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Lyndsey Croal (she/her)
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Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
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Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social · Jun 3
✨️Dark Crescent is out today!! Thank you @lunapress.bsky.social for giving the perfect home to this wee dark folklore book of my heart, @jennicoutts.bsky.social for its stunning cover, and anyone who has bought, or plans to read a copy! Let these strange tales set sail...! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌊✨️ linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal Cover features blue and gold illustrations of folklore creatures, art by Jenni Coutts. The paperback sits next to trinkets like a hagstone, a jar of seaglass pebbles, a mini lantern, and behind a row of books. Blurb by Joanne Harris reads "Lyrical and Evocative"
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Oh hey, my rainbow statue traffic cone photo made it on BBC news 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌈 (my Mum made me send it 😂) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A well placed rainbow soars over Calton Hill at the end of Princes Street, making it look like this statue has superpowers Sent in by Lyndsey Croal
September 25, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Edits on a commissioned short, and two new flash fiction stories submitted today! Finally getting my short fiction writing brain back after a longgg break of working on novel stuff 😅 It's a good itch to scratch ✨
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September 25, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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October has snuck up on me! But I'm really looking forward to a few fun events to mark my favourite season! ✨🖤 lyndseycroal.co.uk/about/events...
7th October: HAUNTED AND HUNTED: An evening of ghosts - Blackwell’s of Edinburgh, 6.30-9pm With The International Ghost Society, Rhiannon Grist, MK Hardy, Alex Howard and Claire Schultz 9th-11th October: FANTASY CON - Glasgow Authentic Scottish representation in SFFH Horror Reading Group 2 Cursed objects, cursed people 22nd October: University of Edinburgh - GREEN LIBRARIES WEEK - Talk Visions of change: the role of fiction and storytelling in shaping climate narratives 26th October: GALAWE’EN - The Wedale Bookshop, Stow Dark Tales: Curses, Rituals and Sinister Secrets - with MK Hardy and Amy Jane Stewart
September 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Teaching myself watercolour adventures, a Luna Moth with a wee lunar lantern 🌝🐛
Small watercolour showing a luna moth carrying a lantern augh a moon inside
September 24, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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Look what beauty arrived today @mkhardywrites.com ! Can't wait to read! 🌊✨️👀💙
The Hainting of Avis Lovelock by MK Hardy
September 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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My second published story of the year with @electricliterature.com , and definitely one of my favourite flashes I've written! If you enjoy dark tales about bones and the sea, then check it out ✨️💙💀🦀 First line below, and free to read here:
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The Bone Hermit by Lyndsey Croal It's very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones
September 23, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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electricliterature.com Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 9d
A story about a hermit crab with an unusual home. Flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal.

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September 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Very much looking forward to joining the UK Ghost Story Festival in February alongside fantastic authors - I'll be running a workshop on writing dark folklore (which will include hauntings, harbingers, omens, and strange creatures)! 🖤👀 Tickets and info all here: www.ticketsource.com/ukghoststory...
Online Festrival 5th-7th Feb 2027 Tiffani Angus Leon Craig Lyndsey Croal Gretchen Felker-Mart8in Kaja Franck John Fraser Deborah Hyde Eric LaRocca Brenda Le Torre Andrea Stewart Francine Toon
September 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Ran 10k, got the t-shirt ✅️ Second race, surprisingly hilly again, but 6 mins faster 💪
Me standing by a women's 10k sign outside Murray field stadium
September 20, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Of course my most popular post on here is about a weird wee fish, and not my weird wee stories 😂💁‍♀️🌊 Note to self: write more weird wee fish stories 🐟 I did just read a folk tale about the King of the Fish thwarting the Devil so...
September 19, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Personal space: not found
Pippin a ginger and white large tabby cat sits perched on shoulder right by my face
September 18, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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While I'm posting about weird sea creatures, can I interest you in a flash fiction about a hermit crab working its way up a skeleton... 👀💀🦀 electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...
It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones. At first it was disconcerting, to see him skittering along the beach, parading your salt-bleached toes outside our cottage. Sometimes he stops, right at the edge of the garden, and folds himself up into the crook of your remains, staring straight at the gate, watching me. My dead husband still wants the last word The Bone Hermit flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal Picture of a shell nestled in a skull
September 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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"It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones."... ICYMI, I wrote a story about a woman being haunted by a hermit crab residing in her dead husband's skeleton... A quick read, and free via @electricliterature.com: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her... 💀🦀✨
My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word - Electric Literature
"The Bone Hermit," flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal
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September 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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An Edinburgh rainbow 🌈
Rainbow coming out of statue with a traffic cone on head
September 17, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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"It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones."... ICYMI, I wrote a story about a woman being haunted by a hermit crab residing in her dead husband's skeleton... A quick read, and free via @electricliterature.com: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her... 💀🦀✨
My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word - Electric Literature
"The Bone Hermit," flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal
electricliterature.com
September 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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New favourite weird sea creature just dropped - red lipped batfish 👁👄👁 Came across a video and had to look them up immediately! They also have teeny wee legs to walk across the sea floor 🌊
Photo of four red lipped batfish Photo of red lipped batfish Source: BBC
September 17, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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Life is a bit of a roller coaster for us right now, lots going on which is raising our stress levels, one shining light on the horizon is that my wife’s book is coming out in a month, and I’m really excited that other people are going to get to experience it.
The Void Dragon
'Truly enchanting' Trudi Canavan on The Outcast Mage 'Both classic and utterly original, this is heartfelt fantasy from a wonderful new voice' Tasha Suri ...
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September 17, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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It's ONE WEEK to go before The Shape of Monsters is out in print!

