Tomorrow night join #CarolineMunro for a spooky Friday 13th edition of THE CELLAR CLUB! The first episode of the channel Premiere series SUPERNATURAL (1977) begins with #RobertHardy in 'Ghost in Venice' followed by #KlausKinski in NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) #TPTVsubtitles

🧵 (4 posts) More than 800 Iron Age objects discovered at Melsonby in North Yorkshire are to go on public display for the first time in a major new exhibition. Chariots, Treasure and Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard will run at the Yorkshire Museum from 15 May 2026 to summer 2027, offering 1/4

Ralph Bates would have been 86 today. The handsome leading man found fame in playing numerous roles for Hammer, including HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN and DOCTOR JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE. He was only 51 when pancreatic cancer claimed his life; a charity in his name continues to fight the disease.

Anybody around Whitby on Friday? 'At The Back Of The North Wind' is back in Flowergate Hall, and I'll be discussing the legendary Black Heart of Whorlton Castle before singing a song about my favourite gravestone. Come and join us for a full evening of folky, haunto fun - pay what you fancy.

The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken died on February 10th at the age of 72, the band has announced. A statement from the band read: ‘It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Andrew Ranken, drummer, founding member, and heartbeat of The Pogues." www.msn.com/en-us/entert...

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on March 3rd on Blu-ray in the US from #AMC: #Talamasca: The Secret Order Season One (2025)! Fresh out of law school and positioned for a bright future at a white-shoe firm in New York, Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton) is approached and recruited by a mysterious woman who

Blue Man i th Moss #StandingStoneSunday

Recorded a podcast episode with the marvellous @helenwheatley.bsky.social today for @nfsengland.bsky.social - watch the FOLKLORE MATTERS feed wherever you get your podcasts every Thursday! #folklorematters

The concluding part to this acclaimed 70s adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic novel. 🧛 #LouisJourdan is COUNT DRACULA (1977) Part 2: 10:10pm with #FrankFinlay #SusanPenhaligon horror #TPTVsubtitles

NEWS: Tartarus Press publish new edition of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'. #tartaruspress #oscarwilde #thepictureofdoriangray wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2026/02/news...

I'm making a new Haunted Generation Radio Show. I'm actually doing it right now, as we speak. In the meantime, there are eight previous shows full of weird 1970s folk music, plinky synth jingles, school assembly hymns and stuff from Play Away albums... www.mixcloud.com/hauntedgener...

February's Snow Moon marks a period of waiting and hoping, as we anticipate the spring. Let's face it, we could all do with a bit of hope right now, which is why this month's writing prompts are themed around self-care, mindfulness, and healing. 🖤 #writingprompts #writersky #writinginspiration

Our new podcast FOLKLORE MATTERS launches today! Have at it! #folklore

Get your popcorn 🍿 ready for tonight - 8pm BBC2, our excavations at #Skipsea in Holderness will be on #DiggingforBritain. @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

When he was 11, his father was given the living of Croft-on-Tees, a church dating to the 12th century. and the whole family moved to the spacious rectory. The church t is he possible source of one of Lewis Carroll's best loved literary characters the grinning Cheshire cat.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage embarks on the next leg of his ten-year tour of the UK’s libraries, visiting N to P Libraries during the National Year of Reading 2026. Details on how to book your tickets below 💫 simonarmitage.com/how-to-book-n-to-p-libraries-tour-2026/

The 1979 adaptation of Salem’s Lot on 4K in March The 1979 TV miniseries adaptation of "Salem's Lot" is coming to 4K UHD Blu-ray Limited Edition on March 31st via Arrow Video. #ad

Salem's Lot Limited Edition 4K UHD pre-order has dropped from $59.95 to $44.73 at Amazon. amzn.to/4555ile #ad The release date is 3/31

Join me on a quest for the Grail! I’ll be delving into the mystery and history, disentangling the myths and the facts… starting on Sky History just after Imbolc, on 3rd Feb! www.history.co.uk/shows/lost-g...

The world's going to hell in a handbasket. But that's no reason not to sell a book. Come to the launch and get touched by the presence.

Earlier this week I went for a wander onto John Cross Rigg on the North York Moors. The moor is in a pretty poor state after a devastating wildfire last autumn. Fortunately the lovely anthropomorphic standing stone known as The Old Wife’s Neck was left undamaged by the fire. #StandingStoneSunday

Another one in the bag! What a privilege to spend the last nine days recording Album IV at Rockfield Studios with producer Tom Dalgety and engineer Tim Lewis.

