I’ve got myself tickets for Matthew Bourne’s Red Shoes for Christmas and it’s going to be wonderful

Film makers turn the fucking lighting up so I can actually see people’s faces challenge

Now that I’ve read arrival, I can watch arrival

Always fun when watching Peter Laws Into the Fog and he talks about a really scary experience in a place that I know…not unsettling at all…

Went to Waterstones - new collection of Penguin Horror books. Like Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton or Moths by Rosemary Ashe. Very difficult not to buy everything on the shelf

I would like to congratulate myself for completing a task on one afternoon that I was sure was going to take at least two weekends. Yay me! Take that ADHD. I can now mess about for the rest of the weekend. I have no idea what to do myself now…

Frankenstein, as often happens with Guillermo Del Toro films for me, invaded my brain to the extent I dreamed about it all night, not just the beauty and the horror of it, but the deep emotional impact it had on me

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Mary Shellys Frankenstein is in ny top 2 books of all time, in part because she write it in a crowded lodging house in Bath. She wrote the first four chapters in the weeks following the suicide of her half-sister Fanny. Her first child died in infancy, and /1

Ha, if you log viewing Frankenstein on Letterboxd you get flashes of lighting on your phone screen.

I found Del Toro’s Frankenstein simply astounding. The emotion - the horror - the layers of symbolism and meaning - the allusions to art and literature and previous adaptations - Elizabeth - a Creature that felt like Mary Shelley’s Creature for once #Frankenstein #FrankensteinSpoilers

Interesting that the action has been moved to Edinburgh, given the history of medical learning and medical horror in that city #Frankenstein #FrankensteinSpoilers

Guillermo del Toro is one of the very few filmmakers to make me feel genuine horror. Not scared or uneasy - horror. Yet at the very same moment I am often breathless at the beauty of the film and moved by the genuine emotion

Me sitting here watching all the ‘get a new kitchen/sofa/living room for Christmas’ ads shouting ‘you don’t need that! Go to Paris instead! Learn to horse ride! Go axe throwing! Do something more fun than a new kitchen PLEASE’

Dracula getting closer and closer to that final ending and I always forget how much Mina has to battle him as they get closer and closer. How much she is like and yet unlike the Brides. (I adore Mina, and the re:dracula adaptation is the only that does her justice)

Oh, that weird moment when you start playing a podcast and hear the same sound effect you’ve just spent an hour editing into your own podcast. All being haunted by the same ghosts, are we?

It's the Lord's Day so let me introduce you to the Lloyds Bank coprolite, an 8inch long, 2 inch wide* fossilized turd dating to the 9th century found in York, on display at the Jorvik Viking Center. *like my college boyfriend in that it is a very well endowed piece of shit

Sometimes I wonder how many ghosts make a night time racket only to have the person wake up, shout at the cat, and go back to sleep. And the ghost is screaming ‘it’s not the bloody cat! It’s me!’ And the cat just sits there smirking at the ghost and occasionally tipping over a vase

Around this time yesterday I stopped at St. Katharine’s Chapel in Limehouse to check out their 14th century misericords. Thankfully it was otherwise empty of visitors, I had to lie flat on my back and shimmy underneath a big chair to photograph the hidden demon and its brides in the fourth image...

Oh god, I’ve seen the Bearskin hoodie ad. Not sure why it’s being promoted to me but actually I quite like it. But - with the slightly joking voice over, the poses, the ‘man looks better in a bearskin’ it also feels quite gay. Which is a very good thing

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Watching some of Into the Fog and why the hell were Ouija boards ever considered a fun harmless game for kids to play with? How did someone look at this board designed to contact the dead and thought ‘yeah, this so perfect for emotionally turbulent teens’ youtube.com/@intothefog?...

If we don't hit our goal (which is looking increasingly likely), we cannot make season two. Even if you can't donate, a share or review goes so far. This is a project Fio and I are so proud of, and we really want to see it through to the end. Season one is already available for free online!

