For all us Nigel Kneale enthusiasts, today is a very important day.

It’s the day we remind you that Nigel Kneale was born on 28 April. Not today.

Fortean TV repeat Klaxon! Tonight 10:55 pm.

A cafe with the name ‘Sizewell Tea’.

Well played, namer of this East Sussex café near a nuclear power station.

"Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us…"

New Tom Waits (with Massive Attack) and Boards of Canada music on the same day? Oh my giddy aunt!

Goes live tomorrow!! All you M.R.James fans, check this out!

Colour photograph of a white man looking into the camera. He wears rectangular framed glasses, has short blond cropped hair, and wears a black collared shirt over a black T shirt.

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈
Introducing our special guest: Jörg Buttgereit!

The cult director of #Nekromantik, Schramm, and Der Todesking joins us to launch the updated Sex Murder Art: The Films of Jörg Buttgereit by David Kerekes.

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Remember Remember
The Actor Ron Pember
Born on this day
And NOT in November

Great product placement there from Tunnocks.

#Artemis

Symptoms (1974) - Projected Figures Larraz's long lost Symptoms is a gothic tale of an infantilised, repressed woman and her human doll's house.

Repressed sexuality, confounded identity: José Ramón Larraz's SYMPTOMS (1974) offers doll's house gothic.
RIP Angela Pleasance. projectedfigures.com/2016/06/05/c...

Vale Angela Pleasence. So sad to hear this.

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🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈
Introducing our panelists: Mark Goodall.

Mark's books include the Gathering of the Tribe series (newest instalment just out!) and Sweet & Savage: The World Through the Mondo Film Lens. He joins our music panel!

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🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈
Introducing our panelists: Jennifer Wallis @harbottlestores.bsky.social

Jennifer is the editor of Fight Your Own War and contributor to various Headpress titles, and joins our Music from the Margins panel!

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A fart rune: a weird mark on a bit of paper. It looks a bit like someone standing behind a table, or an alien spaceship, or a large T shape behind/in front of a horizontal line, and two diagonal downward strokes at either end, like table legs

It’s April 10, and that can only mean one thing. YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 370th anniversary of Jón Jónsson and his son Jón Jónsson being burnt at the stake in Iceland for attacking a priest (called Jón, obviously) with witchcraft and for casting fart spells on a girl using fart runes 🧵

The Italian Connection (1972) - Mario Adorf's introduction.mpg YouTube video by ScorethefilmBLOG

RIP, il magnifico* Mario Adorf (1930-2026) (*was actually German, born in Switzerland, appeared in films by Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, Wilder, Peckinpah, Siodmak, Chabrol etc but I shall chiefly remember him from his Italian films for Corbucci, Argento, Di Leo, Lado et al)

Freaks - Johnny Mains - Zoom - The Last Tuesday Society Freaks Fresh off the massive success of Dracula (1931), director Tod Browning was tasked by MGM’s production chief, Irving Thalberg, to create a movie that would out-terrify Universal Studios’ booming […]

I'm doing my first event for THE LAST TUESDAY SOCIETY!

Will be talking about FREAKS and opening up my archive and looking at the three different versions of the screenplay I have and all other kinds of stuff!

To book a ticket for 13th of July:

thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/freaks...

Paul Seed obituary Actor and versatile television director who helped shape the influential BBC production of House of Cards

Vale Paul Seed, actor who moved behind the camera. None of the obits mention his time in the 70s as a member of Manchester Library Theatre's regular company, so I will. A charismatic and memorable performer who made a top rank director.

Black and white photograph of a man looking into the camera. We only see half his face in the frame. He has dark eyes, is white, has dark short hair, and is wearing a dark coloured blazer with white edging detail on the lapel.

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈
Introducing our panelists: Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social

Writer, critic, podcast host, and author of a forthcoming book on BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, he chairs our New Voices in #Horror panel.

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🎶
WHEN THE MOON
HAS A MARK
THAT IS LAVA AND DARK
THAT'S A MARE 🎶

At St. Edith's, Eaton under Heywood, there is the most wonderful apotropaic marking I've seen. The "W" or "VV" symbol, linked to the Virgin Mary, was believed to invoke her protection. Post-Reformation, it remained a powerful apotropaic sign.

#Apotropaic #Churches #Churchcrawling #history #Folklore

When you order Alfred Hitchcock off Temu....

Colour photograph of a young man looking into the camera from a side-on position. He has dark brown mussed hair, blue/green eyes, and is white. He wears a white buttoned shirt, a black pinstripe jacket, and has a cross-body brown leather bag. The background is a wooden door with small glass windows, and a section of wall.

🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈
Introducing our panelists: Will Dupere

An emerging screenwriter, Will's projects include TWATTER, comedy play The Supreme Court, and #horror short The Shedding.

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#manchester #manchesterevents

Currently watching William Castle produced and Richard Matheson created TV horror anthology Ghost Story (retitled mid season as Circle of Fear) with scripts by Jimmy Sangster, Robert Bloch and D C Fontana.

Watched The Birthday (2004). Best to go in blind and stay with it. A film of two halves, Just as it gets tedious the remarkable ending kicks in. Corey Feldman gives a career best performance, though he does seem to be channeling Peter Falk. Worth a visit.

Picture of some “Easter stigmata cookies” (shortbread biscuits in the shape of hands with holes in the middle filled with strawberry jam.)

What’s wrong, babe? You’ve hardly touched your Easter stigmata cookies.

Hellebore 15: The Green Issue showing a mysterious woman communing with the woods. Cover photograph by Lorenza Dapra with design by Sam Freeman

IT’S HERE! Nature sprites, magical blooms, holy and unholy trees, wild men of the woods, numinous forests, dying-and-reviving deities.

👉🏼 Pre-orders for The Green Issue are now open worldwide!
helleborezine.com/products/the-green-issue

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🎈Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza🎈
Introducing our panelists: Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social

Andy is the author of Into the Unknown: The Fantastic Life of #NigelKneale and, perhaps unsurprisingly, he joins our Nigel Kneale panel!

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a folly made by Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Wilson

Please do not feed the giraffes sign put up by Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Wilson and says this.sign was kindly supplied by my equine friend moti

sign that says Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Wilson 14th baron berners 1883 1950 composer, writer, artist, eccentric

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Wilson lord berners bought faringdon house jn 1918 a musican, composer, painter and writer. known for his eccentric bohemian lifestyle. built the folly tower for no purpose. he installed a grand piano in his rolls royce. kept whippets in diamond collars. put up amusing signs. ate meals of only one colour. tinted the towns pigeons with vegetable dyes and took tea with a horse in his drawing room. he left his folly to his partner robert mad boy herber percy

I found this folly whilst in Farringdon, built by a rather interesting guy called Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt Wilson who put up signs saying please dont feed the giraffes, dyed the local pigeons and ate meals of only one colour

Whenever I go church crawling, I obsessively look for graffiti. Recently, in All Saints Church, Claverley, I hit the jackpot when I found this fantastic little guy ✨️

#history #churchcrawling #churches #historicgraffiti #churchesoftheworld

Fawlty Towers | LEGO® Ideas Welcome to Fawlty Towers, the most chaotic seaside hotel ever brought to life in brick form! Inspired by the classic British sitcom Fawlty Towers, this detailed…

How brilliant is this concept kit, Lego Fawlty Towers! Incredible detailing throughout.

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