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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 8h

Phew! I found the book very dry. Like a history book.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 9h

It’s all spoilers!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 11h

For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved electronic music!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 11h

And speak of the Devil! Just as we return home from Sybil Leek’s 1950s’ village home, this arrives from the US! A 1971 who’s who of famous American witches (and Manson) with Sybil heading the front cover. A possible indicator to public attitudes to sorcery before The Exorcist landed.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 13h

Excessive facelifts all end up at the same face.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 14h

Stopped off at Sopley Farm for cake, and to admire their pumpkins, scythes and manacles. Was briefly used as a US Airfield in support of D-Day.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 14h

This gorgeous (creepy) cottage is up for sale in Burley, sandwiched between two shops.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 14h

Returned to Burley while the weather’s still okay. Burley Church has a lovely old graveyard. Wonder if any of the four New Forest covens ever made any mischief here?

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

What’s the first rule of Bookclub?

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Arrived today! Encyclopedia of witches from 1981. Compiled by horror novelist Eric Ericson. The more I read about modern withcraft, the more links and influences appear to be more strongly intertwined with horror fiction and movies, than with history. Also, love #NewEnglishLibrary hardbacks!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Superb album! I have the CD, the VHS and a laserdisc!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Wonderful movie - full of Nazi bashing!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Aargh, you’ve changed your name again Johnny!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

But seeing as there’s no precise definition of underseen, underrated, cult etc, they’re popular but vague terms. And their defence can always be “you know what I mean”. I’m very tired of non-Hollywood blockbuster films being perpetually ‘discovered’ and continually thrown at me online.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah, but there are books about Fulci. He’s been the next director to seek out in Italian horror after Argento, for decades. There must be a dozen different blu-ray editions of his top horrors.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“most rewatched underseen”

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Thank you everyone for your pre-orders. Shipping for The Mystery Issue begins now. 🔮 Get yours on www.helleborezine.com

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Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We've got a deal going on our site: just $99 for our collection of six Robert Bloch paperbacks! If you only know him from PSYCHO, these books give a broader view of his work, both novels and short stories, including some of his Lovecraftian fiction: www.valancourtbooks.com/deals.html

Covers for six Robert Bloch reissue titles

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Most of my favourite music seems to be cinematic! The lyrics/title really stood out for me as relatable. After two decades of “I love you, girl” pop lyrics that wasn’t.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For me, the one that hits hardest is ‘This Must Be The Place I Waited Years To Leave’.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ah, thank you. Interesting!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Prelude? Was it made first? I can’t actually remember which I saw first in the UK. Halloween in the cinema or that on TV.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Crumbs, she was from the Firth family. My family lived in Firth Park, near (or on?) the estate they donated.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oh cool! Watching Night Gallery again at the moment.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All of them are better than Scars of Dracula!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Are these any good? I only know her as a Crowley associate.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A left-winger? Perhaps that’s a subterfuge to steal votes from the far right?

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If that had been filmed, your fortune would be assured. Ensure all your future chores are before a camera.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You beat me, but I’ve not logged my large format books, making ofs and biogs.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Daren’t count mine! Counting would also lessen time for reading (researching, Lego, chores, dogwalks, husbanding…)!

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Jaundiced Brains @johnnymains.co.uk · 10/10/2026

Selling my Hitchcock plate. £150. DM if interested.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

From the author of Night of the Hunter, a collection of his (hopefully) creepy short stories.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Birds by Frank Baker. Found this early reprint of Baker’s 1936 bird apocalypse, set in London. This 1964 reprint was strangely published the year after Hitchcock’s The Birds first hit cinemas. Hitchcock had protected himself by purchasing the rights to Baker’s book for the title and the theme.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The 1960’s boom in STRANGE paperback collections full of spurious paranormal events grew to include… Hans Holzer’s ghosthunting experiences (1963). He later investigated the Amityville horror house. And a good idea to reprint Charles Fort’s books (written 1919-1932) that started off the genre.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He was great in Invaders From Mars!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972) Amicus anthology #4 Producer Milton Subotsky was back at the typewriter to script this superb, dark and gritty confection. by adapting violent morality tales of the legendary EC horror comics. This is my favourite of all of the… #AmicusAnthologies horror movies.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Taken from Bournemouth beach yesterday, with an impatient pomeranian on a lead pulling at my arm while I was trying to hold the phone steady.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Four years before The Changeling, Peter Medak directed ‘The Seance Spectre’, a season two episode of Space: 1999! Watched it last night!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Incredible and ridiculous. Here’s me thinking it was just about his health.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yup. He started filming, then John Hurt took over.

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For three years, Jon Finch is suddenly a high profile movie actor… Sunday Bloody Sunday, Hitchcock’s Frenzy, Lady Caroline Lamb, Robert Fuest’s The Final Programme… …and then TV! Finch is off the A list and it’s years before another movie role. Ouch!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Rewatched Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers (1970). Skimpy nightgowns and an even skimpier plot, which keeps repeating itself. And why all the shots of Count Karnstein? Goes nowhere! Anyhow, 1970, Jon Finch is in Hammer horrors, waaaaay down the cast list. 1971, the star of Polanski’s epic Macbeth! How?

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Grr. Years ago, we went to a Q&A with Freddie Francis at the National Film Theatre and they played the first five minutes from ‘The Man Who Collected Poe’ from Torture Garden. The audience were instantly gripped, and there was a groan when they didn’t show the whole of it!

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thankfully, the five comics have been reprinted several times, both in colour and b/w. The neat way to collect them is to nab the Ballantine paperbacks of Tales from the Crypt (1964) and Vault of Horror (1965). And don’t forget the Bantam paperback movie tie-in novelisation! #AmicusAnthologies

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The last tale from the crypt, has starving blind men revolt against their brutal keeper (Nigel Patrick). The bastard. This was adapted from 'Blind Alleys' of Tales From The Crypt #46 (1955). I love the Cryptkeeper’s final line in the story, “…and then some idiot turned out the lights.”

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Mark H @blackhole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The fourth segment, inspired by WW Jacobs’ story, The Monkey’s Paw, has Barbara Murray and Richard Greene using up their three wishes. Based on EC Comics 'Wish You Were Here' from The Haunt of Fear #22 (1953). This is the only tale used from the Vault of Horror paperback from Ballantine.

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