Haunted Book Club - Live Who Did What Now?https://open.substack.com/live-stream/115736?utm_source=live-stream-scheduled-upsell @johnreppion.bsky.social
17.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Haunted Book Club - Live Who Did What Now?https://open.substack.com/live-stream/115736?utm_source=live-stream-scheduled-upsell @johnreppion.bsky.social
17.02.2026 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My Tell Me Your Story chat with @gavcross.bsky.social is online now. You can find it in podcast form wherever you get your podcasts, but you can also watch a video of it (and see me use my old "close my eyes to remember things" trick far too many times) here:
youtu.be/O3RFwHZenCU?...
The first of our Haunted Book Club readings is online now.
Next Tuesday night @gavcross.bsky.social and I will be discussing The Signalman by Charles Dickens.
gavcross.substack.com/s/haunted-bo...
Here's your chance to refresh your memory before we do.
gavcross.substack.com/p/haunted-bo...
Lovely day! Bold Coffee Shop at Hest Bank are offering a ‘blind date with a book’ - Outpost 9 and Future’s End are now waiting to be wrapped 😁!
I took my boat out, saw a heron.
Luv n peace✌️
#BookSky 💙📚 #Speculative 🪐📚 #Books #Author #Writer #Bookish #Fiction #NewFiction #BookSkyChat
Carefully walk along the tracks with us for our first Haunted Book Club:
The Signalman
By
Charles Dickens.
The perennially popular supernatural story of the railways…
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The Haunted Book Club live at Norton Priory.
The Haunted Book Club is going live at @englishheritage.bsky.social's Norton Priory museum and gardens this March.
Join @gavcross.bsky.social and myself for an evening of Ghost Stories and chat.
Tickets and info: nortonpriory.greatbritishevents.org/events/f75b3...
John Reppion interviewed on Gav Cross' Tell Me Your Story podcast live Feb 10th 8:30pm
I'll be chatting to @gavcross.bsky.social for his Tell Me Your Story podcast
Tuesday Feb 10th
8.30pm
Live on Substack
And then as a YouTube and audio podcast.
gavcross.substack.com/s/tell-me-yo...
Haunted Book Club The Signalman Feb 17th Masque of the Red Death March 3rd The Eyes March 17th Spinach March 31st Man-sized in Marble April 17th Live events yet to be announced
Coming in February 2026 - Haunted Book Club - @gavcross.bsky.social and I invite you to join us in a brand new fortnightly podcast about ghost stories, creepy tales, and weird fiction. Join us.
linktr.ee/haunted_book...
Thanks John!
29.12.2025 09:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Extended Universe
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A nice little interview with Robin Ince that @gavcross.bsky.social did a few months ago, talking about his poetry and writing and the power of words. And ADHD.
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Phantastic Stories
The Festival
By
HP Lovecraft
Read live by Gav Cross
9pm on Substack
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Phantastic Stories:
The Waits by L.P. Hartley
With a Special Guest Reader…
A Christmas Supernatural Story For You...
9pm on Substack
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Flashbacks to the terror of watching the ‘Invasion of the Bodysnatchers’ remake as a kid…
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Full disclosure.
I do make family shows.
I don’t get direct funding.
(I’ve tried.)
I just can’t do the fake messaging that people tell me they bolt on to get over the funding application line. It makes me fold personally.
Good luck to them - we all need work!
Where is the space for pure joy?
If that is the case - where did that come from?
I’m aware of the great TIE revolution of the late 20th century but why is it all pervasive?
Is the a Reading for Pleasure, ie Theatre for Pleasure message needed?
Are we excluding people from the world of live theatre and culture because of it?
Genuine question for family friendly theatre makers.
I get the impression that the funded arts sector requires one outcome of going to the theatre is to learn something.
Or have a big world concept reaffirmed.
Is this the only thing theatre and culture should be?
Phantastic Stories:
The Mirror in Roon 22
By
James Hadley Chase
Read by Gav Cross
Live at 9pm on Substack
Always Free
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Sadly , post lockdown - live shows are becoming less and less viable for so many performers - I have many friends , critically revered and fabulous , who are seeing huge drops in their ability to sell - the mainstream dominates - the arenas lap up money and numbers
05.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 58 🔁 16 💬 14 📌 0
Lots of upcoming solo poetry shows including
STOCKPORT www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...
FOLKESTONE www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/rob...
COLCHESTER (for @samaritans.bsky.social ) www.redlionbooks.co.uk/product/poet...
Jerry Bundler
By W.W. Jacobs
A Supernatural Story For You…
9pm
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
The Sea Raiders
A Short Story by HG Wells
Read Live
9pm
Phantastic Stories for you.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
When two or three ND grown men get to authentically chat.
Conversations and connections tumble out with ease.
Smashing to catch up with this titan of LITERATURE!
Gav cross and me about to talk
If you have little to do it 830pm - join @gavcross.bsky.social and me online
07.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
and increasingly social media, for a good while. I’m hoping to hear where the poetry comes from and what is the fuel that drive the engine.
And a poem or two as well.
Come join us.
Come Join in.
You are very welcome.
Link below or search for
Tell Me Your Story.
substack.com/@gavcross/no...
Last call for a conversation I’m really looking forward to with Robin Ince.
Live
Free
8.30pm
On Substack
With his newly released poetry collection
Ice Cream For a Broken Tooth
Robin has been an endlessly creative and I think important voice across performance, broadcasting, writing…
Live with Phantastic Supernatural Story
On Substack...
Through the Door
by Ruth Ainsworth
gavcross.substack.com/live-stream/...
If you like geeky humour, science, creativity, independent book stores, radio 4, nice beards & more-- tomorrow the lovely
@gavcross.bsky.social will be chatting with the amazing
@robinince.bsky.social !
8:30pm UK time (that's 3:30pm Eastern & 12:30pm Pacific, USA)
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👏👏👏
Also - Brilliantly timed Alan Partridge/Saudi themed release today.
Probably coincidence but amazingly so.
Lancashire's Ghosts and Legends by Terence Whitaker (1980)
#DailyGhost
3) WELL HALL BOGGART
"Well Hall, near Clitheroe, had a boggart of a sociable disposition, who used to keep an old woman company by the fireside on long winter nights. Although friendly towards the old woman, he is claimed to have once chained a man to the wall in his temper."