@drtimrideout.bsky.social
Father of daughters, health services leader, chair of school governors, academic Gothicist, literary interviewer, crime fiction lover, Doctor Who fan (he/him/his) https://www.precariousgothic.com
Hard agree.
01.03.2026 22:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Spring is on its way, the sea seems to tell us.
Whitley Bay. @baytales.bsky.social 2026
Thanks to The Keel Row Bookshop for this copy of NORTH by Seamus Heaney, presented to poet Ric Caddel, a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.
We need Heaney’s poetry more than ever; his strength in the face of violence & division, his intelligence & his celebration of language & literature.
Good morning from a beautiful Whitley Bay 😊
@baytales.bsky.social 2026
Delroy Lindo has held firm to his goal: “I want to be respected for my work.” He sat down with us to discuss his career, his character’s pivotal monologue in "Sinners" and his Oscar nomination. nyti.ms/40wE7Nm
25.02.2026 22:40 — 👍 115 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 2
Visited The Whitby Bookshop earlier today. Bought some suitably Gothic books.
Welcomed by friendly, knowledgeable staff. Great places need great bookshops, so pleased to see Whitby so well served 😊
Absolutely stunning. It’s a visual masterpiece.
24.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Under His eye.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943) dir. Jacques Tourneur
JANE EYRE inspired with a folk horror inflection. Adam Scovell’s folk horror chain fully present: landscape, isolation, skewed belief system(s) and a summoning. Highly effective.
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This morning’s vinyl. One of the best soundtracks I have heard in many a long year. The music is the movie #Sinners
21.02.2026 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.
20.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 1544 🔁 412 💬 49 📌 41
My next book, courtesy of Collected Books 🙏
IN DIAMOND SQUARE by Mercè Rodoreda
#Virago #ViragoModernClassic
‘Will Ye Go, Lassie Go’
Watched Ryan Coogler’s SINNERS again yesterday.
I appreciate it more with every viewing, the horror deftly balanced with the intimate.
This a standout moment for me, a haunting call for a lost past time and place. The call goes unanswered.
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One of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition.
RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
Do they all get to do a show dance now? #TheTraitorsUK
23.01.2026 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘These are the years that the locust hath eaten.’
W S Churchill
We need to rejoin the European Union as a matter of urgency.
There is a reason Trump and Putin were in favour of Brexit.
We need a clear plan to rejoin and start strengthening the European alliance.
We need to rejoin the EU.
Walking from Glastonbury to Street. Watched over by the Tor.
10.01.2026 14:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘It is done,’ said John at last.
Ceremonially he handed Will the glittering chain of linked Signs, and Will gasped at the beauty of them. Holding the Signs now, he felt from them suddenly a strange fierce sensation like an electric shock: a strong, arrogant reassurance of power.
The Dark Is Rising
BLOOD AND WATER by Patrick McGrath
‘Who knows what an angel would be doing in a century like this one? Maybe he was just meant to be an angel for our times.’
Sardonic tales of the grotesque. Dark fairy tales. Body horror and madness. A rich collection.
Current research project reading pile.
#folkhorror #vampire
It all works very well.
28.12.2025 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes. I love it. And you read it beautifully.
28.12.2025 11:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thank you to @essiefox.bsky.social for this chilling Christmas treat. Deftly done 🖤
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Boxing Day shadows on Lincoln Cathedral.
26.12.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Boxing Day shadows on Lincoln Cathedral.
26.12.2025 14:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.
25.12.2025 10:09 — 👍 1269 🔁 250 💬 73 📌 10
A sharp Christmas Day, Lincoln Cathedral standing proud.
25.12.2025 12:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And so the reckless abandonment of science, global infrastructure and truth continues.
History will not judge us well. We have allowed this to happen.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
‘I could not shake myself free of the sense of everything around me dissolving slowly, of sinking slowly into deliquescence.’
Wilkie Collins and Henry James, written with a Chandleresque aesthetic, VENETIAN VESPERS immerses the reader in a bewildering Venice of treachery, manipulation and lies.
