RIP Patricia Routledge. Here’s our Comfort Blanket on creating a character as big as Falstaff or Micawber. pod.link/1614879928/e...

Matthew Hopkins, self proclaimed Witchfinder general..Vincent Price and Reece Shearsmiths portrayals are my all time favourites. Both capture the weaselly little voice and air of repression

Friday print sale, I've got the last 4 numbered, signed A4 Chat Grumpoir Giclee art prints, never to be printed again, £35 each. Some 8x8 'Immigration is great' prints £10 a go. And 3 misprinted Weapons for £5 each (all Inc p&p)

Timeline cleanse. Newspaper clipping, 1906.

Made at sites of ancient stones, upon hillforts and in the depths of a fogou. Megalithic Moog is an album crafted using a 1974 Moog Prodigy and the land itself. Melodies from leylines, beats from boulders, songs from stones. stoneclub1.bandcamp.com/album/megali...

1/4 According to a Flemish folktale, there used to be a sheep field near the coast that was haunted. People who went there without speaking the words 'go ahead, I will follow,' felt a heavy weight pulling them down. #WyrdWednesday

This jumper is brilliant.

Fabulous!

It's #HALLOWEIRD season! Original illustration for 'The Phantom Ride' by Lyllian Huntley, originally published in THE SUNNY SOUTH, 26 Oct 1901. As Lyllian Huntley Harris she would write 'The Vow on Halloween' for WEIRD TALES (May 1924). #halloween #spooktober

Very sad to read this this morning. Was just thinking about her yesterday.

This is Zeus. He sometimes gets zoomies just like other dogs, but unlike other dogs, he has a pit crew. 13/10 (TT: zeuscampbell)

Looks like dad is now fully back in the game following his illness. Here's his latest carved phantom, on a base of what he tells me is American black walnut, fancy...

I love this guy and his whopping vegetables.

Sweep with Intensity

Chasing foxes up and down the street again. (Magnus, that is. With me trot-hobbling along behind.)

"They do this improv lark every Sunday. I'll go another time..." That time is this. Very special guests Mike McShane from LA, Ian Coppinger from Dublin and Richard Baker on piano. Booking link in comments. Cheap tix for students, NHS and 65+. No booking fee on the door from 6.30.

For me the smell of Halloween will always be a candle slowly melting inside a turnip.

Everyone, get behind this if you're able to. It's going to be a brilliant, brilliant anthology!!

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I'll be doing an event at the Atlantis Bookshop, London's oldest independent occult bookshop, this Halloween! It will be a lovely intimate affair - will put up a link to order tickets to attend in due course.

Trying to get a small, over-excited dog to calm down for bedtime. #PrayForMe

Exciting news! HELLEBORE’s first short story anthology is here! 9 new tales of the supernatural and the strange by Ramsey Campbell, Ally Wilkes, Reggie Oliver, Helen Grant and more, set in some of the most beguiling locations of Occult Britain. 👉🏼 Pre-order now to secure your copy: helleborezine.com

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. The best of all the days. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. It's a thing! Look. biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only

Order #HALLOWEIRD from the BL: shop.bl.uk/products/hal... Order from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Halloweird-C...

Don't forget to listen to/watch Reece on the Taskmaster podcast... youtu.be/b2bpQ2Gve3g?...

It's a cheese and biscuits in bed type of evening.

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Yes, Magnus, hurtling up and down the road after Mr Fox is exactly how I like to wind down and get ready for bed. 🦊😹

I’ve bought my first pumpkin of the season, now deciding whether to make curry or cheesy pumpkin bake. 🎃

The #NatureForAll 30x30 Art Contest is looking for your submissions! Deadline of 5th October Students are being asked to imagine a work where 30% of land & water are protected by 2030 💙 natureforall.global/festival-nat...

#FairyTaleTuesday With “Frank” being an ancient Germanic tribe and “Stein” meaning stone, many places in Germany share this moniker. But the place most associated with Mary Shelley’s novel is Castle Frankenstein, seated 400m above the Rhine Valley. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

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Poetry people - I have an editing client with a collection, but no idea where to pitch it, and it's not my area, so I don't know either. It's kind of a parody - think Milk & Vine. If you know of a good fit, give me a shout.

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Get a nice 10% discount off our books with the case-sensitive code BOOKDEMAND10 until midnight on Friday October 3rd! A trilogy of massive tomes about the dark, weird pop culture of the 70s and 80s... Also available as colour eBooks! Store link: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

I have just a small pile of first edition hardbacks here which I can sell signed to anyone (in the UK) who emails me at [email protected] in time. All of you will also receive one of these handmade bookmarks made by my mum, Jo. Review (for info): thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/e...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... We're delighted that @stuartmaconie.bsky.social gave 'Nightmares' by (The) Genesis a spin on Freakzone last night!

Things only a comedian/producer would post: I AM LOOKING FOR A TRUMPETER IN BRISTOL AVAILABLE THIS WEEK. Long shot, but let me know. I will not block joke answers as some people do but I also won't laugh at them. I *might* roll my eyes indulgently.

Mari of the morning mist

Currently reading "Spores of Doom", tales of fungal horror, edited by Aaron Worth and published by @blpublishing.bsky.social

My dad is back on the mend after being laid low for two weeks by one of his mystery illnesses, as evidenced by this particularly cursed driftwood spirit having materialised on his workbench...

I'll be in Otherland Bookshop in Berlin on 27th of October doing a talk on my work for the BL and Titan and signing books! I'm very excited!

Just over four weeks to go till our Ghost Story Special live show! Come and share your memories of all things spooky with us and @bobfischer.bsky.social 👻

Sitting in the chippy waiting for my tea to be cooked, feeling huge relief when someone's dog randomly tries to wander in. It's not just Magnus! (Spoiler alert, it is usually Magnus.)

Maybe I should do this for my birthday (a few days after Halloween).

Really need to buy some tweezers as I’ve forgotten mine, and my beard will be longer than Magnus’s by the end of this flatsit if I don’t take action. 😹

A long time taken getting my brain into the correct gear, but here is my review of “At The Change Of The Moon” by Bernard C Blake, edited by @johnnymains.co.uk. ko-fi.com/post/Book-Re...

Enjoyed this very much. New events through October in Ilkley, Halifax, Sheffield, Wells, Cheltenham …..

Got an achy hip so decided to have a bath. Magnus has scuttled off to hide because he thinks he's the one getting a bath. 😹