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A place of stories of a stranger Britain.
There's a ghost in the master bedroom in this week's #wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday, 'The Return'.
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#thereturn #hauntedhouse #ghoststory
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to author Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893), author of the brilliant Lolly Willowes. The life-affirming story of a put upon maiden aunt who moves to the countryside, sells her soul to the Devil and becomes a witch.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #sylviatownsendwarner
We laudate all the creative oddballs here at Wyrd Britain. We have lauds a leaping here.
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to poet Christina Rossetti (1830) - The Goblin Market - and Kavus Torabi (1971) - Cardiacs, Gong & The Utopia Strong.
#christinarossetti #thegoblinmarket #kavustorabuli #theutopiastrong #Gong #cardiacs #wyrdbritainbirthdays
That's nice to know. I hope the book goes well for you.
04.12.2025 22:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 02021 doh! Stupid fat fingers.
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Friend of the blog, @joebankswriter.bsky.social has a new book out today on Peter Hammill so here's something he wrote for Wyrd Britain back in 2001 just after the release of 'Hawkwind: Days of the Underground'.
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#peterhammill #vandergraafgenerator
London's got kaiju problems in tonight's movie, "Gorgo'.
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#gorgo #kaiju #monstermovies
On what would have been his birthday, here's Hammer Studio's legendary scriptwriter, Jimmy Sangster's first movie, 'X the Unknown.'
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#xtheunknown #jimmysangster #hammerhorror
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to Hammer Studios screenwriter and director Jimmy Sangster (1927) - X the Unknown, Dracula, Lust For a Vampire - and author Brian Lumley (1937) - Necroscope, Vampire World.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #jimmysangster #hammerhorror #brianlumley #britishhorror
NEWS: Tartarus Press publish new edition of Mark Valentine's fabulous short story collection, 'The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things'.
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#tartaruspress #markvalentine #weirdfiction
We're snogging the dead in this week's Wyrd Britain Supernatural Sunday.
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#wyrdbritainsupernaturalsunday #thefaceofdarkness
Tonight, come with me, oh come with me, to Dark Towers.
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#lookandread #darktowers
Cool. I shall keep an eye out. Thank you.
29.11.2025 16:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The first one is OK, the second is a chore, and the third is fantastic but with very little connection to the other two.
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Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to author C.S. Lewis (1898).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #cslewis
You're very welvome. Absolutely my pleasure Al.
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NEWS: Buried Treasure Records release the soundtrack to the masterful 1978 occult psychodrama, The Shout.
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#theshout #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to author and artist William Blake (1757).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williamblake
Black and white photo of ghost story author Claude Askew and a colour photo of actor Peter Tuddenham from the Blake's 7 TV series.
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to author Claude Askew (1865) and actor Peter Tuddenham (1918) - The voice of the computers Zen, Orac and Slave in Blake's 7.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #claudeaskew #petertuddenham #blakes7 #claudeandaliceaskew
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to actor Gerald James (1917) - The poor, doomed Mr. Tully in Sapphire and Steel Assignment 2: The Railway Station, Caradoc Hobbes in Stones and Joe Nash in the Beasts episode, What Big Eyes.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #geraldjames #sapphireandsteel
Tonight's film is an adaptation of the J.G. Ballard short story 'The Enormous Space'.
"I'm about to reach out and touch the infinite"
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#jgballard
Gavin Bryars' achingly beautiful, 'Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet'.
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#gavinbryars #jesusbloodneverfailedmeyet
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to actors Boris Karloff (1887), Michael Gough (1916), and Michelle Gomez (1966).
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #boriskarloff #michaelgough #michellegomez
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to actor William Russell (1924) - 'Ian Chesterton', companion to the First Doctor - and to Pete 'Sonic Boom' Kember (1965) and Jason 'Spaceman' Pierce (1965) both formerly of Spacemen 3.
#wyrdbritainbirthdays #williamrussell #petekember #jasonpierce
On his birthday, here's Alan Moore discussing favourite authors and his short story collection, 'Illuminations'.
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#alanmoore #stewartlee
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to the grand magus of Wyrd Britain author Alan Moore (1953).
#alanmoore #wyrdbritainbirthdays
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to artist Don Lawrence (1928).
#donlawrence #triganempire
On this day in Wyrd Britain history...
1969 - The Clangers first appear on UK TV screens.
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#clangers #smallfilms #oliverpostgate #peterfirmin
Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to author Michael Arlen (1895), author of the sublime 'Hell! Said the Duchess'.
For those who don't know the book, think P.G. Wodehouse meets Arthur Machen, it's sooo good.
#michaelarlen #hellsaidtheduchess #wyrdbritainbirthdays
