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Gareth Wood

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Back from the ether. Blue City born. SFF/Folk Horror writer. ‘At Night, White Bracken’ out now everywhere, ‘To Those from Below’ coming April 2026. Repped by @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Lit Agency

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This will be fantastic! Not to be missed, if you can make it!

10.03.2026 14:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
York Theatre Royal

Come if you can!

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10.03.2026 13:07 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

@eofftv.bsky.social and @bunnydarke.bsky.social just watched ‘Maniac’ and feel like Sangster pushed me down a spiral staircase! Think i have whiplash from the twists (dancing aside). Can’t help but wonder if the relentless drinking might’ve clouded the characters’ judgment though.

10.03.2026 09:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Some things were never meant to be buried.

Having been out of print for decades, The Hammer Horror Omnibus is back.

Two volumes and eight iconic films, complete with brand new artwork.

Published with Titan Books. Details and pre-orders available soon. 👀🩸

06.03.2026 04:30 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

And very much appreciated! Also, Hammer’s ‘King Kong’?! The role Christopher Lee was born to play?

05.03.2026 17:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What a murderous, wild-eyed, horny fruitcake of a film ‘Paranoiac’ was! Bizarre, manic and compelling, having never even heard of it, i was blown away and absolutely loved it. Cheers for the usual great episode and for alerting me to this lunatic beauty @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social

05.03.2026 16:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This Is Where The Future Bleeds A thrilling adventure packed with laughs, escapes and kick-ass action, about a smart-talking bunch of rogues and dropouts being thrust into an epic quest to save the future and meddle with the destini...

A FANTASY NOVEL? FOR £6.99?! IN THIS ECONOMY???

YES!

If you'd like to pre-order my upcoming fantasy adventure novel THIS IS WHERE THE FUTURE BLEEDS then you can do so NOW and you can do it HERE and I will love you forever (or at least be positively disposed): forbiddenplanet.com/486220-this-...

05.03.2026 12:36 👍 69 🔁 30 💬 7 📌 4
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Extremely proud of my boy, Duc, this week. After being diagnosed with Lymphoma a month ago, he’s just finished his first cycle of chemo. It’s been tough for him, but he’s powered through: ball-playing, chicken-scoffing, daydreaming and beautiful. I couldn’t love him any more than i do today. Boss.

05.03.2026 11:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This week on HAMMER TIME we have a serious case of imposter syndrome, as Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I dive deep into the twisty, turny - and very creepy - psychological thriller PARANOIAC from 1963. Out now!

04.03.2026 10:04 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

Watched ‘Paranoiac’ for the first time last night so, @eofftv.bsky.social & @bunnydarke.bsky.social i’m especially looking forward to tomorrow’s episode. In the meantime, i’m just trying not to lose my shit if the brandy runs dry.

03.03.2026 06:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Best urinal in Brum

02.03.2026 21:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Southern Comfort (1981) Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort (1981) has, like that other borderline horror film John Boorman’s Deliverance (), cast a long shadow over the genre. It makes the swampier depths of off-t…

Walter Hill's brilliant Southern Comfort (1981) is a horror film and we'll brook no argument about that here - a group of National Guardsmen are remorselessly hunted by angry Cajuns through the Louisiana swamp. How could that not be horror?

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01.03.2026 17:17 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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I’m very excited to say it’s only about a month until my latest novel, ‘To Those from Below’, hits the shelves of all good bookshops, worldwide. I’m stoked with it and, by way an endorsement that means the world to me, the inimitable @ramseycampbell.bsky.social provided the following:

01.03.2026 09:27 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Village of the Damned (1960) Nicely spoken, wholly unrealistic middle-class English children were endemic in 1950s British cinema. Even the least well behaved of them were merely cheeky scamps who were set back on the straight…

Wolf Rilla's eerie Village of the Damned (1960) is a faithful adaptation of the John Wyndham novel The Midwich Cuckoos, a disturbing tale of alien children implanted in the women of a small English village. One of the greatest of all "creepy kids" films.

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28.02.2026 14:49 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

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27.02.2026 16:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.02.2026 16:27 👍 1107 🔁 375 💬 21 📌 18
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Island of Terror (1966) Away from Hammer, as he was a few times in the mid-1960s, Terence Fisher threw in his lot with Tom Blakeley and Bill Chalmers’ Planet Film Productions who had picked up a script by Edward And…

Terence Fisher's non-Hammer SF/horror piece Island of Terror (1966) isn't a patch on his work at Bray but it's still a fun, old-fashioned monster film about body-sucking silicon- based creatures loose on a small island.

