Dude spends nearly three months cycling from Wales to China - spends most of it moaning, misjudging the heat, not being prepared and being blasé as only an Englishman can be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgH...

'Man in Bleak Landscape' - Theodore Major (unknown)

Marnie's happy school is done with for a while

The Edinburgh Science Festival programme is now live! Come and see me on 14th April www.edinburghscience.co.uk/event/dissec...

Go see Rosie!

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I have written a play. I am in the play. I am beyond excited. Please come see it, at @kingsheadtheatre.bsky.social May 13th-6th June. Tickets : kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/chu...

GOOD. This sham bullshit banning by the Government has been seen what it is, a state-driven boot stomp onto the right of the freedom to protest.

Today's poster change

'Three Kids and a Horse' - Paul Hambleton Landacre (1943)

AVENGERS: ENDGAME but with the cast of Eastenders and Corrie from the 80s.

'Woman and Vase with Flowers' - Alexander Campbell William Duncan (unknown)

Bud Cort in HAROLD AND MAUDE and CRIMINAL MINDS. This time he *wasn't* joking around...

For those wanting a little Bud Cort fix today, try and track down the best episode of CRIMINAL MINDS ever made - S5.E16 - 'Mosley Lane'.

I'm seeing a lot of Mario Bava in Emerald Fennell.

Tickets for Leicester gig on Tuesday are here events.comedy-festival.co.uk/events/robin... #comedy #poetry

Marnie's jaw dropped at this last night: "He's let us in on it!!"

Introducing Marnie to HAROLD AND MAUDE

Folktales: the long arm of the lore

Vale to the brilliant, brilliant Bud Cort. I know what I'll be watching tonight x

We've got a huge range of events coming up in the near future with our online writing activity programme - check out just some of what's on tap at www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis... #writing #writers #course #courses #workshop #workshops #horror #horrorfiction #horrorwriting

'A New Galloway Landscape' - Keith McIntyre (1985)

There's been a cancellation at the hospital, so my second heart ablation (first one didn't work) is booked in for next Wednesday! Fuuuuuuuuck!!

'Aeson is Rejuvenated by Having His Blood Replaced by Magic Juices in a Boiling Vat' - Edith Annie Ibbs (c.1907)

"He's so hot right now"

Watched first episode of SMALL PROPHETS. Loved it. Shall do one a day.

ICYMI, our first confirmed film for the DARKNESS IN THE FIELDS FILM FESTIVAL at Derby QUAD is the wonderful French-Polish folk horror HER WILL BE DONE! www.derbyquad.co.uk/events/ditf2... #folkhorror #horror #horrorfestival #horrorfest #horrorfests #horrorfestivals

'Jet Plane Graveyard' - John Armstrong (c.1940s)

Had to get a new security camera because the old one broke. I have duly christened it...

In 2015 I wrote 'The Case of the Revenant ' for this book. It was written when I had the flu and was put on steroids. Sherlock Holmes is an old man, Watson is dead and the case is a brutal one.

'A Hill Woman from Ladakh, Cooking Her Food' - Gertrude Ellen Burrard (1893)

Discount time! Get 15% off our print books with the case-sensitive code NONFICTION15 until midnight on Friday February 13! They're a trilogy of enormous tomes about everything dark, scary and strange from the 1970s & 80s... Also available as colour eBooks. Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

'Daniel Lambert, weighing almost 40 Stone' - Unknown (c. 19c)

94 years ago today FREAKS played for the first time to coin paying customers at the Ritz Theatre, Big Spring Texas, in 1932. Cinema would never be the same again.

Happy birthday to FREAKS (Not the 12th of February as wiki will tell you, I found an earlier screening). I'm still writing my FREAKS book, and will have it out on it's 100th birthday in 2032 (as long as I don't die by then - but plans are in place if that happens). Currently at 200,000 words or so.

I was on A Good Read celebrating Lucie McKnight Hardy’s brilliant Water Shall Refuse Them and her next novel , Night Babies, will creep under your skin

BOSTON, MA friends: I’ll be at Trident Booksellers on Tuesday, March 24 with Christopher Golden to celebrate the launch of my novel, WRETCH. I really hope to see you there! Register here: eric-la-rocca-event-rpbu7.tripleseattickets.com/registration...

Episode 187 WICKED STRANGE Listen free at www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-187.... Watch the video interview at youtu.be/1x_15VFogvg I chat with broadcaster Jeff Belanger, about some of the ghosts, folklore and other legends found in New England, in the NE corner of the United States.

94 years ago today FREAKS played for the first time to coin paying customers at the Ritz Theatre, Big Spring Texas, in 1932. Cinema would never be the same again.

Happy birthday to FREAKS (Not the 12th of February as wiki will tell you, I found an earlier screening). I'm still writing my FREAKS book, and will have it out on it's 100th birthday in 2032 (as long as I don't die by then - but plans are in place if that happens). Currently at 200,000 words or so.

Recorders, 800 year Old tunes and lots of reverb. Cantigua 100 barnhoppit.bandcamp.com/track/cantig...

'Stone Bird' - Jenny Mellings (1989)

Remembering the kind and quite brilliant Eric J. Lawrence on the third anniversary of his death. I miss you, friend.

This new LORD OF THE FLIES is upsetting me - some of the actors are so tiny, just wee babies 😭

'The Emigrant' - Kenny McKendry (2006)

Polishing Marnie's boots #dadjob

I am now the owner of this nightmare fuel. Cost £5.