Not sure the particular health insurance company currently using the song ‘Enola Gay’ as background music for the ads knows what that song is about

It’s a real winter sky out there. Grey skies in summer, you know the sun is still up there. Grey skies in winter - its grey all the way up, not a touch a warmth, the sun is a myth, a dream you once had

First Christmas advert…

Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil is a Kindle deal this month! it's 99p, you might as well steal it and smack me with a kipper —I move up the rankings, you get an almost-free, not-exactly cozy book about goblins, seems very fair

I’ve started reading Ted Chiang’s short story collection that includes short story of Arrival (which I haven’t actually seen yet) Enjoying it so far - first story very clever and did not go how I expected. HOWEVER I am reading this solely because I read a fanfic where a character I love read this

New episode out - Lost Stories! And part of this is inspired by the those old ghost sections Nationwide (the TV show, not the building society) used to have in the 70s podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This is beginning to feel a bit like the studio bit in Ghostwatch #Uncanny

Danny’s going to start getting a reputation with the local plumbers #Uncanny

Now, how long can I listen to #Uncanny for before I decide it’s too scary for nighttime and decide to leave it until tomorrow?

JUST ONE HOUR TO GO until the #UNCANNY HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!!!!👻⏰🚨😱‼️ Let me know in the comments #UncannyCommunity: WHERE will you be listening to Case 1: The Haunted Street? TUNE IN on BBC Sounds or BBC Radio 4 or your podcast feed - are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic...

There’s a storm outside, torrential rain and thunder and lightning, on Halloween! How very - Macbeth….

Award winning podcast 'Weird on the Wade' from @weirdinthewade.bsky.social , popped up in my feed on the way home on Tuesday. Now 4 or 5 episodes in. I'm enjoying these gentle investigations into the weird of Biggleswade. The stories are impressively well researched and sympathetically retold.

A (true) #Halloween story... 🧵 (It's a Ghost Story for Christmas really, but here goes:) The town I grew up in, Ferryhill, was the site of a nationally-famous ax-murder in 1682: “the most horrid and barbarous murder that was ever heard in the North or elsewhere”. 1/

Happy Halloween, All Hallows Eve and/or Samhain! If you’re after something on theme for this stormy evening, have a listen to last year’s bonus episode: Samhain Shenanigans! When David puts out the Samhain bonfire a vengeful spirit emerges to terrify the party… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

More Halloween costume ideas: - dark librarian - mossy nook - mildly inappropriate Muppet - sexy bog corpse - queen of the wildlands, perfumed in rum and malice

As it’s Halloween - had a slightly spooky experience a few nights ago. To lay the ground work - I live behind a busy high street, and I always sleep with the blind open. The cafe downstairs keeps his outside lights all night, the houses across the road all have nightlights, there are streetlamps

I'm excited to share that the latest episode of 'Gone Medieval' podcast features the Shropshire Witches! We talked about medieval ghosts and all things spooky! Teenage me would be pinching herself! open.spotify.com/episode/303k... #history #halloween #medieval #folklore #medievalist

I have not worked on the podcast, and associated work, on it as hard as I planned to this year, as my day job suddenly got intensely busy and took up all my time and energy. Irritatingly. But it’s time for me to reapply myself and concentrate on it more

I’ve fallen so behind on my podcast listening and reading and watching while working on my own podcast but now I’m coming to the end of the this season I need to catch up. And also think hard about how I want my podcast to sound in future. But mostly listen to all the great podcasts out there

Spent the afternoon listening to scary podcasts. The last Uncanny, Sherlock & Co excellent Hound of the Baskervilles adaptation. Catching up on Re Dracula

For Halloween I’m reading Rainforest by Michelle Paver. She is so good at these atmospheric horror, where reckless explorers enter a landscape they don’t understand and something responds…

Sod Christmas, the wonderful time of the year is Hallowe'en if you're a hobgoblin, and this lot in a 17th C woodcut are mad for it: boozed up on cowslip wine, I'll be bound. The chap in the middle's looking a bit fed up with it all, though. #WyrdWednesday #Halloween #fairies #faerie #witchcraft

I put on @weirdinthewade.bsky.social Secrets of Royston Cave to accompany me as I work but I’m so engrossed in the story I’m just staring into space, totally forgetting my work. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Episode 46 of The Attic Monologues is out next week, and it's one I've been waiting for for a loooong time 👀 #AudioDrama #HorrorPodcast

The number of times a ghostly experience is explained as ‘sleep paralysis’ and I do wonder how many cases of ‘sleep paralysis’ are actually ghosts… #uncanny

Ooh, catching up on Uncanny and there’s a Clophill Church episode - I’m sure that’s the church that @weirdinthewade.bsky.social did some of her creepiest (and my personal favourite) episodes about

Hmm, I tried to avoid it but in the end it seems it was necessary. I need a cool lighter in my podcast…: