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Haha, thank you!
My son came home with Pan pipes he made at school and told me they’re my Mother’s Day gift. He’s currently playing Smoke on the Water. ✨🐐✨ Io Pan!
So worth it.
Can we PLEASE skip the part where the UK experiments with fascism/faragism/trumpism and go straight to, say, a national Green New Deal and a huge arts revival?
Sorry I can’t do any work tomorrow, I’m too busy staging stories in my pocket Mystery Machine.
@neilsnowdon.bsky.social
Growing up I never had Polly Pockets, but look at this! Treat for the whole family. The ghosts move, as do the eyes in the portrait of Elias Kingston.
I can see that!
From the remake of Seance on a Wet Afternoon. I like the cast, and it looks like they’ve kept the period setting.
My interests then were the same as now, but before the internet it was difficult to expand your knowledge. I must have been 17-18, my friends were goths or metalheads. I probably wanted more of weird England after discovering Led Zeppelin and might have heard their name mentioned somewhere.
I’ve just received a piece for the next Hellebore with a whole section devoted to this album, so had to put it on. I got this record 25-30 years ago, without knowing anything about JT.
#NowPlaying
🎨 Les Matthews, painting for the series ‘Children of the Stones’ (1977) #StandingStoneSunday
Hellebores at the Chalice Well, Glastonbury. The well lid was designed by Frederick Bligh Bond and Alice Buckton. The Vesica Piscis symbol represents the union of opposites and the meeting of two realms.
Happy birthday, Jack! Have a magnificent day 💖
“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”
—Algernon Blackwood
🖤🖤🖤
Another research day.
Thanks, Morgan!
Around April, as far as I know!
Yeah, it had a small release around end of Jan. I watched a screener a few months back, but the sound design is so gorgeous I definitely recommend seeing it on the big screen.
My conversation with film director Bryn Chainey on folklore, folk horror and hauntology in RABBIT TRAP (starring Dev Patel and Rose McEwen) is out now in Fortean Times.
Ligeia is probably my favourite from the cycle. You’re in for a treat!
Barbara and Vincent are great together in The Pit and the Pendulum
Love Tomb of Ligeia, but the scream queen in question is the fabulous Elizabeth Shepherd.
I've said it before but, in the absence of proper regulation and the licensing of metal detecting, then we must rely on the good old fashioned fairy curses attached to each and every hoard. Let the folk beyond the veil sort it out. 🏺🪙🧚🏼♂️☠️
I went to see Wuthering Heights with an open mind. Found it desperately shallow, neither romantic nor horny, and too tame to be campy. The Barbara Cartlandesque aesthetic of the second half and the mutton chops and golden earrings were the highlights for me.
The second one was a churchyard picnic, so not bad either ☺️
We watched The Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney, 1925) with a live piano accompaniment, then went for a midnight cup of tea and cake.
A Carnivale-style Caligari starring the ever magnificent Michael Shannon? I’m in.
www.fangoria.com/michael-shan...