Fascinating take on the lore of witchcraft and passing down of the raft through birth.

*COVER REVEAL* The final instalment in the Northern Weird Project! Turbine 34 by Katherine Clements 🧡 A hallucinatory folk horror for those darkening autumn nights. Coming November 2025. Pre-order now! www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/turb...

There's a bizarre scene in this film where the characters hide from a passing helicopter. It is set in 1973 but relates to a 'hidden' community who've remained in the embrace of the 1700s. Perhaps a not so subtle methaphor that the more we move forward the less we actually progress? Possibly.

Arguably one of the finest folk horror graphic novels ever. #folkhorror #folkhorrorrevival #folkhorrorart #hellebore #ayearinthecountry #allthehauntsbeours #midsommar #weirdwalk #neoancients #folklorerising #damnabletales #benedge #hauntology

All episodes of season 2 of The Change up on the 4 app now.

Season 2 on its way. Brilliant comedy with the amazing Bridget Christie embracing folklore and standing up to toxic masculinity, urbanisation and the menopause. Soundtrack has Stick in the Wheel and Angeline Morrison too.

Just arrived and the chapters look promising. Will get my nose into this later today. Horrifying Children - edited by Lauren Stephenson, Robert Edgar & John Marland.

Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children’s television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography. There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children’s television and literature of the late twentieth century.

Listening to: Folklore tapes. Occultural creatures vol 1. Black dog traditions of England.

New LP from top Folklore artist/archivist Ben Edge. Vocals from Angeline Morrison and Elspeth Anne too.

Interesting story on Sunday Brunch about Phillip Stone (The Caretaker in The Shining). Andy Nymam (Ghost Stories) received a rather sad letter from Stone thinking that his character 'Delbert Grady' would lead to more opportunities or get more recognition which sadly didn't happen.

For those looking for a dramatisation of The Black Monk of Pontefract story, this is presently on Amazon Prime. Some scenes may have been hugely exaggerated for dramatic effect. Based on a 'true' story.

New Sharron Kraus LP up on Bandcamp.

Arguing with American transphobes has sapped my will to live.

Dark Match brings us the 1980s small time wrestling scene where a high paycheck convinces a troupe to fight in the back waters of the US. It isn't long before they realise that each match is part of a ritual summoning based around air, water, earth and fire. Daft fun.

@fesshole.bsky.social Girlfriend much appreciated having a candle-lit dinner at the table with the 'good' cutlery and decent plates and posh nosh for valentine's day. She seems to believe it some sweeping romantic gesture. Haven't the heart to tell her I've been binge-watching Hannibal on Netflix.

The window display of Enki in King's Heath made me happy today. This world is dragging me down, so little nuggets of joy are much welcome.

N Trance really did free fall into a wedding covers band very swiftly #totp

Weird Fiction Quarterly did a Folk Horror special. Around 60 short stories and poems with assorted connections to Folk Horror. Rather than tie the term down to a restrictive set of schema it allows each author to play as widely with the concept as possible.

Something disturbs me about the net curtain position on the bedroom window on this normal looking house in Enfield. 😉😉

I know little about Hardy's work as I always preferred the comic stylings of Stan Laurel instead. *cough* Saying that though, he has a quality moo-stash and this largely academic evaluation of some of his work through the lens of Folk Horror looks tasty and just what I need.

Received today.

Oooh! New #folkhorror! Something for me and @lizzyisi.bsky.social to view and discuss! www.themovieblog.com/2025/01/the-...

A sad day for America and the world.

+ WEEKEND BLUESKY COMP + We are giving away 2 x Nuada badges (one for you & a friend) plus a set of The Wicker Man postcards. Like, RP and Follow to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. Last pre-order of the year up for our BBC inspired clocks. More exciting news very soon. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

Mulholland Drive genuinely freaked me out to the point I had to watch it repeatedly to make sure I understood it fully.

It's going to be difficult to see this being beaten as album of the year and yes it is only the first two weeks of January. Perverts. Absolutely bowel-realisingly scary.

Another quality release by Library of the Occult. Blissed out ambient electronics and enchanting folk from Ivy Chalice who "invokes the duality of dreams and nightmares". This track especially is fifteen minutes of wavering synths reminiscent of Goblin at their more mellow times.

Facebook placed restrictions on my account for one month for celebrating the death of a French fascist. It is becoming very worrying just how manipulated social media has become of late. Blue sky may have to be my choice for the future. Here's a Robin Redbreast. X

Listening to.

A stunning album of folk and drone.

Today's Christmas cracker with Jane Asher.

Will be sad when Hobbs Lane retires and we cannot get incredible figures like this.

The third edition of this brilliant book from the pages of 2000AD is out next year. The art is exquisite.

Sixpence is in the Droving pictures. Yay.