Robert Valentine
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Seems the perfect time to migrate and expand an old Twitter thread of mine about the greatest art heist of the twentieth century... 'INDIANA WHO: CRUSADE OF DEATH!' An adventure in art-theft starring Julian Glover... and Julian Glover.
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The most magnificent bastard of them all.
#TheBoxOfDelights
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Strange Studies of Strange Stories
about 7 hours ago
We conclude our
#StrangeStudies
of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" this week with some reflective canine hijinks! Before you rush off to grab your dog and a mirror, head on over Patreon and check it out! Subscribe there, on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts!
#hppodcraft
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It’s Spooky Christmas!
@forteanlondon.bsky.social
’s
#TheHauntedLandscape
at
@conwayhall.bsky.social
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#ForteanLondon
👻 😈 📚
about 15 hours ago
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I do not bring energy to Bluesky.
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Scarred For Life
2 days ago
HORROR TOP TRUMPS (1978): Colossally gruesome sets, featuring blood, gore, and dismemberment. A playground classic. And it's like two games in one: can you name all the film and TV images homaged by the cards?
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Helen Day
3 days ago
Something cheerful for a chilly November day. This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand. (Artist uncredited)
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Good morning, you lot. ☕️ ☀️ 🥶
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ianVisits
4 days ago
A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-...
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LT Museum’s new exhibition charts 100 years of Art Deco
A century of Art Deco design on the London Underground is being celebrated in a new exhibition at the LT Museum.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/lt-museums-new-exhibition-charts-100-years-of-art-deco-85445/
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Good morning. It’s snowing. ☕️ ❄️
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Mr Jim Moon
5 days ago
One from the vaults! In 1970 Penguin re-published many John Wyndham books in paperback, including of course Day of the Triffids, now all with matching cover art by Harry Willock
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It’s Monday night but somehow it feels like a Friday night and oh bloody hell I think I’ve mentally quit for the year already.
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London Fortean Society
6 days ago
Saturday: 22 November 2025
@conwayhall.bsky.social
and online. Legend trip through the Haunted Landscape at the London Fortean Society’s Day of expert talks on British ghost, magic, and folklore. Speakers and timings follow 1/10
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
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Soho Theatre
5 days ago
Ooh we do love a good yak
@verbatimfoley.bsky.social
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Matthew Woodcock
about 1 month ago
Excited to finally launch my new audio drama from Definitely Human! The Divide is a 12 part spy thriller set in 1964 & arriving in your local branch of podcasts on 24th October. The art you can see here is by the amazing
@bookcoversbyjon.bsky.social
who is very much available for this kind of thing!
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The thought of even opening a dating app exhausts me. I want to meet someone the old fashioned way, where their father is a brilliant scientist who’s gets kidnapped by a diabolical mastermind and
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Mostly Harmless
8 days ago
"Does the number," said Arthur gently, "forty-two mean anything to you at all?" "What? No, what are you talking about?" exclaimed Fenchurch. "Just a thought," murmured Arthur.
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8 days ago
When you feel depleted of enchantment, walk the wood. It is where magic lives loudly. –
#EmilyCBanting
, 1982
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Big Finish Insider
8 days ago
🥳 Many happy returns to the man, the myth (surely not? – ed.) and The Stuff of Legend, Paul McGann. 🎉
https://bgfn.sh/tsollive
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Ash
9 days ago
people are so stupid, it's obvious the Bond markets are tanking because they don't know how to bring him back after he died in No Time to Die (2021)
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This dark, soggy November morning on the Reading to Waterloo line is the sort of imaginary space George Smiley inhabits.
9 days ago
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Strange Studies of Strange Stories
9 days ago
We're back today with part two of Slaughterhouse-Five! Tune in! (image is from the amazing graphic novel adaptation)
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Sums my morning up perfectly. 🚂 🌧️
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9 days ago
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The Holmwood Foundation
11 days ago
Just 33 hours to go until the Kickstarter ends I know it looks bleak but please keep donating and sharing. 33 hours isn’t long. But the more support we have, we may be able to prove to future investors/sponsors how much support we can feasibly raise ourselves.
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Andrew Smith
10 days ago
The Holmwood Foundation is a wonderful horror audio drama series from Big Finish writers
@fiotrethewey.bsky.social
and
@georgiacooked.bsky.social
. And you can back its second season. 😁
www.kickstarter.com/projects/geo...
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The Holmwood Foundation - Season Two
Season Two of the horror-fiction audio drama about possession, queer identity, and Dracula's severed head!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georgiacook/the-holmwood-foundation-season-two
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Scarred For Life
11 days ago
GRIM TALES (1989): Rik Mayall is magnificenly unhinged (of course!) as the storyteller in this glorious children's show, performing the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales like a live action Looney Tune. Written by Anne Caulfield and Anthony (Dramarama, Robin of Sherwood, Crime Traveller) Horowitz.
