Just submitted a “brief overview” which, due to highly necessary discursions into American exceptionalism and swine flu, is now over 3000 words long…

De Doden Hebben Het Goed (Wiegedood, 2015) wiegedood.bandcamp.com/album/de-dod... #NowPlaying

An undeserving oligarchy creating a framework of thought specifically designed to keep them in power? We do indeed live in precedented times.

Them: We hope you’l bring your whole self to this lunchtime session My whole self: youtu.be/7QH6yWD9WuE

Thirty to fifty

Goodnight

Wes Streeting looks like what happens when a witch turns a Minecraft character into a real boy.

… I Care Because You Do (Aphex Twin, 1995) aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/i-care... #NowPlaying

Drop a film with a single word title

Call for Papers for an edited volume - Mycelia across Media: Creative Expression and the Fungal Turn. Abstracts due Jul 10, 2026. "...seeks to expand upon the growing body of fungal research by focusing on the fungus in creative expression" necs.org/news/calls-f...

Self portrait with Doc Martens Found this picture, taken at a mate’s house in the early 90s. We were the kids who sat around drinking White Lightning out of plastic bottles in the park but always said “thank you for having me” to a friend’s Mum.

My favorite thing about Mr. Blobby is how whenever Americans find out about him they take psychic damage

“And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it. Matthew 7 26:27

We don’t know Coco’s actual birthday and we don’t know her actual age but today, in 2024, is the day she came to live with us so let’s say HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCO!

We don’t know Coco’s actual birthday and we don’t know her actual age but today, in 2024, is the day she came to live with us so let’s say HAPPY BIRTHDAY COCO!

My first ever "unboxing" video, hard copies of volume 1 of our edited collwction on the #ghoststory Starring Willow cat, who was the first to get her paws on it 🐈❤️👻📚 #NewDirections👻

I’m going to be a very busy bee for the next two weeks, so if you’re in Edinburgh and Glasgow and want to see me waving my arms around like this while telling tales from the history of anatomy there are no less than FOUR opportunities to do so!

"Black people should just leave the South!" is the same as "Trans people should just leave red states!" is the same as "Palestinians should just move to Egypt or Jordan!" is the same as "Lebanese people shouldn't live near Israel's border!"

Behold! The glare of the serpent! Great Raskol becoiléd and terrible! [cw snake]

Everything went downhill after we started using brioche buns for burgers.

Brioche is the bane of all humanity.

Best wishes for a restful weekend from your friend, Lazlo Bøner

Everything went downhill after we started using brioche buns for burgers.

Just noticed that you can now buy Darkthrone shirts from Debenhams. “They’re selling hippy wigs in Woolworths, man…”

I tell you this straight, I hate Grogu with a burning passion. I would quite happily throttle the thing.

Today is the feast day of Saint Amato Ronconi, winner of 1292’s Worst Miracle Award. Ronconi was an habitual pilgrim, shown by the shells on his robes, However, on his fifth pilgrimage an angel appeared unto him and spake thusly - “Giveth it up, as ye shallt die soon. And lo it came to pass.

Me: I don’t really need any more RPG systems Free League: Hey kid, howsabout an Elric of Melniboné game…?

7 May, so... it must be time to introduce a creeping sense of unease into the day and celebrate the 58th anniversary of an unsettling masterpiece of British television

*Very* excited that vol.1 of New Directions in the Ghost Story, edited by myself, @henrybartholomew.bsky.social & @joanpassey.bsky.social is out! Well done to all the contributors, and thanks for bearing with us! :) Please recommend to your academic libraries! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

*Philip K Dick liked this*

If you missed this week's excellent talk on Shirley Jackson and witchcraft, you can catch it here! youtu.be/K-VN5vc0X-0

Please show these people a horror movie

Me: Here's my 1500 word submission Them: Can you edit it down a bit? Me: Here's my 2000 word submission.

“A new Resident Evil film (crowd cheers)… …by the director of Barbarian and Weapons (crowd boos)”

Tango n’Vectif (μ-Ziq, 2001) mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/tango-... #NowPlaying

“A new Resident Evil film (crowd cheers)… …by the director of Barbarian and Weapons (crowd boos)”

Bated is an archaic shortening of abated, and one which we now only use in this specific phrase (largely, like a number of these idioms, cos of Shakespeare)

Current commute reading Ghost of an Idea: Hauntology, Folk Horror and the Spectre of Nostalgia (William Burns, 2024) #NowReading @headpress.com

Finally got around to watching these and well. Pennywise’s gags are often great set pieces but I found myself plodding through the turgid bullied kids / traumatised adults sections which, sadly, make up most of the films’ FIVE HOUR runtime. It Chapter One & Two (Andy Muschietti, 2017/2019)

Castle Pieterstein’s lower orangery is always a place of peace as the moonlight shines in. One can almost ignore the screaming.

I am absolutely delighted to have finally received my contributor copy of this exciting collection, edited by @middleagewitch.bsky.social. It looks fantastic! I can't wait to read the other chapters. #Satanism #Feminism #PopularCulture #ShirleyJackson

I had an amazing time over the weekend at Fiends In The Furrows and especially enjoyed the panel with Drs Catherine Lester ( @cinefeline.bsky.social ) and Jonny Murray. A brilliant conversation with some great questions from the audience. Huge thanks to Morvern and the team for organising it all.

Just hit ‘send’ on the first draft! CONVERSATIONS WITH THE DEAD: The Lives of Human Remains to be published by HarperCollins (UK) and St Martin’s Press (North America) in Spring 2028.

I had an amazing time over the weekend at Fiends In The Furrows and especially enjoyed the panel with Drs Catherine Lester ( @cinefeline.bsky.social ) and Jonny Murray. A brilliant conversation with some great questions from the audience. Huge thanks to Morvern and the team for organising it all.

A brilliant session with @cinefeline.bsky.social talking about Watership Down. Could have listened to a couple of hours rather than 30mins!

Been doing some volunteering at the amazing #FiendsInTheFurrows #FolkHorror #Film #Festival in #Leith #Edinburgh it's the final day fiendsinthefurrows.com/programme--t... still some tickets available for last minute Fiends! #Scotland #Scottish #FilmFestival

I am reminded - by, as tradition demands, the incessant tolling of the great Todesglocke - that it is my birthday. I thank those many thralls who have sacrificed their vril essence to maintain me through these long centuries. This selfie was caught in a mirror of silver, at great personal cost.

Fiends in the Furrows is in full flow today. I was at The Devil and Clearcut last night, both of which I really enjoyed. More showings today and the market space from midday to 5pm. A lot of stuff has sold out but still some tickets remaining for a few showing.

A someone who lives in a country with, for now, free healthcare at point of need then I can’t disagree with this. The system that Johnson supported killed far more people than Mangione did, and made many more live miserable lives.

My contributor copy of @helleborezine.bsky.social arrived. Always exciting to see how my pieces will be illustrated.