Andrew Screen
@andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social
Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.
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My Halloween advent calendar. 4th OCT Before The Twilight Zone, there was the scary ABC TV anthology series, One Step Beyond (1959-61), hosted and directed by John Newland. TRACK: Fear - Harry Lubin. Theremin and eerie female wailing? I'll have some of that, thanks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXmD...
This year, I'm creating a Halloween advent calendar! 👻WOooOOooo!!!👻 Each day of this month, I'll post a track from a favourite spooky-related record in my demonic possession. 1st OCTOBER The Dunwich Horror O.S.T. (1970) Check out the wonderful track titles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwEf...
It was my birthday yesterday, last one of my fifties, and I was blessed with some fab presents. Spoiled for choice with what to watch or read. What Blu-ray should I watch first?
On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
A new episode of World of Telly is now available wherever you get your podcasts. This time we take a look at Threads (1984). A video version of this episode will be released over the weekend.
Well I made it to Litomyšl for the Jan Švankmajer: Reliquaries and Fetishes exhibition at Miroslav Kubik Gallery! What a thrill, got to meet a couple of bonafide movie stars in the White Rabbit and Little Otik. Also great to see some brand new pieces for 2026 - 92 and still going strong..!
Read all about the occult afterlife of ancient mystery cults in a piece by me and the magical @mjpcuervo.com
Hellebore@helleborezine.bsky.social · 2w ago⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
The Duddo Stones: five strange megaliths on a hilltop in Northumberland. Sometimes they even sing. #StandingStoneSunday
Liberal England... Buried alive: A 1954 rescue of a teenager from a Surrey chalk cave
Buried alive: A 1954 rescue of a teenager from a Surrey chalk cave
I've a habit of digging up forgotten disasters and scandals from old newspapers, but a couple of British caving disasters that I've come acr...
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I've added a new feature to my website where I'll make a selection of script pitches, outlines, and early drafts available for download. The PDFs themselves will be password protected in a futile attempt to keep the scrapers at bay, but the code's right there. First up, John Buchan's The 39 Steps
Downloads – Stephen Gallagher
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Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 72nd anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives, and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth
Off to see John Kearns tonight who is more comedic performance monologue than straight forward stand up. His new show has had nearly universal good reviews so expectations are high...
All is not well with the final album by The Fall... www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
‘Love and respect’ or ‘a cash grab’? The furious battle over the final album by the Fall
Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’
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45 years ago today! Still the best screen adaptation of Wyndham's novel.
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Day of the Triffids - Part Two (17th September 1981). Bill and Josella beat off a Triffid attack.
Bookish is very moreish. Just two more episodes to savour...
BBC has uploaded A Guide to Armageddon to its Youtube channel, should anyone need cheering up…
1982: A Nuclear Bomb in London | Q.E.D.: A Guide to Armageddon | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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'Gangsters has a terrific soundtrack, again anticipating Tarantino. A careful placement of soul, mod and rock standards, ‘Take Good Care Of Yourself’, ‘Keep On Running’ and ‘Suspicious Minds’, mirror the plot.' An English Western: The BBC’s Gangsters at 50 buff.ly/2Pq74Lq
Lads, the Professor Y episode of the Sister Boniface Mysteries is up on BBC iPlayer and I think the Not We are on to us.
You too can be like Stephen and pore over your own copy of Britten’s recording of The Dream of Gerontius. Very cheap secondhand www.discogs.com/release/2380... #PendasFen
One of my favourite shots in #PendasFen . Rudkin in the script only ever asked that we see a “mouldering wall” over Elgar’s shoulder, but it is Alan Clarke and Michael Williams who decide to make it a full POV tracking shot of the imagined landscape. Even Stephen’s visions are having visions now.
Stephen’s teacher is played by Ivor Roberts, who had been a newsreader for TWW in the Sixties before his return to acting. The script calls for a ‘dyspeptic eye-bulging man in heavy middle-age’. #PendasFen