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24.02.2026 15:45 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Cheers for yet another outstanding episode @bunnydarke.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social
Your thoughts really add a ton, especially some lesser seen films.
As for this, it’s a lot of fun, with a serious post-masquerade ball boost, despite Warren’s attempt at Brando and Willman’s balsa wood face.

26.02.2026 15:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It's Hammer Time! This week Kevin (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I join a bloodsucking cult as we discuss 1963's KISS OF THE VAMPIRE 🧛🏻‍♀️💋 Listen wherever you get your podcasts

25.02.2026 15:18 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 0
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Hammer Time's back in more familiar Gothic territory this week. Listen in to hear me make a fool of myself over Isobel Black. The things poor Becky has to put up with... Available in all the usual places including here: Hammer — The Evolution of Horror share.google/Fdd7PweycGKb...

25.02.2026 12:53 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Poster for Chapter 4 Liverpool Horror Book Con on 11 Apr announcing Ramsey Campbell as Special Guest Author.

Poster for Chapter 4 Liverpool Horror Book Con on 11 Apr announcing Ramsey Campbell as Special Guest Author.

👻 SPECIAL GUEST AUTHOR 👻

We are delighted to announce the master of British horror @ramseycampbell.bsky.social will be our first ever Special Guest Author at Liverpool Horror Book Con 😱

It is such an honour to welcome a true legend of the genre.

We did say Chapter 4 would be massive 🖤

🩸📚😱📚⚡️📚💙📚📢

17.01.2026 16:18 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
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Ramsey Campbell's THE HUNGRY MOON - full cast audio drama starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Louise Jameson and Jemma Moore DOWNLOAD PREVIEW — OPENING 9 MINUTES OF EPISODE 1 of 4 In association with Bleak December, Room 5064 are proud to present their full cast audio adaptation of Ramsey Campbell's acclaimed folk horror no...

Download a 9 min preview of @ramseycampbell.bsky.social #folkhorror classic THE HUNGRY MOON. Starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Louise Jameson & Jemma Moore, it's available for £15.99 + extras as download.

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28.01.2026 11:54 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Horror Descends On The North West: UK Indie Horror Chapter Heads For Liverpool - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website The Indie Horror Chapter descends on Liverpool on 11 April 2026. Meet legend Ramsey Campbell & 50+ authors for a day of dark fiction, readings.

The Indie Horror Chapter is heading North! Chapter 4 descends on Liverpool (11 Apr 2026) with 50+ authors & the legendary Ramsey Campbell. The North-West has been called... and we are coming.

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@indiehorrorchapter.bsky.social @ramseycampbell.bsky.social

19.02.2026 08:08 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
York Theatre Royal

Come if you can!

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13.02.2026 12:43 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Cheers, put it down to three weeks of final scene trauma! 😢

19.02.2026 12:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bagpuss (1974) For many Britons – at least a couple of generations – Bagpuss is a much loved staple of their childhoods, a fine example of the sort of surreal but gentle children’s television pr…

The stop-motion animated adventures of Bagpuss (1974), "an old, saggy cloth cat" and his animal friends have been charming British television viewers for decades and it shows no sign of its popularity abating one bit.

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18.02.2026 16:23 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

It was a first-time watch for me, with only having a vague idea of what it was about beforehand (leather-clad bikers in Weymouth, Reed’s brolly and something irradiated), so it came as a real surprise to watch it. The ending is incredibly stark and unforgettable. A ‘Hammer-blow’, you might say.

19.02.2026 07:19 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Fantastic discussion as ever this week @bunnydarke.bsky.social and @eofftv.bsky.social thanks!
It’s a film i appreciate more than revere. The tone, ideas and, especially, the ending (!) make it remarkable. Yet another example of Hammer’s breadth, ambition and commitment to breaking viewers’ hearts.

19.02.2026 07:05 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Damned (1961) 20 May 1963 saw the release of the latest Hammer double bill, Michael Carreras’ Maniac, the latest in a string of psycho-thrillers initiated by the success of Seth Holt’s Taste of Fear …

Joseph Losey's The Damned (1961) is an atypical 60s hammer film, a bleak look at small seaside town life, nuclear paranoia and the willingness of the establishment to exploit even the youngest of victims. Still worryingly relevant in so many ways.

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18.02.2026 16:33 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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This week on HAMMER TIME, Kev (@eofftv.bsky.social) and I are at the seaside in our black leather for some atomic sci-fi action with 1963's THE DAMNED 👦🏼👧🏼 OUT NOW

18.02.2026 12:59 👍 25 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 1