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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, movie tie-in edition..!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahead of the new Full Naughty Edition of Ken Russel's The Devils finally appearing at the end of the month, I've been revisiting Huxley's The Devils of Loudun. Features a reprint of the supposed diabolical pact made in 1634 between Urbain Grandier and Satan, signed by a further seven demons...

Urbain Grandier's alleged diabolical pact produced as primary evidence during the Loudun possessions witchcraft trial in France in 1634. The purported contract was written in reverse Latin and signed backward or in coded script. It stated that Grandier traded his soul for earthly pleasures, power, and the love of women for 20 years.

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 9h

If you're a fan of Robert Aickman and want to know more about the relationship he had with his agent, Herbert van Thal, more commonly known as the editor of THE PAN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES, why not buy a ticket to my online talk on the 3rd of December! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/robert-aic...

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Robert Aickman and Herbert Van Thal - An Unsettled Relationship

Johnny Mains leads this talk on the working and personal relationship between two of the biggest names in horror fiction.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 12h

Oh yikes. Check you out with your fancy US remailer...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 21h

(And I'm also eyeing up that spenny French Fantastique set from Radiance)...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 21h

UK postage + customs (?) is giving me the fear...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 21h

My joy when the newsletter email came through followed by the wince at the price tag...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 22h

...Also more than a little of it in Albin Grau's designs for the prop documents in Nosferatu... bsky.app/profile/slip...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I replicated the demonic signatures very recently in a project, hmm, I don't think anyone spotted...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Upon my most recent viewing of Jan Švankmajer's Lekce Faust, I clocked it had been reproduced as the document that Mephisto presents for Faust to sign. Nice detail..!

Scene from Lecke Faust where Mephisto presents the diabolical pact.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Autographed by such famous faces as Beelzebub, Leviathan, Elimi, Baalberith, and Asmodeus. Damning evidence indeed..!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some more camera roll bits n' bobs from the medieval collection housed at the Convent of St. Agnes branch of the Prague National Gallery. I'm all about the impish demons, nonplussed martyrs and weird babies...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wonder if I can commission a Delphine Seyrig Elizabeth Bathory tree topper...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heh, golem vendors all over the shop in the Jewish quarter, just head for the Old-New Synagogue..!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sorry, only just seen this! I do, though I tend to revisit them less, I think I chime much more with the humour that runs throughout Švankmajer's work...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ahem... bsky.app/profile/slip...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm assuming there isn't a plaque..!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh really? Was that Worcester or Oxford..?

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My kind of tourist trap! Visited the Museum of Alchemists and Magicians of Old Prague (I attended the puppet theatre production of Faust in its courtyard the other night). Reputedly Edward Kelley's residence where he conducted mad alchemical experiments for the emperor in the late 16th century...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yeah that's the one with Nosferatu in the window. The shop in the lesser town has the (even pricier) handmade fully wooden guys ...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The shop relocated to this building with ugly gold signage further down hill. Give me the rustic hand painted charm of the original site any day...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hmm no I don't think we went that far up the hill...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The sad demise of a Prague puppet shop. I took the first picture in 2019. It's now a locked up empty husk of a building on the main Nerudova Street tourist route to Prague Castle. I propose The Czech Marionette Museum...

Czech puppet shop with painted panel doors.

Closed up building with construction work outside.

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Blimey! Noise cancelling headphones and a good audiobook ftw...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No mention of Bathory (?!), but the guide did bring up the urban legend of Shakespeare visiting the tower as spy under the guise of the mysterious 'Francis Garland' named in Dee's notes. It's a fun theory..!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah Moore was heavily featured in a Channel 4 documentary on Edward Kelley back in the 00s...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You're speaking to the guy who enjoys The Dracula Experience attraction in Whitby...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Haha, desperate times in Prague once he'd spent all the emperor's goodwill...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I do feel the story merits a sitcom, it's all very Blackadder...

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Don't forget the Karel Zeman Museum..!

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nodding along to everything the tour guide was saying like a massive Kelley & John Dee nerd whilst everyone else looked vaguely interested (yes yes I know, John Dee worked as a spy for Queen Elizabeth I and marked his documents with a symbol that looked a lot like 007) 🤘...