Maria J Pérez Cuervo
@mjpcuervo.com
Writer, editor, comms manager • Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) • History, art, myth, mystery. Bristol, UK. 👩🏻 mjpcuervo.com 📖 helleborezine.com
Today’s graveyard reading is Philip Matyszak’s new book, my dream travel guide, with places of spiritual significance in the ancient world, from Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge, Eleusis and the London Mithraeum. Out in October. Thank you @thamesandhudson.bsky.social.
IT’S HAPPENING! www.treasuredfilms.co.uk/the-trollenb...
THE TROLLENBERG TERROR BUNDLE (Limited Edition Blu-ray + Magnet + Poster)
LIMITED EDITION OF 2000 UNITS ONLYThe Nightmare Terror of the Slithering Eye that Unleashed Agonising Horror on a Screaming World!NB. This title is part of the TREASURED FILMS VIDEO CLUB - Next 6 Rele...
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Many thanks to @thamesandhudson.bsky.social for sending me a copy of Thomas Waters’ upcoming MAGICK, out in September, an accessible and beautifully illustrated visual guide to magical artefacts, spells and rituals.
The Druid’s Grave at Avonview Cemetery, a memorial for Henry Hodge (d. 1912), the secretary of the Bristol and West district of the Ancient Order of Druids.
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
Update: We started LOTR and he’s thrilled. He gasped at the Sméagol reveal (“because it’s my birthday and I wants it”, which I read with the appropriate voice). I will never forget his face 🥰
Maria J Pérez Cuervo@mjpcuervo.com · 4w agoI’ve been reading The Hobbit to my son (9) every night for the last few weeks. We finished it last night. His verdict: “This is probably one of the best books I’ve ever read.”
This is the first major Richard Dadd exhibition in more than 50 years! Planning a trip to the Royal Academy before end of October. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Richard Dadd: the painter whose fantastical vision was unconfined by his 43 years in an asylum
Committed to Bethlem hospital after killing his father in a psychotic episode, Dadd inspired Angela Carter and Queen. Now a new show is exploring his paintings with a more nuanced take on his mental i...
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Thank you to @thamesandhudson.bsky.social for sending me one of my most anticipated books of this autumn. A beautiful tome devoted to spaces that evoke the uncanny and reflect the tension between presence and absence. #Bookpost
Today’s charity shop find was a lucky one! Mistress of Mellyn was my first Victoria Holt and one of my favourite books at age 14.
Is there anywhere in England where the gulls aren’t bonkers atm? I’m in north Bristol and developing coastal horror madness because of how loud the f£@ers are.
This blew up! Thank you everyone for the kind comments. Reading to your kids is one of the loveliest things you can do for them. To those who think that audiobooks aren’t real books: How do you think storytelling started?
Maria J Pérez Cuervo@mjpcuervo.com · 4w agoI’ve been reading The Hobbit to my son (9) every night for the last few weeks. We finished it last night. His verdict: “This is probably one of the best books I’ve ever read.”
I’ve been reading The Hobbit to my son (9) every night for the last few weeks. We finished it last night. His verdict: “This is probably one of the best books I’ve ever read.”
I rewatch this classic every summer. Forever obsessed with the setting and characters. Still bitter that the TV serial is lost, but we’ll alway have this little gem. 👁️🦑
Talking Pictures TV@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · last mo.Our brew and biscuits matinee stars #ForrestTucker #WarrenMitchell #AndrewFaulds #CarolMarsh in... THE TROLLENBERG TERROR (1958) 3:35pm sci-fi classic #TPTVsubtitles
I’m gonna be randomly exclaiming “THY SOUL IS CURRRSED” through the next few days, aren’t I?
"To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot." A shame A24 don't agree with him, sell outs. deadline.com/2026/06/back...
'Backrooms' Director Kane Parsons Calls AI "Genuinely Harmful"
With a record-breaking A24 directorial debut under his belt at age 20, Kane Parsons doesn't see a place for AI in Hollywood's future.
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Animated Dark Shadows series in the works! I hope this fills the void left by Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc ending. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/w...
Warner Bros. Reanimating ’60s Cult TV Show ‘Dark Shadows’ (Exclusive)
Warner Bros. Animation is reimagining the ABC series as an adult animation series.
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On this day in Horror History, DARK SHADOWS premiered on television in 1966.
Saw this yesterday and it was magnificent. Lesley Manville has become my favourite Mme de Merteuil. So fierce, so powerful, so beautiful. Music, costumes and dance were to die for.
An old piece I wrote about the real history behind one of my favourite fairy tales 🎶 ✨ 🐀🐀🐀
Daily Grail@dailygrail.com · last mo.On this day in 1284, "130 children born in Hamelin were seduced by a piper, dressed in all kinds of colours, and lost at the calvary near the koppen." @mjpcuervo.bsky.social digs into the real history behind the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. www.dailygrail.com/2019/02/the-...
Extreme heat puts me in the mood for highwaymen, for some reason, so #NowWatching this (so far) delightfully over-the-top period drama.
