The furniture is moving in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday
, #thehouseonmarshroad
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The furniture is moving in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday
, #thehouseonmarshroad
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to 'The Master', Roger Delgado (1918).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #rogerdelgado #themaster #doctorwho
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to outsider artist Scottie Wilson (1891) and to Hipgnosis art director and music video director Storm Thorgerson (1944).
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#wyrdbritainbirthdays #scottiewilson #outsiderartist #stormthorgerson #hipgnosis
E4 has an appointment with The Wicker Man.
Summer is icumen in
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#thewickerman
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (1955) musician with Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, and Coil, and photographer, designer and video maker with Hipgnosis.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #peterchristopherson #throbbinggristle #Coil #psychictv #hipgnosis
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1977 - 2000AD Prog 2 hit the shelves, and the readership got to properly meet future lawman Judge Dredd - although there had been a teaser in Prog 1.
#2000ad #judgedredd
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to musician Jaz Coleman (1960) of Killing Joke.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #jazcoleman #killingjoke
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1971 - As if by magic, Mr Benn appeared. Adapted for the BBC by David McKee from his own, then, quartet of books first published from 1967.
#mrbenn
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to musician Bridget Wishart (1962), former vocalist with free festival favourites The Hippy Slags and Hawkwind, appearing on the albums "Space Bandits' (1990) and 'Palace Springs' (1991).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #bridgetwishart #hippyslags #hawkwind
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to comic book artist and writer Bryan Talbot (1952), author of 'The Adventures of Luther Arkwright', 'Grandville', 'Alice in Sunderland', and many more.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #bryantalbot #theadventuresoflutherarkwright #grandville
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to legendary director Terence Fisher (1904) - 'The Curse of Frankenstein', 'Dracula' and many, many more - and to musician David Sylvian (1958) formerly of Japan.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #terencefisher #hammerstudios #davidsylvian
Lock up your waiter in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday #thedumbwaiter
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Yeah, it's an intriguing watch.
22.02.2026 09:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sapphire and Steel creator Peter Hammond takes us back to school in 'Lost Property'.
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'It’s an album that plays like a short movie with each component vital to the story. It’s an album that must be listened to from beginning to end as each song represents a chapter in this most enjoyable story.' - si tucker, Louder Than War
20.02.2026 23:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My first album, as The British Space Group, was released 11 years ago today. I was trying to incorporate new things into my music at the time and was on a bit of a hauntology/ sci fi kick.
It's still available at...
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#thebritishspacegroup #hauntology
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1966 - 'Die, Monster, Die!, based on Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of Space' was released.
1973 - 'Nothing But The Night', starring Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing was released. It was to be the sole release of Lee's own production company, Charlemagne Films.
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to legendary 2000AD artist Ian Gibson (1946).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #2000ad #iangibson #halojones
Yeah, they do that. Someone would probably take them off your hands.
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On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1977 - #2000AD is launched on an unexpecting UK readership. Featuring a revamped 'Dan Dare', 'M.A.C.H.1', 'Harlem Heroes', 'Invasion', and 'Flesh', it was to be seven more days before it's flagship character was to make his debut appearence.
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1977 - The Damned released their debut album, 'Damned Damned Damned', the first UK punk band to do so.
2002 - Boards of Canada released their second album, the hauntological masterpiece, 'Geogaddi'.
#thedamned #boardsofcanada #geogaddi #punk #hauntology
Wyrd Britain reviews 'Seventeen Stories' by Mark Valentine, published by Swan River Press.
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#markvalentine #swanriverpress #weirdfiction
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1993 - The first episode of Russell T Davies' YA occult drama 'Century Falls' was broadcast on BBC1.
#centuryfalls
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to #PamelaColmanSmith (1878), illustrator of the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck; #IainMBanks (1954); musician #JhonnBalance (1962) of #Coil; 9th Doctor #ChristopherEccleston (1964) & author #WarrenEllis (1968).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays
You can only leave Feet Foremost in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday.
#feetforemost #lphartley
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On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1970 - An 11th-century wizard named #Catweazle magics himself 900 years in the future.
1988 - Dave Lister wakes from suspended animation on the #RedDwarf, only to find that it's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere, and he's all alone, more or less.
Happy Valentine's Day, my darlings.
If I could bathe in anyone's blood today, it would be yours.
#gothvalentines #countessdracula #ingridpitt #wyrdbritain #hammerhorror
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to Hammer Studios' queen of horror, actress Barbara Shelley (1932), star of 'Village of the Damned", 'Dracula, Prince of Darkness' and 'Quatermass and the Pit'.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #barbarashelley #hammerstudios #quatermassandthepit #villageofthedamned
1974, not 75. 🤦♂️
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On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1975 - Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate introduced us all to Bagpuss, "The most important, the most beautiful, the most magical, saggy old cloth cat in the whole, wide world".
#bagpuss #peterfirmin #oliverpostgate