This is a very good read. Tillie Walden is an excellent graphic novelist and I encourage you to pick up her books.

thene@thene.bsky.social · 2mo ago

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

Discussing how Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd features a character accused of murder because they hounded someone to their suicide. Just saying.

Goodnight to our gorgeous goddess Tia. She reached a grand old age of 19. She was the most lovely of souls and grew more affectionate as she eased into old age. Our other cat, Evie, is searching the house for where she’s gone and I’m heartbroken I can’t tell her what’s happened. Sleep well, T-Cat.

A new printing of The Quatermass Experiment is now in stock, @tobyhadoke.bsky.social's immersive account of the making of TV's first sci-fi classic, illustrated with rare photographs from the archives of writer Nigel Kneale. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk

The good people at Hyde Park Picture House have curated a season that’s basically for me, with fab artwork from Hwaet Zine. Here it is on the big screen!

Tonight at Cargo Wines I’m here to interview Saturday Kitchen’s Olly Smith about his new novel Death By Noir, in partnership with @trumanbooks.bsky.social . We kick off at 7 and we’ll be done in time for the football - pop on down!

Happy Publication Day to HAUNTED YORKSHIRE 👻🌿🐺🦊 My new @blpublishing.bsky.social anthology explores all things ghoulish in God’s own county, with work by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Emily Brontë, Arthur Machen, Andrew Michael Hurley & more! Also included: barghests, boggarts & malevolent squirrels 🐿️

This Sunday, going to be a real treat!

Dicky Bonham@dickbonham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌞Cannot WAIT for Midsummer Weird!🌞 It’s a day of strange fiction, folklore and the uncanny I’m putting together with @oldwoollen.bsky.social and @trumanbooks.bsky.social. Incredible authors & performers, plus the launch of the British Library’s Haunted Yorkshire anthology. The summer is icumen in!

Delighted to attend the launch of Gigs by Si Smith and Mark Mosedale. This looks amazing, and can’t wait to get stuck in. Get a copy from @okcomics.bsky.social ! Part of @leedslitfest.bsky.social at Chapel FM.

This will be an unmissable day! Includes the launch of our next Tales of the Weird ‘Haunted Yorkshire’! More info below:

Dicky Bonham@dickbonham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌞Cannot WAIT for Midsummer Weird!🌞 It’s a day of strange fiction, folklore and the uncanny I’m putting together with @oldwoollen.bsky.social and @trumanbooks.bsky.social. Incredible authors & performers, plus the launch of the British Library’s Haunted Yorkshire anthology. The summer is icumen in!

Couldn’t resist an order of this…

Jaundiced Brains@johnnymains.co.uk · 4mo ago

*New Magazine Alert* A WEIRD OCCASIONAL is "an occasional publication devoted to the weird, particularly the older and unknown stuff" - I have contributed a 14 page lead essay on the many crimes of M.P. Dare, cover art and a lost vampire story. Link: tinyurl.com/7c28rmdd

I'll be interviewing @tobyhadoke.bsky.social and @bronteschiltz.bsky.social on QUATERMASS AND THE TELEVISUAL GOTHIC...

Jaundiced Brains@johnnymains.co.uk · 4mo ago

I don't know *exactly* what I'll be doing yet, but I'll be appearing at MIDSUMMER WEIRD at the end of June in Leeds - at the very least I'll be signing copies of THE DEAD OF SUMMER.

🌞Cannot WAIT for Midsummer Weird!🌞 It’s a day of strange fiction, folklore and the uncanny I’m putting together with @oldwoollen.bsky.social and @trumanbooks.bsky.social. Incredible authors & performers, plus the launch of the British Library’s Haunted Yorkshire anthology. The summer is icumen in!

Anthony Head was an Ambassador for Battersea Dogs and Cats home for more than two decades. Thanks for everything Tony x

Having heard them speak at the Dalek’s Master Plan showing in Manchester yesterday, Film Is Fabulous are doing some amazing work. Here’s a great discovery!

filmisfabulous!@filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Lost Late Night Horror Found Film is Fabulous! has collaborated with Darren Payne of ‘Dirt in the Gate Movies’ to preserve a missing episode of BBC television: Late Night Horror: No Such Thing As A Vampire (Broadcast: 19th April 1968)

It’s incredibly hot and sunny, so obviously have been in my natural environment, watching Doctor Who in a dark room at HOME in Manchester. Lovely to hear the amazing Peter Purves in person!

I’m very much looking forward to talking about Nigel Kneale and writing weird fiction at @trumanbooks.bsky.social’s Midsummer Weird event at @oldwoollen.bsky.social next month! 🎟️: trumanbooks.co.uk/event/midsum...

Quatermass and The Pitt

Nope on those "Autism is overdiagnosed!!!" headlines. Autism is UNDERdiagnosed, and undiagnosed autistic people's autistic traits and associated health and care needs are denied, leading to avoidable suffering and unfairly reduced quality of life. pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/104052/...

New Research-backed Paper Warns that Diagnosis Delay and Symptom Disbelief is Putting Neurodivergent Children and Young People at Greater Risk

A new commentary on research explores the strong link between neurodivergent (here identified as Autistic, ADHD, Dyspraxic/DCD and Tourette’s syndromes) children and young people (CYP) with joint hy.....

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It’s the 25th anniversary of Amélie and Autism Awareness month so I thought I’d celebrate by writing about both for A Rabbit’s Foot. a-rabbitsfoot.com/stories/the-...

The fabulous autism of Amélie and me - A Rabbit's Foot

Amélie, for many, was the first time they had seen a neurodivergent woman depicted on screen. As it turns 25, film writer Lillian Crawford pens a personal essay in praise of Jeunet's heroine.

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I’ve supported this! Which includes writing from the brilliant @bunnydarke.bsky.social amongst others. You can help em out too. DEAD PRETTY: Beauty in the Horror Genre www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/deadpretty...

WHAT!!!!! Amazing news!!!! Woooooo! #doctorwho www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

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Can AI produce magick? (Presuming that magick is the manipulation of reality by aesthetics).

I wrote this a few months after David Lynch passed away. I will love him forever, and I feel like the way that he approached life fundamentally reshaped mine for the better. I love the way that he thought about art, and about people, and cherishing life's small joys. www.patreon.com/posts/148384...

"Fix Your Hearts or Die": Remembering David Lynch | Willow Catelyn Maclay

Get more from Willow Catelyn Maclay on Patreon

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Jimmy Stewart haunts the work of Lynch. His everyman qualities and goodwill in his pre-WWII films & then the shades of darkness that came up when he returned home is all over the characters he asked MacLachlan to play. Stewart is the perfect Lynch actor. It's a shame they were on different timelines

Hello! My CEO Roscoe and I are giving away TWO signed copies of my novel 1983 to two randomly selected people who repost this & pop a reply below. You also get a free postcard of this illustration of Roscoe by my mum. It’s been called “Stranger Things rewritten by Kurt Vonnegut & Sue Townsend”…

Rock and Roll

My black and white can’t wait to get stuck into some black and white.

The lovely team at @summersdalebooks.bsky.social made me stickers for the launch quiz last night! Come along to @oldwoollen.bsky.social on Sunday & you can have one. Who doesn’t love a sticker?