When you become astonishingly rich a demon is sent unto you and it asks if you want to use those riches to abolish child hunger or persecute minorities. That demon, by all accounts, has the easiest fucking job in the world. It has a pre-filled form.

Can you fly, Bobby?

One of the creepiest films I have ever seen. Genuinely upsetting in parts but also astonishingly 80s in its clumsiness. Pin (Sandor Stern, 1988) #NowWatching

This is up there with my own personal peeve; viz, the Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry.

This is up there with my own personal peeve; viz, the Bayeux Tapestry is not a tapestry.

Precious Systems (MJ Guider, 2016) mjguider.bandcamp.com/album/precio... #NowPlaying

🎶 Like Joan d’Arc / I got the excommunication 🎶

🎶 Like Joan d’Arc / I got the excommunication 🎶

🎶 Hell is round the corner where I shelter / Ism's and schisms, we're living helter skelter 🎶

HOUSES WITHIN HOUSES WITHIN HOUSES WITHIN HOUSES WITHIN HOUSES WITHIN HOUSES WITHIN HOUSES WITHIN.\

Book announcement! Reece Goodall’s edited collection Horror Spoofs and Parodies is planned for publication this autumn. It’s volume #29 in the Horror Studies academic book series. www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-... @uniwalespress.bsky.social #horror #horrorstudies

There’s no more money for food but there’s always more money for guns www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Coco surveying her domain. Still warm up here but cloud cover’s taken the edge off so we took the chance for a good run in the park.

Enchantment Of The Ring (Secret Stairways, 1997) secretstairways.bandcamp.com/album/enchan... #NowPlaying

I'll tell you what we should do. We should strike.

A grab-bag of ideas, especially in the final episodes, but carried off well by an excellent cast and punctuated with scenes of genuine dread. The delivery of “he got bit by an animal and then turned into that animal” is my favourite in recent years. Widows Bay (Katie Dippold, 2016) #NowWatching

BRIOCHE BUNS

I've just put up this week's talk from Yanrong Tan on Mary Shelley's most controversial work - Mathilda Watch it here youtu.be/6PDAVbM2pRc

Deus Ex (Ion Storm, 2000)

Funko Pops are one of the worst things humanity has ever invented, a safe number two between football and global nuclear warfare.

How do you contact a dead window-cleaner? Squeegee board

Did you catch this last week's Romancing the Gothic talk? We were joined by Brooke Morrison to talk 'Goblin Market' and floriography! youtu.be/nJOYYWtBR1c

This week's Romancing the Gothic talk focuses on what is probably Mary Shelley's weirdest book... why not come join us! Online and tickets are free (donations welcome!) 10am and 7pm BST (choose the time that fits your time zone)

This is Toby Young’s official portrait where, by accident or design, he looks like someone’s put glasses on a flaccid penis.

No One Will Save You (Brian Duffield, 2023) Name a film with a title that is a full sentence

The Burning World (Swans, 1989) youtu.be/7Y8sZoi304I #NowPlaying

He is the Key and is the Gate

I would argue very strongly that only a few of these are in fact an ice lolly.

Saddened to announce it’s become so hot that people are wearing sandals in public.

Yesterday was Quake’s 30th birthday. As ground-breaking as Doom was, there’s something about Quake’s 3d combat and gory gibs that just hits differently. Trent Reznor’s gloomy, atmospheric soundtrack didn’t hurt either - youtu.be/FY3fqXl_QSc

I should also say that I’ve seen a meat-grinder suddenly lurch into action and snap a man’s arm despite being turned off at the mains.

Relentlessly distressing. If you enjoyed the weird Mitteleuropa paranoia of In Fabric then you will find similar nastiness here. Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, 2024) #NowWatching

Bewildered a co-worker by claiming that “Leibniz didn’t stand a chance” in the middle of their football chat.

Burnham may seem like a more attractive choice but don’t forget that, like all politicians, he will change his views if he thinks it makes him more popular. In the last months he’s u-turned to more conservative stances on trans rights, immigration and rejoining the EU, to name just a few.

When I was a kid in the *coughs* previous century stuff like Artificial Intelligence and space travel and weird bio-hacking seemed really cool and I am only now realising that these things weren’t the goal but these things being freely available to everyone was the goal.

I was at a Very Corporate Event today and one of the discussions was about skills which are important but learned rather than taught. My suggestion of Simply Not Being A Dick met with a poor reception.

Norwegian Folk Museum, giving fabulous film-set-of-a-Folk-Horror vibes 🖤

Me in 1983 certainly did not think that the future would include “looking like me in 1983”

Happy Publication Day to HAUNTED YORKSHIRE 👻🌿🐺🦊 My new @blpublishing.bsky.social anthology explores all things ghoulish in God’s own county, with work by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Emily Brontë, Arthur Machen, Andrew Michael Hurley & more! Also included: barghests, boggarts & malevolent squirrels 🐿️

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of ice-breakers”

Cassette (Preoccupations née Viet Cong, 2017) preoccupations.bandcamp.com/album/casset... #NowPlaying

The Hounds of Tindalos, first described by Frank Belknap Long and later folded into the Lovecraft Mythos, inhabit angled space, rather than the curved space of reality. Their name comes less from a canine appearance and more because they relentlessly “hound” their victims through space-time.

🎶 There’s no / no no no no / no no no no / no no 🎶

Hellhole / Ostatnia wieczerza (Bartosz M. Kowalski, 2022) I think they could potentially have made even more of the excellent finale but this slow-burn piece of gloomy horror was effective in its bait and switch monksploitation. #NowWatching

Beholden to strange customs and inhabited by denizens of ill-omened aspect… but what was Yorkshire like in the haunted past? The new #TalesOfTheWeird from @blpublishing.bsky.social & @elizadearnley.bsky.social might tell this Lancashire lad more!

Just been invited to participate in a “keepy uppy challenge”

Murmuüre (Murmuüre, 2010) murmuure.bandcamp.com/album/murmu-re #NowPlaying

“Yes we could Solve The Problem but have you thought about Punishing The Victim?”

Finally catching up on episodes of After Dark featuring @anatomicalcat.bsky.social and I must say, these are delightfully grim! I didn’t know a lot about Burke and Hare other than the most basic facts. And the newest episode? Umm yeahwowyikes

however much you hate billionaires is not enough