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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 12h

👻 FREE Ghosts and Folklore of Wales talks in Swansea this Halloween! 🎃 I'm very pleased to be returning to Swansea Libraries this spooky season, with three chances to catch the Nos Calan Gaeaf talk at three different venues. See you there... if you dare!

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Never mind the pumpkins. THIS is what you carve a real jack-o'-lantern out of. 🎃

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hello Stratford-upon-Avon! Back in lovely Shakespeare country for the RSC's new production of As You Like It... 🎭

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kicking off October with a maple latte in Port Talbot where, incidentally, I'll be giving a Halloween/ Ghosts and Folklore of Wales talk in the library on Wednesday the 14th at 2.30pm. Free entry, save the date, pop along! 🎃🍂

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hello Wales Millennium Centre - it's opera time! Opening night of WNO's La bohème, and death is looking large...

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Posh pumpkin spice - Lavazza gets the Halloween treatment. 🎃

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Autumn Equinox is nigh, when day and night will be roughly equal length. The days will get shorter, the nights will get longer, and all coffee will be pumpkin spiced. This year, the equinox takes place at 1:06am BST on 23 September. Farewell summer, hello spooky season...🍂🎃

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hello Swansea Grand Theatre - it's Operation Mincemeat time!

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pumpkin spice by the sea. Happy Monday. 🎃

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hello Wales Millennium Centre - it's opera time! A Gothic double bill of Bluebeard's Castle and Oedipus Rex...

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

100 days until Christmas. The Mari Lwyd is coming...

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🛸 Happy X-Files Day! 👽 On this day 33 years ago – 10 September 1993 – The X-Files premiered, with Mulder and Scully tackling their first mysterious case together in the pilot. The truth is still out there… #TheXFiles #XFilesDay

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🎃 First Halloween Ghosts of Wales talk of the 2026 spooky season done and dusted! Huge thank you, Whitland! I’ll be talking in Swansea tomorrow (another private gig, sorry). Public dates coming soon - as well as an extra-special ghost walk. Yes, ghost walk! 👻 Watch this spooky space...

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

First pumpkin spice latte of the season at Penllergare Valley Woods. Happy Halloween! 🎃🍂

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is anybody there? And would you care for a mint? 👻 Special delivery from Boston - it's Mystifying Mints time!

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Theodor von Holst – the first artist to imagine Frankenstein’s monster – was born in London today in 1810. A pupil of Henry Fuseli and master of the supernatural, he painted subjects from Dante to Shakespeare, but is best known for his 1831 illustrations for Mary Shelley’s Gothic classic.

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hello Wales Millennium Centre - it's Burlesque time!

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hello September the 1st, hello meteorological autumn, and hello spooky season. Let the leaves fall and the pumpkins bloom... 🍂🎃

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Paranormal Unpacked filming day! Looks like we found a UFO in the old Doctor Who library...

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ray Bradbury - legendary author of Fahrenheit 451 & The Martian Chronicles - was born today (Aug 22) in 1920. This is "The Halloween Tree", painted by Bradbury for his daughters in 1964. Years later, it inspired his classic Halloween book and animated special of the same name. 🎃🍂

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🐙 H.P. Lovecraft, the writer who helped define cosmic horror, was born on 20 August 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island. This life-sized bronze statue was created by local artist Gage Prentiss in 2019 and commissioned by fans. It still awaits a permanent home in Providence.

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day! 🐈‍⬛ Black cats are amazing and, as Welsh folklore tells us, bring good luck to the home: "A black cat, I’ve heard it said, Can charm all ill away, And keep the house wherein she dwells From fever’s deadly sway." #BlackCatAppreciationDay #Wales

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Game of Thrones time at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon - bring on the Mad King! ⚔️👑

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis) - "Wales' first working-class martyr" - was hanged today in 1831 for his supposed role in the Merthyr Rising riots. His final words were "O Arglwydd, dyma gamwedd" (Oh Lord, here is iniquity). This is his final resting place in St Mary's, Port Talbot.

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy Moomin's Day! 🔆 🎨 Tove Jansson #moominsday #moomin

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Star Wars is to be dubbed into Welsh for the first time as the classic film prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next year. Actor Matthew Rhys will voice Han Solo, with Rhys Ifans as Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Princess Leia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Star Wars dubbed in Welsh for the first time to celebrate landmark anniversary

The Welsh language version of the classic 1977 film will feature Matthew Rhys as Han Solo.

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Getting Gothic at the Eisteddfod! 🦇 Yn dod â'r Gothig i'r Eisteddfod! 🦇

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Happy Yorkshire Day from the goth-tastic Whitby Abbey! If you look really closely you might spot Dracula as the sun sets.... 🦇🌙 #Gothic #YorkshireDay

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wax on, wax off - opening night of Karate Kid the Musical at Wales Millennium Centre... 🥋

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fair play, they've got some great books in Waterstones Cardiff...

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Saturday night at the Brecon Choir Festival with the Gesualdo Six (minus one - only five made it!)

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy St. Swithin's Day! What's the weather like? 🔆🌧 Today's the day we discover if summer will be fair or foul: "St Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain St Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mare." #StSwithinsDay #Folklore

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

John Dee -mathematician, occultist & “magician” to Queen Elizabeth I- was born on this day in 1527. This gothic illustration (Necromancy, c1825) shows Dee & Edward Kelley "raising the Ghost of a Person lately deceased, in the Church Yard of Walton-le-dale, Lancaster." As you do.

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Celebrating July 4th at the Overlook Hotel's 1921 ball. 🥂🪓 #July4th #4thOfJuly

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy World UFO Day! 🛸 The truth is out there.... #WorldUFODay

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy 1st of July! Welsh folklore tells us to beware fog and marriage this month: "July fogs are supposed to bring the blight in their folds... July is considered an uncertain month for weddings. Marry in July, you'll live to sigh."

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Absolutely loved Widow's Bay, and absolutely love what Google suggests when you search for it. Bravo!

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy Midsummer’s Day! ☀️🧚🏻‍♀️ A time for bonfires, maypoles and a little fairy magic… Go forth and enjoy the summery goodness... #midsummer

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hello sunny Wales Millennium Centre - it's Fawlty Towers time! 🔆

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Paranormal Unpacked filming day - getting spooky down on the farm! 🚜👻

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! It’s the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. Go forth and enjoy the summery goodness... PS Only 132 days until Halloween! 🎃 #SummerSolstice

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Back in Stratford-upon-Avon for the RSC’s The Tempest, and looking at those clouds it could get a little stormy. It's Kenneth Branagh time!

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The Summer Solstice is nigh! ☀️ Sunday will be the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere - when the sun climbs highest before the wheel of the year turns towards darker days. In the UK, sunrise is 4:52am & sunset 9:26pm - over 16 hours of daylight. #SummerSolstice

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Did I mention I'm working on a big Halloween project? Spooky season starts... now! 🎃

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Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say "The Major Oak is estimated to have lived in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire for up to 1,200 years, and is considered one of Britain's biggest oak trees." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Major Oak: Ancient 'Robin Hood' tree is dead, experts say

The Major Oak is thought to have stood for more than 1,000 years in the heart of Nottinghamshire's Sherwood Forest.

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