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Joumana Medlej
25 days ago
Is there anyone on Bsky who remembers this book? It's been out of print for a while, because it needs revising in the light of 5 more years of research & experience (including a proper translation of Umdat ul-Kuttab). Being unpaid work, I've simply not been able to prioritise this, so I've decided…
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Joumana Medlej
12 days ago
It's live!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/maj...
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Inks & Paints of the Middle East REVISED
A new, updated edition of my groundbreaking handbook of early Islamic art technology, incorporating five more years of research.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/majnouna/inks-and-paints-revised?ref=project_build
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Ian Potter
13 days ago
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Never give in to pessimism, folks. I left the house without sunglasses and this was a mistake. 🌧️ ☀️ 🌧️ ☀️
13 days ago
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Two weeks until the most wonderful time of the year: the London Fortean Society’s The Haunted Landscape at Conway Hall. 👻 ✨ 📚 💀
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14 days ago
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Strange Studies of Strange Stories
16 days ago
Get unstuck in time with us as we begin Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, a profound novel about war, trauma and plunger-shaped aliens. New, FREE show! (link in comments)
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Good morning, you lot. ☕️
16 days ago
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Big Finish Insider
17 days ago
ANNIVERSARY! 🎉 A selection of new-Who Doctors 2005-2025 in a new audio compilation. Click
https://bgfn.sh/1125
to read more and to pre-order for release later this month.
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Paul Simpson (SFB)
17 days ago
Celebrate 20 years of New Doctors at
@bigfinish.bsky.social
@nickbriggs.bsky.social
@johndorney.bsky.social
@alexandrakbenedict.bsky.social
@unamccormack.bsky.social
@verbatimfoley.bsky.social
@mrrobvalentine.bsky.social
scifibulletin.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Big Finish mark 20 years of new Doctors
Big Finish is celebrating 20 years of “new” Doctor Who with a special collection of adventures featuring the new-Who Doctors, available as a single download package. Creative director Nicholas Brig…
https://scifibulletin.com/2025/11/05/big-finish-mark-20-years-of-new-doctors/
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Scarred For Life
18 days ago
Fireworks PIF countdown: number one! HAND (1976) This all-time classic PIF featured bandages that haunted a million nightmares and turned sparklers into something to be feared. It worked on me. Happy Bonfire Night!
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Helen Day
18 days ago
Other work of the Ladybird artists ‘Bonfire Night’ (1951) Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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Helen Day
18 days ago
Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Autumn scene’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt
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Robert Lloyd Parry
20 days ago
An East Anglian week ahead for Nunkie. There's not much ticket availability, but there're a few left for "A Warning to the Curious" in Felixstowe on Friday
tinyurl.com/muffd4ez
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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra
9 months ago
“Do you want to come back to my place?” “Yeah, alright.”
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Steven Sloss 🛸
11 months ago
A wee bit of news to end the year on: I couldn't be happier to share that I'm writing a BFI Film Classics book on Ishiro Honda's original GODZILLA! It'll be published by
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
in 2027 🖤
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Result! Thought I’d seen Godzilla: King of the Monsters but I have NOT. 🍿
20 days ago
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Tom Reagan’s Hat
21 days ago
Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker.
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Edge of Darkness - Series 1: 1. Compassionate Leave
Thriller set in a world of obsessive state security. Ronald Craven is haunted by the murder of his daughter and begins his own investigation into her death.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074p8c
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World of Telly
21 days ago
The mighty Edge of Darkness is on BBC4 tonight at 9.15 and also on iPlayer
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
You can get yourself in the mood by watching our video podcast up to the spoiler warning. Lots of stuff about Troy Kennedy Martin and other prime movers behind this fantastic series.
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The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who
24 days ago
"THE DALEKS" ("TV21" issue 93 (dated 29/10/66)).
#DoctorWho
#DrWho
#Daleks
#comicbook
#comicstrip
#scifi
#1960s
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Helen Day
22 days ago
Happy 1st of November. Here’s a biscuit tin, designed in 1958 by CF Tunnicliffe
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Mostly Harmless
22 days ago
"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases."
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Good morning. I just called my toaster ‘Toastie’, so that’s its name now. ☕️
22 days ago
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Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is unfaithful to its primary source material in exactly the same way that Hammer was always unfaithful to theirs. Which makes it utterly faithful to its secondary source material.
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South Western Railway is the real monster.
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For Halloween I’m spending the day dressed as Arthur Dent. Same as a lot of the rest of the year, to be honest.
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