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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Playing a dungeon synth festival on Saturday. Will be doing peak dressing up...

Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Pretty pleased w/ our poster game for NOX. Paying homage to a golden age of occulture from which we still draw a great deal of strength and inspiration. Next instalment is 23rd October - poster coming soon! Imagery from Stephen Sennitt (1), Andrew Chumbley (2,5), Peter Smith (3), Maria Strutz (4).

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lords of Chaos #1 & #2 (1977). Strong use of chaos star imagery some years before it would really be planted in every RPG and occult geek's consciousness...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking forward to presenting at the DVRK symposium on Thursday! ahead.mmu.ac.uk/2026/08/21/o...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Is that you, Aleister Crowley?!

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Spotted in St Michael and All Angels Church, Taddington...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1979: some LAFS - live action fantasy skirmishing - as these young warriors come together to play a life-size version of Melee. I am sad enough to think this is very cool... not a mobile phone in sight, etc. (from Space Gamer ca. 1979/80)

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

How many game designers blew up their careers with 'real life treasure hunts' in the 1980s?! Has it become a cliché yet? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasur...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Still going down the 70s/80s RPG zine rabbithole... I would really love to see a whole set of these beautifully naïve productions!

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

TBH, I'd really have hoped for more from a drug-induced hallucination monster... :( (from Abyss #7, 1980)

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

... and this is why all necromancers should do their market research before setting up to practice their baleful arts. (From Appendix N, edited by Peter Bebergal)

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Meanwhile, does anyone want to form a crust punk band called KILLER BUSHES? (image: The Dungeoneer zine, ca. 1977?)

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

AI art can never come even close to human-produced art. I rest my case:

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My kind of self-help book... (Finbarr, 1984)

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

From the collected edition of Just Glittering / Idwal Fisher zine. www.kormplastics.nl/product/boek...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

NOX VI - This Saturday, from midnight in Leeds! £6/8 advance, £10 otd. All sorts of post-punk, goth, industrial, coldwave, minimalwave, darkwave tracks will be dropped! Come cut shapes in the fog! ra.co/events/2469299

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

John Cowper Powys writing in 1920 on language and the other-than-human, and "the vision of the immortal companions".

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

July 11th in Leeds!! Post-punk, proto/trad goth, industrial deep cuts abound once more in the fog-shrouded atmosphere of Wharf Chambers! Advance tix £6/8 from ra.co/events/2469299 #goth #gothleeds #postpunk #coldwave #darkwave #industrial

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Hawthonn will be tablemaxxing in Derby on Saturday with Jim Ghedi and Ancient Hostility! Tickets: www.universe.com/events/every...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

NOX returns on July 11th. Midnight to 4am. Leeds' fog-drenched avant-garde gothic discotheque! Praised on toilet walls throughout the land! £6/8 advance tix now available: ra.co/events/2469299 This instalment's design based on a shirt by Jhonn Balance!

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Is there such a thing as 'too much' Northern Earth?!

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Bring back the Chrismas knee-dressing competition!

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It's NOX on Saturday, if anyone wants to danse thru the fog in darkest Leeds' finest avant-goth discotheque! 11:30(ish) to 4:00am at Wharf Chambers. Adv tix here: ra.co/events/2428503 #goth #gothleeds

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Goth in unexpected places: In 1987 Jackie magazine was doing a fine line in Wayne Hussey piss-takes...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Can someone fact check this for me... ;) (Irish Independent - Thursday 17 December 1987)

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Layla won this Fay Pomerance painting at auction last year... feels good to have finally collected it and put it on the wall!

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Leeds' most esoteric goth/industrial/coldwave/ethereal/ avant/weird disco returns on 23rd May! Name that tune! Tickets here: ra.co/events/2428503

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Well, that's the only item on my bucket list ticked off, then.

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Something has shocked this church...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Things that are not Peter J Carroll: #1 Ray Sherwin

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

When you open that highly-anticipated translation of a foundational text... and the preface gives you yikes.

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I am sure they all grew up just fine... except maybe the kid at the back with no eyes. :O

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The important question in 1986 was: Will Fighting Fantasy create a generation of sword-wielding maniacs?

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

McKenzie Crook and Toby Jones need to reunite for a TV adaptation of this...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It's 1992, and the Crawley and District Observer has just found out about TOPY/Psychic TV...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ken Dodd definitely to blame. (Liverpool Echo, Feb 12 1982)

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"The other day I saw and heard a bird singing on the branch of a tree, & suddenly realised that the tree was the shape of the bird’s song, they were one." It's the birthday of Cecil Collins: here's an unpublished piece I wrote about his work & creative imagination! www.academia.edu/29779727/Sin...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"If we're going to make a dark ambient band, we're going to need some eeeeevul names... how about 'Stupid' and 'Betwixt'?"

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Zines on the Web #8 - Scans from the AFU collection on Archive org: archive.org/details/ufon... Not just UFO newsletters: there's also the occasional weird underground gem in there, such as Dharma Combat.

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Playing in Norwich on Saturday w/ Dawn Terry + Monasunne. Tix: thehollowaynorwich.com/events/HmizL...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Last night I started to think ‘What if composing was (even) more like dungeon crawling?’ So - I wrote a system called the CRYPT OF THE MUSES to explore this idea. I also had another thought: can I make a music video in Bitsy? For better or worse, this is the fruit of those thoughts.

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Nice game of Talisman 2nd edition last night (complete with all expansions including Dragpns and the White Dwarf material). I think I found my new favourite card...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Writing a small game based on a ritual undertaken last year at a cottage on Ynys Môn...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

In the 80s a group called Servants of Satan operated from this house. I have to say, I'm quite jealous.

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Enjoy these vintage images of Leeds' Sorcerer's Apprentice shop, from the Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 18th April 1989.

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Still reeling from this citation...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

More adverts from occult zines... and a small-run printed version! 24pp, a6 zine. £5 incl UK P&P. PM me if interested! www.instagram.com/p/DTs6-bzgCs...

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Lamp of Goth @larkfall.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Incorporating viking meditation and sex gymnastics...

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