"The scariest painting I've ever seen." open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

New relationship status just dropped: ‘claimed by spiders and ivy.’

Happy Shakespeare’s birthday everyone! In VERY exciting news, I’ve been asked to adapt The Tempest for a 60-minute performance on The Golden Hinde, a floating museum moored on the Thames. If you’re in London this September, come and see a (shortened) Shakespeare play on an actual ship!

Happy birthday King of the Weird!!

Last Friday a short libretto of mine about rival épée fencers premiered at the Royal Academy of Music as part of their Opera Makers course 2025-6 with amazing music by Ruben Doda. This has been such a fun project - I never thought I'd be asking singers to sing and duel at the same time!

Well, if this isn’t the most wholesome thing you see today, I envy you! Someone at CBeebies give this kid a show

Just sitting down to get some writing done and YouTube recommends me a 20 minute video of outtakes from Gremlins 2. How am I supposed to work under these conditions?

“Behold!” He said “I will smite thee sore with that moste wicked devil, he who is called commonly ‘OneDrive Syncing Error,’ he who will snatch thy very wordes and tumble them into oblivion.”

I Have Just Signed a Book Deal with Bloomsbury! open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Someone who knows me very well got me my very own mogwai. He’s already befriending the cat, now to keep him away from the leftovers after midnight…Merry Christmas everyone!

The Lynchian Horror of The Christmas Shop open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

😈Latest early access patreon release - the rough mix of our post season discussion of What Makes a Revel Wyrd, looking at witches, demons, cunning folk, and everything in between. With @robertcrighton.bsky.social @rebekahking.bsky.social @magicnotwitches.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

An excellent article

Don’t worry, the Kate Bush Christmas version of Babooshka can’t hurt you.’ The Kate Bush Christmas version of Babooshka:

Churches in Horror Films: corrupted, haunted, wicked open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Who has made this 🤣

YES

Church Doom Paintings. The First Horror films? open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

✨ The York Magic and Witchcraft Conference is back for 2026! ✨ Join us in historic York from 24–26 June as we explore the mysteries of Nature and the Supernatural. 🪄🌿 Submit your abstracts by 14 March 2026 to [email protected] ☺️

I impulse-bought one of those overnight face masks and it’s all gone a bit Georges Franju Eyes Without a Face (1960)

This year I've published 28 lost tales by Oscar Cook, presented a new 'lost' author called Bernard C. Blake and the BL have published my major 'lost' occult discovery. It's been quite the year.

Can’t wait to read this!

Had an unexpected friend on our garden shed this morning in central London. What a lovely last glimpse of autumn!

This week, I’ve been working as a librettist on some intense but incredible Opera Lab workshops at the Royal Academy of Music. On our final day we had 24 hours to write a mini opera based on a news headline. Our group was given ‘Couple Adopts Pig from a Sanctuary only to Cook and Eat Her.’ (1/2)

Last night I had a dream where I’d submitted a story about ‘space worms’ (?!) to a workshop being run by Kate Bush, and I thought damn, I shouldn’t have sent the one about the space worms, it’s not my best and then Kate Bush came up to me and said (1/2)

And the award for the most beautiful venue of the “Uncle Vincent” tour has to go to Dunbar’s Harbour Chapel! One more performance of this beautiful play by @rebekahking.bsky.social tonight in Smailholm Village Hall. Hopefully we’ll be taking Vincent on the road again next year though 🌻

Hearing @johnnymains.co.uk talk about this at the recent Tales of the Weird event has sent this straight to the top of my ‘to buy’ list.

As a one-time librarian I can’t wait for this one!!

SHOCKING photos show before and after the feminisation of academia

Publishing December 4th! 🖤

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

My new business cards have turned out great

What most you fear is coming near open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

I met friend for life @rebekahking.bsky.social yesterday! She is awesome, been helping me out behind the scenes with BL book scanning. A true angel!

Unseen Sex and Violence in The Curious Sofa open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Quiz! Horror Movie Taglines open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

It was such an honour to be asked to be a part of this! Well done to everyone involved.

This was an EXCELLENT telling of Faustus, and I had a great time discussing this and all other things wyrd with @rebekahking.bsky.social . Thank you @beyondshakes.bsky.social for inviting me!

Looking forward to speaking on the panel this afternoon!

The Hapless Child, a Melodrama open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

It’s good to know that, no matter how bad my drawings are, if I write something important enough beside them they might be on the cover of a book one day.

Anyone in the London area want to do the greatest group Halloween costume with me?

The Temptation of St Anthony by Athanasius open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...

Someone pointed out to me recently that the song of the mice in Bagpuss is sung to the tune of ‘summer is icumen in’ which I think means Bagpuss is a folk horror... www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/bagpuss...

I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK. www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...

I am still traumatized by ‘Swords’

The Scariest TV Intros of all Time open.substack.com/pub/rebekahk...