The Devil's Arrows, Boroughbridge. #StandingStoneSunday

On this day in Wyrd Britain history... 1971 - Hammer released #LustForaVampire the second film in #TheKarnsteinTrilogy, along with #TheVampireLovers (1970) and #TwinsofEvil (1971). 1971 - Tigon Films released #TheBloodonSatansClaw starring Patrick Wymark and Linda Hayden.

Another 5* review for Scared Sacred on Goodreads! LOVE to see several chapters highlighted... Reviews are integral to our reach as an indie publisher; thank you to everyone for the incredible support! Limited-edition foiled paperbacks can be bought at holpublishing.com/shop. #booksky #horrorsky

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📚 The author's copy of my new book has arrived! Printing Birds and Wildlife in Linocut, about how to make linocut prints, is available for pre-order and will be published in spring 2026. Find out more 👉 www.michellehughesdesign.com/printing-bir... #linocut #printmaking #books

Chatting to Ian Ogilvy on Sunday about RIPPING YARNS and his episode of SOMERSET MAUGHAM where he plays an Oscar Cook cipher. If you have any (non-Saint/Sorcerers/Witchfinder) questions, put them here and I'll try to fit one or two in at the end.

The Quiet Side of the Wainstones Folklore has a habit of latching itself to a place, especially when the landscape looks as if it has something to answer for. A strange rock, an awkward slope, a stone where no stone ought to be, and the human mind gets to work, explaining things up with a story.…

The new Norfolk Iron Age carnyx find featured on #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social is beyond spectacular, dating to that crucial period for the Iceni between Caesar’s expeditions & Boudica’s rebellion. Already my find of the decade, today is a day to worship the carnyx… 1/…

Weirdy Whitby on Friday 13th February, anyone? This has been a lovely regular evening for the last year or so, and it's a delight to be back. 'The Black Heart Of Whorlton Castle' is a terrifying tale that my teacher Mr Hirst relayed to us on a school trip in 1984. I have pictures. And a song...

‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links apple.news/AYHv__CaRQa-...

FOLK HORROR ON TELEVISION - deadline for our call for papers for this edited collection is NEXT WEEK! See @drdjohnston.bsky.social 's post below for details :) #folkhorror #folklore #television

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on March 17th on wide release #4K/Blu-ray Dual Format #Steelbooks in the US from @shoutstudios.bsky.social: #TheLastVoyageOfTheDemeter (2023) and #Robocop2 (1990)! Note: These are identical to the previous releases, which were Amazon exclusives,

A bit of snow at the Devil's Arrows #photography

I wish this ensuing Yeare to be auspicious to you; with a succession of many others during your life. Aubrey to Wood, 1 Jan 1680. Wood F 39, f. 335r.

Managed to squeeze in Luc Besson’s Dracula into my 2025 viewing. Bit daft in places but overall very stylish and fun. Nosferatu remained my film of the year! 🖤

Bankside’s annual Twelfth Night revels will return on Sunday 4th January, as the Lions Part troupe of actors perform a mummers play for free. #folklore www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/mum...

Today's charity shop haul

+++ Rest In Power - Today, the 26th of December, we are remembering Elsa Lanchester, who died on this day in 1986, best remembered by us as the iconic Bride Of Frankenstein. +++ #elsalanchester #brideoffrankenstein #universalhorror #frankenstein #otd

Joy to the world 🖤

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

Bought a cheap fisheye lens, and I love it. A Devil's Arrow this morning. #standingstonesunday #photography

This is great news @sorchanf.bsky.social “Collectors’ perfect-bound booklet containing new writing on the film by critics Sean Abley, Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, and Richard Kadrey, plus select archival material including interviews with director Tobe Hooper, and stars Lance Kerwin and Julie Cobb.”

MELISSA AUF DER MAUR Even the Good Girls Will Cry *Signed* Hardback Preorder: www.resident-music.com/product/auf-... From Tinker to Hole, @smashingpumpkins.bsky.social, & her solo work, Auf der Maur’s wild alt-rock journey is yet to be told… But that’s about to change! @atlanticbooks.bsky.social

The ancient Roman worship of Saturn, the fallen god of the Golden Age, and its relationship with the “Roman Christmas” medium.com/the-10th-mus...

THE LAST SACRIFICE now to rent on Amazon Prime, if you fancy an atmospheric documentary about a mysterious, folkloric murder in the 1940s that helped inspire THE WICKER MAN, ROBIN REDBREAST + other folk horror classics! I also pop up in it here and there too :) www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

Really hoping this brilliant documentary gets a physical release but until that happens check it out on streaming where you can

This set looks gorgeous from www.runecastcopper.com 🖤