Co-signed. Labyrinths was a hugely important early book for me; you can probably draw a pretty direct line from that to my current endless fixations

there is value to saying the whole thing with your chest but that approach requires a level of conviction and precision these stories lack

Raised by Wolves this time. It's $1 to get on the Patreon and get access to a gajillion words (approx.) of writing. www.patreon.com/posts/i-know...

I have been saying this for years. If you wanted to do it with something awful and obnoxious, Do They Know It's Christmas? is available. Do that one instead. No? Well if you want a mythic-level challenge, you could do All I Want for Christmas is You. I dare you. Just leave George alone.

Once again, happy Cyber Men Day to all who celebrate

Whenever I see the grotto in an Anglican church hall Xmas Fair I do always find myself wondering if St Nick tells the kids not to be afraid to punch people if they deny the hypostatic divinity of Christ in ecumenical councils. Look, I can't excuse this.

A review of recent canine-led horror Good Boy. Once again, it's only $1US to subscribe to the Room 207 Press Patreon, and get access to a giant archive of things and stuff, with no obligation to continue. www.patreon.com/posts/umo-in...

Humbled to be in the company of this thread.

New on Patreon: someone who read Apocryphal Gospels as a postgrad (me) reviews the Nicolas Cage Infancy Gospels movie The Carpenter's Son. As ever, the Patreon is only $1US a month and that first buck gets you access to hundreds of posts, no obligation. www.patreon.com/posts/for-th...

Could we maybe not have popular TV shows made by genocide enjoyers I just want to enjoy stuff Is that too much to ask

Eight years ago, I was deep in working out the theory of what a Pagan Village Conspiracy was as a trope, what it signified, and its origins. Now? I think it's a good name for a band.

Just been to see The Carpenter's Son (2025). My friends and I had the cinema entirely to ourselves. It was objectively terrible, and the shot of a dead Nic Cage with a halo needs to be a meme. I absolutely adored it. I love an apocryphal gospel, me, and this did not disappoint me.

The way the news is going on about Budget Eve made me wonder if I'd missed a folk tradition.

What a world we live in when you can mention a novel by Michael Crichton about a futuristic theme park built with negligibly advisable super science going wrong with deadly consequences when the attractions fight back against their owners and you've only got a 50% chance of knowing which one it is.

Went looking up some occult stuff from the shelf for a friend and was reminded of how no one ever seems to have picked up on how the Outer Gods in Grant Morrison's early #2000AD series Zenith are directly lifted from the demon illustrations in Peter Carroll's Psychonaut.

Just cos an incredibly weird scifi show that got abruptly cancelled on a massive cliffhanger because of a change in leadership at the network and hasn't been talked about for years MIGHT have Blu-ray boxsets, that doesn't mean anyone would actually *buy* them... Oh. Yeah. As you were.

Three years ago @parthenoid.bsky.social, @hermetic-arts.bsky.social and I visited the locations from Nigel Kneale’s Murrain. Not been since because, of course, we don’t go back.

Top five film genres: ★they were on Earth all along ★puppets ★human evolution, screaming, bodies gaining extra holes, but is it really ★angry women who are actually robots ★there's another one, can't possibly think what it could be right now, wouldn't be surprised if you can help with that

That moment when you're really excited about the new Julia Ducournau movie and absolutely no one else wants to see it because you made them sit through the other two so you're planning a solo cinema trip.

UK Home Office once again gleefully embracing cruelty for no reason other than to be seen to be openly performing cruelty on people.

I posted an analysis of Bugonia on the Patreon. Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. Want to read some sexy, thought-provoking takes? It's only 1 USD to get everything there, guys and there's millions of words. Help a trans person who's as amazing as me out. www.patreon.com/posts/youre-...

Bugonia: I think I saw a bunch of reviews that said only, "WTAF was that ending" and all I could think was, you didn't see Save the Green Planet, did you? Saw it tonight. Interesting in that it keeps the main plot points but is actually somehow *less* cynical and bleak than the original.

