A yellow sign with black writing which reads Herefordshire rural watch with a pictogram of a black scarecrow with yellow eyes and a crow on its hat. The sign is on a wooden fence with a churchyard and blue sky just visible behind it
Herefordshire rural watch is folk horror
Headpress is celebrating 35 years of books on cults films, TV and music with a one day event.
I will be on the panel The Kneale Inheritance discussing the influence of Nigel Kneale with @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @accordingtojond.bsky.social
A detailed obituary of Kenneth Trod who had a huge influence on the history of the television play. Vale!
Hurrah! Hope all goes well with recovering. Very happy you're still around.
Full length side view of the bronze statue of Queen Victoria in Dalton Square, Lancaster
Closer side view of the statue which looks like Victoria is having an outdoor wee.
Lancaster is home to the only statue of Queen Victoria with her knob out.
You're in my home town. Also try and check out The Golden Lion in Lancaster where the Pendle Witches allegedly had a final drink before meeting their demise.
Heysham stone coffins
‼️ 1000 year old, pre-conquest coffins carved directly into stone ‼️
So glad to finally visit these in Heysham, as featured on the cover of…
1/2 #medievalsky #archaeology
Heysham Hogback
🤯 ‼️ Got to see the Heysham Hogback
An early medieval sculpted stone from the 10th century, thought to be a bridge between pagan Viking Norse myth and Christianity…
🧵 #medievalsky #archaeology
Hammer is going to bankrupt me at this rate!
The HAMMER: HEROES, LEGENDS AND MONSTERS documentary is getting a blu ray release!
Lmao
Myself and @gavcross.bsky.social have been blown away by the response to our first Haunted Book Club episode on The Signalman. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us live and who has watched or listened since.
Please check it out on whatever podcast app you use, and please help spread the word.
Great emojis!
An incredible series covered by the equally incredible @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social in his Book of Beasts 🤱🛒🐬🐀🐺
Absolute shade from @bot.cowtools.org today.
Duvall as Boo Radley
Duvall as Tom Hagen in The Godfather
Duvall as Kilgore in Apocalypse Now
Duvall as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies
RIP Robert Duvall: as central to American film as anyone in his generation
Introducing two new members of the family - Pepper (tabby) and Pablo (b&w). Just nine weeks old so quite shy and nervous in their new surroundings. Pepper is tentatively friendly, Pablo the explorer.
The Caveman’s Lament me think about her when sun rises me think about her when sun sets me say to her how much me love her she tell me love invent not yet me make cave all warm and cosy me lie bearskin on cave floor me play song of love on bone flute she choose cave of Tim next door me no more go out hunt mammoth me throw spear too short or long me sit in cave me paint her picture she say me got perspective wrong me cook meal to show me love her — diplodocus with fried beans — she say food anachronistic me not know what this means stone age mighty hard for lovers yet rub two flints look what you get small sparks lead to big inferno but she say love invent not yet homo unrequitus
To mark Valentine’s Day, here is what is believed to be the world’s oldest surviving love poem, written 1.5 million years ago by one of our earliest ancestors, homo unrequitus.
Muriel Box's 1955 film explored the perils of reality television 45 years before Big Brother was first screened.
Simon and Laura provided Peter Finch with his first leading role (Laura was played by Kay Kendall). His last film, Network in 1976, was also about television.
Released on this day in 1982: English Settlement #XTC
youtu.be/e3eG6qUGJ34?si…
RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.
RIP Bud Cort star of the greatest romantic black comedy ever made, Harold and Maude (1971).
Flimsy
Listen:
"Stop Making Sense" is an entertaining film about David Byrne and his antics with a very gifted band.
But it's far from the most interesting way to see what Talking Heads were capable of.
Rome in 1980 is where you see what Talking Heads were capable of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7N...
Tonight's washing up music is The Notwist's haunting scratchy post-punk tune Exit Strategy to Myself
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM8r...
Yes it is.
Wednesday...
The BBC has recently put their 1953 production of Ibsen’s 'The Lady from the Sea' on iPlayer. It is, I *think*, the second earliest surviving complete British TV drama, after 'It Is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer' from two months earlier.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Morning stroll image: a pearl catterpillar
Not long to go now - the UK GHOST STORY FESTIVAL ONLINE starts on Friday 6th Feb, with three days of talks, interviews, workshops and more! www.ticketsource.co.uk/ukghoststory... #ghost #ghosts #ghoststories #ghoststory #writing #writers #authors #darkfiction #supernaturalfiction
