Happy first day of Autumn from Jean Rollin's La rose de Fer (1973)...

The good folk of Folklore Tapes are currently crowdfunding their next project: a reimagining and creative expansion of 1969 film 'The Watchers', shot on the moors above Todmorden by students of the Royal College of Art www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/09/folk...

Anyone craving more folklore and folk horror in their bluesky lives might like the starter pack I made. I'm always adding to it, especially trying to include artists, musicians, performers, morris dancers, mummers, etc. Let me know if I'm missing anyone :) go.bsky.app/LXSZqSM

Lomochrome Purple film is tricky to scan, but here are some fun pics taken at @nationaltrust.org.uk Avebury yesterday on my Yashica A medium format camera! The first one is a 3-in-1 layered image 📸🪨

'Ten tv comedies you like' is the current thing: The League of Gentlemen Nighty Night Catterick Toast of London The Fast Show Brass Eye High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman Look Around You Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Stath Lets Flats Big representation for stuff I watched on DVD on a loop at uni...

🌿 !Church Folk! 🌿 While visiting Ambleside earlier, I took a gander in St. Mary’s Parish and found this mural, painted in 1944, depicting the centuries old annual village rush-bearing ceremony which continues to take place on first Saturday of July...

Film Time! The rituals of pilgrimage tourism and miracle cures in Jessica Hausner's LOURDES (2009). Continuing the meticulous framing, unfussy visual storytelling and subtly uncanny vibes of her previous flick HOTEL (huge fan), I loved this. Poignant and enigmatic, with bonus Elina Löwensohn, fab...

Film Time! The rituals of pilgrimage tourism and miracle cures in Jessica Hausner's LOURDES (2009). Continuing the meticulous framing, unfussy visual storytelling and subtly uncanny vibes of her previous flick HOTEL (huge fan), I loved this. Poignant and enigmatic, with bonus Elina Löwensohn, fab...

And the next batch of professionally defaced copies will be available in my shop from next Friday... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

With Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) out on 4K UHD/Blu-ray from 22 September via BFI, here is a cross-section of ten German horror films that I have selected www.bfi.org.uk/lists/10-gre...

The British Library have just sent me photos of ILLUSIONS OF PRESENCE - it has been printed!!! EMINENT ANTHOLOGIST Aww yeah. #FESTIVESHINYSHINY Book out October 16, pre-order your copy from links below:

🌿 !Church Folk! 🌿 While visiting Ambleside earlier, I took a gander in St. Mary’s Parish and found this mural, painted in 1944, depicting the centuries old annual village rush-bearing ceremony which continues to take place on first Saturday of July...

Stopped at my favourite bookshop in The Lakes, Sam Read in Grasmere (@samreadbookseller.bsky.social) and dropped off a box of signed & demon stamped copies of Spooky Book No. 2. So they're there if you want one, Lake Folk 🦇..!

Disappointed to see they've toned down the Ambleside velociraptor since I was last here two years ago...

Ready for a new issue? Pre-orders for The Mirror Issue are now open worldwide! ✨🪞✨ Mirror magic, ritual masks, films that cast a spell, doppelgängers and fetches, changelings, evil portraits, spirit traps and much more. 👉🏼 helleborezine.com

Made the annual trek up to Castlerigg. Fine stones, fine stones...

Ah, the annual game of silly bollocks with Adobe to knock a monthly Creative Suite subscription down from £66.49 p/m (imagine!) back down to £30.34. Great game, big prizes...

Late afternoon stroll along Derwent Water. Found a hollow tree striking a disco pose. Or waving for help. The water was barely ankle-deep, so it's probably fine...

The booke now loss'd to the mists of time...

'Did you do anything over the weekend'? Yeah, the folk horror fairy visited and shit got spooky. Wonderful book by @slipperyjack.bsky.social - a great way to start Autumn. #spookyseason #folkhorror

Having spent 18 months of my early career Network Directing af BBC Television these clocks by @hiddenbritain.bsky.social are a terrific reminder of happy days.

Off to The Lakes next week 🥰...

Beautiful work from @slipperyjack.bsky.social "professionally defacing" copies of the books he's illustrated/edited. Delighted to have these in my collection! (Tales Accursed available now directly from his website.)

I'm the happy owner of one of these...

Sign me the heck up ✨...

