Lyndsey Croal (she/her)

I've been told my stories go across both, usually my SF in the more accessible/transparent, then I have gone more lyrical with folklore and horror...I'm not sure I consciously thought about it at the time, though!

Made the crochet mushies a junimo pal...does this begin a Stardew series 👀🍄

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Alas I live in a city flat, but one day I will have a cottage with a wee farm in the woods with bees and hens and goats...oh wait that's stardew 😅💁‍♀️

We love supporting local writers and we're so excited to be championing a feminist horror fairy tale by Borders author Amy Jane Stewart.
Enter the dark woods and discover Hex House... Free event, Tuesday 28th April at The Station House, Stow. Booking essential - see our website for details.

a woman in a black jacket is surrounded by bees and says bees !! ALT: a woman in a black jacket is surrounded by bees and says bees !!

Spent a couple hours today watching beekeeping videos for about three paragraphs in my folk horror WIP, but now I want to take up beekeeping so...

Fantasy: The Outcast Mage by Annabel Campbell
Sci fi: An Unbreakable World by Ren Hutchings
Horror: Model Home by Rivers Solomon

Ugh solidarity!! I am very in my publishing existential crisis feels this week

Yes I'm working through it! Have mild ambitions for the 10k in May but we shall see...😅

Regretting my life choices to take up running in the rainiest Edinburgh months...but Week 3 is complete 💪

Also, imma be that person and ask if you've listened to A Million Points of Light and can rate and review it, I will love you forever, from afar, not creepily.

Please, my internet blessings upon you etc

Edinburgh!!!

Join me & @erisyoung.bsky.social tonight @argonautbooks.bsky.social for a wee chat on words, queer words.

7pm, come one come all

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Would not be opposed to a better email to balance this out 👁️

Happy three rejections Thursday to me 💀

Total Skull: February, 2026 Things that delighted me in February, 2026: T. D. Cloud, Ossuary In T. D. Cloud's Ossuary , a group of government "Curse Breakers" venture i...

Nice wee In This City, Where it Rains review: "...It's a horror show over there. If I had to do a comparison, I'd say that Lyndsey Croal's novella felt a bit like Crimson Peak meets Silent Hill." If those are your jam, check it out! 👀 ✨ talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2026/03/tota...

I can make one for you!! 🍄

Ooh that could be cool! 🍄

Wee fun-guys crochet practice, should I give them eyes? 👁

Oh gosh hope you have a speedy recovery!

Nice wee wander home after work, perfect gothic city 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

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An array of books arranged on a grey blanket. Titles include: Weird Horror, Chthonic Matter, All That Is In The Earth by Andrew Knighton, In This City Where It Rains by Lyndsey Croal, Remains, Call And Response by Christopher Caldwell, How Much Is That Mermaid by Anna Tambour.

Might have spent the last month obsessively writing music but the postie has ensured I've got a lot of great reading ahead of me.
Book mail truly is the best mail.
Oh, and the latest issue of Interzone on ebook (not pictured).

Such a good story! Congrats ✨️

BSFA shortlisting for Godzilla As a Young Man Named Mike Spaceships & Feelings

I wrote a little thing about Godzilla as a Young Man Named Mike being shortlisted for a BSFA award!
I am chuffed to absolute bits. Thanks to all who voted, and have fun reading all the nominated stories! #BSFAAwards2026
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Flash Fiction Online - SPECIAL CALL -- "Tiny Gods" FFO Special Call: “Tiny Gods” Speculative fiction about small, personal rituals and moments of worship to the tiny gods in the protagonist’s life. Flash Fiction Online is seeking speculative fiction s...

My open call with @flashfictiononline.bsky.social is live! ffo.submittable.com/submit/35050...

Front cover of Moonful Of Silver

🚨BOOK LAUNCH🚨

Today’s the day MOONFUL OF SILVER is out! It’s a spaghetti western on the Moon, and if you don’t like the sound of that, then it’s definitely not for you! 😂

I loved writing this with Dawn Ross. It was so much fun

The ebook is out now 👇🏻 Paperback coming soon

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I just shout fool of a Took at regular intervals

And I swear he keeps getting bigger and fluffier...

Turning round to find Pippin about to cause mayhem (didn't know he could get up there 🙈)