Had a great time last night at the debut performance of @hiddenbritain.bsky.social's experimental AV Black Country ghost story Wren's Nest. A big sonic blast of hauntological goodness along with a beautifully rendered patchwork of eerie visuals - check out those upcoming dates..!

Andrew Wyeth, 1950. “Autumn Cornfield” #painting # #1950s #AndrewWyeth

Hanging out with the kitten my mom's currently looking after. Trying to spot the ghost he's fixated on...

On the 16th I’ll hosting a Q&A with writer Peter Harness alongside a screening of his 2005 adaptation of A View from A Hill. Before that I’ll be introducing an ultra rare screening of Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Poe’s Imp of the Perverse starring Michael Kitchen & Lalla Ward. Details:

A vaguely vampiric mari tonight (inspired by the visual fest of coppolas dracula) I’m not sure its blood, most likely wine given maris perchant for booze

Confirmed sighting at the Coppola winery...

Carry On Scrying... bsky.app/profile/groe...

Very cool to hear the track Drink Deep on the new Florence & the Machine album was inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Laura Silver Bell', which Florence Welch encountered after being gifted Damnable Tales by @sineadgleeson.bsky.social! More gutted than ever that the book has vanished into the ether...

This was excellent, btw. I think Dee's life would make for a great sitcom - you find him living at his mum's place in Mortlake with his exasperated wife Jane, Queen Elizabeth I occasionally popping over for clandestine occult meetings, her suspicions spymaster Walsingham living a few doors down...

Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...

Producers, what's stopping you from making movies that look like Mario Bava's Operazione Paura (AKA Kill, Baby, Kill), 1966...

Another of my favourite paintings in the Wallace Collection is the theatrical Princes in the Tower by Paul Delaroche (1831). The princes await their fate, locked in the Tower of London by Richard III. The dog spies a shadow under the door, the princes soon to be disappeared, most likely murdered...

Just found these screen grabs out of context while scrolling through my downloads roll and had to do some intense remembering. Good spooky flick..!

A nice Krampus stand for the paperback edition of Sarah Clegg's The Dead of Winter. I purchased the hardback last Christmas... and it hast influence'd my travel plans for December 🔥...

Yes to the del Toro Frankenstein exhibition at Oxford Street Selfridges. Spend that Netflix cash, Guillermo! Now can we crowdfund a show for Coppola's Dracula? Where are those Eiko Ishioka costumes hiding...

Another of my favourite paintings in the Wallace Collection is the theatrical Princes in the Tower by Paul Delaroche (1831). The princes await their fate, locked in the Tower of London by Richard III. The dog spies a shadow under the door, the princes soon to be disappeared, most likely murdered...

Hanging out in the Dutch Golden Age rooms of the Wallace Collection. The 17th century domestic scenes of Pieter de Hooch and urban landscapes of Jan van der Heyden. Just some of my favourite stuff, I gawk at them endlessly...

Considering returning to St. Katherine's before I have to get my train...

Now October is out of the way, it's officially time for Christmas Ghost Stories (gets earlier every year!). I picked up my pal @johnnymains.co.uk's new book of lost tales, ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE, got it signed by the man himself. Get your copy right now. Even if you already own it, buy it again..! 👻

Had a good time seeing Folk Horror / True Crime tapestry THE LAST SACRIFICE with director Q&A. Enjoyed the fevered editing of bucolic archive footage woven in with Brit horror faves to tell its story, reminiscent of Paul Wright's ARCADIA. Make your appointment..!

#Caturday The *one* cat I spotted during 4.5 days in Prague...

Here I am outside Prague's 'Faust House' the other night (photo by @johnnymains.co.uk). Elizabethan occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley stayed here in 1583 while trying to relay a message they had received from angels to Emperor Rudolf II, telling him to mend his ungodly ways. It didn't go well...

Here's my longer than usual Letterboxd review, which connects Ghostwatch with Paul Daniels faking his own death, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and The Day Today: letterboxd.com/rayray67/fil...

