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@helengrantsays.bsky.social Currently working through G&S 50 and very much enjoyed 'Reading Matter'. Here's the relevant thread if interested:
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Taken them a while to catch up. Most of the world was questioning it within hours of it happening.

I loved it. Stupidly got rid of my copy some time ago because it was falling to pieces. Lesson learned the hard way. No matter the condition, if if has all the pages, keep it, at least until you find a better replacement copy!

I don't like Arsenal but I dislike even more that you should be abused by people who can't hold their drink/ drugs. Hope you feel much better when you get home.

...five times.

Thank you for everything you do.

Wonderful!

So true. I think a big part of the problem is, most fans, quite understandably, aren't going to forego their Sky/ BT/ TNT/ subscriptions, so the greedy bastards get away with treating everyone like dirt. This WC makes me nostalgic for the Quatar one now. Suddenly their pricing seem dead reasonable!

English and I agree with you 100%. I'd love that we pulled out. I've vowed only to watch the matches staged in Canada and Mexico, no matter if we, or any other national sides I love to watch (including Spain, Germany and yes, Scotland) reach the semis/ final. The alternative is just too disgusting.

and, more importantly, the fans, above the obscene greed we've seen over ticket prices. No ICE, no intimidation of people who happen to come from some place else. Can't see it ever happening, but would love to be proved wrong.

1/2 I'd love if every country pulled out of FIFA, boycotted this world cup (unless, as seems highly unlikely) its all staged in Canada and Mexico, organised their own for 27. Teams that qualified just have to wait a year (like when Covid was still being reported on). The new regime put the sport ...

That looks a bit interesting!

'Poetry' always brings out the best in our heroine!

I preferred the faux documentary to the movie, as I did this splendid dossier, compiled by D. A. Stern (Boxtree, 1999). Really like the 'Fortean Times' feature in #128, Nov. 1999, too.

Diddums. Wonder if they took their own pens to the polling station so remainers couldn't erase their vote at their GRATE BIG RUBBING OUT CENTRE?

Here's the Urban Fox LFL in Wapping. First photo taken on 21 October 2015, the others shortly after its 10th birthday last year. Weather beaten, falling apart and still going strong! LFL's are such a great asset to a community. 🖤

That's brilliant. We have an LFL in Wapping that's ten years old. Its mostly held together by tin tacks, duct tape and the goodwill of those who love it.

The latter. See also N. Far*ge.

Mark Rees, Ghosts of Wales: Accounts from the Victorian Archives. 'Wild Wales' cover illo, depicting skull moon glaring down across the valley at young woman, presumably a ghost, by Sandra Evans.

Modern, POD (?) edition of Harry Price's 'The Most Haunted House in England.' Cover photo: Borley Rectory via a ghostly filter.

Modern POD reissue of S. Louis Giraud [ed], 'Ghosts in the Great War, and True Tales of Haunted Houses by Daily News Readers.' Cover art uncredited, depicts several ghosts lieing in wait for advancing Tommies. ' -

Richard D. Altick, 'Victorian Studies in Scarlet, Murders & Manners in the Age of Victoria.' Another book exposing the myth of 'Victorian Values', the good old days, and all that nonsense.

Broke open new emergency pack. Mostly ghostly. #bookaholism

Its a wonderful, celebratory song and the mix is terrific. Sounds like its built around the 'Sweet Jane' riff, always assuming it was Lou Reeds to begin with. RIP Asha Bhosle.

'Whitechapel' was terrific for that, too. So sad that many of the locations have since been 'redeveloped'/ gentrified, though, thankfully, not all.

Maria Marten looking glam on cover of 'Murder in the Red Barn Bedside Companion' Vol 2. Logo Chrissie Demant & Gloomy Sundae.

#ScrapbooksfromFanzineland update. Murder in the Red Barn Bedside Companion: Vol 2 (Squatney University Press, Shadwell, March 2026). Vol 3 in prep, as is Haunted Benchland #2. #WilliamCorder #MariaMartin #MurderinRedBarn #TerrifyingWorldofHauntedBenchProject etc. Seek out on Vault if inclined.

Gorgeous Sam Pfeff cover art for 'Haunted Houses.' Lights on atop a creepy decrepit house, bats, gate off hinges, etc.

Uncredited cover art for 'Great British Ghosts.' Spooky lady gliding across sky, bald wannabe Nosferatu in high collared coat, bearded top hat guy carrying union jack.

Aidan Chambers's 'Haunted Houses' would be near the top of my all time top 100 reads. Pretty sure it was my 1st ever ghost book, and I love it to this day. 'Great British Ghosts' also delightful. RIP Aidan, and thank you so much. 🖤

Cover of Peter Haining's 'Buried Passions.' Cover image a woodcut depicting the discovery of Maria's corpse in the barn mounted on a lurid pink background.

Back cover blurb in white capitals on pink. A bit lengthy, and feeling too lazy to transcribe it.

After multiple loans of a library copy, finally have my own slimline paperback copy of Peter Haining's 'Buried Passions' (Neville Spearman, 1980), which he'd later revise as 'Maria Marten: the Murder in the Red Barn'(Images, 1992). 🖤

... postponed to early next week when rain forecast. No point doing this stuff on hot sunny days.

The bench of love.

Hoping to revisit #HarrowWeald & Co this week to continue investigation into the disappearance of the haunted bench on corner of Weald Lane. Doubt there's anything uncanny behind it. More likely its down to the council. #benchland

'Charlie'

Remembering Charles Black, dear friend and inspirational editor of the Black Book of Horror Series, who died 15th March 2019. #BlackBaronofMortbury

Whitewash bloke rules!

Dustjacket photo depicting a burning white candle whose flame is flickering in the ghostly breeze. Not exactly imaginative but infinitely preferable to shutterstock or AI if you want my honest.

Same candle still at it.

Harry Ludlam, True Ghost Stories, Foulsham 1980, including Princess Diana's attempt at ghost-banishing, the Rees-Morgue family banshee, erotic ghosts/ phantom sex pests, The Creep of Camberwell, Haunted pubs, etc.

Yeah, course it will. Susan Hall again?