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Daniel C Tuck
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Writer, runner and film-watcher
Novels: Furball, Prehistoric & The Bothy
Short Story Collection: When The Ghosts Went
All available now
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Daniel C Tuck @danielctuck.bsky.social · 18d
My new short story collection - WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT - will be officially released on 25th September!

Kindle edition is available to pre-order now at: amzn.eu/d/006S0JZe

The paperback version will be available to order on the 25th
When The Ghosts Went: A Collection of Short Stories
When The Ghosts Went: A Collection of Short Stories eBook : Tuck, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.eu
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WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT has been out for a week now. If you have read it (thank you!) what are your thoughts? Do you have a favourite story? Let me know in the comments...

Please do consider leaving a review on Amazon / Goodreads etc. if you can, as it helps massively!
October 2, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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I know he's done bits and pieces in that universe, but I've been saying it for years, and I will continue to say it: cast Richard E Grant as The Doctor, you cowards!
October 2, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work.
A screenshot of a post on Threads by Joe Hill. The post reads: "Here’s a thought about the purveyors of AI. They aren’t selling assistance—they’re selling dependency. You give up on acquiring one skill after another, give up on the knotty, meaningful struggle to acquire those skills and AI takes over. It isn’t freeing up time so you can make more of yourself. It’s encouraging cognitive surrender so you can be less."
September 30, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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My short story collection - WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT - is available to buy now, in Kindle and paperback formats

Ten creepy, weird, different tales in one book.

Visit my website for more details www.danielctuck.co.uk
Cover art for the book WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT, by Daniel C Tuck
September 30, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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A) That's two questions. Do you need AI to count to 2 for you?

B) I'd manage absolutely fine, just as I'm doing right now, thank you

Sounds like someone is desperately scared that they're going to have to start thinking for themselves again, if AI disappears (we can only hope...)
September 30, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT release day!

10 short stories, some horror, some creepy, some a little bit sci-fi.

Available to order now
www.danielctuck.co.uk
September 25, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Exactly this. The billionaires don't think fundamental "skills" (like knowing your own address???) are important, because they essentially have people to do it all for them. They want us to lose those skills, but not have anyone to do it for us, so we're all essentially under the control of the AI
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Yeah but he’s a billionaire. He’s got n number of phone lines and a team of people and systems that interface between him and the tools. This isn’t an AI thing it’s a super rich guy thing.
September 25, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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He really does have to copy every fascist, dictator move that Trump makes, doesn't he? 🙄
Farage to use loophole to show 'propaganda' on Reform TV - and it can't be stopped
Nigel Farage plans to use some of his party's £72m donations windfall to launch a Reform TV channel – which won't have to follow the normal rules
inews.co.uk
September 23, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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My new short story collection - WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT - will be officially released on 25th September!

Kindle edition is available to pre-order now at: amzn.eu/d/006S0JZe

The paperback version will be available to order on the 25th
When The Ghosts Went: A Collection of Short Stories
When The Ghosts Went: A Collection of Short Stories eBook : Tuck, Daniel: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
amzn.eu
September 18, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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The tenth and FINAL story in my forthcoming short story collection, WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT, is called "Night Watch Shadows":
September 17, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Just one more story to announce after this one, then maybe I can reveal a release date for my short story collection 👀

For now, though, story #9 in WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT is entitled ChatRIP:
Chat bubbles, to represent the short story ChatRIP by Daniel C Tuck
September 14, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Story 8 in my upcoming short story collection WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT - only 2 more to go after this one! - is "The Hide":
September 12, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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In the loft of a terraced house in a town east of Manchester sit 427 gnomes. They are all dressed in satanic robes and pointing at the loft hatch. I'm still waiting for its discovery to surface in the media.
September 11, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire

www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind? Guillermo Del Toro's reply: My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real. Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know? Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all. Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you. Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand? GDT: The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man. We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear. AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist. And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.” And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
September 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Watch the trailer for CARRIE.

From master of horror Mike Flanagan, and based on the Stephen King novel, all episodes premiere October 7 on Prime Video.
September 9, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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The 7th story in WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT is entitled "Emotive":
Art for the short story "Emotive", from the collection WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT by Daniel C Tuck
September 9, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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trampoline sounds like something you'd use to clean a trampoline
September 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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This is how it starts - "it was only 30 seconds", then it will be "it was only a couple of minutes". Next thing, "it was only for a single episode of a show"

Wish people would stop trying to justify AI use with "it was just..." Those 30 seconds would have been at least a day's work for someone.
September 7, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Today we reach the story that gives my collection of short stories its name - "When the Ghosts Went":
September 7, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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Correct
anonopin.bsky.social Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Sep 4
The "what a piece of work is a man" Hamlet soliloquy at the end of Withnail & I is the greatest ever recorded performance of it and nothing else comes close. Better than Olivier, Button, Branagh, the lot. Seriously. Look for yourself, see if you can find one as good. You won't.
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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The fifth story in WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT - and this takes us to halfway through the book - is entitled "Drones":
September 4, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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My exact first thought when I saw the photo, even before reading the post 😂
seldom-seen-kid.bsky.social The Seldom Seen Kid @seldom-seen-kid.bsky.social · Sep 1
They're all dead, Dave.
September 2, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Story #4 in my collection, WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT, will be "The Underpass":
September 2, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Story #3 from my forthcoming short story compilation, WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT: "Hospitality"
August 30, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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The second story in my forthcoming short story collection WHEN THE GHOSTS WENT is called "Rebirth":
August 27, 2026 at 9:52 AM