The rain is currently lashing against the windows, I've lit a candle, cracked open the Béla Tarr boxset and sticking on Damnation, known for it...

RIP to Béla Tarr, an artist who made beautiful (often haunting) films on his own terms and took no prisoners when talking about them. Truly one of the best to ever do it. Full interview: www.filmcomment.com/blog/intervi...

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

I think I'll do a second drop of these next week, the Schnabelperchten have proven popular..!

My Krampus Hamper (Kramper?) hast been filled and packed away for another year, the straps double-checked for strength...

The defaced books go live in ⌛ one hour ⌛...

Happy New Year, wishing everyone a very fuck genAI in 2026 Here's some of my lovingly hand drawn work from this year. Thank you all for the support, it means a lot x Portfolio: www.jenniferdionisio.com About/Contact: www.jenniferdionisio.com/about Shop: shop.jenniferdionisio.com IG: @ jendionisio

Okay, first I need to be nice or Krampus will get me, then I need to get new clothes so the Yule cat won’t eat me, and now I have to clean my house? Geez, why don’t you have a cryptic that makes me eat more broccoli why doncha. Or one that makes me go to bed on time?

I really want one! Schnabelpertchen are my fave!

As I'm sure you're aware, the fifth of January is the day of the Schnabelperchten, a creature of Austrian folklore who will check your house for cleanliness. If they decide you haven't done a good enough job, they'll slit open your belly and fill it with straw. Happy New Year..!

Where it says 'chain free' does that mean they converted the torture chamber..?

One heck of a lede to bury, the first I've heard of this*..! *I've not really been paying attention, I'll admit.

I don't bother with Letterboxd, but I know in 2025 I watched Herzog's Nosferatu and Żuławski's Possession twice apiece, so that's a happily skewed Adjani result right there...

For those wanting to throw the price of a cup of coffee my way can do so here: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains

A good frosty trudge around National Trust Packwood House and Baddesley Clinton...

In Daft Crafting news: I wanted to keep all of my Krampus things in one place, so naturally I acquired a wicker hamper, roughed up & aged all the leather straps and adorned it with bells and trinkets, along with a switch I made from garden twigs. Why not..?!

Might turn it into a festive vase next year. Some thorny stuff, dried things and bells and whatnot, you know...

I done a New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet! Y'know, to get in the mood x

Mulled cider from the Krampus tiki mug, because of course he owns a Krampus tiki mug. Have a goodun..!

Back to peddling my weird suggestions, in case this festive timeless void hasn't been strange enough for you. A gift of sorts - a folklore/folk horror starter pack. Go find yourself some winter ghost stories, standing stones, possibly even a wassail.

Ah thanks so much for all the purchases of Tales Accursed this year direct from my shop. Hugely appreciated following the year of turmoil surrounding the publisher's slow and messy death. I'll be back with more Professionally Defaced copies in twentie-twentie six ✍️🔥...

New album you say, interesting... 👹

'Celebration in the Forrest' hand stitched embroidery by Irem Yazici, Turkish born textile artist #WomensArt #NewYearsEve

I hope tomorrow night you are all blessed by the New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet ❤️...

I hope tomorrow night you are all blessed by the New Year Good Luck Lemon Piglet ❤️...

Lunch in Ludlow, so obvs had to stop by the church to visit their banging selection of medieval misericords...

On closer inspection the second shot is actually the Koningsbrug in Bruges. It's the same spot where Stefan and Valerie dock their boat and watch the corpse being carried out of the house in Kümel's DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS...

I'm a simple guy, open your film with the protagonist wandering the gloomy deserted streets of an old European city (here it's Ghent) and I'm immediately on board and leaning forward in my seat...

Film Time! Watched Harry Kümel's lush Gothic melodrama MALPERTUIS (1971). With its fisheye lens eccentricity, familial schemeing and actors in multiple roles, it would pair nicely with Juraj Herz's MORGIANA. I was less convinced by the belaboured double twist ending, but good stuff on the whole...

Weird influx of new followers this morning, think it must be that photo of the bangin' leftover turkey toastie I made the other day...

Just read that David Pinner, author of RITUAL, died on Christmas Eve. RITUAL famously inspired THE WICKER MAN.

Expecting to see selfies from half my bluesky feed from here...

Talking of films with a surprising cultural footprint, it's wild how often I continue to be asked if I'm selling the tarot cards from the motion picture Tarot (2024)*. Two emails today! *(I'M NOT)...

Standard antiques shop taxidermy mouse...

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water getting desperate in his methods...

I was curious to see if the Milka foil-wrapped Krampus I got from the Spar at Salzburg train station was just a repurposed Santa figure. Happy to report it's a custom chololate mould, though I'm disturbed by his 'sack'. Looks like he's cosplaying Samantha Eggar from The Brood...

I was curious to see if the Milka foil-wrapped Krampus I got from the Spar at Salzburg train station was just a repurposed Santa figure. Happy to report it's a custom chololate mould, though I'm disturbed by his 'sack'. Looks like he's cosplaying Samantha Eggar from The Brood...

With it being Wren Day, or Lá an Dreoilín in Ireland, I've been doodling in front of the telly and professionally defaced another copy of Tales Accursed with a costumed Wren Boy, which I've made available in the shoppe... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say...

We stopped at Brewood Church and once again did NOT touch the 16th/17th century alabaster tombs of the Giffard family, we've all read the E. Nesbit story...

Boxing Day chilly jaunt along the Brewood Canal circular path...

Good afternoon from the leftover turkey, stuffing, bacon, brie, cranberry & hot maple mayonnaise sourdough toastie (with festive chutney & crispy onions) I just constructed and consumed... #ChristmasGourmand

Resvisting EYES WIDE SHUT and luxuriating in those Manhattan Christmastime set builds on the Pinewood studio backlot, man oh man. Production Designer Roy Walker had THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY out the same year, damn...

Reminds me of Rob Bottin's work on The Thing...

Brass yule goat from my brother...

Merry Christmas from Max. With the cat years conversion he's about 92 years old. Still has a fine set of teeth...

He's been..!

He's been..!

The evening off to a fine spooking with a candlelit screening of @kierlajanisse.bsky.social's wonderfully atmospheric Algernon Blackwood adaptation THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM followed by @nunkie.bsky.social's performance of M.R. James' tale of satyr shenanigans, An Episode of Cathedral History 👌...

The Retrial...