HaileyPiperSays was supposed to have a demented story in this one, but we moved it to something else. You will see very soon. . .
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This edition of Fahrenheit 451 by WT alumnus Ray Bradbury is only readable when exposed to heat.
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For about 10k you can get an excellent copy of the original Bat-girl Weird Tales. It’s on auction at 8.5k now.
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November 1949
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Mr.Stine does not hawk computers online. But he does have an original story about evil chickens in our new book!
@RL_Stine
R.L. Stine
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HACKED! What a scary world this is. Did you really think I was selling Macs online? Not easy-- but I think I got my account back.
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The wise author has a unique sense of fashion. This allows their fans to pick them out in the convention crowd.
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@weirdtales
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9 months
Our managing editor is looking for some artists! What for? Contact him to find out.
@jamesaquilone
James Aquilone
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I'm looking for two cover artists who are available now or within the next couple of weeks.
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Hey—look at that. We got our Twitter back.
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@JonathanMaberry
Jonathan Maberry
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Wooooot! WEIRD TALES: 100 YEARS OF WEIRD is now #1 ! Weird Tales Magazine Blackstone Publishing
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Our Facebook account has been hacked. Please be patient as we fix the problem.
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Are you writing anything right now? What is it?
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Weird Tales
10 months
Wow! Here’s a wonderful review of our 100 Years of Weird book in @locusmag Paul Di Filippo calls it "An undertaking that shows love, fine critical judgment, enthusiasm, esthetic appeal, and literary chops."  Do you have yours?
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Happy Halloween to all us weirdos.
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@weirdtales
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No love is strange to the lovers! Enjoy today. (Image by the fantastic http://t.co/cOgnfpzye5) http://t.co/hRwbuknkC9
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10 years
Tribute to fallen artists H. R. Giger and Patrick Woodroffe http://t.co/5tb7EupW2w
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1 year
We follow from a distance, waiting for the suns to form a certain geometry in this ancient crystal. At that moment, you will be eaten.
@CubanMissileDH
Dan Hernandez
1 year
Uh oh, @weirdtales followed me. I can already feel an eldritch terror gripping my heart. Any sane man would turn back, but I assume it is my own madness that drives me forward toward the ancient Cyclopean city that haunts my waking hours and dreams alike.
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@RL_Stine The excellent @RL_Stine has a great story in our 100th anniversary book! Get it here: Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
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@weirdtales
Weird Tales
1 year
It’s on the loose! Today is the official Pub day for this labor of love. Thanks to all who have worked on it and thanks to all who are buying it and supporting us. Get yours here!
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What a cute doll!
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It’s ALIVE! Here’s our new book on the shelves in @BNBuzz Union Square NYC. They only have two left in stock but have a reorder coming in this week.
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@weirdtales
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This is the first book in our imprint with @BlackstoneAudio , and it is terrifyingl and amazing. Please preorder it, so we can launch the imprint with style!
@BlackstoneAudio
Blackstone Publishing
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Blending @nytimes bestselling author @JonathanMaberry ’s love of Lovecraftian cosmic horror & giant robot anime, #NECROTEK is a gripping sci-fi thriller full of ghosts, Gods, & a battle for the soul of humanity. Ft. narration from @Ray__Porter ! OUT 5/28:
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Our powerful managing editor is hauling a thousand pounds of his new book into the living room right now. Cheers to everyone making art today!
@jamesaquilone
James Aquilone
1 year
Shakespeare Unleashed is here! Let’s the hernias begin.
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Weird Tales
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Show us your writing table.
@historyinmemes
Historic Vids
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This is one of the finest writing tables of the 19th century, this desk was made for King Carlo Alberto. The writing table and its matching armchair are rife with secret drawers and compartments. This Italian carved mahogany writing table is said to have been crafted
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