What debut horror novels were your favorite this year? Also, if you're a debut horror writer, feel free to share your book below! I want to be sure I'm reading all the horror! 🖤🖤🖤

Did you rate my take on it though

It's Halloween! @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social and I stagger painfully through post war London before ramming the gates at Hammer's secret base to uncover what monstrous conspiracies it took to get the first two Quatermass film classics out on Blu Ray/UHD. With Steve Rogers and @0tralala.bsky.social.

For Halloween! A bumper BERGCAST looking at the recent BD/UHD releases of The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2. With Hammer's Steve Rogers and writer/filmmaker @0tralala.bsky.social. Hosted by @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social and myself.

100% this. Even IF he's grown up and repudiated his past, even if that's something that he hadn't failed to show that he'd done... if you're running for office, you can afford a coverup or a lasering. If you don't care to get rid of it... Welp.

Speaking of podcasts, I have a thing brewing with @evemoriarty.bsky.social, which is exciting.

And @accordingtojond.bsky.social of course, the creator, primary presenter and leading light of BERGCAST. Also the one who's still doing the show with Andy, while I have retired to editing duties.

Humbled. Tamsin is no slouch herself.

Listen to Kneale biographer Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social talk about bringing this vital collection of British folk horror back into print with Sian Ingham @parthenoid.bsky.social on the Nigel Kneale podcast - BERGCAST. 📻 bergcast.room207press.com/2022/07/epis...

Subservience (2024) This is 3 films for 3 I've seen recently featuring sexy robogirls (the others being Companion and AI Rising, and no, I have no excuse for that second one) where the moral is DO NOT JAILBREAK YOUR LOVE ROBOT You'd think people would learn Oh, also it's TERRIBLE

Guys, it's getting published. www.crossedcrowbooks.com/shop-crossed...

I've been in a crisis for weeks. People have been telling me all the same things about how I'm too hard on myself, how it's not too late, etc, Last night someone said they felt I was inhabiting Kierkegaard's authentic self, and I immediately felt better. Which I guess is on brand

Washington Post staffers writing a round robin article about how they can't work out what One Battle After Another is about is the ultimate on-brand behaviour.

I just finished the Mae Martin cult brainwashing/prison school show Wayward on Netflix. And it was OK, but also: how is it that a 100min film can create characters who grow and engage you and still stick a satisfying ending while a miniseries three or four times as long doesn't manage to do that?

Damn straight.

The current kerfuffle about the Rapture is based on a prediction that it'll begin with Rosh Hashanah in Jerusalem. That's approximately 4pm BST, or 11am in NYC. But please note that Rapture Ready's Rapture Index has no mention of this, and also that I looked at Rapture Ready. Ugh.

He wanted me dead, but god damn it, he did it without cussing or shouting, and doesn't that count for everything?

So basically they thought they'd have a Horst Wessel and instead they got an Ernst Rohm

If I don't believe in the death sentence, I don't believe in the rightness of extrajudicial killings. I would be a hypocrite to suspend that principle, even for someone as evil as Kirk. But mourning a monster like him would also make me a hypocrite. I don't get why this is so hard.

What do you do when an evil man is murdered? What do you say?

This is so sad. A warm, generous, kind, witty, intelligent and elegant soul.

Seeing all the racist shit going on right now and being egged on by the media is making me genuinely fearful for so many people. I was up last night crying because my stupid brain was like "What if someone went for the family of that kid who told you about his Hey Duggee board books yesterday?"

Just heard that John J Johnston has died. If you moved in Egyptology circles or Hammer nerd circles, you probably knew of that lovely, sweet man. Stylish, decent and impeccably dressed. My heart goes out to the husband he leaves behind.

Seeing people's online reactions to the current political climate is a fantastic way of working out who doesn't actually care if you live or die.

“This isn’t a thing, you don’t have even one example”

Completely agree. It's bizarre, selfish, antisocial behavior

Have just been to see Together (Michael Shanks, 2025). It's a movie with some excruciating, gut churning moments that I could only watch through my fingers. Also, loads of hilarious body horror that made me absolutely *cackle* in glee. What? Yes, I am all right. Why do you ask.

Maybe I should start posting legendary bits from Prediction Magazine. Here's a letter from November 1966's Occult Question Time. Prediction, indeed.