It’s autumnal, it’s getting darker in the evenings, that scratching sound up in your attic is back. Don’t worry, cheer up by treating yourself with a Woman in Black signed giclee print or two. £75 (free UK P&P). Visit nicktankard.co.uk & email me at [email protected] to place your order.

Oh yep oh yep my dad has another two wood carved stargazing Maris completed. I'm making them available in his shop tomorrow... 👁️ wellswoodcarving.bigcartel.com

Making my escape from London. Two exciting & productive meetings *and* I picked up a couple of Mexican vampire flicks. Good day..!

This Friday at 8pm, a livestreamed telling of M R James's story "The Uncommon Prayer-book". Register in advance and may what you can here uncommonprayer.eventbrite.co.uk

I accidentally recorded this on slow-mo, but I'm glad I did. Love how it makes the most innocuous soundscape instantly ominous. The death knell chime of that child's triangle...

It's nice when you're 'working from home' so you can bunk off to go visit a horn dance performed annually in Abbots Bromley since 1532...

I accidentally recorded this on slow-mo, but I'm glad I did. Love how it makes the most innocuous soundscape instantly ominous. The death knell chime of that child's triangle...

It's nice when you're 'working from home' so you can bunk off to go visit a horn dance performed annually in Abbots Bromley since 1532...

I’m going to make a concerted effort to sell some of my original illustrations (and prints) for The Woman in Black this autumn. Autumn seems like the right time. Watch this space…

The best of the pinholes. Still over exposed, but I love how taking a photo with a mere thread of light turns what was a bright touristy ice cream of day (a very busy pub just down the trail) into the opening of Great Expectations or the finale of The Essex Serpent.

Most of all the atmosphere of ramped up dread, even Mark Jenkins chosen filming aesthetic & the setting of 1973, recalls the BBC's 'Dead of Night' series, with superior camera work and an incredibly chilly sound design. My ★★★★ review of Enys Men on Letterboxd boxd.it/aZ9tID

Found a pile of of my earliest lino blocks stashed away in the garage. Here's a Caligari one I have no memory of making. Maybe I should finish it..!

Here’s a couple of images from behind the scenes on ENYS MEN taken by the incomparable Steven Tanner. Boswens Menhir and the Lifeboat Crew (35mm, spring 2021)

Back on the Enys Men Blu ray. The disc includes a very good director's audio diary you play over the film. Recorded during lockdown when the shoot was pushed by a year, including planning a first draft of Rose of Nevada, and then into socially distanced prep and shoot on Enys Men. Good stuff..!

Squinting to spot Angel Blake...

The Barbican Centre has never to my knowledge hosted a screening of Penda's Fen, but that changes today. It's sold out, I'm happy to say, but I expect there will be a small number of tix at the box office if you want to queue early. And do say hello! (Find me in the Two Brewers after, probably.)

Watching the BFI film sound panel chat with Mark Jenkin & Peter Strickland included on the Enys Men disc. Didn't realise we nearly got a Peter Strickland Stone Tape TV film reimagining before the BBC turned it down and the project pivoted to radio...

After recently discovering my prototype for 'The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water' sign I made a few years back, I've decided to make a small batch available to pre-order, along with a selection of previously sold out signs. 👀 More exciting news on this sign coming soon. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com

Folk horror comes to Crown Court! This case from 1974 is inspired by the Lower Quinton ‘witchcraft murder’ of 1945 & written by David Pinner, whose novel Ritual inspired The Wicker Man m.youtube.com/watch?v=6O3r...

I’m selling folkloric linocut prints at the Turner Contemporary in Margate tomorrow with Brighter Days. Come and marvel at my carving skills and inept sales patter!

We've found 6 copies of the 'Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means' tape, inspired by 'The Stone Tape' (1972). It's a 16 track collection & comes with sleeve notes by the writer/comedian Stewart Lee. These are the final copies, bundled together with an A3 risograph print. hiddenbritain.bandcamp.com

If any outlet needs/wants a review/piece on ROSE OF NEVADA from a a Cornish person lmk :)

Grinning and nodding at all the glowing reviews coming out for Mark Jenkin's third flick. This sounds like a distillation of the elements I loved from Bait (huge fan) and Enys Men (less keen but adored the texture of it), mmm..!

Just two shiny gold leaf'd Maris remaining and then that's the entire first batch of Tales Accursed book defacements sold. Pretty chuffed with that! Getting the pens out to get cracking on batch two...

Straw Bear defacement hast landed..!