Francesco Dimitri

‘Those who let Wonder pass unseen Shall soon hear Death’s clock strike thirteen.’ Tell them he’s coming back. www.amazon.com/Pan-Francesc...

Imagination is a subset of reality, because imagination is limited by reality, but reality is not limited by anything at all. Discuss, if you please.

Just a reminder that I'm a tough guy living in a rough 'hood.

"We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else." This is Clive Barker in Imajica. He had seen our age coming.

Oh, if we could all be cats napping on autumn leaves!

This is not creepy at all

A tiny tiny gecko. One of my favourite animals, really.

Rome is a character, in Pan. Cities are people, and some people are weirder than others I’ve never met a bigger weirdo than Rome.

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

As someone who is on the internet, I don’t care much for any kind of text on the internet starting with ‘as a writer/engineer/witch/horticulturalist/juggler…’

The world has always been ending. Sometimes more than others. And new worlds have always been getting born.

If you're curious about Pan but a bit tight and you didn't get it yet (no, I get it, seriusly), here's a review by the good folks of @grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social to help you make your mind: www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-pan-b...

The Book of Hidden Things is still getting love. Who am I to disagree? screenrant.com/supernatural...

Optimism is a radical stance. Everybody says that everything is fucked. Well, no.

My hill is: the real Rome is a thousand times messier and better than the one tourists see. Being young in Rome was one of the great privileges of my life.

An altar in Rome, shot a lifetime ago.

A review of Pan, a little spoiler-y but not too much www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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'Pan (...) moved between rough beasts, glades, and rocks: he was a god of flesh and bones, of the here-and-now. He had horns, cloven hooves, and no modesty at all.' Read the whole essay for free. Io Pan! francescodimitri.substack.com/p/what-makes...

Pan is not very whimsical. It is a ‘what would it be like if ancient graeco-roman mythology returned to an ultra-realistic modern Rome?’ kind of book. So, not much whimsy there. Plenty of Lost Children though. And they do fly.

Clive Barker was a key inspiration for Pan. Go read Weaveworld. Go read The Great and Secret Show. Go read Imajica, and Galilee.. please, go read Clive Barker's books. And also Pan.

A Substack post on the god Pan, the price of safety, and the necessity of freedom... francescodimitri.substack.com/p/what-makes...

Pan's labyrinth, sort of

Folks, do read @bleakhousing.bsky.social ‘s The Ship of Death. It’s a blast. I’m not sure I’ll ever play Arkham Horror ever again, though

Kyle Winkler's The Ship of Death is the horror book gamers never asked for, but always needed. It's great and you guys should read it.

I should probably post about Pan, but with Autumn in full swing, I'd rather point out how much I miss watermelon.

I love fireworks, jewels, and sweets, for the same reason: they are all entirely useless. Being nice is their only point. Creating useless-but-nice stuff is a great thing we humans do.

Mirror, mirror, don't patronise me. I know.

The American war guy is a grotesque example of what happens when you don’t outgrow your GI Joe era at ten years old.

Pan - a starred review. Thank you! www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

A spoiler- free look at the first half of Pan. Written by yours truly, translated by @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social , edited by @leeharris.net . Out next week for @torbooks.bsky.social!

'Not many in town look around, few indeed look back, none look up. People always look ahead, and so they end up seeing nothing, believing nothing exists.' Pan. Translated by @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social.

So here I am suddenly wondering whether the gentleman with "the thistle-down hair" in Susanna Clarke's Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell was a homage to...