I've decided to post more vintage crime stuff from my magazine collection. So here's the cover of the March 1938 edition of The Strand Magazine featuring Dorothy L Sayers' immortal detective Lord Peter Wimsy. The story inside is the classic The Haunted Policeman #DorothLSayers #detectives #detection

Watching, as many might be tonight, An Audience with Kenneth Williams. He talks about losing his favourite record, and how Hattie Jacques found him a replacement. Noel Coward reading Clemence Dane's The Welcoming Land. It's here. Gorgeously patriotic. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

Thank you! This is a story already earmarked for inclusion in the third volume of Walpole's uncollected stories that the Society is publishing with Grayswood Press, following 'Red Amber' & 'Gifts for My Friends'.

This one is just for @hughwalpolesociety.bsky.social: a spread from the February 1936 edition of The Strand Magazine. #HughWalpole #Walpole #BookChatWeekly #booksy #1930s

Rodney Ackland’s adaptation of Hugh Walpole’s novel 'The Old Ladies' returns to the London stage for the first time in over 30 years. Opening at the Finborough Theatre in West London, on Tuesday 24 March 2026, for a limited four-week run. www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/...

Odd start to the day, someone bought one of my books from the Evil Empire; I've been thinking about 'unpublishing' them & making another attempt to get them done 'traditionally', so gratified surprise seems tinged with resentfulness. No pleasing some people.

'Maradick at Forty', encounters with the 'Devil' in Cornwall. 'Prelude to Adventure', an undergratuate accidentally kills a schoolmate, for boasting about 'ruining' a local girl, & is pursued by the 'Hound of Heaven'. 'Above the Dark Circus', jailbirds trap the man who betrayed them, murder ensues.

SUPERB dust jacket, including the spine. 'The Man With Red Hair' is a masterpiece. Unfamiliar with the others though.

'moving' 'fascinating' 'engaging' Just some of the nice things said about Recommended! by Nicola Wilson - the story of the Book Society, and the people that made it happen - available from all good bookshops! Link below or search Nicola Wilson Recommended! www.hhousebooks.com/books/recomm...

Somewhere in the vicinity of #PhantomsFriday Rex Whistler's illustrations for Hugh Walpole's 'Four Fantastic Tales' (1932)

Not seen these for years, makes for a curious gothic roman noir double-bill. Jean Marais in 'Orphée' would later play the 1960s version of Fantômas. 'With gloves like these you can walk through mirrors'.

More secondhand vinyl.

When talking about something that was out of whack, unsymmetrical, or generally lopsided, my Gran would describe it as being jy-wanky.

365: The Secret City - Sir Hugh Walpole (1919) Intro Rating: 3.7 ⭐️ Watch Summary (7 min) in the profile Genre: British Literature, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Russia 📚 Love books? ❤️ Like, ➕ Follow, ✈️ Share

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Nicola Wilson's new book #Recommended ! published by @hollandhouse3525, is available now. Link below or search Nicola Wilson Recommended! www.hhousebooks.com/books/recomm... Nicola Wilson talks about Recommended, the Book Society and more on our podcast #historical #booksaboutbooks #amreading

It's all very well trying to escape the tyranny of narrative, but what to do when the only way out seems to be to try & emulate #BSJohnson & 'The Unfortunates'?

Not wishing to spoil it for anyone, but.. When the wonderful Kate Bush brought out 'Wuthering Heights', my friend Duncan & I misheard the lyrics, & we would sing: Out on the wild & windy moors, We rolled & tossed like trees; You had distemper, like those jellied eels: Too hot, too greasy. Sorry.

Not a religious person, but this is glorious. The misericords under the choir stalls are cool too! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Loved this film! homemcr.org/whats-on/nou...

"Her face was one of the wickedest, most malignant and furtive I have ever seen..." - Hugh Walpole, 'Mrs Lunt' #PhantomsFriday #ghosts #ghost #horror #HughWalpole #booksky

Good grief! Take us now Lord! You seen this Sam? @romgothsam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

A week in Wiltshire A good chance I'll be left to My own Devises

To HOME in Manchester for Ben Wheatley's 'Bulk', and an excellent Q&A with the Director. homemcr.org/whats-on/bul...