I am so amped for readers to meet Aleks, Vai and *evil grin* my sweet innocent precious Ilea.

Come join @heatherpalmer.bsky.social and me at Blackwell's in Edinburgh at 7pm on Thursday the 24th September!
Cl Hellisen: The Shape of Monsters in conversation with Annabel Campbell (sadly she can't make this,but the wonderful Heather Palmer is taking her seat) Thursday 24th September, 7pm And a picture of me in a stripy top, with the red and dark purple cover of the Shape of Monsters with its creepy stag head
September 17, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Ah I got an email through my contact form that isn't AI, this is honestly so lovely to hear, like I think that might be a first 😱🌊 Made my day!!
Email: Hello, just wanted to tell you how much I loved your story in the commuter. I am a soft sell on anything with bones and aea creatures and grief, but you did am extra good job and I hope you are proud of it. ;)
September 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Wondering if I should send this unhinged alternate pitch for my next book to my agents:
He's a 10, but at night he peels off all his skin and breathes plague upon the land 💀
September 16, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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This one is darrrrrk, friendos, but with a glimmer of -- perhaps not hope. Something subtler and more painful for it
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New story out today! A woman is haunted by a hermit crab who takes up residence in her dead husband's bones, gradually moving up his skeleton...out now, with @electricliterature.com !! 🦀🌊💀 Free to read here: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...
The Bone Hermit It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones. At first it was disconcerting, to see him skittering along the beach, parading your salt-bleached toes outside our cottage. Sometimes he stops, right at the edge of the garden, and folds himself up into the crook of your remains, staring straight at the gate, watching me. I thought I’d done a better job at hiding your body. I thought the sand and sea would wash your bones clean and sweep them away. But the sea, it seems, is resourceful. And now this tricksy little creature has come back to haunt me. Maybe he is you, reincarnated, and this is your final joke. You always did tell me you’d get the last laugh. My dead husband still wants the last word - The Bone Hermit flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal
September 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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New story out today! A woman is haunted by a hermit crab who takes up residence in her dead husband's bones, gradually moving up his skeleton...out now, with @electricliterature.com !! 🦀🌊💀 Free to read here: electricliterature.com/the-bone-her...
The Bone Hermit It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones. At first it was disconcerting, to see him skittering along the beach, parading your salt-bleached toes outside our cottage. Sometimes he stops, right at the edge of the garden, and folds himself up into the crook of your remains, staring straight at the gate, watching me. I thought I’d done a better job at hiding your body. I thought the sand and sea would wash your bones clean and sweep them away. But the sea, it seems, is resourceful. And now this tricksy little creature has come back to haunt me. Maybe he is you, reincarnated, and this is your final joke. You always did tell me you’d get the last laugh. My dead husband still wants the last word - The Bone Hermit flash fiction by Lyndsey Croal
September 16, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Tis the season 🍂
TV screen showing message "Are you still watching Gilmore Girls"
September 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too!

#Haverin #GSFWC40
Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
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September 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Sometimes it's a push head against the wall kind of a day
Pippin lying on sofa with head against the wall
September 15, 2026 at 4:47 PM