✨ Three shiny Mari copies remaining. ✨ Shiny goats SOLD OUT ✍️ Eight standard defacements remaining...

"Professionally defaced" editions of @slipperyjack.bsky.social's eerily illustrated TALES ACCURSED just went up for sale. I love love LOVE his style! slipperyjack.bigcartel.com/product/tale...

Morning pilgrimage to Jan Švankmajer & Eva Švankmajerová's house before the flight home...

Tomorrow I have a surprise 5 hour layover in Brussels on the way home from Prague. The main thought is whether or not to flee the airport for a visit to the newly renovated and reopened Astoria, as graced by Delphine Seyrig in Daughters of Darkness...

A reminder... and a warning. The next batch of my Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed will be available from 2pm tomorrow. Ones with gold and ones without gold, imagine! Check out the Coming Soon listing in the shop for details... 💀 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Where do you find me, and for which of my favourite films is this a key location? Correct answers only 🔥...

Now taking bookings for haunted photoshoots...

When in Prague, meet up with @slipperyjack.bsky.social by my favourite statue!!

Honestly one of the most visually interesting takes on the play, gruesome, dirty and wonderfully traditionally made

The editing! Such sublime editing! The cuts from the real world to the models! the cut to the thunder sheet! I wonder if somebody like Scorsese (and Thelma Schoonmaker) ever look to this style of filming to see how abstract the grammar can be and still flow as a story.

Tis the season for this gorgeous production still from the set of John Moxey's City of the Dead (1960). They used the world's supply of fog on this damn flick...

Here's a bonus Mari that my dad carved that will be available in his shop in ONE HOUR (6pm GMT)... 💀 wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com

Nice to see lots getting on board the Švankmajer train. We were shown Dimensions of Dialogue in my first week at art college in 2002, been a fan ever since. A shame that, ALICE aside, none of his features have been released on disc. Let's have that deluxe boxset please..!

🚨Public Service Announcement Jan Švankmajer's wonderful wonderful LEKCE FAUST (1994) is currently available on YouTube (HD transfer, original Czech with English subs) if you want to treat yourself... www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZp...

Those pesky double endpapers in full...

The big thing I did this year and haven't been able to say much about up until now is that I was SOMEHOW asked to illustrate the new Folio Society edition of A Christmas Carol, introduced by Simon Callow. Bit of a dream job. www.foliosociety.com/uk/a-christm...

💥 Friday Shop Plug 💥 I'll be closing the shop next week, but I'll be back on Halloween at 2pm with the next batch of Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed. Hoping next month I'll also be able to sort the new lino print I've been threatening since February... 💀 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

There's a tale in Intervals of Darkness told by the spirit of an 18th century seafarer, observing as scientists examine his skull and attempt a recreation of his visage, I love it to bits...

Little Halloween treat? Something to read while it's rainy and cold outside? Smart people tend to notice that many of these stories, as well as being unsettling, are also quite funny. And they're working class writing that is entertaining, rather than like eating your greens.

💥 Friday Shop Plug 💥 I'll be closing the shop next week, but I'll be back on Halloween at 2pm with the next batch of Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed. Hoping next month I'll also be able to sort the new lino print I've been threatening since February... 💀 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

We really need to bring back 70s Horror anthologies for a less embarrassing way for big British actors to pay their tax bill.

Cor, Jorge Grau's Grade-A zombie banger LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE (1974) has been added to the BFIPlayer for the spooky season. Here's my fan art from ten years ago that ended up on a bootleg German Blu ray release without my permission. How we laughed...

I know where I'll be on the 21st Nov...

Working for @greenlungband.bsky.social. Standard feedback... 💚

New @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social just dropped. 💥 Nice fore-edge painting on this one..!

I’m late to the party… The photo at the end of The Shining was taken in Kensington! And like it says in the film, it was indeed 1921. Full story here (from April!!!!) petapixel.com/2025/04/08/t...

If I can somehow sell 100 tickets, I'll be able to do the food shop, the present shop and not worry about January!