Possibly the worst venue in Glasgow but Angine de Poitrine is a draw, I have to say

Have you got your free ticket (donations very welcome) for this Saturday's talk on Folkloric Frankensteins: Navigating Horror in Culturally Hybridized Communities (focusing on Indo-Caribbean and Metis cultures)? Find out more and get tickets below

Coming to Glasgow in May! www.eventbrite.com/e/then-and-n...

My dad's mildly vexed that his pine carved sheet ghost mounted onto a little walnut base hasn't yet sold. Carved ghosts? In this economy? Anyway I told him I'd promote it again, so this is that... 👻 wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com

Vegan kebabs come to Edinburgh and they are doing a giveaway on opening day! Read on my blog: tinyurl.com/fhdzs2ts

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes.

Caligula (Lingua Ignota, 2019) #NowPlaying linguaignota.bandcamp.com/album/caligula

As an addendum to this, if your adverts include people sticking their tongue out or laughing in what I deem to be an excessive manner then I will judge your product harshly.

The deeply cosmic weirdness of Ecco the Dolphin appears in We’re Not Supposed To Be Down here, my talk on haunted houses at sea for Romancing The Gothic / @romgothsam.bsky.social youtu.be/dekXtlyW5i8?...

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter born #otd in 1746. Pictured here is ‘Dos viejos comiendo sopa’ (‘Two Old Ones Eating Soup’), part of Goya’s Black Paintings series from the period 1819-1893.

Every now and then I like to spend a moment remembering that the word helicopter is not heli-copter but helico-pter (or “spinning wing”)

With the arrival of the latest Tales of the Weird from @blpublishing.bsky.social (Marion Fox’s eerie novella The Luck Of The Town) I thought I should rearrange my shelves to display the collection. Not quite every book in the series but almost!

With the arrival of the latest Tales of the Weird from @blpublishing.bsky.social (Marion Fox’s eerie novella The Luck Of The Town) I thought I should rearrange my shelves to display the collection. Not quite every book in the series but almost!

If you see this, post a concert photo you took

Rather than move forward with spinoffs that cling to the original The Lord of the Rings movies, maybe the time has come to fuck yourself clean off into the sea

The Flintstones and the Jetsons exist in the same continuity, which means that the Jetsons’ futuristic habitat is actually the remnant of an advanced human society that hovers over the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Bedrock.

I’ve read enough Simon Stalenhag to know that these sculptures might send me back in time (Désordre, Bernar Venet)

Went to the Louvre (not the popular one, the one in Lens you wouldn’t have heard of) and bought a book about the gloomiest artwork in history. Just a normal day.

We should’ve turned the internet off when it started suggesting things I might like. Don’t suggest things to me. I’m a millennial. I won’t like them, purely because you’ve suggested that I might.

This is *sniggers in philosophy graduate* the best of all possible roads

As a xennial I wish to make a complaint about this definition of “vintage”.

Make them all make this face

Le Passe-muraille (Variously translated as The Man who Could Walk through Walls or, my favourite, simply the Passer-Through-Walls) is a sculpture in Montmartre by Jean Marais, based on Marcel Aymé’s short story of the same name.

Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries had an absolutely banger soundtrack. Up there with Command & Conquer’s. youtu.be/muESBNRvIwc

Coco making the climb up to Sacré-Cœur in Paris

The astonishing apocalypse window of the Église Saint-Rémy

The TK-Elevator-Testturm, just outside Rottweil. The tallest elevator testing tower in the world when constructed in 2017 (and now the fifth), its 232m high observation deck is the highest in Germany.

Two Princes by The Spin Doctors

Examples from the stained glass museum in Troyes

Coco investigates!

A day trip to Kaysersberg

The TK-Elevator-Testturm, just outside Rottweil. The tallest elevator testing tower in the world when constructed in 2017 (and now the fifth), its 232m high observation deck is the highest in Germany.

One of my favourite hobbies when I’m in Germany is to spot branches of DIY superstore Hornbach and recite episodes of Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld reading from their catalogue. youtu.be/0kdLmXRmEec

If you'd like to know more about the #earlymodern alchemy featured in #SmallProphets, have a look at this thread. Spoiler warning - please only have a look if you're acquainted with the whole premise of the series. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Bamberg’s Apfelweibla, or Apple-Wife. In ETA Hoffman’s ‘The Golden Pot’ a student knocks over an old apple-seller’s barrow. He flees, after giving her all his money in apology, but his guilt makes him see her face in objects around Bamberg, like this doorknob.

Three seconds is all it takes to become something else. From werewolves to stranger transformations, The New Flesh explores the horror of losing yourself, body and soul. Edited by Mark Morris with @johnnymains.co.uk Available online today. #weirdfiction #horrorfiction #britishlibrarypublishing

A quick visit to the grave of Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron. One of the most famous flying aces of WW1, he was shot down and killed near the Somme on the 21st April, 1918. He was 25 years old.

And why do all the things have to change / Just when they mean the most youtu.be/V4MHTbwt-Xw

Ask not for whom the Venga Bus is coming. The Venga Bus comes for thee!

Despite some minor issues - Irritating Child Syndrome, some plot bumps and an overlong finale - I really enjoyed this adaptation of Jerusalem’s Lot as it descends from Poe’s gothic decay to the cosmic collapse of Clark Ashton Smith. Chapelwaite (Jason & Peter Filardi, 2021)

Encounter in a corridor

Please do not

Ah, yes. The two genders.

We made a stop in Liége today to see Guillaume Geefs’ ‘Le génie du mal’, known to the internet as Stupid Sexy Satan. It’s quite a thing to behold but in person you see some easily-missed details…

We made a stop in Liége today to see Guillaume Geefs’ ‘Le génie du mal’, known to the internet as Stupid Sexy Satan. It’s quite a thing to behold but in person you see some easily-missed details…

My favourite kind of post…editor-copy post…and this one was a doozy. So many terrific essays by so many terrific authors. It’s Zombitastic! 😃

Stormy Landscape, painting by Penry Williams (1802-85), Welsh artist.

I’m not sure if this can really be counted as a feminist statement but in the city of Liege this young woman points, rather mockingly, at the location of a men-only pissoir…

Coco en vacances

I will not accept today as π day, purely because it is 14/3 day.