To HOME in Manchester for 'Breathless'. One of my friends at school had the look of Belmondo, at least from what I could make out through the blue-haze of cigarette smoke. homemcr.org/whats-on/bre...

Another remastered classic from those clever people at Eureka!

Delighted to receive the hard copy of Jimmy Packham’s fabulous Coastal Gothic, 1719-2020 from our Cambridge Elements in the Gothic @dalegothic96.bsky.social @jfpackham.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Manchester, City of Lights.

To HOME in Manchester, for the Godard, like you do. homemcr.org/whats-on/ban...

Not quite #PhantomsFriday but haunting nontheless. Hugh Walpole’s ‘Red Amber’ in which Mrs Hanney craves Mrs Buck’s piece of red amber. Mrs Buck gifts it to her when she is very ill, but recovers & asks for it back. Mrs Hanney ends up scaring her to death to get it.

One of the downsides of ageing is the crap you get through the post urging you to embrace your imminent demise. I'm currently a little baffled at how 'Pure Cremation' has over 30,000 5-Star reviews, do they employ a medium?

Cumbrian poet John Stagg (1769-1824) expounds his theories on vampirism in the 'Argument', ahead of his poem ‘The Vampyre’, from 'The Minstrel of the North; or, Cumbrian Legends; being a poetical miscellany of legendary, Gothic, and romantic tales' (1810). Suckosity?

Long thread, apologies. Back in the day, Ian McMillan, who has just joined us on here, @imcmillan.bsky.social, hosted a programme on BBC Radio 4, about science fiction poets in the North of England.

In 1976 I enrolled on an Advertising Diploma Course at Watford College. The tutor asked me why I was interested in a career in Advertising. I said, it was because of seeing Oliver Reed in ‘I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘is Name’. He said, ‘Hoho, that’s not the real reason,’ I said, ‘No.’ But it was.

East German science fiction movies from the 60s & 70s, from those wonderful people at Eureka!

Great 2nd hand purchase from Oxfam!

Science Fiction Book Club edition of Lem's 'Solaris', 1973, following the US (1970), & UK (1971), editions. English translation by Kilmartin & Cox, from the 1964 French translation of the original Polish. Lem was always critical of this English translation. Cover artist uncredited, a shame!

Very excited that our Ann Radcliffe edition for CUP is about to make its first appearance in the form of Michael Gamer’s wonderful edition of The Italian! The first of eight volumes in the Radcliffe edition …

Quad movie poster for the film version of Hugh Walpole’s novel ‘Mr Perrin & Mr Traill’ (1911), ‘Acclaimed by Millions’! The film appeared in 1948, seven years after the author’s death.

One sheet for the 1951 film ‘Kind Lady’ based upon Hugh Walpole’s short story ‘The Silver Mask’ from his collection ‘All Souls’ Night (1933). The short story was filmed twice, in 1935 with Aline MacMahon and Basil Rathbone, and in 1951 with Ethel Barrymore and Maurice Evans.

Festive prearations: Wash the kitchen floor in anticiapation of drunkenly spilling the roast when getting it out of the oven.

Spooky Advent no 22: The Little Ghost by Hugh Walpole. As much a study of grief as a ghost story, and a reminder that haunted 18th century dolls can be kind and comforting as well as super creepy.

On British lit 1890-1945 beyond the canon: "politics, nation & identity…art & literature…relationships between conservatism & progressive movements…suffragists…popular science…Stella Benson, Dorothy Edwards, Violet Hunt & Hugh Walpole… brings to bear…valuable new perspectives on cultural history…."

Delighted to have been asked to write the introduction to this.

'The only hope was to have the door wide open and sit where he could see the passage or the staircase, and even then from somewhere else, in a room beyond or on the floor above, you could hear those steps, some-one in loose slippers tip-tapping, tip-tapping about.' Hugh Walpole #PhantomsFriday

Here's where we are now: apparently Nigel Farage's juvenile endorsement of the Nazi Death Camps, should be considered as the cultural equivalent of the 'Black & White Minstrel Show', on the BBC, performng 'De Camptown Races'. 'sake.

To the Lee Miller exhibition at the Polygon Gallery, Shipyards, North Vancouver. thepolygon.ca/exhibition/l...